Patents Assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR C
  • Electrical connector having embedded grounding mechanism
    Patent number: 10411411
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing forming a mating slot, and the contact module assembled thereto. The contact module includes the insulator and the contacts secured thereto. The insulator is secured to the housing. The contact includes a retaining section secured to the insulator, a contact section extending from one end of the retaining section into a mating slot, a soldering section extending from the other end of the retaining section out of the housing. The contacts include the signal contacts and the grounding contacts. Each contact module further includes at least one conductive plastic block mechanically and electrically connected to the corresponding grounding contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wen-Jun Tang, Xiao-Qin Zheng
  • Electrical connector with stacked shielding plates sandwiched between two opposite contact modules
    Patent number: 10411414
    Abstract: A high frequency electrical connector includes a housing with first and second rows of contacts therein. The housing includes a base and a mating tongue extending forwardly from the base. Each contacts has a contacting section exposed upon the mating surface of the mating tongue, a connection section exposed out of the base, and a middle section therebetween. The first row of contacts as well as the second row of contacts includes a plurality of grounding contacts. First and second shielding plates stacked with each other and commonly between the first row of contacts and the second row of contacts. The first shielding plate and the second shielding plate form corresponding spring tangs offset from each other in the front-to-back direction to respectively contact the first grounding contacts and second grounding contacts at different positions in the front-to-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jian-Kuang Zhu, Wei Zhong
  • Electrical connector having a rear retainer
    Patent number: 10411389
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a first insulator and a row of first contacts retained to the first insulator, each first contact having a rear tail; a second insulator and a row of second contacts retained to the second insulator, each second contact having a rear tail, the rear tails of the second contacts being arranged in front of the rear tails of the first contacts; a shielding plate assembled between the first insulator and the second insulator; a third insulator molded to an assembly of the first insulator, the second insulator, and the shielding plate; and a retainer extending through the first insulator, the second insulator, and the shielding plate, wherein the retainer is disposed between the third insulator and the rear tails of the first contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Electrical connector with detachable protective cover attached thereon
    Patent number: 10411390
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a protective cap assemble thereon. The electrical connector includes an insulative housing forming receiving cavity, and a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing and extending into the receiving cavity. The protective cap includes a planar body, a first latching section linked with the planar body, and an operation section extending above the planar body. A securing seat surrounds the housing and includes a second latching section engaged with the first latching section. By applying fingers upon the operation section to rotate/twist the cap, the first latching section and the second latching section is disengaged from each other, and the cap can be easily upwardly withdrawn from the securing seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Heng-Kang Wu, Fu-Jin Peng
  • Transmitter optical sub-assembly having improved receptacle
    Patent number: 10412293
    Abstract: A transmitter optical sub-assembly includes a body and a receptacle assembled to a front side of the body, the receptacle including a nose body, a split sleeve enclosed by the nose body, a first body disposed behind the split sleeve, and a fiber stub either glued or shrink fit or pressed fit on to the first body, a rear end of the split sleeve being slip fitted on to the fiber stub; wherein the nose body is made from deep drawing or cold forging process and is attached on to a front surface of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chaitanya Arekar, David Meadowcroft
  • Connector assembly with an improved latch member easy to operate
    Patent number: 10411408
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes: an insulative housing defining a receiving room communicating with outside; plural contacts retained in the insulative housing; and a latch member assembled on a rear side of the insulative housing, latch member comprising a locking portion received in the receiving room and a pressing portion connected to a rear end of the locking portion; wherein the latch member further comprises a resilient portion connected to a rear end of the pressing portion and a fixing portion connected to a rear end of the resilient portion and fixed relative to the insulative housing, the locking portion defines a locking section on a front end thereof to lock with a docking connector, and the locking portion is movable within the receiving room by applying an external force to the pressing portion, thereby unlocking the locking section from the docking connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Xiao Fan, Zhao-Tao Jiang
  • Electrical connector having interconnected power contact and adjacent holding member
    Patent number: 10396484
