Patents by Inventor Chong-Yi Lo

Chong-Yi Lo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10648194
    Abstract: A fence structure has a plane extended from the top of a connecting board to a vertical pipe and an embedded opening formed at corresponding position for embedding the vertical pipe. A protective flange is protruded from each of two corresponding sides of the embedded opening, attached onto a horizontal pipe for passing the vertical pipe to an inner wall of a hole, and installed at a position in the same displacing direction when the angle of the vertical pipe is adjusted. The horizontal pipe is formed by a main body with an opening on the longitudinal side and a cover disposed at the opening position and coupled to the main body. While adjusting the angle of the fence, the vertical and horizontal pipes are prevented from hitting each other or scratching their outer surfaces. In addition, the time and labor of assembling the fence can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20190145123
    Abstract: A fence structure has a plane extended from the top of a connecting board to a vertical pipe and an embedded opening formed at corresponding position for embedding the vertical pipe. A protective flange is protruded from each of two corresponding sides of the embedded opening, attached onto a horizontal pipe for passing the vertical pipe to an inner wall of a hole, and installed at a position in the same displacing direction when the angle of the vertical pipe is adjusted. The horizontal pipe is formed by a main body with an opening on the longitudinal side and a cover disposed at the opening position and coupled to the main body. While adjusting the angle of the fence, the vertical and horizontal pipes are prevented from hitting each other or scratching their outer surfaces. In addition, the time and labor of assembling the fence can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Patent number: 9404283
    Abstract: A fence structure includes a plurality of vertical pickets, at least one connecting strip, a plurality of pivot members, and at least one transverse railing. One end of the pivot member is provided with a stop portion whose outer diameter is larger than the inner diameter of the pivot hole of the vertical picket. The stop portion may limit the pivot member and prevent the pivot member from slipping axially after passing through the connecting strip and the vertical picket. By the aforesaid arrangement, the pivot member not only allows the angle of the transverse railing and the connecting strip to be adjustable according to needs, but also prevents the connecting strip and the vertical pickets from slipping or disconnecting resulting when being exerted by a pulling or pushing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20110127482
    Abstract: A combined structure of fence posts and rails is disclosed, which puts emphasis on the joining end made by the fence post and the rail, where a clasping member is set up on each of the two laterals of the joining end in an axial orientation, and the clasping member has one end fixed to the rail that is close to the joining fence post, while the other end has an increasing opening distance opposite to the fence post and is separated from the rail, and the rail has a breach at each lateral with respect to the location of the clasping member. Accordingly, a firm combination out of the fence posts and the rails is achieved by this invention, which is free of other associate components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20110001105
    Abstract: A hidden-fastener fence is disclosed, which features wavelike seizing surfaces on the opposite inner walls of horizontal tubes of the fence. And wavelike embedding verges are set up at both sides of horizontal plate of a fixing bar to fit in the seizing surfaces of the horizontal tube. Accordingly, the joining of the embedding verges at the both sides of the horizontal plate of the fixing bar and the seizing surfaces of the corresponding inner walls of the horizontal tube would prop the bottom opening of the horizontal tube outward, which considerably boosts the structural strength of the bottom opening of the horizontal tube, and the wavelike seizing surfaces on the inner walls of the horizontal tube further fortifies the rigidity of the horizontal tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20100237308
    Abstract: This invention offers a fence, comprising vertical tubes, horizontal tubes joined with the vertical tubes, and integrated connectors for the join of the vertical tube and the horizontal tube. The interior of the horizontal tube is divided into an axial through hole and an axial embedded trough. An indented axial guiding notch is provided on the corresponding location of each interior wall of the embedded trough. The vertical tube is divided with a plurality of axial tube chambers. The integrated connector is made up of an insert piece and a slide piece, where both can be connected either in single-point pivot connection or into a single piece. The slide piece is provided with a protruded guiding bar corresponding to the guiding notch of the embedded trough. The single-piece type of the integrated connector will suit for the landforms where the vertical tube and the horizontal tube are perpendicular to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2009
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20100065802
