Connectors Patents (Class 174/359)
  • Patent number: 11852518
    Abstract: A system includes a fuel level sensing probe inside a fuel tank and an exciter wire bundle to connect the fuel level sensing probe to a power source outside the tank. The exciter wire bundle includes an excitation wire and a grounded guard wire. The excitation wire and the grounded guard wire each include a resistive non-metallic wire. The system also includes a return signal wire bundle to connect the fuel level sensing probe to a device configured to measure a quantity of fuel within the tank. The return signal wire bundle includes a return signal wire and a grounded guard wire. The grounded guard wire of the return signal wire bundle and the grounded guard wire of the exciter wire bundle are configured to shield the return signal wire from electromagnetic interference. The return signal wire and the grounded guard wire each include a resistive non-metallic wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Andrew F. Douglass, Andrew M. Robb
  • Patent number: 11831106
    Abstract: A cable assembly comprising a termination with at least one conductive, compressible member and a conductive ground shield. The conductive, compressible member may be held within a connector module forming the termination such that the conductive compressive member is pressed against, and therefore makes electrical contact with, both an outer conductive layer of the cable and ground structures within the connector module. In some embodiments, these connections may be formed using a conductive, compressible member with an opening configured to receive the end of the cable therethrough. The conductive ground shield may be configured to compress the conductive, compressible member, and to cause the conductive, compressible member to electrically contact the cable's conductive layer. The conductive, compressible member may be formed from a compressible material and may comprise a plurality of conductive particulates configured to provide electrically conductive paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Donald A. Girard, Jr., David Manter, Vysakh Sivarajan
  • Patent number: 11765860
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided in the present disclosure, and the electronic device includes a middle frame, a heat transfer unit, a shielding case, a heat source and a radiator. The middle frame includes a first surface. The heat transfer unit is disposed on the first surface. The shielding case is spaced apart from the heat transfer unit and is provided with a shielding cavity. The heat source is disposed between the heat transfer unit and the shielding case and includes a circuit board disposed on the heat transfer unit and a first heat source component disposed on the circuit board, the first heat source component is disposed in the shielding cavity. The radiator is configured to dissipate heat from the shielding case and/or the heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Bo Zhang, Duzi Huang, Mingyan Liu, Kailiang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11744055
    Abstract: An electrically conductive multilayer film for providing an electrical path between two conductive surfaces includes a plastic backing layer, an electrically conductive layer disposed on a first side of the plastic backing layer, and a recovery layer disposed on an opposite second side of the plastic backing layer. An average thickness of the multilayer film is less than about 100 microns. A hollow gasket can be formed from the multilayer film by winding or bending the multilayer film into a flexible hollow closed loop. When the multilayer film is wound to form a flexible closed loop having an outside diameter of no more than about 7 mm with the conductive layer forming an outside layer of the loop, a resistance of the closed loop across a diameter of the closed loop remains less than about 2? when the loop is compressed across the diameter by at least 20%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Bing Huang, Su Zhang, Xin Zhang, Jing Fang, Fan Gao
  • Patent number: 11622460
    Abstract: Hermetically sealed, hygienic electrical enclosures that do not require mechanical fasteners and methods of making the same. In some examples, an open housing is sealed with a cover using a seal that includes an arrangement of a gasket and a sealant. Once cured, the seal provides a hermetic seal between the housing and cover, providing a crevice-free device enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Illumination, Inc.
