Patents Assigned to Advanced Connectek, Inc.
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Publication number: 20160294108Abstract: A waterproof and interference proof receptacle connector has an upper insulative housing, a lower insulative housing, a first terminal set, a second terminal set, a shell, a watertight casing and an interference proof rear guard. The first and second terminal sets are mounted respectively on the upper and lower insulative housings. The shell is mounted on the upper and lower insulative housings. The watertight casing is mounted around the shell. The interference proof guard is mounted on the watertight casing. The watertight casing provides a waterproof function to allow the waterproof and interference proof receptacle connector to operate in humid or underwater environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Advanced-Connectek Inc.Inventors: Yu Lun TSAI, Pin-Yuan HOU, Chung-Fu LIAO, Ya-Fen KAO, Rui SU, Long-Fei CHEN
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Patent number: 9461424Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector, provided to connect with an electrical plug connector, includes a metal shell, an insulation housing and a conductive piece. The conductive piece is disposed at a tongue portion of the insulation housing and includes a contact portion, two laterally soldering portions and an abutting portion. The contact portion is disposed at a rear contact region of the tongue portion, the two laterally soldering portions are respectively extending from two sides of the contact portion, and the abutting portion is extending from the contact portion to attach on a base portion of the insulation ho thus abutting against an inner wall of the metal shell.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Alan Robert MacDougall
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Patent number: 9461413Abstract: An interference proof electrical receptacle connector has an insulative housing, a mounting bracket, a first terminal set, a second terminal set, a shell and a metal cover. The mounting bracket is mounted on the insulative housing. The first terminal set is mounted on the mounting bracket. The second terminal set is mounted on the insulative housing. The shell is mounted on the insulative housing and the mounting bracket and has a cavity. The metal cover is mounted securely on the shell and has a cover body and multiple soldering feet. The cover body is mounted securely on a top surface of the shell. The soldering feet are formed on and protrude downward from the cover body. The metal cover enhances the structural strength of the shell to improve the durability of repeated engagement and disengagement of the interference proof electrical receptacle connector.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.Inventors: Shu-Lin Duan, Fu-Yi Xu, Ching-Tien Chen, Wei Wan
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Patent number: 9455536Abstract: An electrical connector includes insulating portions arranged side by side, terminal sets, shield sets, and a casing. Each terminal set includes signal terminals and ground terminals. Each signal/ground terminal includes a fixing section disposed in the insulating portion, an assembling section downwardly stretching from the fixing section to protrude from the insulating portion, and a contacting section forwardly stretching from the fixing section to protrude from the insulating portion. Each shield set including shields is disposed on a lateral surface of the insulating portion. Each shield is spacedly arranged and connected to the ground terminal. Each shield includes a body section having at least one bending section, and a protrusion section protruding from the body section. The body section and the protrusion section shield the assembling section and the contacting section of the signal terminal respectively. It can effectively suppress crosstalk between the signal terminals by the shield sets.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2014Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Kuo-Ching Lee, Yao-Te Wang, Ya-Ping Liang
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Patent number: 9450341Abstract: An electrical plug connector has an insulative housing, two terminal sets, a shielding-grounding plate and a shell. The terminal sets are mounted in the insulative housing and each terminal set has multiple conductive terminals. The shielding-grounding plate is mounted in a rear end of the insulative housing and has a shielding body mounted in the rear end of the insulative housing and located between the terminal sets and two resilient hooking arms formed on and protruding forward respectively from two opposite sides of the shielding body and extending in the insulative housing. The shielding-grounding plate is located above the conductive terminals of the two terminal sets and shields the terminal sets such that each terminal set would not interfere with the other terminal set with cross talk when implementing signal transmission.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Advanced-Connectek, Inc.Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou
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Patent number: 9450337Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulating housing, two terminal sets, and a metallic component. The insulating housing includes a front portion and a rear portion, and a receiving cavity is formed inside the front portion. The two terminal sets separately include a plurality of terminals and are arranged in an upper-row terminal set and a lower-row terminal set. Each terminal includes a contact portion disposed in the receiving cavity, a retaining portion retained in the insulating housing, and a soldering portion disposed in the rear of the insulating housing. The metallic component includes a plate body and two latches. The plate body is disposed in the rear portion and clamped between the upper-row and lower-row terminal sets. The two latches are separately disposed at two sides of the plate body and symmetrical to each other. The plate body and the two latches are formed in one piece.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
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Patent number: 9444161Abstract: A multiple-in-one receptacle connector used for an audio equipment includes an insulating housing, receptacle connectors, and sealants. The insulating housing has a top surface having cavities disposed thereon and a bottom surface. Each cavity has a bottom having through holes disposed thereon and penetrating through the bottom surface. Each receptacle connector accommodated in the corresponding cavity includes terminals. Each terminal has a soldering section extending backward out of the corresponding receptacle connector. The soldering sections of each receptacle connector pass through the through holes disposed on the bottom of the corresponding cavity, respectively, to be out of the bottom surface. Each sealant disposed on the bottom surface seals gaps formed between the soldering sections of each receptacle connector and the through holes disposed on the bottom of the corresponding cavity. Sounds are prevented from leaking from gaps by the sealants sealing the gaps.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.Inventor: Fan-Cheng Huang
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Patent number: 9444201Abstract: An electric connector includes an insulation body, a shielding shell, first and second conductive terminals, and an organizer. The insulation body has a base portion and a tongue portion extended horizontally forward from the base portion. The shielding shell encloses the insulation body. Each first or second conductive terminal has a retaining section fixedly located in the insulation body, a contact section extended forward from the retaining section and located on the tongue portion, and a soldering section bent upward from the retaining section and extended outside the base portion. The organizer located on the base portion has an elongate slot and apertures that penetrate the base portion. The elongate slot allows the soldering sections of the first conductive terminals to pass through and anchor therein. Each aperture allows the soldering section of each second conductive terminal to pass through and anchor therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.Inventors: Ching-Tien Chen, Shu-Lin Duan, Wei Wan, Fu-Yi Xu, Pei-Hsuan Huang
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Patent number: 9444177Abstract: A waterproof electrical receptacle connector includes a plastic shell, a metallic shell, an insulated housing, and a sealing member (e.g., a waterproof glue block). The plastic shell has a through hole and includes an inserting end and a sealed end respectively at two sides of the through hole. The metallic shell is disposed in the through hole and the metallic shell defines a receiving cavity. The insulated housing is disposed in the receiving cavity. A plurality of receptacle terminals is assembled to the insulated housing. The sealing member is filled in the sealed end to fill a gap between the metallic shell and the plastic shell, and the sealing member is also filled in the bottom of the base portion where the receptacle terminals are exposed for improving the waterproof function of the connector.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Rui Su, Long-Fei Chen
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Patent number: 9444202Abstract: A connector receptacle includes an insulating housing, a plurality of contacts, a protective plate, and a metallic shell. The insulating housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending from the base portion. The tongue portion defines a plurality of receiving slots through the base portion. The contacts are inserted into the receiving slots, and a power contact exists among the contacts. The protective plate includes a planner main portion and two connecting arm portions. The planar main portion is disposed on the tongue portion, and includes a planar section, a front section, a side section, and a connecting section. One lateral side of the planar section is a cutting notch exposing parts of the tongue portion which corresponds to the power contact. The cutting notch prevents the power contact and the protective plate from contacting while connecting with a plug, so as to secure the safety.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 13, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Ming-Yung Chang, Yun-Jhong Wong, Cheng-Che Tsai
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Patent number: 9437975Abstract: A crosstalk-proof receptacle connector has multiple insulative boards, multiple sets of terminals, multiple sets of shielding plates and an outer casing. The insulative boards are arranged abreast. The sets of the terminals are mounted respectively in the insulative boards. The terminals of each set are classified into signal terminals and grounding terminals. Each set of the shielding plates is mounted on one of two opposite sides of a corresponding insulative board. The shielding plates of each set are spaced apart without contacting one another. Each shielding plate has multiple folding sections capable of interrupting signal noise. The outer casing covers the insulative boards to combine the insulative boards. The sets of the shielding plates decrease signal interference of the receptacle connector and improve signal transmission efficiency and stability.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Kuo-Ching Lee, Jian-Li Guan, Ya-Ping Liang, Yao-Te Wang
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Patent number: 9431754Abstract: An electrical connector structure includes a housing and signal modules mounted therein. Each signal module includes an insulating body, conductive terminals and a ground shield. The insulating body has a first side having a guide projection, and a second side opposite to the first side and having a guide groove. When a first signal module has been mounted in the housing, a second signal module is guided and moved to mount into the housing by the guide groove of the second signal module receiving the guide projection of the first signal module, or by the guide projection of the second signal module sliding into the guide groove of the first signal module, whereby reducing relative movement between signal modules in the housing. The signal modules may be mounted one by one in the housing, or may be stacked side by side and then mounted in the housing as a whole.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.Inventors: Kuo-Ching Lee, Ya-Ping Liang, Ruei-Si Hong, Chih-Chieh Chang
