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| 20080113159 | Stainless sheet for a tool cabinet A stainless sheet for a tool cabinet has an external surface and a transparent painting layer. The external surface is rough, and the transparent painting layer is formed on the rough external surface.... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20080106430 | Modular LED warning lamp A modular LED warning lamp has a base, a lamp module and a lamp shade. The lamp module is mounted on the base and has a positioning sleeve, multiple circuit panels and a circuit board. The positioning sleeve has multiple positioning sections formed and arranged circular... | 05/08/2008 |
| 20080100239 | AC FAN MOTOR DRIVING CIRCUIT HAVING CAPABILITY OF MONITORING THE ROTATION RATE AND STATUS OF THE AC FAN MOTOR A driving circuit has a driving circuit module, a rotation rate detecting module and a rotation status detecting module. The driving circuit module is used to drive an AC fan motor and has at least a driving IC having two controlling outputs and a rotation status detect... | 05/01/2008 |
| 20080100029 | One-piece frame for a bicycle A one-piece frame for a bicycle has more than two hollow metal tubes connecting to each other by welding to form an initial frame. The initial frame is put into a mold. With the hydraulic pressure process, the metal tubes and the welding parts between the metal tubes ar... | 05/01/2008 |
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| 20080075315 | Bluetooth earphone A bluetooth earphone has an earphone jacket, an earphone module, a bluetooth module, a receiver, a speaker and a rolling assembly. The earphone jacket has multiple receiving holes, a through hole and an opening defined in a sidewall. The earphone module provided in the ... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080075612 | Waterproof assembly for a blower A waterproof assembly is provided to an air blower and has a cap adapted to be securely mounted on top of the circuit board and a primary seal is adapted to be sandwiched between the motor casing and the circuit board. A through hole is adapted to be defined through a p... | 03/27/2008 |
| 20080066666 | Sail and device for rotatably connecting a sail batten to a mast and shaping a luff of the sail In a battened sailboard sail a sail-widget is attached to the leading edge of the sail and the sail-widget is connected to a camber-inducer by a line that is acted on by a batten to evenly distribute the batten tension load between the sail and camber-inducer. The batte... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080069391 | Battery door An earcup assembly 11 for a headset 10 comprising a housing having a first side adapted to engage the head of a user when in use and a second side opposite thereto. A recess provided in the second side of the housing receives and stores a battery. A batter... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080064294 | Wall descending toy with moveable features A wall descending toy has a housing and a moveable part. A sticky wheel is located with the housing to facilitate movement of the housing down an inclined or vertical surface. There is a mechanical link moveable with movement of the housing and which causes movement of ... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080053421 | Apparatus for loading and unloading pellets in a slingshot An apparatus for loading and unloading pellets in a slingshot includes a handle and a magazine. The handle is hollow. The magazine is mounted in the handle and has a body and a switch. The body has a lower end, a receiving space defined in the body, a sliding hole defin... | 03/06/2008 |
| 20080047573 | Powder puff casing A powder puff casing includes a bottom casing for receiving therein powder, a positioning cover detachably mounted on top of the bottom casing and having a circular hole defined therethrough to communicate with an interior of the bottom casing, a covering extending thro... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20080045088 | Terminal and electrical connector A terminal has a soldering portion, a body portion, a resilient arm portion, a first fulcrum and a pivot boss. The body portion is formed on the soldering portion. The resilient arm portion is formed on the body portion, is capable of pivoting and has a proximal end, a ... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080045084 | Receptacle connector A receptacle connector has an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals and a shell. The insulative housing has a mounting segment and a tongue segment. The terminals are mounted securely on the insulative housing and held by the tongue segment. The shell covers the ... | 02/21/2008 |
| 20080036859 | Digital surveillance camera A digital surveillance camera includes a video capture component, a data converter coupled to the video capture component and a signal transmission unit coupled to an output terminal of the data converter. The data converter processes the video signal with high frequenc... | 02/14/2008 |
| 20080031994 | Blowing assembly A blowing assembly is connected to a body of a blowing mechanism and has a bracket, a driving device, a mold assembly and a peripheral-supplying device. The bracket is connected to the body of the blowing mechanism and has a frame, an actuating device and a transmitting... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080030991 | Base assembly for LEDs A base assembly for LEDs has a top, a bottom and multiple LED recesses formed in the top and including at least one oblique LED recess and at least one perpendicular LED recess. Each oblique LED recess has an inclined bottom, an oblique sidewall and a pair of lead passa... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080032188 | Flat recyclable battery A flat recyclable battery has a housing, an anode plate, a cathode plate, a sponge and an optional absorbent duct. The housing is flat and has a supply hole. The anode plate is inserted in the housing and has a plate body, an active carbon and an anodic wire. The plate ... | 02/07/2008 |
