Longitudinally Divided Shield Parts Patents (Class 439/607.47)
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Patent number: 11842138Abstract: A routing assembly for an electronic device has a plurality of connectors ports and each of the connector ports contains a first connector connected to one or more cables. Cables are directly terminated, at first ends thereof, to terminals of the first connectors and the cables can be embedded in a routing substrate. The routing substrate has an opening which accommodates a chip package. Second ends of the cables are terminated to second connectors arranged in the package opening and the second connectors are in turn connected to the chip package.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Brian Keith Lloyd, Gregory Walz, Ayman Isaac, Kent E. Regnier, Bruce Reed
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Patent number: 11777239Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for pinless interconnect for twinaxial cables to an IC. This includes a socket coupled to an integrated circuit (IC), a port structure coupled to the socket, and a ground connector inserted into the port structure. It further includes a twinaxial cable including a pair of conductors inserted through the ground connector to establish an electrical connection between the twinaxial cable and the IC.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Mike Sapozhnikov, Sayed Ashraf Mamun, Tomer Osi, Amendra Koul, David Nozadze, Upendranadh R. Kareti, Joel R. Goergen
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Patent number: 11688963Abstract: A cable shield tunnel for an electrical device includes a ground bus and a floor shim, discrete from the ground bus, and coupled to a circuit card and forming a cable tunnel that receives an end of a cable. The ground bus includes an end wall extending along a first end of the cable tunnel, a first side wall extending from the end wall along a first side of the cable tunnel, and a second side wall extending from the end wall along a second side of the cable tunnel opposite the first side. The first and second side walls are configured to be coupled to the circuit card. The floor shim is provided at a second end of the cable tunnel opposite the first end and is positioned between the cable and the circuit card.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM, TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Michael David Herring, Bruce Allen Champion, Megha Shanbhag, Lieven Decrock
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Patent number: 11546974Abstract: The present invention provides a conductive fabric comprising base cloth and a conductive metallic circuit structure formed on the surface of the base cloth. The conductive metallic circuit structure comprises at least one metallic seed layer and at least one chemical-plating layer. The metallic seed layer is an evaporation-deposition layer or a sputter-deposition layer and has a circuit pattern. The chemical-plating layer is applied over the surface of the metallic seed layer. The conductive fabric has improved conductivity and heat generation efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: FORMOSA TAFFETA CO., LTD.Inventors: Fang-Jong Liu, Hsing-Nan Chung, Meng-Yueh Wu
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Patent number: 11489294Abstract: A connection module includes a first assembly and a second assembly. The first assembly has a rest portion for resting thereon an exposed portion of a covered electrical wire for differential signal transmission. A cable accommodates the covered electrical wire in a jacket. The exposed portion is not covered with the jacket, exposing a covering of the covered electrical wire. The second assembly has a presser portion pressing the exposed portion rested on the rest portion against the rest portion. A position of the exposed portion is determined by combining the first assembly with the second assembly.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G. K.Inventor: Kentaro Yoshimura
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Patent number: 11469536Abstract: An assembly includes an electrical cord, an electrical connector, and a housing having a first end engaged with the electrical cord and a second end from which the electrical connector extends. The first end has a first transverse cross-section and the second end has a second transverse cross-section different from the first transverse cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Naoki Ogishita
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Patent number: 11228145Abstract: A communication connector (10) includes a plurality of wires (11A to 11C, 12A, 12B, 13, 14) for transmitting communication signals, a plurality of terminals (20) connected to the respective wires (11A to 11C, 12A, 12B, 13, 14), a housing (30) for accommodating the respective terminals (20), and a conductive shield wall portion (40) arranged between the plurality of wires (11A to 11C, 12A, 12B, 13, 14).Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Inventors: Hiroyoshi Maesoba, Toshifumi Ichio
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Patent number: 11133606Abstract: A crimping portion (25) of a connection structure of a shielded wire (11) includes a base plate (30) along an outer periphery of the shielded wire (11). A first crimping piece (31) is cantilevered from a first side of the base plate (30) and is crimped to surround the shielded wire (11). A second crimping piece (36) is cantilevered in a direction opposite the first crimping piece (31) from a second side of the base plate (30) and is crimped to surround the shielded wire (11). A restricting portion (46) is disposed along the outer periphery of the shielded wire (11). First locking portions (34) of the first crimping piece (31) and second locking portions (39) of the second crimping piece (36) lock the restricting portion (46) in directions opposite to each other along the circumferential direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Inventors: Kazuaki Hamada, Atsushi Murata