    Inventor: John Thrailkill
  • Patent number: 11539160
    Abstract: A water-proof connection device and a transmission cable assembly thereof are provided. The transmission cable assembly includes a connector being USB 3.0 type C, a transmission cable, a molding holder, an insulating sleeve, and an adhesive layer. The connector has an external end portion and an opposite internal end portion. The transmission cable includes a plurality of wires connected to the internal end portion. The molding holder includes a partition portion and a pillar portion that extends from the partition portion, and connection parts of the internal end portion and the wires are embedded in the pillar portion. The insulating sleeve surrounds a part of the pillar portion and a part of the transmission cable that are arranged adjacent to each other. The adhesive layer is formed on an inner surface of the insulating sleeve, and extends outside two opposite ends of the insulating sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: GT CONTACT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jui-Jung Chiu, Chien-Chung Chiu
  • Patent number: 11489304
    Abstract: An electrical junction box comprises an electrically conductive housing and at least one cable end wherein an everted braided shield section of the cable end is received in a retainer section of the housing and an electrically conductive adhesive is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventors: Olaf Patz, Pawel Olek, Piotr Momot, Wojciech Lesniak
  • Patent number: 11394156
    Abstract: The cable attaches a first component and a second component using a quick disconnect connector pair. The cable includes a twisted pair of wires with a separate shield. A portion of the shielding near the connector is removed to expose the wires and assemble the wires to the connector. To reduce the EMI leakage, the inner shell encloses the exposed portions of the wires. In order to maintain the ground path for the shielding of the shielded twisted wire pairs, the shielding for the twisted wire pairs is connected to the shell. The outer shells facilitate the quick disconnect feature. The outer shell includes one or more slots. The slot allows a portion of the outer shell to become a cantilever beam. The beam deflects during disengagement and engagement with the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Cinch Connectivity Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Hecham Elkhatib, Darijus Baltrukonis, Abel Almazan
  • Patent number: 11368003
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a unitary electrical conduit that includes a central conductor, a socket coupled to a first end of the central conductor, a male insert coupled to a second end of the central conductor a dielectric sheath surrounding the central conductor, and an outer conductor surrounding the dielectric sheath, wherein a substantially 90 degree bend is formed along a length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Philip Allan Kraus, Anantha K. Subramani
  • Patent number: 11283198
    Abstract: A cable shield connecting assembly is arranged to secure and ground a cable to the housing of an electrical device. The cable includes a cable jacket and braided shielding extending from an end portion of the cable jacket. The cable shield connecting assembly includes: a mounting plate having a cavity and an aperture arranged on a bottom side of the cavity; and a grommet having an inner diameter inside which the end portion of the cable jacket is fitted, and upper and lower portions extending on both sides of an edge of the aperture of the mounting plate. The upper portion of the grommet is fitted inside the cavity. The cable shield connecting assembly further includes a clamp pressed-fitted against the upper portion of the grommet inside the cavity to squeeze therebetween the braided shielding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: ETEL S.A.
    Inventors: Iván Garcia-Herreros, Dmitry Chechenev
  • Patent number: 11114791
    Abstract: A connector includes a main body, a terminal module, a cable module, a housing and an insulating material. The main body has a first opening and a second opening. The terminal module includes a terminal portion and an insulating portion partially covering the terminal portion. The terminal portion includes plural terminals protruding beyond one side of the insulating portion, a middle portion covered by the insulating portion, and a pin portion exposed from the opposite side of the insulating portion. The cable module has a connecting portion electrically connected to the pin portion. The housing covers the main body and the terminals. The housing has an end portion disposed adjacent to the insulating portion. The end portion is configured with plural third openings. The insulating material which may be poured through the third openings covers the end portion, the connecting portion, the pin portion and the insulating portion, and fills the third openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CHICONY POWER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Po-Sheng Lee
  • Patent number: 10903599
    Abstract: Cable sealing having a carrier formed as a hard component and having an opening, and a seal formed as a soft component and being arranged at least on the carrier. Protection against longitudinal water is achieved by the fact that the seal is formed from a silicone and is injection-moulded together with the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Auto-Kabel Management GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Lienert, Amir Hossein Attarzadeh, Ralf Bodem
  • Patent number: 10873233
    Abstract: There is provided a case of an electric apparatus and the manufacturing method therefor in which a sealing material, the portion of which at the depth is cured without being heated, is utilized at the junction portion of two or more case members. The case of the electric apparatus has a gap forming portion that form a gap in a junction portion where two or more case members for containing an electric apparatus are joined to each other and a sealing material filled into the gap between the gap forming portion; the sealing material is a two-liquid-mixed addition-reaction-curable sealing material that has a normal-temperature curability and includes a platinum catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hideya Nishikawa, Yoshihito Asao, Tomo Ide
  • Patent number: 10847282
    Abstract: A wire harness includes a plurality of electric wires, a plurality of flexible and conductive tubular individual shields individually covering and electromagnetically shielding the plurality of electric wires, a flexible and conductive tubular collective shield collectively covering and electromagnetically shielding at least portions of the plurality of electric wires that are not covered by the individual shields, and a connector configured to electrically connect the collective shield and the plurality of individual shields to each other in a state in which the collective shield and the plurality of individual shields overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Katsutoshi Izawa
