Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Wei Te Chung
  • Patent number: 8123552
    Abstract: A portable storage device box includes a cover, a hard disk in the cover, a transfer module and a control circuit in the cover. The cover comprises an upper cover, a base portion and a cutout. The transfer module comprises a spool, a telescopic plug, a control button and a clockwork device towed by the cable. The control circuit connects the hard disk to the transfer module. The plug comprises an electric connector and a cable connecting the electric connector and winded on the spool. When the electric connector is drawn out the clockwork device would be towed by the cable and be fixed by pressing the control button once, and if the control button is pressed once again, the clockwork device would be released to restore with drawing the plug back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Chung Hsu, Min-Lun Ma
  • Patent number: 8123555
    Abstract: A coaxial electrical connector includes a metallic shell having a tubular section with an axial direction and a soldering leg, a central contacts having a contacting section extending in the axial direction within the tubular section and a dielectric seat molded so as to hold together said metallic shell and the central contact as a unit. The metallic shell defines a filled groove around an inner face thereof and perpendicular to the axial direction. The filled groove is to receive a projection of the dielectric seat during a cool process of a molded process to form the coaxial electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: De-Jin Chen
  • Patent number: 8123569
    Abstract: An audio jack connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) and a cover (3). the insulative housing has a bottom surface (12), a cavity (14) having a front end exposed to exterior for insertion of an electrical plug, and a plurality of receiving slots (15) recessed upwardly from the bottom surface and communicating with the cavity. The contacts are inserted into the receiving slots from the bottom surface of the insulative housing. the contacts have contacting portions (28, 29) protruding into the cavity for contacting with the electrical plug and soldering tail portions (27) extending outwardly beyond the bottom surface. The cover (3) envelopes the contacts into the receiving slots (15) with the tail portions (27) extending outwardly therefrom to make the audio jack connector communicate with the exterior via only the front end of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Howard Wallace Andrews, Michael McKee
  • Patent number: 8124496
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) comprises a mating member (3) assembled with a plurality of contacts (33, 34), a printed circuit board (2), a cable (7) having a plurality of wires (71) and a strain relief portion (72), and a light pipe located (4) between the printed circuit board and the strain relief portion. The printed circuit board is attached with a LED (24), and the LED is electrically connected with the contacts. The printed circuit board defines a front surface, a rear surface and a cutout (23) extending through the front surface and the rear surface along a mating direction, and the LED is disposed behind the rear surface of the printed circuit board, the wires are extending through the cutout of the printed circuit board and soldered to the contacts in front of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Sheng Su, Dou-Feng Wu, Wei Zhang, Da-Wei Xing
  • Patent number: 8118622
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a insulative housing defining a plurality of passageways and a plurality of contacts secured in the passageways. Each passageway has a mating slot and a pair of retaining slots located at two sides of the mating slot and communicated with the mating slot. Each contact defines a soldering tail and a pair of arm portions extending from the soldering tail and retained in the two retaining slots respectively, the pair of arm portions shift in and between the mating slot and the retaining slot in a first direction, a pair of contact portions integrally project oppositely from inner sides of the arm portions. Wherein the arm portions define shrink sections at a position thereof opposite to the contact portions so that the shrink sections space away from the retaining slots in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. It can reduce inserting force and ensure electrical connecting performance of the electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: De-Jin Chen
  • Patent number: 8119938
    Abstract: A touch keypad assembly (100) includes a main board (10), a metal dome (40) disposed on a predetermined position of the main board, a touchpad layer (30) disposed on the metal dome, a keypad cover (20) disposed over the touchpad layer, and a light guide film (60) disposed between the metal dome and the keypad cover. The touchpad layer is a flexible printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Inc. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hsien Yu, Yao-Pang Lu, Chao-Chang Li
  • Patent number: 8118497
    Abstract: A connector (100) includes a metallic shell (5) having a mating frame part, said mating frame part including a number of sides together enclosing a hollow portion, and the hollow portion divided into two ports with different shapes; an insulative housing (1) having a base portion (11) and two juxtaposed tongue portions (12, 13) extending forwardly from the base portion, with a plurality of contacts (21, 22) mounted to the tongue portions, two lens members (4) received in lateral sides of one of the tongue portions; and the two tongue portions respectively received in the two ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chong Yi
  • Patent number: 8118623
    Abstract: An electrical contact made from a metal sheet includes a contacting portion for mating with a mating contact, a terminal portion for connecting with a printed circuit board and a retaining portion connecting the contacting portion and the terminal portion. The contacting portion defines first and second contacting pieces made from the metal sheet and folded to abut against each other, and the terminal portion extends from one of the contacting pieces, which can reduced the cost of the electrical contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Hsien Tung, Hung-Chi Yu
  • Patent number: 8118607
    Abstract: An electronic card includes a housing, a plurality of contacts retain on the housing and a slider movably retained on the housing. The housing has a mating surface. The contacts are arranged in two rows along a length direction of the housing. Each contact in a first row has a flat first contact portion exposed to the mating surface. Each contact of a second row has a raised elastic second contact portion behind the first contact portion. The slider can move along the length direction of the housing to drive the second contact portions alternatively hiding below the mating surface or protruding out of the mating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qi-Jun Zhao, Li Li, Hua Yin
  • Patent number: 8118615
    Abstract: A connector assembly (100) includes an insulative cover (1) defining a plurality of grooves arranged in a row along a transversal direction; a plurality of connectors (21) accommodated in the grooves, respectively, each of the connectors having a terminal module and a metallic shell enclosing the terminal module; a metallic cage (5) enclosing the insulative cover; and a plurality of conductive members (3), each of the conductive member (3) including a horizontal portion (31) and a vertical portion (32), the horizontal portion having a first tab (311) abutting against the metallic cage, and the vertical portion having a second tab (321) pressing against the metallic shell of a corresponding connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fei-Yan Peng, Xian-Kui Shi, Chung-Yen Yang
  • Patent number: 8120535
    Abstract: A multi-band antenna includes a grounding element located on a first plane, a connecting element extending from the grounding element to form a slot between the connecting element and the grounding element, a conductive portion extending from the connecting element, a first radiating portion, a second radiating portion, and a third radiating portion. The first radiating portion is narrower than the conductive portion and extends from an end of the conductive portion along a first direction. The second radiating portion is connected to the first radiating portion and extends along a second direction opposite to the first direction. The third radiating portion is narrower than the first radiating portion and extends from an end of the connecting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chen-Ta Hung, Yun-Lung Ke, Hsien-Sheng Tseng
  • Patent number: 8113869
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) in accordance with the present invention comprises an insulative housing (1) and a plurality of contacts (2) received therein, a cable (5) connected with the contacts (2), a strain relief portion (50) molded on the cable (5), the strain relief portion (5) having a extruding portion (52) on the front end thereof and a retaining portion (51) behind the extruding portion (52), a plurality of retaining blocks arranged between the extruding portion (52) and the retaining portion (51), a cover (8) enclosing the aforementioned components, the cover (8) comprising an upper cover (81) and a lower cover (82), a back surface of the upper cover (81) and the lower cover (82) defining a arc-shaped cutout, the retaining portion (51) is mounted in the front of the arc-shaped cutout and the retaining block is locked in the arc-shaped cutout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Sheng Su, Jun Chen, Qing Wang
  • Patent number: 8113870
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) in accordance with the present invention comprises an insulative housing (1) and a plurality of contacts (2) received therein, a cable (5) connected with the contacts (2), a strain relief portion molded on the cable (5), the strain relief portion having a extruding portion (52) on a front end thereof and a retaining portion (51) behind the extruding portion (52), the retaining portion (51) also having a pair of locking blocks (53) at opposite sides thereof, and a cover (8) enclosing the aforementioned components, a back surface of the cover (8) defining a pair of gaps (826) at opposite sides thereof and connected with the correspondence locking block (53) in order to make the strain relief portion and the cover (8) assemble together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Sheng Su, Jun Chen, Qing Wang
  • Patent number: 8113889
