Patents Assigned to Advanced Connectek, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11031711
    Abstract: An electrical connector disposed on a circuit board is provided. The electrical connector includes a terminal set having a plurality of terminals, a first insulator, at least one second insulator, and a third insulator. Each of the terminals has a contact portion, a soldering portion connecting to the circuit board, and a bending portion connected between the contact portion and the soldering portion. The first insulator is structurally integrated with the contact portions. The second insulator is structurally integrated with the terminals and is located between the bending portions and the soldering portions. The third insulator is locked with the second insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Fan-Cheng Huang, Ying-Te Lin
  • Patent number: 11031725
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. A coverage region adjacent to the base portion is held on a surface of the tongue portion. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The receptacle terminals include a body portion and a contact portion, the body portion is held in the base portion and the tongue portion, and the contact portion is outwardly extending from one end of the body portion. Each of the receptacle terminals includes an avoidance portion between the contact portion and the body portion. The avoidance portion of each of the receptacle terminals is covered by the coverage region of the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Dong-Fang Zeng, Shien-Lung Huang
  • Publication number: 20210167540
    Abstract: A connector structure is provided, including an insulating body, a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating body, at least one stopper, and a housing receiving the insulating body and the terminals. A portion of the insulating body is abutted between the housing and the at least one stopper, and contacting portions of the housing and the at least one stopper are structurally combined together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Fan-Cheng Huang, Ying-Te Lin
  • Patent number: 11024995
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly including an electrical connecting member, at least one connector, and at least one metal cover is provided. The connector is disposed at and electrically connected to the electrical connecting member. The metal cover is disposed on the electrical connecting member, such that the electrical connecting member is located between the metal cover and the connector, and the connector is covered by the electrical connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Ta-Teh Meng, Wen-Yu Wang, Yu-Chai Yeh, Ping Shi, Jizhou Li
  • Publication number: 20210151924
    Abstract: The invention provides a universal serial bus connector, including an insulating body and a plurality of terminals. The insulating body has a tongue portion and at least one recess located on the tongue portion. The terminals pass through the insulating body, and the terminals expose the insulating body from the tongue portion. The recess corresponds to at least one terminal and is located in an extending direction of the corresponding terminal on the tongue portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Er Li Huang, Pin-Yuan Hou, Yao Mei Wang, Hsien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11011863
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulating body, a plurality of terminals, and at least one grounding member is provided. The terminals and the grounding member are disposed in the insulating body. At least one grounding terminal among the terminals and the grounding member next to the grounding terminal form an integrally-molded structure. A portion of the grounding terminal and a portion of the grounding member are misaligned from each other along an arrangement direction of the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Hsu-Fen Wang, Kang Qin Li, Xi Wang
  • Patent number: 11011864
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity, the insulated housing is held in the receptacle cavity. An insertion opening is on a first end of the metallic shell, a stopping portion is inwardly bending on a second end of the metallic shell, and the stopping portion is extending to a surface of the base portion. When an electrical plug connector is inserted into the receptacle cavity, an end portion of the electrical plug connector is in contact with the stopping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Dong-Fang Zeng, Shien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11005199
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector has an insulated housing, two elastic buckle elements, multiple plug terminals, and a plug metallic shell. The insulated housing has a terminal portion and two connecting portions. The two elastic buckle elements are respectively mounted in receiving grooves of the two connecting portions of the insulated housing. Multiple plug terminals are arranged on the terminal portion of the insulated housing. An electrical receptacle connector is detachably connected with the electrical plug connector. The electrical receptacle connector has a receptacle insulated housing and multiple receptacle terminals. The receptacle insulated housing has an inserting portion and two receptacle connecting portions. The multiple receptacle terminals are mounted in a mounting slot of the receptacle insulated housing. When the electrical plug connector is connected with the electrical receptacle connector, the multiple plug terminals may contact the multiple receptacle terminals and are conducted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Shuang-Xi Xiao
  • Patent number: 10971840
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulating body and a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating body is provided. At least one of the terminals has a first section and a pair of second sections. The second sections structurally extend and branch out from the first section. On a plane where the terminals are located, orthogonal projections of the second sections are misaligned and do not overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Hsu-Fen Wang, Kang Qin Li, Xi Wang
  • Patent number: 10931044
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a board-to-board connector including a body, multiple terminals and a pair of metal fittings. The body has an accommodating recess. The terminal is disposed on the body and a portion of each of the terminals extends to the accommodating recess. The metal fittings are disposed on the body and beside the accommodating recess. The terminals are located between metal fittings. Each of the metal fittings has at least one limiting portion that extends to the accommodating recess. The limiting portion leans against a corner of the accommodating recess so that the metal fittings and the body generate a two-dimensional limitation. A board-to-board connector assembly is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ta-Teh Meng, Mei Shi, Ya-Ping Liang, Wen-Liang Men, Zheng Li, Ping Shi, Meng Liu, Bo-Wen Xu, Jia-Ying Wu, Hsin-Yu Chang
  • Patent number: 10886656
