Of Cord Or Connector Patents (Class 379/438)
  • Patent number: 11685277
    Abstract: Electric vehicle charger for an electric vehicle and a method of use is presented in this disclosure. The charger includes a charging cable, a charging connector including an actuator, a cable reel, and a idler drum. The cable reel includes a helical pattern where the charging cable resides during the stowed configuration. The idler drum is parallel to the cable reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: BETA AIR, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Hall
  • Patent number: 11564860
    Abstract: A percussive therapy system includes a percussive therapy device that includes a housing, an electrical source, a motor positioned in the housing, a switch for activating the motor, a push rod assembly operatively connected to the motor and configured to reciprocate in response to activation of the motor, and an attachment configured to be operatively connected to a distal end of the push rod assembly of the percussive massage device and to provide at least one therapeutic effect to a user. The attachment may include at least one of an actuator configured to provide the at least one therapeutic effect to the user and a sensor configured to obtain at least one of biometric data of the user and information regarding operation of the percussive therapy device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Therabody, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Wersland, Benjamin Nazarian, Jaime Sanchez Solana, Eduardo Merino, Richard Tang
  • Patent number: 11011284
    Abstract: A data line convenient for storage includes a data line body (1); a plurality of magnetic rings (2) sleeve on the data line body (1); and a plurality of limit tube (3). Each limit tube (3) is arranged between each two adjacent magnetic rings (2). Two opposite ends of each limit tube (3) respectively abuts against the two adjacent magnetic rings (2). When the data line is coiled and stacked into a multiple-layer structure, the magnetic rings (2) located at two adjacent layers attract each other. The magnetic rings (2) at two adjacent layers can attract each other to fix the adjacent layers tightly for storage. The data line is simple in structure, each to use and properly designed to improve user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN POPEYE INCUBATION INC LIMITED
    Inventor: Hongxi Li
  • Patent number: 10998686
    Abstract: An electrical outlet assembly includes a sub-faceplate having a front surface and first set of contacts position on the front surface. An outer faceplate includes an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface having a second set of contacts. The outer faceplate is releasably connected to the sub-faceplate so that the first set of contacts connect to the second set of contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: John Brower
  • Patent number: 10998667
    Abstract: A rotatable electric plug includes a plug housing including a sleeve body, a plug module including a mounting body and at least a protruding pin, and a limiting assembly coupled to the sleeve body and the mounting body. The mounting body is rotatably coupled in the sleeve body that a rotational movement of the mounting body is reversible. The mounting body has a first side and an opposed second side that a portion of the protruding pin is extended from the first side of the mounting body. The limiting assembly is arranged to block the plug module from rotating infinitely at the plug housing in one direction. The rotatable electric plug has the advantages of enabling the reversibly rotational movement of the plug module, enhancing the rotational movement of the plug module, retaining the plug module at an angular angle, and preventing the plug module from being infinitely rotated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Inventors: Lin Yang, Hai Yang
  • Patent number: 10923852
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a female connecting member, a male connecting member, an adapter, a mobile terminal, and an electronic equipment. The female connecting member has a first end face. The first end face has a first groove. The first groove is defined by a first side face and a first bottom face encompassed by the first side face. The first side face is provided with N conductive rings along a depth direction of the first groove, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Maozhao Huang, Zimei Yang
  • Patent number: 10494220
    Abstract: An Easy Coil configuration is designed to facilitate handling of extension cords or other electrical cables. The coil configuration includes multiple sections, wherein the first section is flexible and includes a different color stripe to show the top of the coil, the second section is stiffened, the third section is flexible with weight added to the bottom of the section, and the fourth section is stiffened. Colored stripes are provided along the length of the coil to show when it is twisted. For other electrical cables such as those used in the music industry, textural variations instead of colored stripes may be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Inventor: Bret Daniel Hydrick
  • Patent number: 10076655
    Abstract: A vestibular stimulation system and method that includes a housing, a power supply disposed in the housing, an electrode assembly adapted to be coupled to the housing, and a controller disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the power supply. The controller controls the delivery of energy from the power supply to the electrode assembly. An input element is also disposed on an exterior surface of the housing. The input element is manually manipulated to control the operation of the vestibular stimulation system. A display disposed on an exterior surface of the housing provides visual information regarding the operation of the vestibular stimulation system. A mounting assembly is coupled to the housing to mount the housing on such a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Zachary D. Paul, Stefanie Lattner, Benjamin A. Giovannelli, Michael E. Colbaugh, Todd Kirby, Kevin Wells, William H. Broadley, Al Vangura, Michael Cessna
