Patents Assigned to Forhouse Corporation
  • Publication number: 20090231847
    Abstract: A LED illuminating device includes a substrate, a plurality of blue LEDs mounted on the substrate, and an optical layer, which is kept a predetermined distance from the blue LEDs, for diffusing rays of the blue LEDs and for converting the rays of the blue LEDs to white light, or at least diffusing the rays and converting the rays to white light in the same time. The LED illuminating device may be incorporated in a direct-light backlight module or an edge-light backlight module to provide a light source with higher brightness and more uniform brightness and hue distributions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: FORHOUSE CORPORATION
    Inventors: John-Chungteh PAN, Micheler Jhu, Karl Lai
  • Publication number: 20090090606
    Abstract: An emergency stop device includes a first member and a second member. The first member is provided with a magnet and the second member is provided with a screw to be attracted by the magnet for temporary combination of the first member and the second member. The first member is provided with a first sub-circuit and the second member is provided with a second sub-circuit. The first sub-circuit is electrically connected to the second sub-circuit to generate a circuitry when the first member and the second member are combined together. The circuitry will turn to a broken circuitry when the first member and the second member separate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventor: Yao-Hung LIAO
  • Patent number: 7462136
    Abstract: An elliptic motion exercise machine includes a frame, on which a reciprocating motion mechanism, a circular motion mechanism and two linking members are provided. Two parallelogram linkage mechanisms are movably mounted on the frame and connected to the linking members. Two foot panels are fixed on the parallelogram linkage mechanisms respectively. The parallelogram linkage mechanisms keep the foot panels in fixed slops in the entire motion, such that when an user stands feet on the foot panels and exerts the foot panels, toes of user's feet moves in a speed that is substantially identical to that of use's heels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Pan, Pao-Chuan Wang
  • Patent number: 7195245
    Abstract: A dartboard has board member, and the board member has a plurality of target blocks to be stuck by darts. The back side of the board member has an induction layer and a magnetic member. The magnetic member provides a fixed magnetic field, and the induction layer has a substrate and a circuit on the substrate. A dart with a steel iron or iron alloy point sticks into the board member, and disturbs the distribution of the magnetic field provided by the magnetic member, causing electromagnetic induction and inducing a current in the circuit of the induction layer to provide an automatic score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Chung Hwa Pan, Wei-Lung Tai
  • Publication number: 20070063446
    Abstract: A dartboard has board member, and the board member has a plurality of target blocks to be stuck by darts. The back side of the board member has an induction layer and a magnetic member. The magnetic member provides a fixed magnetic field, and the induction layer has a substrate and a circuit on the substrate. A dart with a steel, iron or iron alloy point sticks into the board member, and disturbs the distribution of the magnetic field provided by the magnetic member, causing electromagnetic induction and inducing a current in the circuit of the induction layer to provide an automatic score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Pan, Wei-Lung Tai
  • Patent number: 7179203
    Abstract: A treadmill has a frame, a table assembly and an elevating apparatus to elevate the table assembly. The treadmill has a driving device provided at a bottom side of the table assembly. A transverse shaft is connected to the driving device. Two first linkages each has three pivot portions, wherein two of the pivot portions at ends thereof are pivoted on the table assembly and ends of the transverse shaft respectively. Two second linkages have opposite ends pivoted on the frame and the table assembly respectively, each of which has a pivot portion between the ends thereof to be pivoted on the first linkages at the third pivot portions respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Chung Hwa Pan, Pao-Chuan Wang, He-Yu Chen
  • Patent number: 7175182
    Abstract: An automatic score dartboard assembly has a base, a dartboard, a support, at least one imaging element and a main control circuit. The dartboard and the support are attached to the base, and the at least one imaging element is mounted on the support to capture a direct viewing image of the dartboard periodically. The images are output to the main control circuit to determine the score of a dart when the dart sticks in the dartboard. The main control circuit is composed of an image processor and a memory device. The image processor uses an image comparison method to determine the score of the dart. Therefore, the present invention uses as few as one imaging element to determine the score and increases accuracy of determining score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Pan, Yen-Hwa Liao, John C. Pan
  • Patent number: 7163328
    Abstract: A backlight module has a frame, on which a reflective film, lamps and a diffusive plate are provided in sequence. A plurality of positioning devices each have a base and two rings. The base has two channels, two slots and a post on a top thereof. The lamps are fitted to the rings respectively and the rings are mounted in the slots of the base respectively to rest the lamps in the channels. The base of the positioning devices are secured on the bottom plate of the frame and the posts thereof are against the diffusive plate, such that the lamp is suspended and the relative locations of the lamps, the diffusive plate and the reflective film are fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Kuang Chang, Chih-Hsiung Lin, Hsin-Yi Lai, John Chungteh Pan
  • Patent number: 7086753
    Abstract: A direct-light illuminating unit has a frame on which a plurality of U-shaped lamps and a plurality of light shade devices are mounted. The frame has a window region and a margin region. The lamps each have two straight portions and a connection portion. The lamps have the straight portions and the connection portions arranged in the window region of the frame. The light shade device has a top mask extended over the connection portions of the lamps respectively. The top masks have a predetermined transparency to shade a part of the light provided from the connection portions of the lamps respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Chih-Hsiung Lin, Hsin-Yi Lai, John Chungteh Pan
  • Patent number: 7004887
    Abstract: A treadmill includes a base assembly, a collapsible treadmill deck and a locking device that includes a telescopic tube and a latch. The telescopic tube supports the treadmill deck in a folded position and includes an inside tube and an outside tube. The outside tube has a pawl hole and a bottom end pivotally mounted to the base assembly. The inside tube is telescopically mounted in the outside tube and has an outside end pivotally mounted on the treadmill deck and multiple positioning holes aligned with the pawl hole. The latch includes a stationary bracket fastened on the outside tube and a pivot pawl pivotally mounted on the stationary bracket. The pivot pawl has an inside end extended into the pawl hole to engage one of positioning holes to interlock the inside tube with the outside tube to firmly hold the folded treadmill deck in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Pan, Shih-Huang Chu, Tzu-Peng Chiang
  • Patent number: 6989299
    Abstract: A method for fabricating on-chip spacers for a TFT panel exposes a photoresist layer on top of the TFT panel using two exposure processes, one through the bottom of the TFT and the other through a mask over the TFT panel. The exposure process through the bottom exposes all photoresist covering windows on the TFT panel and leaves all photoresist corresponding to an opaque grid corresponding a TFT driving circuit. A second exposure process through a mask above the photoresist leaves part of the photoresist in the opaque grid unexposed. The exposed photoresist is removed leaving on-chip spacers only on the opaque grid. Therefore, the on-chip spacers can not affect the display quality and can be easily formed on a high dpi TFT panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Yuan-Tung Dai, Tsung-Neng Liao, Chun-Chi Lee
  • Patent number: 6890286
    Abstract: A control device for a treadmill having a dual-purpose electronic element having a panel and a control circuit formed in the panel. The control circuit basically includes a controller, driving unit connected between the controller and a motor and a speed control and switch unit connected between the controller and the driving unit. The speed control and switch unit has at least two functions which are adjusting the speed of the motor and immediately stopping the rotation of the motor. Therefore the control device not only saves at least one electronic element for the control circuit but the panel has more space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventor: Francis Pan
  • Patent number: 6866614
    Abstract: A transportation wheel for a treadmill consists a roller and an engraved pattern defined in an outer surface the roller. The roller has an enlarged middle portion and two tapered ends on which a traveling belt is positioned. The engraved patterns are similar to fabric texture and defined on the outer surface of the roller, especially the enlarged middle portion. The engraved patterns provide an excellent guiding efficiency to keep the traveling belt from detaching from the roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventor: Francis Pan
  • Patent number: 6843757
    Abstract: An adjusting device for a tread board of a treadmill has an actuating device, a transmission device and a connecting member. The actuating device is pivotally connected to a bottom of the tread board. The transmission device is connected to the actuating device. The connecting member is connected to the transmission device with a first end and has a second end pivotally attached to the tread board. The connecting member has a middle point pivotally attached to a stand. Accordingly, the actuating device and the transmission device can actuate the connecting member to rotate relative to the stand, and the angle of the tread board relative to the ground is adjusted. Because the transmission device can pivotally rotate relative to the tread board, a large force will not be applied to the transmission device. Consequently, the load bearing of the transmission device is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Pan, Shih-Huang Chu
  • Patent number: 6761669
    Abstract: A treadmill has a stand, a running assembly, a handle assembly and an insulation connecting assembly. The insulation connecting assembly is mounted on the stand to keep the handle assembly from electrically connecting with the running assembly. In such an arrangement, a static electricity free handle assembly is mounted on the treadmill to keep the static electricity from being discharged when the user contacts with the handle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Pan, Hung-Lung Uen, Shih-Huang Chu
  • Patent number: 6758773
    Abstract: A flashing dart has a hollow barrel, a point assembly, a transparent shaft, a circuit board, a battery and a resilient element. The barrel has a front end and a rear end and is made of conductive material. The point assembly is attached to the front end of the barrel. The transparent flight shaft is attached to the rear end of the barrel. The circuit board has an integrated circuit controller and is firmly mounted inside the barrel. The battery has two electrodes connected respectively to the barrel and the circuit board. The resilient element abuts the battery and allows the battery to be temporarily disconnected from the circuit board when the flashing dart strikes a dartboard or is thrown thereby activating the integrated circuit controller that causes the lighting element to emit light for a preset period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Yen-Hwa Liao, Wen-Fu Chang, Chun-Hung Liu
  • Patent number: 6743155
    Abstract: An angle-adjusting device for a treadmill is composed of two attachment blocks (11) respectively secured at a certain position at two sides of the belt frame of the treadmill and two polygonal feet (20) corresponding to the attachment blocks (11). Each polygonal foot (20) is rotatably attached to the attachment block (11) and directly engages the attachment block (11). Therefore, the belt frame (10) is immovably combined with the polygonal feet (20) to ensure the treadmill has less vibration during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventor: Francis Pan
  • Patent number: 6699160
    Abstract: An inclination mechanism for a treadmill having a tread assembly and a front base assembly has a lever arm, a chassis, an actuating assembly, The lever arm has a cross member with a center and two coupling arms pivotally attached to the front of the tread frame. Each coupling arm is pivotally attached to a post of the base frame. The chassis is pivotally attached to a cross bar of the base frame. The actuating assembly has a drive rod and is mounted on the chassis. The drive rod is pivotally attached to the cross member of the lever arm, such that extending or retracting the drive rod causes the lever arm to raise or lower the coupling ends of the coupling arms to increase or decrease the inclination of the tread assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Pan, Hung-Lung Uen, Shih-Huang Chu
  • Patent number: D636919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Pao-Chuan Wang, Li-Chi Hung
  • Patent number: D640824
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Forhouse Corporation
    Inventors: Pao-Chuan Wang, Li-Chi Hung