Screw Coupling Part Engaged Or Disengaged Without Rotary Motion Patents (Class 439/253)
  • Patent number: 10581212
    Abstract: There is provided a light bulb socket comprising: a substantially cylindrical socket housing defining an open end for the insertion of a light bulb connector therein, the cylindrical socket housing defining a coaxial axis, the socket housing defining an inner comprising screw threading for screw-type engagement of a screw-type light bulb and opposing pair of bayonet channels, each bayonet channel comprising an insertion channel portion parallel to the coaxial axis and terminating in an perpendicular engagement channel for the inline insertion and twisting engagement of opposing bayonet pins of a bayonet-type bulb therein; a deflectable safety plate retained within the socket housing, the deflectable safety plate deflectable between a default position towards the open end of the socket housing and a deflected position away from the open end; and electrodes within the socket housing, the electrodes comprising: a central electrode; and a pair of lateral electrodes adjacent the central electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: SOUTHERN REAL ESTATE GROUP PTY LTD
    Inventor: David Harte
  • Patent number: 9865943
    Abstract: A coaxial cable connector having, in one embodiment, a connector body or body member, a coupling element and a continuity bridge portion. The connector body is configured to be attached to a post. The continuity bridge portion is configured to maintain an electrical connection between the coupling element and the connector body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventor: Noah P. Montena
  • Patent number: 9625655
    Abstract: An optical fiber socket for being connected to an optical fiber plug and a first optical fiber cable includes a socket sleeve unit, a socket shell having a surrounding wall that defines a connecting hole for insertion of the first optical fiber cable thereinto and for being engaged with the optical fiber plug, a plurality of spaced-apart receiving holes that extend radially through the surrounding wall and that communicate with the connecting hole, and a plurality of locking members that are movably and respectively disposed in the receiving holes, and a socket guiding unit. When the optical fiber socket is connected to the optical fiber plug, the locking members are urged to move toward and clamp the optical fiber plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Amphenol Fiber Optic Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ling-Hua Zhu, Song-Sheng Li, Xue-Wu Lei
  • Patent number: 9430062
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for operating a touchscreen device using a device having a rigid or semi-rigid body composed of an exterior side and a hollow interior side. The interior side is sized to receive and substantially surround at least a portion of a finger of a user. One or more contact points are provided on the exterior side of the body element, wherein each contact point when placed into contact with a touchscreen device provides an electrical charge to the touchscreen device making it able to manipulate at least one element on the touchscreen. In certain non-limiting aspects, the device takes the form of a shape, design, animal, humanoid, non-humanoid, object, character, or the like with the contact points being one or more aspects of or protrusions from the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: DIGIPUPPETS LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Green, Daniel Clay, Daphne Car
  • Patent number: 9004931
    Abstract: A coaxial interface port accessory and port comprises, in one embodiment, a conductor portion configured to: (i) electrically communicate with a grounding conductor of a coaxial cable connector, (ii) axially engage a working surface of the coaxial cable connector to couple the connector to a coaxial interface port, and (iii) rotationally disengage the working surface the threaded coupler of the coaxial cable connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: PPC Broadband, Inc.