  • Patent number: 9601876
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for electrically connecting to a chip module, includes a first metal casing having a first accommodating cavity, a first electrical connecting base received in the first accommodating cavity, a second metal casing having a second accommodating cavity, and a second electrical connecting base received in the second accommodating cavity. The second metal casing includes a fixing portion fixed to an outer surface of the first metal casing, and the second metal casing is fixed onto a circuit board. The first and second electrical connecting bases mate with first and second mating plugs. The first and second mating plugs are configured to transmit signals of different specifications. It is convenient to separate or combine the first electrical connecting base and the second connecting base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xiao Di Jiang, Da Ling Fang
  • Patent number: 9077756
    Abstract: Access to a mobile computing device by a connected external device is limited, based on the context of the connection. The connection of the mobile computing device to an external device is detected. An identifier of the connected external device is gleaned, and the gleaned identifier is looked-up in a database of mappings between identifiers and descriptions of specific devices. The connected external device is classified as being of a specific functional category, based on the gleaned identifier and the description of the external device from the database. The functional category describes a legitimate function to be performed by the connected external device, such as data synchronizing, media playing or battery charging. The external device is provided with a level of access to the mobile computing device based on the classified functional category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Symantec Corporation
    Inventor: Kelly FitzGerald
  • Patent number: 8811605
    Abstract: A kit for providing intelligence capability to a communications frame includes: a housing adapted to be attached to a communications frame, the housing having a body portion and pairs of lower, middle and upper legs extending from opposite sides of the body portion; a cover adapted to be attached to the housing, the cover having a central body and pairs of lower, middle and upper legs extending from opposite sides of the central body; and a PCB having a body section and pairs of lower, middle and upper legs extending from opposite sides of the body section, the PCB being adapted for attachment to the housing and cover, with the body section being sandwiched between the body portion and the central body, the PCB lower legs being sandwiched between the cover lower legs and the housing lower legs, the PCB middle legs being sandwiched between the cover middle legs and the housing middle legs, and the PCB upper legs being sandwiched between the cover upper legs and the housing upper legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Rong H Hou, Matt Kiener
  • Patent number: 8433054
    Abstract: A telecommunications equipment mounting assembly is disclosed herein. The assembly includes a housing adapted for holding telecommunications equipment such as an optical-to-electrical and electrical-to-optical converter modules. The telecommunications equipment mounting assembly also includes an adapter plate removably connected to the housing. The adapted plate includes structure for managing both fiber optic and copper cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven W. Skradde, Robin L. Berg, Jr., Timothy J. Kjolsing
  • Patent number: 8204541
    Abstract: A holding base for removably holding an electronic device has a holding base body, a signal terminal provided in the holding base body, and connected to the electronic device in a holding position in which the electronic device is held, and a first connector attached to a surface of a printed circuit board, connected to the signal terminal, and connected to another electronic device. The printed circuit board is held by a bottom of the holding base body with the first connector held underneath the printed circuit board, such that a connecting port of the first connector faces a back side of the holding base body, and with an end edge of a front side of the holding base body positioned lower than an end edge of the back side thereof by an offset amount. The offset amount is set to be less than a thickness of the first connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Michihiro Fujii, Shinichi Ohgame, Kazunori Katou
  • Patent number: 8116434
    Abstract: A telecommunications patching system includes a patch panel comprising a plurality of connector ports and a plurality of patch cords configured to selectively interconnect pairs of the connector ports. Each patch cord has opposite ends and a respective connector secured to each end that is configured to be removably secured within a connector port. The connectors of a respective patch cord have the same unique identifier associated therewith. A first sensor is located at each connector port and detects when a patch cord connector is inserted within, and removed from, a respective connector port. A second sensor is located at each connector port and reads the identifier of a patch cord connector inserted within a respective connector port. The first and second sensors are in communication with a controller that monitors and logs patch cord interconnections with the connector ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Michael G. German, Golam M. Choudhury, Daniel W. Macauley, Danny L. Satterthwaite, Peter T. Tucker
  • Patent number: 8094859
    Abstract: An earphone antenna device operable to be connected with a wireless communication terminal device includes: earphone cables, connected with earphone sections, respectively, for supplying audio signals; an audio cable one end of which is connected with the wireless communication terminal device and the other end is connected with the earphone cables; and a coaxial cable one end of which is connected with the wireless communication terminal device and the other end is connected with a pair of string-shaped antenna elements integrated with the earphone cables. The earphone cables are insulated from the antenna elements and the audio cable is insulated from the coaxial cable. This provides a dipole antenna device and an earphone antenna device hardly influenced by noises from the wireless communication terminal device and noises transmitted via the audio cable. Further, a wireless communication terminal device to be connected with the antenna devices is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Eiji Suematsu, Miyoshi Yamauchi, Motofumi Yamaguchi, Mitsuhiro Noboru
  • Patent number: 8059852
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing, a printed circuit board mounted within the housing, an earphone and a cable storing compartment. The earphone includes a connecting cable and a head member. One end of the connecting cable is connected to the printed circuit board, the other end is connected to the head member. The cable storing compartment includes a recessed portion and an earphone compartment. The recessed portion is defined in a peripheral wall of the housing. The earphone compartment is defined in the peripheral wall and adjacent to the recessed portion. The recessed portion receives the connecting cable. The earphone compartment receives the head member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Che-Hsiung Cheng
  • Patent number: 8033873
    Abstract: A system for locating corresponding ends of a communications or data patch cable used to conduct a signal between computing or telecommunications devices. The invention provides a physical indication of the location of an opposite end of a given patch cable when a switching means on the first end of the same cable is activated. The invention utilizes an existing pair of wires in category-type cables to send a DC voltage when activated to illuminate a light emitting diode in the opposite end of a patch cable thereby providing an immediate indication of the location of the termination of the opposite end of a patch cable making it possible to visually identify a cable without removing the cable from service or from connection of the modular plugs on either end of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Link Light Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: William D. Ankerstjerne
  • Patent number: 8005208
    Abstract: The invention discloses a sealing assembly (40) includes a first sealing member (41) and a second sealing member (46) tightly cooperating with the first sealing member (41). The first sealing member (41) has a first assembling side surface (411), and the second sealing member (46) has a second assembling surface (461) facing the first assembling side surface (411). The first assembling side surface (411) and the second assembling side surface (461) form an assembly hole (43) there between. The invention also provides a sliding cover mechanism (100) using the sealing assembly (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventors: Ye Liu, Hsiao-Hua Tu, Xin-Quan Zhou, Xu-Ri Zhang
  • Patent number: 7925309
    Abstract: A portable electronic device (1) comprising a first portion (3, 53) including at least one output device (2) for rendering output data and a second portion (4, 54) comprising at least two input devices (10, 11, 20, 30, 40) for manually inputting data into the portable electronic device. The second portion is rotatably connected to the first portion. The output device is directed in the same direction as a first input device when the second portion is positioned in a first position, and in the same direction as another input device when the second portion is positioned in a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
    Inventor: Marcus Söderlund
  • Patent number: 7382774
    Abstract: A bankover connector is disclosed for enabling maximized readable signal output from a trunk line comprising a number of grouped trunk line conductors, each line conductor grouping carrying a select readable signal. The bankover connector comprises a trunk line interface, a machine interface means, and a number of bankover conductors at least equal to the number of trunk line conductors. The machine interface comprises a number of machine ports and the bankover conductors extend intermediate the trunk line interface and the machine ports. The machine ports are electrically communicable with a number of signal-reading machines. The select readable signals are thus electrically communicable with the trunk line interface, the bankover conductors, the machine ports, and the signal-reading machines. The bankover connector thus enables maximized readable signal output from the trunk line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Inventor: Anthony R. Falco
  • Patent number: 7362858
    Abstract: A data communication device comprises a data input cable, a data output cable, and a selective connector. The data input cable has a first plurality of data lines arranged in a first order. The data output cable has a second plurality of data lines arranged in a second order that differs from the first order. The selective connector is configured to transmit a plurality of signals carried by the plurality of data lines in the data input cable to corresponding data lines of the data output cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: TeleMatrix, Inc.
    Inventor: Dale T. Pelletier
  • Patent number: 7177420
    Abstract: A hand carriable container for a portable personal audio device of the type which is normally listened to with earphones. The container includes: structure for holding the portable personal audio device; a device, separate from the personal audio device, for amplifying sound from said personal audio device; a source of power separate from the personal audio device, for the amplifying mechanism; a pair of speakers; and wiring for electrically connecting the personal audio device, the speakers, and the power supply to the amplifying mechanism. The speakers are mounted in compartments which are detachable and remotely positionable from the main portion of the container. The main portion of the container includes structure for storing pre-recorded audio material. The wires to the speaker are supported by a take-up reel supported in the main portion of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Inventor: James M. Carter
  • Patent number: 7123716
    Abstract: A retainer that is attachable to a set of interfacing cables prevents physical separation of the cables while allowing electrical disconnection of the cables. The retainer uses a body member with a hinged end cap on each end. The end caps include a snap pin and the ends of the body include receiving voids for the snap pins. The end caps can be locked into place by rotating around the hinged attachment until the snap pins engage the receiving voids. Either one or both of the end cap and elongated body have notches that form restraining voids when the end caps are locked in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: GN Netcom Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Jozitis, Joe Feni
  • Patent number: 7099706
    Abstract: The hands-free car kit allows a mobile handset to enter and exit privacy mode without the user having to press a privacy button. The simple act of picking up the mobile handset out of its cradle switches the hands-free car kit from hands-free mode to privacy mode. When the mobile handset is installed in the cradle the hands-free car kit enters hands-free mode. If the mobile handset is removed from the cradle the hands-free car kit enters privacy mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Kyocera Wireless Corp.
    Inventors: Andrew Glenn Lejman, John Steven
  • Patent number: 7082195
    Abstract: A telephone device for transmission of optical signals comprising two optically conductive bodies movably layered and flexibly arranged on top of one another as to form a bus system, such that an optical signal input at one interface can be coupled at any other interface regardless of the position thereof. Accordingly, a faultless transmission of optical signals is assured to a great extent. Furthermore, since components of a telephone set using this flexible bus systems are no loner in electrical contact, the wear problems associated with electrical contacts are eliminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Werner Krüger
  • Patent number: 7054442
    Abstract: An adapter for connection to telephone lines to provide a filter for DSL connections to the telephone lines has pivoting latches that will engage existing studs on a wall mounted jack plate. The housing has a circuit board with a connector that will plug into the telephone jack on the wall mounted jack plate, and has outlet jacks for connection to remote equipment. The latches pivot between a released position wherein they clear the existing studs so that the housing can be placed against the existing wall mounted jack plate, and a latched position where the latches are held in place on the studs and the housing is supported on the existing jack plate. Studs provided on the housing replicate the position of the studs on the existing jack plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Communication System, Inc.
