Patents Assigned to Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12288942
    Abstract: Provided is an electric connector which includes: a housing; and a pair of reinforcement brackets reinforces both end sides of the housing in a longitudinal direction, wherein the housing has a bottom wall, a pair of short walls, a pair of long walls, an island-shaped protruding wall surrounded by the short walls and the long walls, and pairs of corner portions between a corresponding pair of short and long walls, each reinforcement bracket has an outer plate portion, a short wall protection portion, a pair of side plate portions, a pair of long wall protection portions, a pair of connection portions connecting the outer plate portion to the side plate portions, and a pair of corner protection portions, and each corner protection portion extends from either one of the outer plate portion or the side plate portions, and is formed to cover an upper surface of the corner portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Takagi, Shota Hironaka
  • Patent number: 12212088
    Abstract: A housing having a height, width, and a depth direction, and cantilevered terminals having one end side secured to the housing on one side in the depth direction and having a resilient member forming a free end in an end portion on the other end side opposite to said one end side on the side opposite to the one side in the depth direction. Counterpart terminals are inserted into an insertion space within the housing from locations spaced apart in the height direction through insertion apertures occupying a predetermined area in a plane formed by the depth direction and width direction of the housing, the resilient member has contact points that contact with counterpart terminals inserted through the insertion apertures, and at least a portion of the resilient member other than the contact points, along with the contact points, is positioned within the bounds of the predetermined area in at least the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shoichiro Tamaki
  • Patent number: 12206212
    Abstract: Terminals have a retained portion located forwardly of a receiving space and retained in a housing, and a contact arm portion that extends toward the rear from the retained portion; a contact arm portion has a contact portion that protrudes toward the receiving space in the connector thickness direction perpendicular to the forward-backward direction and the terminal array direction and is capable of contacting the counterpart connect body; a contact portion faces the interior surface of the receiving space across a gap in the connector thickness direction; the terminals have an extension portion located forwardly of the contact portion; the extension portion has a reflective portion in the rear end portion thereof; the reflective portion has a rear end face within a range that includes the protruding end of the contact portion when viewed from the rear; and the rear end face is formed as a reflecting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Masaki, Shoichi Mizusawa
  • Patent number: 12126118
    Abstract: An electric connector includes: a housing having a plate-shaped body; multiple terminals held on the plate-shaped body; and a metal shell surrounding the plate-shaped body and the terminals and having a tubular shape, the shell has: a fitting port in which a partner connector is to be fitted; two or more side walls provided along a partner connector fitting direction; a coupling portion coupling adjacent ones of the two or more side walls; and a first branched band-shaped piece provided closer to a fitting port side than the coupling portion is to the fitting port side, the first branched band-shaped piece is bent about an axis along the fitting direction from one of the adjacent ones of the two or more side walls, and extends toward another one of the adjacent ones of the two or more side walls, and an edge of the first branched band-shaped piece opposite to the coupling portion forms part of the fitting port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Ito
  • Patent number: 12119578
    Abstract: The signal transmission paths are transmission path pairs 22, 24 located spaced apart in the arrangement direction of the signal transmission paths 22, 24, the transmission path pairs 22, 24 have two types of pairs, straight pairs 22 and cross pairs 24, the straight pairs 22 and the cross pairs 24 are alternately disposed in the arrangement direction, the signal transmission paths arranged in the arrangement direction form signal transmission path rows, a plurality of the signal transmission path rows are provided, and of two adjacent signal transmission path rows, at least a part of the transmission path pairs 22, 24 of one signal transmission path row in the height direction is offset in the arrangement direction with respect to the transmission path pairs 22, 24 of the other signal transmission path row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shota Yamada, Nobuhiro Tamai, Daiki Aimoto, Takafumi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11942711
    Abstract: Provided is a connector which includes: an insulating housing; and a conductive terminal, in which the terminal is fixed to the housing, and includes a mounting portion connected to a board and a contact portion protruding from the mounting portion in a fitting direction, and a thickness of the contact portion is greater than a thickness of the mounting portion in a direction perpendicular to the board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11909139
    Abstract: Housings have blade receiving portions for blade insertion formed in a peripheral wall by two side walls facing each other in the through-thickness direction of the blades and two end walls; the multiple connecting units include end connecting units located at the opposite ends in the through-thickness direction of the blades and intermediate connecting units located between the end connecting units; engagement grooves engaging with counterpart connect bodies formed in the intermediate connecting units between the side walls and the end walls of the housing to extend in the through-thickness direction of the blades and be open toward the counterpart connect bodies; and no grooves are formed in end connecting units to an extent equal to or greater than the depth of the engagement grooves of the intermediate connecting units between the end walls and the outer side walls located on the outside in the through-thickness direction of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunkai Yang, Kota Aizawa
  • Patent number: 11888248
    Abstract: An intermediate electrical connector 1 which, upon connection of a first counterpart connect body 2 and a second counterpart connect body each from different sides in a manner permitting plugging and unplugging, mediates between the two counterpart connect bodies, the intermediate electrical connector 1 comprising terminals that are enabled to contact, respectively, the first counterpart connect body 2 and the second counterpart connect body, and a housing that directly or indirectly secures the terminals in place, wherein the connector has locking fittings 100 supported by the housing of the intermediate electrical connector 1, and the locking fittings 100 have locking portions 104A enabled to engage lockable portions 151 provided in the first counterpart connect body 2 in the direction of disengagement when the intermediate electrical connector 1 and said first counterpart connect body 2 are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Xingyu Cheng
  • Patent number: 11876313
    Abstract: Provided a connector including a plurality of terminals insert molded with a housing. At least one of terminals includes a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion spaced apart from the first terminal portion in a direction along a direction of mating to a counterpart connector. The first terminal portion includes a first surface extending along a plane crossing the mating direction on a side opposite to the side that mates to the counterpart connector. The first surface includes a portion that does not overlap the second terminal portion as the first and second terminal portions are viewed in the direction from the side opposite to the side that mates to the counterpart connector. At least a partial region of the portion, which does not overlap the second terminal portion, of the first surface is exposed to an outside of the housing through an opening of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11843383
    Abstract: Example implementations described herein are directed to reducing far end cross talk (FEXT), including differential-to-differential far end crosstalk (DDFEXT) or single ended FEXT through generating and applying a delay shifter/inverter that is cascaded onto a target electrical system and shifts the even-mode and odd-mode propagation delay of a target electrical system to be substantially equal, which in turn reduces FEXT in the overall system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ching-Chao Huang, Jeremy Buan, Jingqian Tian, Tadashi Ohshida
  • Patent number: 11843193
    Abstract: Provided is a connector including a housing. The housing has a terminal array wall, an insertion/detachment direction restriction portion provided in an area defined by the terminal array wall and contacts the partner connector to set a maximum depth position of the partner connector upon fitting, and an inclination restriction portion. The inclination restriction portion is, at a position outside the area defined by the terminal array wall, positioned with a predetermined clearance from a corresponding portion of the partner connector at the maximum depth position upon fitting in a connector insertion/detachment direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryohei Kitagawa
  • Patent number: 11781854
    Abstract: The rotation sensing device comprises a magnet, magnetic sensors, and yokes, which are secured to the base and control the magnetic flux of the magnetic field formed by the magnet; each magnetic sensor comprises a magnetic wire, a coil, and a bobbin; each yoke comprises a left yoke piece and a right yoke piece partially covering the left portion and the right portion of the magnetic sensor; the left yoke piece has a left front plate portion, the left front plate portion, which extends linearly from the front of the left portion of the bobbin, which is to the left of the section where the coil is provided, all the way to the front of the coil, and is inclined with respect to the direction of extension of the magnetic wire such that the right end thereof is located rearwardly of left end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kosuke Egawa
  • Patent number: 11784420
    Abstract: Provided is a cable holding member which includes: an insulated main body; a through-hole; a bend portion; and a cover portion, in which the through-hole is configured to allow a cable to be inserted therethrough from one end side toward the other side of the main body, the cover portion is configured in such a manner as to be bendable relative to the main body along the bend portion, and at least a part of the cover portion is configured to, upon the cover portion being bent relative to the main body, be capable of covering a plane intersecting with a direction where the cable is inserted, at an opening end face of an opening portion of the through-hole, the opening end face being located on the other end side, or a vicinity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ito, Makoto Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11757218
    Abstract: Provided is a connector fitting which includes: a fixed portion provided on a side wall of a housing of a connector; and a projecting portion provided on the side wall of the housing and projecting from the side wall of the housing with respect to the fixed portion, in which the fixed portion is wider than the projecting portion, the fixed portion includes a pair of shoulder portions on both side surfaces of the fixed portion, and the shoulder portions are provided on a side surface between the fixed portion and the projecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shohei Hosoda
  • Patent number: 11721920
    Abstract: The movable housing has an entry wall portion that enters the interior space of the stationary housing; terminal holding grooves accommodating a portion of the resilient portions, which extend in the direction of connection to a counterpart connect body, are formed to be arranged in the terminal array direction on one wall surface of the entry wall portion; movable-side terminal holding portions securing the movable-side retained portions of the terminals are formed on the opposite side in the connector width direction perpendicular to said one wall surface; between adjacent terminal holding grooves. When the terminals are attached in the direction of connection from the circuit board side, the projections have gaps formed between them and the resilient portions of the terminals located within the terminal holding grooves in the terminal array direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Doi
  • Patent number: 11710919
    Abstract: To provide an electrical connector with flat-type conductors, a counterpart electrical connector, and an electrical connector assembly, in which the size of the connector is not increased in the thickness direction of the flat-type conductors when using two flat-type conductors disposed in parallel opposite each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seitaro Sato
  • Patent number: 11688961
    Abstract: The movable housing has an entry wall portion that enters the interior space of the stationary housing; terminal holding grooves accommodating a portion of the resilient portions, which extend in the direction of connection to a counterpart connect body, are formed to be arranged in the terminal array direction on one wall surface of the entry wall portion; movable-side terminal holding portions securing the movable-side retained portions of the terminals are formed on the opposite side in the connector width direction perpendicular to said one wall surface; between adjacent terminal holding grooves. When the terminals are attached in the direction of connection from the circuit board side, the projections have gaps formed between them and the resilient portions of the terminals located within the terminal holding grooves in the terminal array direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kentaro Doi
  • Patent number: D999171
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shin Toyoshima
  • Patent number: D1043580
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Ito
  • Patent number: D1054989
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junya Iga