Patents by Inventor Man Lai

Man Lai 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: 10925297
    Abstract: An ice cream roll maker includes a housing, a freezer wheel mounted within the housing and configured for rotation about a horizontal axis, and a reservoir within the housing for holding a liquid ingredient. An outer peripheral surface of the freezer wheel is configured to receive the liquid ingredient from the reservoir and transform the liquid ingredient into a frozen coating layer on the outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: CONAIR CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kin Man Lai
  • Patent number: 10898029
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes an upper housing having a first heating surface and a lower housing operatively connected to the upper housing. The lower housing has a second heating surface having a plurality of apertures therethrough for facilitating the egress of cooking juices from the second heating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: CONAIR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kam Fai Fung, Kin Man Lai
  • Patent number: 10888984
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a striking member mounted in a housing for reciprocal movement relative to a fastener striking opening, a leaf spring engaging with the striking member at an end, and having a flexible section anchored by an anchoring unit, and a press handle pivotably connected with the anchoring unit, and having an elongated guide slot in which a pivot axle is movably engaged. The press handle is pivotable from a ready position, where the anchoring unit anchors the flexible section, through an intermediate position, where the anchoring unit is moved upwardly and rearwardly to cause resilient deflection of the leaf spring and load the leaf spring with an accumulated biasing energy, to a striking position, where the anchoring unit abuts against and is counteracted upon the pivot axle or a stop peg to be disengaged from the leaf spring so as to release the biasing energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Pao Shen Enterprises Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Man Lai, Sheng-Lung Yeh
  • Patent number: 10759033
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a striking member and an energy storing unit disposed in a housing. The energy storing unit has at least one torsion spring having forwardly extending short and long legs which are connected to a pivotable handle and the striking member. An anchoring member is disposed forwardly of and slidable relative to the handle and is detachably engaged with the striking member. During a pivotal movement of the handle, the short and long legs of the torsion spring are moved in opposite directions to store a biasing energy and to force the striking member upwards, which in turn moves the striking member downward for performing a fastener striking stroke once the anchoring member is disengaged from the striking member to release the torsion spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Pao Shen Enterprises Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Man Lai, Sheng-Lung Yeh
  • Publication number: 20190295433
    Abstract: The invention relates to an ejection seat simulator of extraction parachute type for experiencing escape from a manned aircraft which includes a base, a guide rail, a power device, a somatosensory seat, a head-mounted display, and a pair of control pull ring. A box, a controller and an air pump are disposed on the base. The power device includes a first support plate, a hydraulic rod, a guide wheel set, a first shaft, a connecting plate, a motor and a gear set. The control pull ring includes a ring body and a pull rope. The ring body is inlaid with a control button, a wireless transmission module, a tension sensor and a buffer spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Man Lai TSE
  • Publication number: 20190240823
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a striking member and an energy storing unit disposed in a housing. The energy storing unit has at least one torsion spring having forwardly extending short and long legs which are connected to a pivotable handle and the striking member. An anchoring member is disposed forwardly of and slidable relative to the handle and is detachably engaged with the striking member. During a pivotal movement of the handle, the short and long legs of the torsion spring are moved in opposite directions to store a biasing energy and to force the striking member upwards, which in turn moves the striking member downward for performing a fastener striking stroke once the anchoring member is disengaged from the striking member to release the torsion spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Chun-Man Lai, Sheng-Lung Yeh
  • Publication number: 20190202045
    Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a striking member mounted in a housing for reciprocal movement relative to a fastener striking opening, a leaf spring engaging with the striking member at an end, and having a flexible section anchored by an anchoring unit, and a press handle pivotably connected with the anchoring unit, and having an elongated guide slot in which a pivot axle is movably engaged. The press handle is pivotable from a ready position, where the anchoring unit anchors the flexible section, through an intermediate position, where the anchoring unit is moved upwardly and rearwardly to cause resilient deflection of the leaf spring and load the leaf spring with an accumulated biasing energy, to a striking position, where the anchoring unit abuts against and is counteracted upon the pivot axle or a stop peg to be disengaged from the leaf spring so as to release the biasing energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Chun-Man Lai, Sheng-Lung Yeh
  • Patent number: 10291053
    Abstract: An adaptive constant current-constant voltage (CC-CV) transition circuit comprises an amplifier, a series-pass device with current sense, a feedback network and a constant current controller to provide a stable and smooth transition between a constant voltage mode and a constant current mode, and vice versa. A voltage regulator loop comprises an amplifier, an optional buffer, a series-pass device with current sense and a feedback network which provides a feedback voltage to the amplifier. A current regulation loop comprises the amplifier, the optional buffer, the series-pass device, the feedback network and a constant current controller comprising a trans-impedence amplifier and a transconductance comparator which generate a current signal to a pseudo-constant bias (PCB) and a voltage signal to the adaptive compensation network (ACN) of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Miot Limited
    Inventors: Ka Wai Ho, King Man Lai, Chiu Sing Celement Tse
  • Publication number: 20190099036
    Abstract: A cooking appliance including a temperature sensing system having an upper housing having a first heating surface and a lower housing having a second heating surface includes a temperature sensing probe, a control panel and a control unit in electrical communication with the temperature sensing probe and the control panel. The temperature sensing probe is removably received by the upper housing and extends through the first heating surface. The control panel has one or more input buttons for allowing a user to select at least one input parameter including a desired internal temperature of a food item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: CONAIR CORPORATION
    Inventors: KAM FAI FUNG, Kin Man Lai
  • Publication number: 20190047130
