Patents Assigned to FCI
  • Connector assembly
    Patent number: 9755358
    Abstract: A connector assembly including a first connector, a second connector and a latch for connecting the first and second connectors. A securing lock is rotatable between a release position and a securing position securing the latch in a latching position. Optionally, the assembly includes a sliding guide and a resilient element forcing the securing lock to slide via the sliding guide into the securing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: FCI Asia Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Gert Droesbeke, Aymeric Soudy
  • ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND METHOD OF ASSEMBLING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20170250483
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a housing, a plurality of contacts arranged in the housing, an actuator mounted on the housing, capable of rotating with reference to the housing and a pair of fixing tabs positioned in the vicinity of two ends of the actuator. Each fixing tab has a lock portion for engaging with a flexible printed circuited connected to the electrical connector and a spring portion connected to the lock portion. The fixing tab is engaged with the actuator so that rotation of the actuator from an original position to a release position causes the lock portion of the fixing tab to disengage with the flexible printed circuit connected to the electrical connector and the actuator resumes from the release position to the original position under a resilient force exerted thereon by the spring portion of the fixing tab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: Amphenol FCI Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventor: Takahisa Ishishita
  • Electrical cable assembly
    Patent number: 9741465
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, an electrical cable can be configured to electrically connect to contact pads that are carried by a substrate. The electrical cable can include at least one, such as a pair, of electrical signal conductors and at least one, for instance a pair, of electrically conductive drain wires. A drain wire in the electrical cable can define a first surface that is configured to face the signal conductors and a second surface that is opposite the first surface. The drain wire can define a width that is greater than 0.12 mm as measured from the first surface to the second surface along a straight line. At least one auxiliary wire can be attached to at least one drain wire. The auxiliary wire can be configured to attach to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Charles M. Gross, Joshua A. Garman
  • Electrical connector system including electrical cable connector assembly
    Patent number: 9735484
    Abstract: Electrical connectors provide signal connections between electronic devices using electrically-conductive contacts, or electrical contacts. In some applications, a connector including a solid substrate body may facilitate the connection of cables with a complementary connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: R. Brad Brubaker, David Humbert
  • Electrical cable assembly
    Patent number: 9735495
    Abstract: An interposer is configured to receive signal conductors of a cable, and align the received signal conductors with contact pads of an electrical connector. The interposer can be dielectric, or electrically insulative, so as to reduce electrical signal reflections and help to prevent electrical shorting between the signal conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Charles M. Gross
  • Connector comprising a locking device
    Patent number: 9733437
    Abstract: A connector including a housing with a cable entry and a contact face presenting one or more conductors for signal transfer to associated conductors of a complementary connector. The connector includes a cable entry shield of an electro-conductive material gripping around the cable at the cable entry. The cable entry shield can for example be formed by a pin holder for holding alignment pins and the base of a locking device, jointly gripping around the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: FCI Asia Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Gert Droesbeke
  • OPTOELECTRICAL CONNECTOR MODULE
    Publication number: 20170212317
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optoelectrical connector module comprising a flexible circuit board (10) having a first region and a second region and a printed circuit board (PCB) (20) that is attached to the first region of the flexible circuit board, and an optical module (30) that is attached to the second region of the flexible circuit board. The optical module is configured to transmit and/or receive light signals. The optoelectrical connector module comprises further a rigid support structure (40) having a first and a second surface that enclose a defined angle. The first surface of the rigid support structure is thereby arranged in parallel to the PCB and the second surface of the rigid support structure is connected to the flexible circuit board opposite the second region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Eichler-Neumann, Michael Richter
  • ELECTRICAL POWER CONTACT
    Publication number: 20170214165
    Abstract: Electrical power contacts (100) are described having a mounting portion (114), a mating portion (102), and a transition region (116) that extends between the mounting portion and the mating portion. The mating portion can define first and second contact blades (104, 106) that are spaced from each other to define a receptacle that can be sized to receive a complementary electrical power contact (200). The transition region can be sized and shaped so as to transmit electrical power between the mounting portion and the mating portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Brungard, Michael Blanchfield
  • Electrical connector assembly including polarization member
    Patent number: 9711901
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly can include a polarization member that is configured to prevent first and second electrical connectors from being mated to each other in an incorrect orientation. The polarization member abuts the first electrical connector such that the first electrical connector provides structural support to the polarization member when the second electrical contacts the polarization member. The polarization member is received by the second electrical connector when the second electrical connector is mated to the first electrical connector in a predetermined orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: FCI Americas Technology LLC, FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: Michael Scholeno
  • Insulation displacement connector and contacts thereof
    Patent number: 9705209
    Abstract: An insulation displacement contact comprises an electrically conductive contact body including a mounting portion that is configured to receive a complementary electrical component so as to contact an electrical terminal of the complementary electrical component, and a mating portion configured to attach to an electrical cable, the mating portion including a slot that extends into the contact body, and at least one piercing member that at least partially defines the slot such that, when the slot receives an electrical cable, the piercing member pierces an outer electrically insulative layer of the electrical cable and contacts an electrical conductor of the electrical cable that is disposed inside the electrically insulative layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: James M. Sabo
  • Method for reducing PAPR of OFDM signal and OFDM transmitter using the same background
    Patent number: 9692627
    Abstract: A method for reducing a PAPR of an OFDM signal and an OFDM transmitter using the same are disclosed. In an OFDM transmitter, a signal processing circuit for reducing a PAPR of a modulated signal includes: a peak detector configured to detect peaks having sizes above a threshold value from an IQ baseband signal of the modulated signal and to output information on a position, a size and a phase; a memory configured to store a reference peak in time domain; a peak generator configured to generate an inverse peak signal for canceling a part of an amplitude of the IQ baseband signal from the reference peak based on the information on the position, the size and the phase; and a signal processing unit configured to add the inverse peak signal to the IQ baseband signal to constrain the amplitude of the IQ baseband signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: FCI INC.
    Inventors: Byung Su Kang, Ki Hyun Kim
  • Low-noise amplifier having high linearity for multi-band
    Patent number: 9692369
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a low-noise amplifier having a characteristic of high linearity for multi-band. Embodiments of the present invention is to provide a low-noise amplifier (LNA), which realizes a balun function and a preamplifier function of mixer in the low-noise amplifier (LNA), and minimizes the factors reducing the linearity between the low-noise amplifier (LNA) and the mixer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: FCI, INC
    Inventors: Dong Hyun Ko, Myung Woon Hwang
  • CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20170170596
    Abstract: A connector assembly (1) comprises an outer housing (300); and a latch (330), which is carried by the outer housing (300), to allow a coupling of the connector assembly to a corresponding counter connector. Further, the outer housing (300) is configured to receive at least one of two different types of cables (100) through a first end and at least one of two different module mating interfaces (430, 432, 434) at a second end. In another embodiment the outer housing (300) is arranged movable on an inner housing (200), and the latch (330) is rotatably arranged on the outer housing (300).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Thierry Goossens, Kai Peters, Henricus E.G. Derks, Roland Tristan De Blieck
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 9680236
    Abstract: An electrical connector can include a connector housing including a housing body that can define an opening that is configured to receive a complementary electrically conductive component along a mating direction. The electrical connector can further include at least one contact member that is supported by the connector housing and is configured to contact the complementary electrically conductive component when the complementary electrically conductive component is received in the opening. The at least one contact member can include an arm having a proximate portion, a distal portion, and an intermediate portion between the proximal and distal portions. The intermediate portion can be spaced outward with respect to each of the proximate and distal portions, and the intermediate portion can bear against the retention rib so as to retain the at least one contact member with respect to the connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Hung Viet Ngo
  • ELECTRICAL CONTACT INCLUDING CORROSION-RESISTANT COATING
    Publication number: 20170149157
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, an electrical contact has a mating end and a mounting end. The electrical contact includes an electrically conductive base, and a multi-layered coating disposed on an outer surface of the base at the mating end. The multi-layered coating can include a metallic layer of a noble metal or alloy thereat: a layer of anti-tarnish material disposed on the metallic layer, and a lubricant layer disposed on the layer of anti-tarnish material, the lubricant effective to seal at least some wear regions created in the layer of anti-tarnish material due to micromotion of the mating end in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicants: FCI Americas Technology LLC, Amphenol FCI Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Doyle R. Anderson, John D. Dodds, Antoine Fares-Karam
  • Method and apparatus for compressing/decompressing data using floating point
    Patent number: 9660667
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for compressing/decompressing data using floating points. As technology for compressing/decompressing data using floating points for efficient memory management, there are provided a method and apparatus for compressing/decompressing data using floating points, in which a log table is used to compress/decompress data, whereby not only data loss caused by compression/decompression can be minimized, but also degradation of performance can be prevented through a floating point representation even though the same number of bits are used for compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: FCI INC
    Inventors: Byung Su Kang, Beom Jin Kim
  • ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH REDUCED STACK HEIGHT
    Publication number: 20170125946
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes first and second mezzanine electrical connectors that include respective first and second arrays of electrical contacts. The electrical contacts can be receptacle, or one can be a plug and the other can be a receptacle. Each electrical connector can further include at least one alignment member that cooperate to align the first and second arrays of electrical contacts relative to each other. Each electrical connector can further include at least one orientation member that allows the first and second electrical connectors to mate when in a predetermined orientation relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: David C. Horchler, Lewis Robin Johnson
  • PRECOMPENSATION TECHNIQUE FOR IMPROVED VCSEL-BASED DATA TRANSMISSION
    Publication number: 20170126327
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for precompensating a VCSEL-signal, comprising a FIR-filter, wherein the FIR-filter is adapted to precompensate a signal by adjusting a portion of the signal in the first bit after a signal transition, and wherein the precompensated signal is injected into a VCSEL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Ulrich Dieter Felix Keil, Kai Schamuhn
  • Low profile circuit connector
    Patent number: 9640884
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing, contact elements and locking members attached to the housing. The housing has a front end, a back end, a top side, a bottom side and a cavity between the top side and the bottom side. The cavity is to partially receive a circuit board therein. Each contact element is insertable into the housing along a direction from the bottom side towards the top side. Each locking member is insertable into the housing along a direction from the bottom side towards the top side. The upper and lower contact arms and the lock arm are resiliently deflectable away from the cavity to allow insertion of the circuit board into the cavity, and spring back when the circuit board is inserted into the cavity to make electrical connection to the circuit board and to lock the circuit board in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: FCI Asia Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Naotaka Sasame, Takahisa Ishishita, Motomu Kajiura
  • Vertical electrical connector
    Patent number: D790471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith