Patents by Inventor Chien Jen Ting

Chien Jen Ting has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090291577
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes an insulating housing (30), a plurality of terminals (32) received in the insulating housing, an L-shaped metal shield (10), a base portion (20) and an ejector (40). The metal shield covers the insulating housing for defining a card receiving space. The base portion comprises a guide rail (21) and a cam plate (22) integral with the guide rail. A pair of arms (not labeled) extends upwardly from the cam plate to define a receiving channel (225) and the receiving channel defines a heart-shaped slot (220) at a front end thereof. The ejector is received in the receiving channel of the base portion and comprises a slider piece (41), a pin member (42) and a resilient element (43). The slider piece is being moveable to drive the pin member to move in the heart-shaped slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Inventors: Chien-Jen Ting, Hung-Chi Yu
  • Patent number: 7604509
    Abstract: A card connector (100) includes an insulating housing (4) receiving a plurality of terminals, a first shell (1) mounted on the insulating housing to define a first receiving space for retaining a first card and having a locking piece (15, 16) on a lateral side thereof, a second shell (2) mounted on the insulating housing opposite to the first shell to define a second receiving space for retaining a second card and having a locking piece (25, 26) on a lateral side thereof, a partition plate placed between the first shell and the second shell and between the first receiving space and the second receiving space, and a stand off (7) mounted on a lateral side of the first shell and the second shell and comprising a pair of locking devices (74, 72) fastening with the locking pieces of the first shell and the second shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Publication number: 20090197472
    Abstract: An electrical card connector assembly (100) comprising: a first electrical card connector (1); a second electrical card connector (2) disposed below the first electrical card connector; a third electrical card connector (3); a fourth electrical card connector (4) arranged abreast with the third electrical card connector; a PCB (5) defining an upper surface (50) and a lower surface (51), the upper and lower surface having a plurality of traces, respectively; wherein the combined first and second card connector are disposed on the upper surface (50) of the PCB and electrically connected with the corresponding traces of the upper surface, and the third and fourth electrical card connector are arranged abreast on the lower surface of the PCB (5) and electrically connecting with the corresponding traces of the lower surface (51).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Chien-Jen Ting, Hung-Chi Yu
  • Patent number: 7568926
    Abstract: A card connector (1) for receiving a card, includes an insulating housing (30), a rectangular shell (11), and an ejecting mechanism (5, 6). The insulating housing comprises a base section (31) and a base seat (33) at a lateral side of the base section. The shell defines a receiving space (220) having an L-shape card slot (140) and a rectangular space (141) at a back corner of the receiving space along an inserting direction of a card. The ejecting mechanism is mounted on the base seat. The shell covers on the insulating housing with the base section located in the card slot, and the base seat is situated in the rectangular space. A width of the base section and the base seat is approximately equal to that of the shell along a transverse direction perpendicular to an insertion direction of a card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Publication number: 20090191761
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulating housing (30), a metal shield (10) shielding over the insulating housing for defining a card receiving space, a plurality of contacts (32) received in the insulating housing and a base (20) assembled at a side of the metal shield. The insulating housing has a body portion (31) and first and second assembling boards (301, 302) formed at two ends of the body portion. The first assembling board defines a first retaining hole (35) and the second assembling board defines a second retaining hole (37). The base includes a guiding portion (21), an extending portion (22) at a front part of the guiding portion and a protruding portion (23) bending laterally from a distal end of the extending portion. The metal shield forms a first fastening element (15) received in the first retaining hole. A second fastening element (27) is retained by the protruding portion and is received in the second retaining hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Publication date: July 30, 2009
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7566241
    Abstract: A stacked card connector (100) includes a first electrical card connector (1), a second electrical card connector (2) under the first electrical card connector, and a converting mechanism (5) on the second electrical card connector having a pair of opposite surfaces (431, 432) in a card inserting direction. The first card connector comprises a first insulating housing (12) received a plurality of first terminals (13) and a first ejecting mechanism (61) and a second ejecting mechanism (62) arranged side by side. The second card connector (2) includes a second insulating housing (23) received a plurality of second terminals (24). The first and the second terminals extend into corresponding surfaces of the converting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7566233
