Patents by Inventor Leo Shih

Leo Shih 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).

  • Publication number: 20050102793
    Abstract: A hand tool holder comprises a base and a plurality of seats. The base is provided with a slide slot. The seats are provided with a slide block and a retaining portion. The seats are slidably mounted on the base such that the slide block of the seats is slidably received in the slide slot of the base. The retaining portion of the seats is intended to retain separably the hand tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventor: Leo Shih
  • Publication number: 20050103664
    Abstract: A tool holder comprises a holding portion and a specification marking member. The holding portion is used to secure a tool, whereas the specification marking member is used to mark thereon a specification corresponding to the specification of the tool. The specification marking member is formed of a retaining portion extending from the holding portion, and a marking portion on which a specification is marked. The marking portion is removably located in the retaining portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2003
    Publication date: May 19, 2005
    Inventor: Leo Shih
  • Publication number: 20040256263
    Abstract: A tool organizer is designed to arrange orderly a series of tools, each having a working end of a specification. The tool organizer comprises a base and a plurality of retaining members mounted at intervals on the base for retaining removably the tools. The retaining members are formed of a retaining portion and a specification mark located along with the retaining portion to denote the specification of the working end of the tool. The retaining portion is used to retain removably the working end of the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventor: Leo Shih
  • Publication number: 20040216566
    Abstract: A tool is provided in an outer surface with a first identification device and a second identification device disposed on the first identification device. The first identification device is used to associate the tool with the metric or British system in terms of specification. The second identification device is used to print thereon the specification of the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventor: Leo Shih
  • Publication number: 20040133414
    Abstract: A method, system and machine readable medium are disclosed to process one or more documents in a domain. The method includes modeling the domain with a plurality of domain models using an ontological system; representing each document as a collection of one or more domain models; and populating the domain models that are used to represent the document with values corresponding to properties of the document being represented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Dan Adamson, Leo Shih, Alain T. Rappaport
  • Publication number: 20030226109
    Abstract: A method and system to process a domain. A domain is modeled with one or more domain models. Support models are generated from domain models. An ontological system utilizes the support models to interact with and manipulate the domain models. Further, the support models are used to describe domain model states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Dan Adamson, Leo Shih, Alain T. Rappaport
  • Publication number: 20020128871
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which a request is submitted to a first node in a network containing multiple nodes, the request containing data relating to a healthcare event associated with a patient. The request is processed at the first node to obtain information from one or more databases associated with the first node, based upon the data contained in the request. The request is also processed at one or more additional nodes in the network to obtain information from one or more additional databases associated with the one or more additional nodes, based upon the data contained in the request. A response to the request is generated based upon an aggregation of information obtained from the first node and the one or more additional nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Inventors: Dan Adamson, Eliot Weitz, Leo Shih, Alain T. Rappaport
  • Patent number: 6178854
    Abstract: A socket spanner is provided with a socket having a driven end which is provided in the inner wall thereof with two retaining diagonally opposing each other. The driven end is further provided with an elastic body fitted thereinto such that two retaining sides of the elastic body are securely retained in the two retaining grooves of the driven end of the socket, and that a protruded edge of the retaining sides of the elastic body is capable of holding securely a nut which is engaged with the fitting end of the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Inventor: Leo Shih
  • Patent number: 6082229
    Abstract: A socket spanner is provided with a retaining device consisting of a socket and an elastic body. The socket has a driven end with a hexagonal hole which is provided in one of six inner side walls thereof with a receiving portion. The elastic body is securely fitted into the driven end such that a retaining side of the elastic body is securely retained in the receiving portion of the hexagonal hole of the driven end so as to prevent the elastic body from slipping out of the driven end, and that a protruded edge of the retaining side of the elastic body is capable of holding securely a nut which is engaged with the driven end of the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2000
    Inventor: Leo Shih
  • Patent number: 5943923
    Abstract: A socket spanner is disclosed which includes a socket and a U-shaped elastic body. The socket includes: (1) a driven member, a drive member and an intermediate section located therebetween; (2) a pair of longitudinally extending grooves provided on an inner wall of the driven member opposite each other; and (3) a circumferentially disposed circular slot provided near an inner end of the inner wall of the driven member. The U-shaped elastic body includes: (1) two longitudinally extending arms connected by an arcuate bottom portion; (2) a protruded portion formed on one of the longitudinally extending arms of the U-shaped elastic body for exerting an urging force against a nut received by the driven member of the socket. The two longitudinally extending arms are completely received by the pair of longitudinally extending grooves, respectively, and the arcuate bottom portion is completely received in the circumferentially disposed circular slot provided near the inner end of the inner wall of the driven member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Inventor: Leo Shih
  • Patent number: 5724872
    Abstract: A socket spanner having U-shaped elastic body and a fitting end configured to receive a nut. The fitting hole of the fitting end contains a pair of grooves respectively provided on two opposite inner walls thereof for engaging the U-shaped elastic body. The fitting hole further contains a circular slot located in an outer end of an inner wall of the fitting hole. The U-shaped elastic body includes an arcuate head portion and two arms, the two arms are received by the pair of grooves, respectively, of the fitting hole and at least one of the two arms is provided with a protruded portion capable of retaining a nut held in the fitting hole. At least one of the two arms is provided at a free end thereof with a curved or hooked portion engageable with the circular slot, so as to retain the U-shaped elastic body in the fitting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Inventor: Leo Shih
  • Patent number: D494038
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Inventor: Leo Shih