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Patent number: 11095066Abstract: An electrical apparatus may include: a housing accommodating an electrical device; and a connector connected to an outer surface of the housing, in which the connector includes: a connector body including a terminal electrically connected to the electrical device; an upper shell covering a back surface of the connector body; a lower shell fixed to a lower portion of the connector body and to which a shield tube surrounding a cable connected to the terminal is fixed; and a guard plate fixed to the lower shell and extending between the upper shell and the connector body.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Keisuke Sawazaki
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Patent number: 10826240Abstract: Disclosed is a high-voltage shielded connector assembly. The technical problem to be solved is that existing high-voltage connectors are large in volume, complex to assemble and machine, non-universal, and high in cost. The present invention comprises a socket protection sleeve body, a pin, a socket shielding layer fixed on the socket protection sleeve body and a fixing clip fixing the socket shielding layer, wherein the pin cooperates with the socket protection sleeve body; and the pin comprises a two-layer locking structure formed by a main locking structure and an auxiliary locking structure. After using the above-mentioned technical solution, the present invention uses a high-voltage large-current plate-end shielded connector which is made of plastic and is suitable for new energy automobiles, is low in cost, has high production efficiency, is small in volume, and is simple in wiring harness assembly and processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Inventors: Hongjuan Zhang, Xianjun Zhang, Rongxi Wang, Guotang Wang, Yongan Wang, Lina Shao, Yongpan Wang, Weishun Li, Zhibin Sun, Qiang Li
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Patent number: 10643765Abstract: A cable harness comprises a coaxial cable and a connector. The coaxial cable comprises an outer conductor formed of a plurality of wires and a second insulator covering the outer conductor. The outer conductor has a partially-exposed portion. The partially-exposed portion is formed with a connection portion. The second insulator has a partial cover. In a perpendicular plane perpendicular to the front-rear direction, the partial cover covers the partially-exposed portion while at least the connection portion is exposed. The connector comprises a second conductor. The second conductor has a pressure-holding portion. The pressure-holding portion presses the partial cover to hold the partial cover and is connected to the connection portion in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Keisuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 10559918Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a plug body comprising a first housing part and a second housing part with a plug-in portion. The housing parts are movable relative to each other along a housing axis. An elastic element holds the housing parts against each other. The second housing part has a projection with a first sliding surface diagonally to the housing axis. The electrical connector assembly further includes a mating connector having a collar with a second sliding surface cooperating with the first sliding surface. The second housing part is displaced away from the first housing part along the housing axis against a restoring force of the elastic element. The second sliding surface ends at a recess in the collar, so that the elastic element pulls the projection into the recess and locks the plug body with the mating connector.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Aptiv Technologies LimitedInventors: Michael Gunreben, Frank Odoerfer
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Patent number: 10424880Abstract: A shield connector is formed such that an electrical wire shield portion at an end of an electrical shield wire is removed to expose a plurality of single shield wires; connection terminals are each connected to the conductor at an end of each exposed single shield wire; the connection terminals are held in an inner housing; the inner housing and the single shield wires are sheathed with a shield shell; and an attachment piece integrated with the shield shell is fixedly attached to an end of the electrical shield wire. The shield shell is provided with a connector shield member, and the connector shield member is electrically connected to single wire shield portions of the exposed single shield wires.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: SMK CorporationInventors: Yasuo Yoshiura, Katsuhisa Serizawa
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Patent number: 10374367Abstract: A communication connector (30) includes a plurality of terminals (31) to be connected to a plurality of wires (12 to 18) exposed by removing a coating (20) of a cable (11) in which the plurality of wires (12 to 18) for transmitting communication signals are collectively surrounded by the coating (20), a housing (35) for holding the plurality of terminals (31) arranged side by side in a plurality of stages, and alignment members (40A, 40B) including partition walls (44 to 46) made of metal and to be disposed between adjacent ones of the exposed plurality of wires (12 to 18).Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroyoshi Maesoba, Rhushik Matroja
