Patents Assigned to FCI
  • Publication number: 20200295513
    Abstract: A ground shield includes a plurality of contact members configured to contact the ground contacts of a column of contacts of an electrical connector, so as to electrically common the grounds to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: Jason John Ellison
  • Publication number: 20200287584
    Abstract: A transceiver having an antenna-connection port and an FEM-connection port is disclosed. Exemplary embodiments provide a transceiver having an antenna-connection port and an FEM-connection port that may support a connection to an external FEM and also support a connection to an antenna without a separate RF switch when an antenna is used without an FEM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: FCI Inc.
    Inventor: Hee Yong YOO
  • Patent number: 10770814
    Abstract: A direct mate orthogonal electrical connector assembly includes first and second electrical connectors configured to be mated to respective first and second substrates such that the second substrate is perpendicular to the first substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Wilfred J. Swain, Steven E. Minich, Mark R. Gray
  • Patent number: 10763605
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, an electrical connector has a heat dissipation holes, and is configured to be mounted to a substrate having electrical traces that are partially offset from each other, and partially aligned with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Christopher S. Gieski, Michael Blanchfield, Michael Percherke
  • Publication number: 20200274267
    Abstract: An I/O connector assembly configured for making a cabled connection to an interior portion of a printed circuit board for signals passing through the connector. The assembly may include a receptacle connector, a cage and cables, terminated to conductive elements of the terminal subassemblies, extending through the cage to the midboard. The terminal subassemblies may have first type conductive elements configured for mounting to the printed circuit board and second type conductive elements configured for terminating cables. Features may be included for precise positioning of the receptacle connector formed with the terminal subassemblies relative to the cage such that connector to connector variation in the positioning of the contact portions of the conductive elements in the terminal subassembly is provided. A mating plug may be designed with low wipe, which improves high frequency performance of the mated connector system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Arkady Y. Zerebilov, R. Brad Brubaker
  • Publication number: 20200266468
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control system for a fuel cell system that includes at least two or more fuel cell groups which each have at least one fuel cell connected in parallel. The fuel cell control system comprises: a unit level controller configured to control an output of an individual fuel cell; a group level controller configured to determine the output distribution of the individual fuel cells within the fuel cell group based on the performance decrease rates of the individual fuel cells within the fuel cell group; and a system level controller configured to determine the total output of the fuel cell system according to the power demand for the grid and determine the output distribution for each of the fuel cell groups in correspondence to the total output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Applicant: FCI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ingab CHANG, Tae Won Lee
  • Patent number: 10741945
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, an electrical connector can be mounted to a first printed circuit board to obtain a first current capacity, and the electrical connector can be mounted to a second printed circuit board to obtain a second current capacity that is lower than the first current capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Brungard, Michael Percherke, Christopher J. Kolivoski, Christopher S. Gieski, Nazareth Eppley, Charles Copper, Thierry Goossens
  • Patent number: 10731463
    Abstract: A rock bolt (10) is provided for frictionally engaging with the internal surface of a bore drilled into rockmass. The bolt comprises a tube having a circular cross-section (12) defining a longitudinal split (14) and a longitudinal axis (10a). The tube (12) in is radially expandable. The bolt (10) has a first leading end (12b) for insertion into a bore, a second end defining a head (12a) and expander means (30) for expanding the diameter of the tube at least one location along the tube. The expander means comprises first (42) and second (44) expander/wedge elements arranged so that relative movement of the two elements causes the diameter of the tube to expand at that location. The first expander element (42) is mounted on an elongate rod (30) which is aligned generally along the longitudinal axis of the tube. Rotation of the rod (30) causes the relative movement of the two elements to cause the diameter of the tube to expand at the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: FCI HOLDINGS DELAWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Trent Roberts
  • Publication number: 20200244025
    Abstract: An I/O connector assembly configured for making a cabled connection to an interior portion of a printed circuit board for at least some signals passing through the I/O connector. The I/O connector assembly may be assembled by mounting a cage to a printed circuit board. A receptacle connector, including cables extending from a rear of the connector, may be inserted through an opening in the top or rear of the cage. The receptacle connector may be positioned in the cage by at least one retention member on the cage. A plug, mating to the receptacle connector, also may be positioned by a retention member on the cage. Positioning both the plug and receptacle relative to the cage reduces the tolerance stackup of the assembly and enables the connectors to be designed with shorter wipe length, which enables higher frequency operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Jordan Winey, Arkady Y. Zerebilov, Michael Scholeno, Jeremy Shober
  • Patent number: 10720721
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing, a plurality of electrical signal contacts carried by the dielectric housing, and a ground plate carried by the dielectric housing. The electrical signal contacts are arranged along a first plane, wherein the signal contacts define signal pairs. The signal contacts further define respective mating and mounting ends. The ground plate includes a ground plate body oriented in a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane and offset from the first plane. The ground plate body defines first and second opposed surfaces. The ground plate includes at least one rib that defines first and second opposed surfaces, wherein the first surface of the rib projects from the first surface of the ground plate body in a direction toward the first plane between adjacent signal pairs, and the second surface is recessed into the second surface of the ground plate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Douglas M. Johnescu, Jonathan E. Buck, Stuart C. Stoner
  • Patent number: 10714850
    Abstract: In accordance with one embodiment, first and second electrical connectors are configured as vertical electrical connectors that are configured to mate to each other so as to define a right angle electrical connector assembly. Ground shields and electrical contacts of various embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Steven E. Minich, Charles Copper
  • Patent number: 10704389
    Abstract: A system for re-tensioning mine roof channels includes a roof plate having a first side, a second side positioned opposite the first side, and a sidewall extending therebetween, where the first side is configured to engage a surface of a mine roof, and where the sidewall defines a radially extending slot configured to receive a mine roof bolt. The system also includes a spacer having a first side, a second side positioned opposite the first side, and a sidewall extending therebetween, with the first side of the spacer configured to engage with the second side of the roof plate, and the sidewall defining a slot configured to receive a mine roof bolt, and a nut having a first side, a second side positioned opposite the first side, a sidewall therebetween, and a threaded opening, with the sidewall defining a radially extending slot configured to receive a mine roof bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FCI Holdings Delaware, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben Mirabile, Brandon Shane Stables
  • Publication number: 20200186604
    Abstract: A wireless communication controlling apparatus for installing wireless Internet of an Internet of Things device is provided. There is provided a wireless communication controlling apparatus which supports the setup of an IoT device in connection with a user terminal based on an application, and if it fails, supports the setup of wireless Internet of the IoT device in connection with the user terminal based on an AP mode. A wireless communication controlling apparatus that does not support the above process supports easy setup based on a concurrent mode of a provision AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: FCI Inc.
    Inventor: Chang Hwan Park
  • Publication number: 20200176979
    Abstract: An ESD protection circuit is provided. An embodiment provides an ESD protection circuit of a crystal oscillator for bearing an output swing level in an ESD IO for improving a reference clock isolation by adding a stacked diode to the ESD protection circuit and for improving a protection function by applying a secondary diode structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: FCI Inc.
    Inventor: Je Cheol MOON
  • Patent number: 10673182
    Abstract: A ground shield includes a plurality of contact members configured to contact the ground contacts of a column of contacts of an electrical connector, so as to electrically common the grounds to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: Jason John Ellison
  • Publication number: 20200153172
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing and electrical conductor plating. The housing includes a first member and a second member. The first member is made of plastic and forms at least one first contact receiving channel therein. The second member is attached around the first member, and the first and second members form at least one second contact receiving channel therebetween. The electrical conductor plating is on the first member. The electrical conductor plating includes at least one first section along the at least one first contact receiving channel and at least one second section along an exterior side of the first member at the at least one second contact receiving channel. The first and second sections of the electrical conductor plating are electrically separate from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: Charles Copper
  • Publication number: 20200154514
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for filtering a wireless signal by parsing a wireless signal transmitted from a surrounding wireless terminal so as to extract channel information of the surrounding wireless terminal in a MAC frame and performing adaptive filtering on the wireless signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: FCI Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Jun BAN, Jae Wan KIM, Won Man KIM, Beom Jin KIM
  • Publication number: 20200153136
    Abstract: An electrical power interconnection system is described. The electrical interconnection system may comprise an electrical power connector and a substrate, such as a printed circuit board. The electrical power connector may comprise a housing and a plurality of electrical power contacts supported by the housing. The electrical power contacts may comprise a mounting end, a mating end, and a contact body disposed between the mounting end and the mating end. The electrical power contacts may have planar portions. The mating ends may comprise opposing first second beams defining a slot. The slot may be configured to receive the substrate therein, such that the first beam contacts the first side of the substrate and the second beam contacts the second side of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Charles Copper, Christopher J. Kolivoski, Hung Viet Ngo, Thomas A. Brungard
  • Publication number: 20200153134
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing, first and second sets of terminals and a spacer. The housing has a first sidewall, a second sidewall spaced apart from the first sidewall and a cavity between the first and second sidewalls. The first set of terminals is disposed in the cavity adjacent to the first sidewall. The second set of terminals is disposed in the cavity adjacent to the second sidewall. The spacer is disposed in the cavity between the first and second sets of terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicants: Amphenol FCI Asia Pte. Ltd., Amphenol FCI Connectors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Naotaka Sasame, Motomu Kajiura, Masahiko Motoyama
  • Patent number: 10651603
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a housing having a mating direction, a width direction orthogonal to the mating direction and a height direction orthogonal to the mating direction and the width direction. Low speed signal contacts and high speed signal contacts are arranged in the housing. Ground bars are each disposed between adjacent two of the contacts. A support member is attached to the housing and engaged to the ground bars. The support member has a main body disposed along the width direction and fingers extending laterally from the main body. Each of the fingers being in alignment with one of the low speed signal contacts along the mounting direction. The fingers are positioned away from the high speed contacts to achieve better signal integrity and crosstalk reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Amphenol FCI Connectors Singapore Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Abin Simon Kurudamannil, Biju K. Paul Kizhakkamparambil, Alex Babu Thuruthummalil, Binesh C. Devimandiram