| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 431153000 | CORRELATION OF FUEL OR POWER SUPPLY WITH COMPONENT MOVEMENTS IN A DISABLING AND ENABLING SEQUENCE | 34 |
| 20080206694 | Child Resistant Roll-and-Press Lighter - A child resistant roll-and-press lighter includes at least one abutment surface ( | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080213711 | Lighter or Lighting Gun with a Safety Switch - The invention provides a lighter with a safety switch, comprising: a housing, a fuel container within the housing, a piezoelectric assembly, and a vent assembly. The piezoelectric assembly comprises a piezoelectric element, a snap, as well as a upper and lower push rods arranged between the snap and piezoelectric element. The lower part of the upper push rod and the upper part of the lower push rod are connected in a manner that they can deviate from the centerline of the upper and lower push rods toward one side. Thus, the upper and lower push rods can bend to one side at the joint during the operation of the snap. The lighter further comprises a safety switch, which can prevent the upper and lower push rods from bending. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080213712 | Child resistant lighter - A child resistant lighter has a handle, a barrel, a fuel tank, a gas release nozzle, a piezoelectric unit, an ignition means, a lever, a flame nozzle, a fuel conveying hose connecting the flame nozzle and the gas release nozzle, and a safe means having a slidable button, a pivot, an arm rotatably mounted on the pivot and having a hole surrounding the transmission pole, and a second spring. The ignition means further has a transmission pole, a first spring, a first protrusion, and a second protrusion. One end of the transmission pole connects to the lever and the other end thereof meets the triggering button of the piezoelectric unit. The safe lighter is able to both lower a possibility of unintentional ignition by child and protect a skin of thumb of a user. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080220385 | Foldable Igniter - A folding lighter that does not injure a finger or inadvertently ignite at pressing of the operating button at time of folding the swingarm to make the lighter compact. A folding lighter comprising body | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080241773 | Foldable Igniter - A foldable lighter that prevents inadvertent ignition by erroneously pressing the operating button when folding the swing-arm to make the lighter compact. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20090004613 | Child resistant utility lighter - A child resistant utility lighter having a handle, a barrel mounted in the handle and extending outward, a fuel tank within the handle and for containing liquefied gaseous fuel, a gas valve mounted on the fuel tank, a trigger being able to startup the piezoelectric unit to generate sparks for ignition, and, a lever rotatably mounted on the handle by a lever pin. The utility lighter further has a safe button slidably mounted on the handle and pushed by a first elastic element to an undepressed position; and, a piezoelectric unit contained in the handle and having a starting button, the piezoelectric unit constantly stops at a departure position in which the trigger, when pulled over, is not able to meet the piezoelectric unit, and being able to be pushed to an aligning position by depressing the safe button for ignition by pulling over the trigger. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090029301 | SAFETY FLINT LIGHTER - A safety flint lighter is provided that an adult is allowed to easily make an ignition with a single action without allowing a child to easily lean how to ignite a flame. A safety flint lighter has an ignition device using a flint and a sparking file wheel and structured not permitting a child to ignite a flame. An axial hole, rotatably supporting a rotary shaft of a sparking file wheel, is in a form permitting the rotary shaft, at an axis thereof, to directly move between a first position the rotary shaft is normally hold and distant from a tank body, a second position established closer to the tank body than the first position and on an axis of a flint and a third position established oppositely to a nozzle with respect to a straight line connecting between the first position and the second position. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090061371 | UTILITY LIGHTER WITH A SAFTEY FEATURE - A utility lighter with a safety device having a trigger, a stop and a safety button. The trigger has a trigger engagement element and a lever. The trigger engagement element is capable of initiating the creation of a spark. The lever is capable of rotational movement about a point located on the trigger and has a lever stop. The safety button comprises a lever engagement portion. The lever has a first position where the lever stop is aligned with the stop and the lever stop will arrest the movement of the trigger preventing the creation of a spark and/or the release of fuel. Thus when a user applies force to the safety button, the lever engagement portion interacts with the lever. The lever engagement portion moves in a direction that is approximately transverse to the direction of movement of the trigger and urges the lever to a second position. When the lever is in the second position, the lever stop is out of alignment with the stop such that the movement of the trigger will not be arrested. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090068604 | Cigarette Lighter with Replaceable Cartridge - A cigarette lighter has a fuel cartridge for use therewith that may be removable there-from. In the exemplary embodiment, the fuel cartridge has a reservoir for holding a flammable liquid fuel, and includes a valve having a closed state for denying escape of the fuel from the reservoir and an open state for allowing such escape. The lighter has an ignition actuator for causing ignition of the escaped fuel when the ignition actuator is actuated, a nozzle for causing the ignited fuel to form a lighting flame, and a valve actuator cooperating with the ignition actuator to open the valve as the ignition actuator is actuated. In the exemplary embodiment, the reservoir has a transparent portion and the lighter housing is an opaque shell surrounding the reservoir with a viewing window there-through. The viewing window is aligned with the transparent portion of the reservoir to allow external observation of the amount of fuel within said chamber. The transparent portion includes indicia for gauging the amount of fuel in the reservoir during the external observation. | 03-12-2009 |
| 20090087803 | Child-resistant gas lighter - A lighter that includes a hard-spring piezoelectric unit for preventing children from to operate lighter. A piezoelectric ignition unit has a plunger that is movable into a main casing to generate sparks for igniting a stream of flammable fuel. A hard-spring piezoelectric unit includes a plunger which includes auxiliary spring surrounding the plunger for increasing a force needed to actuate the piezoelectric unit and a blocking means for fixing the auxiliary spring with respect to the piezoelectric unit therefore enhancing an assembly efficiency of the gas lighter in manufacturing. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090098493 | Child resistant flint lighter with free wheel - A child resistant flint lighter having a body on which a pair of brackets are formed, a pivotal means being of bar-shaped and installed on the pair of brackets, a free wheel rotatably installed on the pivotal means, a flint wheel covering on the pivotal means, a fixed wheel covering on the pivotal means and fixed with respect to the flint wheel, a flint with respect of which the flint wheel and fixed wheel is able to rotate, and a flint spring pressing the flint on the flint wheel. In this invention, there is only one bar-shaped pivotal means needed in stead of the complex shafts in the conventional lighter. It will significantly reduce the complexity and time of manufacturing and assembling the pivotal means to the lighter. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090098494 | Torch having a continuous-flame mode - A hand-held torch includes a housing. A fuel flow path is defined within the housing. A plunger is movable within the housing to control fuel flow through the fuel flow path. An engagement portion is coupled to the plunger. A latching mechanism having at least one claw is movable to engage the engagement portion when the plunger is positioned to allow fuel flow through the fuel flow path. An actuator is coupled to the latching mechanism and exposed for manipulation by a user to move the latching mechanism into engagement with the engagement portion. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090197213 | Flint wheel lighter with a safety device - A flint wheel lighter with a safety device, comprises a casing, a fuel container disposed in the casing, a vent assembly, an ignition assembly, and a windproof hood above the fuel container, the ignition assembly is arranged on the side opposite to the windproof hood. Said ignition assembly comprises a press plate, a flint, and a flint wheel. A bent safety rod rotatable with the flint wheel is disposed on the side surface of said flint wheel, with both ends of two sections of said bent safety rods protruding out of the rim of the flint wheel. In a safe mode, the end of one section butts against the inner surface of the top cover of the windproof hood, and the end of the other section lies over the flint wheel. The flint wheel lighter with safety rod provided by the present invention can effectively control the operation of the flint wheel by the safety rod, so as to prevent fire disasters and accidents caused by children playing with the flint wheel. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090202954 | Multifunctional fuel gas nozzle - The present invention discloses a multifunctional fuel gas nozzle such that the nozzle is generally applicable for both natural gas and liquefied gas with different pressures. The multifunctional fuel gas nozzle of the present invention comprises a hollow core, a shell which is tightly jointed to the rear end portion of the core, and a switch strip which is axially movable with respect to the shell. The above structure is always applicable by switching the switch strip whenever the shell is used for natural gas with a lower input pressure or liquefied gas with a higher input pressure. Therefore, natural gas and liquefied gas with different pressures can share the nozzle only by simple adjustment according to the present invention. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090263754 | Utility light with illumination arrangement - A utility lighter includes a lighter casing having a casing body and an extension arm, a gas releasing valve provided in the lighter casing, an ignition nozzle provided at an upper end of the extension arm to communicate with the gas releasing valve; a piezoelectric unit, an actuation unit and an illumination arrangement. The illumination arrangement includes an illumination holder mounted on the lighter casing; and an illumination unit mounted on the illumination holder, in such a manner that the illumination unit is arranged to provide illumination primarily toward the ignition zone so that a user is able to accurately apply the ignition of the utility lighter to a target spot as clearly visualized by illumination of the ignition zone. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100021854 | IGNITER - An igniter can include a safety mechanism which is easily operated by an adult but is difficult for a child to release. In particular, an igniter can include: a nozzle section which emits a flame; a fuel introduction section; an ignition section which ignites the introduced fuel, wherein the ignition section is configured in such a manner that the fuel is ignited by movement of an ignition operating section to an ignition position; a movement restricting section having restricting sections which restrict the movement of the ignition operating section; and a permitting section which permits movement. When moving the movement restricting section, either the restricting sections or the permitting section can be disposed so as to correspond to the direction of movement of the ignition operating section. | 01-28-2010 |
| 20100047729 | Lighter with childproof windshield - A childproof windshield for a disposable lighter, includes a U-shaped surrounding wall mounting on two supporting walls of the disposable lighter respectively, and a pair of safety shells for coaxially positioning with a striker wheel and facing two outer sides of two driving wheels of the striker wheel respectively. The safety shells are respectively extended integrally from the two sides of the U-shaped surrounding wall upwardly and rearwardly. Thereby, the safety shells form a physical barrier to prevent a thumb of a user from fully engaging the striker wheel. A slant ceiling surface of the childproof windshield is downwardly inclined from the two safety shells towards a front end of the childproof windshield adapted for increasing a striking route of the thumb of the user against the pair of safety shells and the driving wheels. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100062383 | POCKET LIGHTER WITH CHILD RESISTANCE MECHANISM - Pocket lighter with a child resistance mechanism, of the type comprising a liquated gas reservoir, a combustion chamber, a valve connecting liquated gas reservoir to combustion chamber, a lever that activates valve, a flint, a toothed wheel mounted in rotation around an axis and which rubs against said flint and at least one thumb wheel coaxial with axis and integral with toothed wheel. Thumb wheel has on its periphery a plurality of radial projections alternated with seating areas with respect to which said radial projections project. There are between three and ten radial projections, and they are free from any contact with any other element of the lighter. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100092899 | DISLOCATION-TYPE SAFETY LIGHTER - A dislocation-type safety lighter the invention is disclosed. The dislocation-type safety lighter includes a main body, a wheel racket, a file wheel, a metal cap, and a lever. The lever includes a pressing part, a base, and a slipping hole. Each side of the base furnishes a salient part used to be the pivot point C of the lever. The salient parts are fitted in the securing holes near the bottom of the file-wheel seats, and the securing holes) are used as pivot seat for bearing the salient parts. The metal cap is capped on the top of the wheel racket to cover the file wheel and the lever. The height H between the elevation of the “point A” of exerting force P and the elevation of the pivot point C is in the range (⅓)H′*H*(⅔)H′ where the height H′ is equal to the diameter of the file wheel ( | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100099053 | Structure of lighter with safety button - A lighter, in the form of a tubular shape in particular, is provided with a safety button. The lighter includes an ignition button having a surface to which the safety button is mounted. The surface of the ignition button defines a slot in which the safety button is received. The safety button is biased by a spring to have a pin engaging a notch defined in an inside wall of a casing of the lighter to set the lighter in a locked status. The safety button can be manually moved against the spring to disengage the safety pin from the notch to thereby release the locked status, and then the ignition button can be pressed down to set a fire at a fire outlet orifice that receives fuel from a fuel container accommodated in the casing. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100112501 | GAS COMBUSTION APPARATUS AND COMBUSTION GAS SETTING DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a gas combustion apparatus, composed by a storage tank, a combustion gas setting device, an ignition device, a housing, a combustion device and an outer tube. When the pushing rod of the adjusting unit is forwardly pushed from the bottom end of the vertical slot of the adjusting slot and is rotated into the horizontal slot, the first resilient member is compressed and the gas discharging nozzle is stretched by the adjusting unit, and the gas discharging valve gate is rotated in the gas adjusting valve seat, so a combustion gas supplying status is obtained and the output amount of combustion gas can be adjusted; when the pushing rod of the adjusting unit is forwardly pushed to the top end from the bottom end of the vertical slot of the adjusting slot, the first resilient member is compressed and the gas discharging nozzle is stretched by the adjusting unit, so the adjusting unit is released from the gas discharging valve gate, then the setting unit is rotated and the gas discharging valve gate is rotated in the gas adjusting valve seat, therefore the output amount of combustion gas of the gas discharging valve is able to be reset. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100178623 | GAS SWITCH CAPABLE OF ADJUSTING FIRE INTENSITY FINELY - A gas switch capable of adjusting fire intensity finely includes a gas switch capable of adjusting fire intensity finely, comprising a switch body inside which a guide is installed, a fastener set that revolves inside the switch body and includes a hollow fastener and a fastener rod moving elastically through the faster, a drive component installed inside the switch body, which contains a rotating rod that can move along and rotate round the same shaft of the fastener set, a guide rod placed on the rotating rod and leaning on the guide, a regulating block installed movably at one end of the rotating rod and leaning against the fastener rod, and a connecting component for linking the drive component with the fastener set flexibly. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100190121 | FOLDABLE IGNITER - A foldable lighter having a safety mechanism for preventing inadvertent ignition. The foldable lighter comprises a body that has an operating member for igniting the lighter, and a swing-arm pivotally connected to the body by a swing-mount. The locking mechanism comprises an arcuate protrusion on an annular wall of the swing-mount, which interferes with operation of the operating member through a predetermined rotation of the swing-arm. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100216081 | BAR LIGHTER COMPRISING A SAFETY MECHANISM - Disclosed is a bar lighter comprising a novel safety mechanism for securing the bar lighter from being accidentally actuated. A safety lever ( | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100273119 | IGNITER - An igniter having a rod-like extension that can be rotated to change the direction of the flame port in a free state and locked when the igniting action is to be done. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110091825 | Child resistant gas lighter - The child resistant gas lighter of the invention has an ignition sleeve having a slit defined therein and an integrated safety cap having a press surface, an opposite slide surface, a direction bar formed on the slide surface which is inserted in the slit and is able to make the safety cap slidable in the slit. In use, a user has to move the safety cap against a bias spring by his thumb until the safety cap is no longer blocked by a top surface of a flame cover and then press down the safety cap. The invention is hard for children to get understand how to ignition thus making it safer for children, and needs a smaller pressing force thus making the gas lighter more adult user friendly without sacrificing child resistance. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110091826 | Lighting fixture lighter - A lighting fixture lighter includes a frame body including a light transmitting window, a flame generator, and an illumination fixture built-in with the lighter for generating illumination light for illumination purpose. The illumination fixture includes a power source, a light source unit supported within a light compartment and aligning with the light transmitting window, and a light button to activate the light source unit for generating an illumination light, so that the illumination light is emitted out of the light transmitting window for illumination purpose. In order to enhance the light intensity of the light source unit, a light reflector is further provided within the light compartment for reflecting the illumination light from the light source unit, such that the lighter not only provides the traditional ignition function, but also provides an added on illumination function in the single compact lighter housing. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110091827 | Lighting fixture lighter - A lighting fixture lighter includes a frame body including a light transmitting window, a flame generator, and an illumination fixture built-in with the lighter for generating illumination light for illumination purpose. The illumination fixture includes a power source, a light source unit supported within a light compartment and aligning with the light transmitting window, and a light button to activate the light source unit for generating an illumination light, so that the illumination light is emitted out of the light transmitting window for illumination purpose. In order to enhance the light intensity of the light source unit, a light reflector is further provided within the light compartment for reflecting the illumination light from the light source unit, such that the lighter not only provides the traditional ignition function, but also provides an added on illumination function in the single compact lighter housing. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20120141945 | LIGHTER WITH PIEZOELECTRIC IGNITION - A gas lighter that includes a valve that connects to a nozzle, a lever for controlling the opening of the valve, a piezoelectric system that includes a first and second electrode, where the first electrode is arranged downstream and on the side in relation to the nozzle, and a control member adapted to drive the opening of the valve and the creation of an electric arc when it is actuated. The second electrode is formed by a projection integral with the lever, the projection being made of electrically-conductive material. The top of the projection is arranged downstream of the nozzle and is substantially opposite the first electrode in relation to the central axis (Z) of the nozzle during the actuation of the control member in order to be at a distance from the first electrode. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120183912 | GAS LIGHTER WITH SAFETY MECHANISM - A gas lighter with safety mechanism comprising an inner frame mounted on top of a fuel reservoir and provided with a valve for releasing fuel contained in the fuel reservoir; an outer frame mounted on top of the inner frame and having two supports each of which is provided with a L-shaped supporting hole including a vertical section and a horizontal section; a lever sandwiched between the two supports and pivotable with respect to the outer frame to actuate the valve; a flint disposed between the two supports; a friction wheel rotatably sleeved on a shaft between the two supports, the shaft are movably supported in the supporting holes, the friction wheel is separate from the flint when the shaft is moved to the vertical sections while contacts the flint to enable to generate sparks by rotating the friction wheel when the shaft is moved to the horizontal sections. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120244480 | GAS COMBUSTOR AND SAFETY ACTUATING DEVICE THEREOF - The present invention relates to a gas combustor, which comprises a storage tank, a connect seat allowing an ignition device and a combustion device to be installed, and a housing. The rear of the connection seat is formed with an accommodation slot in sequence allowing a piezoelectric device of the ignition device and a pressable button member to be installed and positioned, the front of the button member is protruded with a push sheet. Two clamp arms at the front of the connection seat define an insertion slot allowing an insertion tenon fixed at the rear of a mixing tube of the combustion device to be inserted and positioned, such that the mixing tube and the piezoelectric device are in contact. The mixing tube is formed with at least an air inlet hole, and the front and the rear thereof are respectively installed with an ejection nozzle connected to one end of a gas conveying tube and a flame nozzle, and an electric conduction wire of the piezoelectric device is arranged at the periphery of the flame nozzle at intervals. Through pressing the button member, the gas discharge nozzle of the storage tank is enabled to supply combustion gas, and the electric conduction wire at the lateral side of the flame nozzle generates static electric sparks for igniting the mixed combustion gas ejected from the flame nozzle. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20130164698 | LIGHTER THAT INCLUDES A PIVOTING IGNITION SUBSET - A gas lighter that includes a reservoir for holding a flammable gas, a valve mounted on a top surface of the reservoir for allowing a release of the gas from the reservoir, a valve actuator having a push button on a first end and a connector at a second end for connecting the valve actuator to the valve; a first spring biased against a lower surface of the push button actuator and a wall of the reservoir; a spark wheel coaxially mounted with corresponding cheeks that are capable of rotating; a hood disposed completely or partially over the spark wheel and cheeks; at least two support arms, each arm having a first end coaxially mounted with the cheeks and a second end having a pivoting connection to bearings located on the reservoir; a sleeve disposed under the under the spark wheel; a second spring disposed in the sleeve; and a flint stone disposed in the sleeve. | 06-27-2013 |
| 20160047543 | GAS COMBUSTOR HAVING DETACHABLE COMBUSTION DEVICE - The present invention provides a gas combustor having detachable combustion device, which includes: a housing having the interior installed with a base, and a combustion device. When the combustion device is inserted in an insertion slot of the housing, the upstream end of a mix pipe of the combustion device is airtightly inserted in a sleeve opening of the base, and a pair of locking sheets of the combustion device are moved along a pair of stopping protrusions of the housing and cross the pair of stopping protrusions, so a first spring between a lock button and a positioning seat of the combustion device is allowed to respectively be compressed for storing energy or stretched for releasing energy, and the pair of locking sheets are enabled to be abutted against inner edges of the pair of stopping protrusions, so an interference is generated for forming a locking and combining status. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160123590 | CYCLONE IGNITION GUN - A cyclone ignition gun includes a housing, an igniter, an electric fan, a battery pack, a gas can and a duct pipe respectively mounted inside the housing, a slide switch mounted in the top side of the housing for controlling the operation of the igniter and the electric fan, and a push switch mounted in the bottom side of the housing for controlling the gas can to discharge gas for burning. The slide switch and the push switch can be simultaneously operated to selectively achieve the function of fire burning and air blowing, the function of fire burning, or the function of air blowing. | 05-05-2016 |
