Patents Examined by Marcus Harcum
  • Patent number: 9728905
    Abstract: A male connector includes a male body and a male conductor. The male body includes an outer face including a first curved surface and a housing space on an inner side of the first curved surface of the male body. The male conductor is provided inside the housing space and includes a functional part. The functional part is a male communication antenna, a male power-transmission antenna, or a male power-reception antenna. A female connector includes a female body and a female conductor. The female body includes a connection hole, an inner wall surface of the connection hole, the inner wall surface including a first curved surface, a housing space on an outer side of the first curved surface of the connection hole of the female body. The female conductor is provided inside the housing space and includes a functional part. The functional part is a female communication antenna, a female power-reception antenna, or a female power-transmission antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hayato Kondo
  • Patent number: 9716346
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a positive terminal received in the housing and a metallic shell shielding around the mating portion. The housing has a base portion and a mating portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The metallic shell shields around the mating portion to form a first mating cavity opening forwardly and surrounding an outer surface of the mating portion. The mating portion has a second mating cavity recessed from a front face thereof to be separated from the first mating cavity and opening forwardly. The positive terminal has a contacting portion exposed in the second mating cavity. The metallic shell has at least one elastic pressing portion extending into the first mating cavity to be used as a negative terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wen-Yi Hsieh, Zhi-Hui Zhu, Wei-Chung Lin
  • Patent number: 9711895
    Abstract: A vehicle electrical adapter system includes an upper portion having a body with an electrical terminal extending from a top surface of the body; a lower portion forming a cavity; and an attachment device disposed between the upper portion and the lower portion, the attachment device being configured to engage with an inner surface of a cigarette lighter housing as the upper portion slides relative to the lower portion. The method includes creating a friction fit between the inner surface of the housing with the attachment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas Kionka
  • Patent number: 9705215
    Abstract: A housing of a lower connector has an opening on a side of an upper connector, and houses two movable parts movably from a first state of, by having upper portions thereof engaged with the opening, being in proximity to each other to form a guide hole, and a second state of, by releasing the engagement, being distanced from an external signal terminal. At positions contactable with the two movable parts, the housing has a protrusion whose tip gradually tapers toward the two movable parts in directions in which the two movable parts face each other. The protrusion guides the two movable parts in mutually separating directions, when the engagement between the opening of the housing and the upper portions of the two movable parts is released associated with depression of the upper connector, and the tip enters the gap through which the two movable parts face each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Hitoshi Ozaki
  • Patent number: 9698511
    Abstract: An electric contact for preventing a terminal of an electrical part and the electric contact from sticking to each other after a continuity test to improve the durability of the electric contact; and a socket for electrical part using the electric contact. In the electric contact according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, a foundation layer composed primarily of Ni, a surface layer composed primarily of Pd and Ag, and an outermost layer composed primarily of Sn or Au are formed on a surface of an electrically-conductive base material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Oda
  • Patent number: 9692175
    Abstract: An electrical connection system can include a first member including one or more spring pins, located within a rigid frame. After assembling the spring pins into the rigid frame of the first member, the frame can be overmolded creating an electrical connector at the end of a cable. The second member of the system can include one or more contact pads located within a rigid frame. After assembling the contact pads into the rigid frame of the second member, the frame can be overmolded creating an electrical connector at the end of a cable. The rigid frame of the first member can be located within the rigid frame of the second member to align the spring pins with the contact pads. Retention features in he rigid frame of the first member can allow gripping the edge of a device or protective case into which the second member is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Lilitab LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Rudolf Grziwok, Adam Scott Aronson
  • Patent number: 9692161
    Abstract: Provided a connector for establishing an electrical connection between an electrical conductor and a printed circuit board. The connector includes an insulating element which has a plurality of cavities for accommodating contact elements. The printed circuit board can be inserted in the connector via a slot in a connection face of the insulating element and can be connected to the first contact faces of the contact element provided in the connection face. Opposite the first contact face, the contact elements have a second contact face which is provided for the insulation-piercing contacting of the electrical conductor. The arrangement of the contact elements in the insulating element allows a particularly space-saving design of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: HARTING ELECTRONICS GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Lindkamp, Guenter Pape
