Patents by Inventor Robert W. Brown
Robert W. Brown 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).
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Patent number: 6955554Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (1) includes a mother board (10), a card edge connector (20) mounted on the mother board, a daughter card (30), and a pair of board hold downs (40) mounted on the mother board. The card edge connector includes a housing (21) defining a slot (22), and a number of contacts (23) disposed on opposite sides of the slot and exposed into the slot. The daughter card includes a mating edge (31) inserted into the slot of the housing, a number of conductive pads (33) on the mating edge for electrically connecting with the contacts of the card edge connector. The board hold downs are separated from the card edge connector and hold the daughter card in the card edge connector.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2004Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Robert W. Brown, Joanne E. Shipe, Wei-Chen Lee
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Patent number: 6791321Abstract: In a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, a main magnet assembly (12) produces a uniform magnetic field through an imaging region (14). An imaging region is defined within a subject by selecting gradient magnetic fields spatially encode the main magnetic field. A whole body birdcage radio frequency coil (26) excites magnetic resonance in dipoles of the subject. The resonance signals are received by the whole body coil (26) and by a second, local birdcage radio frequency coil (16). The first radio frequency coil (26) produces and is sensitive to a uniform radio frequency field in the imaging region (14) while the second radio frequency coil (28) is sensitive to a field that varies sinusoidally in space. From one radio frequency excitation, the two birdcage coils (26, 16) receive different sets of data with which to fill k-space, accelerating data collection.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2002Date of Patent: September 14, 2004Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Jacob D. Willig-Onwuachi, Robert W. Brown, Shmaryu M. Shvartsman
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Publication number: 20040123458Abstract: A method of making an electrical connector includes the steps of: providing a connector body (2) having an insert (5) defining a recessed area (54a) at one side and a number of channels (54b) at an opposite side; assembling a ground bus (4) to the recessed area of the insert, the ground bus including a carrier strip (46) with a number of fingers (460) extending therefrom; assembling a number of signal contacts (3) to the channels of the insert, each signal contact including a board mounting portion (32); and displacing the carrier strip such that each finger extends into space (320) between the mounting portions of two adjacent signal contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2002Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Joanne E. Shipe, Robert W. Brown
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Publication number: 20040127097Abstract: A ground bus (4) for use with an electrical connector (1) includes a plane body (40) for electrical engagement with a corresponding ground contact of a mating connector, a number of solder tails (42) extending from the plane body and a carrier strip (46) connecting with the solder tails. The ground bus has a number of fingers (460) extending from the carrier strip. The fingers extend into space (320) between adjacent signal contacts (3) after the ground bus is assembled to the connector. Each solder tail (42) has a solder joint (420) for electrical connection to a printed circuit board (8). A bringing element (422) interconnects two adjacent solder tails at the solder joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2002Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Joanne E. Shipe, Robert W. Brown
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Publication number: 20040114334Abstract: A connector assembly (1) used to interconnect a primary circuit board (4) to an intermediate circuit board (5) includes a one-piece insulated housing (2) and an outer shell (3) partially enclosing outside of the housing (2). The housing (2) has a space (20) formed from a mounting side of the housing (2) to the primary circuit board (4) and a face (22) formed at another mounting side of the housing (2) to the intermediate circuit board (5). A plurality of conductors (25) is retained in the housing and extends from the space (20) to the face (22) and each conductor (25) has one tail portion (251) to be press-fit on the intermediate circuit board (5) and another tail portion to be engaged with a corresponding hole (41) on the primary circuit board (4). The one-piece housing and fewer interfaces are used, and the mounting method and mechanism of the conductors is simplified to reduce the cost of manufacturing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2002Publication date: June 17, 2004Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Joanne E. Shipe, James H. Hyland, Peter T. Graustein, Robert W. Brown