    Inventor: Noah P. Montena
  • Publication number: 20130224978
    Abstract: A rolled terminal (50) for an electrical connector has a first portion (58) formed of a rolled sheet defining a bore for receiving an electrical wire, and a first aperture (62) in the wall of the first portion (58) for receiving a screw for clamping the wire between the screw and the wall of the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: ARK CORPORATION PTY LTD
    Inventor: Richard Arakelian
  • Publication number: 20120315778
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for removably fixing a conductor (10) to a current transformer housing (12), comprising a fixing element (16) which runs through a retaining element (14) lying on the current transformer housing (12) and which at least partly sits against the surface of the conductor (10) when the conductor (10) is fixed on the current transformer housing (12). According to the invention, the fixing element (16) is designed such that when the conductor (10) is brought from an unfixed state and fixed on the current transformer housing (12), the fixing element (16) carries out a translational movement within the retaining element (14) along the longitudinal axis (54) of said fixing element in the direction of the conductor (10) and subsequently a rotational movement about the longitudinal axis (54) of said fixing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Leifer, Carsten Thorner, Dat-Minh Trinh
  • Patent number: 8221161
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an adapter for use with a connector assembly. The adapter has a receptacle body and a locking sleeve. The receptacle body is applied to a first portion of the connector assembly, and the locking sleeve is applied to a second portion of the connector assembly. The locking sleeve can be easily disengaged from the receptacle body to remove the second portion or the connector assembly from the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Souriau USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Glenn Leibfried, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20120164862
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) for mating with a mating connector includes a housing (1) defining a receiving cavity (10), a rear insulator (32), a central pin (7), a front insulator (31) and a contact member (5) received in the receiving cavity. The contact member includes a first through fourth side walls (513a-513d) surrounding an inserting slot (514), a pair of resilient beams (515) respectively bent from the second and the fourth side walls toward the inserting slot for clasping the mating connector. The first side wall includes a first edge portion (511) having a first protrusion (519) and a first cutout (518) in front of the first protrusion, and a second edge portion (512) having a second protrusion (516) engaged with the first cutout and a second cutout (517) behind the second protrusion and engaged with the first protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: ZHENG-HUA XU, JIN-JIANG ZHANG
  • Patent number: 7895384
    Abstract: The present invention helps to develop a smaller sized portable terminal without reducing the functions available for the user. A USB device which is detachable from the portable terminal is provided with a USB connector which is inserted into a USB part of the portable terminal, a power source terminal which comes into contact with a power supply terminal of the portable terminal, when the USB connector is inserted into the USB port of the portable terminal, and a screw which is engaged with a screw hole of the portable terminal. When the screw is engaged with the screw hole of the portable terminal, a switch inside the screw hole is pushed down due to a contact with the screw. The portable terminal detects mounting of the USB device by an output from the switch, and initiates power supplying from the power supply terminal of the portable terminal to the power source terminal of the USB device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
    Inventor: Naoya Matsui
  • Patent number: 7684670
    Abstract: A wire accommodating apparatus includes a cylindrical portion around which a wire connected to a signal transmission part is wound; a number of wire holding portions which incline externally from the bottom of the cylindrical portion and are disposed pivotably; and a fixed portion formed in the cylindrical portion so as to project downward, passing through an attachment hole of a to-be-mounted member, and fixed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Kenji Tsutsumi, Manabu Wakao, Kouichi Kuramitsu
  • Patent number: 7618288
    Abstract: A socket for a light bulb having a socket housing to provide wired connection and an interior spring-clamp socket manufactured of a resilient material and having a notched separation extending longitudinally therethrough. The notch permits the deformation of the spring-clamp socket and expands when a light bulb is inserted and grasps it once therein. Removal of the bulb simply requires pulling the bulb straight out. Additionally the present invention is adaptable and replaceable for most existing lighting fixtures or applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Inventor: Frank DiFusco
  • Patent number: 7575459
    Abstract: A plug and socket connector arrangement for electrical or fiber optic cables includes a pair of tubular locking sleeves mounted for axial and rotational displacement on the plug and connector bodies, which locking sleeves have adjacent ends provided with internal and external screw threads, respectively. The adjacent sleeve ends each contain a plurality of circumferentially spaced longitudinal slits that define a plurality of resilient threaded sectors. After the plug and socket connectors are brought into connected engagement, the locking sleeves are successively displaced from retracted separated positions axially together toward an adjacent locked position, whereby the resilient inner sleeve sectors are initially radially expanded, and the resilient outer sleeve sectors are subsequently radially contracted. The inner and outer screw threads are thus brought into threaded engagement, whereupon the locking sleeves are slightly relatively rotated to lock the sleeves together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Weidmuller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Marcell Nickol
  • Patent number: 7413456
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical socket for a standard light bulb. The socket is configured to allow the bulb to be pushed into and pulled from the socket. The sockets are provided with spring members where the spring members have ridges thereon to engage the threaded end of the light bulb. The spring members are unevenly spaced about the circumference of the socket and the spring members are provided with an upper end that can move vertically away from the bottom of the socket. When a bulb is pushed into the socket, the force of the bulb on ridges on the spring members cause the spring members to elongate and allow the bulb to slide into the socket. When the bulb is pulled from the socket the spring members elongate allowing the bulb to slide from the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Inventor: Frank DiFusco
  • Patent number: 7364450
    Abstract: A plug-in connector has a plug member and a locking device for securing the plug member on a counterpart. The locking device has at least one locking element having a release position and a locking position, wherein in the release position the plug member is removable from the counterpart and wherein in the locking position the plug member and the counterpart are locked relative to one another. An actuating element acting on the locking device is provided for moving the at least one locking element from the release position into the locking position in a radial direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the plug member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Murr-Elektronik GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Hafner, Andreas Schuffenhauer, Friedemann Junghanns
  • Patent number: 7270561
    Abstract: A lamp arm fixing device of a junction box for a pendent lamp includes a lamp holder and a connection housing. When the connection housing is completely inserted in the lamp holder, the engaging plate of the lamp holder engages the positioning screw portion at one end of the connection housing whereby the connection housing is secured in the receiving hole of the lamp holder. The connection housing is defined with an open slot. A slide slot extends from an end of the open slot whereby when the connection housing is inserted in the lamp holder, the open slot is inserted in a direction facing the screw of the lamp holder and the screw extends through the open slot and is positioned in the slide slot. Thus, the female connector received in the connection housing is mated with the male connector received in the lamp holder in a proper direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Inventor: Jui-Chung Chiu
  • Patent number: 7238047
    Abstract: The invention concerns a coaxial connector plug and mating plug in which the connector plug has a connector housing that is open at the front end for plugging in the mating plug and contains a canal holding an insulated internal conductor contact, with a clamp sleeve and a sliding sleeve that can be moved axially to mechanically connect the connector housing with the mating plug, wherein the sliding sleeve surrounds the clamp sleeve in the operating position and exerts on it a force directed radially inward in the operating position, and wherein the clamp sleeve can be made to rest against the mating plug at a clamp surface, and wherein an outer conductor contact surface of the mating plug can be clamped axially against an outer conductor contact surface of the connector plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: IMS Connector Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Fred Saettele, Roland Baumgaertner
  • Patent number: 7189113
    Abstract: A connector includes a plug connector and a mating connector. The plug connector includes a housing with an open front end, an insulated inner conductor disposed within the housing, a clamping sleeve, and an axially movable sliding sleeve disposed radially outside the clamping sleeve. The sliding sleeve can be positioned in a working position where it surrounds the clamping sleeve and exerts a radially inward-directed force. The mating connector, which is receivable within the housing, includes a clamping surface. A force Fr introduced radially from the sliding sleeve toward the clamping sleeve when the sliding sleeve is in the working position, is redirected by the clamping sleeve into an axial force component Fa which is introduced from the clamping sleeve toward the clamping surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2007
    Assignee: IMS Connector Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Fred Sattele, Roland Baumgärtner
  • Patent number: 6769926
    Abstract: An assembly for connecting a cable to an externally threaded connecting port. The connecting assembly has a tubular fitting with a central axis and axially spaced first and second ends. The first end is adapted to receive the cable. The second end is adapted to engage an externally threaded connecting port to secure the connecting assembly to the externally threaded connecting port. The connecting assembly has a plurality of fingers projecting generally in a first axial direction. A first finger in the plurality of fingers has an axial length between axially spaced connected and free ends and a prong that projects generally oppositely to the first axial direction from a first axial location on the first finger. A locking member is movable axially relative to the first finger between first and second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Noah P. Montena
  • Patent number: 6635548
    Abstract: A method of forming an integrated circuit interconnect level capacitor is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes depositing a first insulator layer over an interconnect level surface of a semiconductor substrate having active devices. First and second conductive lines are formed in the first insulator layer, and the first insulator layer is etched to form a trench therein between the first and second conductive lines. A first conductive layer is deposited over the first and second conductive lines the said trench. A second insulator layer is deposited over the first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer is deposited over the second insulator layer. Then, a third conductive line is formed and disposed in the trench, the third conductive line overlying the second conductive barrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kerry Bernstein, Nicholas Theodore Schmidt, Anthony K. Stamper, Stephen Arthur St. Onge, Steven Howard Voldman
  • Patent number: 6461179
    Abstract: A quick disconnect electrical connector resistant to vibration-induced disconnect includes a male connector and a female connector each having opposing segments of flexible thread which inter-engage when the male and female are assembled. The thread segments of the female connector are on a flexible wall which deflects to permit mating engagement when the two connectors are pushed together. The male and female connectors are keyed together when assembled to prevent rotation; and the flexible thread segments engage to prevent unintentional disconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: Woodhead Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John P. Sullivan, Joseph F. Murphy
  • Patent number: 6267612
    Abstract: The internally threaded coupling ring or nut of a conventional rotational coupling system is replaced with a multi-tined locking ring that traverses the threads in an axial direction and locks onto the external threads of the mating half. The tines are positioned such that the forces are evenly distributed around the connector periphery and an anti-decoupling sleeve is extended over the tines and arranged such that, when the sleeve is in a first position, tangs extending inwardly from the tines are prevented from escaping the threads of the externally threaded mating half, and such that the sleeve may be pulled in an axial direction to permit the tines to more easily clear the threads and thereby facilitate decoupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Robert R. Arcykiewicz, Walter J. Olender
  • Patent number: 5793600
    Abstract: A capacitor and electrode structure comprising a PZT ferroelectric layer 17 with a primary component (Pb) and secondary component (Ti), a lower electrode layer 16 formed on the underside of the ferroelectric layer and made up of a special element (Pt) and Ti, and compounds thereof, and a diffusion barrier layer 18 which is formed on the underside of the lower electrode layer and which functions as a diffusion barrier with respect to Pb. The capacitor and the electrode structure, which may be a component of a semiconductor memory device, suppress fluctuations in the composition of the ferroelectric layer in PZT, etc., so as to maintain the intended performance of the PZT ferroelectric layer, thereby simplifying and stabilizing film fabrication, and preventing the degradation of electrical characteristics and adverse effects on lower layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Yukio Fukuda, Katsuhiro Aoki, Akitoshi Nishimura, Ken Numata
  • Patent number: 5380214
    Abstract: A push-in light socket adapter for use with a conventional household light bulb socket for facilitating a rapid removal and replacement of a light bulb. The adapter includes a threaded socket body which may be engaged to the household light bulb socket in place of the light bulb. The light bulb may then be inserted directly into the adapter without rotating the bulb. The adapter allows a removal of a burnt-out light bulb by a simple pulling motion which releases the bulb from the socket body. A new bulb may then be easily inserted into the adapter by pushing it into the socket body. The light socket adapter further includes an indicator light operable to indicate both a supply of electrical power to the device and a presence of the light bulb within the socket body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Inventor: Jerry Ortega, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5171292
    Abstract: An electric light bulb and socket system is described. The system includes a bulb with a base having a substantially cylindrical wall and a single groove extending thereinto and thereabout and also includes a socket base with an open cavity therein and retaining springs for retaining the bulb. The retaining springs are mounted within the wall of the socket base, except for the lugs of the retaining springs which extend into the socket base cavity. The lugs of the retaining springs are dimensioned to, upon the insertion of the bulb into the receptacle, protrude into the groove and to seat therewithin. As the lugs are equally spaced about the groove, the lugs exert a balanced spring pressure on the bulb to retain the bulb in the socket. With this system, the insertion of the bulb into the socket is by axial movement without orientation and without rotation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: John Tirado
    Inventor: Jose A. Ortiz
  • Patent number: 4975813
    Abstract: A lamp holder includes a housing with an upper and a lower compartment. The upper compartment contains a fixed clamp block and a movable clamp block which can be moved away from and towards the first clamp block by means of a spring biased push member. The clamp blocks confine a cavity for receiving and clamping the lamp seat of a lamp. The lamp can be easily mounted on the lamp holder by simply pushing and releasing the push member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Inventor: Shih-Tse Chen