  • Patent number: 9685724
    Abstract: A connector includes a first terminal accommodated in a first housing portion of a housing and a holding terminal accommodated in a second housing portion of the housing. The holding terminal is identical in shape to the first terminal and is configured to hold a cable. The first terminal has a contact point configured to come into contact with the cable. The holding terminal has a holding part corresponding in position to the contact point of the first terminal. When the housing is oriented so that the direction of inserting and removing the cable is horizontal, the holding part of the holding terminal accommodated in the second housing portion differs in position in height from the contact point of the first terminal accommodated in the first housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Katsutoshi Tojo
  • Patent number: 9673568
    Abstract: A plug connector including a connecting member, a cable, and a shield case. The cable includes a signal transmission part connected to the connecting member. The shield case includes first and second shells and a first retainer. The first and second shells are combined together in a first direction so as to form a tube at least partially covering the connecting member and the signal transmission part. The first shell has an end face on one side of a second direction. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. The first retainer is a tube or half tube for retaining the cable. The first retainer is provided on the second shell so as to be located on the one side of the second direction relative to the end face of the first shell and in contact with at least a part of the end face of the first shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Akihiro Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9666961
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing stack comprising a front housing and a rear housing coupled to the front housing at a seam. The housing stack defines plural contact cavities that extend continuously through the front housing and the rear housing between mating and mounting ends. A lossy spacer is disposed at the seam between the front and rear housings. The lossy spacer has plural contact cavities aligned with corresponding contact cavities of the housing stack. Signal and ground contacts are disposed in corresponding contact cavities of the housing stack. The signal contacts extend through the lossy spacer such that the signal contacts do not directly engage the lossy spacer. The ground contacts extend through the contact cavities in the lossy spacer such that the ground contacts are coupled by the lossy spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael James Horning, Leo Joseph Graham, Wayne Samuel Davis, Bruce Allen Champion, Dave Helster, Chad William Morgan
  • Patent number: 9666980
    Abstract: A housing article for an electrical power strip has the capability to hold the electrical power strip with multiple cords from various electrical devices that are plugged into the power strip. This power strip housing has an upper tray type element on which the power strip is placed. Cords extending from the power strip in the upper tray element are channeled down to a lower tray type element for storing the cords in an organized manner to on the lower tray element. The channeling of these electrical cords to the lower tray element has creates and maintains the organized bundling and storing of the electrical cords that will substantially reduce floor clutter from the cords.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Inventor: Yolanda Pearson
  • Patent number: 9666995
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a cage member for EMI containment for a pluggable module having a cage sleeve defining a chamber, a base coupled to the cage sleeve, and a cage liner received in the chamber. The cage liner defines a module cavity configured to receive a pluggable module. The cage sleeve extends between a front end and a rear end and includes a plurality of cage walls defining the chamber and surrounding a communication connector at or near the rear end. The cage liner is electrically connected to the cage sleeve and surrounds a mating perimeter of the pluggable module. The cage liner extends a majority of a length of the pluggable module within the chamber to provide EMI shielding for the pluggable module. The cage liner provides an electrical path between the pluggable module and the cage sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael John Phillips, Randall Robert Henry
  • Patent number: 9666967
    Abstract: A mesh network of printed circuit boards (PCBs) including a first PCB coupled to a second rigid PCB by way of an interlocking connection is provided. The interlocking connection has a degree of freedom that allows the first and second PCBs to form a twist angle between each other; the interlocking connector configured to provide electrical coupling between active components disposed in each of the first and second PCBs. A method of forming a substrate fabric including a mesh network as above is also provided. Further provided is a method of activating the mesh network of printed circuit boards as above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan P. Bosscher, Craig M. Stanley, Trent K. Do, John J. Baker, Phillip M. Hobson, Brad G. Boozer
  • Patent number: 9640905
    Abstract: A first housing (10) of a connector includes a housing main body (11) with a receiving portion (17) and a tubular member (20) surrounding the housing main body (11). A peripheral wall (22) of the tubular member (20) has a resilient lock (24) configured to deflect resiliently out when assembling the tubular member (20) and the housing main body (11) and to return resiliently to lock with the receiving portion (17) when the tubular member (20) is assembled properly with the housing main body (11). A protrusion (31) is formed on the outer periphery of the resilient locking portion (24) and is configured to interfere with a receptacle (61) while fitting the tubular member (20) into the receptacle (61) so that an improperly assembled tubular member (20) is corrected into a properly assembled state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9634429
