Patents Examined by J J Restifo
  • Patent number: 6688636
    Abstract: A light-producing structure for a wheeled traveling case assembly includes a mini generator having a rotary shaft with a frictional wheel connected thereto to frictionally contact with an adjacent wheel of the assembly. When the wheel rotates, the frictional wheel and the rotary shaft are brought to rotate, enabling the mini generator to output currents, which are supplied to light-emitting elements provided on handle grip and traveling case of the assembly in order to give light. Each wheel of the assembly is internally provided with an induction coil and a plurality of small bulbs. A ring-shaped magnetic rotor is fixedly mounted on an axle of each wheel to locate in a central hole of the induction coil. When the wheel rotates, the induction coil rotates relative to the magnetic rotor to generate induced currents, which are supplied to the small bulbs in the wheel for the bulbs to give light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Inventor: Angela W. Han