Patents by Inventor Gary Ray Marpoe, Jr.

Gary Ray Marpoe, Jr. 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).

  • Patent number: 6514098
    Abstract: An electrical connector housing assembly is provided having a plug assembly and cap assembly matable with one another to form a wire to wire, wire to board or wire to device connection. The plug assembly is formed with a latching member thereon, while the cap assembly is formed with a connector position assurance device (CPA) thereon. The overall envelope of the connector housing assembly is reduced by dividing the latch member and CPA between the plug and cap housings. Keying features are formed integrally with plug and cap terminal position assurance devices (TPAs) to ensure proper orientation between the plug and cap and to further assure that each plug is connected to the corresponding cap. The overall envelope is further reduced by forming the keying features internal to the housings upon the TPAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Ray Marpoe, Jr., Kenneth Wade Long, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6086419
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector is matable with a pin header and includes a molded plug housing with multiple contact apertures extending between a mating face and a rear face. Angularly spaced ribs extend into the contact receiving aperture to support each contact. Each rib is opposed to molded pawls that are deflectable when a contact is inserted from the rear of the housing. The ribs and the pawls are located at different angularly spaced intervals so that they do not overlap and so that the one piece housing can be molded in a straight pull manner. An annular retaining section on each contact is held between the pawls and the ribs when each contact is fully inserted into a corresponding aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventor: Gary Ray Marpoe, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5820401
    Abstract: A mated assembly (100) includes a sealed connector subassembly (10), a cap housing (20), a contact retention insert (30), a wire seal (40), a seal cover (50), a jack screw (60), and a header housing (70). Jack screw (60) is used to matably join the subassembly (10) with the header (70). Subassembly (10) comprises a cap housing (20) which includes a cavity (23) wherein the contact retention insert (30) is disposed along with a blanket type seal (40) for receiving electrical contacts that will electrically mate with respective pins of contact array (72). Wire guide (80) includes latching legs (89) for latchable engagement with wire guide mounts (29) of cap housing (20) thereby allowing proper wire guiding of the wires exiting from the subassembly (10). The wire guide (80) advantageously includes reinforcement structures (84,85) and a bolt access tower (83) for allowing an operator to operate jackscrew (60) with a tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Eric Hasz, Gary Ray Marpoe, Jr., Michael Dale Brown
  • Patent number: 5743756
    Abstract: A mated assembly (100) includes a sealed connector subassembly (10), a cap housing (20), a contact retention insert (30), a wire seal (40), a seal cover (50), a jack screw (60), and a header housing (70). Jack screw (60) is used to matably join the subassembly (10) with the header (70). Subassembly (10) comprises a cap housing (20) which includes a cavity (23) wherein the contact retention insert (30) is disposed along with a blanket type seal (40) for receiving electrical contacts that will electrically mate with respective pins of contact array (72). The contact retention insert (30) is advantageously connected to the cap housing (20) by way of insert retaining clip (32), and the bolt (60) is free to rotate but is axially trapped within cap housing (20) between washer (61) and bolt retaining clip (63).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Eric Hasz, Gary Ray Marpoe, Jr., Thomas Edward Musser