Shield Mounted On Printed Circuit Board Patents (Class 439/607.35)
  • Patent number: 11637390
    Abstract: An I/O connector assembly configured for making a cabled connection to an interior portion of a printed circuit board for signals passing through the connector. The assembly may include a receptacle connector, a cage and cables, terminated to conductive elements of the terminal subassemblies, extending through the cage to the midboard. The terminal subassemblies may have first type conductive elements configured for mounting to the printed circuit board and second type conductive elements configured for terminating cables. Features may be included for precise positioning of the receptacle connector formed with the terminal subassemblies relative to the cage such that connector to connector variation in the positioning of the contact portions of the conductive elements in the terminal subassembly is provided. A mating plug may be designed with low wipe, which improves high frequency performance of the mated connector system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Arkady Y. Zerebilov, R. Brad Brubaker
  • Patent number: 11569599
    Abstract: A socket of a connector includes a socket housing, a socket terminal element, and an outer shield element. The socket housing includes a bottom plate, and first and second side wall portions facing each other and provided on an upper surface of the bottom plate. The outer shield element includes a main body portion disposed on an outer surface of the first side wall portion, a contact portion extending from the main body portion to the inner surface of the first side wall portion, and an outer shield terminal portion extending from the main body portion toward the bottom plate. The contact portion is configured to be electrically connected to an outside of the socket housing. The outer shield terminal is electrically connected to the contact portion via the main body portion. This connector suppresses generation of unnecessary radiation and noise, and also suppresses interference between high-frequency signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Hayashi, Yoji Miyazaki, Kazumasa Iijima, Yasushi Ono
  • Patent number: 11444409
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting; a housing containing the terminal fitting inside and provided with a fitting portion inserted and fitted into inside of a hole-shaped counterpart fitting portion of a counterpart wall member; a shield shell including a cylindrical portion covering, from outside, a projecting portion of the housing, a flange portion projecting outer than an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion, and a fixed portion bent from an end portion of the flange portion and fixed on an end surface of the counterpart wall member; and an annular water stop member attached to the flange portion and pressed between the flange portion and the wall surface of the counterpart wall member. The shield shell is provided with a through hole provided in a bent portion between the flange portion and the fixed portion and causing inside and outside thereof to communicate with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yasukazu Chikamatsu, Ayumu Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11329432
    Abstract: A bidirectional electrical connector includes: a housing made of a metal material; an insulation seat; a tongue; and two rows of contact terminals. Each of the two rows of contact terminals is provided with a contact. The two rows of contacts of the two rows of contact terminals are respectively disposed on the top and bottom sides of the tongue. Top and bottom surfaces of a front section of the tongue are projectingly provided with at least two limit projections, so that the top and bottom surfaces of the front section of the tongue have concave-convex structures, the at least two limit projections project beyond each of the two rows of contacts, and the concave-convex structure on the top and bottom surfaces of the tongue can make each row of contacts be isolated from the housing to prevent each row of contacts from being short-circuited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Inventor: Chou Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 11317512
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a first circuit board including a first electronic component and a second electronic component disposed on a side of the first circuit board, a second circuit board spaced apart from the first circuit board and having a side facing the side of the first circuit board on which the first electronic component and the second electronic component are disposed, a first interposer disposed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board to form an inner space between the first circuit board and the second circuit board, and a second interposer disposed between the first circuit board and the second circuit board to divide the inner space into a first region and a second region, wherein the first electronic component on the first circuit board is disposed corresponding to the first region, and the second electronic component on the first circuit board is disposed corresponding to the second region, and wherein the first interposer and the second interposer e
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangwon Ha, Seyoung Jang, Sungjin Kim, Sanghoon Park, Kyungho Lee, Younoh Chi
  • Patent number: 11258208
    Abstract: A module for a high-current plug and/or a high-current cable includes a coupling face coupling to a shield and an influencing device influencing an electromagnetic property of the shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Daniel Bischoff, Jens Koester, Mohammad Nikfal
  • Patent number: 11165208
