Illumination – With cane – baton – umbrella or club
Reexamination Certificate
2000-04-05
2001-07-31
Husar, Stephen (Department: 2875)
Illumination
With cane, baton, umbrella or club
C135S910000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06267481
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to an illumination assembly, and more particularly to an illumination assembly for an umbrella to improve the safety of using the umbrella.
2. Description of Related Art
A conventional umbrella in accordance with the prior art mainly comprises a shaft, a hub slidably mounted on the shaft, multiple ribs pivotally mounted on the shaft, multiple spreaders pivotally mounted between the hub and each of the ribs and a canopy covering all of the ribs. However, because the sight view is very vague in the rain and the conventional umbrella has no any illumination device mounted thereon. Therefore, the user using the conventional umbrella could easily have an accident occurred in a rainy dark night.
A conventional umbrella with an illumination device is provided. The conventional illumination device comprises a transparent tubular member mounted on the top end of the shaft, an LED mounted in the tubular member and a control device to provide the electrical power to the LED in addition to controlling the LED lighting or not. However, the light of a normal LED is very small so that it is not bright enough to provide an effective warning to the other people or vehicle in a dark raining night.
In addition, the conventional control device is mounted on either the top end of the shaft or a handle on the bottom end of the shaft. It is difficult to operate the control device if the device is mounted on the top end of the shaft. If the control device is mounted on the handle to improve the convenience of operating the control device, long electrical wires are needed to connect the LED on the top end of the shaft and the control device on the bottom end of the shaft.
To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention tends to provide an improved illumination assembly for au umbrella to mitigate or obviate the aforementioned problems.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The main objective of the invention is to provide an improved illumination assembly having a transparent tubular member, a sleeve detachably mounted on the tubular member, an LED with two legs securely received in the sleeve and a control unit mounted on the sleeve to provide electricity to the LED. The tubular member has a central hole defined longitudinally through the member and a conical division wall facing the LED integrally formed in the central hole. The light from the LED can be reflected repeatedly by the conical division wall, and the transparent tubular member will become a lighting member. This can improve illumination effect for other people to increase the safety of using the umbrella.
The other objective of the invention is to provide an improved illumination assembly further comprising a switch mounted in the top end of the sleeve and electrically connecting to the LED. By such an arrangement, the LED can be turned on or off when the top end of the umbrella is pressed a rigid body. The convenience of controlling the illumination assembly lighting is improved.
Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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Husar Stephen
Jeng Tai Umbrella Mfg. Corp.
Rosenberg , Klein & Lee
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