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Patent number: 10309991Abstract: A method for decoupling a shield wire of a cable having at least one signal line and the shield wire disposed around the signal line, the shield wire being completely cut through at a decoupling point along the run direction of the cable in a circumferential direction. A first crimp barrel is disposed on the cable on a first side of the decoupling point to electrically connect the first crimp barrel to the shield wire on the first side of the decoupling point. A second crimp barrel is disposed on the cable on a second side of the decoupling point to electrically connect the second crimp barrel to the shield wire on the second side of the decoupling point. A capacitive bridging of the shield wire across the decoupling point is created in such a way that the first crimp barrel and the second crimp barrel are capacitively coupled.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventor: Joachim Breithaupt
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Patent number: 10193281Abstract: A connector assembly for terminating a cable having a cable shield is provided including an electrically conductive backshell and a shield assembly. The backshell includes a body that extends from a mating end to a cable end along a mating axis. The cable end includes a cable channel that extends through the body and holds an end segment of the cable therein. The connector assembly includes a shield assembly having a clamp system that is held within the cable end of the backshell and includes front and rear clamping members. The cable shield is terminated to the clamp system between the front and the rear clamping members. The connector assembly includes an EMI gasket that is electrically coupled to the backshell and held within the cable end of the backshell. The EMI gasket includes a backshell interface that engages the backshell and a clamp interface that engages the clamp system.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Jared Evan Rossman, Richard Elof Hamner
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Patent number: 10069258Abstract: Patch cords include a communications cable that has a first conductor and a second conductor that form a first differential pair, and a third conductor and a fourth conductor that form a second differential pair and a plug that is attached to the communications cable. The plug includes a housing that receives the communications cable, first through fourth plug contacts that are within the housing, and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes first through fourth conductive paths that connect the respective first through fourth conductors to respective ones of the first through fourth plug contacts. The plug further includes a first conductive shield that extends above a top surface of the printed circuit board that is disposed between the first differential pair and the second differential pair.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North CarolinaInventors: Michael W. Canning, Wayne D. Larsen, Richard A. Schumacher, Amid I. Hashim
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Patent number: 9711901Abstract: An electrical connector assembly can include a polarization member that is configured to prevent first and second electrical connectors from being mated to each other in an incorrect orientation. The polarization member abuts the first electrical connector such that the first electrical connector provides structural support to the polarization member when the second electrical contacts the polarization member. The polarization member is received by the second electrical connector when the second electrical connector is mated to the first electrical connector in a predetermined orientation.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2014Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignees: FCI Americas Technology LLC, FCI USA LLCInventor: Michael Scholeno
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Patent number: 9653852Abstract: An interconnection junction for communications cables includes: a first connector; a second connector; and a sealing enclosure having a cavity and formed of a polymeric material, the sealing enclosure comprising an RF-isolating material. The first connector and second connector are joined and reside within the cavity of the sealing enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: David J. Smentek, Michael Guerin
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Patent number: 9484654Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing with a plurality of ports, a plurality of contacts received in the insulative housing, a rear seat assembled to a rear side of the insulative housing and a metal shell covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a plurality of slots recessed from a rear surface thereof for retaining the contacts. The contact has a linking portion positioned in the rear sear and a mating portion bent from the linking portion and exposed in the port. The mating portions of the contacts in a same port are located in different heights, and at least one of the mating potions is inclined, so as to provide an inclined force to an inserted mating connector thereby reducing a pressing force to the inserted plug during engaging.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Xiao-Bo Du, Chun-Ming Yu, Liang Gong, Qi-Sheng Zheng, Xiao-Bo Xu
