Patents by Inventor Walter Mason
Walter Mason 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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Publication number: 20140187087Abstract: An RF cable connector includes a cable assembly having a plurality of RF cables bundled together and a buss bar coupled to the cable assembly. Each RF cable, which may be a twin axial RF cable, has a pair of signal conductors surrounded by an outer shield. The cable assembly has signal contacts terminated to ends of the signal conductors configured to be terminated to corresponding signal pads of a host circuit board. The buss bar has a base electrically coupled to each of the outer shields to electrically common the outer shields. The buss bar has ground tines extending from the base positioned between signal contacts and configured to be terminated to corresponding ground pads of the host circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Wayne Stewart Alden, III
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Patent number: 8769258Abstract: A network is protected from e-mail viruses through the use of a sacrificial server. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLCInventors: Walter Mason Stewart, Marcelo Carrera, Robert G. Hook
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Publication number: 20140148061Abstract: A contact includes an upper contact having a plunger with a tip configured to engage a first electronic component being movable between a retracted position and an extended position. The upper contact has deflecting beams deflected as the plunger is forced into the retracted position and forcing the plunger to return to the extended position when the plunger is released. The contact includes a lower contact having a base beam and a tail extending from the base beam for engaging a second electronic component. The base beam engages and is spring biased against the plunger. The plunger is movable relative to the lower contact. The base beam is biased against and maintains electrical contact with the plunger as the plunger is moved between the extended and retracted positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Wayne Stewart Alden, III
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Publication number: 20140141632Abstract: An electrical interconnect device includes an array of conductive elastomeric columns, each of the elastomeric columns extending between a first end and a second end and being internally conductive between the first and second ends. Upper and lower holders cover the array of conductive elastomeric columns. The upper holder has an upper substrate and a plurality of discrete upper pads held by the upper substrate and arranged in a complementary pattern to the array of elastomeric columns. The discrete upper pads cap corresponding first ends of the elastomeric columns. The lower holder has a lower substrate and a plurality of discrete lower pads held by the lower substrate and arranged in a complementary pattern to the array of elastomeric columns. The discrete lower pads cap corresponding second ends of the elastomeric columns. The upper and lower holders support the array of conductive elastomeric columns.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Wayne Stewart Alden, III
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Patent number: 8696389Abstract: A card edge connector for mating to a flex circuit includes a housing having a front, a top and a bottom. The housing has a slot between the top and the bottom. The slot is open at the front. The slot is configured to receive a flex circuit therein. Upper contacts are held by the housing between the slot and the top. The upper contacts are exposed in the slot for mating with an upper surface of the flex circuit. Lower contacts are held by the housing between the slot and the bottom. The lower contacts are exposed in the slot for mating with a lower surface of the flex circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, William Brian Murphy, Wayne Stewart Allen, III
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Publication number: 20140030917Abstract: A coaxial cable assembly includes a coaxial cable having a terminating end and a conductor being exposed at the terminating end. A cable housing holds the coaxial cable and has a conductor slot receiving the exposed conductor. A cable shield is coupled to the cable housing and provides electrical shielding for the terminating end of the coaxial cable. The cable housing is configured to be coupled to a circuit board such that the exposed conductor directly engages a signal pad of the circuit board for electrical connection thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: January 30, 2014Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Wayne Stewart Alden, III
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Publication number: 20140017942Abstract: A socket connector includes an interconnect assembly having an array of contacts being compressible in a vertical direction and shielding springs surrounding corresponding contacts and being compressible in the vertical direction with the contacts. The shielding springs are electrically grounded and provide electrical shielding for the contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2012Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Wayne Stewart Alden, III
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Publication number: 20130330960Abstract: An interconnect device includes a contact assembly having a carrier holding an array of conductors. Each of the conductors have opposite first and second ends configured to engage corresponding first and second electrical components. The conductors define conductive paths between the first and second ends to electrically interconnect the first and second electrical components. The interconnect device includes a frame defining a receiving space configured to receive the first electrical component therein. The frame includes corner frames having metal spring fingers configured to engage different side edges of the first electrical component to locate the first electrical component in the receiving space. The spring fingers are deflectable and are configured to be spring biased against corresponding side edges of the first electrical component.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Wayne Stewart Alden, III, William Brian Murphy
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Patent number: 8562359Abstract: An electrical contact is provided. The electrical contact includes an integrally-formed body having a mating segment, a mounting segment, and a pair of arms interconnect the mating segment and the mounting segment. The arms extend along helical paths for at least some distance as the arms extend from the mating segment to the mounting segment.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: October 22, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Wayne Stewart Alden, III, Jeffery Walter Mason, William Brian Murphy