    Abstract: A staple gun includes a base seat having a pivot shaft and a coupling shaft, a striking member disposed movably in the base seat and having a connecting hole, an elastic member engaging the connecting hole, a driving member having a slot and a linking hole that is engaged with the elastic member, and a handle. The driving member is inclined with a lower portion thereof being disposed in front of an upper portion thereof. The handle has a cam surface, and an engaging hole retaining the pivot shaft. Pivot movement of the handle toward a pressed position deforms the elastic member resiliently and moves the handle rearwardly due to a slidable contact between the cam surface and the coupling shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: PAO SHEN ENTERPRISES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chun-Man LAI
  • Patent number: 10154571
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lamp holder, which includes a front housing, a rear housing detachably connected to one end of the front housing, an end cap detachably connected to the other end of the front housing and a first connecting cap provided in the rear housing for connecting with a lamp, and further includes a compression spring, a conducting sheet and a conducting pole for contacting with an external power source. When one end of the lamp holder is connected with an external lamp socket, the conducting pole can keep a good electrical connection with the external power source due to the action of the compression spring; and when the other end of the lamp holder is connected with the lamp, the resilient sheet can keep a good electrical connection with the lamp due to the resilient sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Inventors: Chung Man Lai, XinJie Mo, RiMing Fang
  • Patent number: 10130205
    Abstract: A cooking appliance including a temperature sensing system having an upper housing having a first heating surface and a lower housing having a second heating surface includes a temperature sensing probe, a control panel and a control unit in electrical communication with the temperature sensing probe and the control panel. The temperature sensing probe is removably received by the upper housing and extends through the first heating surface. The control panel has one or more input buttons for allowing a user to select at least one input parameter including a desired internal temperature of a food item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: CONAIR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kam Fai Fung, Kin Man Lai
  • Patent number: 10085591
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes an upper housing having a first heating surface, a lower housing operatively connected to the upper housing, the lower housing having a second heating surface, and a splash guard having a plurality of peripheral sidewalls. The splash guard is nestable within the lower housing and extendable therefrom to a position wherein the splash guard substantially surrounds the second heating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: CONAIR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kam Fai Fung, Kin Man Lai
  • Patent number: 10070753
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes an upper housing, a lower housing operatively connected to the upper housing, and a removable baking attachment received on the lower housing. The baking attachment has a bottom surface, a substantially open top and peripheral sidewalls defining a baking cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: CONAIR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kam Fai Fung, Kin Man Lai
  • Publication number: 20180077949
    Abstract: An ice cream roll maker includes a housing, a freezer wheel mounted within the housing and configured for rotation about a horizontal axis, and a reservoir within the housing for holding a liquid ingredient. An outer peripheral surface of the freezer wheel is configured to receive the liquid ingredient from the reservoir and transform the liquid ingredient into a frozen coating layer on the outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: CONAIR CORPORATION
    Inventor: KIN MAN LAI
  • Publication number: 20170343200
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lamp holder, which includes a front housing, a rear housing detachably connected to one end of the front housing, an end cap detachably connected to the other end of the front housing and a first connecting cap provided in the rear housing for connecting with a lamp, and further includes a compression spring, a conducting sheet and a conducting pole for contacting with an external power source. When one end of the lamp holder is connected with an external lamp socket, the conducting pole can keep a good electrical connection with the external power source due to the action of the compression spring; and when the other end of the lamp holder is connected with the lamp, the resilient sheet can keep a good electrical connection with the lamp due to the resilient sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Chung Man LAI, XinJie MO, RiMing FANG
  • Patent number: 9822480
    Abstract: A garment treatment system includes a base, a water tank mounted to the base and having water contained therein, a steam generator in fluid communication with the water tank and adapted to convert the water from the water tank into steam, a steam nozzle having a steam reservoir and a steam outlet for distributing the steam to a garment, a first lumen in fluid communication with the steam generator and the steam nozzle for delivering steam to the steam reservoir of the steam nozzle and a second lumen in fluid communication with the steam reservoir of the steam nozzle and the water tank for returning condensed water to the water tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: CONAIR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kam Fai Fung, Kin Man Lai
  • Publication number: 20170256150
    Abstract: Disclosed is a network camera, which includes a camera assembly, a bottom cover, a top cover assembly fixed to the bottom cover, an alarm assembly and a human body sensor; the camera assembly includes a camera and a rotatable spherical shell which has a fixing cavity for holding the camera; the top cover assembly includes a top cover and a fixing cover fixed to the top cover; the top cover has an upper cavity and a camera hole via which the camera is able to extend out of the top cover; the fixing cover has a lower cavity; the upper cavity and the lower cavity form a spherical cavity together for being rotatably connected with the rotatable spherical shell; and the human body sensor is electrically connected with the camera assembly and the alarm assembly. The present invention achieves energy conservation and has a warning function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventors: Chung Man Lai, Xinjie Mo, Riming Fang
  • Publication number: 20170226629
    Abstract: Disclosed is method for plating a PVD (physical vapor deposition) germ killing film, employing a vacuum magnetron sputtering technology and using a nano-silver-containing target for uniformly distributing nano-silver to form a germ killing film. The method can achieve the aim of full germ killing. Besides, nano-silver is enveloped in the sputtering target to form the film, so the target material target can play the role of protecting the nano-silver. Target material can be Al, Cr, stainless steel and Cu. Therefore, the nano-silver is protected; wear resistance of the germ killing film is increased; and the germ killing film can continuously kills germs for a long time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventor: KIN MAN LAI
  • Patent number: D789890
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Inventors: Chung Man Lai, RiMing Fang, XinJie Mo