Patents by Inventor Xiao Fan

Xiao Fan 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: 20160347105
    Abstract: An ornament piece includes a base and a pattern layer formed on at least one surface of the base. The pattern layer includes at least one pattern. The at least one pattern is formed on the surface of the base by carbon powder with colors different from that of the base and infiltrating into the surface of the base. A manufacture method of the ornament piece is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: YU-TSAI WANG, XIAO-FAN ZHANG, LING MA
  • Patent number: 9509099
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) with an end connected with a cable (200) includes: an insulative housing (10) including a front face (102), a rear face (103), and a number of side faces (101); a number of contacts (20) mounted to the insulative housing; and a metal shell (30) enclosing the insulative housing. The metal shell includes a first metal shell (31), a second metal shell (32), and a third metal shell (3) cooperated to seal gaps between the insulative housing and the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yong-Song Di, Xiao Fan, Jun Chen, Jerry Wu
  • Publication number: 20160344145
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly comprises a cable and an electrical connector electrically connected with the cable, the electrical connector includes a mating member, a PCB connected with the mating member, a metal shell enclosing the PCB, and an outer case covering the metal shell, the PCB includes a front end, a rear end and a middle portion connecting with the front end and the rear end; wherein the light emitting element is mounted on the middle portion of the PCB, the metal shell includes a front portion, a rear portion, and a connecting portion connecting the front portion and the rear portion, the connecting portion defines a groove, a distance between a bottom of the groove and the PCB is equal to or smaller than a height of the light emitting element, and the outer case has a light-transmissive portion to pass light emitted by the light emitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: ZHI-YONG ZHOU, XIAO FAN, JUN CHEN, JERRY WU
  • Patent number: 9484685
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a cable electrically connected with the electrical connector. The electrical connector defines a plug portion, a printed circuit board electrically connected to the plug portion, a pair of LED lamps mounted on the printed circuit board, an optical element transmitting the light emitted by the LED lamps and an insulative housing covering the printed circuit board. The optical element defines a pair of transition portions transmitting the light emitted by the LED lamps and a photic zone, the photic zone of the optical element is exposed to the insulative shell and has a closed circumference so that the light emitted by the LED lamps passes through the photic zone to form a continuous aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhi-Yong Zhou, Xiao Fan, Jun Chen, Jerry Wu
  • Publication number: 20160285192
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a terminal module mounted in the housing. The terminal module includes an insulative body, a fixed part mounted on the insulative body extending along a back-to-front direction, and a plurality of terminals. The fixed part defines a mounting hole through the fixed part along front-to-back direction. The insulative body has a connecting arm inserting into the mounting hole for position the fixed part on the insulative body. The fixed part defines a pilot hole extending to the mounting hole, and glue is disposed into the pilot hole to bond the fixed part with the insulative body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, XIAO FAN
  • Publication number: 20160285198
    Abstract: A connector assembly has an insulative housing including a top wall, a bottom wall, a side wall, and a receiving cavity enclosed by these walls. A slot and some passageways are formed on the top wall and communicating to the receiving cavity along a vertical direction. A printed circuit board is received within the receiving cavity. A plurality of contacts connected to the printed circuit board have moveable contacting portions extending through the corresponding passageways and upwardly beyond a top face of the top wall. A magnet includes a top section received within the slot and a bottom section bonded to the bottom wall through melting a part of the bottom wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: ZHI-YONG ZHOU, XIAO FAN, JUN CHEN, JERRY WU
  • Publication number: 20160285206
    Abstract: A plug connector assembly includes a bottom metallic shell having a lower wall, a front wall, a rear wall, a left wall, and a right wall, and defining a receiving slot. The front wall has an inserting groove extending therethrough along a front-to-back direction and a mounting slit extending downwardly from a top edge of the front wall and communicating to the inserting groove. A top metallic shell assembled to the bottom metallic shell along a top-to-bottom direction has a plurality of side walls, an opening defined by the side walls, and a front wall extending downwardly from of the side walls and abutting against the front wall of the bottom metallic shell to seal the mounting slit. A printed circuit board (PCB) is located in the receiving slot and enclosed by the bottom and top shells. A connector connects with a top section of the PCB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: XIAO FAN, JUN CHEN, JERRY WU
  • Patent number: 9425538
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing having a main portion extending along a mating direction and a connecting portion extending rearwards from the main portion, a tubular contact received in the insulative housing, a cable electrically connected to the tubular contact, a cover assembled to the connecting portion of the insulative housing via the thread, and a snap ring enclosing an outside of a connecting area between the cover and the insulative housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Xiao Fan
  • Patent number: 9419382
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly including: a cable including a number of wires, an insulative housing, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing and soldered to corresponding wires of the cable, a spacer assembled to the insulative housing and retaining respective rear portions of the contacts, a metal case enclosing the insulative housing and having a slit, a copper foil enclosing the metal case and covering the slit, and an insulative member over-molded on the copper foil and a front end of the cable, wherein the spacer defines a sustaining portion extending into the slit for supporting a portion of the copper foil located above the slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Xiao Fan, Zhi-Yong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160226199
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly comprising: an electrical connector including a plug portion, a printed circuit board (PCB) electrically connected to the plug portion and fixed at a rear end of the plug portion, a Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamp mounted on the PCB, a metal shell enclosing the PCB and having a receiving hole, and an optical element disposed on the plug portion in front of the LED lamp; and a cable electrically connected with the electrical connector; wherein the LED lamp has a curved sidewall facing the optical element and a rear sidewall facing the cable, an upper end of the LED lamp extending through the receiving hole of the metal shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: ZHI-YONG ZHOU, XIAO FAN, JUN CHEN, JERRY WU
  • Publication number: 20160197422
