Patents by Inventor Hsi-Chin Chen

Hsi-Chin 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: 6231336
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a shade structure for a candle, and in particular, the shade structure comprising a container body for containing a candle, a shade body with a center air hole and detachably mounted onto the circumferential edge of the container body, and a covering plate having a center hole aligned with the center air hole of the shade body. The shade body is provided with a plurality of auxiliary openings which are corresponding to a plurality of through holes provided on the upper edge of the covering plate. The covering plate can be rotated with respect to the shade body such that the through holes align with the auxiliary openings and this will control convection of air within the container body. The temperature within the container body is thus regulated by adjusting the covering plate with respect to the shade body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2001
    Inventor: Hsi-Chin Chen
  • Patent number: 6135603
    Abstract: A rotating lighting apparatus and in particular, to a lighting apparatus which makes use of the rising hot air from a burning oil lamp to drive a rotating shade having being mounted with a plurality of blades. The lighting apparatus essentially comprises the rotating shade with the blades, a base perpendicularly mounted with a support tube, a glass shaft seat mounted at the top end of the support tube. The hollow rotating shade is mounted onto the shaft seat via an opening at the center of the shade such that the blades sit onto the shade seat. The hot air from the oil lamp rises to the shade and drives the blades to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Inventor: Hsi-Chin Chen
  • Patent number: 5694315
    Abstract: A novel method for scanning multiple images in a single scanning process is disclosed. The process utilizes at least a frame holder, which contains a front frame section and a back frame section that are glued together at their top edges and are separable at least at their bottom to allow a sheet of scanning material to be placed therebetween. Each of the front and back frame sections contains a cluster of matching orientation holes on their right and left sides with a predetermined pattern to allow a computer program to achieve scan area recognition and orientation. During the scanning process, the at least one frame holder containing the image is scanned, wherein the sides of the frame holder are detected as black signals and the orientation holes are detected as white signals. Then a computer program is used to perform a previewing recognition process by detecting and carving out a scanning area corresponding to each frame holder based on the black signals and the white signals of the frame holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Umax Data Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Wei-Jen Huang, Ming-Mu Hsieh, Hsi-Chin Chen, Hsin-Chung Chang, Alpha Tsay
  • Patent number: 5398808
    Abstract: A buffer device for packings, including at least one base unit, each base unit constructed of an elongated, channel-like base frame and two supporting frames joined by the base frame, the base frame being formed by folding up a punched cardboard and, having a rectangular horizontal bottom wall and two vertical side walls raised from two opposite long sides of the horizontal bottom walls, each supporting frame being formed by folding up a respective punched cardboard and having a vertical side wall and a side matched rectangular box, the vertical side wall of either supporting frame being top notched and engaged into a mounting slot at either end of the base frame to block up either open end of the base frame permitting the horizontal bottom wall of the base frame to be supported on the rectangular box of either supporting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Umax Data System Inc.
    Inventors: Hsi-Chin Chen, Ching-Song Wang
  • Patent number: D365341
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Umax Data System Inc.
    Inventor: Hsi-Chin Chen
  • Patent number: D365807
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: Umax Data System Inc.
    Inventor: Hsi-Chin Chen