    Inventor: Owen B. Weikle
  • Patent number: 7035402
    Abstract: A portable communication unit is provided that permits a cord to be received and stored easily, while preventing undesired unwinding of the cord. Even when the communication unit is carried and stored together with a magnetic card containing data, a magnetic-side socket of a magnetic connector mounted at a front end of the cord is unlikely to influence the data on the magnetic card. The portable communication unit includes electric circuits having a predetermined communication function, a receptacle case holding the electrical circuits, a cord connected at one end thereof to the electric circuits and extending to the exterior of the receptacle case, and a magnetic-side socket of a magnetic connector provided at a front end of the cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hajime Tabata, Yukio Miyamaru
  • Patent number: 7027596
    Abstract: There is provided, in combination, male and female cooperating teledapt connectors located in a recess with respect to a mounting surface so as to minimize electrostatic discharge between an operator's hand and the connectors, wherein the male connector has a main body from which a tongue projects, and the female connector defines a groove in which the tongue is adapted to lie. The tongue has shoulders which, when the connectors are put together, come into contact with abutments formed in the female connector, such contact preventing release of the connectors until pressure is exerted to move the tongue toward the main body and thus to break contact between the shoulders and the abutments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Mitel Networks Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Mathieson Craig
  • Patent number: 7013008
    Abstract: A device and method for interconnecting the wires of a monitored alarm system into a telephone network interface without disturbing preexisting telephone line connections. The device is a connector assembly that is adapted to engage one of the connector modules present in a telephone network interface. The connector assembly electrically interconnects to a telecommunications pathway that passes through the telephone network interface. The connector assembly contains a wire connector that receives wires from the monitored alarm system. By connecting the alarm system wires to the connector assembly and connecting the connector assembly to the telephone network interface, the monitored alarm system is connected to external telephone lines without requiring existing telephone wire connections to be compromised.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Inventors: Steven J. Rachlin, Brian E. Rachlin
  • Patent number: 6990355
    Abstract: A flexible printed circuit board has first and second connection portions 18 and 19 where contacts are exposed and first and second path portions 16 and 17 where conductor patterns 11 are arranged that connect the contacts 11a and 11b of the first and second connection portions 18 and 19 together. The first and second path portions 16 and 17 are formed so as to have substantially symmetrical shapes with each other about a predetermined straight line, and the flexible printed circuit board is folded up along the straight line C1 and C2. Alternatively, a flexible printed circuit board has a conductor pattern 11 formed between first and second insulating sheets 12 and 13, and has a shielding conductor 14 fixed to the second insulating sheet 13. The flexible printed circuit board is folded up with the second insulating sheet 13 outside so that the conductor pattern 11 is enclosed inside the shielding conductor 14.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignees: Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Tottori Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Ueyama, Jiro Osaki
  • Patent number: 6987852
    Abstract: A modular jack (31) comprises a housing (32) and a foolproof mechanism (34) including a pair of spring members (42) cantilevered to the housing (32), and an abutment section (43) provided at the front end of each spring member (42). Each abutment section (43) consists of a cam portion (45) having an inclined face (47) and a stopper portion (44) provided behind and inside the cam portion (45). When a modular plug (2) having a predetermined number of poles is inserted into the modular jack (31), the front ends of the modular plug (2) abut the inclined faces (47) of the cam portions (45) to move the abutment sections (43) outwardly, permitting insertion of the modular plug (2). When a modular plug (2?) having a number of poles that is smaller than the predetermined number is inserted, the front ends of the modular plug (2?) abut against the stopper portions (44) to block insertion of the modular plug (2?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiko Kameya, Hideo Miwa, Akio Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6971897
    Abstract: An improved gel-protected registered telephone jack includes a cavity in a housing, and a rear opening to the cavity that permits positioning an insert that connects permanent telephone wires to spring connectors. A front opening receives a plug to make contact between wires in the plug and the spring connectors, and a gel on the spring connectors prevents corrosion of the connectors. Guides for the insert are mounted lower in the rear opening than is conventional and the housing adjacent the rear opening extends rearwardly more than is conventional, so the positioned insert is lower and more rearward than is conventional. A retainer binds the insert to the housing and thereby limits fore-and-aft translational movement of the insert within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Roger L. Beavers, Victor L. Wright
  • Patent number: 6965671
    Abstract: An electric plug for use in a mobile telephone to connect an electronic component to a circuit board is disclosed to include a plug body and two terminals fastened to a respective terminal slot in the plug body and connected to a respective electric wire in a respective wire hole in the plug body, each terminal slot having a broad bottom positioning section, a narrow top engagement section, a middle section connected between the bottom positioning section and the top engagement section, the middle section having a diameter smaller than the bottom positioning section but greater than the top engagement section, and a sloping guide section connected between the middle section and the top engagement section and sloping upwardly inwards from the middle section toward the top engagement section, the terminals each having a mounting base fitting the contour of the corresponding terminal slot and two hooked positioning portions forced into engagement with the peripheral wall of the bottom positioning section of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Inventors: Wan-Pei Kao, Su-Pei Yang
  • Patent number: 6957090
    Abstract: The hands-free car kit allows a mobile handset to enter and exit privacy mode without the user having to press a privacy button. The simple act of picking up the mobile handset out of its cradle switches the hands-free car kit from hands-free mode to privacy mode. When the mobile handset is installed in the cradle the hands-free car kit enters hands-free mode. If the mobile handset is removed from the cradle the hands-free car kit enters privacy mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Kyocera Wireless Corp.