  • Patent number: 10840647
    Abstract: A shielded connector includes a body with a socket adapted to receive a cable termination plug. Connector contacts in the socket mate with contacts of the cable plug. Connector pins project from the body and are operably coupled to the connector contacts in the socket. An electrically conductive shield covers part of the body and includes (i) a first shield part; and (ii) a second shield part physically disconnected from the first shield part and electrically isolated from the first shield part such that an open space separates the first shield part from the second shield part. The first shield part includes a cable shield contact located adjacent the socket that electrically mates with the EMI shield termination contact of the plug. The first and second shield parts further include respective first and second shield connector pins to physically and electrically connect the shield with an associated printed circuit board for dissipation of electrical charges from the first and second shield parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: John R. Figie
  • Patent number: 10826244
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a body including a ceramic part and an over-mold; an upper row of contacts and a lower row of contacts secured to the ceramic part of the body, each row of contacts including an outermost ground contact and a pair of signal contacts inwardly of the ground contact; and a metallic shielding plate situated between the upper pair of signal contacts and the lower pair of signal contacts, wherein the metallic shielding plate is molded to the ceramic part of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10790619
    Abstract: The cable attaches a first component and a second component using a quick disconnect connector pair. The cable includes a twisted pair of wires with a separate shield. A portion of the shielding near the connector is removed to expose the wires and assemble the wires to the connector. To reduce the EMI leakage, the inner shell encloses the exposed portions of the wires. In order to maintain the ground path for the shielding of the shielded twisted wire pairs, the shielding for the twisted wire pairs is connected to the shell. The outer shells facilitate the quick disconnect feature. The outer shell includes one or more slots. The slot allows a portion of the outer shell to become a cantilever beam. The beam deflects during disengagement and engagement with the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Cinch Connectors, Inc.
    Inventors: Hecham Elkhatib, Darijus Baltrukonis, Abel Almazan
  • Patent number: 10742014
    Abstract: A sealing boot for protecting an electrical interconnection includes: a main body having a cavity configured to house an interconnection of two electrical connectors; and a neck merging with one end of the main body and having a cylindrical inner surface that defines a bore that is continuous with the cavity of the main body, the inner surface having an inner diameter that is less than an inner diameter of the cavity of the main body. The inner surface of the neck includes a helical projection comprising a main artery and two tributaries, the tributaries each intersecting a section of the main artery at one end and merging with an end of the main artery at an opposite end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Ronald A. Vaccaro
  • Patent number: 10680355
    Abstract: A terminal assembly is configured to terminate a shielded cable having an inner conductor, an inner insulator surrounding the inner conductor, an outer conductor surrounding the inner insulator, and an outer insulator surrounding the outer conductor. This terminal assembly includes a generally cylindrical outer ferrule formed of a plastic conductive material, i.e. a material that is deformed after stress is removed, and a generally cylindrical inner ferrule formed of an elastic dielectric material i.e. a material that recovers after stress is removed, having a plurality of circumferential grooves defined in an outer surface thereof. At least a portion of the inner ferrule is disposed within the outer ferrule. A portion of the outer conductor is disposed intermediate the inner ferrule and the outer ferrule and is in intimate contact therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Durse, Thomas S. Huda, Eric B. Poma, Bruce D. Taylor
  • Patent number: 10658131
    Abstract: The invention relates to a remote-control device (14) which comprises a portable remote control (10) and a wall mounting (12), the portable remote control (10) comprising a housing (16) having a rear surface (40) and a front surface (42), located on either side of and at a distance from a median plane (M) of the housing (16), the housing (16) including a recess (48) open at least on the rear surface (40), the wall mounting (12) having a surface (28) for bearing against a wall along a bearing plane (P) and a head (24) projecting from the bearing plane (P), the head (24) penetrating into the recess (48) in an anchoring position of the portable remote control (10) so as to pass through the median plane (M) of the housing (16). The recess (48) is shaped so as to match the shape of the head (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Pierre Escurier, Alizé Le Goueff, Frédéric Strubi, Philippe Bajard, Thomas Desagre
  • Patent number: 10587113
    Abstract: An electronic device receives external power from an external device when connected to the external device via a cable. The electronic device detects the power supply capability of the external device, determines whether the cable is a predetermined type of cable, and sets a current value limit for the external power based on the detected power supply capability of the external device and on the result of determining whether the cable is the predetermined type of cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takashi Morii
  • Patent number: 10498005
    Abstract: There is provided a cable tap device comprising a microstrip directional coupler having a first input port, a first output port, an isolation port and a first coupling port and a ferrite directional coupler having a second input port, a second output port and a second coupling port, wherein the microstrip directional coupler and the ferrite directional coupler are connected together to form a tap unit such that the first output port is connected to the second input port, the isolation port is connected to the second coupling port and the first coupling port connects to one or more tap ports. Capacitive elements can be associated with both types of directional coupler to prevent passage of low frequency signals through the directional couplers. Inductive elements to prevent passage of high frequency signals through the directional couplers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Technetix B.V.
