Shield Formed By Folding Patents (Class 439/607.54)
  • Patent number: 10862239
    Abstract: A universal serial bus (USB) Type-C interface applied to an electronic device, where an antenna performance of the electronic device is improved by reducing metal in a structure of the USB Type-C interface, and strength of the electronic device is maintained at a specific level to ensure a service life of the USB Type-C interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaolong Wang, Gaofeng Wang, Hui Li, Xuelong Liu
  • Patent number: 10063018
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: a mating unit; a cable; a PCB interconnected between the mating unit and the cable; a metal shell enclosing the PCB, a rear of the mating unit, a front of the cable, the metal shell including an upper shell part and a lower shell part, each of the upper and lower shell parts having a main body and a pair of side walls; an insulative outer shell enclosing the metal shell, the rear of the mating unit, the front of the cable; wherein the pair of side walls of the upper shell part extend downwardly and those of the lower shell part extend upwardly to align with each other along an up-and-down direction; and each of the pair of side walls of the lower shell part includes a flap extending inwardly and upwardly to latch an associated side wall of the upper shell part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Da-Wei Xing, Jun Chen, Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 9735479
    Abstract: A single element wire to board connector terminal for clamping a conductor, includes: a base, side plates and hanging elastic arms. A hollow passage is formed on the base, for allowing the conductor to pass through the hollow passage. The side plates are bent and provided on two opposite sides of a front part of the base. The hanging elastic arms are extended backwardly and inwardly from the side plates respectively. An elastic arm restricting portion is extended from one of the hanging elastic arms and bent transversely, for protecting the elastic arm and providing access for the conductor. A conductor positioning portion is provided on a rear part of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: TARNG YU ENTERPRISE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tsung-Chi Chen, Mu-Jung Huang
  • Patent number: 9391410
    Abstract: An electrical connector, including an insulative housing, a plurality of conductive contacts received in the insulative housing and a metallic shell covering the insulative housing, the shell has a top wall, a bottom wall, a left and a right sidewalls connecting the top wall and the bottom wall, and a rear wall. The rear wall has a first part bent from a rear edge of the left sidewall and extending toward the right sidewall and a second part bent from a rear edge of the right sidewall and extending toward the left sidewall. Both the first and the second parts have a mounting leg extending downwardly, and the right and the left sidewalls have retaining legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Ming Yu, Ji-Chao Wang, Guo-Hua Zhang, Qi-Sheng Zheng, Yi Bu
  • Publication number: 20150079834
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly for being mounted on an external device for docking a mating connector, the cable connector assembly including a shield shell having a plurality of metal shrapnel, an insulative housing received in the shield shell, a plurality of connectors received in the insulative housing, and a cable connecting with the connector. The connector has a metal shell. The metal shrapnel is movable by the external device to be elastically pressed between the connector metal shell and the external device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, FAN-BO MENG
  • Patent number: 8961231
    Abstract: An improved electrical connector retainer employs a shell having a cavity. A pair of mated electrical connectors are received within the cavity and at least a portion of an upper wall of the shell is deflected towards a lower wall of the shell. The shell is configured to retain the upper wall in the deflected position, maintaining the pair of connectors in the mated position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Derek W. Wright, Alex Yeung, Steve McClure, Sean S. Corbin, John B. Ardisana, II, Benjamin J. Pope, Shayan Malek
  • Patent number: 8814597
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical plug contact, comprising—a line having an insulating section, a fastening section, and a contacting section,—a line shield that at least partially encloses the line,—a connector that electrically contacts the line at the end of the line in the contacting section,—an insulating retainer, which locks with the connector and which is arranged in the contacting and fastening sections, for insulating the connector from an electrically conductive housing, and—a secondary locking sleeve that at least partially surrounds the line in the fastening section and that can be fastened to the line, wherein shielding transfer means are provided in order to transfer the shielding from the line shield to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Amphenol-Tuchel Electronics GmbH
    Inventors: Anna Jacob, Michael Knödler
  • Patent number: 8794983
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an outer housing having two side arms extended from two opposite lateral sides of a holder base thereof and defining with the holder base a sliding space, a movable inner housing movable in and out of the sliding space and having two upright sidewalls at two opposite lateral sides of a bottom panel thereof and defining with the bottom panel a mating space, mating contact pins mounted at the bottom panel of the movable inner housing and partially suspending in the mating space, and a flexible connection interface electrically connected with the mating contact pins and extending out of the movable inner housing and the outer housing for connection to an external transmission interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Santa Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Hsien-Chun Liu