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Patent number: 6695622Abstract: An electrical system (1) includes a number of PC boards (10, 12), a same number of electrical connectors (14, 16), and a half number of extenders (18, 20, 22) provided in sets. Each set includes two PC boards, two electrical connectors mounted onto respective PC boards and one extender located between and engaging with the two electrical connectors. There are extenders that have various heights so that extenders of different heights mating with the electrical connectors establish various distances between the PC boards mounting the electrical connectors.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Robert W. Brown, Wei-Chen Lee, Joanne E. Shipe, Kevin E. Walker, Tod M. Harlan
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Patent number: 6692273Abstract: A straddle mount connector (1) includes a dielectric housing (2) defining a mating surface (200) and an opposite mounting surface (202), a pair of ground buses (4) and two rows of signal contacts (3) installed into the housing from the mounting surface. Each ground bus is accompanied with a carrier strip (46) and has solder tails (42) extending from the carrier strip. The ground bus has a number of fingers (460) extending from the carrier strip to define a number of parallel slits (462) between the fingers. The signal contacts have terminal portions (32) extending through the parallel slits, thereby keeping the signal contacts retained between the fingers of the ground bus.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2002Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Iosif P. Korsunsky, Joanne E. Shipe, Robert W. Brown
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Patent number: 6688897Abstract: An electrical connector (1) straddle-mounted on an edge (20) of a printed circuit board (2) includes an insulative housing (10) having an elongated groove (11) for mating. A support subassembly (3) is inserted from the opposing side of the housing (10) to expose its portions in the groove (11). The support subassembly (3) includes two bases (30) with attached signal conductors (5) and a U-shaped ground member (4). Two parallel-arranged side portions (40) of the U-shaped ground member (4) are integrally connected via its central portion and each of them is located parallel to a row of signal conductors (5) as their ground reference. The united ground member (4) can be used to establish ground path to the printed circuit board (2) by fewer contacting legs (42) sheared therefrom and help all parts of the support subassembly (3) to be installed in the connector housing (10) at one time.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Kevin E. Walker, Joanne E. Shipe, Wei-Chen Lee, Tod M. Harlan, Robert W. Brown
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Patent number: 6685485Abstract: An electrical connector (1) straddle-mounted on an edge (20) of a printed circuit board (2) includes an insulative housing (10) having an elongated groove (11) for mating. A plurality of receiving channels (13) each used to receive a support subassembly (3) is formed adjacently to and communicated with the mating groove (11). The support subassembly (3) includes a base (30) with signal contacts (5) and a ground member (4) attached thereon. Every contact (5) includes an engaging end (51) exposed to the mating groove (11) and a tail end (52) extending out of the receiving channel (13) in a suspended status. And the ground member (4) includes a plurality of contacting legs (42) extending from the ground member (4) and being arranged to stagger with the tail end (52) of every contact (5) along the lengthwise of the connector (1).Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2002Date of Patent: February 3, 2004Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Kevin E. Walker, Joanne E. Shipe, Wei-Chen Lee, Tod M. Harlan, Robert W. Brown
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Patent number: 6682365Abstract: An electrical connector (1) has a metal shield (3), a main housing (5), a pair of LEDs (6) received in the main housing, a subassembly (7) assembled to the main housing, a stacked Universal Serial Bus (USB) 4, and a molded assembly (2) assembled to the subassembly. Each LED (61, 62) has a plurality of leads (611, 621), a free end (612) of the middle lead of the LED is bent perpendicularly and extending horizontally thereafter below the other leads. The molded assembly comprising a plastic part (24), and a first and second connections (22, 23) insert molded in the plastic part. The plastic part has a pair of supporting posts (243) and a pair of positioning posts (245) extending from corresponding supporting posts. Each supporting post defines a channel (244) in a middle portion thereof.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2002Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kevin E. Walker, James H. Hyland, Tod M. Harlan, Robert W. Brown