    Abstract: A connector includes a socket configured to be secured within a socket opening of a power input. A socket head has a plurality of plug insert receptacles. Each plug insert receptacle receives a conductive insert. The conductive insert connects with a cable that extends from the plug insert receptacle through and out of the socket. A plug contains a base. A head of the base has a plurality of plug insert units. Each plug insert unit receives a conductive insert that connects with a cable that extends out the base of the plug. A handle covers the base. The handle and the base are fixed and connected by a positioning device that includes an inverted tooth structure. The socket and plug when connected are secured in place by an elastic hasp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Fuzhou Six Sights Electro-Mech Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Light Chen, Jie Mo, Lirong Jiang
  • Patent number: 9634432
    Abstract: A high frequency connector with enhanced grounding for reduced crosstalk includes an insulative main body, a plurality of first terminals and second terminals, a back cover and a grounding member. The first terminals and the second terminals are disposed in the insulative main body, the back cover is provided at the second end of the insulative main body. The back cover is formed with an opening and capable of preventing the first terminals from being detached from the insulative main body. The grounding member has a body portion and contact sprint portion, the body portion is disposed inside the insulative main body and located between the first terminals and second terminals. The contact spring portion extends outward from the insulative main body and contacts the metal case of a mating plug connector for reducing crosstalk and restraining electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: NEXTRONICS ENGINEERING CORP.
    Inventors: Hou-An Su, Chi-Jung Chan, Hung-Wei Hsu
  • Patent number: 9620897
    Abstract: A connector includes a locking lever that locks a fitted state with an inlet, a release button that is provided to be movable in Z-direction positive and negative directions and rotates the locking lever by moving in the Z-direction negative direction to release the locking, a release restricting portion that is provided to be movable in X-direction positive and negative directions and to be movable to an abutting position where the release restricting portion abuts against the release button, thereby restricting the movement in the Z-direction negative direction of the release button at the abutting position to restrict the release of the locking, a solenoid as a moving portion that moves the release restricting portion in the X-direction negative direction, and a coil spring that presses the release restricting portion in the X-direction positive direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Youhei Takagi
  • Patent number: 9620877
    Abstract: A pin for a semiconductor package includes an upper contact portion having a contact surface configured to mechanically and electrically couple with a pin receiver. A lower portion of the pin is configured to flex to allow an upper portion of the pin to move towards an upper contact surface of a horizontal base of the pin in response to a pressure applied along a direction collinear with a longest length of the pin towards the upper contact surface of the horizontal base when the pin is inserted into a pin receiver. Some implementations of pins include a vertical stop to stop movement of the pin when a surface of the vertical stop contacts the upper contact surface of the horizontal base. Varying implementations of pins include: two curved legs and one vertical stop; two partially curved legs and no vertical stop, and; a single leg bent into an N-shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Yushuang Yao, Chee Hiong Chew, Atapol Prajuckamol
  • Patent number: 9620882
    Abstract: A battery connector includes an insulated housing and conductive terminals. The insulated housing includes slots. The conductive terminals are disposed in the slots, respectively. Each conductive terminal includes an elastic connecting portion, a contacting portion, and a fixing portion. The elastic connecting portion includes elastic arms and connecting portions. Each elastic arm is obliquely extending leftwards and rightwards, separated from each other, and arranged sequentially. The connecting portions are formed at two sides of the elastic arms, where each elastic arm forms a rectangular structure by being enclosed from one end to the other end. The contacting portion extends beyond one side of the corresponding slot. The contacting portion includes a bent contacting portion extending from a front side of the elastic connecting portion and bent backwards. The fixing portion extends from a back side of the elastic connecting portion and extends beyond the other side of the corresponding slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Tien Chen, Shu-Lin Duan, Wei Wan, Ping-Chung Chu, Xiao-Juan Qi
  • Patent number: 9614320
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for a dongle for quick release. The plug portion may include electrical contacts to contact electrical contacts housed within the port of the electronic device. An external face may be attached to the plug portion. The external face may include electrical contact pads. The electrical contact pads may be electrically connected to the electrical contacts. A flange may include a ferromagnetic material attached to the external face, such that the flange is disposed outside of the electronic device when the plug portion is plugged into the port of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Stephen Theodore Schooley