    Inventors: Martien Rijssemus, Matthijs Laro
  • Patent number: 10425385
    Abstract: A data transport computing device includes a housing, a drive bay framing assembly including an upper platform bracket and a lower platform bracket, a first computing board mounted to an upper surface of the upper platform bracket, and a second computing board mounted to a lower surface of the lower platform bracket. The first computing board is secured between the upper platform bracket and front, rear, and top sides of the housing, and the second computing board is secured between the lower platform bracket and the front side, rear, and bottom sides of the housing. Data storage drives are mounted between the upper and lower platform brackets. In operation, the second computing board encrypts data from a customer and transmits the encrypted data to the first computing board over a network cable within the housing, and the first computing board writes the encrypted data to the data storage drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Bianca Nagy, Frank Charles Paterra, Christopher Strickland Beall, Darin Lee Frink
  • Patent number: 10408442
    Abstract: A housing for a light fixture includes at least one wall that forms a cavity and a light source housing portion, where the at least one wall includes a thermally-conductive material, where the light source housing portion is configured to receive at least one light source. The housing can also include a wireway disposed between the cavity and the light source housing portion. The housing can further include multiple heat sink fins that extend from an outer surface of the at least one wall. The housing can also include at least one air throughway that exposes at least a portion of the wireway between the at least one wall and the light source housing portion, where the at least one air throughway allows air to pass over the portion of the wireway, where the at least one air throughway is formed independent of the heat sink fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: COOPER TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Daniel Robert Treible, Jr., Joseph Michael Manahan, Andrew Francis Scarlata, Adam Douglas Ledgerwood, Matthew Thomas Pernot, Kyle Patrick Desrosiers, Mevzad Ljuca
  • Patent number: 10396504
    Abstract: A plug connection assembly includes a wall with a wall bushing and a plug connection which penetrates the wall bushing. The plug connection includes a first plug connector on one side of the wall and a second plug connector connected with the first plug connector on a second side of the wall by plugging the first and second connectors together. The second plug connector is arranged on a printed circuit board and the first plug connector includes a shield support in the form of a shielding plate. The shield support is held in contact with the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sichmann, Matthias Krug
  • Patent number: 10367297
    Abstract: An integrated securing guide pin is configured to guide and securely connect an electrical connector assembly with respect to an electrical component device. The integrated securing guide pin includes a guiding member configured to guide the integrated securing guide pin into a receiving channel of a guiding connection module, and a securing member configured to securely connect to a securing surface of the guiding connection module. The securing member may be spaced from the guiding member and may be closer to an engagement head than the guiding member. The securing member may be positioned back from the distal tip at least a quarter of a length of the integrated securing guide pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jared Evan Rossman
  • Patent number: 10340721
    Abstract: A wireless charging device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a power signal for wireless charging, a circuit board including at least one component configured to control an operation of the transmitter, a shielding plate configured to block an electrical interference between the transmitter and the circuit board, and a connector configured to penetrate through the circuit board and the shielding plate so as to electrically connect the transmitter with the at least one component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Young Kil Song
  • Patent number: 10320170
    Abstract: An electrical connection structure includes a partition member provided with an opening, a casing, a plurality of connection members, and a mold. The partition member divides an inside of the casing into a first space and a second space. The plurality of connection members electrically connect a first electric circuit accommodated in the first space to a second electric circuit accommodated in the second space. The mold blocks the opening which penetrates the partition member. The partition member includes a first surface facing the first space, and a second surface that is reverse to the first surface and faces the second space. The plurality of connection members extend from the second space to the first space via the mold. A periphery of the surface of the mold that faces the second surface is in close contact with the second surface via a waterproof sealing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Anri Hara, Akira Inoue
  • Patent number: 10276987