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Patent number: 9444163Abstract: A miniaturized wire-to-board connector system is disclosed for establishing electrical connection between an electrical cable and a printed circuit board, and for establishing mechanical connection between the electrical cable and a case having the printed circuit board enclosed therein. The connector system includes a male and a female connector, is small enough to be incorporated in a highly miniaturized wearable device, and is stable and sturdy enough to be handled directly by a consumer, thereby enabling an increase in complexity, providing interconnectable parts in wearable consumer products. The connector system is also useful in aerospace applications in which components must be connected within a very small space.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Inventor: Curzio Vasapollo
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Patent number: 9425558Abstract: An electrical connector includes a main body, a plurality of terminals fastened to the main body, an outer shielding shell surrounding the main body together with the terminals, and a cover covered outside the outer shielding shell. The main body is mounted to a circuit board. Rear ends of the terminals are mounted to the circuit board. Front ends of the terminals are exposed out of the main body. A rear end of the cover defines a resilient plate. A rear edge of the resilient plate is bent perpendicular to the resilient plate to form a rear plate. The resilient plate is separably mounted to an outside of the outer shielding shell to make the rear plate disposed behind or above the main body and the outer shielding shell.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Li-Nien Hsu, Chih-Lin Yang
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Patent number: 9356404Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a metal shell covering the insulative housing, electrical terminals and auxiliary terminals received in the insulative housing. The electrical terminals includes a number of first contacts. The first contacts include a grounding contact in the middle and some signal contacts on both sides of the grounding contact. The auxiliary terminals includes the retaining portion received in insulative housing and the connecting portion downwardly bent from an end of the retaining portion. The retaining portion has a first spring tab and the connecting has a second spring tab. The first spring tab contacts with the metal shell and the second spring tab contacts with the grounding contact. Such arrangment can improve the anti EMI effect of the electrical connector and reduce the signal interference between the signal terminals.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chun-Ming Yu, Ce Jiang, Guo-Hua Zhang, Qi-Sheng Zheng, Bin Guo
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Patent number: 9343843Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing, a metal shell (4) covering the insulative housing, and an insulative cover (5) molded over the metal shell and integral with the insulative housing. A diffusion layer (6) is formed between the metal shell and the insulative cover. Chemical reaction is generated from metal and resin in the diffusion layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Jing-Jie Guo
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Patent number: 9214743Abstract: A connector assembly includes a dielectric having a right angle body including a first segment and a second segment and defining a right angle chamber extending through the first and second segments. At least one door at a right angle corner of the body provides access to the right angle chamber through a rear opening in an open state, and restricts access to the rear opening in a closed state. A female center contact in the right angle chamber in the first segment has a terminating end configured to electrically connect to a cable conductor of a cable received in the right angle chamber in the second segment. A front shield receives the dielectric and forces the door to move from the open state to the closed state upon loading the dielectric into the front shield. A rear shield couples to the front shield.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Scott Stephen Duesterhoeft, Douglas John Hardy, John Wesley Hall
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Patent number: 9209561Abstract: A connector structure includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector includes a first connector housing and an engagement arm that can be elastically bent. The second connector includes a second connector housing, a slider provided on the second connector housing, a biasing portion that biases the second connector housing in a connector decoupling direction, and an arm engagement portion engaged with the engagement arm. During a coupling process of the first and second connectors, the slider is slid by a pressing force applied from the first connector against a biasing force generated by the biasing portion. The biasing portion includes an elastically-bendable arm provided on the slider, and a tapered surface provided on the second connector housing. The biasing force is generated as a reaction force of an elastically-restorative force of the elastically-bendable arm bent by the tapered surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Miyakawa, Kazuto Ohtaka, Hideki Honma
