Patents Examined by Ross Goshi
  • Patent number: 6733329
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a USB flash drive includes a mobile storage device and at least one interconnector. The mobile storage device is provided with a built-in circuit board having a connector at one end thereof. The connector is in connection with a controller and a flash memory to create an electrical connection. Moreover, the connection interface of the connector juts outside the housing. The interconnector includes a socket at one end thereof which corresponds to the connector of the mobile storage device. The outer end of the interconnector is constructed as a USB interface fastened into the inside of the housing. Besides, the outer end of USB interface juts outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Inventor: Fu-I Yang
  • Patent number: 6354869
    Abstract: A connector is fastened to a central portion of a connector bracket adjacent a slot in a slotted bracket to provide a number of electrical circuits extending through the slot. A first end of the connector bracket is fastened to the slotted bracket by means of a screw. The central portion of the connector bracket extends inwardly along the slotted card bracket, adjacent the slot, which the central portion overlaps. An end tab of the card bracket, opposite the first end thereof, extends outwardly along a part of the slotted card bracket, which itself extends from an end of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William V. Cranston, III, Philip E. Grady, Jochem K. Koenig, John E. McCloskey, James J. Tout, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6350139
    Abstract: A twist-lock connector assembly for securing an engaged electrical plug to an electrical outlet which includes a rotatable cylindrical sleeve for enclosing an electrical plug and a modified cover plate for replacing the conventional cover plate of an electrical outlet, such as a wall socket or a portable power box. The forward end of the rotatable sleeve includes a plurality of external thread members. Each socket hole of the cover plate includes an inner cylindrical wall having a plurality of radially inwardly projecting nubs formed thereon. In use, the electrical plug is inserted into the socket portion of the wall outlet and the cylindrical sleeve is rotated about a ¼ turn. This causes the external threads on the rotatable sleeve to lockingly engaged the nubs disposed surrounding the socket opening(s) of the cover plate and thereby prevent the electrical plug from being accidentally pulled loose from the outlet by its connection with cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2002
    Assignee: Maverick Global Enterprises, LLC
    Inventor: Philip E. Haag
  • Patent number: 6203375
    Abstract: A metal shield and cable arrangement, which includes two cover shells fastened together, two shielding shells mounted in between the cover shells to hold a terminal holder, and a cable inserted in between the shielding shells and connected to terminals in the terminal holder, wherein the cover shells each have a neck at one end and a stub rod disposed in the neck; the shielding shells each have a neck fitted into the neck at one cover shell, a through hole coupled to the stub rod in the neck at one cover shell, and a retaining flange of smoothly arched cross section supported on the stud rod in the neck at one cover shell and forced by the stub rod against the periphery of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2001
    Assignee: Tekcon Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Kai Chang