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Patent number: 9419390Abstract: A USB electrical receptacle connector includes a metal shell, an insulation housing, upper-row terminals, and lower-row terminals. The metal shell defines a receptacle cavity therein for receiving the insulation housing. The insulation housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending forward from the base portion. The upper-row and lower-row terminals adjacent to the upper-row terminals are held on the insulation housing. The lower-row terminals include signal terminals and power terminals held on the insulation housing and adjacent to the signal terminals. The power terminals and the signal terminals are aligned at the same level. Each power terminal includes a second body, a second contact portion, a second extending portion, and a second tail portion. Wherein, the width of the second body, the width of the second extending portion, and the width of second tail portion are relatively greater than those of a conventional terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Pin-Yuan Hou, Yu-Lun Tsai, Long-Fei Chen
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Patent number: 9413123Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a metal shell, an insulation housing, upper-row elastic terminals, and lower-row elastic terminals. The metal shell defines a receiving cavity to receive the insulation housing. The insulation housing includes an upper member, a lower member, and a mating room between the upper member and the lower member. The upper-row elastic terminals are held on a lower surface of the upper member and include upper-row elastic contact segments extending toward the mating room for transmitting first signals. The lower-row elastic terminals are held on an upper surface of the lower member and include lower-row elastic contact segments extending toward the mating room for transmitting second signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai
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Patent number: 9413098Abstract: A waterproof electronic receptacle connector includes a plastic-core housing, an insulation housing, terminals, a waterproof ring gasket and a sealing material. The plastic-core housing includes a through hole. The insulation housing is configured in the through hole and includes a base and a tongue plate. The base includes an inner side plane facing toward the through hole and an outer side plane facing toward an outside of the through hole. The tongue plate is extended from the inner side plane. The terminals are passing through the base. Each terminal includes a contacting end extended from the tongue plate and a welding end connected to the contacting end and extruded from the outer side plane. The waterproof ring gasket is abutted between the base and an inner wall of the through hole. The sealing material is formed on the outer side plane to fill gaps between the terminal and the base.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Ming-Yung Chang
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Patent number: 9413094Abstract: A terminal has a base, a wire covering portion, two connecting portions and two resilient arms. The resilient arms are formed on and protrude forward respectively from front ends of the connecting portions and each resilient arm has an extension section, a U-turn portion and a folding contacting section. The extension section is formed on and protrudes forward from the front end of one of the connecting portions. The U-turn portion is formed on the extension section. The folding contacting section is formed on and extends from the U-turn portion, is parallel to the other folding contacting section, and abuts an inside surface of the extension section. The terminal is structurally strong and durable.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Xiao-Juan Qi, Ping-Chuan Chu, Shu-Lin Duan, Wei Wan, Ching-Tien Chen
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Patent number: 9401573Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, conductive terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and recessed portions configured at two sides of the base portion. The conductive terminals are held at the base portion. The metallic shell includes a body shell, two stopping pieces, two holding portions, and an extending sheet. The body shell encloses the base portion and defines two engaging grooves. The stopping pieces are protruded out of lateral inner surfaces of the body shell to engage with the recessed portions. The holding portions allow connections of portions of the body shell spaced by the engaging groove and hold two sides of the circuit board from moving. Engaging pieces of the extending sheet are engaged with the circuit board to prevent the circuit board from being detached from the insulated housing to prevent charging or data transmission failure.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignees: XENTRIS WIRELESS LLC, ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Fernandel M. Fernandez, Min-Lung Chien, Ming-Yung Chang
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Patent number: 9397433Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, terminals and a fixing base. The insulated housing includes a base member and terminal slots defined through the base member along a longitudinal direction. The terminals are at the insulated housing, and each of the terminals includes a body portion and a tail portion. The connecting segments are at the terminal slots respectively, and the tail portions are respectively extending from the connecting portions and protruded out of a rear side of the base member. The fixing base is at the rear side of the base member, and includes a partition board and barriers. The partition board defines two lateral surfaces corresponding to each other. The barriers are respectively extending from the lateral surfaces, and through grooves are defined between the barriers. Each of the barriers is covered to two sides of the corresponding soldering portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
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Patent number: D762578Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Ching-Tien Chen, Shu-Lin Duan, Wei Wan, Ping-Chung Chu, Xiao-Juan Qi
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Patent number: D763793Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2015Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.Inventors: Ching-Tien Chen, Shu-Lin Duan, Wei Wan, Ping-Chung Chu, Xiao-Juan Qi