| 20080014791 | Connector A connector holds and is connected electrically with a memory card such as a subscriber identity module (SIM) card and has an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals and a cover. The insulative housing has two sidewalls and a pair of holders. The holders are formed... | 01/17/2008 |
| 20080006671 | Piston assembly A piston assembly for a staple gun has a piston head, a driving rod and a fastener. The piston head has a connecting post formed on and protruded axially from a top of the piston head and having two mounting blocks and an inserting recess. Each mounting block has two in... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080000620 | Heat exchanger A heat exchanger has an exchanging assembly and a cleaning assembly. The exchanging assembly has multiple exchanging tubes. Each exchanging tube has an outer tube and an inner tube inserted into the outer tube. The cleaning assembly is connected to the exchanging assemb... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20070290477 | Hand propelled personal riding device A hand propelled personal riding device having a riding platform for supporting a rider with a set of driving wheels and a second set of wheels for transporting the platform along a surface, a propulsion handle extending vertically from the platform and moveable in a re... | 12/20/2007 |
| 20070286741 | Pump with variant strokes A pump with variant strokes has a body, a piston assembly and a decelerating member. The body and the decelerating member are respectively mounted adjacent to the piston assembly. A holder is mounted in the piston assembly and has multiple openings. When the deceleratin... | 12/13/2007 |
| 20070277800 | Barbecue A barbecue has a body, a charcoal bracket and at least one food drawer. The body has a front wall with a mouth and multiple vents defined in the front wall, a central cavity and at least one side cavity. The charcoal bracket is received inside the central cavity in the ... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070277425 | Snake trap with extensible structure An apparatus to capture snakes or small animals has an inner extensible coil spring support structure having shape memory. The support structure is overlaid or enclosed by a flexible mesh netting having open spaces whereby the snakes may pass through the spaces only whe... | 12/06/2007 |
| 20070259597 | Soft toy or doll A toy has a figure of a human or animal. The figure has a body made of a fabrics material and at least one appendage made of a soft flexible material. The appendage has a fabric piece fused to it during making and is joined to the body by stitched the fabric piece to th... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070259557 | Clamping assembly for a machine A clamping assembly has a main body, a connecting sleeve and a clamping device. The main body has a connecting end and a clamping end. The connecting sleeve is slidably mounted in the main body. The clamping device is attached to the main body, is connected to the conne... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070256468 | Assembled workstation A workstation has a base, a conveying device, a driving assembly and a working device. The base is composed of multiple supporting frames. The conveying device is mounted on the base and has a rail, a moving base, a motor, a pushing rod and two rotating rods. The rotati... | 11/08/2007 |
| 20070251653 | Cord-controlling device for a window blind A cord-controlling device for a window blind has a case, a cap, a gear, a spindle, a roller, a base and a lid. The cap is mounted on the case and a cavity formed between the case and the cap. The gear is received between the cavity formed between the case and the cap. T... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070246568 | Energy efficient water sprinkler An energy efficient water sprinkler has a housing with primary and secondary water chambers each with a turning wheel for translating the force of impacting water to rotational motion of a central shaft journal. Water is forced through a central channel in the rotating ... | 10/25/2007 |
| 20070236349 | Security alarm system having minimal wiring to CCTV camera A security alarm system includes a camera, an alarm control panel, a mixer at the camera, a signal processor at or associated with the alarm control panel, and a single cable comprising only two operative conductors extending between the mixer and the signal processor. ... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070234518 | Linear hinge A linear hinge has a sleeve, a bar and a pintle. The sleeve is tubular and has a mounting protrusion. The bar is mounted in the sleeve and has one end and a mounting recess corresponding to and engaging the mounting protrusion. The pintle has an outside rod and an insid... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070235103 | Method and apparatus for forming an unmixed layer of a first liquid in or on a second liquid contained in a vessel A method and apparatus for forming an unmixed layer of a first liquid on or beneath the surface of a second liquid contained in a separate vessel. An upper receptacle receives and dispenses a first liquid onto a collar attached to the upper receptacle through outlets in... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070237605 | Pin A pin comprises an inner element and an outer sleeve. The inner element is insertable into and removable from the outer sleeve, and the outer surface of the inner element and the inner surface of the outer sleeve are tapered along at least a part of their lengths. ... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070232185 | Doll A doll has a figure of a human or an animal and an outer layer of a flexible gelatinous compound covering the figure so as to provide a skin-like characteristic. The figure may have a part that is made of a soft resilient material and in covering that part the gelatinou... | 10/04/2007 |
| 20070210293 | Fencing device A fencing device has at least one first fence and at least one second fence adjacent to the first fence, and at least one positioning device. The first fence has an upper block and a lower block respectively formed at an upper end and a lower end thereof, an upper ear a... | 09/13/2007 |