    Abstract: An electrical contact includes a longitudinal first body portion, a longitudinal second body portion, a terminal portion, and a contact portion. The longitudinal first body portion has a terminal end, a first transition end opposite the terminal end, and a major surface generally lying in a first plane. The longitudinal second body portion has a contact end, a second transition end opposite the contact end, and a major surface generally lying in a second plane intersecting the first plane. The contact end is distal to the first transition end. The terminal portion extends from the first body portion at the terminal end. The contact portion extends from the second body portion at the contact end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Chin Hua Lim, Saujit Bandhu, Alexander W. Barr
  • Patent number: 11075478
    Abstract: A connector for connecting a cable and a circuit board is disclosed. The connector includes an upper cover plate, a lower plate body and an auxiliary member. Through the combination of the upper cover plate and the lower plate body, the cable can be held in an accommodation space therebetween. When an external force is applied to the upper cover plate, the upper cover plate will be unlocked to form an angle between the upper cover plate and the lower plate body, and then the holding member locking the cable is deformed to release the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: P-TWO INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventor: Tung-Ching Kuan
  • Patent number: 10978841
    Abstract: Provided is a connector converter, comprising a shell a digital signal board, a power source board and a connecting wire, wherein the digital signal board and the power source board are respectively integrated with a digital circuit and a power source circuit, the digital signal board and the power source board are both provided in the shell and electrically connected to each other, an inner end of the connecting wire is electrically connected to the digital signal board, an outer end of the connecting wire extends out of the shell and is provided with an input interface, the digital signal board is provided with a plurality of output interfaces, and the shell is provided with an outer pocket. The digital signal board and the power source board are respectively integrated with the digital circuit and the power source circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG GOPOD GROUP HOLDING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Zhuowen Liao
  • Patent number: 10965065
    Abstract: An electrical connector module with openings in an insulative support selectively positioned to limit dielectric loss in a signal. The connector may include a first and second conductor including first and second sides between first and second edges. An insulative support holds the first conductor adjacent the second conductor and may have at least five pedestal portions, wherein the first pedestal portion contacts the first side of the first conductor, the second pedestal portion contacts the second side of the first conductor, the third pedestal portion contacts the first side of the second conductor, the fourth pedestal portion contacts the second side of the second conductor, and at least a portion of the fifth pedestal portion is disposed between two edges of the first and second conductors. The pedestal portions may have widths less than the widths of the first and second sides of the first and second conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., John Robert Dunham, Vysakh Sivarajan, Mark W. Gailus, David Levine, Michael Joseph Snyder
  • Patent number: 10879635
    Abstract: An electrical connector has an insulative body, a group of first conductive terminals and a group of second conductive terminals fixed to the insulative body, a grounding metal plate and an outer shielding shell. A front part of the shell forms a first mating cavity and a rear part of the shell forms a second mating cavity. An insertion space is formed between elastic extending arms of the first terminal group and elastic extending arms of the second terminal group. An electrical connector combination, which includes the electrical connector and a circuit board, is further provided. An inserted portion of the circuit board can be correspondingly inserted into the insertion space and can be elastically interposed by the elastic extending arms of the first terminal group and the elastic extending arms of the second terminal group so as to be correspondingly electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Yi-Tse Ho
  • Patent number: 10833454
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a housing; an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the housing; a primary shielding shell enclosing the housing; and a secondary shielding shell affixed to the primary shielding shell, the secondary shielding shell including a pair of side walls and a top wall interconnected between the pair of side walls, each of the pair of side walls having a soldering leg; wherein the secondary shielding shell has a rear wall integral with a respective rear edge of a corresponding side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10826243
    Abstract: An electric connector terminal configuration structure includes an insulating body, a terminal set disposed inside a base of the insulating body and including conductive terminals arranged in upper and lower rows, and a circuit board connected to terminal set and including a first contact set and a second ground set. The first contact set is electrically connected to the terminal set, to transmit differential pair signals, ground signals and non-differential pair signals. The second contact set is electrically connected to the first contact set and has the same signal transmission configuration as the first contact set, and in the second contact set, an interval of contacts for transmitting differential pair signals is lower than the interval of a contact for transmitting a ground signal and an adjacent contact for transmitting the differential pair signal, to solve the high frequency impedance matching problem, thereby matching the HDMI 2.1 specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Sure-Fire Electrical Corporation