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Publication number: 20030231018Abstract: In a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, a main magnet assembly (12) produces a uniform magnetic field through an imaging region (14). An imaging region is defined within a subject by selecting gradient magnetic fields spatially encode the main magnetic field. A whole body birdcage radio frequency coil (26) excites magnetic resonance in dipoles of the subject. The resonance signals are received by the whole body coil (26) and by a second, local birdcage radio frequency coil (16). The first radio frequency coil (26) produces and is sensitive to a uniform radio frequency field in the imaging region (14) while the second radio frequency coil (28) is sensitive to a field that varies sinusoidally in space. From one radio frequency excitation, the two birdcage coils (26, 16) receive different sets of data with which to fill k-space, accelerating data collection.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2002Publication date: December 18, 2003Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Jacob D. Willig-Onwuachi, Robert W. Brown, Shmaryu M. Shvartsman
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Publication number: 20030224628Abstract: An electrical system (1) includes a number of PC boards (10, 12), a same number of electrical connectors (14, 16), and a half number of extenders (18, 20, 22) provided in sets. Each set includes two PC boards, two electrical connectors mounted onto respective PC boards and one extender located between and engaging with the two electrical connectors. There are extenders that have various heights so that extenders of different heights mating with the electrical connectors establish various distances between the PC boards mounting the electrical connectors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2002Publication date: December 4, 2003Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Robert W. Brown, Wei-Chen Lee, Joanne E. Shipe, Kevin E. walker, Tod M. Harlan
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Patent number: 6638081Abstract: An electrical connector (1, 1′) straddle-mounted on an edge (20, 20′) of a printed circuit board (2, 2′) includes an insulative housing (10) having an elongated groove (11) for mating. A number of receiving channels (13) each used to receive a support subassembly (3, 3′) is formed adjacently to and communicated with the mating groove (11). The support subassembly includes a base (30, 30′) with signal terminals (5, 5′) and a grounding member (4, 4′) attached thereon. Every terminal includes an engaging end (51, 51′) exposed to the mating groove (11) and a tail end (52, 52′) extending out of the receiving channel (13). The grounding member includes a number of contacting legs (42, 42′) extending therefrom. A notch (34, 34′) with a thinned area is disposed on the base to define a separating portion (33, 33′) from the base. The notch is used to facilitate relocating the separating portion relative to the base.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2002Date of Patent: October 28, 2003Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Robert W. Brown
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Patent number: 6634893Abstract: An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10) and a number of contacts (28) attached to the housing. The contacts each have a contact tail (36) downwardly extending beyond a mounting surface (32) of the insulative housing for inserting into throughholes (42) of a PCB (40). The contact tails are overlapped in pairs and each pair of contact tails is inserted into the same throughhole of the PCB. Some pairs of contact tails, called retention contact tails (68), have protrusions (52) deviating from each other for bearing against peripheral walls of the throughholes of the PCB thereby producing retention force. The other pairs of contact tails, called non-retention contact tails (70), do not have protrusions and do not interfere with peripheral walls of the other throughholes thereby reducing the insertion force. The retention contact tails can be modified to the non-retention contact tails by severing the protrusions therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2002Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Iosif Korsunsky, Kevin E. Walker, Joanne E. Shipe, Tod M. Harlan, Wei-Chen Lee, Robert W. Brown, James H. Hyland
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Publication number: 20030190827Abstract: An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10) and a number of contacts (28) attached to the housing. The contacts each have a contact tail (36) downwardly extending beyond a mounting surface (32) of the insulative housing for inserting into throughholes (42) of a PCB (40). The contact tails are overlapped in pairs and each pair of contact tails is inserted into the same throughhole of the PCB. Some pairs of contact tails, called retention contact tails (68), have protrusions (52) deviating from each other for bearing against peripheral walls of the throughholes of the PCB thereby producing retention force. The other pairs of contact tails, called non-retention contact tails (70), do not have protrusions and do not interfere with peripheral walls of the other throughholes thereby reducing the insertion force. The retention contact tails can be modified to the non-retention contact tails by severing the protrusions therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2002Publication date: October 9, 2003Inventors: Iosif Korsunsky, Kevin E. Walker, Joanne E. Shipe, Tod M. Harlan, Wei-Chen Lee, Robert W. Brown, James H. Hyland
