Patents Assigned to FCI
  • Optical Coupling Device, Optical Communication System and Method of Manufacture
    Publication number: 20140086532
    Abstract: An optical coupling device includes: a first face facing a support of the optical coupling device, this support having a reception face facing upwards and; a cavity mouthing to the first face, and receiving glue to fix the optical coupling device to the support. The cavity is surrounded by a wall including a second face facing at least partly upwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: FCI
    Inventor: Gert Droesbeke
  • Fully grouted mine roof bolt with expansion anchor
    Patent number: 8678729
    Abstract: A reinforcement system characterized by being formed by a standard helical rod, an expansion head adapted to the thread of the rod, a conical element made of a plastic material, a tube or sheath made of corrugated plastic, a reinforcement plate, and a standard threaded reinforcement nut, according to the helical rod employed, in order to provide immediate mechanical anchoring and the option of subsequent mortar injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Holdings Delaware, Inc.
    Inventor: Mauricio Antonio Hidalgo Salgado
  • Shieldless, high-speed, low-cross-talk electrical connector
    Patent number: 8678860
    Abstract: An electrical connector may include a first connector with electrically-conductive contacts. The contacts may have blade-shaped mating ends, and may be arranged in a centerline. The electrical connector may include a second connector with electrically-conductive receptacle contacts, which may also be arranged in a centerline. The connectors may be mated such that the mating portion of a first contact in the second connector may physically contact of a corresponding blade-shaped mating end of a contact in the first connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignees: FCI Americas Technology LLC, FCI
    Inventors: Steven E. Minich, Douglas M. Johnescu, Stefaan Hendrik Jozef Sercu, Jonathan E. Buck
  • Electrical connector having crimp-mounted electrical terminals
    Patent number: 8672704
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, an electrical connector includes a connector housing, and at least one electrical terminal supported by the connector housing. The electrical terminal defines a mating portion and a mounting portion, the mounting portion carrying a crimp member having crimp teeth configured to pierce through a flex cable when crimped so as to mount the flat flex cable to the mounting portion of the electrical terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: FCI
    Inventors: Jeroen de Bruijn, Thierry Goossens, Johannes Maria Blasius van Woensel
  • Shielded connector with improved positioning of the shield
    Patent number: 8662926
    Abstract: Connector including a connector body and a shield. The shield includes a shield side wall. The connector body includes at least one side wall provided with an abutment structure extending from this side wall, so as to allow a precise positioning of the shield side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: FCI
    Inventor: Gert Droesbeke
  • Shielded Connector Assembly
    Publication number: 20140057492
    Abstract: An assembly is disclosed herein, including a connector and a carrier for carrying the connector. The connector includes a plurality of terminals having terminal contacts, a first shield at least partially surrounding at least one first terminal and having a first shield contact and a second shield at least partially surrounding at least one second terminal and having a second shield contact. The carrier includes a plurality of signal conductors, e.g. being a circuit board or a connector body. The carrier also includes a plurality of, advantageously substantially identical, contact sites. The terminal contacts are contacted to a number of the contact sites of the carrier, and the first and second shield contacts are arranged adjacent each other so that they together fit and are contacted to one contact site of the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: FCI
    Inventors: Ludwig Lange, Winnie Heyvaert, Thierry Goossens, Robert Van Den Heuvel
  • Electrical contact normal force increase
    Patent number: 8657616
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing; and a plurality of first ground contacts. The first ground contacts each comprise a male contact blade configured to be inserted into a contact channel of a housing of a mating electrical connector. The male contact blade has a portion configured to contact the housing of the mating electrical connector, after the male contact blade makes electrical contact with the deflectable beam, to move the male contact blade in the contact channel, increase deflection of the deflectable beam by the male contact blade, and increase or maintain normal force between the mating contact and the ground contact generally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventors: Alan Raistrick, Stuart C. Stoner
  • FPC SHIELDED CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20140051291
    Abstract: Connector (1) for flexible printed circuit (FPC) (3) comprising a connector housing (5) including an insertion slot (4) adapted to receive the FPC (3). The connector comprises a shield (18) adapted to be electrically connected to a ground path (2a) of a circuit substrate (2) on which the connector (1) is to be mounted. Said insertion slot (4) comprises a signal side corresponding to conductive tracks (29) of the FPC and a ground side (26a) opposite to said signal side. The shield comprises at least one electrically conductive tooth (25), movable from a retracted position outside the insertion slot (4), to a protruding position where said tooth (25) protrudes from the ground side (26a) to the inside of the insertion slot (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2011
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: FCI Connectors Singapore PTE LTD
    Inventors: Michel Safir, Jean Razafiarivelo, Nicolas Hermeline, Jean-Francois Michel, Masahiro Koga
  • Plastic cable bolt button
    Patent number: 8647020
    Abstract: A cable bolt button comprising a continuous sidewall having a first end, a second end and an end portion attached to the first end of the sidewall, forming an inner cavity. The cable bolt button forms an interference fit between the sidewall of the cable bolt button and a cable bolt when the button is placed over the distal end of the cable bolt. The cable bolt button may also include a plurality of protrusions extending outwardly from the end portion away from the inner cavity and/or at least one recess. The protrusions may be separate features of the end portion or the first end of the sidewall may have a non-linear profile with the periphery of the end portion following the profile of the sidewall to form the protrusions and recesses. The end portion may also comprise a plurality of intersecting surfaces further shaping the protrusions and recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Holdings Delaware, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Stankus, Dakota Faulkner, John Feyrer, John G. Oldsen, Jeffrey J. Stankus
  • Method and Apparatus for Continuous Bulbing of Stranded Cable
    Publication number: 20140033782
    Abstract: A method of forming a bulb in a cable bolt includes providing cable from a cable source, advancing the cable in a first direction, and forming a bulb in a portion of the cable while the portion of the cable is continuously advanced and while the cable is continuously provided from the cable source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: FCI Holdings Delaware, Inc.
    Inventor: FCI Holdings Delaware, Inc.
  • Electrical power connector system including power rail
    Patent number: 8641432
    Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a plurality of electrical connectors that can be mounted onto a powered rail. Each of the electrical connectors includes a connector housing that retains an electrical contact. The powered rail includes a tapered alignment guide that receives a complementary tapered arm of the connector housing that locates into the alignment guide so as to position the connectors to the rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: William A. Northey
  • Electrical card-edge connector
    Patent number: 8632365
    Abstract: A card-edge connector has a housing that includes a housing body, and a plurality of electrical contacts carried by the housing body. The housing is devoid of mounting ears that would extend out from the housing body. Rather, the housing includes opposing mounting guides carried by opposed housing side walls that are configured to receive a complimentary circuit board that the card-edge connector is mounted to.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Hung Viet Ngo
  • Flexible printed circuit connector
    Patent number: 8628339
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector for connecting flexible printed circuit (FPC) boards. The connector has a housing and contact terminals disposed in the housing. An actuator is pivotally attached to the housing. The housing has a pair of retaining members between which a holding portion is defined. An FPC board is inserted into the holding portion and fixed to the housing by the actuator to establish electrical connection with the contact terminals. Each retaining member is supported by a metal bracket which is attached to the housing to increase the holding strength. The metal bracket has a main portion, a fixing portion and a support portion both expending perpendicularly from the main portion. A pair of lugs formed at side edges of the FPC board engage with the retaining members such that back movement of the FPC board from the housing is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: FCI
    Inventor: Masahiro Koga
  • Rock Bolt
    Publication number: 20140010598
    Abstract: Disclosed is a rock bolt comprising an elongate shaft extending between opposite leading and trailing ends and a deformed section disposed proximal to the leading end, the deformed section being configured such that a protrusion extends outwardly beyond an outer surface of the shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: FCI HOLDINGS DELAWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Peter Harold Craig
  • Attachment system for electrical connector
    Patent number: 8616919
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes at least one leadframe assembly, including a leadframe housing that carries a plurality of electrical contacts, and an external component, such as an electrically conductive plate, configured to be attached to the leadframe housing. The leadframe assembly includes an attachment system that includes an alignment assembly configured to align the electrically conductive plate with the leadframe housing as the plate is attached to the housing, and an attachment assembly that can be mated to attach the plate to the leadframe housing. The attachment assembly can be provided without creating any openings in the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Stuart C. Stoner
  • Plating Method and Apparatus, and Strip Obtained by this Method
    Publication number: 20130334055
    Abstract: A method for plating strips including providing a strip of material, providing a masking belt including patterned windows, providing a tank with a plating solution, generating a continuous movement in the cell of an assembly of the strip and masking belt, whereby the structure of the masking belt masks portions of the strip in the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: FCI
    Inventor: Damien Comte
  • Optical Communications System, an Optical Communication Module, and a Method
    Publication number: 20130336617
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical communications system, including an optical module, including a module motherboard provided with a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface, an optical component on the upper surface of the substrate, the optical component being configured to submit and/or receive optical signals and being connected to electrical conductors extending through the substrate, an optical coupling module having a first light coupling port, a second light coupling port, and at least one light guiding component guiding light signals between the first and second light coupling ports, and a connector receptacle, a longitudinal axis of the connector receptacle being provided parallel or with an acute angle to the plane of the substrate, and a fiber cable connector provided on an end portion of an optical fiber cable and received in the connector receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: FCI
    Inventors: Sven Otte, Sven Klinkicht, Alexander Eichler-Neumann
  • Cable connector
    Patent number: 8608512
    Abstract: An assembly including an electrical wire and a plug housing forming an electrical connector. The electrical wire includes an electrical conductor and electrical insulation surrounding the electrical conductor. An end of the electrical conductor is not surrounded by the electrical insulation. The plug housing is on the end of the electrical wire. The plug housing covers a bottom of the end of the electrical conductor and covers a first portion of a front side of the end of the electrical conductor. The plug housing does not cover a top of the end and does not cover a second portion of the front side such that the top of the end and the second portion are exposed to be able to electrically contact an electrical contact of a mating electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Charles M. Gross
  • Vertical electrical connector
    Patent number: D696199
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC
    Inventor: Hung Viet Ngo
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: D697871
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: FCI
    Inventors: Jeroen de Bruijn, Thierry Goossens, Johannes Maria Blasius van Woensel