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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7815306 | Magnetic locker for spectacle frame A locker of a spectacle frame, adapted for connecting a first member and a second member of the spectacle frame, includes a receiving portion, an inserting portion and a locking mechanism. The receiving portion is adapted for providing at an end of the first member ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7744212 | Spectacles with interchangeable temples Spectacles consist of an optical or sunshade front optionally supported by a frame and comprising two interchangeable temples. Each temple is connected to the front or to the frame by a male part and an associated joint. In the spectacles, the joint of each temple c... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7441890 | Frame assembly for eyeglasses A frame assembly for eyeglasses includes a frame including two rims and two extensions that extend from two ends of the frame. Each extension has two slots. Two connection members each have a board and two lugs that extend from one side of the board. Each lug has a ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7344241 | Glasses having frame for combined use with a cap Glasses having a frame for a combined use with a cap which can be attached to the visor of the cap, or when the cap is not worn, can be worn as an ordinary pair of glasses. The glasses having a frame for a combined use with a cap include the main body of glasses hav... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7289767 | Wireless communication glasses A wireless communication glasses has a pair of glasses, a wireless communication transceiver, a wireless transceiver module, an earphone and a microphone. The pair of glasses has a lens frame and a temple connecting with the lens frame. The wireless communication tr... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7264349 | Quick-release eyeglasses hinge A hinge for eyeglasses includes a hinge block for attachment to a lens frame of the eyeglasses. The hinge block has an aperture and a slot extending from the aperture. A hinge pin is attached to an arm of the eyeglasses. The hinge pin is pivotally received by the ap... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261410 | Buckle device for frameless eyeglasses A pair of frameless eyeglasses includes a lens and two buckle members respectively and releasably mounted to two sides of the lens. Two hook members extend outward from each side of the lens. Each hook member includes a hook. Ea buckle member includes a compartment ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7222960 | Spectacle frame A spectacle frame comprises at least one lens engaging frame member and a pair of temple members. An end piece of a temple member is pivotally connected with an end piece of the frame member by a hinge assembly (5) comprising relatively short, elongate first ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7100215 | Goggles with changeable lenses A pair of goggles having a main frame including two fitting members, two lenses fitted in the main frame, two hollow side guards, and a band secured to the side guards. Each of the two fitting members being separable at a line extended from an inner edge of a lens o... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7086734 | Position-adjustable lens and nose-pad assembly A position-adjustable lens and nose-pad assembly includes a nose-pad and a lens. The nose-pad is provided with an upper mounting rod and a lower mounting rod, and a hollow is formed between the upper mounting rod and the lower mounting rod. The lens is provided with... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7059717 | Eyeglasses with interchangable temple-members An eyeglasses apparatus and transformation system thereof, facilitating quick and easy convertibility of the left and right traditionally folding temples into an adjustable headband; thereby making the light-weight eyeglasses much more suited to dynamic activities s... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7033021 | Device for connecting eyeglass frame and temple or headband The present invention relates to a device for connecting an eyeglass frame and temples/headband. A pair of slots is provided at both endpieces of the frame for receiving a connecting device respectively, each slot having an opening at the bottom of and in communicat... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7011405 | Flexible glasses frame A flexible glasses frame comprises two bundles of soft pull rope set up on outboard of two lens respectively, each bundle of soft pull rope should include at least one piece of soft pull rope. At least two tail nail should be fixed on the end of rope which is far aw... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6994434 | Eyewear with lens hinge The eyewear described comprises a lens having, at opposite lateral sides thereof, a pair of detachable ear stems which are adapted to move from an inwardly folded position to an outwardly ear contacting position. The lens displays, at each lateral side, an opening a... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6911172 | Method of manufacturing eyewear A wireless ad hoc pico network is formed by eyewear and other devices such as a computer, a bracelet and a telephone having similar transceivers mounted on them. The eyewear includes a frame and connected to the frame are two temples. Temples are connected to frame ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6834952 | Eyewear with detachable and replaceable temples A pair of glasses (10) that includes a lens frame (11) supporting a pair of lenses (12). The frame (11) includes rearwardly extending temple mountings (13) to which there is releasably attached temples (14). The temples (... | 12/28/2004 |
| 6764176 | Eyewear magnifying loupe An eyewear loupe having one or more magnifying lenses for removable attachment to an eyewear includes up to three eyewear-engaging spaces allowing attachment to a variety of different sized eyewear. An adapter for attaching to the shield of shield-type eyewear is pr... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6736504 | Hingeless eyeglasses A frame assembly for eyeglasses is provided having removable and interchangeable securement members. The frame assembly is preferably provided with a lense frame having mounting holes formed in the opposite ends of the frame. A pair of mounting pins are provided to ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6575570 | Spectacle frame In a framework for eyeglasses the support legs (3) are in engagement with the lens-holding structure (2) through hinge pins (9) mounted rigid with the lens-holding structure (2) or, alternatively, with the legs themselves, and adapted to be coupled with a... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6540351 | Arrangement comprising an endpiece, a temple headpiece and a hinge for spectacles An arrangement for spectacles comprises an endpiece (2) and a temple headpiece (4) as well as a hinge (6), hinge pin (26) rotatably inserted into a hinge hole (28), a radial opening (36) in the hinge eye is disposed on the side thereof which faces away fr... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6394599 | Spectacles with open-sided assembly members Spectacles with bored frames are defined. The spectacles have lenses joined directly to the bridge and the tenon hinge of the temple by assembly points provided directly on the lenses. The assembly points, at the end of the bridge or the tenon hinge of a ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6302539 | Eyeglass frame An eyeglass frame includes a lens frame with two opposite end portions, each having a top wall formed with a bow retaining hole, a bottom wall formed with a bow mounting hole, and an insert slot defined by the top and bottom walls. The bow mounting hole h... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6276794 | Swimming goggles A pair of swimming goggles, comprising a lens frame main unit, a protective pad, two lenses and a headband device, characterized in that: the lenses and protective pad of the swimming goggles are compressed tight to the lens frame main unit, the lens fram... | 08/21/2001 |
| 6231181 | Exchangeable eyeglass temple pieces utilizing quick-connect attachment An apparatus for releasably attaching a temple to a lense frame. In one aspect, the inventive apparatus comprises: a grasping mechanism, at the forward end of the temple, for releasably, pivotably, and directly grasping a hinge pin provided on the lense f... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6145985 | Temple comprising rigid components coupled with a soft element, particular for eyeglasses A temple, for eyeglasses, comprising at least one rigid support which is associated with a front and with which at least one softer element, suitable to act as a hinge, is in turn associated.... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6036312 | Protective eyeglass assembly having a unitary, decentered lens piece A protective eyeglass assembly includes a unitary, decentered lens piece integrally molded from a transparent plastic material. The lens piece includes left and right lens panels connected by a central bridge portion. The left and right lens panels each h... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5963296 | Detachable cam-biased eyeglass temples An eyeglass construction includes a hinge joint and temple bars with spreadable jaws with apertures that receive frame hinge pins. A unique key-and-lock mechanism is provided for spreading the temple jaws and holding them apart while interchangeable templ... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5936701 | Eyeglasses A pair of eyeglasses of the type which comprises a front which is constituted by lenses with which temples are associated. The eyeglasses are characterized in that each one of the temples comprises an anchoring end section which is shaped so as to form an... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5880807 | Spectacle mount A mount made entirely of wire material for spectacles with at least two lenses, wherein each hinge includes a fixed portion presenting an eyelet with a straight end used as a hinge pin about which to rotate the respective lateral arm on the hinge; the eye... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5793464 | Eyeglasses frame Eyeglasses includes a lens frame, two temples and two connecters for connecting the lens frame with the temples. The lens frame has a slot in each of two side ends to fit firmly with an intermediate small wall of a connecter between two parallel walls, an... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5764330 | Device for interconnecting and pivoting two components of eyeglasses or protective elements for sports A device for interconnecting and pivoting two components of eyeglasses or protective elements for sports use. The device is constituted by a single flexible body that is detachably associable at at least one hole formed on one of the two components. The s... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5748280 | Rimless eyeglasses having a single wire bridge and removable lenses Rimless eyeglasses having removable lenses. Each lens has a pair of bridge securing openings. The bridge is formed from a single wire. The single wire bridge is bent to form two c-shaped sections. Each c-shaped section is threaded through a respective len... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5684559 | Lens positioning device for spectacles A pair of spectacles has two lenses, two temples, and a lens positioning device. The lens positioning device comprises a bridge disposed between two lenses, and two pivot supports. The pivot support is disposed between the lens and the temple. Each lens h... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5668619 | Device for locking an interchangeable, length-adjustable spectacle side-piece A sheath (2) constituting the fixed support of a lengthwise displaceable specatacle side-piece (1) is pierced by a plurality of round positioning holes (5) and a rectangular window (6) disposed in second position on the sheath, after the first positioning... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5659381 | Engagement device particularly for lenses of eyeglasses The engagement device has a first seat having a longitudinal extension and formed in a first end of a lens of a pair of eyeglasses. A second seat, also formed in the first end of the lens, has an essentially circular configuration and communicates with th... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5652637 | Eyeglasses with detachable temples A detachable temple comprises an ear stem portion distal from a lens frame and a lens frame portion or member proximal the frame. The temple is configured so that the two pieces can be separated without disassembling a hinged joint between the lens frame ... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5594511 | Eyeglasses with a lens-frame body which can be selectively coupled with either a pair of bows or a head strap A pair of eyeglasses includes an elongated lens-frame body, two connectors, and a fastener device. The lens-frame body includes two end portions, each of which has a generally vertical hole formed therethrough. Each of the connectors has a front end porti... | 01/14/1997 |
| 5589895 | Hinge structure of a spectacle frame A hinge structure of a spectacle frame has bearings formed at the ends of end pieces provided outside a pair of lenses or outside the rims supporting the lenses, pivotally rotatable shafts at the tips of a pair of temples are pivotally rotatably connected... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5585870 | Rimless spectacles with its lenses supported and clipped at three points The technical issues of the present invention are to provide a pair of the rimless spectacles whose right-and-left lenses can be mechanically simply interlocked and held in a stable condition by means of three points supporting system with simple metallic... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5559566 | Integral reading glasses with necklace support Reading neckglasses comprising a front piece used for reading when placed in front of the eyes of a person. A structure is for suspending the front piece about a neck of the person, so that the front piece will always be at hand for use by the person.... | 09/24/1996 |
