Patents by Inventor Corrina Chen

Corrina Chen 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: 6346026
    Abstract: An ornamental display toy includes a hollow base, a transparent spherical shell supported on the base, the shell having a bottom opening sealed with a rubber gasket, a liquid filled in the shell before sealing of the rubber gasket, a transparent case interference-fit into a hole on the rubber gasket and suspended in the liquid in the shell, a clock holder inserted into the transparent case from the bottom side and secured thereto by a hook joint, an ornament covered on the transparent base leaving the clock of the clock holder visible from the outside of the ornamental display toy, a stepped socket mounted in the hollow base, a bushing covered with a bottom cover and detachably fastened to the inside of the stepped socket, and a musical box mounted on the bottom cover inside the bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Inventor: Corrina Chen
  • Patent number: 5617658
    Abstract: A carrousel including a hollow base covered with a bottom cover, the bottom cover having an endless, wave-like track at a top side around the center, a rotary table supported on the bottom cover and turned on its center, the rotary table having a plurality of equiangularly spaced through holes around the border, a drive mounted on the bottom cover inside the hollow base and controlled to turn the rotary table on its center, a plurality of sleeves respectively mounted in the through hole of the rotary table, and a plurality of tappet rods respectively and slidably inserted into the sleeves and movably supported on the endless, wave-like track to carry a respective ornament above the rotary table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Inventor: Corrina Chen
  • Patent number: 5473969
    Abstract: A transmission mechanism including a seesaw balanced in a box inside a decorative housing and coupled to the power output shaft of a music box inside the housing by a crankshaft, and two tappet rods coupled to two opposite ends of the seesaw to support a respective ornament outside the housing, wherein the tappet rods with the ornaments are alternatively reciprocated when the music box is operated to produce certain tunes and to simultaneously rotate the crankshaft in oscillating the seesaw back and forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Inventor: Corrina Chen
  • Patent number: 5471891
    Abstract: A music box ornament transmission mechanism includes a crankshaft having one end coupled to the output shaft of a driving mechanism of a music box and an opposite end coupled with a crankpin. A rocker has a supporting end turned in a hole on a rib above the bottom cover of the music box and a free end hung on the crankpin and linked to a tappet rod at the bottom of an ornament, wherein when the crank shaft is rotated by the driving mechanism of the music box, the rocker is driven to impart alternating vertical movements to the ornament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1995
    Inventor: Corrina Chen