    Inventors: Andrew Glenn Lejman, John Steven
  • Patent number: 6937725
    Abstract: An improved short wire length wire-winding box includes a rotary disk driven by a spiral reed and pivotally installed in a casing having a receiving groove. The communication wire is at first wound around a pivotal shaft (inner circle) for several turns, and then is placed in the rotary disk. The rotary disk is rotated so that the communication wire is wound around a second ring (outer circle) in the same direction. When the communication wire is directly pulled out from the wire-winding box, the communication wire wound around the pivotal shaft will be pulled more and more tightly so that the communication wire wound around the pivotal shaft will not disperse for avoiding the situation that part of the communication wire can not be rewound. Moreover, the communication wire wound around the pivotal shaft can be tightly positioned thereon without any positioning device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Inventor: Sheng Hsin Liao
  • Patent number: 6928310
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying power to a mobile phone by utilizing an external power source when a battery of the mobile phone has been exhausted. In a mobile phone having an earphone-microphone connector which can be connected with an earphone-microphone set, the earphone-microphone connector has additional contacts through which external power can be supplied to the mobile phone from an external power source, especially from another mobile phone. Therefore, even when the battery of the mobile phone has been exhausted, a user can make communication through the mobile phone by utilizing external electric power in a simple and easy manner, without largely changing the existing construction of the mobile phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Dong-Joon Lee
  • Patent number: 6907122
    Abstract: A rotational split adaptor for engaging with gold-plated contacts of a communication socket is introduced to comprise a common plug, a socket assembly and a rotational joint. The common plug further includes a plug end for engaging with the communication socket and an opposing first oblique surface. The socket assembly further includes a splitter and an opposing second oblique surface. The splitter has a plurality of parallel sockets electrically coupling with the communication socket, and the second oblique surface is used to pair with the first oblique surface. The rotational joint is constructed to pair the first oblique surface and the second oblique surface so as to provide angular sliding in between and thus to alter angling between the socket assemble and the common plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Primax Electronics Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi-Te Chiang, Hsueh-Lan Lin
  • Patent number: 6904149
    Abstract: A housing for a distributed filter removably mounts to a wall plate between the wall plate and a wall-mount telephone without the use of a tool. The housing includes a base and a cover attached to the base that together define a cavity. A filter circuit for filtering voice signals is disposed within the cavity. A phone jack and at least one auxiliary jack are also disposed in the cavity and accessible through the cover. In one embodiment, viewing windows are formed through the cover to permit an installer to view the mounting studs on the wall plate during installation. A slide lock is also provided to secure the housing to the wall plate. In another embodiment, a push-button lock is provided to secure the housing to the wall plate. The push-button is forced outwardly during installation when a mounting stud engages a slot formed in the base and is subsequently depressed to secure the housing to the wall plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Corning Cable Systems LLC
    Inventors: John A. Keenum, Brett A. Menke, Harley J. Staber
  • Patent number: 6845158
    Abstract: A computer includes a body having a PC card slot formed therein. A headphone module includes a carrier removably mounted in the slot. A retractor member is mounted on the carrier. A flexible cord is extendibly and retractably connected to the retractor member. The cord includes at least one headphone connected to a first cord end and a connector connected to a second cord end opposite the first end. A headphone receptacle is provided on the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Scott B. Koester, Charles D. Hood, III
  • Patent number: 6819763
    Abstract: An electronic device capable of securely attaching to a mobile phone includes a pair of first hooks and a pair of second hooks. The mobile phone has a first slot located on a bottom side of the mobile phone, and a pair of second slots respectively located on two sides of the mobile phone. The pair of first hooks and the pair of second hooks of the electronic device are capable of respectively inserting into the first slot and the pair of second slot of the mobile phone so as to securely attach the electronic device to the mobile phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corp.