    Abstract: A railing has its posts and rails intersected with each other and fixed stably together by connecting plates hidden inside the rails. The connecting plate has a wing formed at a preset position between every two posts. The wing has a hole at its center. Each of the rails has a long space defined by three walls of its inverted U-shape, a rectangular opening bored in its top side for being correspondingly inserted by the post, and a female-threaded tube extended downward from an upper inner wall for corresponding to a hole of a wing of the connecting plate so that a screw can be inserted from under the hole to threadably engage with the female-threaded tube to keep the rails fixed with the connecting plates. The railing is thus assembled stably by means of the connecting plates and the screws that are hidden inside the rails, obtaining an aesthetic appearance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Patent number: 7677535
    Abstract: A railing has its posts and rails intersected with each other and fixed stably together by connecting plates hidden inside the rails. The connecting plate has a wing formed at a preset position between every two posts. The wing has a hole at its center. Each of the rails has a long space defined by three walls of its inverted U-shape, a rectangular opening bored in its top side for being correspondingly inserted by the post, and a female-threaded tube extended downward from an upper inner wall for corresponding to a hole of a wing of the connecting plate so that a screw can be inserted from under the hole to threadably engage with the female-threaded tube to keep the rails fixed with the connecting plates. The railing is thus assembled stably by means of the connecting plates and the screws that are hidden inside the rails, obtaining an aesthetic appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20090166599
    Abstract: A fence has a connecting member to join an upper fence and a lower fence together. The connecting member consists of an upper fastening bar transversely positioned on the bottom of each post of the up per fence, a lower fastening bar also transversely positioned on the top of each post of the lower fence, and a connecting tube that is cut with an inserting groove in its bottom and plural holes bored on its top respectively for each post of the upper fence to insert. Two positioning segments are formed inside the connecting tube to respectively fix with the upper fastening bar and the lower fastening bar. A connecting pin has its two ends respectively inserted into each post of the upper fence and also each post of the lower fence to keep the two posts joined together. Thus, the fence can be easily assembled and raised with its height without discarding original posts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicants: Chong-Yi LO, William Allen Forster
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Patent number: 7384025
    Abstract: A screw hiding device for combining lateral tubes with upright tubes includes a position strip to match with each lateral tube. Each position strip has an upright wall to contact with each upright tube and fixed together with a screw. Each lateral tube has an upper wall and two side walls forming a lengthwise opening therebetween. Each of the two sides has a lower support ridge and an upper stopper on an inner wall, with the distance between each upper stopper and each lower support ridge being equal to the height of the upright wall of the position strip. Each position strip is fixed on an outer surface of each upright tube with a screw and in the space between the upper stopper and the lower support ridge, with each lateral tube hiding each screw and each position strip to beautify a fence formed by the lateral and the upright tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20080121857
    Abstract: A structure of a fence or the like includes plural rails and posts. The intersections of the rails and the posts are fixed by connecting elements. The rail has an inner rail and an outer rail having an opening to cover on the inner rail. Two sides of the outer rail have respectively a ridge projected outwards to keep its inner wall formed as a groove for hiding the connecting elements and enhancing the strength of the rail. Two sides of the inner rail corresponding to the connecting elements are formed as a recess for positioning the connecting elements in them, so that the outer rail is not to be scraped by the connecting elements to damage its coating while mounting the outer rail on the inner rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2006
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20070158630
    Abstract: A post and rod linking device for a railing includes a lateral rod, a post and a U-shaped elastic member. The elastic member is deposited in each of two ends of the lateral rod, having a protrusion respectively on two ends. The protrusion faces and exposes out of a hole of the lateral rod by the elastic member, The post has an insert hole for each end of the lateral rod to fit there in, with the protrusions of the elastic member pressed inward and extending out of the holes after the lateral rod is inserted in the hole of the post and stopped by the post wall so that the lateral rod is linked with the post immovable. The end of the lateral rod has a recess, which has a vertical surface, and the distance between the vertical surface and the protrusion is equal to the thickness of the post wall so the post wall is clamped by the elastic member to stabilize the linking of the post with the lateral rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20070085066
    Abstract: A screw hiding device for combining lateral tubes with upright tubes includes a position strip to match with each lateral tube. Each position strip has an upright wall to contact with each upright tube and fixed together with a screw. Each lateral tube has plural holes for the upright tube to pass through, and a lower support ridge at two sides of each hole and two upper stoppers respectively on two opposite inner walls, with the distance between each upper stopper and each lower support ridge being equal to the height of the upright wall of the position strip. Each position strip is fixed on an outer surface of each upright tube with a screw and in the space between the upper stopper and the lower support ridge, with each lateral tube hiding each screw and each position strip to beautify a fence formed by the lateral and the upright tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2005
    Publication date: April 19, 2007
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Patent number: 7156114
    Abstract: An angle adjusting device for the canopy of a hang umbrella includes a cantilever divided into a left-sectional cantilever and a right-sectional cantilever, with a connecting plug inserted in between the interiors of the left-sectional and the right-sectional cantilever. The left-sectional cantilever is secured with one end of the connecting plug and the right-sectional cantilever fitted around the other end of the connecting plug by a tightening bolt. By so designing, the outer portion of the cantilever, which is connected with the canopy, can be rotated and adjusted in different angles. Thus, the canopy of the hang umbrella can be adjusted and turned forward and backward as well as leftward and rightward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20060255325
    Abstract: A fence includes a plurality of fence units, which consist of plural vertical rods and plural lateral rods crossingly combined with each other. A decorative strip is combined with the uppermost one of the lateral rods, by means of plural grooves of the uppermost lateral rod and hooks of the decorative strip hooking in the grooves. The two ends of the uppermost lateral rod insert in an insert hole of a side post or a connect post and screwed tightly. Then the decorative strip is combined with the uppermost lateral rod as if covered on top of the rod. So the insert holes on the upper and the lower portion of the side post or the connect post are of the same shape and size, convenient for assembling and manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Chong-Yi Lo, Bill Forster
  • Publication number: 20060169307
    Abstract: An angle adjusting device for the canopy of a hang umbrella includes a cantilever divided into a left-sectional cantilever and a right-sectional cantilever, with a connecting plug inserted in between the interiors of the left-sectional and the right-sectional cantilever. The left-sectional cantilever is secured with one end of the connecting plug and the right-sectional cantilever fitted around the other end of the connecting plug by a tightening bolt. By so designing, the outer portion of the cantilever, which is connected with the canopy, can be rotated and adjusted in different angles. Thus, the canopy of the hang umbrella can be adjusted and turned forward and backward as well as leftward and rightward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2005
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20060151019
    Abstract: An electric spreading device for a parasol includes an inner tube, an outer tube, a handle and an electric motor. The inner tube has an upper end extending through a lower sleeve of a lower ring and fixed with an upper sleeve of an upper ring, with a screw having a center threaded hole fixed in a lower end of the inner tube. The outer tube fits around the inner tube to enable the inner tube to move up and down, having its upper end fixed with the lower sleeve and its lower end connected with the handle. The motor is arranged in the handle, having a threaded rod to engage the center threaded hole of the screw of the inner tube. Then the motor with the threaded rod rotates relative to the screw so that the inner tube with the screw can be moved up and down for spreading or collapsing the canopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20060070642
    Abstract: A parasol with a light device includes a light device, a power source and a power switch respectively connected with wires. One ends of the wires are respectively connected with a male and a female connector, and the male and the female connector are possible to fit with or separate from each other. When the male and the female connector are fitted with each other, the two sets of the wires get connected with each other. If the light device is to be replaced with new one owing to disorders, first the male connector and the female connector are separated from each other, then the light device is separated from the power switch for replacing. And the power source is a chargeable battery, enabling the parasol with the light device used anywhere.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Publication number: 20060033093
    Abstract: A possible-to-sway fence connector includes a fix base and a movable base. The fix base is fixed on a vertical side of a post of a fence, having two studs with a pivot hole at a right and a left side. The movable base has a rear convex sidewall with a horizontal pivot hole and two studs with a pivot hole. Then an end of a transverse tube of a fence is combined with the movable base in such a way that the transverse tube may sway to the right and the left side. Further, the movable base is positioned in the fix base by means of a horizontal pivot extending in the pivot hole of the movable tube. Thus, movable base can swing up and down with the horizontal pivot relative to the fix base, and the transverse tube can swing to the right and the left side so that units of a fence between two posts can be adjusted in mutual angles up and down, and right and left.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Publication date: February 16, 2006
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo
  • Patent number: D583485
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Inventor: Chong-Yi Lo