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Patent number: 8506868Abstract: Rubber articles such as tires, hoses and lining sheets comprising glass flakes exhibit improved fluid impermeability. Methods for the manufacture of such rubber articles are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2007Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: NGF EUROPE LimitedInventors: David Walter Mason, Christopher Andrew Stevens
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Publication number: 20130084754Abstract: A card edge connector for mating to a flex circuit includes a housing having a front, a top and a bottom. The housing has a slot between the top and the bottom. The slot is open at the front. The slot is configured to receive a flex circuit therein. Upper contacts are held by the housing between the slot and the top. The upper contacts are exposed in the slot for mating with an upper surface of the flex circuit. Lower contacts are held by the housing between the slot and the bottom. The lower contacts are exposed in the slot for mating with a lower surface of the flex circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter MASON, William Brian MURPHY, Wayne Stewart ALDEN, III
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Publication number: 20120184157Abstract: An electrical contact is provided. The electrical contact includes an integrally-formed body having a mating segment, a mounting segment, and a pair of arms interconnect the mating segment and the mounting segment. The arms extend along helical paths for at least some distance as the arms extend from the mating segment to the mounting segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2011Publication date: July 19, 2012Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Wayne Steweart Alden, III, Jeffery Walter Mason, William Brian Murphy
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Patent number: 8172615Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for electrically connecting an electronic module to an electrical component. The electrical connector includes an insulator having a module side and an opposite component side. The insulator is configured to extend between the electronic module and the electrical component such that the module side faces the electronic module and the component side faces the electrical component. Electrical contacts are held by the insulator. The electrical contacts include mating segments arranged in an array along the module side of the insulator. The mating segments are configured to mate with mating contacts of the electronic module. The electrical connector further includes a shield having a body that is at least partially electrically conductive. The body of the shield is mounted on the insulator such that the body covers at least a portion of the module side of the insulator. The body of the shield includes an opening defined by at least one interior wall of the body.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventor: Jeffery Walter Mason
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Publication number: 20120003871Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for electrically connecting an electronic module to an electrical component. The electrical connector includes an insulator having a module side and an opposite component side. The insulator is configured to extend between the electronic module and the electrical component such that the module side faces the electronic module and the component side faces the electrical component. Electrical contacts are held by the insulator. The electrical contacts include mating segments arranged in an array along the module side of the insulator. The mating segments are configured to mate with mating contacts of the electronic module. The electrical connector further includes a shield having a body that is at least partially electrically conductive. The body of the shield is mounted on the insulator such that the body covers at least a portion of the module side of the insulator. The body of the shield includes an opening defined by at least one interior wall of the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Jeffery Walter Mason
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Publication number: 20110231669Abstract: A network is protected from e-mail viruses through the use of a sacrificial server. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: Intellectual Ventures I LLCInventors: Walter Mason Stewart, Marcelo Carrera, Robert G. Hook
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Patent number: 7979691Abstract: A network is protected from e-mail viruses through the use of a sacrificial server. Any executable program or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: Intellectual Ventures I LLCInventors: Walter Mason Stewart, Marcelo Carrera, Robert G. Hook
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Patent number: 7913078Abstract: A network is protected from viruses through the use of a sacrificial server, which may be physical or virtual. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2007Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Inventors: Walter Mason Stewart, Marcelo Carrera, Robert G. Hook, Ronald Rust, Charles Shotton
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Publication number: 20100143621Abstract: Rubber articles such as tyres, hoses and lining sheets comprising glass flakes exhibit improved fluid impermeability. Methods for the manufacture of such rubber articles are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: NGF EUROPE LIMITEDInventors: David Walter Mason, Christopher Andrew Stevens
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Publication number: 20090308774Abstract: Described herein are methods for protecting glass with the use of glassine paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2007Publication date: December 17, 2009Applicant: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Hongkyu Kim, Ronald Walter Mason, Himanshu Chandrakant Shah, David Alan Tammaro
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Publication number: 20090165138Abstract: A network is protected from e-mail viruses through the use of a sacrificial server. Any executable programs or other suspicious parts of incoming e-mail messages are forwarded to a sacrificial server, where they are converted to non-executable format such as Adobe Acrobat PDF and sent to the recipient. The sacrificial server is then checked for virus activity. After the execution is completed, the sacrificial server is rebooted.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2009Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: G.K. Webb Services LLCInventors: Walter Mason STEWART, Marcelo CARRERA, Robert G. HOOK