    Inventors: Ming Wen, Su-Tane Yin
  • Publication number: 20040218757
    Abstract: Present invention relative to a structure of wrong insertion preventive RJ45 telecom jack that consists of components such as a telecom jack module, a plastic body, foolproof leaf springs, and a metal shelter. In light of the fact that a RJ12-6P plug is often inserted into a socket of the RJ45 jack installed in a communication or consumer product, the foolproof structure of RJ45 telecom jack is used in present invention to prevent the wrong insertion of the RJ12-6P plug and to ensure the proper connection of the RJ45-8P with the RJ45 telecom jack. In this way, it is possible to protect all communication and consumer products loaded with RJ45 telecom jacks. Consequently, consumers can use these products safely without concerning themselves with damaging the products by inserting the RJ12-6P plug improperly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventor: Chien Hsiang Teng
  • Publication number: 20040114755
    Abstract: A telephone cord having a digital transmission includes six lines and has two ends each provided with a connecting terminal which is formed with six insertion slots each mating with and connected to a corresponding one of the six lines for insertion of one of six metallic guide plates. When either one of the metallic guide plates is inserted into the respective insertion slot, the metallic guide plate is electrically connected to the respective line of the telephone cord. Thus, the telephone cord has double functions of telephone communication and digital network communication, so that the telephone cord combines the functions of the ordinary telephone cord and the ordinary network cord, thereby greatly enhancing the versatility of the telephone cord.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventor: Jonathan Li
  • Patent number: 6751317
    Abstract: A movable terminal and a coaxial connector have greatly improved durability and have outstanding contact/connection reliability, and are included in a communication apparatus. A coaxial connector includes a two-split synthetic resin case having a lower insulating case and an upper insulating case, a metal fixed terminal, a movable terminal, and an external terminal. The movable terminal having a spring movable function includes a movable contact portion with which the fixed terminal makes contact, a fixed portion fit in the upper and lower insulating cases, and a lead portion bent in an L-shape. The movable contact portion has a frame-shaped portion, a spring movable portion upwardly curved in an arcuate shape, and a contact portion provided at the approximate center of the spring movable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuo Shima, Chikara Uratani, Yuichi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 6738648
    Abstract: The mobile telephones comprise two main elements, namely a body (101) and a battery (103) the powers this body. The users of the mobile telephones may wish, through their mobile telephone, to have functions other than that of communicating with another person. These other functions (107-109) are then incorporated into the battery and a functional connector (120) is placed between the body and the battery. In order to keep a body that is as standard as possible, the functional connector is made detachable. The functional connector then sets up a connection between the contacts (116) of the body and contacts (111) of the battery. Thus the body is the same whatever the type of battery. Similarly, the cost of the telephone is henceforth bone only by those who have need of it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Sagem, S A
    Inventor: Bruno Delacourte
  • Patent number: 6735309
    Abstract: An anti-reversal end cap with tab to prevent improper stowage of a handset into its cradle. The end cap is formed by joining two members together to route a cable from an in-flight entertainment system to the handset. The end cap has a protruding tab which interferes with the cradle if the handset is improperly stowed. The end cap can be taken apart to free the cable from the handset such that the cable does not need to be re-terminated. The tab on the end cap has a generally wedged shape to prevent binding with the cradle and to ensure smooth ejection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins
    Inventors: Gregory R. Lemanski, David M. Whitmer, Joel D. Royer
  • Patent number: 6735308
