Patents Assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR C
  • Connector assembly with cleaning devices
    Patent number: 10310191
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first connector and a second connector mating with the first connector. The first connector defines a first mating face, a first cleaning device disposed in the first mating face and a stiff first mating portion exposed upon the first mating face. The second connector defines a second mating face, a second cleaning device disposed in the second mating face and a stiff second mating portion exposed upon the second mating face. During mating the first connector to the second connector along the mating direction, the first cleaning device wipes the second mating face for wiping away the dirty attached to the second mating portion while the second cleaning device wipes the first mating face for wiping away the dirty attached to the first mating portion until the first and second mating portions mated with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Nan-Hung Lin, Chun-Yi Chang
  • Electrical connector having seamless shielding shell and single row of contacts
    Patent number: 10312637
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing; a single row of contacts secured to the insulative housing and each having a soldering tail; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing and having an annular part and a pair of soldering portions; wherein the shielding shell annular part is seamless; and the soldering tails of the single row of contacts are arranged alternately in two rows within an outer profile of the shielding shell annular part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shun-Jung Chuang
  • Electrical connector having ground and power contacts each with plural tail portions
    Patent number: 10305229
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a tongue; two rows of contacts arranged in the insulative housing and exposed respectively to two opposite surfaces of the tongue, each row of contacts including an outermost ground contact and an adjacent power contact next to the ground contact; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, wherein each of the ground contact and the power contact in at least one of the two rows has a contacting portion, plural tail portions, and an intermediate portion between the contacting portion and the plural tail portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Metallic shell with spring tangs on folded plate
    Patent number: 10297955
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a metallic shielding shell enclosing the housing. The housing forms a mating cavity. The metallic shell includes a first shell having a main part attached upon the exterior surface of the housing, and a folded forwardly extending from a rear edge of the main part with a plurality of spring tangs for engagement with the enclosure of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jian-Kuang Zhu, Wei Zhong
  • Cable having improved wires arrangement
    Patent number: 10297368
    Abstract: A cable (100) includes: plural centrally disposed first wires (1); an inner shielding layer (17) enclosing the first wires; plural second wires (2) disposed at an outer side of the inner shielding layer for transmitting a common power signal; and plural pairs of differential signal wires (3) disposed at the outer side of the inner shielding layer; wherein each pair of differential signal wires is disposed between two adjacent second wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zu-Xuan Chen, Hong-Ping Wang, Lu-Yu Chang
  • Electrical connector having a shielding shell with laterally extending spring tangs
    Patent number: 10297957
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a central receiving space; two rows of contacts secured to the housing and exposed inwardly to the receiving space; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, the shielding shell having a respective pair of spring tangs at each of two opposite walls thereof, each of the spring tang extending laterally in a cantilevered manner into the receiving space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Electrical connector having an improved groove
    Patent number: 10297952
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact module, a shielding shell enclosing the contact module and an insulative shell insert-molded with the shielding shell. The contact module includes an insulative housing having a first insulator and a second insulator assembled to the first insulator, and a shielding plate sandwiched between the first insulator and the second insulator. One of two surfaces of the first insulator and the second insulator resisting the shielding plate and two surfaces of the shielding plate resisted against by the first insulator and the second insulator includes a groove recessed to receive insulative materials along a transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • U-shaped electrical socket
    Patent number: 10290963
    Abstract: The connector includes an insulative housing having a frame configuration, and a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing. The electronic package includes an upper part and a lower part extending downwardly from the upper part. The upper part includes on a peripheral region a flange extending beyond the lower part laterally. The housing include a bar unit with an opening, and a receiving space defined in the bar unit. The bar unit forms opposite upper surface and lower surface thereof. The contacts includes a first contacting section extending upwardly above the upper surface and a second contacting section extending downwardly below the lower surface. The lower part is restrained in the receiving space while he flange is seated upon the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Fang-Jwu Liao
  • Electrical connector assembly and system using the same
    Patent number: 10283885
    Abstract: An electrical cable connector assembly comprises a receptacle connector mated with a plug/cable connector. The receptacle connector mounted upon an external printed circuit board and includes an insulative housing forming a mating cavity, and a terminal module assembly received within the housing with contacting sections exposed in the mating cavity. The cable connector includes an internal printed circuit board with a contact module fixed at a front end region and a cable having a plurality of wires fixed at a rear end region in a multilevel manner. A die-casting cover encloses the internal printed circuit board with heat dissipation fin structure on an exterior surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Yuan Zhang, An-Jen Yang, Jie Zheng, Yuan-Chieh Lin
  • Electrical connector with intimate side arms extending from metallic shell and integrally formed within insulative shell
    Patent number: 10276989
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact module enclosed within a metallic inner shell. The inner shell is formed by stamping and forming, and includes opposite first and second side walls in a vertical direction, and a pair of end walls opposite to each other in the transverse direction and linking the opposite first and second side walls in the vertical direction. Each end wall includes a first arm extending rearwardly from a rear edge and a second arm intimately located beside the first arm either in a unitarily folded manner or a discretely soldered manner. The second arm is located outside of the corresponding first arm in the transverse direction wherein the first arm forms a first mounting leg and the second arm forms a second mounting leg extending through an insulative outer shell which is overmolded upon the inner shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Cai-Yun Zhang, Jun Zhao
  • Electrical adaptor for different plug module and electrical assembly having the same
    Patent number: 10276995
    Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a main body on which the cage assembly and the associated main receptacle connector are mounted. The cage is adapted to receive the FP5 plug module or the QSFP-28 plug module associated with an adaptor. The adaptor includes a housing unitarily formed with the heat sink structure and an intermediate receptacle connector mounted upon an intermediate board wherein the intermediate receptacle connector is adapted to receive the QSFP-28 plug module and the intermediate board is adapted to be received with the main board. The cage includes different latches respectively mutually exclusively locking the FP5 plug module and the QSFP-28 plug module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Terrance F. Little
  • Electrical connector having rearwardly extending metallic outer shell around mounting legs thereof
    Patent number: 10276988
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact module enclosed within a metallic inner shell, and a metallic outer shell attached upon the inner shell. The contact module includes an insulator and a plurality of terminals integrally formed with the insulator. The insulator includes a base and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base. The inner shell forms a mating cavity in which the tongue portion extends. The side wall of the outer shell forms a front mounting leg and rear mounting leg. The front mounting leg extends horizontally with a notch/hole and a protrusion thereabouts while the rear mounting leg extends vertically at the rear end of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Electrical connector having an insulative outer cover and a sealing member secured to the outer cover via a dovetail structure
    Patent number: 10276971
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts, the insulative housing having a base and a tongue, the upper and lower rows of contacts being exposed respectively to an upper and lower surfaces of the tongue; a shielding shell enclosing the contact module; an insulative outer cover enclosing the shielding shell, the outer cover having plural peripheral grooves at a front end thereof; and a sealing member having plural protrusions secured to corresponding grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Flippable electrical connector
    Patent number: 10276993
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts and a shielding plate. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The shielding plate is embedded within the mating tongue and includes a pair of rigid notches in two opposite lateral sides for locking to a pair of corresponding latches of a complementary plug connector. The outer housing is of an insulative molding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Wei-Hao Su, Cheng-Chi Yeh, Yuan Zhang, Stephen Sedio, Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Easily detachable CPU clip
    Patent number: 10276473
    Abstract: A clip for use with an electronic package, includes a frame structure with a pair of first side bars and a pair of second side bars commonly defining a receiving cavity. An ejection device is formed on one first side bar, including a stopper/kicker and a presser interlinked with each other in a co-movement manner. A latch is located around the ejection device so as to cooperate with the stopper/kicker to secure the electronic package therebetween in a vertical direction and retain the electronic package in the receiving cavity to result in an electrical assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Heng-Kang Wu, Fu-Jin Peng
  • Electrical connector having a shielding shell with a recessed plate to distance from contact tails
    Patent number: 10270211
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts arranged in the insulative housing, the insulative housing having a base and a tongue, the upper row of contacts and the lower row of contacts being exposed to two opposite surfaces of the tongue, respectively, each contact having a contacting portion, a tail, and an intermediate portion between the contacting portion and the tail; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing, the shielding shell including a rear plate proximate to the contact tails; wherein the rear plate has a recessed face opposing the contact tails to increase a distance between the rear plate and the contact tails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yang-Yang Yu, Jin-Guo Qiu
  • Cable connector assembly
    Patent number: 10270192
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: an insulative housing; a printed circuit board (PCB) received in the insulative housing, the PCB having an upper surface; an electrical connector electrically connected with the PCB; a cable; a light member mounted on the PCB; a light guide member mounted on the PCB; and a shading member covered on the light guide member; wherein the electrical connector includes plural conductive terminals and plural fixing fingers fixed on the PCB, the PCB includes plural conductive pads exposed on the upper surface of the PCB and fixed with the conductive terminals and plural mounting holes on the upper surface of the PCB and matched with the fixing fingers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuai-Hui Huang, Hai-Li Wang, Ru-Yang Guo, Qing-Man Zhu, Jerry Wu
  • Electrical connector assembly having a latch secured to both connector housing and internal substrate
    Patent number: 10270194
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes: a connector housing receiving a plurality of contacts mounted to an internal substrate; a shielding shell enclosing the connector housing; and a pair of latches secured to the connector housing in a cantilevered fashion; wherein the latch has an arm secured to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiao Fan, Jun Chen, Jerry Wu, Qiu-Ming Wu
  • Electrical connector with coloured mating portion
    Patent number: D846509
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiao-Bo Du, Er-Dong Ma, Peng Chen, Chun-Ming Yu, Guo-Hua Zhang
  • In-vehicle center console
    Patent number: D849618
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yi Chen