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Patent number: 9209556Abstract: Method, apparatus, and electrical cable for high-speed connections. The apparatus can include an electrical cable, a wire sorter, an electrical mating paddle, and a cable assembly. The wire sorter can be coupled to an end of the electrical cable, and configured to receive wires extending from the end of the electrical cable and position the wires relative to one another in a predetermined arrangement to yield sorted wires. The electrical mating paddle card can then be coupled to the sorted wires according to the predetermined arrangement. The cable assembly can be configured to house the wire sorter and at least a portion of the wires. Moreover, the cable assembly can include a hot-melt injection chamber configured to at least partially immobilize the wires relative to the cable assembly when hot-melt is injected into the hot-melt injection chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Jason Potterf, George Edward Curtis, William Frank Edwards, Gregory Scott Lovelace, Keith Frank Tharp
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Patent number: 9125563Abstract: An apparatus for electrically and mechanically coupling a connection portion of a sensor assembly with a connection portion of an interface cable is provided. The apparatus includes a frame having an EMI shielding material. The frame defines a first port operable to engage the connection portion of the sensor assembly and a second port operable to engage the connection portion of the interface cable. The frame includes attachment features operable to mechanically secure the connection portion of the sensor assembly and the connection portion of the interface cable relative to the frame. The frame is configured to provide a Faraday Cage around substantially all of the connection portion of the sensor assembly and the connection portion of the interface cable when the connection portions are in coupled configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: CAS Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Roy Abrams, Karen Duffy, Matthew Dalene, William Kosturko, John Gamelin
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Patent number: 9011177Abstract: A cable bypass assembly is disclosed for use in providing a high speed transmission line for connecting a board mounted connector of an electronic device to a chip on the device board. The bypass cable assembly has a structure that permits it, where it is terminated to the board mounted connector and the chip member, or closely proximate thereto to replicate closely the geometry of the cable. The connector terminals are arranged in alignment with the cable signal conductors and shield extensions are provided so that shielding can be provided up to and over the termination between the cable signal conductors and the board connector terminal tails. Likewise, a similar termination structure is provided at the opposite end of the cable where a pair of terminals are supported by a second connector body and enclosed in a shield collar. The shield collar has an extension that engages the second end of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Molex IncorporatedInventors: Brian Keith Lloyd, Christopher David Hirschy, Munawar Ahmad, Eran J. Jones, Stephen W. Hamblin, Darian Ross Schulz, Todd David Ward, Gregory B. Walz, Ebrahim Abunasrah, Rehan M. Khan
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Patent number: 8961217Abstract: An electrical connector includes an electrically conductive housing for inhibiting electromagnetic interference. A latch device is mounted to opposite sides of the housing and extends from the housing for positively latching together the electrical connector with a mating connector. The latch device includes a biasing member for driving a latching end of the latch device toward a catch of the mating connector to securely retain the connectors in a mated configuration. The housing further includes a skirt on a mating end, the skirt having a plurality of cantilevered tangs for bearing against a corresponding skirt of the mating connector.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Carlisle Interconnect Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Phong Dang
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Patent number: 8961218Abstract: A field installable backshell connector for a shielded cable provides an EMI shield around control signal conductors and a plastic connector of the cable and also provides a mechanical terminal of the cable. The backshell connector provides a low impedance ground path from the cable shield to a connector socket. The connector socket includes a plastic connector header that is shielded by a grounded metal shroud. When connected to the socket, the backshell is abutted with the connector socket shroud to complete the low impedance ground path from the cable shield in order to shunt electrical noise introduced on the cable shield, connector backshell and shroud to ground to resist electrical interference.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventor: John R. Figie
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Patent number: 8876555Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle ground-contacting element (1) comprising two shell-shaped portions (11,12) assembled together into at least one first (13a) and one second (13b) contact area such as to form a rigid hollow body, such that the first contact area (13a) is made up of a contact surface (18a) extending a first edge of the first shell (11) and a contact surface (19a) extending a first edge of the second shell (12), said two contact surfaces (18a, 19a) of the first contact area (13a) engaging with one another and extending the first edges in a first direction (X), the second contact areas (13b) being made up of a contact surface (18b) extending a second edge of the first shell (11) and a contact surface (19b) extending a second edge of the second shell (12), said two contact surfaces (18a, 19a) of the second contact area (13b) engaging with one another and extending the second edges in a second direction (Z), the first direction (X) and the second direction (Z) being oriented substantially perpendiType: GrantFiled: November 24, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Peugeot Citroën Automobiles SAInventor: Gilles Berthias