    Abstract: A connector module (10) for installation on a small mobile telephone to enable the module to rest at a docking station where contacts mate to pass multiple medium to low frequency signals and power and to pass high frequency signals through a coaxial connection of high frequency signals as to an external antenna. The module includes a molded dielectric body (11) having a first body part (13) that holds the first contacts (17) for medium to low frequency signals and power, and having a second body part (14) that extends from a longitudinal end (98) of the first body part and that holds the coaxial contacts (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Manfred Illg, Martin Gollhofer, Dieter Clauss, Derek Andrews, Tobias Schimmele-Brell
  • Patent number: 6683952
    Abstract: A telephone headset adapter includes a deck with a top surface for supporting a telephone. The deck is placed underneath a telephone, and the weight of the telephone is applied on the deck and stabilizes the deck. The deck includes a primary or fixed deck portion and a movable deck portion. The movable deck portion is coupled to the fixed deck portion by an extension slide. The movable deck portion is movable along the extension slide to vary the width of the deck. Thus, the deck can support and accommodate telephone sets of various sizes and configurations. Routing channels are also formed within the top surface of the deck for receiving cords that are used with the telephone set, handset, headset and accessories, thereby minimizing cord tangling and clutter. An electronic housing is removably coupled to an end of the deck. The electronic housing contains adapter components for coupling the telephone to the headset or handset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Bernardi, Gerald W Skulley, Thomas A. Tedham, Jeffrey B Waffensmith
  • Patent number: 6654464
    Abstract: A connector for a double-sided, printed circuit board. The connector has a body defining a housing for accommodating a microphone module, first conductors equipped with an area for electrical connection to a complementary connector and with an area for contact with a track on the first face of the board, and second conductors connecting the microphone to the board. The body has a space for accommodating the board, where the space is defined between the electrical connection areas of the first and second conductors. Each contact area of the second conductors is in contact with the second face of the board. The microphone module is arranged, with respect to the space for accommodating the board, on the same side as the areas for making contact between the second conductors and the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Telecom Europe
    Inventors: Pascal Roussy, Stephane Michel, Yann Naslain, Jean-Marc Le Foulgoc, Mickael Rouxel
  • Patent number: RE40881
    Abstract: A rotational split adaptor for engaging with gold-plated contacts of a communication socket is introduced to comprise a common plug, a socket assembly and a rotational joint. The common plug further includes a plug end for engaging with the communication socket and an opposing first oblique surface. The socket assembly further includes a splitter and an opposing second oblique surface. The splitter has a plurality of parallel sockets electrically coupling with the communication socket, and the second oblique surface is used to pair with the first oblique surface. The rotational joint is constructed to pair the first oblique surface and the second oblique surface so as to provide angular sliding in between and thus to alter angling between the socket assemble and the common plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Inventors: Yi-Te Chiang, Hsueh-Lan Lin
  • Patent number: RE40959
    Abstract: A cable trough is provided including a bottom portion and two upstanding sides extending from the bottom portion to define a cable pathway. The upstanding sides define an enlarged central portion of the cable trough, and the bottom portion including at least one exit trough portion. The exit trough portion can be centrally located, with a bypass pathway on either side. At least one separator wall is provided to separate the exit trough portion from each bypass pathway. A component flange is also provided extending from one of the upstanding sides. The cable trough can also include a cable storage pathway. Alternatively, two exit trough portions can be positioned on opposite sides of the cable trough adjacent each upstanding side, and on opposite sides of a central bypass pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Jon Haataja, Thomas Walter Kampf, Wayne Albin Johnson, Gary F. Nault