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Publication number: 20030184650Abstract: A method of transferring a plurality of digital images captured by a digital camera to a computer and for processing such digital images includes using the digital camera to capture a plurality of digital images of one or more scenes; transferring such captured digital images to the computer wherein they are stored in a memory; and continuing the capture and transfer of digital images to the memory while simultaneously processing other digital images stored in the memory which were previously captured by the cam era wherein such processing produces digital images which are suitable for subsequent use.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2002Publication date: October 2, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Robert W. Brown, James Doran, Jonathan Gary, Mark A. Prescott, James R. Jarrett
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Publication number: 20030181079Abstract: An electrical connector (1) straddle-mounted on an edge (20) of a printed circuit board (2) includes an insulative housing (10) having an elongated groove (11) for mating. A plurality of receiving channels (13) each used to receive a support subassembly (3) is formed adjacently to and communicated with the mating groove (11). The support subassembly (3) includes a base (30) with signal terminals (5) and a grounding member (4) attached thereon. Every terminal (5) includes an engaging end (51) exposed to the mating groove (11) and a tail end (52) extending out of the receiving channel (13) in a suspended status. And the grounding member (4) includes a plurality of contacting legs (42) extending from the grounding member (4) and being suspended similar to the tail end (52) of every terminal (5). A flexible portion (34) with a thinned area is disposed on the base (30) to define a separating portion (33) from the base (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2002Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Robert W. Brown
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Publication number: 20030171012Abstract: An electrical connector (1) straddle-mounted on an edge (20) of a printed circuit board (2) includes an insulative housing (10) having an elongated groove (11) for mating. A plurality of receiving channels (13) each used to receive a support subassembly (3) is formed adjacently to and communicated with the mating groove (11). The support subassembly (3) includes a base (30) with signal contacts (5) and a ground member (4) attached thereon. Every contact (5) includes an engaging end (51) exposed to the mating groove (11) and a tail end (52) extending out of the receiving channel (13) in a suspended status. And the ground member (4) includes a plurality of contacting legs (42) extending from the ground member (4) and being arranged to stagger with the tail end (52) of every contact (5) along the lengthwise of the connector (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2002Publication date: September 11, 2003Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Kevin E. Walker, Joanne E. Shipe, Wei-Chen Lee, Tod M. Harlan, Robert W. Brown
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Publication number: 20030171015Abstract: An electrical connector (1) straddle-mounted on an edge (20) of a printed circuit board (2) includes an insulative housing (10) having an elongated groove (11) for mating. A support subassembly (3) is inserted from the opposing side of the housing (10) to expose its portions in the groove (11). The support subassembly (3) includes two bases (30) with attached signal conductors (5) and a U-shaped ground member (4). Two parallel-arranged side portions (40) of the U-shaped ground member (4) are integrally connected via its central portion and each of them is located parallel to a row of signal conductors (5) as their ground reference. The united ground member (4) can be used to establish ground path to the printed circuit board (2) by fewer contacting legs (42) sheared therefrom and help all parts of the support subassembly (3) to be installed in the connector housing (10) at one time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2002Publication date: September 11, 2003Inventors: Iosif R. Korsunsky, Kevin E. Walker, Joanne E. Shipe, Wei-Chen Lee, Tod M. Harlan, Robert W. Brown
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Publication number: 20030154570Abstract: A washerless dishwasher basket wheel assembly that uses a countersunk sprocket opening in the sprocket of the wheel through which a shoulder screw having raised retaining nibs formed thereon is retaining connected there. The nibs extend radially outwardly of the opening of the sprocket to retain the screw connection to the wheel and, normally, to prevent its removal therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2003Publication date: August 21, 2003Inventor: Robert W. Brown