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulative housing; a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing; a printed circuit board electrically connected with the contacts; and a fixing member assembled to both the insulative housing and the printed circuit board, the fixing member having a pair of latch arms extending from two opposite sides thereof to hold two sides of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: WEI-WEI CHENG, XIAO FAN, JUN CHEN, JERRY WU
  • Publication number: 20160172795
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a cable electrically connected with the electrical connector. The electrical connector defines a plug portion, a printed circuit board electrically connected to the plug portion, a pair of LED lamps mounted on the printed circuit board, an optical element transmitting the light emitted by the LED lamps and an insulative housing covering the printed circuit board. The optical element defines a pair of transition portions transmitting the light emitted by the LED lamps and a photic zone, the photic zone of the optical element is exposed to the insulative shell and has a closed circumference so that the light emitted by the LED lamps passes through the photic zone to form a continuous aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: ZHI-YONG ZHOU, XIAO FAN, JUN CHEN, JERRY WU
  • Publication number: 20160172791
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly including: an electrical connector including an insulative housing, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing and arranged in two rows apart from each other along a vertical direction, and a latch retained in the insulative housing, wherein the contacts arranged in an upper row include a pair of high-frequency signal contacts and the contacts arranged in a lower row include a pair of high-frequency signal contacts, the two pairs of high-frequency signal contacts disposed relative to each other along the vertical direction; and a cable including a number of wires electrically connected with the contacts of the electrical connector; wherein the electrical connector further includes a grounding plate, the grounding plate including a shielding sheet extending between the two pairs of high-frequency signal contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: XIAO FAN, JUN CHEN, JERRY WU
  • Patent number: 9344855
    Abstract: Provided are an indoor wireless positioning system and method capable of more accurately performing indoor wireless positioning by predicting signal attenuation due to a floor or wall within a multi-floor building. The indoor wireless positioning method includes calculating floor loss information of a floor on which the user terminal is located within the building, a higher floor, and a lower floor, calculating the floor on which the user terminal is located by comparing the calculated floor loss information to pre-stored previous floor loss information, calculating information about wall loss in the floor on which the user terminal is located, and acquiring position information on a horizontal plane of the user terminal according to received signal strength of the user terminal and the information about the wall loss. When the position of the user terminal is detected, detection accuracy is improved and more efficient wireless positioning is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Foundation of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation
    Inventors: Yoan Shin, Xiao Fan, Jian Shi, Kwangyul Kim
  • Patent number: 9325081
    Abstract: A cable connector for soldering to a cable defining some core wires includes an insulative body, a plurality of terminals, and a spacer. Each terminal includes a soldering portion extending rearwardly out of the insulative body soldering to the core wires. The spacer includes some stalls and a respective receiving slot formed between every two adjacent stalls for receiving the soldering portions. The receiving slot includes a first receiving slot proximal to the insulative body and a second receiving slot distal from the insulative body. The second receiving slot includes a lower receiving space and an upper receiving space with a smaller width. The soldering portion of the terminal includes a first portion received in the lower receiving space and a second portion received in the first receiving slot. The width of the first portion is larger than the width of the second portion to reduce the impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Xiao Fan, Zhi-Yong Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160111829
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) comprises an insulative housing having a receiving space (18) extending along a front-to-back direction, and a printed circuit board module (2) received in the receiving space of the insulative housing. The printed circuit board module defines a protruded ridge (24) offset to one side thereof, the protruded ridge extending along a vertical direction, and a groove (185) is defined in the receiving space for accommodating the protruded ridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: WEI-WEI CHENG, XIAO FAN, JUN CHEN, JERRY WU
  • Publication number: 20160111807
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing having a main portion extending along a mating direction and a connecting portion extending rearwards from the main portion, a tubular contact received in the insulative housing, a cable electrically connected to the tubular contact, a cover assembled to the connecting portion of the insulative housing via the thread, and a snap ring enclosing an outside of a connecting area between the cover and the insulative housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, XIAO FAN
  • Publication number: 20160093976
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing, a spacer mounted at a rear of the insulative housing, and an outer boot enclosing the spacer and a part of the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a top wall, a bottom wall, and a pair of side walls connecting the top wall and the bottom wall. The insulative housing includes a pair of latches extending rearwardly from the side walls respectively. Each of the latches has a one piece flat structure and comprises a lock part projecting outwardly from a free end thereof, and the spacer defines a pair of holes corresponding to the latches, the latches passing through the holes to fix the spacer on the insulative housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, XIAO FAN
  • Patent number: 9289622
    Abstract: A system for influencing a state of a user includes a display with a light source for emitting light influencing the state of the user. A light controller selectively controls the emission of the light including at least one of; (1) the spectrum of the light; (2) the duration of the light; 3) the distribution of the light; (4) the intensity of the light; and (5) the timing of the light. An analysis engine capable of providing a signal to the light controller indicating a desired emission of the light based upon selectively illuminating one or more of a plurality of different blue light sources, each of which having a different peak spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiao-fan Feng, Jon M. Speigle, M. Ibrahim Sezan
  • Publication number: 20150357765
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly including: a cable including a number of wires, an insulative housing, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing and soldered to corresponding wires of the cable, a spacer assembled to the insulative housing and retaining respective rear portions of the contacts, a metal case enclosing the insulative housing and having a slit, a copper foil enclosing the metal case and covering the slit, and an insulative member over-molded on the copper foil and a front end of the cable, wherein the spacer defines a sustaining portion extending into the slit for supporting a portion of the copper foil located above the slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, XIAO FAN, ZHI-YONG ZHOU