Patents Assigned to FCI
  • Patent number: 8834204
    Abstract: A connector assembly is provided which includes a housing and at least one conductor module. The conductor module comprises at least a first sub-module and a second sub-module attached together to form the conductor module. The conductor module is at least partially received in the housing. The housing and the first sub-module include cooperating positioning structures for positioning the at least one conductor module into the housing such that the position of the second sub-module with respect to the housing is determined by the position of the first sub-module with respect to the housing in at least a first direction (X; Z). A connector assembly is also provided in which at least one contact includes at least one contact beam of which a part is resiliently displaceable substantially parallel to a side wall of the housing from a preload position to a second position for receiving a mating contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FCI
    Inventors: Jeroen De Bruijn, Paul Johannes Marinus Potters, Ludwig Lange, Winnie Heyvaert
  • Patent number: 8834181
    Abstract: A straddle mount electrical connector with fusible elements is provided. The electrical connector can include a connector housing including a housing body that supports element support members that define a receptacle configured to receive a complementary electrical component therein. Each element support member can support a respective plurality of fusible elements, and each fusible element can be connected to a respective electrical contact supported by the connector housing. The pluralities of fusible elements can define a mounting interface of the electrical connector. The mounting interface can be configured to receive printed circuit boards of varying thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: John P. Thompson
  • Patent number: 8834190
    Abstract: An electrical connector may retain a substrate in secure, mating engagement with the electrical connector. The electrical connector can include at least one attachment member that is configured to be received in an aperture that extends through the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Hung Viet Ngo, Robert E. Marshall
  • Patent number: 8830679
    Abstract: A receptacle including a shield housing and a heat sink. The shield housing has a first side configured to be connected to a printed circuit board. The housing has an aperture for insertion of a plug of a cable assembly. The heat sink is connected to the first side or an opposite second side of the shield housing. The heat sink has a lateral end section which extends along an exterior of a least one lateral side of the shield housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Michael Scholeno
  • Patent number: 8827741
    Abstract: An electrical connector housing including a main housing member and at least one protective wafer. The main housing member has a contact locating area. Opposite sides of the contact locating area include slots for receiving opposite end portions of insertable wafers. The at least one protective wafer is configured to be located in the contact locating area and includes opposite end portions adapted to be matingly slid into a pair of the slots. The protective wafer has a top side configured to project above top ends of contacts located in the contact locating area. The protective wafer and the main housing member are sized and shaped to combine to help prevent a user's finger from contacting the top ends of the contacts located in the contact locating area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Lewis R. Johnson, Steven E. Minich, Derek L. Brickner, Scott Kleinle
  • Patent number: 8824528
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spectrum inversion detection apparatus which includes a differential correlation value computing portion, utilized to use a present and previous time axial symbols to compute differential correlation values individually corresponding to carriers; and a controlling portion, utilized to use the differential correlation values, when a spectrum inversion status flag is not at a spectrum inversion state, to compute a correlativity value of the each integer frequency displacement thereby, and when spectrum inversion status flag is at the spectrum inversion state, to determine a maximal correlativity value among all the computed correlativity values, and to decide a spectrum inversion status flag of the computed correlativity value which is determined as the maximal correlativity value thereby utilizing as a detection result signal to output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Inc.
    Inventors: Jae-Jun Ban, Beomjin Kim
  • Patent number: 8823540
    Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a guide frame with closed and open ends, the guide frame configured to be mounted to a substrate. The guide frame defines at least one cavity configured to receive an electrical component therein. A connector housing configured to be disposed in the at least one cavity and mounted to the substrate can support a retainer that extends outwardly from a body of the connector housing. The retainer can be configured to receive an attachment member supported by a light pipe, and can extend outwardly through the closed end of the guide frame. A heat sink coupled to the guide frame can be configured to have at least a portion of the light pipe disposed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Michael Scholeno
  • Patent number: 8824271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing receiver, and more particular to an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing receiver including an FFT/IFFT operating core and a scheduler. In order to simultaneously share the FFT/IFFT operating core, the scheduler manages input/output timings of FFT/IFFT operations and control signals. The FFT/IFFT operating core supports decimation-in-time (DIT) and decimation-in-frequency (DIF) FFT/IFFT operations at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Inc.
    Inventors: Young-Il Chun, Chang-Ik Hwang, Jae-Jun Ban
  • Patent number: 8794991
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes first and second electrical connectors that include complementary guidance members and complementary latch members that engage when the first and second electrical connectors are mated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Hung Viet Ngo
  • Patent number: 8792765
    Abstract: An optical fiber cable connector including a first member and a second member. The first member has a channel for an optical fiber of an optical fiber cable, and an outer surface configured to have a strength member of the cable located thereon. The second member is configured to slide on top of the first member. The second member includes a barrel section configured to be compressed onto the first member and a gripping section made of a resiliently deformable material which is sized and shaped to pull the strength member along the outer surface of the first member as the second member is slid on top of the first member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles M. Gross
  • Patent number: 8784116
    Abstract: Electrical connectors that are mating compatible with the MicroTCA® standard and configured to be mounted to an underlying substrate are provided. Certain of the electrical connectors can be configured to be mounted to a substrate configured in accordance with the MicroTCA® press fit footprint. Additionally, electrical connectors that are mating compatible with the MicroTCA® standard and configured to be mounted to respective alternative footprints, and substrates configured in accordance with the respective alternative footprints are provided. The disclosed electrical connectors and corresponding substrate footprints can operate to transmit data at speed up to and in excess of 25 Gigabits per second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Madhumitha Rengarajan
  • Publication number: 20140199019
    Abstract: The invention is related to an optical engine comprising: including at least one optoelectronic component for emitting or receiving light; a substrate for carrying the optoelectronic component; an optical coupling device, configured for guiding light between the optoelectronic component and an optical waveguide, fixed to the substrate. At least the substrate and the coupling device comprise include a fixation element and the other one a complementary fixation element, the complementary fixation element cooperating with the fixation element to locate and fix the coupling device to substrate so as to achieve an optical coupling between the optoelectronic component and the optical coupling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: FCI
    Inventor: Gnitabouré YABRE
  • Patent number: D709455
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Hung Viet Ngo
  • Patent number: D712841
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Patent number: D712842
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Patent number: D712843
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Patent number: D712844
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Patent number: D713346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Patent number: D713356
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minch, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith
  • Patent number: D713799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner, Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stephen B. Smith, Lewis Robin Johnson, Mark Edwin Lauermann