Patents Assigned to FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
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Patent number: 11817656Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body and first through eighth terminals sequentially arranged in a lateral direction in the insulating body, wherein the first and second terminals, the third and sixth terminals, the fourth and fifth terminals, and the seventh and eighth terminals are respectively used to transmit a pair of differential signals, each terminal including: a mating portion for mating to a mating connector; a tail portion opposite to the mating portion; and a connecting portion connected therebetween, the connecting portions of the third terminal to the fifth terminal are all provided with a coupling portion; wherein the coupling portions of the third through fifth terminals are in three different planes, respectively, and the coupling portion of the fifth terminal and the coupling portion of the third terminal at least partially overlap in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the lateral direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Yong-Chun Xu, Hung-Chi Yu, Chih-Ching Hsu, Wei-Kang Liu, Chin-Jung Wu, Xiao-Qin Zheng
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Patent number: 11817654Abstract: A connector unit includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including plural contacts integrally formed with plural insulative transverse bars via insert-molding. The contacts include plural differential pair signal contacts and plural grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other along a transverse direction. Plural grounding bars are attached to corresponding transverse bars, respectively, wherein each grounding bar include plural tabs mechanically and electrically connecting to the corresponding grounding contacts. Each grounding bar is equipped with a plastic attachment tie bar to cooperate with a corresponding transverse bar to sandwich the grounding bar therebetween for securement.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Terrance F. Little, Patrick R. Casher, An-Jen Yang, Chih-Hsien Chou
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Patent number: 11811176Abstract: An electrical connector includes a terminal module having a circuit board having first through eighth conductive traces sequentially arranged in a transverse direction and corresponding first through eighth terminals, the third terminal and the sixth terminal being configured for transmitting a pair of differential signals, the fourth terminal and the fifth terminal being configured for transmitting another pair of differential signals, the first through eighth conductive traces being respectively electrically connected to corresponding first through eighth terminals, each of the third conductive trace and the fifth conductive trace including a coupling portion, a size of the coupling portion in the transverse direction is larger than a size of the other part of the corresponding conductive trace in the transverse direction, wherein the coupling portion of the third conductive trace and the coupling portion of the fifth conductive trace overlap in an up and down direction to increase mutual coupling.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Yong-Chun Xu, Hung-Chi Yu, Chih-Ching Hsu, Xiao-Qin Zheng, Chin-Jung Wu
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Publication number: 20230352880Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulating housing defining a mating face, a card slot, and two side walls at opposite sides of the card slot, each of the side walls defining signal passageways and grounding passageways; two rows of terminals located on the side walls and each row of terminal including signal terminals in the signal passageways and grounding terminals in the grounding passageways, the terminals including retaining portions retained in the passageways and elastic arms with contacting portions extending into the card slot; and a one-piece inserting member assembled in the insulating housing, wherein the inserting member defines plural first inserting portions inserted in the signal passageways and plural second inserting portions inserted in the grounding passageways, the second inserting portions contact corresponding grounding terminals, respectively, to establish a grounding path.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicants: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: XUN WU, MING-YI GONG, TIAN YANG, HUNG-CHI YU, WEN-LUNG HSU, MIN-HSUAN TSAI, GUO-XIANG NIU
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Patent number: 11799235Abstract: The electrical connector includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including a plurality of side by side arranged contacts integrally formed with a plurality of plastic tie bars at different positions via insert-molding. An insulative front cover and an insulative rear cover are assembled upon the housing wherein the rear cover is forwardly assembled into the housing together with the contact module while the front cover is downwardly assembled upon the housing after the contact module has been assemble into the housing. The front cover is configured to comply with the curved resilient contacting sections of the contacts for lowering the impedance of the contacts thereabouts.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Terrance F. Little, Patrick R. Casher
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Patent number: 11799231Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative base; a fixed terminal secured to the insulative base; and a movable terminal including a securing portion fixed to the insulative base, a connecting portion, a contacting portion in touch with the fixed terminal, a first and a second beams at two opposite sides of the connecting portion, and a tail, wherein at least one of the first and second beams has a first portion substantially perpendicular to the connecting portion and a second portion substantially parallel to the connecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Kai-Chieh Yang, Wei-Ta Tseng, Ming-Ching Chen
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Patent number: 11798710Abstract: A cable includes: a core wire; an insulating layer covering the core wire in an extrusion molding manner, a shielding layer covering the insulating layer, and a sheath covering the shielding layer, the core wire comprising a pair of inner conductors and the inner insulating layer of the pair of inner conductors are simultaneously covered by extrusion molding. Under the premise of ensuring impedance matching, the cable reduces the distance between the two conductors, so that the cable has lower insertion loss, and the overall size of the cable is also smaller, at the same time, the cable has a high-speed data transmission capability with a signal frequency greater than 40 GHz.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Yang-Bo Zheng, Juan Zheng, Lu-Yu Chang
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Patent number: 11799223Abstract: An angled type connector assembly includes a receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board and having an insulative housing with an oblique opening to receive a plug connector, and a bottom opening through which the mating pads on the printed circuit board is upwardly exposed. The plug connector includes two rows of contacts respectively mechanically and electrically connected to the corresponding two rows of wires. The plug connector forms an oblique mating end or interface relative to an extending direction of the plug, on which the contacting sections of the contacts are exposed to mate with the corresponding mating pads on the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Terrance F. Little, Neng Xiao, Haozhe Zi
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Patent number: 11791580Abstract: A plug connector for mating with a receptacle connector which is provided with a groove at an upper surface thereof includes: an insulating body; and a locking elastic piece on the insulating body, wherein the insulating body includes a main body and a mating portion extending forward from the main body, a bottom of the mating portion protrudes downward to form a sinking portion, and the sinking portion is located entirely above the groove.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Yang-Tsun Hsu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng, Cai-Yuan Wang
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Patent number: 11769962Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a rear base and a front tongue; plural contacts extending rearward through the base and exposing to the tongue; an outer cover enclosing the insulative housing to define a rear chamber therebetween; and a sealing member formed in the chamber to seal an interface between the base and the outer cover and an interface between the base and the contacts, wherein the base has a rear face and a rib protruding rearward from the rear face into the rear chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Min-Han Lin, Zhi-Feng Wang
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Patent number: 11757238Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a contact module having an upper part and a lower part stacked with each other. The upper part includes a front/outer upper unit and a rear/inner upper unit and the lower part includes a front/outer lower unit and a rear/inner lower unit. Each unit includes an insulative body and a plurality of contacts integrally formed with the insulative body via an insert-molding process. The insulative body includes a middle sector and a pair of side sectors. The contacts include side-band contacts retained in the middle sector and differential-pair contacts retained in the side sectors.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Terrance F Little
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Patent number: 11735867Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a receiving space, plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving space, a first and second holding members secured to two opposite ends of the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving space, and a shielding plate located between the first and second holding members, wherein at least one of the first and second holding members has an integral coupling parallel to the shielding plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Ming-Ching Chen
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Patent number: 11735862Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a board connector and a cable connector. The board connector includes a first seat comprising a base and two first sidewalls commonly defining a mating space, and a pair of first locking portions with locking heads projecting into the mating space, and a plurality of first terminals retained in the first seat and comprising contacting portions projecting into the mating space and leg portions. The cable connector includes a second seat including a pair of second locking portions to engage with the first locking portions and plural second terminals retained in the second seat. The first seat of the board connector further includes a second sidewall unitarily connecting with the base and first sidewalls at a same side and the second sidewall defines a first locking section to engage with a second locking section defined on the cable connector.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Xiao-Juan Lin, Chun-Hsiung Hsu
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Patent number: 11735848Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a recess at an outer surface thereof; plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and each including a securing portion, a front contacting portion, and a rear tail; an internal printed circuit board (PCB) having plural conductive pads connected to the rear tails of the contacts and an auxiliary ground pad; a metallic cover enclosing the insulative housing; and a coupling piece received in the recess of the insulative housing, the coupling piece either connecting the metallic cover to the auxiliary ground pad of the PCB or connecting the metallic cover to a corresponding ground contact of the plurality of contacts or both.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Cai-Yuan Wang, Zhi-Yong Zhou, Ying-Xing Ma, Chien-Hsun Huang
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Patent number: 11715909Abstract: A card edge connector includes an insulative housing defining a front face, a rear face, and a card slot opening forward through the front face, a row of first terminals retained in the insulative housing from the front face, a row of second terminals retained in the insulative housing from the rear face, and a grounding and shielding plate. The row of second terminals includes signal terminals and grounding terminals, each second terminal including an upright portion, an elastic portion extending from the upright portion with a contacting portion exposed upon the card slot, and a leg portion. The grounding and shielding plate covers the rear face of the insulative housing and electrical connects to all the grounding terminals of the row of second terminals.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Zhi-Bin Zhao, Wen-Jun Tang, Xi-Xiang Gu, Hung-Chi Yu, Ming-Kun Ye
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Patent number: 11715910Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with plural passageways arranged in a hexagonal dense manner. Plural signal contacts and grounding contacts are disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectively, in a mixed manner wherein each pair of signal contacts are surrounded by eight grounding contacts. Some grounding contacts are aligned with one another along a row direction and linked together via a transverse bar, and a pair of extensions extend from the two opposite ends of the transverse bar in a column direction perpendicular to the row direction so as to have the pair of signal contacts essentially fully enclosed and shielded within a region with the boundary defined by a combination of the grounding contacts and the transverse bars.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Shan-Yong Cheng, Chih-Hsien Chou, Fang-Jwu Liao, Chun-Yu Chao
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Patent number: 11682852Abstract: A plug connector adapted for connecting corresponding wires includes an insulative body integrally formed with two rows of plug contacts in a lateral direction and a transverse bar. The plug contacts are categorized with differential-pair contacts and grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a longitudinal direction. The transverse bar extends along the longitudinal direction perpendicular to the lateral direction and is unitarily linked to rear ends of all the grounding contacts of each row of plug contacts while being isolated from the differential-pair contacts. All the contacts and the transverse bar are stamped from a same sheet metal initially, and the differential-pair contacts are successively disconnected from the transverse bar after the plug contacts are integrally formed with the insulative body.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Terrance F. Little
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Patent number: 11677197Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a metallic cover; an insulative frame molded inside the metallic cover; a metal injection molded (MIM) support and a contact module received by the MIM support, the contact module having a rear base, a front tongue, and an upper and a lower rows of contacts extending through the base and exposing to two opposite faces of the tongue, the MIM support having a pair of side arms flanking the two rows of contacts; and an insulator molded outside the MIM support and the contact module and secured to the insulative frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Ding-Cherng Chen
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Patent number: 11670883Abstract: A method of making a contact module of an electrical connector which includes a front tongue and an upper and lower rows of contacts with contacting portions exposed to two opposite surfaces of the tongue is characterized by the steps of: forming a first insulator to the lower row of contacts to have a base, a lower upright portion, and a rear mounting portion; mounting the upper row of contacts to the first insulator by inserting tails of the upper row of contacts through the mounting portion of the first insulator until respective bearing portions of the upper row of contacts bear against the mounting portion; removing a carrier strip from the bearing portions of the upper row of contacts; and molding a second insulator with the upper and lower rows of contacts and the first insulator to expose the upper and lower contacting portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
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Patent number: D1003238Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Duo Yang, Jiang Zhang