Patents Assigned to FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR C
  • Patent number: 9781851
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a framework defining a number of receiving grooves and a number of modules detachably retained in the receiving grooves. Each receiving groove has a respective notch at a bottom thereof. Each of the modules includes an insulative housing defining a receiving room, a cover having an opening, and an elastic member received in the receiving room. The elastic member has a tuber extending through the opening to engage the notch and a pair of ear portions welded on an inner surface of the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shun-Jung Chuang
  • Patent number: 9780490
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a connector and a cable electrically connected thereto. The connector includes a metal shell, a metal cage enclosing a rear end of the metal shell, and an outer housing enclosing the metal cage therein. The connector has a front end for inserting into a mating connector and a rear end. The diametrical dimension of the front end is smaller than the diametrical dimension of the rear end. The outer housing includes a front portion extending forwardly beyond the metal cage to prevent the cable connector mistakenly inserted into an unintended receptacle connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Da-Wei Xing, Yong-Wei Chen, Jun Chen, Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 9780503
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) includes a cable (300) and a connector (200) connected with the cable. The connector includes an insulative housing (1) defining a receiving room (10), a printed circuit board (2) received in the insulative housing, a mating member (3) mounted on the insulative housing and electrically connected with the printed circuit board, a light member (4) mounted on the printed circuit board, a light guide member (5) for guiding the light emitting from the light member to an outer side of the insulative housing, and an outer cover (9) sealing an end of the insulative housing. The light guide member includes a light emitting portion (51) and a light transmission portion (54). The light emitting portion has a column shape having two opposite ends, the light emitted to an outer side of the insulative housing through the two ends of the light emitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuai-Hui Huang, Ru-Yang Guo, Qing-Man Zhu, Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 9780495
    Abstract: A plug connector assembly includes: a mating member; a cable; a printed circuit board (PCB) interconnected between the mating member and the cable; a metal shell enclosing the PCB, a rear of the mating member, and a front of the cable, the metal shell including an upper shell part and a lower shell part both welded to the rear of the mating member; and an insulative outer shell enclosing the metal shell, the rear of the mating member, and the front of the cable, wherein the upper shell part is welded to the lower shell part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9774146
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) comprises an insulative housing having a receiving space (18) extending along a front-to-back direction, and a printed circuit board module (2) received in the receiving space of the insulative housing. The printed circuit board module defines a protruded ridge (24) offset to one side thereof, the protruded ridge extending along a vertical direction, and a groove (185) is defined in the receiving space for accommodating the protruded ridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei-Wei Cheng, Xiao Fan, Jun Chen, Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 9772090
    Abstract: A cable assembly (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a printed circuit board (PCB) (2) received in the insulative housing, a light member (4) mounted on the PCB, a light guide member (5) mounted on the PCB, and a shading member (6) covering the light guide member. The insulative housing includes a housing body (11), a receiving cavity (12) enclosed by the housing body, and a light transmitting area (13) mounted on the housing body. The PCB is mounted in the receiving cavity and the light guide member opposes the light transmitting area to transmit light emitted by the light member to outside of the insulative housing. The light guide member (5) is integrally formed with the shading member (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shuai-Hui Huang, Ru-Yang Guo, Qing-Man Zhu, Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 9774113
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: a shielding shell; an inner circuit board received in the shielding shell and defining a number of grounding pads; a cable electrically connecting to the inner circuit board, the cable including an outer boot, plural pairs of differential signal wires, and a number of grounding wires each corresponding to a respective pair of differential signal wires; and a grounding plate electrically connecting with the grounding pads; wherein the grounding plate includes a number of arcuate walls each having a respective receiving room accommodating a corresponding pair of differential signal wires, a notch is defined on a top of each of the arcuate walls, and the grounding wire is soldered in the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xue-Liang Zhang, Chien-Chiung Wang, Kun-Lin Wu
  • Patent number: 9774120
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly comprises an electrical connector and a circuit board assembly mating with the electrical connector. The electrical connector comprises an insulative housing and a plurality of terminals retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a mating surface and a mounting surface. Each of the terminal comprises a contacting portion extending out of the mating surface and a connecting portion extending out of the mounting surface. The circuit board assembly comprises a hard circuit board and a flexible printed circuit board fixing on the hard circuit board. The hard circuit board comprises a plurality of conductive portions. When the circuit board assembly mating with the electrical connector, the conductive portions connect with the contacting portion. The electrical connector assembly can not only facilitate the disassembly and assembly of the circuit board assembly, but also prevent the circuit board assembly from being damaged in welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Fang-Jwu Liao
  • Patent number: 9774130
    Abstract: An electrical connector with a terminal module enclosed within an insulative shield wherein the terminal module includes a plurality of terminals embedded within an insulative main body. The insulative main body forms a rear mounting standing part and a front mating tongue part extending forwardly from the rear mounting standing part. The insulative shield forms a rearward step against a forward shoulder of the base portion so as to prevent further forward movement of the base portion relative to the insulative shield. The insulative main body forms a protrusion and the insulative shield forms a securing hole to receive said protrusion for securing the insulative shield and the terminal module together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Guang-Xin Gu, Jing-Jie Guo
  • Publication number: 20170271801
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrical connector and a second electrical connector mounted on the first electrical connector moveably. The first electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of first terminals and a cover mounted on the insulative housing. Each of the first terminals includes a pair of elastic mating portions having two guiding portions extending therefrom. The second electrical connector includes an insulative base and a number of second terminals. When the second electrical connector is connected with the first electrical connector, the second terminals are inserted into the first terminals in a zero-insertion-force manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: FANG-JWU LIAO
  • Patent number: 9768567
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a housing comprising a rear base and a mating tongue extending forward from the base; a row of upper terminals and a row of lower terminals retained on the housing, each terminal including a contacting section exposed to mating tongue and a pin leg section from the base, and the contacting sections of the upper and lower terminals being aligned with each in a vertical direction. The contacting sections of each row terminals are arranged in different central pitch, the pin leg sections of the upper and lower terminals are aligned with each in a front and back direction and the pin leg sections of each row are arranged with a same central pitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chih-Pi Cheng, Wen He, Quan Wang, Chao-Chieh Chen, Yue Zhou, Feng Zeng, Lu Dai, Hao Zhou
  • Patent number: 9767390
    Abstract: A card connector comprises an insulative housing, a shielding shell partly surrounding the insulative housing, a plurality of conductive contacts retained in the insulative housing and a shim retained in the insulative housing. The plurality of conductive contacts include a plurality of first conductive contacts, each first conductive contact includes a first retaining portion, a first soldering portion and a first elastic contacting portion. The first elastic contacting portion includes a bending portion, and the free end of said first elastic contacting portion is a support portion. At least one support portion is separated from the shim so as to the shim forms a T-shaped opening corresponding to the support portion and two stretching portions disposed on two sides of the opening, the support portion can slide on the stretching portions when the support portion is pressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yusho Nakase, Sen Yang
  • Patent number: 9768533
    Abstract: A receptacle connection assembly includes a printed circuit board defining two spaced slots in a front edge portion with a mating tongue formed therebetween, a plurality of pads formed on two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue in a diagonally symmetrical manner for a flippable usage and a metallic shield including a tubular capsular portion assembled to the PCB to enclose the mating tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng
  • Patent number: 9768560
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals disposed in the insulative housing, a metallic shielding plate, a shielding shell defining a mating cavity, and a metal shell. The insulative housing defines a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The base portion includes a front side, a rear side opposite to the front side, at least one retaining slot located in the front side of the base portion. The shielding shell includes at least one front stopping portion protruding into the mating cavity and received in the retaining slot, the at least one front stopping portion includes a front surface located beyond the front side of the base portion to prevent damage the base portion when a mating connector inserting into the electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Yao, Jing-Jie Guo
  • Patent number: 9768544
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained in the housing to commonly form a terminal module, a metallic shield enclosing the terminal module and forming a mating cavity, and a glue groove formed in a base of the housing and located behind the mating cavity, in which a glue part is received. The shield forms an opening communicating with the glue groove, through which the liquid type glue is injected into the glue groove and solidified therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiao-Bo Du, Chun-Ming Yu, Guo-Hua Zhang, Bin Guo
  • Patent number: 9760810
    Abstract: An electronic card connector, defining an insertion direction, an ejection direction, and a transverse direction perpendicular to the insertion direction, includes an insulative housing and a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing. The terminals include a row of first contacts disposed along the insertion direction. Each first contact has a first affixed portion and a first contacting portion located at a peak therein. Each of the first contacts extends along the transverse direction. The first contacting portions of the neighboring first contacts are located offset along the insertion direction. The first contacting portions and associated first affixed portions of the first contacts are distanced differently in the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Gang Hu, Guo-Dong Gu, Jin-Guo Qiu, Yong-Qi Wang, Tien-Chieh Su
  • Patent number: 9761936
    Abstract: A planar inverted-F antenna includes an antenna body including a grounding portion, a first and a second radiating arm extending in a lengthwise direction substantially, a coaxial cable and a metal foil attached the grounding portion. The first radiating arm and the second radiating arm extend in opposite directions from a joint point thereof, the joint point and the grounding portion connect with each other by a connecting portion. A first slot is defined between the first radiating arm and the grounding arm, a second slot is defined between the second radiating arm and the grounding portion. A coaxial cable includes a core soldered to the joint point and a shielding layer soldered to the grounding portion. The metal foil covers a most portion of the grounding portion, thereby exposes a first end of the grounding portion near to the first radiating arm to an exterior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tzu-Yao Hwang, Lung-Sheng Tai
  • Patent number: 9762009
    Abstract: A plug connector includes an insulative housing with mating slot, contacts disposed in the housing by two sides of the mating slot, and a pair of side arms located by two opposite ends of the mating slot in a horizontal transverse direction. a receptacle connector includes an insulative housing defining a horizontal mating tongue; contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue; and a monolithic horizontal metallic shielding plate disposed and extending substantially fully the mating tongue. The shielding plate defines side protruding edge sections exposed outside of corresponding side edges of the mating tongue and a notch structure on each side protruding edge section, the pair of side arms each defines a hook structure to engagement with the notch structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Chih-Kai Yang
  • Patent number: D797673
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Fang-Jwu Liao
  • Patent number: D797747
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yin-Chao Xu