  • Patent number: 8641451
    Abstract: A HDMI connector includes a metallic housing having two plates respectively extending downward from two opposite sides thereof, an insulated body mounted in the metallic housing, and a plurality of electrically conducting pins installed with the insulated body. The metallic housing has two legs each located in front of a respective one of the plates, each leg being integrally formed by cutting a portion of the metallic housing and bending the portion downward. Each leg has a base portion and a solder portion extending from the base portion to be electrically connected to a printed circuit board, wherein the base portion is formed substantially at a right angle with respect to the solder portion and has a dimension greater than the solder portion. The HDMI connector can save material in manufacturing and increase space availability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Amphenol East Asia Electronic Technology (Shenzhen) Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhifeng Zheng, Gang Xie
  • Patent number: 8460034
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a cage, a body, positioned in the cage, and several terminals positioned on the body. The body has a front end and opposing rear end. The cage also has a front end and a rear end corresponding to the front and rear end of the body. The cage includes a top plate, a bottom plate and two lateral plates. A rear cover corresponding to the rear end of the body bend and extends from a rear end of the top plate of the cage. Two soldering pieces bend and extend from a bottom end of the rear cover toward the front end of the cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Xiao-Jun Song, Chiuming Lu
  • Patent number: 8408942
    Abstract: A shielding shell includes a front shell curved from a metal plate and having a base board and two side boards, and a rear shell having a base plate of which a front edge is connected with a rear edge of the base board. Two side plates extend downward from two opposite side edges of the base plate and each is connected with a rear edge of the side board of the front shell by virtue of a strengthening structure. The strengthening structure includes a first strengthening arm extending towards the corresponding side plate from a rear edge of the side board, and a second strengthening arm extending towards the corresponding side board from a front edge of the side plate to be buckled with the first strengthening arm so as to secure the side plate and the corresponding side board together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Guang-Li Huang, Li-Jun Xu, Ming-Han Lin
  • Patent number: 8398439
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body having a base portion and a tongue portion extending forward from a front side of the base portion. A top surface of the tongue portion defines a plurality of terminal fillisters each extending along a front-to-rear direction to penetrate through the tongue portion and the base portion. Two inner sides of a front end of each terminal fillister protrude face-to-face to form two holding portions with an interval therebetween gradually narrowing from rear to front. A plurality of terminals each has a contact arm disposed in the terminal fillister. A shielding shell encloses the insulating body to define an inserting space between the shielding shell and the tongue portion. The contact arm has a front end thereof held between the holding portions to avoid curling under the action of inserting a mating connector into the inserting space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Proconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-Chi Wang
  • Patent number: 8366486
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of terminals, a main shielding shell and an auxiliary shielding shell. The insulating housing includes a base body and a tongue portion. The insulating housing defines a plurality of terminal grooves of which each includes a receiving slot passing through a rear surface and a bottom surface of the base body. The terminals are received in the terminal grooves with soldering portions disposed in the receiving slots. A bottom face of the soldering portion is in alignment with the bottom surface of the base body to be soldered on a circuit board. The main shielding shell surrounds the tongue portion with the terminals. The auxiliary shielding shell has a base plate positioned to the rear surface of the base body to cover up top portions of the soldering portions, and two bending plates attached to the main shielding shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rong-Qin Lan, Li-Jun Xu, Ming-Han Lin
  • Publication number: 20120295482
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) comprises an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2), a cable (6) electrically connected with the contacts, and a metallic shell (3) enclosing the insulative housing. The insualtive housing includes a base portion, a first tongue and a second tongue. The metallic shell comprises a shielding member (31) and an outer shell (32) combined with the shielding member, the outer shell has a continued portion (322) and a T-shaped fixing portion (323) both integrally extending backwardly from two opposing sides thereof, the fixing portion has a clipping portion (3232) extending along a transverse direction on a free end thereof, and opposite free ends of the clipping portion are bent towards each other to clamp the cable while pressing on the continued portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: JERRY WU
  • Patent number: 8303343
    Abstract: When a multipolar plug and a counter connector are fitted to each other, there is a possibility that a seam joint of a shell of the multipolar plug may coincide with that of a shell the counter connector, and high-frequency noises may leak through gaps of the coincident seam joints. The invention has been conducted in view of the problem, and provides a multipolar plug which can improve the EMI characteristics of a multipolar connector. According to the invention, when the multipolar plug 2 and the counter connector 4 are fitted to each other, the seam joint 9a of the shell 9 of the multipolar plug 2 is shifted from a seam joint 17a of a shell 17 of the counter connector 4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventor: Takayuki Nagata
  • Publication number: 20120258625
    Abstract: An eSATA connector includes a connector plug and a mated connector receptacle. The connector plug includes a plug member, a plug metal housing, plug data terminals and a terminal holding part, in which the plug data terminals are held, and further includes plug power terminals held in the terminal holding part, wherein the plug power terminals and the data terminals each other electrically insulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Dong LI, Fuqiang LI
  • Patent number: 8202123
    Abstract: A connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of terminals assembled in the insulating housing, and a shielding shell curved from a metal plate to show a substantially rectangular tubular shape with a receiving space therein. Two free ends of the metal plate are acted as a pair of jointing plates end-to-end jointed with each other. Two end edges of the jointing plates jointed together each have a portion bent downward beyond a level plane of the jointing plates and then extended overstride the joint of the jointing plates to form a reinforcing portion. The reinforcing portion of one jointing plate is superposed against a bottom face of the other jointing plate and further welded with the other jointing plate together to ensure the jointing plates firmly jointed with each other. The insulating housing with the terminals is inserted rearward in the receiving space of the shielding shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jui-Pin Lin, Hung-Chi Wang, Ming-Chun Lai
  • Patent number: 8197281
    Abstract: A plug connector includes an insulating housing of which a rear surface is provided with a plurality of insertion holes, a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating housing and each having a soldering tail projected beyond the rear surface of the insulating housing, and a propping lid which has a base block mounted against the rear surface of the insulating housing, and a plurality of insertion bolts protruded forwards from a front face of the base block for being inserted into the corresponding insertion holes to make the propping lid detachably mounted to the insulating housing. The soldering tails can be soldered with cables respectively by means of being positioned against a top and a bottom of the base block, or directly soldered onto a printed circuit board by means of demounting the propping lid from the insulating housing to set the soldering tails free.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chih-Lin Yang
  • Patent number: 8133077
    Abstract: A shield connector (C) includes a tubular metallic shield shell (30) integrally attached to the outer circumferential surface of a housing (10) made of resin by insert molding. The shield shell (30) is formed with a cut (32) extending between opposite ends in a longitudinal direction, and a pair of opening preventing pieces (34A, 34B) which extend radially inward or outward, circumferentially face each other and can come into contact with each other when edges (33A, 33B) at the opposite sides of the cut (32) are displaced in directions away from each other are provided on the opposite edges (33A, 33B) of the shield shell 30 facing each other with the cut (32) therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki Okamoto
  • Patent number: 8011969
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing including a base portion and mating tongue plate protruding forwardly from the base portion; two contact modules being retained with each other and each including an insulative block, and a row of contacts being insert molded in the insulative housing, and a metal shell enclosing the insulative housing and the contact modules. A receiving space is formed between the shell and the tongue plate. The insulative blocks each defines a front portion inserted in the cavity of the insulative housing for the contact modules being retained with the insulative housing reliably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li-Jiang Wang, Jia-Yong He, Zhong-Hua Yao, Qi-Sheng Zheng
  • Publication number: 20110143594
    Abstract: When a multipolar plug and a counter connector are fitted to each other, there is a possibility that a seam joint of a shell of the multipolar plug may coincide with that of a shell the counter connector, and high-frequency noises may leak through gaps of the coincident seam joints. The invention has been conducted in view of the problem, and provides a multipolar plug which can improve the EMI characteristics of a multipolar connector. According to the invention, when the multipolar plug 2 and the counter connector 4 are fitted to each other, the seam joint 9a of the shell 9 of the multipolar plug 2 is shifted from a seam joint 17a of a shell 17 of the counter connector 4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takayuki Nagata
  • Patent number: 7914328
    Abstract: A shielded connector which makes a shell unnecessary while ensuring a shielding function. A housing holds a housing plurality of contacts each including a contact portion brought into contact with an associated one of contact portions of a plurality of mating contacts. The connector is provided with a shield member including a shield plate body which partitions the contact portions of the contacts into two groups, a first spring portion which is brought into contact with an inner wall surface of a shell of a mating connector, and a second spring portion which is brought into contact with the inner wall surface of the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Yukitaka Tanaka, Chikara Kawamura
  • Patent number: 7871297
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly of the invention comprises a butt plug with a contact portion and an electrical connector capable of matching the butt plug. One side of the contact portion has at least one engaging point. The electrical connector comprises an insulating body and a shield casing with at least one bottom wall. A side wall extends upward from at least one side of the bottom wall and the side wall covers at least one part of the insulating body. An opening, which is located at the front of the bottom wall and the side wall, is used for receiving the contact portion. The bottom wall has at least one fastening hole matching the engaging point. Enable the engaging point to slide into the corresponding fastening hole in parallel. When the butt plug is inserted into the shield casing once, the invention can ensure good electrical connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Lotes Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xiu-Dong Li
  • Patent number: 7862378
    Abstract: A vertical socket connector has an insulating housing, an insulating bracket, multiple first terminals, multiple second terminals and a shell. The insulating bracket is mounted on the insulating housing. The first terminals are mounted on the insulating housing. The second terminals are mounted on the insulating bracket. The shell covers the insulating housing, insulating bracket and terminals and forms a socket hole. Soldering sections of the first and second terminals protrude horizontally backward through rears of the insulating housing and insulating bracket so that the vertical socket connector is mounted vertically on a PCB with the socket hole opposite to the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Wei Wan, Shu-Lin Duan, Ching-Tien Chen, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Chih Ko
  • Patent number: 7815470
    Abstract: A shielding shell includes an upper shell and a lower shell. The upper shell has a rear cover engaged in the lower shell, and a front cover connected to a front of the rear cover and mounted beyond the lower shell. The lower shell has a base board, two side boards protruding upward from two opposite sides of a rear of the base board, and a front board protruding upward from a front end of the base board. Two opposite ends of the front board extend sideward to form a pair of fixing boards bent rearward to lie substantially in alignment with the corresponding side boards. Wherein a free end of each of the fixing boards extends to form a fixing portion buckled into a corresponding fixing cavity defined in a front of each of the side boards for fixing the fixing board to the corresponding side board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2010
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsin-Tsung Ho
  • Patent number: 7794279
    Abstract: A plug connector connected with a cable has a base and an insertion portion at a front of the base. A terminal is fixed to the base, having a soldering slice connecting with the cable. A first shell is coupled with the insertion portion. A second shell coupled with the base has a lip plate covering a top surface of the base. An edge of the lip plate is extended to form a lateral plate at a front thereof, attached to a side of the base, and a connecting arm at a rear thereof and extending apart from the lateral plate. An opposite edge of the lip plate is extended to form a parcel plate bent around the base to connect the lateral plate. The parcel plate has a support arm extending beneath the connecting arm to form a passageway for allowing the cable to pass therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chao-Yong Ye, Kai-Hsiang Chang, Kuo-Chin Lin
  • Patent number: 7771237
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing (1), a number of terminals (2) received in the housing and a shell (3) covering the housing thereby forming a receiving space (310). The insulative housing (1) defines a base portion (11), a tongue portion (12) extending frontward from the base portion and having numbers of passageways (19) receiving the terminals and extending through the base portion. The shell (3) include a pair of pressing portions (36) extending to the receiving space and pressing against said tongue portion (12) in a direction perpendicular to the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Gao-Bing Lei, Nan Hu
  • Patent number: 7766677
    Abstract: A dustproof receptacle connector includes a dielectric housing, a plurality of terminals, a shield and a dustproof cover. The dielectric housing defines a plurality of terminal grooves therein for receiving the terminals. The shield surrounding the dielectric housing has a top board. A sliding groove is defined in the top board and extends longitudinally to pass through a rear end of the top board. An engaging portion extends from the rear end of the top board. A receiving groove is surrounded by the engaging portion and the rear end of the top board and communicates with the sliding groove. The engaging portion is bent downward to be attached to a rear portion of the dielectric housing. The dustproof cover is slidably received in the shield and located between the dielectric housing and a front end of the shield. The dustproof cover has a positioning portion slidable along the sliding groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shu-Man Chiang
  • Patent number: 7727019
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit board connector capable of establishing an electrical connection between circuits on a circuit board and a mating electrical connector at a mating side of said circuit board connector. The circuit board connector includes a connector housing accommodating a plurality of terminals for establishing said electrical connection and an electrically conductive shell at least partially enclosing said connector housing. The shell includes a top wall and a rear wall, wherein said rear wall is connected to said top wall and is arranged opposite to said mating side. The shell further has a first and second extension connected to opposite sides of said rear wall and bent with respect to said rear wall to extend towards said mating side. First and second mounting posts are connected, respectively, to said first and second extension and third and fourth mounting posts are connected to said rear wall, wherein said mounting posts are arranged for mounting said shell on said circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: FCI
    Inventors: Gert Droesbeke, Robert Van Den Heuvel, Nico Van Stiphout, Bernard Vuillaume, Michel Fonteneau
  • Patent number: 7682196
    Abstract: A cable connector adapted for connecting with cables includes a plug insulating housing. The plug insulating housing has a basic body and an inserting portion extending frontward from a front surface of the basic body. A peripheral dimension of the inserting portion is less than that of the basic body. A plurality of plug terminals are received in the inserting portion and the basic body and connected with the cables mounted to the plug insulating housing and extend out from the basic body opposite to the inserting portion. A plug shell coupled with the plug insulating housing includes a top shell and a bottom shell connected to the top shell by at least one connecting portion attached to the front surface of the basic body. Both opposite sides of the bottom shell extend upwards and bend inwards to form a buckling portion clasping the top shell, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry, Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chi Peng
  • Patent number: 7661990
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing, a plurality of terminals and a shield. The dielectric housing defines a plurality of terminal grooves therein for receiving the terminals. At least one recess is formed in an outer surface of the dielectric housing. The shield has a plurality of sidewalls to define a receiving space therebetween for receiving the dielectric housing therein. At least one of the sidewalls is punched inward at a portion corresponding to the recess of the dielectric housing to form a retaining portion restricted in the recess after the dielectric housing is mounted in the receiving space. The retaining portion is restricted in the recess for fixing the dielectric housing inside the shield. The depth of the recess and the retaining portion restricted in the recess is not limited by the depth of the material of the shield. The dielectric housing is fixed in the shield firmly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shu-Man Chiang
  • Patent number: 7648396
    Abstract: A shielding device for an electrical connector for joining a contact with an electrical line or cable includes a cylindrical shield member formed of brass arranged within the connector. The shield member contains an opening in a central region which defines cylindrical sleeves at each end of the member and a transitional portion joining the cylindrical sleeves. One of the sleeves receives the contact and the other of the sleeves receives an end of the electrical line. The shield member transitional portion defines a fold line about which the cylindrical sleeves are bent toward each other at a desired obtuse angle. Portions of the cylindrical sleeves overlap when the sleeves are bent toward each other to at least partially close the opening and shield the connection between the contact and the electrical line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Weidmuller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marcell Nickol, Norbert Carl
  • Patent number: 7641519
    Abstract: A USB connector includes an electrically insulative housing, which has an exposed space area defined in the bottom wall of a tongue plate at the front side of an upper base member thereof and terminal grooves formed in the bottom wall of the tongue plate, first metal terminals embedded in the upper base member and the tongue plate each having a contact end positioned in a respective locating groove in the exposed space area and a bonding end extended out of the upper base member for bonding, and second metal terminals each having a base portion respectively upwardly forced into the terminal grooves in direction perpendicular to the insertion direction of a matching plug and a front contact end suspending outside the terminal grooves and a rear bonding end extended out of the rear side of the upper base member for bonding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: U.D. Electronic Corp.
    Inventor: Po-Jung Chen
  • Patent number: 7637778
    Abstract: A shield plate arranged between a connector and a circuit board for covering and shielding parts of metal pins sticking out from the circuit board when a connector provided with a board mounting surface having a plurality of metal pins and a connector connection surface is mounted at an end of the circuit board, provided with an connector-engagement part, a shield part of the metal pins, a mounting part having press-fit pins for insertion, and support parts of the press-fit pins and flexible parts at a part between the shield part and the mounting part, the press-fit pins becoming vertical to the circuit board in the state with the engagement part engaged with the connector and the free end parts of the press-fit pins provisionally inserted into the engagement holes, thereby enabling the press-fit pins to be press-fit into the engagement holes all at once by a pushing action of the support parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Shuhei Sakai
  • Patent number: 7621780
    Abstract: A shield for reducing impedance of a shielding of a SCART connector at high frequencies, the shield including a metallic sheet having a first end and a second end where each of the first and second ends extends along and adjacent to a surface of a SCART connector socket. A shielding assembly and a method for shielding a SCART connector are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventor: Per Magnusson