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (200) includes a body portion (1) comprising a cylindrical first connector (11) and a cylindrical second connector (12), an insulative housing (2) connecting the first and second connectors (11, 12) together along a transverse direction thereof, a cable (5) connected with the body portion (1) and an insulative cover (4) over-molded on an electrical connection area between the body portion (1) and the cable (5). The first and second connectors (11, 12) each have a contact (3) located at a central axis thereof. The insulative housing (2) comprises an extending portion (23) extending along a back to front direction perpendicular to the transverse direction, the extending portion (23) locates between the first and second connectors (11, 12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei Zhang, Hou-Yu Shi, David Ko
  • Patent number: 8109771
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a receiving room having a bottom wall and a mating portion extending upward from an inner face of the bottom wall of the receiving room and a plurality of contacts received in the housing. The mating portion has a plurality of receiving passageways communicating with the receiving room and a plurality of nose portions are above the receiving passageways. Each contact defines an elastic portion, a soldering portion, and a fixing portion between the elastic portion and a soldering portion. The elastic portion includes a first contacting portion protruding from the nose portion in the receiving room, a second contacting portion extending from the fixing portion, and a connecting portion between two contacting portions and defining an arc portion extending in an upward-to-downward direction and under the nose portion. The arc portion defines a node extending far from the nose portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Ching Chen
  • Patent number: 8109779
    Abstract: An cable assembly includes an insulative housing having a main portion and a mounting arm extending rearwardly from the main portion, the mounting arm; a plurality of terminals; a cable having a plurality of wires connected to the plurality of terminals, respectively; a latching member including a connecting arm, a latching arm and a retention arm, the retention arm inserted into a positioning hole in the mounting arm, the connecting arm deflected outwardly; and an external cover enclosing the insulative housing and the latching member, the external cover having a deformable button for actuating the latching arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Chang-Mao Li
  • Patent number: 8109796
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a pair of contacts. The insulative housing defines a mating face, a rear face opposite to the mating face, and a receiving cavity between and running through the mating face and the rear face. The contacts are retained in two opposite sides of the receiving cavity and each defining a contacting portion, a retaining portion extending backward from the contacting portion and at least a terminal portion extending from the contacting portion. A pair of elastic pieces integrally extend backward from the mating face of the insulative housing to the receiving cavity and free ends of the contacting portions resist on the elastic piece. The elastic pieces shift away from the receiving cavity under a condition that a mating electrical connector is inserted in the receiving cavity and press against the elastic pieces. The contacts are wider than the elastic pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: De-Jin Chen
  • Patent number: 8109790
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1) having a base (11) and a tongue plate (12) extending beyond the base; a set of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing; and a metal shell (3) covering the insulative housing. The metal shell includes a pair of first walls (31), a pair of second walls (32) including a front wall and a back wall, and a receiving space (33) surrounded by the first walls and the second walls. The first walls have a pair of first mounting portion (315) for being mounted onto first holes of the PCB. The front wall has a pair of jointing walls (326) extending toward each other from the respective front sides of the first walls and combining with each other at a joint. The front wall has a pair of mounting legs (325) extending from the jointing walls at the joint and forming as a second mounting portion (35) for being mounted onto a second hole of the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jia-Yong He, Qi-Sheng Zheng
  • Patent number: 8109797
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly, for mating with a complementary connector, includes a cable having a number of wires; and a connector comprising a contact module connected with the wires, a mounting ring attached to the cable, and a shielding shell attached to the mounting ring. The shielding shell and the mounting ring both have a number of screw threads to match with each other. An associated method of manufacturing the cable connector assembly comprises screwing the shielding shell onto the mounting ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Sheng Su, Li-Song Cao
  • Patent number: D654876
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li-Jiang Wang, Zhong-Hua Yao, Qi-Sheng Zheng