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing defining a receiving space; plural signal contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving space; a pair of holding members secured to two opposite ends of the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving space, each holding member having a base and a pair of arms bent from the base; and plural power contacts secured to the insulative housing, exposed to the receiving space, and disposed adjacent to the pair of holding members, wherein the pair of holding members act as power contacts, and the pair of arms of each holding member are integrally connected to adjacent power contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Ming-Ching Chen
  • Electrical connector with metallic shell curved extending and covering an interior surface of a mating cavity
    Patent number: 10396502
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a metallic shield attached thereupon. The housing forms a mating cavity recessed rearwardly and inwardly from a front face of the housing with a mating tongue extending therein. A plurality of contacts are disposed in the housing with corresponding contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue facing toward the mating cavity. The metallic shield includes a front plate covering the front face of the housing with an opening aligned with the mating cavity, and an extension inwardly extending from an inner peripheral edge of the front plate around the opening, into the mating cavity and opposite to the mating tongue in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiao-Xian Tian, Wei Zhong, Jian-Kuang Zhu
  • Flippable electrical connector
    Patent number: 10396494
    Abstract: An electrical special plug connector includes a mating space, for receiving a mating tongue of a complementary receptacle connector, with a corresponding latch extending thereinto, and further equipped with a moveable actuator to move a corresponding latch away from the mating space toward an outer position when said actuator is affected by magnetic forces derived from a special receptacle connector equipped with a magnet so as to have the special plug connector mated with the special receptacle connector with magnetic forces while keeping the corresponding latch in an inner position to interlock with a locking notch of a standard type C receptacle connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Joe-Fu Chen, Qi Zhou
  • Electrical connector with improved shielding plate
    Patent number: 10396501
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a terminal seat loaded with a plurality of terminals and a shielding plate. The terminal seat includes a base and a mating tongue extending from the base, the mating tongue defines two opposite mating surfaces, a confronting surface and two opposite sides connecting with the mating surfaces and the confronting surface. The terminals include contacting sections exposing upon the mating surfaces and leg sections out of the base. The shielding plate includes a main sheet disposed between the mating surfaces and two thickening sections, the two thickening sections enclose the two opposite sides of the mating tongue and each provides a side latch at an outer side face thereof. Each thickness defines two opposite first surfaces connecting with the outer side face thereof, the first surfaces complete the mating surfaces of the mating tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chih-Pi Cheng, Chao-Chieh Chen
  • Alignment structures for chip modules
    Patent number: 10396491
    Abstract: A coupling system includes a first connecting unit and a second connecting unit adapted to be connected to each other either directly or indirectly through an adaptor. Each of the first connecting unit and a second connecting unit includes an enclosure with a first mating surface and a second mating face perpendicular to each other, a pair of chip modules and an electrical connector. The electrical connector is exposed on the first mating surface while the chip module is protectively hidden behind the second mating surface. The electrical connector is equipped with magnets for activating mating with a counterpart electrical connector so as to have the chip modules of the first connecting unit and those of the second connecting unit aligned for coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuo-Hsiu Hsu
  • Heast sink fastening seat for use with electrical connector
    Patent number: 10388588
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector mounted upon a printed circuit board, and a heat sink fastening seat mounted upon the printed circuit board and beside the connector. The heat sink fastening seat includes a pair of metallic mounting bars spaced from each other and located by two lateral sides of the connector in the transverse direction. A pair of alignment posts are formed on the corresponding mounting bars, respectively. A pair of metallic spring blades are respectively, in the vertical direction, aligned with and mounted upon the corresponding mounting bars for cooperation with the corresponding components of the heat sink for fastening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Heng-Kang Wu, Fu-Jin Peng
  • Shielding plate with dual contacting beams in one hole
    Patent number: 10389067
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing. The contacts are arranged with upper contacts in the upper row and lower contacts in the lower row. The upper contacts include the grounding contacts and the signal contacts as well as the lower contacts. A metallic shielding plate is located between the upper contacts and the lower contacts. The metallic shielding plate forms a plurality of holes. In each hole, there are upper spring beam and lower spring beam respectively contacting the front contacting sections of the grounding contacts in the upper row and in the lower row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yin-Chao Xu
  • Electrical connector for use with optoelectronic module
    Patent number: 10386591
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for connection between the optical device and the printed circuit board, includes a frame, a housing received in the frame, a retention lever pivotally mounted upon the frame for retaining the optoelectronic module, an optical jumper module located on a front portion of the housing and optically connected with the optoelectronic module wherein the retention lever includes a pressing section adapted to downwardly press the optoelectronic module, an handling section, and a downwardly protruding stopper formed on the handling section and adapted to abut against the printed circuit board when the retention lever is downwardly moved excessively. The frame is equipped with a locking hook to lock the retention lever in position so as to retain the optoelectronic module in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuo-Hsiu Hsu
  • Connector assembly with an improved latch member having a shorter length
    Patent number: 10381776
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes: an insulative housing defining a receiving room communicating with the outside; and a latch member assembled in the receiving room of the insulative housing, the latch member comprising a fixing portion fixed on the insulative housing, a latch arm extending along a first direction and movably received in the receiving room, and a latch portion defined on a front end of the latch arm and exposed to the outside through the receiving room for cooperating with the docking connector; wherein a first bent portion is bent and formed on a rear end of the latch arm and extends along a second direction angled relative to the first direction, and the first bent portion is connected between the latch arm and the fixing portion and driven by the latch arm to move when the latch arm is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Xiao Fan, Zhao-Tao Jiang
  • Display device
    Patent number: 10379646
    Abstract: A high strength display device comprises a touch panel, a liquid crystal display, and a frame. The liquid crystal display covers the touch panel to expose peripheral edges of the touch panel. The peripheral edges of the touch panel are mounted to the frame, so that the liquid crystal display is mounted between the touch panel and the frame. A plurality of screw studs are formed on a surface of the liquid crystal display facing away from the touch panel. A plurality of first screw holes is defined in the frame, the plurality of first screw holes corresponds to the plurality of screw studs. The frame is mounted to the liquid crystal display through the plurality of screw studs and the plurality of first screw holes to add higher structural strength and durability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xiong Li
  • Plug connector assembly with an unlocking apparatus for unlocking a latch
    Patent number: 10367299
    Abstract: An plug connector assembly for latching with a mating connector comprises an insulative body defining a latch apparatus on a side thereof, a cable extending along a front-to-back direction and rearwardly exposed to a rear end of the insulative body, and an unlocking assembly assembled on the insulative body and cooperate with the latch apparatus, and the latch apparatus defining a latching portion to latch with the mating connector, wherein the unlocking assembly comprises an actuator assembled on the insulative body and a operating portion connected to he actuator, and when the operating portion is operated, the actuator is derived by the operating portion to apply a force on the latch apparatus, so that the latching portion moves synchronously to release the locking with the mating connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Min Yao, Xiao Fan, Jun Chen, Jerry Wu
  • Electrical connector with improved outer shell
    Patent number: 10367320
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an outer shell formed by metal-injection mold and a terminal module including a base and a mating tongue extending forwardly from the base and loaded with a plurality of terminals, and a waterproof glue. The shell includes a seat and a sidewall extending forwardly from the seat, the seat defines a front opening and a receiving cavity. The base is received in the receiving cavity and the mating tongue extends across the front opening and located in the mating cavity. The seat defines a pouring hole from an outer face thereof and communicating with the receiving cavity, the glue is filled with gap between the terminal module and the outer shell via the pouring hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih-Pi Cheng
  • Electrical connector grounding and power terminals having a bent widened section
    Patent number: 10367307
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing including a tongue; and plural conductive terminals retained to the insulative housing and arranged in two rows, the conductive terminals including plural grounding terminals and plural power terminals at outer ends of the two rows, each conductive terminal having a contacting section exposed to a surface of the tongue, a tail section, and an intermediate section between the contacting section and the tail section, wherein at least one of the grounding terminals and the power terminals has a widening section continuing and bent from the contacting section thereof to be embedded in the tongue portion, and a thickness of the widening section is substantially equal to a thickness of the contacting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shao-Cong Zhou, Jun Zhao
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: D859316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Teng-Fei Zhang, Wei Zhong, Jian-Kuang Zhu