Patents by Inventor Yung Chang Cheng

Yung Chang Cheng 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: 7510414
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes a first connector (1) and a second connector (2). The first connector includes a first insulating housing (12), a first shield (11) mounted on the first insulating housing to define a first receiving room (10), and a plurality of first terminals (13) retained in the first insulating housing. The second connector (2) is mounted under the first connector, and includes a second insulating housing (22) to define a second receiving room (20), and a plurality of second terminals (23) retained in the second insulating housing. Wherein the first insulating housing includes a base section (121) having an embossment (125), the embossment protruding into the second receiving room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Chi Yu, Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7491073
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (1) for receiving a card, includes an insulative housing (4), a shield (2) with an end mounted on the insulative housing and another end defining an inserting opening (10) for the card inserting, and an ejecting mechanism (5) assembled on a lateral side of the shield. The ejecting mechanism comprises a lever mechanism (51) for ejecting the card, and a pushing mechanism (52) connecting with the lever mechanism. The pushing mechanism includes a pushing bar (523), a base (521) with a track (5211) mating with the pushing bar, a slider (522) movably received in the pushing bar and the track of the base, and a stopping plate (525) mounted adjacent to the pushing bar with a beam (5251) resisting on the pushing bar and capable of separating from the pushing bar by the lever mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7491072
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (1), defining a card insertion/ejection direction, includes an insulating housing (2), a plurality of terminals (3) received in the insulating housing, a shell (4) covering the insulating housing and a covering plate (6) spanning over the rear end of the shell. The shell includes a pair of lateral walls (41) to form a card receiving room, and a card inserting opening is formed at a rear end thereof along a card insertion direction. A rear margin of the covering plate reaches a wall of an electrical device in which the electrical card connector is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7484975
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) comprises an insulating housing (1) receiving a plurality terminals (2), a shield plate (4) mounted on the insulating housing, and an ejecting mechanism (3) assembled on a lateral side of the shield plate. The ejecting mechanism comprises a pushing pole (30) and a handle (32) assembled on the pushing pole. The handle is capable of separating from the pushing pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20090028498
    Abstract: An optical fiber connector (100) includes a first insulative housing (1), a door (2) assembled in the first housing and an elastic piece (3) with one end retained in the first housing and the other end elastically abutting against the door. The first housing defines a top face (10), a front face (11) connecting with the top face and a pair of sidewalls (13). The first housing further defines a receiving cavity (111) opening through the front face thereof, and each sidewall defines a recess (112) opening through the top face and the inner surface of the receiving cavity near an opening of the receiving cavity. The door is movably assembled at the opening of the receiving cavity and defines a pair of shafts (22) received in the recesses. Each recess integrally defines a protrusion (113) over the shaft therein, so as to prevent the shafts from breaking off the recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20090017689
    Abstract: An electrical card connector for receiving at least two different cards, comprises: an insulative housing; a plurality of contacts received in the housing; an L-shaped shell assembled on the housing defining a receiving space for receiving the card; and a guide member assembled on the shell with a spring plate extending into the receiving space. When an L-shaped electrical card inserts into the connector, it could be keep in the connector steadily because of the friction between the card and the spring plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Hung-Chi Yu, Yung-Chang Cheng, Cai-Fu Li
  • Publication number: 20080304239
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes a connector body (1) mounted a plurality of terminals (11) therein. A pair of guiding arms (21) are arranged on opposite sides of the connector body (1) and defines a receiving space between the connector body (1) and the guiding arms (21). An ejector (3) is assembled on one guiding arm (21) and comprises a pushing mechanism (302) and an ejecting mechanism (301). The pushing mechanism (302) comprises a metal bracket (31), a pushing portion and a body portion (34) defining a guiding groove (341) therein. One end of the body portion (34) is retained on the guiding arm (21) and the other end of the body portion (34) is retained by the bracket (31), so the bracket (31) keeps the pushing mechanism (302) being retained on the guiding arm (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Yung-Chang Cheng, Jian-Long Wei
  • Publication number: 20080299803
    Abstract: An electrical card connector includes an insulative header (1) defining a plurality of conductive terminals (2) thereon, a metallic shell (4) at least covering a top surface of the header and a grounding plate (3) being sandwiched between the shell and the top of the header. The grounding plate includes a contacting portion (311) thereon to mechanically connect with the shell and a solder leg (321) for connecting a printed board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20080299794
    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: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Inventors: Kuo-Lung Lin, Chien-Jen Ting, Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7445477
    Abstract: A card connector comprises an insulating housing defining a card insertion/ejection direction; a plurality of contacts received in the insulating housing; a shell covering the insulating housing and an ejector. The ejector is assembled to the shell and comprises a push member, a moveable member mating with the push member, an ejecting member to eject a card and a pivoting member mating with the moveable member and the ejecting member. The ejecting member is moveable along a direction parallel to the card ejection direction to eject the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Jen Ting, Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20080233775