    Abstract: A shielded connector structure includes a shielded wire for connecting a device, a shielded connector, and a metal member provided on the device. The shielded connector includes a terminal fitting, a shield terminal, a housing, and a bolt for fixing the housing to the metal member. The metal member includes a circular insertion hole and a female screw portion. The circular insertion hole includes an inner circumferential projected portion and a cutout portion that divides a part of the inner circumferential projected portion. The housing includes a cylindrical housing main body and a fixing flange portion. The housing main body includes a main body insertion portion inserted into the circular insertion hole and a projection portion which protrudes from an outer circumferential surface of the main body insertion portion in conformity with a position of the inner circumferential projected portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Miyazawa, Kenichi Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10270238
    Abstract: A sealing boot for protecting an electrical interconnection includes: a main body having a cavity configured to house an interconnection of two electrical connectors; and a neck merging with one end of the main body and having a cylindrical inner surface that defines a bore that is continuous with the cavity of the main body, the inner surface having an inner diameter that is less than an inner diameter of the cavity of the main body. The inner surface of the neck includes a helical projection comprising a main artery and two tributaries, the tributaries each intersecting a section of the main artery at one end and merging with an end of the main artery at an opposite end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Ronald A. Vaccaro
  • Patent number: 10270212
    Abstract: A shield structure includes a shield member which is formed into a hollow tubular shape and a shield shell to which a leading end in the longitudinal direction of the shield member is attached. In the shield structure, the shield shell has a plate-like shell main body through which a through hole is bored, and a plurality of shell tightening pieces which are extended from an outer edge of the shell main body, the shell main body is so arranged that the leading end in the longitudinal direction of the shield member surrounds the through hole, and the leading end in the longitudinal direction of the shield member is clamped by the shell main body and the shell tightening pieces which are bent to the shell main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Ohkubo, Miki Nakamura, Takeshi Innan
  • Patent number: 10256718
    Abstract: The switching performance of a half-bridge arrangement particularly for a converter shall be improved. For this purpose, a half-bridge arrangement has a circuit board having at least four trace layers and two switching elements and a capacitor device arranged on opposite sides of the circuit board and interconnected so as to produce, during a commutation event of the half-bridge arrangement, at least two dipoles having opposite spatial directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Fürst, Marvin Tannhäuser
  • Patent number: 10249981
    Abstract: This invention relates to a high-speed signal transmission connector with high water resistance, which includes at least a casing and a terminal block. A first seal ring is provided on said casing, a second seal ring is set between said casing and said terminal block and a third seal ring is mounted inside said terminal block. So that the second seal ring and the third seal ring of the present invention enable the connector to have an internal waterproof function, and the first seal ring also enable the connector to have a waterproof connection function. With this triple-waterproof technology, the present invention ensures that the external moisture will not infiltrate into the connector and enhances the water resistance and safety of the high-speed signal transmission connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: AIMMET INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsiang Feng Chen
  • Patent number: 10236113
    Abstract: A device includes a printed circuit board (PCB). The device may also include a high voltage coil disposed on the PCB and a low voltage coil disposed on the PCB. Further, a conductive shield forms a three-dimensional enclosure around the high voltage coil and confines an electric field generated by the device to the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Alan Carroll Lovell, Mark Eugene Shepard, Andrew David McArthur, Qin Chen, Todd David Greenleaf
  • Patent number: 10236639
    Abstract: An attachment structure for directly attaching a shield connector to an opening formed in a metal casing is provided. A shield connector for directly mounting on a device is attached to an opening formed in a metal casing. A connector housing is fastened to the casing with bolts from outside the casing. The opening of the metal casing has a diameter-enlarged portion formed in an end portion of the opening in an outside direction of the casing to be enlarged toward the outside direction. The shield shell has a contact piece at an end portion of the shield shell, and the contact piece is housed in and contacts with the diameter-enlarged portion in a state that the shield connector is attached to the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noboru Hayasaka, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroaki Ono, Toru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10199779