    Inventor: Chun-Lai Shen
  • Patent number: 10819062
    Abstract: The invention discloses a waterproof connector. The waterproof connector includes a shell assembly, the shell assembly includes a metallic shell and a first sealing member, the metallic shell includes a top surface, a bottom surface and two lateral surfaces, a cavity is defined by the top surface, the bottom surface and the lateral surfaces, the first sealing member is sleeved on the peripheral of the metallic shell; a conductive assembly, the conductive assembly is received in the cavity, the conductive assembly includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contact terminals and a second sealing member, the insulative housing includes a base portion and a tongue extending forwardly from the base portion, the contact terminals are insert molded with the insulative housing, the second sealing member is assembled onto the insulative housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SMMMPLUS ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ching-Jen Hsu
  • Patent number: 10811825
    Abstract: A plug connector for data transmission, in particular an HDMI socket, is configured to include a housing, which is open at least on one side, for the insertion of a matching further plug connector, in particular an HDMI plug. The plug connector further includes a printed circuit board, which is arranged within the housing and has contact areas for the matching further plug connector, and electronic components for signal processing and/or signal conditioning, which components are arranged on the printed circuit board, wherein the side edges of the printed circuit board are received, at least in sections, in groove guides of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Würth Elektronik eiSos GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jairo Bustos Heredia
  • Patent number: 10797450
    Abstract: An electrical connector with an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the housing, and a metallic shell secured to the housing. The housing includes opposite first wall and second wall and a pair of side walls to generally commonly a mating slot communicating with an exterior via a mating opening. The shell includes opposite first plate and second plate and opposite side plates to commonly form a receiving cavity above the mating opening. The opposite side plates further include a pair of downwardly extending securing sections retained inside of the housing. The opposite side plates further include a pair of oblique transitional sections respectively located at roots of the pair of securing sections and in the receiving cavity and proximate to the mating opening for guiding consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: FUDING PRECISION COMPONENTS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: De-Jin Chen, Xing-Liang Liu
  • Patent number: 10756488
    Abstract: A bidirectional electrical connector includes a floating or fixed tongue. One metal plate is deployed without overlap to manufacture upper and lower contact interfaces and a metal tongue. The tongue and the H-shaped limit structure can eliminate the short-circuited problem when the bidirectional electrical connector is docked with a complementary electrical connector. The metal tongue or the structure with the metal reinforcement sheets added into the insulation tongue can optimize the use of the bidirectional electrical connector. A snap structure on a metal housing facilitates smooth docking, and the docked state cannot easily get loose, thereby enhancing the docking stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Inventor: Chou Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 10498087
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; an upper and lower rows of contacts secured to the housing and exposed respectively to an upper and lower surfaces of the tongue; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, the shielding shell having a pair of spring tangs; and a metallic shield attached to an outer side of the shielding shell, wherein the spring tang extends laterally in a cantilevered manner, and the metallic shield has a pair of recesses for accommodating an outward movement of the pair of spring tangs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10468809
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing comprising a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; two rows of conductive terminals comprising a plurality of first terminals and second terminals and affixed to the insulative housing; a shielding plate sandwiched between the first terminals and the second terminals; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; and a sub shell abutting with the tongue portion and the base portion and contacting with the shielding shell, wherein the sub shell resists against a front surface of the base portion and exposes the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10361523
    Abstract: A USB connecting apparatus includes a board member, a plurality of first conductive connection portions, a metal housing and an assembly structure. The board member is a printed circuit board complying with the USB-Type C specification and includes a main body portion and a tongue portion. The tongue portion includes two surfaces facing toward each other. Each first conductive connection portion is electrically disposed on at least one surface of the tongue portion in order to form a tongue plate. The metal housing is arranged on the board member and surrounds the tongue plate correspondingly. The assembly structure is arranged on the plate member and/or the metal housing. The plate member and the metal housing are positioned relative to each other via the assembly structure. Accordingly, the USB connecting apparatus can be used on an existing electronic product circuit board and can be directly used as USB Type-C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignees: NICECONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Fang Chuang, Nai-Chien Chang