    Abstract: A card connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of terminals, a shell and an ejecting mechanism. The insulating housing defines a base, a corner portion juxtaposed with the base and a guiding plate extending forwardly from the corner portion. The terminals are received in the base of the insulating housing. The shell covers the insulating housing to define a card slot and a card insertion direction. The guiding plate of the insulating housing extends in the card slot in a particular direction intersecting the insertion direction. The ejecting mechanism has an ejecting member to be engaged with the card and move together with the card, a pushing member for moving the ejecting member towards the removing direction, a rotary member placed on the corner portion and having a rotation center and rotatable around the rotation center. The rotation center is disposed on the corner portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7563132
    Abstract: A stacked card connector (100) adaptor for receiving cards includes a first card connector (1), a second card connector (2) under the first card connector and a converting plate (3) assembled on the second card connector. The first card connector includes a plurality of first terminals (13) with a vertical portion (132). The second card connector includes a plurality of second terminals (23) with a tail portion (232). The converting plate includes a plurality third terminals (32) with a contacting part (326). The distance between two adjacent vertical portions is equal with the distance between two adjacent tail portions, and integer times of the distance between two adjacent contacting parts. The vertical portions and the tail portions electrically engaging with corresponding contacting parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7559775
    Abstract: An electrical card connector assembly includes an electrical card connector (100) and a PCB (4) where the electrical card connector is assembled. The electrical card connector includes a metal shield (1), an insulating housing (2) and a terminal module (3) received in the insulating housing. The insulating housing associates with the metal shield to define a card receiving room. The terminal module includes a body portion (30) and a plurality of terminals (31) received in the body portion. The metal shield forms a base (10) and a plurality of sidewalls (11) extending vertically from the base. The metal shield further comprises at least one elastic piece (13) extending from the edge of the base, which forms a grounding portion (131) at a free end thereof. The PCB defines at least one grounding pad (47) mating with the grounding portion of the elastic piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Lung Lin, Chien-Jen Ting, Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20090176387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical card connector comprising: a first connector with a plurality of first contacts; a second connector located at the lateral side of the first connector and with a plurality of second contacts; a PCB located at the bottom of the first connector and the second connector; a shell covering the first connector; a bottom plate mounted at the bottom of the shell; the first connector and the second connector are held on the same side of the PCB, a first receiving room is defined between the shell and the bottom plate, and the second receiving room is defined between the bottom plate and the PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Inventors: Chien-Jen Ting, Hung-Chi Yu
  • Patent number: 7547229
    Abstract: An stacked electrical card connector comprises: a first connector comprising an insulative housing and a first shell covering the insulative housing, said first shell comprising a plurality of retention pieces extending outwardly; a second connector stacking with the first connector, comprising a bottom plate with a protrusion extending outwardly; at least one stand off for combining the first connector and the second connector together, comprising an engagement portion with a group of openings, and one of the openings comprising an elastic piece therein, said retention pieces and protrusion retaining in corresponding openings of the stand off, and the elastic piece withstanding on one of the retention piece in the front-to-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Publication number: 20090149058
    Abstract: A card connector (100) includes a first housing (1), a second housing (2) stacked with the first housing, and a pair of standoffs (7). The first housing includes a first shell (10) having a first main body (11) comprising a pair of clasps (15). The second housing includes a second shell (20) having a second main body (22) and a pair of side walls (21) extending from the second main body, and each side wall has a plurality of elastic pieces (210, 211, 212). The standoffs mounted on opposite lateral sides of the first shell and the second shell. Each standoff comprising a fixing plate (71) and a locking piece (72) extending towards to the first shell from the fixing plate. The fixing plate has a plurality of through holes (74, 75) to assemble with corresponding elastic pieces of the second shell, and each locking piece provides with a locking hole (720) to fasten with corresponding clasps of the first shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Publication date: June 11, 2009
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7544075
    Abstract: A card connector (1) includes a first insulating housing (30), a metal shell (21) associating with one side of the first insulating housing to define a first receiving space (140), a second insulating housing (22) cooperating with the first insulating housing to have the metal shell therebetween and assembled with the metal shell to define a second receiving space (220), a plurality of first terminals (4) retained in the first insulating housing, a plurality of second terminals (24) disposed in a terminal module (23), which is intimately associated with a face of the first insulating housing, and ejecting mechanisms (5, 6) equipped with the first insulating housing and protruding into the first and second receiving spaces respectively to eject the at least two cards, each ejecting mechanism can release the card from a lock position by pushing the card in the lock position along the insertion direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7534119