    Abstract: A shield connector (1) includes wires (W) extending out from a housing (8) through a tube (11). A braided wire (12) surrounds the wires (W). An end part of the braided wire (12) on the side of a housing body is mounted on the tube (11). A rubber boot (13) covers the tube (11) and parts of the wires (W) extending out from the tube (11) from above the braided wire (12), and a shield shell (17) covers the housing body (9) and part of the boot (13) covers the tube (11). The rubber boot (13) is fixed to the shield shell (17). An end part of the braided wire (12) on the side of the housing body (9) extends out from an opening of the rubber boot (13) on the side of the housing body (9) and is sandwiched between the rubber boot (13) and the shield shell (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyokazu Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 10101825
    Abstract: An earphone plug able to be utilized as a touch stylus comprises a column base, a conductive portion, a conductive tip, and a conductive core. A grip ring connects to the column base. The conductive core and conductive wires are received in the earphone plug. The conductive core connects to the conductive tip. The wires connect with the conductive core and the grip ring. When a user holds the conductive tip and makes the earphone plug contact a capacitive touch panel, a current from user's body in the position where the earphone plug makes contact changes the capacitive touch panel to record a touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yu Fang
  • Patent number: 10093365
    Abstract: A work vehicle includes an antenna which executes communication with an external portion and a communication terminal device which is electrically connected to the antenna. The antenna and the communication terminal device are arranged within a dash board which is provided in a rising manner so as to bury a steering column where a control steering wheel is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Akimichi Iwata
  • Patent number: 10090661
    Abstract: A sealing boot for protecting an electrical interconnection includes: a main body having a cavity configured to house an interconnection of two electrical connectors; and a neck merging with one end of the main body and having a cylindrical inner surface that defines a bore that is continuous with the cavity of the main body, the inner surface having an inner diameter that is less than an inner diameter of the cavity of the main body. The inner surface of the neck includes a helical projection comprising a main artery and two tributaries, the tributaries each intersecting a section of the main artery at one end and merging with an end of the main artery at an opposite end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Ronald A. Vaccaro
  • Patent number: 10074934
    Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a first connector and a second connector. One of the first connector and the second connector is a cable connector which is configured to be connected with a cable. The first connector comprises a plurality of first engagement portions. The second connector comprises at least one support portion and at least one second engagement portion. under a mated state where the first connector and the second connector are mated with each other, the first engagement portions are divided into to a first group and a second group and each of the at least one second engagement portion faces one of the first engagement portion(s) of the first group in a front-rear direction while each of the first engagement portion(s) of the second group does not face any of the at least one second engagement portion in the front-rear direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Osamu Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 10069237
    Abstract: In the case of a connector comprising two plug parts that can be plugged into one another with front housing parts adapted to one another (100, 200) as well as electrical contact elements (120, 220) adapted to one another, wherein the two front housing parts (100, 200) in the plugged together state overlap on regions facing one another (225), provision is made in particular that the two front housing parts (100, 200) outwardly seal the plug connection resulting from plugging the two plug parts together by means of a sealing lip (125) arranged on the one front housing part (100) as well as by means of an annular groove (230) arranged on the respective other front housing part (200), which is surrounded inwardly by annular rotary sealing surfaces (235, 235?) and surrounded outwardly by an annular rotary collar (225).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ERNI Production GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Juergen Lappoehn
  • Patent number: 10045468
    Abstract: A shield structure including a metallic plate that is disposed between the first electronic component and the second electronic component; a first side wall that encloses at least a portion of the first electronic component, and includes a first portion that is formed by a portion that extends from the peripheral edge of the metallic plate and is formed by being bent in the first direction; and a second side wall that encloses at least a portion the second electronic component, and includes a second portion that is formed by a portion that extends from the peripheral edge of the metallic plate and is formed by being bent in the second direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyun-Min Seo, Jun-Taek Oh, Jin-Woo Kim, So-Young Lee
  • Patent number: 10043762
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor elements including a power semiconductor element, a lead frame including one main surface on which the plurality of semiconductor elements are mounted, a resin that seals the plurality of semiconductor elements and a part of the lead frame where the plurality of semiconductor elements are mounted, and at least one shield member disposed above the plurality of semiconductor elements on a side of the one main surface of the lead frame. The shield member is held by the resin, and the shield member has a higher magnetic permeability or a higher electrical conductivity than the resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Toshiya Tadakuma, Toma Takao
