Patents by Inventor Yen-Pin Lai

Yen-Pin 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: 10414460
    Abstract: A collapsible handlebar for use on a bicycle includes a ferrule, two tubes and two beams. The ferrule is operable to hold a stem of a fork of the bicycle. Each of the tubes includes an internal end. Each of the beams includes a supportive end for supporting one of the tubes and a connective end pivotally connected to the ferrule. Thus, the beams are movable relative to each other between a close position and a distant position. The internal ends of the tubes are located near and connected to each other when the beams are in the close position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: AZURE BIKE INTERNATIONAL LTD.
    Inventor: Yen-Pin Lai
  • Publication number: 20140153270
    Abstract: A light assembly mounted in recess of a seat post of a bicycle is provided with a push button moveably mounted on a mouth of the recess and including a bossed hole on a rear surface; a resilient conductor fastened in the bossed hole; a controller circuit fastened in the recess and including two spaced contacts spaced from the conductor in a non-depressed position, the contacts being electrically connected to the controller circuit; LEDs disposed on a front surface of the controller circuit facing the rear surface of the push button; and a battery mounted to a rear surface of the controller circuit and electrically connected to the contacts. A pressing of the push button electrically connects the conductor to the contacts so that an electric energy is supplied from the battery to the LEDs for illumination via the contacts, the conductor, and the controller circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Inventor: Yen-Pin Lai
  • Patent number: 5725225
    Abstract: A bicycle shock-absorbing assembly is composed of a connection rod, a position restricting nut, a coil spring, a dustproof jacket, a resilient locating ring, a front reinforcing member, and a rear reinforcing member. The bicycle shock-absorbing assembly is arranged such that it is capable of alleviating the impact force which is transmitted from the bicycle wheels to the top tube, the seat tube, and the down tube of the bicycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Inventor: Yen-Pin Lai
  • Patent number: 5443301
    Abstract: A saddle mounting frame assembly includes a seat post, which consists of a master tube and an auxiliary tube welded to the master tube at one side, an upper clamping plate, a lower clamping plate having a hollow bottom shaft fitted into the master tube, a fastening device to fasten the upper and lower clamping plates together permitting them to be fastened to a saddle, an adjusting screw to fasten the fastening device to the auxiliary tube, a first shock absorbing element fitted into the master tube and stopped between a blocking plate inside the master tube and the bottom shaft of the lower clamping plate, and a second shock absorbing element fitted into the auxiliary tube to support the fastening device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Inventor: Yen-Pin Lai
  • Patent number: 5361647
    Abstract: A bicycle head tube assembly includes a connecting device connected between a handlebar lug thereof and a head tube thereof to absorb shocks, the connecting devices comprised of a soft covering and a stack of resilient steel plates covered within the soft covering, the resilient steel plates including a fixed steel plate at the top having two opposite ends welded to the lug and the head tube respectively, and stack of suspension steel plates alternatively welded to the lug or the head tube and having a respective free end spaced from the lug or the head tube at a distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Inventor: Yen-Pin Lai
  • Patent number: D379163
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1997
    Inventor: Yen-Pin Lai
  • Patent number: D415071
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Inventor: Yen-Pin Lai