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Patent number: 8784135Abstract: A specialized cable including a compression plug and flexible wiring configured to be connected to a receptacle so that data and/or power signals can be exchanged between the electronic equipment and the device to which the cable is attached. The flexible wiring is a flat set of closely spaced parallel wires separated by insulators (e.g., plastic). The compression plug may include a contact surface (e.g., in an opening or on an exterior surface) that electrically connects to a contact surface in the receptacle. The compression plug may include a sloped or slanted top and bottom in order to facilitate inserting the plug into the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Exelis Inc.Inventor: Richard J. Gonzales
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Patent number: 8764487Abstract: A device and assembly related to connecting cables, wires, and electrical devices are described herein. The device and assembly can comprise a panel connector removably coupled to a cable connector. The panel connector can include a panel connector retainer, a panel connector subretainer, and at least one contact pin. The cable connector can include a cable connector retainer, a cable connector subretainer, and at least one contact pin. Also described herein are connectors having a ground clamp and cable clamp useful in connecting cables, wires, and electrical devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Precision Concepts Group LLCInventor: Kenneth Ballard
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Patent number: 8727803Abstract: A cam portion is provided at a turning shaft portion of a fit-turning arm which holds a fitted state of a connector with a mating connector, a cam-biasing device is provided on a connector main body, and the fit-turning arm is made hard to depart from a “fit-acting position” by applying a turning biasing force to the cam portion in a direction of holding the fit-turning arm which has been turned to the “fit-acting position” at the “fit-acting position”.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2011Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takaki Kurachi
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Patent number: 8724343Abstract: An electromagnetic shield comprises a sheet of metal having slots along an edge of the sheet to form a plurality of resilient fingers. The single sheet is bent around first and second bends axes inwardly and approximately ninety degrees to form a top planar surface and first and second side walls. The single sheet of metal is sized and dimensioned to receive a connector in between the first and second side walls and top planar surface. The fingers are bent outward with a bend radius of approximately 0.020 inches with respect to a flat surface of the sidewalls and top planar surface. The fingers apply a biasing force against a surface of a faceplate. Each of the side walls includes an elongated leg, which is interconnected with a circuit board and each of the elongated legs extends beyond a bottom edge of each of the side walls.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Crestron Electronics Inc.Inventors: Wendy Feldstein, Gregory Sorrentino
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Patent number: 8684764Abstract: A field installable backshell connector for a shielded cable provides an EMI shield around control signal conductors and a plastic connector of the cable and also provides a mechanical terminal of the cable. The backshell connector provides a low impedance ground path from the cable shield to a connector socket. The connector socket includes a plastic connector header that is shielded by a grounded metal shroud. When connected to the socket, the backshell is abutted with the connector socket shroud to complete the low impedance ground path from the cable shield in order to shunt electrical noise introduced on the cable shield, connector backshell and shroud to ground to resist electrical interference.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2013Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventor: John R. Figie
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Publication number: 20130344740Abstract: A field installable backshell connector for a shielded cable provides an EMI shield around control signal conductors and a plastic connector of the cable and also provides a mechanical terminal of the cable. The backshell connector provides a low impedance ground path from the cable shield to a connector socket. The connector socket includes a plastic connector header that is shielded by a grounded metal shroud. When connected to the socket, the backshell is abutted with the connector socket shroud to complete the low impedance ground path from the cable shield in order to shunt electrical noise introduced on the cable shield, connector backshell and shroud to ground to resist electrical interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: John R. Figie