  • Patent number: 10355428
    Abstract: A card edge connector includes a longitudinal insulative housing, a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing, a pair of transparent members mounted to the insulative housing, and a metallic shell surrounding around the insulative housing. The insulative housing has two side walls extending along a longitudinal direction, two end walls connecting between the longitudinal ends of the two side walls and a center slot defined therebetween. The metallic shell includes two covering portions respectively located above the two side walls in a vertical direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Each of the covering portions has a number of through-holes arranged above the transparent members to leak out the light transferred therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Fang, Xiao-Hu Yin, Kuo-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 10218115
    Abstract: An adapter for connecting to a connector in a first direction is provided. The adapter includes a plurality of signal pins, arranged in a loop, a power pin, configured to transmit a power signal to the connector, and a detection circuit, coupled to the power pin and the plurality of signal pins. A feedback signal is provided by the connector in response to the power signal that is transmitted through one of the plurality of signal pins, and an interface of the connector is identified by the detection circuit and a pin order of the adapter is defined by the detection circuit according to the feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Wei Yao, Kuo-Feng Huang
  • Patent number: 10177512
    Abstract: A horizontal type electrical connector includes a terminal module having an insulative housing with a base and a mating tongue extending forwardly from the base wherein the mating tongue forms opposite first and second mating surfaces. The plurality of contacts are integrally formed within the housing, and including a plurality of first contacts having corresponding contacting sections exposed upon the first surface in a full manner while only a pair of second contacts having corresponding contacting sections exposed upon the second surface at a center region. The second mating surface forms a plurality of protrusions aligned with the corresponding contacting sections of the first contacts in the vertical direction so as to performing dummy contacting sections for providing a balanced force arrangement for the inserted complementary plug connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10135163
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing defining a mating cavity upwardly communicating with an exterior through a top mating face thereof along an up-to-down direction, the mating cavity including a pair of side walls facing each other in a lengthwise direction perpendicular to the up-to-down direction; and a pair of flat power terminals retained in the two side walls of the mating cavity, respectively; wherein each flat power terminal includes a pair of elastic arms extending on two opposite sides thereof in the up-to-down direction, the pair of elastic arms of each flat power terminal are staggered in a transverse direction perpendicular to the up-to-down direction and the lengthwise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xin-Tian Li, Bin Peng, Zhi-Jian Chen
  • Patent number: 10074947
    Abstract: An electrical connector, into which a male plug can be bidirectionally inserted for connection, comprises: a plastic base; a tongue projectingly disposed at a front end of the plastic base; and a connection slot disposed at the front end of the plastic base and covering the tongue. The connection slot having spaces on two surfaces of the tongue allows the male plug to be bidirectionally inserted for positioning. Front sections of the two surfaces of the tongue have lower surfaces. Each of the two lower surfaces has a lower-surface connection point. Rear sections of the two surfaces of the tongue have upper surfaces located at levels higher than the lower surfaces, so that a step is formed between the lower surface and the upper surface, and the two surfaces of the tongue are formed into connection surfaces with the step formed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Inventor: Chou Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 10027064
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing enclosing a plurality of terminals and enclosed within a metallic shell. The shell forms a receiving cavity in which said housing is retained. The shell includes opposite top and bottom plates with a plurality of spring tangs split therefrom and extending into the receiving cavity. A top extension unitarily extends rearwardly from a front edge of the top plate and includes a front stationary base section intimately positioned upon the top plate, and a rear deflectable section including a plurality of spring fingers rearwardly extending from a rear end of the front base section in an oblique manner away from the top plate. The front base section forms a plurality of openings corresponding to free ends of the spring tangs for accommodating the corresponding free ends, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jian-Long Hu, Dao-Zhen Bian, Shu-Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 9960534
    Abstract: A connector includes a required number of contacts, an electrical insulation housing and a metallic shell. A tab is formed in the connector. A pressure receiving portion of the tab is pushed by a pushing portion of the shell to move the pressure receiving portion toward a mounting face of a substrate for applying a force in the insertion of FPC but not applying a force to the tab in the detaching thereof, whereby an engaging portion of the tab is moved in a direction opposing to the mounting face of the substrate to unfasten the engaging portion from an locking portion of the FPC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: FUJIKURA LTD., DDK LTD.
    Inventors: Norifumi Nagae, Issey Miyake, Masayuki Suzuki, Hirokazu Takahashi, Yuuki Nakano
  • Patent number: 9780479
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, metal reinforcing member, a number of terminals affixed to the insulative housing, and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The tongue portion defines a pair of lateral walls and a pair of positioning grooves located in front of the lateral walls. The metal reinforcing member includes a pair of engaging portions located in front of the lateral walls and engaged with the positioning grooves of the tongue portion. The engaging portions are aligned with the lateral walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jing-Jie Guo
  • Patent number: 9711887
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a terminal module, two adhesive films and a shielding shell. The insulating housing defines two rows of terminal grooves. The terminal module assembled to the insulating housing includes a plurality of conductive terminals. Front ends of the conductive terminals project into the terminal grooves. Each of the two adhesive films includes an insulation layer and an adhesive layer. The adhesive layer is disposed to a rear end of an inner surface of the insulation layer. The adhesive layer of one of the two adhesive films is adhered to a top wall of the insulating housing, and the adhesive layer of the other adhesive film is adhered to a bottom wall of the insulating housing. The insulating housing together with the terminal module and the adhesive films are received in a receiving space of the shielding shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xing-Yu Hu, Gao-Hua Du
  • Patent number: 9640917
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of terminals located in the insulating housing, a main shielding shell and an auxiliary shell. The insulating housing has a main body, and a tongue portion protruded frontward from a front surface of the main body. The main shielding shell surrounds the main body and the tongue portion of the insulating housing. The main shielding shell has a main plate, a bottom plate and two lateral plates. A middle of the bottom plate defines an avoiding gap. The auxiliary shell has a base plate, and two flanks extended outward from two opposite sides of the base plate. The two flanks are fastened to bottom surfaces of two side walls of the avoiding gap and the base plate is located under the avoiding gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Qing-Liang Li, Zhu-Rui Liu, Jui-Ming Chang
  • Patent number: 9628927
    Abstract: An audio interface circuit including a processor, an audio jack, a first filter circuit, a second filter circuit, a first clamp circuit, a second clamp circuit, a third filter circuit, and a fourth filter circuit is provided. A first clamp circuit and a second clamp circuit between a third and fourth electrodes and a processor, so that the third and fourth electrodes are allowed to be coupled to a microphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Pei-Yuan Chen, Chyi-Cheng Wang, Chao-Liang Hung, Shuo-Wen Chang, Sheng-Ta Lin
  • Patent number: 9553410
    Abstract: An electrical connector, mounted upon a printed circuit board, includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals disposed in the insulative housing, a shielding shell attached to the housing, and a glue wall formed by glue. The housing defines a third base portion and a groove located at an upper surface in a rear end and for receiving glue. The terminals has a number of first contacts and a number of second contacts. Each first contact has a first soldering portion and each second contact has a second soldering portion. The shielding shell defines a guiding hole for flowing the glue. The glue wall flows from the guiding hole through the groove to seal up a gap between the insulative housing and the shielding shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Jing-Jie Guo
  • Patent number: 9547620
    Abstract: A computing device including a printed circuit board. A docking port coupled to the printed circuit board. Wherein the docking port can receive a docking connector that either passes through an aperture in the printed circuit board or passes by the edge of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Earl W Moore, Paul N Walker
  • Patent number: 9525246
    Abstract: A connector assembly configured to electrically and mechanically mate to a printed circuit board (PCB) may include a housing including a first ganging feature on a first side, and a second ganging feature on a second side that is opposite from the first side. The second ganging feature may be reciprocal to the first ganging feature. The first and second ganging features may be parallel to and oriented and aligned with a longitudinal axis of the housing. The assembly may include a contact shield retained by the housing. The contact shield may include a main body and at least one securing member configured to secure the connector assembly to the PCB. The securing member(s) may be integrally formed together with the main body from a single piece of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: David James Lane, Douglas John Hardy, John Wesley Hall
  • Patent number: 9515422
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector having an electrically insulating contact carrier and at least one electrically conductive contact element which is provided with an impedance equalization element. In particular, the present invention relates to an electrical connector which has defined impedance properties, both with and without shielding. In order to adjust the impedance of the connector (100) in at least a portion of the region in which the at least one contact element (104) is arranged, at least one impedance equalization element (112) is provided on the contact carrier (102) and integrated therewith, wherein the impedance equalization element (112) has an electrically conductive, substantially planar structure, which is arranged with respect to the at least one contact element (104) with a predetermined spacing which is dependent on the impedance value to be adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Karrasch, Daniel Volkmann
  • Patent number: 9306347
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a mating tongue, a plurality of first contacts retained in the housing and exposed upon a first mating face of the mating tongue, and a plurality of second contacts retained in the housing and exposed upon a second mating face of the mating tongue. The first contacts offset with the second contacts in a front elevational view. The mating tongue defines a receiving room at a front portion thereof and extending in a transverse direction, the receiving room runs through the first mating face to directly face to the first contacts and synchronously runs through the second mating face to directly face to the second contacts, which is suitable for minimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Hao-Yun Ma, Chih-Pi Cheng
  • Patent number: 9257801
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a conductive shell, a terminal module and a shielding plate. The conductive shell has a mating portion and an accommodate room. The mating portion has a first mating face. The terminal module is secured in the accommodate room and has a first insulator and a plurality of first terminals. The first insulator has a first face and a second face. Each of the first terminals has a first contacting portion protruding out of the first face of the first insulator. The shielding plate is disposed in the accommodate room and contacts with the conductive shell. The shielding plate presses on the second face of the first insulator so as to make first contacting portions be exposed to the first mating face. The disposition of the shielding plate has the function of pressing on the terminal module and preventing the interference of signal transmission between the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ai-Hong Fang, Huo-Xing Jin, Chun-Sheng Li
  • Patent number: 9246251
    Abstract: A connector can be provided that allows for improved route-out including straight-back routing. Signal and ground terminal tails can be arranged in a single row to help facilitate such functionality. Consequentially, a connector with two vertically stacked card slots can be provided that allows for straight back routing of the signal traces in four layers while still providing a compact connector design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Kent E. Regnier, Patrick R. Casher, Michael Rowlands
  • Patent number: 9231349
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided, including a main body, first terminals installed at a seat of the main body, second terminals embedded in the seat, and a housing. The housing has a bottom wall, two side walls, and a top wall, and defines an accommodating space having a first opening and a second opening. A plurality of first spring plates are disposed on the top wall and bottom wall. A second spring plate is disposed near the second opening of the top wall. Third spring plates are disposed near the second opening of the bottom wall. When a connector plug is plugged into the electrically connector, the first, second and third spring plates make contact with an iron housing of the connector plug to increase the contact area between the connector plug and the electrical connector, and reduce electromagnetic interference to peripheral devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Sheng-Ho Yang, Pei-Hsuan Huang, Wen-Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 9231352
    Abstract: The invention provides a module being connectable to a mating connector having a tube and including a case and a connector. The case has a through hole that is larger than the tube so as to receive the tube. The connector fits into the tube along a first direction and includes a tuboid shell that includes a lip, first to fourth corners, and guides. The first and second corners are provided where the distal face of the lip meets outer faces on one and the other sides, respectively, of a second direction of the lip. The third and fourth corners are provided where the distal face of the lip meets outer faces on one and the other sides, respectively, of a third direction of the lip. The guides, each at least one of a chamfer, a rounded face, and a curved portion curved inward of the connector, are provided at the respective first to fourth corners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Sasaki, Takayuki Nagata, Yasuo Nakai
  • Patent number: 9106036
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of terminals and a shielding shell. The insulating housing has a top wall, a bottom wall, a rear wall and two side walls together forming an inserting chamber thereamong. The top wall and the bottom wall respectively define a plurality of first terminal grooves and second terminal grooves which are opened symmetrically about the inserting chamber and communicate with the inserting chamber. The terminals include the first terminals and the second terminals. The first terminals and the second terminals are respectively inserted frontward in the first terminal grooves and the second terminal grooves of the insulating housing to be arranged in two rows in vertical direction. The first terminals and the second terminals are symmetrical in structure and arrangement about the inserting chamber. The shielding shell encloses the insulating housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chih-Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 9093797
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprising an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals retained in the insulative housing, and a metal package enclosing the insulative housing, said metal package comprising a first metallic shell and a second metallic shell covering the first metallic shell, said first metallic shell having an upper wall, a bottom wall and a pair of side walls, said second metallic shell having a top board, a floor board and a pair of side boards. Said second metallic shell is formed with a plurality of first soldering legs extending downwardly from a back-end of the top board, second soldering legs extending outwardly from the side boards, and said first metallic shell is formed with a plurality of fixed legs extending outwardly from a rear-end of the side walls; wherein said fixed legs are located between the first soldering legs and the second soldering legs along a front-to-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Jing-Jie Guo
  • Patent number: 9088108
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a plurality of terminals (2), a metal plate (3), a first metallic shell (4) and a second metallic shell (5). The first metallic shell has a pair of side walls (43). The second metallic shell includes a pair of side boards (52). Each side wall has a first portion (4301), a second portion (4302), an elastic fin (431) extending from the first portion and a first angle relative to the second portion. Each side board defines a window (521) and the elastic fin protrudes into the window and resists against a contour of the window at a plurality of resisting points (4321) for prohibiting a relative movement of the first metallic shell, with respect to the second metallic shell. Each elastic fin is located in a vertical plane and the degree of the first angle is between 0 and 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Jing-Jie Guo
  • Patent number: 9039449
    Abstract: A staggered mounting electrical connector assembly can include a shroud and an electrical connector. The electrical connector can include a connector housing, and the shroud can be configured to be mounted to the connector housing in a staggered fashion. The shroud and the connector housing can include complementary alignment members configured to interface with each other. The alignment members can act to align mounting members defined by the shroud during the process of mounting the shroud and the connector housing to an underlying substrate, such as a printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: FCI AMERICAS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Arkady Y. Zerebilov, Steven E. Minich
  • Patent number: 9033739
    Abstract: An electronic device including a connector. The connector includes a housing defining a cavity for receiving a mating connector. The housing includes a contact support member. The connector also includes contacts supported by the contact support member, the contacts including protruding portions that protrude outside of the cavity. The connector may also include a shielding element disposed over the protruding portion of at least some of the contacts. A moisture sealant may be disposed within a gap located between the contacts and the shielding element. In one embodiment, a cap may be provided between the housing and the shielding. The cap and the housing may each include an aperture for viewing a moisture indicator, and at least one of the cap and the housing may include cutouts for holding a transparent element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jason S. Sloey
  • Patent number: 9017103
    Abstract: A modular connector assembly includes a housing having a mating end and a mounting end opposite the mating end. The mating end is configured to be mated with a header connector and the mounting end is configured to be mounted to a circuit board. The housing has a plurality of individual chambers separated by chamber walls. Contact assemblies are received in corresponding chambers. Each contact assembly has a dielectric body holding a differential pair of receptacle signal contacts configured to be terminated to the circuit board and mated with corresponding header signal contacts of the header connector. Each contact assembly has a ground shield coupled to an exterior of the dielectric body providing electrical shielding for the differential pair of receptacle signal contacts from other pairs of receptacle signal contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Wayne Samuel Davis, Robert Neil Whiteman, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9004945
    Abstract: A connector is provided in which a connector member is secured to a case and a shielding effect can be maintained even if a mating plug-type connector to be engaged therewith has a flat insulating plate with connecting portions on both of its faces, forming mutually parallel arrays of pluralities of upper terminals and lower terminals, which are strips of conductive segments. The connector member and the case are included. The connector member includes an inner shield cover that includes engaging portions having press-fractured faces, formed in its rear end. The case has resin springs which are disposed inside the tube-shaped portion of the case and extend toward the back and fixing stops which are disposed at free ends of the resin springs and increase in thickness inward from back to front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Nagata, Hideto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8979584
    Abstract: An object is to provide a board-mounted connector which has an assembly fitting opening provided on the attachment surface side of an external shield shell onto a circuit board such that a housing assembly can be fit from the assembly fitting opening into the external shield shell, and is capable of improving the ease of assembling the housing assembly. In a board-mounted connector 1A, a housing assembly 21A to be fit from an assembly fitting opening 34 provided at an external shield shell 11A into the external shield shell 11A is made by integrally forming an internal housing 23 that accommodates a plurality of connection terminal members 22 and an external housing 26 that covers the outer circumference of the internal housing 23 and accommodates and holds the internal shield shell 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 8968033
    Abstract: An assembly includes a receptacle and a plug. The plug comprises a plug insulative housing with a front mating region, a plurality of plug contacts disposed in the housing with plug contacting sections exposed upon the mating region and a plug metallic shell enclosing the front mating region to commonly define a plug mating port. The plug metallic shell defines essentially a rectangular cross-section including two opposite long sides and two opposite short sides perpendicular to each other. A pair of chamfered structures is formed on two opposite corners along one of the two long sides, and a centered recessed area is formed on the other of said two long sides. The front mating region intimately abuts against the other of the two long sides. The receptacle has a receptacle metallic shell with a similar contour of the plug metallic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Terrance F. Little
  • Patent number: 8968031
    Abstract: Connector receptacle assemblies that may be simple to manufacture, provide multiple receptacles, and provide a good ground contact path. One example may provide a connector receptacle assembly formed of a housing having a tongue that may include openings on one or more sides for contacts as well as openings on its sides for ground contacts. Another example may provide a connector receptacle assembly having at least two tongues, where each tongue may be aligned with a corresponding opening in a device enclosure. Another example may provide a connector receptacle assembly having a tongue with a center ground contact, where the center ground contact may be located between the top row and the bottom row of contacts. Another example may provide a connector receptacle assembly having a titanium-copper center ground contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: George Marc Simmel, Zheng Gao