  • Patent number: 9960559
    Abstract: A rotary connector device for making a plurality of electrical connections in a mating arrangement between two components includes a male component with a large diameter end part transitioning to a slope-stepped part having a surface defined by outer sidewalls of alternating male conducting rings and male insulating rings and a female component having a central bore configured to retain a series of alternating female conductor rings and insulating rings. Each of the male conducting rings is connectable to an electrical line and each of the female conducting rings is connectable to an electrical line. Each of the female conducting rings makes direct or indirect conductive contact with a corresponding male conducting ring of the male conducting rings when the mating arrangement is made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: EXTENSIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES PARTNERSHIP
    Inventors: F. Dale Pratt, Kenneth A. Lambe
  • Patent number: 9953683
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing gaskets is described herein that includes cutting at least one hole in a first material, wherein the at least one hole corresponds to a first geometric shape. The method can also include wrapping the first material in a conductive material to produce a conductive material wrapped gasket. Additionally, the method can include producing a die-cut gasket by cutting a pattern from the conductive material wrapped gasket, the pattern to be cut from portions of the conductive material wrapped gasket corresponding to the at least one hole, wherein the pattern is to be based on a second geometric shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: David B. Johnson
  • Patent number: 9837361
    Abstract: A semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip having an active surface and a non-active surface opposite to the active surface, a ground member disposed on the active surface of the semiconductor chip, and an electromagnetic shielding member passing through the semiconductor chip, electrically connected to the ground member, and covering at least some regions of the non-active surface of the semiconductor chip may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byoung-rim Seo, Woon-bae Kim, Young-doo Jung
  • Patent number: 9829657
    Abstract: A connector is provided the connector including a plug selectively coupled to a transceiver including a socket, a coupling pan coupled to the socket when the plug is coupled to the transceiver, a coupling release part accommodating the coupling part and selectively releasing the coupling part from the socket, and a both ends-opened cylindrical outer housing accommodating therein the plug, the coupling part and the coupling release part and inwardly formed at one end with a bending part to allow the bending part to selectively apply a pressure to the coupling release part. The present disclosure is configured in a manner such that engagement (coupling) or disengagement (decoupling) of coupling can be possible by a simple manipulation of pushing or pulling of a connector by mounting a coupling part and a coupling release part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: JT, Inc.
    Inventor: Sang Lo Lee
  • Patent number: 9780427
    Abstract: The invention provides a bandpass filter, comprising: a substrate with a plurality of dielectric layers; a plurality of resonators; and a plurality of ground layers each having one slot arranged on; wherein the plurality of resonators are arrayed vertically each on respective one of the plurality of dielectric layers alternately without any of offsets, and each of the plurality of ground layers is between adjacent dielectric layers. Adjacent slots are arranged in opposite sides of the ground layers. The invention also provides a method of fabricating the bandpass filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON
    Inventors: Bo Zhou, Junyou Chen, Kun Liu
  • Patent number: 9761995
    Abstract: A plug connector mateable with the receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing enclosed in a metallic shell, defining a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue, and equipped with a plurality of contacts on opposite sides in the vertical direction. A latch forms a pair of locking heads extending into two opposite lateral sides of the receiving cavity to lock with a shielding plate embedded within a mating tongue of the complementary receptacle connector during mating. The plug connector is equipped with a pair of locking screws symmetrically located by two sides of the metallic shell and aligned with the pair of locking heads in the transverse direction, and the receptacle connector is equipped with a pair of screw holes to receive the pair of locking screws in a locked manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Wei-Hao Su
  • Patent number: 9709764
    Abstract: An adapter panel arrangement including a chassis and a panel of adapters. The adapters defining rearward cable connections and forward cable connections of the panel arrangement. Openings permitting access to the rearward and forward cable connections of the adapters are provided. The chassis further including a removable rear chassis portion to provide access to cable routing areas within the chassis interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Mark Smrha, Hutch Coburn, Chad James Sjodin