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Patent number: 8568158Abstract: A foreign object damage protecting electrical connector backshell adaptor including a nipple having a forward end, a rearward end, a hollow bore, and a wall surrounding the hollow bore; an adaptor mounting coupling nut fixedly attached to the nipple's forward end; a retention flange, the retention flange being fixedly attached to or formed wholly with the nipple's rearward end, the retention flange having a seam dividing the retention flange at least into a movable clamp jaw segment and an opposing clamp jaw segment; clamp actuating screws connected operatively to the retention flange for drawing the movable clamp jaw segment from a cable receiving position to a cable clamping position; a tubular sheath and receptacle extending rearwardly from and annularly about the retention flange; and an annular clamping band engaging the tubular sheath forwardly from the retention flange.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: M-Pyre, L.L.C.Inventor: Jerod Mangus
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Publication number: 20120276778Abstract: A field installable backshell connector for a shielded cable provides an EMI shield around control signal conductors and a plastic connector of the cable and also provides a mechanical terminal of the cable. The backshell connector provides a low impedance ground path from the cable shield to a connector socket. The connector socket includes a plastic connector header that is shielded by a grounded metal shroud. When connected to the socket, the backshell is abutted with the connector socket shroud to complete the low impedance ground path from the cable shield in order to shunt electrical noise introduced on the cable shield, connector backshell and shroud to ground to resist electrical interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventor: John R. FIGIE
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Patent number: 8251735Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (100), comprises: a housing (1) having a receiving room (11) therein communicated with an exterior along a longitudinal direction, and the housing comprising a first shield part (15) and second shield part (16) assembled with each other; two paralleled printed circuit boards (21, 22) received into the receiving room and positioned in the housing; a metallic holder (8) binding the first and second shield parts; and a latch mechanism assembled to an exterior surface of the housing and having a portion shielded by the metallic holder.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2011Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jerry Wu
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Patent number: 8202122Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a conductive housing, a pair of PCBs, two cables and a metal shell assembled to the housing. The housing defines a receiving cavity. The PCBs are received in the receiving cavity at different levels. The two cables are located at a rear wall of the housing and electrically connect to the PCBs. The metal shell is assembled to the housing and includes a frame portion, and an extension portion extending forwardly from an upper wall of the frame portion. The frame portion encloses a rear portion of the housing and the extension portion has a pair of first position holes. The housing has a pair of second position holes are aligned with first position holes respectively. Two bolts penetrate through the first position holes and are locked in the second position holes respectively.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2011Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jerry Wu
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Patent number: 8187036Abstract: A shield connector is provided with terminal fittings (10) having shield cables (11) connected thereto, a connector housing (20), into which the terminal fittings (10) are to be mounted, a shield shell (40) to be accommodated into the connector housing (20), and resilient pieces (45) each including a contact portion (47) which is provided on the shield shell (40) and comes into contact with a connection portion (19B) of the shield cable (11). Each resilient piece (45) includes projecting pieces (49) for preventing the resilient piece (45) from being excessively deformed by coming into contact with restricting portions (38) provided in the connector housing (20).Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Michiyo Fujiwara, Masaki Okamoto
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Patent number: 7934957Abstract: A connector is mountable on a circuit board and matable with a mating connector inserted from a front end of the connector toward a rear end of the connector. The connector has a plurality of contacts, a holder for holding the plurality of contacts so that the plurality of contacts is arranged in a lateral direction, and a shell for covering at least part of the holder. The shell has a lower plate facing the circuit board when the connector is mounted on the circuit board. The lower plate includes a front edge, an inner back edge located away from the front edge by a predetermined distance, inner side edges connecting the inner back edge to the front edge, and a ground portion projecting frontward from the inner back edge. The inner back edge and the inner side edges define a recessed area recessed rearward from the front edge by a predetermined distance. The ground portion is connectable to the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2010Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventors: Takamitsu Nakajima, Takeshi Shindo, Koji Hayashi
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Patent number: 7931493Abstract: A cable assembly comprises an insulative housing defining an opening through two opposite top and bottom surfaces. A plurality of contacts are assembled in the insulative housing, each contact has a mating portion and a connecting portion. A plurality of wires are disposed on the top surface of the insulative housing, each wire defines a conductor electrically connected with the connecting portion and a metallic braiding layer surrounding the conductor. A conductive plate is assembled to the insulative housing and soldered with one side of the metallic braiding layers of the wires. A metallic shell encloses the insulative housing and defines a grounding tab extending into the corresponding opening of the insulative housing. The grounding tab is attached and soldered with another side of the metallic braiding layers of the wires facing to the opening of the insulative housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
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Patent number: 7901239Abstract: The invention relates to a cable connector including a housing and ferrule receiving structures for receiving ferrule systems of at least two cables. Each of said ferrule receiving structures is adapted to accommodate a flange of at least one of said ferrule systems and said ferrule receiving structures are arranged such that adjacent flanges of said ferrule systems substantially abut each other or at least partially overlap.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2005Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: FCIInventor: Ron Christian Weber
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Patent number: 7892026Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical plug-type connector (1) having a socket-like contact element (6), which is arranged in a contact chamber (2), which comprises at least two chamber parts (3, 4), which bear against one another with in each case at least one abutting face (24, 25), is made from plastic and has a plug-in opening (8). The invention provides for the outer face (5) of the contact chamber (2) to be completely coated with a conductive layer and for the abutting faces (24, 25) to be overlapped laterally by an overlapping wall section (27) on the outside of the contact chambers (2), and for that side of the overlapping wall section (27) which faces the abutting faces (24, 25) to likewise be coated with a conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2007Date of Patent: February 22, 2011Assignee: Amphenol-Tuchel Electronics GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Langhoff, Michael Knödler
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Patent number: 7874849Abstract: Disclosed is a plug for shielded data cables, in particular an RJ45 plug, having an electrically conducting housing, which can be assembled from a first shell and a second shell. An electrically insulating plug body accommodates plug contacts. A printed circuit board, which can be inserted into the housing, bears the plug contacts and insulation displacement contacts and conductively connects them to one another. The printed circuit board is insulated from the housing by a non-conducting foil. The wires of the data cable to be connected can be inserted into a loading piece, wherein the wires are accommodated in two planes one above the other in the loading piece. The data cable can be mounted in the loading piece and the second shell. When the shells are assembled, the insulation displacement contacts make contact with the wires of the data cable which are accommodated in the loading piece.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2006Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: MC Technology GmbHInventors: Rolf Sticker, Werner Rösch
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Patent number: 7736185Abstract: Apparatus and methods provide for the termination of shields within and around a cable at a connector in limited clearance environments. According to embodiments described herein, a shield termination fixture includes a base, at least one insert aperture, at least one retainer, and a mechanism for terminating cable shields. The base attaches to a connector and defines the insert aperture through which a cable will enter the fixture for connection to the connector. A signal wire of the cable is connected to the connector and a wire shield is positioned between a base wall adjacent to the insert aperture and a shield retainer. The shield retainer is secured to the base, compressing and terminating the wire shield. A cable shield may be terminated via compression between a cable shield retainer and the shield retainer, between the shield retainer and the base, or via fixed attachment to a retainer.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Phillip R. Rotta, John P. Crissey
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Patent number: RE48230Abstract: A cable bypass assembly is disclosed for use in providing a high speed transmission line for connecting a board mounted connector of an electronic device to a chip on the device board. The bypass cable assembly has a structure that permits it, where it is terminated to the board mounted connector and the chip member, or closely proximate thereto. to replicate closely the geometry of the cable. The connector terminals are arranged in alignment with the cable signal conductors and shield extensions are provided so that shielding can be provided up to and over the termination between the cable signal conductors and the board connector terminal tails. Likewise, a similar termination structure is provided at the opposite end of the cable where a pair of terminals are supported by a second connector body and enclosed in a shield collar.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Brian Keith Lloyd, Christopher David Hirschy, Munawar Ahmad, Eran J. Jones, Stephen W. Hamblin, Darian Ross Schulz, Todd David Ward, Gregory B. Walz, Ebrahim Abunasrah, Rehan Khan