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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2001
Chun-Hsien Wang, Shin Tien City, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Ting-Yue Hwu, Taipei, TW;
Other;
Abstract
A cup includes a transparent body having an inner and an outer wall to define an annular hollow space between them, a bottom sealing a lower end of the body and the annular hollow space, an open-bottomed chamber formed below the body to communicate with the annular hollow space via an opening provided on the bottom, a luminous strip with printed pictures, words or patterns enclosed in the annular hollow space, a driving circuit mounted in the chamber to electrically connect to the luminous strip and parallelly connected to a vibrating-type switch, and a lower cover detachably closing the chamber. When the cup is vibrated to make the vibrating-type switch, the luminous strip is lightened for the pictures, words or patterns to produce cold light that is refracted by the outer wall of the body to show three-dimensional images on the cup.