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) for receiving a card, comprises an insulating housing (1) defining a card receiving space, a plurality of terminals (5) received in the insulating housing, a shield plate (2) mounted on the insulative housing, a box member (3) mounted on housing and encircling the terminals and a grounding plate (4) sandwiched by the insulating housing and shield plate and retained to the box member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20080227317
    Abstract: An electrical card connector comprises an insulative housing, a shell covering the insulative housing, a plurality of terminals received in the insulative housing, an ejecting mechanism assembled on one side of the shell and a dustproof device. The dustproof device retains on the shell away from the terminals, witch comprises a door member, a base portion and a pair of vertical wall extending downwardly from opposite sides of the base portion separately. A horizontal wall extends horizontally from one side of the base portion for retaining the ejecting mechanism. A engagement portion extends outwardly from each vertical wall for holding the electrical card connector. The dustproof device has a simple structure and can be assembled easily and firmly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7422445
    Abstract: A sinking electrical card connector includes an insulating housing (10) sinking partially into a hole defined on a printed circuit board (30) (PCB), a number of terminals (20) retained in the insulating housing, a shell (40) mounted on the insulating housing, wherein a pair of holding portions 120 and 120? are formed by the opposite lateral walls of the insulating housing extending outwardly, and each holding portion engages with an edge of the hole of the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: HonHai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20080207012
    Abstract: An electrical card connector includes a shell (1) structured as L-shaped, an insulating housing (2) covered by the shell, a plurality of terminals (3) retained in the insulating housing, a triangular guiding plate (4) placed in the card room for guiding a card insertion, and a bottom plate (7) confirming in shape with the shell placed under the bottom plate. The shell has a shorter side wall (13) and a longer side wall (12) opposite to the shorter side wall, a card room defined by the shell for receiving a card. The guiding plate locks with the bottom plate, therefore, the guiding plate and the bottom plate are locked with each other more firmly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Inventors: Yung-Chang Cheng, Zhi-Feng Wang
  • Publication number: 20080124958
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulated housing (2) and a metal shield (1). The insulated housing forms a plurality of passageways. A plurality of aligned terminals (3) are received in the passageways. The metal shield shields over the insulated housing and forms a card receiving room. The metal shield includes a top shell (11) and a pair of side walls (12), and a card inserting port is defined thereby. A plurality of grounding portions (112) are formed close to the card inserting port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20080123320
    Abstract: A card connector adapted for receiving a card, comprises an insulating housing defining a card insertion/ejection direction; a plurality of contacts received in the insulating housing, a shell and an ejector. The shell covers the insulating housing and is formed with a receiving portion. The receiving portion comprises an upper portion, a lower portion opposite to the upper portion and a connecting portion connecting the upper portion and the lower portion. The ejector has a front end received and locked in the receiving portion of the shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20080119082
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly comprises an insulating housing (1), a plurality of terminals (2) retained in the insulating housing and a picking up section (5) mounted on the insulating housing. Wherein the insulating housing has a base section (10) and an engaging plate (14) extending backwardly from the base section. The picking up section comprises a plurality of elastic clasps (52) engaging with the opposite sides of the engaging plate directly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7371089
    Abstract: A memory card connector includes a metal cover defining a receiving space in which two different types of memory cards are insertable in an insertion direction through an insert opening generally at a rear end of the metal cover to respectively correspondingly connect with contacts mounted in a connector housing at a front end of metal cover. The metal cover further includes a pair of lateral walls spaced from each other in a direction transversely of the insertion direction, and a foldable baffler is mounted to the lateral walls at the insert opening and includes an opening opposite to the connector housing in the insertion direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20080102664
    Abstract: A card connector (100) for receiving a card, includes an insulative housing (10) receiving a number of terminals (20), a shield plate (40) assembled on the insulative housing, and a pair of supporting plates (70). The shield plate includes a pair of lateral walls (42, 43). The lateral walls define an inserting cutout opposite to the insulative housing along a card inserting direction. The supporting plates coupled with corresponding lateral walls of the shield plate, extends beyond the inserting cutout along a direction opposite to the card inserting direction, and each supporting plate forms an engaging portion (77) at the portion beyond the inserting cutout.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20080102679
    Abstract: An electrical card connector has an insulating housing (10) receiving a plurality of terminals (12), a shell (11) mounted on the insulating housing, a guiding portion (15) located at one lateral side of the insulating housing, and a metal plate (4) locking with the guiding portion, wherein the guiding portion comprises a triangle plate (150) having a fastening portion, and the metal plate comprises a fastening section engaging with the fastening portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng