For Receiving Coaxial Connector Patents (Class 439/63)
  • Patent number: 9660366
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device (4) for connecting a radio frequency circuit (3) or component printed on a flexible support (2) to a coaxial cable, comprising: —a first part (14) suitable for being disposed against a first face (5) of the support (2) on which the circuit or the component (3) is printed, the first part (14) comprising a recess capable of housing a coaxial cable connector (13), —a second part (15) capable of being disposed against a second face (6) of the support (2), opposite the first face, and in which the first part (14) and/or the second part (15) comprises attachment means for attaching the first part (14) and the second part (15) to each other, the flexible support (2) being clamped between the first part (14) and the second part (15), in such a way as to maintain an electrical contact between the connector (13) and the circuit or component (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE
    Inventors: Tsitoha Andriamiharivolamena, Franck Tirard, Smail Tedjini, Pierre Lemaitre-Auger
  • Patent number: 9640907
    Abstract: A fitting adaptor is for fitting a cable connector to a device connector of an electrical device. The fitting adaptor includes a panel; an intermediate connector attached to the panel to be movable relative to the panel; a locking mechanism disposed on the panel; and an elastic member disposed on at least one of the intermediate connector and the locking mechanism, or between the panel and the intermediate connector. The intermediate connector includes a cable connector side connecting portion and a device connector side connecting portion, so that the elastic member urges the device connector side portion against the device connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsubasa Kaneko
  • Patent number: 9620900
    Abstract: In a coaxial connector with a floating mechanism, a housing includes a housing base fixed to a support, a housing movable portion that is movable with a center contact relative to the housing base, and a floating spring one end of which is fixed to the housing base and the other end of which is fixed to the housing movable portion. The floating spring includes a support fixing portion fixed to the housing base, a floating fixing portion fixed to the housing movable portion, and an elastically deformable swing spring portion that couples the support fixing portion and the floating fixing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoyasu Yanase, Kiyoshi Asai
  • Patent number: 9589710
    Abstract: An insulator for a coaxial connector is disclosed. The insulator is constructed of dielectric material laser cut into a plurality of sections such that the insulator is able to move laterally, transversely, and rotationally to accommodate gimballing and radial misalignment of a transmission medium connected to the coaxial connector while maintaining dielectric properties to insulate and separate components of the coaxial connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications RF LLC
    Inventor: Casey Roy Stein
  • Patent number: 9551739
    Abstract: A coaxial connector including a connector main body is formed of an upper housing and a lower housing. An outer conductor includes a circular cylinder portion surrounding the periphery of a hole of the connector main body and configured to be inserted into an outer conductor of a mating coaxial connector. A main body portion is provided on the connector main body, and a fixation portion that is extended from the main body portion so as to sandwich the connector main body along with the main body portion. A fixed terminal is anchored to the connector main body. A movable terminal includes a fixation portion anchored to the connector main body, and a plate spring that extends from the fixation portion toward the fixed terminal and overlaps with the fixation portion at tip ends of the plate spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Osaki
  • Patent number: 9543672
    Abstract: A terminal block device to which a first wire and a second wire are to be connected includes a terminal block body made of an insulating material, a cover that is made of an insulating material and covers the terminal block body, a shaft member at which a terminal of the first wire and a terminal of the second wire are engaged, a cylindrical relay terminal through which the shaft member is inserted and which is inserted through the cover, a fastening member for fastening the terminal of the first wire and the terminal of the second wire to the relay terminal. The relay terminal includes a first seat surface that is contactable with the terminal of the first wire between the terminal block body and the cover and a second seat surface that is contactable with the terminal of the second wire outside the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
    Inventor: Tsutomu Imai
  • Patent number: 9504167
    Abstract: Disclosed is a procedure for manufacturing a cable connector device with a blade and the structure of the cable connector device including a printed circuit board and a cable thread. a bore is made on the printed circuit board covered with a conductive layer, and then the head of the cable connector component is placed into the bore and is soldered to the conductive layer. Then, the cable threads are held in the bladed opening of the cable connector. In the next step, the entire unit is covered by a resin case, thereby also holding the cable threads in the opening of the cable connector. The case itself consists of a single part and does not require any other holding component or plastic shell. Given the small size of the case, there is a shortened warm up period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Inventor: Jozsef Laszlo Baran
  • Patent number: 9445503
    Abstract: A carrier device for an electrical component includes a carrier, which includes an electrically insulating layer, and an electrical contact layer on the electrically insulating layer The electrical contact layer includes at least one bridge-shaped contact region At least one recess in the electrically insulating layer is arranged at least on one side surface of the bridge-shaped contact region and/or the bridge-shaped contact region includes a bridge width reducing toward the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Krister Bergenek, Andreas Biebersdorf, Jörg Erich Sorg
  • Patent number: 9433083
    Abstract: An electrical interface on a circuit board is disclosed for electrically connecting the circuit board to a connector to reduce reflections and impedance mismatch and increase power transfer from the connector to the signal path of the circuit board. The signal interface includes a signal conductor including a signal pad configured to connect to a connector pin and a waveguide section extending from the signal pad. The waveguide narrows from a signal pad width to connect to a microstrip conductor. A first ground section is spaced rightward from the signal conductor such that the inner edge of the first ground section, angles in correspondence with the narrowing of the waveguide to generally track an outer right edge of the waveguide. A second ground section is spaced leftward from the signal conductor and configured generally similarly to the first ground section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfredo Moncayo, Brian Hostetter, Luis F. Armenta
  • Patent number: 9408304
    Abstract: A broadband through printed circuit board (PCB) for millimeter wave application and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The structure includes a multiple layered body and an opening in the multiple layered body. The structure further includes at least one signal via extending through the opening. The structure further includes ground vias extending through the opening and on opposing sides of the at least one signal via. The structure further includes a ground plate above and below the opening and electrically connected to the ground vias at respective ends. The structure further includes a microstrip signal via above and below the opening and electrically connected to the at least one signal via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.
    Inventors: Dana H. Brown, Hanyi Ding, Yan Ding, John S. Ferrario
  • Patent number: 9379447
    Abstract: In a coaxially-fed slot array antenna including a coaxial line unit configured with a coaxial inner conductor and a coaxial outer conductor that incorporates the coaxial inner conductor; a feeding waveguide for feeding an electromagnetic wave to the coaxial line unit by way of a feeding slot; and a sub-array configured, corresponding to the coaxial line unit, with a plurality of emission slots formed on the external wall surface of the coaxial outer conductor, the space enclosed by the coaxial inner conductor and the coaxial outer conductor is filled with a foamed dielectric having a predetermined foaming rate. As a result, provision is made for a coaxially-fed slot array antenna that can enhance the flexibility in arranging the emission slots, change the width and the gradient of the main beam, and suppress a grating lobe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuhisa Kodama
  • Patent number: 9312621
    Abstract: A coaxial connector (100), includes an insulative housing (1), a static terminal (3) and a movable terminal (4). The static terminal (3) has a first contacting portion (33) and a leading plate (34) extending upwardly therefrom. The movable terminal (4), formed by a stainless steel plate, includes a second contacting portion (44) and a reacting portion (43). Due to the guidance of the leading plate (34), the second contacting portion (44) resists under the first contacting portion (33). The reacting portion (43) drives the second contacting portion (44) downward to leave the first contacting portion (33), when the testing probe poked. Nickel-plated layers (43b) are disposed on the surfaces of the stainless steel plate (43a) and gold-plated layers (43c) are disposed on the nickel-plated layers (43b) so that the movable terminal (4) has an overall thickness in the range from about 62.1 ?m to about 73.2 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ming-Ching Chen
  • Patent number: 9305720
    Abstract: An electrical signal switch connector structure is provided, mainly including an insulating case, an elastic terminal, a fixing terminal, and a shielding case. The insulating case respectively accommodates the elastic terminal and the fixing terminal. The elastic terminal has an elastic arm, and the elastic arm of the elastic terminal has a cutting gap. The fixing terminal has a fixing arm, and the elastic arm of the elastic terminal is elastically pressed against the fixing arm of the fixing terminal. An inlet hole of the insulating case is used for passing a terminal of a butting connector therein, and the shielding case wraps the insulating case profile such that an ambient extraneous matter is not attached to the elastic arm of the elastic terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SPEED TECH CORP.
    Inventors: Chih-Cheng Chen, Chen-Hung Sung, Hei-Hsueh Chiang
  • Patent number: 9279852
    Abstract: A test socket assembly, useful in association with a thermal control unit (TCU) used to maintain a set point temperature on an IC device under test, has alignment holes with bushings that are secured within the alignment holes by using retaining pins. The retaining pins can be easily screwed in and out of the socket. This provision allows the bushings to be replaced easily as they get worn out or deformed from repeated testing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Essai, Inc.
    Inventors: Nasser Barabi, Chee Wah Ho, Joven R. Tienzo, Oksana Kryachek, Elena V. Nazarov
  • Patent number: 9276340
    Abstract: Connecting structures to mechanically connect to a connector receptacle tongue and a printed circuit board and to electrically connect contacts on the connector receptacle tongue to traces on the printed circuit board. One example may provide an interposer having a housing and a plurality of contacts. The contacts may have a side or tongue connecting portion extending beyond a side of the housing and a bottom or board contacting portion extending beyond a bottom of the housing. The contacts may form a ninety-degree bend. A shield may at least substantially surround a top and the other three sides of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmoud R. Amini, Zheng Gao, Nathan N. Ng, Jason Hwang Lee
  • Patent number: 9246244
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) connector on a circuit board is provided. The RF connector includes a socket member, which includes a conductive sleeve comprising a top portion, a bottom portion, a plurality of springs connecting the top portion to the bottom portion. The RF connector also includes a base inside the conductive sleeve comprising a matching hole configured to match to a conductive pin of a plug member. The RF connector further includes an end portion electrically coupled to the circuit board. The end portion is mounted on the circuit board. The RF connector also includes a middle portion connected between the socket member and the end portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
    Inventors: David Eugene Erdos, David Michael Lettkeman
  • Patent number: 9236668
    Abstract: A cable connector for connecting a cable having an inner conductor includes an insulating housing having an assembling portion and a mating portion protruding from one side of the assembling portion, the mating portion including a mating cavity, the assembling portion including a receiving room communicating with the mating cavity; a contact having a connecting portion received in the receiving room for connecting the inner conductor of the cable and a contacting portion extending into the mating cavity; and a shell having a back portion assembled upon the assembling portion of the insulating housing. The insulating housing includes an elastic arm extending into the receiving room and located beside the connecting portion of the contact. The back portion of the shell includes a pushing portion pushing the elastic arm to press the connecting portion of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Cheng-Chi Yeh
  • Patent number: 9225120
    Abstract: Examples of electrical connectors that incorporate electromagnetic interference (EMI) absorbing materials are described. In one example, an electrical connector includes a first pair of conductors, a second pair of conductors, and electromagnetic interference (EMI) absorbing material at least partially separating the first pair of conductors from the second pair of conductors. Each of the first and second pairs of conductors defines one of a differential pair or a signal conductor/ground pair. The EMI absorbing material may be configured to attenuate, primarily by absorption, an electromagnetic field generated due to transmission of electrical signals via one of the first pair and second pair of conductors to reduce the electromagnetic inference from the electromagnetic field on the other of the first pair and second pair of conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Alexander W. Barr
  • Patent number: 9160089
    Abstract: Provided is a wire-to-board connector including a plug attached to a wire, and a receptacle mounted on a circuit board. The plug and the receptacle are formed of metal. The plug is fitted into the receptacle to electrically connect the wire to the circuit board. The receptacle has an accommodating portion formed in a tubular shape. The plug has an inserted portion to be inserted into the accommodating portion of the receptacle. The inserted portion includes a body plate and an elastic piece elastically supported in a cantilevered manner by the body plate. The elastic piece of the inserted portion has a free end. The accommodating portion has an engaged portion. When the inserted portion is inserted into the accommodating portion, the free end engages with the engaged portion along with an elastic deformation of the elastic piece, thereby allowing the plug to be fitted into the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenichi Shimoji
  • Patent number: 9136655
    Abstract: The present invention provides a coaxial RF cable connection device that connects a coaxial RF cable to a printed circuit board having one side on which a signal transmission pattern is formed and having another side on which a ground plane is formed. The devices has central body with a support opening into which the cable is penetrated and inserted and a solder block with a pair of auxiliary bodies respectively protruded from both sides of the central body. The printed circuit board has a cutting portion formed by cutting and removing a part of the edge. A pair of through holes are formed on both sides of the cutting portion and is soldered on one side of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: KMW Inc.
    Inventors: Young-Chan Moon, Sung-Hwan So, Oh-Seog Choi, Youn-Moon Han
  • Patent number: 9124047
    Abstract: An inner terminal (54) of the present invention includes a horizontal part (C) held in an insulator part (55) covered with an outer terminal (56) and a suspending part (D) extended in a direction substantially orthogonal to the horizontal part (C) and having a lower end part connected to a signal patter of a circuit board. In the suspending piece (C) as a part opposed to one pair of side surface pieces (56b) suspended and extended in the outer terminal (56), plate shaped impedance adjusting pieces (54c) are integrally provided which respectively face the side surface pieces (56b) with prescribed spaces held from the side surface pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidenori Kanda
  • Patent number: 9118156
    Abstract: A coaxial connector includes an inner tube, an outer tube, a center connector unit and a resilient member. The inner and outer tube each have a first/second body, and each of the first and second bodies has a semi-circular first/second tubular portion. A first flange extends outward from the front end of the first tubular portion. The outer tube has a first stepped portion formed in the inside of the front end of the second tubular portion thereof. The center connector unit is securely located in the first and second bodies. The resilient member has a curved body with two legs bent from two ends thereof. The curved body of the resilient member is engaged between the first flange and the first stepped portion. The legs extend beyond the first and second tubular portions. The coaxial connector is easily assembled and has lower manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Inventor: Chung-Chuan Huang
  • Patent number: 9107309
    Abstract: A system having a plug and a housing having a hollow space at least partially sealed and an electrical supply line, which is connected to an electrical component, which is separated from the space by a pass-through region, which has a first sealing arrangement that seals in media-tight fashion, the line being surrounded at least partially by the first sealing arrangement, and being contactable in the space, the plug having at least one electrical contact for contacting the line and having at least one second sealing arrangement, which is such that for a contacting, the hollow space is sealed in media-tight, the line of the housing and/or the first sealing arrangement having at least one first locking arrangement, and the electrical contact of the plug having at least one second locking arrangement, the locking arrangements providing that for a contacting, an exclusively irreversible positive and/or non-positive locking is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Juergen Kurle
  • Patent number: 9106034
    Abstract: A coaxial connector for a mating device to be inserted therein, includes an insulating body having a sustaining portion, a static terminal having a first contact portion, and a movable terminal having a second contact portion for contacting the first contact portion. The sustaining portion and an object below have a gap therebetween. The static terminal and the movable terminal are fixed to the insulating body. An elastic arm is formed by extending from the second contact portion. The sustaining portion engages the elastic arm. When the mating device is inserted into the coaxial connector, the mating device presses the elastic arm downwards, the second contact portion moves downwards to be separated from the first contact portion, and the elastic arm drives the sustaining portion to move downwards together, such that the sustaining portion butts against the object below to prevent the movable terminal from moving downwards excessively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Shang Ju Tsai, Yan Xian Yuan, Hua Hui Zhi, Chun Yu Peng
  • Patent number: 9077131
    Abstract: A coaxial connector includes an insulation housing having a receptacle opening portion for receiving a central conductive member of a coaxial plug; an outer conductive member for detachably attaching an outer conductive member of the coaxial plug; a connection member; a switching spring member capable of being elastically deformed downwardly; and an insulation member fixed to the connection member or the switching spring member so that the insulation member is situated between the connection member and the switching spring member. The switching spring member is pushed and displaced so that the switching spring member is disconnected from the connection member when the coaxial plug is inserted into the insulation housing. The connection member is pushed to displace the switching spring member through the insulation member so that the switching spring member is disconnected from the connection member when the coaxial plug is inserted into the insulation housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Hida, Daisuke Yamakoshi
  • Patent number: 9065185
    Abstract: A connector for connecting a coaxial cable to a components box is disclosed, the connector is adapted to receive a central conductor of the coaxial cable and to firmly connect it to a central pin in the connector using a seizing force of a springy element, without needing to use a fastening screw or the like and without needing to open the component box. The connector of the invention is further adapted to allow releasing the central conductor from the central pin without needing to unfasten a screw or opening the component box. The connector is further adapted to facilitate the connection of the coaxial cable to the connector in another orientation similarly, without needing to use a fastening screw or the like and without needing to open the component box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Xtend Networks Ltd.
    Inventors: Gavriel Magnezi, Olga Degtyarev, Yasis Shohet, Yehezkel Albag
  • Patent number: 9039424
    Abstract: The present invention provides a DIN jack including a dielectric shroud defining a closed entry lead-in that helps prevent damage caused by a bent or misaligned signal pin of a mating DIN plug without adversely affecting the performance of the DIN connector. The present invention also provides a board lock feature that may be used to hold a DIN jack securely to a circuit board during the manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Winchester Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Camelio, John E. Benham
  • Patent number: 9028261
    Abstract: An electrical connector for selectively connecting at least a first electrical line and a second electrical line together includes an annular ring having at least one electrically-conductive circumferential groove in an outer peripheral surface, an inner surface, or both. An annular socket comprises a plurality of downwardly-projecting electrically-conductive prongs, each of which is resiliently attached at a top end thereof to an annular socket ring. Each prong terminates proximate a bottom end thereof at an electrical contact. The prongs are adapted for electrically and mechanically engaging the grooves of the annular ring. The socket may be pressed onto the ring to resiliently deform the prongs momentarily until the contact of each prong is seated into the groove of the ring. When the socket is rotated with respect to the ring electrical connectivity is maintained between the pair of electrical lines each connected to either the socket or the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Inventor: Carol Makinen
  • Patent number: 9011163
    Abstract: An annular contact is enabled to be firmly retained by an insulating housing without affecting the mating force or removing force between there and a matching connector with a simple configuration. Divided end parts of the annular contact attached to the insulating housing are provided with contact retaining parts that abut part of the insulating housing and retain the annular contact at the insulating housing when removal with respect to the matching connector is carried out, so that the shapes and sizes of the contact retaining parts are not affected by elastic force of the annular contact, in other words, mating force or removing force with respect to the matching connector almost at all to facilitate adjustment of the mating force or removing force between there and the matching connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junji Ohsaka
  • Patent number: 8986043
    Abstract: With a simple configuration, plastic deformation of contacts can be prevented while avoiding increase in size, and occurrence of failure in electrical connection due to dust can be well prevented. In an elastic beam-like member of a first-side contact extending like a cantilever in an insulating housing, a bent extending part which substantially increases the span length of the elastic beam-like member is formed to be bent to have a curved shape at a root part serving as a part coupled to a fixing base part. A through hole is formed in a region including at least part of the bent extending part to ensure flexibility while enhancing elasticity of the contact, thereby preventing permanent deformation of the contact. Meanwhile, dust which has entered the equipment is caused to fall through the through hole, thereby ensuring electrical conductivity well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hirakawa, Yoichi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 8944827
    Abstract: A guiding function of an annular contact upon mating/removal with/from an opposing connector can be maintained well with a simple configuration. An annular contact is formed with an unruptured annular member having no ruptured part in a circumferential direction and continued in the circumferential direction. As a result, compared with a conventional annular contact having ruptured parts in the circumferential direction, rigidity is increased while maintaining necessary elasticity; and, for example even when an opposing connector is mated or removed in a direction inclined in an axial direction with respect to the axial direction of the annular shape, conventional twisting deformation is suppressed in the annular contact, and the opposing connector is stably guided along the axial direction of the annular shape, thereby well maintaining a mating guiding function of the annular contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Junji Ohsaka
  • Patent number: 8932079
    Abstract: A straight electrical coaxial cable connector (2) for connecting first and second coaxial cables (8, 10) each including a core (16, 24) and a shield layer (20, 28), the connector (2) including first and second interengeagable housing parts (68, 70), first and second crimp ferrules (34, 52) for respectively engaging the shield layers (20, 28) of the first and second cables (8, 10), shield connection means (38) for electrically interconnecting the first and second shield layers (20, 28), core connection means (36, 64) for electrically interconnecting the two cores (16, 24), and first and second ferrule engagement means (76, 88) operable to respectively secure the first and second ferrules (34, 52) relative to respective said housing parts (68, 70).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics UK Ltd
    Inventor: John Marsh
  • Patent number: 8920181
    Abstract: A coaxial connector includes an insulation housing having a receptacle opening portion for receiving a coaxial plug; an outer conductive member; a first terminal disposed below the receptacle opening portion; a second terminal disposed below the first terminal; and an insulation member disposed between the first terminal and the second terminal. The first terminal includes a first contact portion for contacting with a central conductive member of the coaxial plug. The second terminal includes a second contact portion for contacting with the central conductive member. The first terminal further includes a third contact portion, and the second terminal further includes a fourth contact portion for contacting with the third contact portion when the coaxial plug is not inserted into the insulation housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kohei Hida, Tsuyoshi Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 8917359
    Abstract: A power supply for a television and a television including the same, the power supply including: a rectifier which rectifies input AC power; a converter which converts the rectified power into DC power through a switching control; a circuit board on which at least one of the rectifier and the converter is mounted; and an input connector which receives the AC power and is mounted on the circuit board such that a projecting height of the input connector projecting from the circuit board is substantially equal to or smaller than a projecting height of at least one of the rectifier and the converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Young-deok Choi
  • Patent number: 8911240
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing including a conductive material, a base connected to the housing and including a base center hole and a base groove extending from the base center hole to an edge of the base, a center pin including a first portion and a second portion extending perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first portion, and a dielectric. The dielectric includes a first portion extending through the base center hole and including a dielectric center hole through which the first portion of the center pin extends and a second portion extending perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first portion of the dielectric along the base groove and including a dielectric groove along which the second portion of the center pin extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Samtec, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Ellsworth Biddle, Christopher Warren Shelly
  • Patent number: 8905781
    Abstract: A coaxial connector assembly comprises a cable coaxial electrical connector and a board coaxial electrical connector mounted on a PCB and connecting to the cable coaxial electrical connector. The cable coaxial electrical connector defines a pair of retaining arms extending toward the board coaxial electrical connector, thereby the pair of retaining arms locking with the board coaxial electrical connector or the PCB to ensure a good engagement of the two coaxial connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: De-Jin Chen
  • Patent number: 8899992
    Abstract: A connector adapted to be disposed in a mobile device to electrically connect with a signal terminal of an electronic device is provided. The connector includes a casing, a tube, a pin and a terminal set. The casing has a first side, a second side and a through hole, and the tube is disposed in the second side. The pin has a first end and a second end. The first end is slidably disposed in the through hole and the second end protrudes out of the tube. The terminal set includes a first terminal and a second terminal, and the second terminal is movably connected with the first terminal. When the mobile device is assembled to the electronic device, the signal terminal of the electronic device leans against the pin, so that the pin leans against the first terminal to separate the first terminal and the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: ASUSTek Computer Inc.
    Inventors: Chung-Chih Yang, Chung-Yuan Kuang, Kuo-Chu Liao
  • Publication number: 20140342581
    Abstract: A vertical mount PCB coax connector having a unique cavity design. The examples provide a vertical mounted connector with improved electrical performance to transmit a microwave signal to or from a coaxial port to planar printed circuitry. The vertical mount PCB connector includes a threaded housing with a four post flange for attachment to the PCB, a center conductor and a dielectric bead to support the center conductor. The bottom of the flange has a uniquely contoured cavity to provide air space for the electromagnetic field above the planar transmission line. Four posts at the corners of the flange serve as the ground connection from the connector to the substrate ground planes. The open or large cavity under the flange is designed to provide high values of inductive reactance at the high end of the microwave band and typically requires changing the planar geometry to achieve even a narrow band impedance match.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Southwest Microwave, Inc.
    Inventors: Clarence L. Clyatt, Robert Griffin, Peter Frank
  • Patent number: 8870578
    Abstract: An inner terminal (54) of the present invention includes a horizontal part (C) held in an insulator part (55) covered with an outer terminal (56) and a suspending part (D) extended in a direction substantially orthogonal to the horizontal part (C) and having a lower end part connected to a signal patter of a circuit board. In the suspending piece (C) as a part opposed to one pair of side surface pieces (56b) suspended and extended in the outer terminal (56), plate shaped impedance adjusting pieces (54c) are integrally provided which respectively face the side surface pieces (56b) with prescribed spaces held from the side surface pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Hidenori Kanda
  • Patent number: 8840423
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus, includes: a housing including a metallic outer wall part on which an insertion hole to a plug electrode part of a power plug being inserted is formed; a power connector which is stored in the housing and coupled to the plug electrode part inserted into the housing through the insertion hole; and an insulating stopper part which includes a facing surface facing an outer circumference surface of the plug electrode part with a gap, which is smaller than the gap between the outer circumference surface of the plug electrode part and an inner circumference surface of the insertion hole, and which is allocated between the outer wall part and the power connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masahiko Hoshi, Shinji Aoki
  • Publication number: 20140273550
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing including a conductive material, a base connected to the housing and including a base center hole and a base groove extending from the base center hole to an edge of the base, a center pin including a first portion and a second portion extending perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first portion, and a dielectric. The dielectric includes a first portion extending through the base center hole and including a dielectric center hole through which the first portion of the center pin extends and a second portion extending perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first portion of the dielectric along the base groove and including a dielectric groove along which the second portion of the center pin extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SAMTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Gary Ellsworth BIDDLE, Christopher Warren SHELLY
  • Patent number: 8801459
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coaxial connector (1), comprising a first and a second connector part (2, 3) and an adapter (4) arranged therebetween. The first and the second connector part (2, 3) include a first inner conductor (5) and a first outer conductor (8), including a first internal cylindrical contact surface (24) and a second internal cylindrical contact surface (25), respectively. In a socket area (17) of the first inner conductor (5), a first mechanical operative-connection means interacts with a second mechanical operative-connection means (11) in the installed state in order to establish a mechanical connection (13) that is effective in the axial direction (z). The first inner conductor (5) protrudes beyond the level of the mechanical operative-connection means (10, 11) so the internal cylindrical contact surface (24) is able to compensate a large axial offset (dz) of the connector parts (2, 3) relative to the adapter (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Huber+Suhner AG
    Inventor: Eckhard Mrowka
  • Patent number: 8804356
    Abstract: A mounting apparatus for an expansion card includes a bottom plate, a circuit board, and mounting bracket. The bottom plate defines mounting hole. The circuit board is secured to the bottom plate, and a gap is defined between the bottom plate and the circuit board. The mounting bracket includes a base secured to the bottom plate. The base includes two positioning pieces and an elastically deformable mounting portion. The two positioning pieces are received in the gap, to prevent the mounting bracket from moving along a first direction substantially perpendicular to the bottom plate, and the elastically deformable mounting portion is engaged in the mounting hole, to prevent the mounting bracket from moving along a second direction substantially parallel to the bottom plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lung-Sheng Tsai, Yao-Chung Chen
  • Patent number: 8790121
    Abstract: An electrical connector in which a single connector is directly mated with a coupling projection part provided in a product chassis constituting an electronic device; contact parts of electrically-conductive contacts are brought into contact with both contact parts of a wiring pattern exposed from upper and lower both surfaces of the coupling projection part; electrical connection of the signal transmission medium is established with a simple configuration without intermediation of a conventionally-used circuit board or an electrical connector serving as a mating counterpart mounted on the circuit board; pressing force of the electrically-conductive contacts is cancelled out and approximately uniformly applied without unevenness; the protruding distance of the mating structure of the electrical connector is reduced to reduce the thickness thereof; and reversed mating is enabled to increase degree of freedom in the extending direction of a terminal part of the signal transmission medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takeshi Hirakawa
  • Patent number: 8777637
    Abstract: A connector for connecting a coaxial cable and a circuit board is disclosed. The connector includes a main body, a first holding portion, a second holding portion and a fixing structure. The first holding portion extends from a first end portion of the main body for holding a first insulation layer of the coaxial cable. The second holding portion extends from the main body in a position located between a second end portion opposite to the first end portion and the first holding portion for holding a braid layer of the coaxial cable. The fixing structure extends from the second end portion of the main body in a direction away from the second holding portion for disposing through at least one hole on the circuit board, so as to fix the coaxial cable on the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Rong-Cheng Sun, Cheng-Shing Liu
  • Patent number: 8777636
    Abstract: Manufacturing efficiency of a connector is greatly improved, and the manufacturing costs and the product cost can be reduced. A coaxial connector (P) for a board of the present invention is configured so that an extended portion of an outer terminal (42) and an extended portion of an inner terminal (44) are positioned so that one extended portion is not superimposed on the other extended portion when a half-cylinder portion of the outer terminal is viewed from an upper side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Hidenori Kanda
  • Patent number: 8758049
    Abstract: A connector includes a base connector and a cylindrical member. The base connector has a cylindrical projection to penetrate through an outside wall of an attachment subject. The cylindrical member is fitted with the cylindrical projection and has a cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mochizuki, Naoki Maeda
  • Patent number: 8747153
    Abstract: An electrical coaxial connector comprising a signal contact member having a connecting terminal portion and a resilient engaging portion, a grounding contact member having an annular engaging portion for engaging with a mating connector fixed on a circuit board and a shell portion extending from the annular engaging portion, and a housing for supporting the signal contact member and the grounding contact member, wherein the resilient engaging portion is positioned at the inside of the annular engaging portion, the connecting terminal portion is put in electrical connection with a core conductor of a coaxial cable at the outside of the annular engaging portion, and the resilient engaging portion extends from the connecting terminal portion through the mating connector to engage with a signal terminal provided on the circuit board to which the mating connector is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohito Takano, Akio Funahashi
  • Patent number: 8747121
    Abstract: Described systems and methods allow the manufacture of compact television (TV) tuner modules comparable in size to standard RF connectors. In some embodiments, a compact TV tuner module (tuner can) includes a metallic housing mounted on an external printed circuit board (PCB), a radio-frequency (RF) connector, an internal PCB within the housing, and a bare-silicon TV tuner chip centrally mounted on a side of the internal PCB facing away from the RF connector, directly opposite a central contact made directly a central pin of the RF connector and a central area of the internal PCB. A major dimension of a shielded internal volume enclosed by the housing is less than 150% of an outer shell of the RF connector, and may be about equal to or slightly larger than the diameter of the RF connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Cresta Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Rainer Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 8740629
    Abstract: A header assembly includes a conductive outer housing holding a center contact and a dielectric body. The outer housing has a rear shell and an outer contact extending forward from the rear shell. The outer contact has a catch extending therefrom positioned forward of the rear shell. The header assembly includes a nose cone coupled to the outer contact. The nose cone is manufactured from a plastic material. The nose cone surrounds the outer contact. The nose cone has keying ribs along an exterior thereof. The nose cone has a latch engaging the catch to secure the nose cone to the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: John Wesley Hall, Raymond John DeMarchis, Jr., Douglas John Hardy, Ronald Louis Marion