Patents Assigned to Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 8172621
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing and contacts made from metallic wire. The insulating housing includes a front portion with a mating cavity and a rear portion. Each contact includes a contacting portion, a leg portion and a connecting portion connecting with the contacting portion and the leg portion. Each leg portion includes a linking portion, a first soldering portion and a second soldering portion. The linking portion connects with the connecting portion and the first soldering portion, and the second soldering portion connects with the first soldering portion. Two soldering portions are on a same plane and parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: De-Jin Chen
  • Patent number: 8172623
    Abstract: A compression connector includes a housing and a plurality of terminals assembled to the housing. The insulative housing having a first mating surface and a second mating surface opposite to the first mating surface. Each terminal cavity disposed between and running through the first and second mating faces. Each terminal has a deforming portion received in the cavity, an upper contact and a lower contact extending from opposite ends of the deforming portion. The upper contact extending beyond the first mating surface and the lower contact extending beyond the second mating surface. The deforming portions are movably limited in the terminal cavities and will cause compressive deformation when either the upper contact or the lower contact is bearing an external pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu Zhu
  • Patent number: 8172591
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (100) for mounting to a printed circuit board, comprises a plurality of contacts (3) and a processor (1), the contact (3) comprises a base portion (31), a pair of contacting portions (34) and a solder portion (35) extend from the base portion (31), the processor (1) comprises a plurality of pins (11) each includes a cylinder portion (110) and a cone portion (111) extending downwardly from the cylinder portion (110), the bottom end of the cone portion (111) is thinner than the top end thereof to guiding the pins (11) inserted into the contacts (3), the contacting portions (34) contacts with the cone portion (111) respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Darrell Lynn Wertz
  • Patent number: 8172598
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a base, a cover, a protecting mechanism, and a cam. The base has a contacting area with a plurality of passageways and a first end besides the contacting area with an opening in a first end thereof. The cover is slidably mounted upon the base. The cover defines a plurality of through holes in alignment with the corresponding passageways, respectively, and another opening is defined in a second end thereof and in vertical alignment with the corresponding opening of the base. The protecting mechanism includes a metallic base plate mounted upon the base and defining a stepping hole which includes a larger first hole and a smaller second hole via a drawing process, disposed in the opening of the base. The cam extends axially and vertically in the opening of the cover and the stepping hole of the base, and is riveted on a bottom surface of the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Wei Fan
  • Patent number: 8172579
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing (1) defining a mating compartment (10) with an opening (101) in communication with the mating compartment (10), a plurality of contact terminals (2) disposed within the mating compartment (10), a moveable protective lid (4) moveably disposed adjacent to the opening (101) and magnetic arrangement (5, 6) disposed between the protective lid (4) and the housing (1) such that the protective lid (4) will resume to its original position by means of magnets (5, 6) arranged between the protective lid (4) and the housing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: Biao Pan
  • Patent number: 8172581
    Abstract: An electrical connector for electrically connecting a circuit processing unit (CPU) with a number of soldering balls to a print circuit board (PCB) comprises a first body having a plurality of bottom holes, a second body mounted on the first body and having a plurality of upper holes, a plurality of terminals located between the first body and the second body, and a number of fusible members holed by the terminals. Each terminal includes a planar horizontal base portion, a plurality of upper hands and lower legs respectively bent upwardly and downwardly from the base portion, and a plurality of holding portions extending from the base portion in a horizontal direction. The upper hands received in the upper holes can hold the soldering balls. The lower legs received in the bottom holes can hold the fusible members and be soldered to the PCB through the fusible members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Cheng-Chi Yeh
  • Patent number: 8172597
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a socket with a number of electrical contacts and a loading mechanism surrounding the socket. The loading mechanism includes a stiffener, a load plate mounted to one end of the stiffener and rotating from an open position to a closed position, and a sliding latch mounted to an opposite end of the stiffener. The load plate has a plate portion and a tongue extending downwardly from the plate portion at said opposite end. The sliding latch moves on the stiffener in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to lock or unlock the load plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Albert Harvey Terhune, IV
  • Patent number: 8172620
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (100), comprises: an insulative housing (2) having a plurality of passageways (24) arranged into a first row and a second row; a plurality of terminals (3) received into the corresponding passageways of the insulative housing and divided into a first terminal group (31) and a second terminal group (32), and each terminal having a terminating section (303) at a rear end thereof, the terminating sections of the plurality of terminals located on a common plane; a spacer (4) assembled to a rear end of the insulative housing and having a row of grooves (421) formed on an upper surface thereof, the terminating sections of the terminals passing through the spacer and received into the corresponding grooves of the spacer; and a metallic shell (5) assembled to an outer surface of the insulative housing and the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Sheng Su, Feng-Jun Qi, Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 8162679
    Abstract: An electric connector for mating with a complementary connector includes an insulation housing, at least an insulation displacement contact, and at least an insulated wire. The insulation housing includes two rows of contact holding portions which are respectively arranged on an upper and lower side of the insulation housing, and two rows of cable holding portions. The cable holding portions are arranged in correspondence with the contacting holding portions and each connected to its corresponding contacting holding portion for forming a passageway along a mating direction. The insulation displacement contact is holed in one of the contact holding portion. The insulated wire extends along the mating direction. And the wire includes a front portion inserted into one of the insulation displacement contact along a vertical direction and a sub-front portion received in one of the cable holding portions along the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Ko, Hong-Wei Sun
  • Patent number: 8162695
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (10) and a terminal module (20) received in the insulative housing. The terminal module includes a daughter board (21), a choke group, a number of mating terminals (24) mounted on a first side of the daughter board, and a connecting module (22) mounted on a second side the daughter board and having a number of connecting terminals (221). The choke group has a number of transformer chokes (23) mounted to the second side of the daughter board, and a number of surface mount device chokes (25) adapted for being applied in automatic manufacture and mounted the second side of the daughter board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Zhang, Chao-Tung Huang, Yong-Chun Xu, Xiao-Hua Liu
  • Patent number: 8162678
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrical connector and a second circuit board mounted with a second electrical connector which is intended to mate the first connector, the first electrical connector further includes a recessed cavity to receive a board edge of the second circuit board when the first electrical connector is mated with the second electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen-Fang Wang
  • Patent number: 8164010
    Abstract: A cable assembly (100) comprises a cover (2) having a plurality of retaining slots (216, 226) arranged in a row along a transversal direction; a number of connectors (12, 13, 14, 15) mounted to the retaining slots, respectively; and a switch device (4) mounted to the cover, the switch including a base portion (41), a pushing portion (42) and an operating portion (43) assembled together in serial manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Zhou, Xian-Kui Shi, Chung-Yen Yang
  • Patent number: 8162680
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of terminals secured in the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a front face and a rear face opposite to the front face. The housing further includes at least one tongue portion extending forwardly from the front face. At least one receiving space is recessed in the rear face and corresponding to the at least one tongue portion. Each terminal includes a retention portion secured in the insulative housing, a contact portion extending forwardly from one end of the retention portion and a tail portion extending from the other end of the retention portion. The contact portion is located on the at least tongue portion. The tail portions bend toward the front face and are received in the receiving space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yu Zhu
  • Patent number: 8162685
    Abstract: A socket connector mounted on a mother board includes a socket body with a plurality of contacts received therein, a load plate rotatable with respect to the socket body and capable of being located in a closed position above the socket body, a load lever engaged with the load plate to lock the load plate in the closed position, and a locking member. The load lever has a fastened portion engaged with locking member. The locking member has a supporting portion below the fastened portion for preventing the load lever from touching the mother board and a latching portion above the fastened portion for preventing the load lever from upwardly escaping away from the locking member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kun Tang, Fu-Jin Peng
  • Patent number: 8157576
    Abstract: A card edge connector for use with an electronic card, comprises an elongated housing having a pair of opposed side walls along a lengthwise direction, a central slot between the side walls, a tower portion upwardly extending at one end thereof. The central slot extends into the tower portion along the lengthwise direction to define a trench for receiving a side edge of the electronic card. A latch mechanism is retained in the tower portion, and has a locking projection protruding into the trench to lock with the electronic card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiao-Zhi Fu, Wen-Jun Tang, Zhuang-Xing Li, Xue-Wu Bu
  • Patent number: 8157601
    Abstract: A contact (1) includes a first contact pin (2), a second contact pin (3) and a spring (4). The first contact pin includes a mating end (26), a body (23) having a first body portion (232) and a second body portion (231), a pair of ear portions (24) and a pair of first blocking portions (22). The first body portion has a thickness greater than that of the second body portion. The second contact pin includes a pair of second blocking portions (32), and a pair of resilient beams (33) slidable between a latched position and an unlatched position. The resilient beams are confined by the ear portions. The resilient beams clasp the first body portion in the latched position. The spring is compressible between the pair of first blocking portions and the pair of second blocking portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun-Fu Lin, Ke-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 8157579
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (100) comprises: a housing (1) comprising a first shield part (15), a second shield part (16) assembled with each other; at least one printed circuit board (2) disposed in the housing; a strain relief (5) disposed in the housing and sandwiched by the first shield part and the second shield part; a metallic shell (8) engaged with the housing; a pair of first screws (91) assembled to the housing along two opposite directions and interlocked with first shield part, the second shield part and the strain relief; and a pair of second screws (92) assembled to the housing along a same direction and interlocked the first shield part, the second shield part, the strain relief and the metallic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 8157584
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing, a number of connectors retained in the insulative housing and a number of cables retained at a rear side of the insulative housing to electrically connect with the connectors. The insulative housing defines a plurality of first cavities and a second cavity arranged in a row along a transverse direction thereof, and a third cavity at an upper side of the second cavity. The second cavity defines a height which is larger than a width thereof. The connectors include a number of standard USB connectors retained in the first cavities, a lower Audio jack uprightly retained in the second cavity and an upper Audio jack horizontally retained in the third cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yi Zhou, Xian-Kui Shi, Chung-Yen Yang
  • Patent number: 8157577
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes a receiving space (10) for receiving an electrical card, and includes an insulative housing (1) and an ejecting mechanism (4) retained in the insulative housing (1). The ejecting mechanism (4) includes a movable slider (41), a coiled spring (42) urging the slider forwardly and a link rod (43) for controlling the slider to be positioned at a first position or a second position. The slider (41) includes a heart-shape groove (414) for guiding and limiting a movement of the slider (41) and a bulge (417) located at front of the heart-shape groove (414). The bulge (417) defines a second inclined plane (4171), the second inclined plane (4171) faces the heart-shape groove (414) for facilitating inclining movement of the link rod (43).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang-Yue Zhu, Li Li, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 8157580
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (100), comprises: a housing (1) comprising a first shield part (15), a second shield part (16) assembled with each other; at least one printed circuit board (2) disposed in the housing; a strain relief (5) disposed in the housing and sandwiched by the first shield part and the second shield part; a metallic holder (8) surrounding the housing and binding the first shield part and the second shield part; and a pair of screws (9) respectively assembled to the housing along opposite directions and interlocking the first shield part, the second shield part, the strain relief and the metallic holder together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jerry Wu