    Abstract: An automotive electrical plug connector and an automotive electrical receptacle connector mating with the automotive electrical plug connector are provided. The automotive electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, plug terminals, terminal fixing plates, and a positioning member. Upper and lower surfaces of the insulated housing has buckling grooves for positioning the terminal fixing plates, so that the front ends of the terminal fixing plates are abutted against the plug terminals, and the plug terminals can be prevented from detaching off terminal grooves of the insulated housing. Moreover, when the positioning member is assembled in an engaging groove at the side surface of the insulated housing, the positioning member is moved from a movable position to a locked position, and the automotive electrical plug connector and the automotive electrical receptacle connector can be locked with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Shu-Lin Duan, Wei Wan, Hua-Yan Wu
  • Publication number: 20200413527
    Abstract: A flexible circuit board including at least two electrical conducting layers, at least two non-electrical conducting layers, and at least one adhesion layer is provided. The non-electrical conducting layers are disposed between the electrical conducting layers. The non-electrical conducting layers are adhered together via the adhesion layer. A sum of thickness of the non-electrical conducting layers is greater than 4 mil, and there is no electrical conducting layer sandwiched between the at least two non-electrical conducting layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Ta-Teh Meng, Mao-Sheng Chen, Wen-Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 10880992
    Abstract: A circuit board structure including a dielectric substrate having a plurality of vias, a first conductor layer, a second conductor layer, an insulating layer, and a third conductor layer. The first and the second conductor layers are disposed at opposite surfaces of the dielectric substrate. The first conductor layer forms a plurality of traces including at least one high-speed differential pair and a plurality of ground traces, wherein the vias are located on the ground traces. The electric insulated layer is disposed on the dielectric substrate and covers the first conductor layer, and the third conductor layer is disposed on the insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Mao-Sheng Chen, Wen-Yu Wang
  • Publication number: 20200366013
    Abstract: An electrical connector disposed on a circuit board is provided. The electrical connector includes a terminal set having a plurality of terminals, a first insulator, at least one second insulator, and a third insulator. Each of the terminals has a contact portion, a soldering portion connecting to the circuit board, and a bending portion connected between the contact portion and the soldering portion. The first insulator is structurally integrated with the contact portions. The second insulator is structurally integrated with the terminals and is located between the bending portions and the soldering portions. The third insulator is locked with the second insulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Fan-Cheng Huang, Ying-Te Lin
  • Patent number: 10777952
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a first terminal module, a second terminal module, and a metallic contact member. The first terminal module and the second terminal module are received in a metallic shell. The metallic contact member is between the first terminal module and the second terminal module. The metallic contact member separates the first terminal module from the second terminal module. Moreover, two ends of the metallic contact member are respectively in contact with the ground terminals of the first plug terminals or in contact with the ground terminals of the second plug terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Ming-Yung Chang, Mao-Sheng Chen, Cheng-Che Tsai
  • Publication number: 20200274302
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector configured to be disposed on an electronic device is provided. The electrical receptacle connector includes an insulation body, a first terminal set, a second terminal set, and a shell. The first terminal set and the second terminal set are combined to the insulation body in an up-and-down manner. The shell has a body and at least one protrusion. The body covers the first terminal set, the second terminal set, and the insulation body, and the at least one protrusion extends from the body and away from the insulation body, the first terminal set, and the second terminal set and abuts against the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Fen Wang, Hung-Ming Chuang
  • Patent number: 10754099
    Abstract: An optical fiber adapter includes housing, a base body, an occluder, and optical fiber components. A first end surface of the housing includes an insertion opening. A second end surface of the housing includes a connection opening. A through groove is in the housing, and the insertion opening communicates with the connection opening through the through groove. The first end surface includes positioning portions around a periphery of the insertion opening. A hook portion is extending outwardly from the positioning portion. The base body is in the through groove of the housing. The occluder is connected to the partition plate. The optical fiber component is at the assembling portion. The housing of the optical fiber adapter does not have the protruding portions. Hence, several optical fiber adapters can be densely arranged side-by-side. Therefore, the number of the adapters arranged in the optical fiber cassette can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yang-Yang Cui, Gui-Hua Wen
  • Patent number: 10714875
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing in a metallic shell. First and second receptacle terminals are on the insulated housing. The receptacle terminals include first and second high-speed signal terminals. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity for receiving the insulated housing, an insertion opening being in communication with the receptacle cavity, pins at two sides of the metallic shell and outwardly extending, and an external protruding structure on a bottom surface for connecting to a circuit board. The external protruding structure forms an enclosed structure. Therefore, the seamless configuration improves the reduction to electromagnetic interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Wei Wan, Xiao-Juan Qi, Hua-Yan Wu, Zhen-Xing Zheng
  • Patent number: 10714859
    Abstract: A receptacle electrical connector includes a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, a main insulator, a secondary insulator, a shielding plate and a shielding shell. The main insulator has a plurality of first terminal grooves and a plurality of second terminal grooves. Each first terminal accommodated in the corresponding first terminal groove is fitted with the corresponding first terminal groove in interference and in face-to-face contact. Each second terminal accommodated in the corresponding second terminal groove is fitted with the corresponding second terminal groove in interference and in face-to-face contact. The secondary insulator is engaged with the main insulator to limit each first terminal in the corresponding first terminal groove and to limit each second terminal in the corresponding second terminal groove. The shielding plate is located between the first terminals and the second terminals. The shielding shell surrounds the main insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Fan-Cheng Huang, Ying-Te Lin
  • Patent number: D892746
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Hsien-Lung Huang, Hsu-Fen Wang