    Abstract: A stacked card connector (1) includes a first connector (10) and a second connector (20). The first connector includes a first insulating housing (30) having a base section (31) and a base seat (33) extending laterally from the base section, a first metal shell (11) covering the first insulating housing and defining a first receiving space (14), a plurality of first terminals (4) retained in the base section for connecting to a first card, and a first ejecting mechanism (6) and a second mechanism (5) located on the base seat. The second connector includes a second insulating housing (22) located under the first insulating housing, a plurality of second terminals (24) receiving in the second insulating housing for engagement with the second card which is received in a second receiving space defined by the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7527528
    Abstract: An electrical card connector assembly (10) for receiving a first and a cards includes a first card connector (100) and a second card connector (200). The first card connector includes a first housing (12), a plurality of first terminals (21) received in the first housing, and an L-shape shell assembled on the first housing. The first housing associating with the L-shape shell to define a rectangular space. The second card connector (200) includes a second housing (14) extending laterally from the first housing and a plurality of second terminals (22) received in the second housing. The second housing is located in the rectangular space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Hung-Chi Yu, Chien-Jen Ting
  • Publication number: 20090111329
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulating housing (2), a metal shield (1) covering the insulating housing for defining a card receiving space therebetween, a printed circuit board (PCB) (5), an insulator (3) assembled on the PCB and a plurality of terminals (4) received in the insulator. The insulating housing defines a cutout (210) at a rear part thereof and the cutout communicates with the card receiving space. The PCB has a smaller size than the insulating housing and is received in the cutout. The PCB is fused with the insulating housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Publication number: 20090111307
    Abstract: An electrical card connector includes a metal shield (1) defining a receiving room in which a memory card is insertable in a card insertion direction through an insert opening generally at a front end thereof, an insulated housing (2) shielded by the metal shield (1), and defining a receiving portion (240) extending therethrough and adjacent to a rear end thereof, and a terminal module (3) installed to the receiving portion (240), with a plurality of terminals (31) being preformedly insert-molded therein for electrical connection to the memory card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7517237
    Abstract: An electrical card connector includes an insulating housing (2) having a base section (21) and a pair of lateral offsets (22) extending from the opposite ends of the base section, a shell (1) mounted on the insulating housing to define a card slot (5) therebetween for insertion of a card, a terminal module (321) retained in the insulating housing and comprising a plurality of terminals protruding into the card slot, and a pair of elastic pieces (6) mounted on the opposite lateral offsets of the insulating housing, respectively. Wherein each elastic piece protrudes into the card slot and a distance between the elastic pieces is smaller than a width of the inserted card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7517238
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulating housing (2), a plurality of terminals (31) received in the insulating housing, a metal shield (1) associated with the insulating housing to define a card receiving room and an ejector (4) including a slider pin (41). A heart-shaped channel (2012) is recessed on the insulating housing and forms a pair of front-to-back extending channels and a pair of inclined channels, which respectively connect with the front-to-back extending channels and communicate with each other. The slider pin is movably received in the heart-shaped channel. The metal shield forms a resilient piece (18) pressing against the slider pin just at the time of the slider pin located at the jointing point of the inclined channels of the heart-shaped channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Publication number: 20090093141
    Abstract: A card connector (100) for connecting with an electronic element, includes a first connector (30) comprising a first insulating housing (50) retaining a plurality of first terminals (51) and a first cavity (20) for receiving a first card; a second connector (40) stacked with the first connector and comprising a second insulating housing (60) retaining a plurality of second terminals (131) and a second cavity (80) for receiving a second card; a printed circuit board (10) sandwiched by the first connector and the second connector, the first terminals and the second terminals set on opposite sides of the circuit board; and a third connector (14) mounted on the printed circuit board for connecting the first connector and the second connector with the electronic element electrically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting