Patents Assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR C
  • Patent number: 10468848
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a pair of terminal modules sandwiching a metallic shielding plate via an insert-molding process and sandwiched between a pair of metallic shells to be commonly enclosed within an insulative front/inner housing via a first stage over-molding process and an insulative rear/outer housing via a second stage over-molding process. The rear housing forms a base from which the mating tongue of the front housing forwardly extends. A plurality of first positioning holes extend through the shielding plate, the pair of insulators, the pair of metallic shells. A plurality of second positioning holes extend through the front housing and the rear housing. The first positioning holes are filled with either glue or material of the rear housing, depending upon positional relation with the corresponding second positioning holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yin-Chao Xu, Wei Zhong, Jian-Kuang Zhu
  • Patent number: 10468795
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with a plurality of passageways and a plurality of contacts received therein. The housing includes opposite mating surface and mounting surface in the vertical direction. The contact includes an upstanding section retained in the passageway with a spring arm extending from an upper region of the upstanding plate and above the mating surface, and a mounting leg extending from a lower region of the upstanding plate around the mounting surface. The spring arm forms a contacting section around a free end thereof. One additional layer structure extends backwardly from a front end of the spring arm in a compressive folded manner and intimately abuts against the spring arm in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shan-Yong Cheng, Tzu-Yao Hwang, Ke-Hao Chen, Kuo-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 10468809
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing comprising a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; two rows of conductive terminals comprising a plurality of first terminals and second terminals and affixed to the insulative housing; a shielding plate sandwiched between the first terminals and the second terminals; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; and a sub shell abutting with the tongue portion and the base portion and contacting with the shielding shell, wherein the sub shell resists against a front surface of the base portion and exposes the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10468799
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the housing. The housing forms a mating surface for mating with an electronic part, and a supporting/mounting surface on which an FPC is seated. The contact includes a contacting section exposed upon the mating surface, a soldering section extending through the FPC, and a connecting section between the contacting section and the soldering section. A metallic shell is attached upon the housing, facing the FPC direction in the vertical direction to restrict movement of the FPC in a vertical direction. The contacts may be bent after assembly to expose the soldering sections at the mounting face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiang Xiao, Wei Zhong, Jian-Kuang Zhu
  • Patent number: 10461475
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector assembly includes an insulative main housing forming a plurality of mating ports, and a plurality of vertical wafers stacked with one another along a transverse direction in a form that every stacked (differential) signal wafer pair are spaced from the neighboring signal wafer pair by a ground wafer in the transverse direction. The signal wafers and the grounding wafers have corresponding signal contacts and grounding contacts thereon to be exposed upon the corresponding mating ports. A plurality of spring loaded common ground plates extend in the transverse direction so as to reliably mechanically and electrically connect the corresponding grounding wafers at the same time for each common ground plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Terrance F. Little
  • Patent number: 10454222
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the housing, a metallic shielding shell, and a cable sub-assembly. The contact includes a front mating section and a rear connecting section. The cable sub-assembly includes a plurality of wires and a grounding unit. The wire includes an inner/transmission conductor, an inner insulator, an outer/grounding conductor/layer, and an outer insulator sequentially coaxially arranged with one another. The connecting sections of the contacts are mechanically and electrically connected to the inner conductors of the corresponding wires. The grounding unit includes a grounding bar mechanically and electrically connected to the grounding layers of the corresponding wires and with forwardly extending legs for connection to the shielding shell. Also included is a central shielding plate with extensions at opposite ends for connection to the grounding bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiao-Xiang Wu, Wei Zhong, Jian-Kuang Zhu
  • Patent number: 10454218
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of signal and ground contacts retained in the housing. The housing forms opposite mating surface and mounting surface, and a plurality of signal contact passageways and ground contact passageways extending therethrough to receive the signal contacts and ground contacts therein. All the mating surface, the mounting surface and the set of interior surfaces of each signal contact passageway and each ground contact passageway are plated/coated with corresponding metal layers while some dividing structures are formed on the mating surface and the mounting surface so as to electrically separate the metal layers of the signal contact passageways from those of the ground contact passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuo-Hsiu Hsu, Tzu-Yao Hwang, Ming-Lun Szu
  • Patent number: 10454206
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing for forming a receiving room. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The shielding shell includes an annular wall having a riveted joint. The riveted joint is composed of a first inclining surface and a second inclining surface disposed in a thickness direction of the shielding shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10446957
    Abstract: A retainer assembly includes a CPU and a retaining clip assemble together along an insertion/withdrawal direction perpendicular to a vertical direction of the CPU wherein the CPU forms a pair of sliding grooves, and the retaining clip forms a receiving space, an opening communicating the receiving space with an exterior, and a pair of retaining arms located by two sides of the receiving space and moveable along the pair of sliding grooves for allow the CPU to be received within the receiving space via said opening. The retaining arm may further optimally form a recess to receive a block of the CPU for retaining the CPU with regard to the retaining clip in the insertion/withdrawal direction. The retaining clip may or may not be mounted to the printed circuit board on which an electrical connector is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Fang-Jwu Liao
  • Patent number: 10446986
    Abstract: A electrical connector includes an insulative elongated housing and first and second metallic shells covering the housing. The housing includes a top surface, a bottom surface, two sides surfaces and a middle surface between the top surface and the bottom surface so as to form a step structure thereof. The primary shell covers the top surface, the bottom surface and two side surfaces, and the secondary shell covers the middle surface and the rear surface which is roughly joined with the middle surface, and further the primary shell on the bottom surface in an overlapped manner so as to avoid any electrical leaking along the front-to-back direction between the primary shell and the secondary shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei Zhong, Jian-Kuang Zhu
  • Patent number: 10446958
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts are retained in the housing. A pair of metal latches are assembled on the housing. The latch includes a deflectable arm with a restriction tab for engagement within the corresponding notch of the memory module so as to restrict movement of the memory module in a front-to-back direction, and with a pressing tab beside the restriction tab for downwardly pressing the memory module so as to restrict movement of the memory module in a vertical direction. The pressing tab includes a downward oblique guiding section, and a folded section intimately under the guiding section with a curved linking region between the oblique guiding section and the folded section for downwardly pressing the surface of the memory module without scraping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei-Guo Sun, Guang-Lei Xu
  • Patent number: 10446984
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts embedded within the housing. The housing includes a base and at least two mating tongues extending forwardly from the base in a same front-to-back direction and spaced from each other in a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction. Each mating tongue includes two mating surfaces. The housing includes an inner insulator which is integrally formed with the contacts via an insert-molding process, and an outer insulator which is further applied upon the inner insulator via another/successive insert-molding process. The inner insulator includes the two inner mating tongues and the bridge therebetween, and the outer insulator covers all the two inner mating tongues and the bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei Zhong, Jian-Kuang Zhu
  • Patent number: 10446960
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a metallic cage defining a receiving space therein, a receptacle connector unit received in the receiving space and including a pair of mating ports, and a number of terminal wafers stacked with one another with corresponding contacting sections exposed upon the mating ports and tail sections to be mounted on a printed circuit board on which the receptacle connector unit is mounted, and a middle heat transfer unit located between the two mating ports in a vertical direction and including a heat base linked with a pair of heat pipes on two sides, the pair of heat pipes extending through a rear of the cage and connected to a rear heat sink unit located behind the rear of the cage. Each of the pair of heat pipes is directly contacted with at least two different surfaces of the heat base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Guy Ritter, Terrance F. Little, Joe-Fu Chen
  • Patent number: 10446971
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, an electrical connector assembly includes a locking station and a plug cable connector. Said locking station has a receiving cavity, and a pair of side walls extending in a front-to-back direction and locating at two sides of the receiving cavity in a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction. Said plug cable connector is forwardly inserted into said receiving cavity and includes a spring being deflectable in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction. Said spring includes a pair of laterally extending offset ends; and each side wall defines a locking shoulder facing forwardly and pressing against said respective offset end downwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chih-Pi Cheng, Chao-Chieh Chen
  • Patent number: 10446977
    Abstract: A coupling system includes a first connecting unit and a second connecting unit adapted to be connected to each other. Each of the first connecting unit and a second connecting unit includes an enclosure with a substantial even mating surface and a pair of lens module. Each lens module includes a lens enclosed within a magnet, and the magnets of the coupled lens modules have opposite magnet poles around the corresponding mating surfaces. The pair of lens modules are further equipped with a transmitting chip and a receiving chip in aligned with the corresponding lens, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuo-Hsiu Hsu
  • Patent number: 10429599
    Abstract: A plug connector includes: a metallic enclosure enclosing a printed circuit board; a heat sink member exposed to an exterior surface of the metallic enclosure; and a set of electronic components assembled upon the printed circuit board, wherein the heat sink member is to dissipate heat from at least one of the set of electronic components, and the heat sink member is detachably attached upon the metallic enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, An-Jen Yang, Jim Zhao, Yuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 10422816
    Abstract: An electric contact used to electrically connecting an IC socket to a PCB, comprises an upper contact, a lower contact and an elastic member between them. The upper contact comprises a first connecting portion to be connected to the IC socket and a first contacting portion with less length than the first connecting portion. The lower contact comprises a second connecting portion and a second contacting portion connecting with the second connecting portion. The second connecting portion includes an expanding portion adjacent to the second contacting portion. The second contacting portion forms a receiving space for the first contacting portion. The first connecting portion also defines a protruding portion projecting along a thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Ming-Yue Chen
  • Patent number: 10418747
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of conductive contacts affixed to the insulative housing, a shell enclosing the insulative housing, and an o-ring attached to a front end of the shell. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The shell includes a front surface, an outer surface, and an inner surface. There exists a mating room between the inner surface of the shell and the tongue portion. The o-ring includes an internal attached surface attached to the inner surface of the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: D859309
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Teng-Fei Zhang, Jian-Kuang Zhu, Kuo-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: D861611
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Qiang Wang