Patents Assigned to Lotes Co., Ltd
  • Patent number: 12500380
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes at least one electrical module, which includes an insulating body and a plurality of transmission modules. Each transmission module includes a terminal assembly and a cable assembly. Each terminal assembly includes two terminals and a shielding shell. Each terminal has a contact portion, a wire connecting portion and an intermediate portion. A first shielding portion of the shielding shell is provided outside the two wire connecting portions of the two terminals, and the first shielding portion is provided with an open area exposing the two wire connecting portions. A conductive sheet is electrically connected to the shielding shells of the terminal assemblies in a same row. The conductive sheet shields the open areas of the shielding shells in the same row. Each first shielding portion and the conductive sheet collectively form a shielding space and are surroundingly provided outside the two corresponding wire connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2025
    Assignee: Lotes Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Zhi Li He, Wen Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 12489253
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulating body, in which one region has a plurality of accommodating slots; and a plurality of terminals, accommodated in the accommodating slots in the region. Each terminal has a base portion and an extending arm extending from the base portion. The extending arm is provided with a contact portion, which is used to be in contact with an electrical component along a vertical direction. The terminals located in the region include a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. Viewing along the vertical direction, the pointing direction of the first signal terminal and the pointing direction of the second signal terminal are different, and the base portion of the first signal terminal and the contact portion of the first signal terminal is located farther away from the base portion of the second signal terminal than the contact portion of the first signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chien Hung Ho, Yue Gao Li, Jian Hui Wen, Yong You Yu
  • Patent number: 12489230
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of terminals and a plurality of solder balls. Each terminal has a flat plate portion and two first soldering portions. A receiving slot is formed between the two first soldering portions. Two second soldering portions extend toward each other from lower ends of the two first soldering portions. Each of end portions of the two second soldering portion facing each other respectively bends toward a direction away from a corresponding solder ball to form a bending section. A plate surface of the bending section facing the corresponding solder ball is defined as a matching surface. Along a direction away from the corresponding solder ball, a gap between the two matching surfaces of each terminal becomes smaller. The corresponding solder ball is partially accommodated between the receiving slot and the two matching surfaces. The matching surface abuts against the corresponding solder ball.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Chien Chih Ho
  • Patent number: 12413003
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a plurality of terminal groups arranged along a front-rear direction. Each terminal group is formed by a first terminal and a second terminal provided in the front-rear direction. The first terminal includes a first base portion and two first elastic arms connected to the first base portion. Each first elastic arm has a first contact portion located in front of the first base portion. The second terminal includes a second base portion and two second elastic arms connected to the second base portion. The second elastic arms are formed by extending backward and then bending and extending forward relative to the second base portion. Each second elastic arm has a second contact portion. In a same terminal group, along the front-rear direction, a distance between the first and second base portions is less than a distance between the first and second contact portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yu Lun Tsai, Zuo Feng Jin
  • Patent number: 12381361
    Abstract: An electrical connecting assembly includes an electrical connector including a first terminal assembly, and a mating connector including a second terminal assembly. The first terminal assembly includes a first shielding shell covering outside a pair of first signal terminals. Each first signal terminal has a first contact portion. The second terminal assembly includes a second shielding shell covering outside a pair of second signal terminals. Each second signal terminal has a second contact portion. The first shielding shell is provided with at least one naked spacing region. When mating of the electrical connector and the mating connector is complete, the second shielding shell covers outside the first shielding shell and shields the naked spacing region, the first contact portion and the corresponding second contact portion are mated, and at least one of the first and second contact portions is exposed in the naked spacing region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhi Li He, Wen Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 12218449
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body with multiple accommodating slots, and multiple terminals accommodated in the accommodating slots. Each terminal has an elastic arm, a floating contact portion and a conducting portion. The elastic arm and the floating contact portion are provided at an interval. One end of the elastic arm is connected with the floating contact portion through an insulating block. When each terminal is mated with a first electronic component and a second electronic component, the conducting portion is electrically connected to the first electronic component, the floating contact portion is electrically connected to the second electronic component, the elastic arm provides an elastic force such that the floating contact portion moves downward, and the floating contact portion and the conducting portion are directly electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zuo Feng Jin, Chang Wei Huang, Chien Chih Ho
  • Patent number: 12212102
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes at least one terminal assembly. The terminal assembly includes: a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal being narrow-edge coupled; and an insulating block fixing the first signal terminal and the second signal terminal. A length of the first signal terminal is greater than a length of the second signal terminal. A first connecting portion of the first signal terminal is provided with at least one exposing area, which is exposed to the insulating block and exposed in air medium. The first connecting portion has at least one widening portion and at least one narrow portion connected to each other along a length direction thereof. A width of the widening portion is greater than a width of the narrow portion. The exposing area is provided at the widening portion. A second connecting portion of the second signal terminal is completely wrapped in the insulating block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhi Li He, Wen Chang Chang, Jie Liao, Jin Zhu Wang
  • Patent number: 12199377
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrical connector is provided. The method includes: providing a terminal and a strip, where the strip is connected to the terminal, and the terminal is formed with an elastic arm, a floating contact portion and a conducting portion; then, insert-molding an insulating block, such that the insulating block connects the elastic arm and the floating contact portion; separating the elastic arm and the floating contact portion; further cutting the strip to separate the terminal from the strip; and providing an insulating body, where the insulating body is formed with at least one accommodating slot running vertically therethrough, and inserting the terminal into the accommodating slot. When the electrical connector is mated, the elastic arm provides an elastic force such that the floating contact portion moves downward, and the floating contact portion and the conducting portion are directly electrically connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zuo Feng Jin, Chang Wei Huang, Chien Chih Ho
  • Patent number: 12199371
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrical connector includes: providing a metal plate, and cutting the metal plate to form multiple base portions and pre-soldering areas; providing multiple conductive members, and soldering the conductive members to the pre-soldering areas; cutting and forming multiple elastic arms correspondingly according to locations of the conductive members in the pre-soldering areas as references, where a conductive terminal includes a base portion, at least one elastic arm and at least one conductive member; forming an insulating body on the conductive terminals by insert-molding, where the elastic arms and the conductive members are exposed from the insulating body; and forming the conductive terminals by cutting, where at least some of the conductive terminals are separated from each other and are not in contact with each other. The first electronic component and the second electronic component abut the elastic arms and the conductive members to deform and move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chang Wei Huang, Zuo Feng Jin
  • Patent number: 11955752
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes at least one electrical module. The electrical module includes: an insulating body, where multiple first accommodating slots are concavely provided on a first side toward a second side of the insulating body; multiple first terminal assemblies, respectively accommodated in the corresponding first accommodating slots; and a first grounding member, having multiple first spokes and multiple second spokes. Each first terminal assembly includes a first insulating block, a pair of first signal terminals, and a first shielding shell. Each first shielding shell has a first shielding side surface exposed to the first side. Each first spoke is in mechanical contact with the first shielding shells of a same electrical module, and each second spoke is in contact with the first shielding side surface of the corresponding first shielding shell, thus achieving conduction between the first shielding shells and the first grounding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Zhi Li He, Wen Chang Chang, Jie Liao, Jin Zhu Wang
  • Patent number: 11862883
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes multiple conductive terminals respectively retained in multiple accommodating slots of an insulating body. Each conductive terminal includes a base portion, a connecting portion extending from one side of the base portion, a first elastic arm and a second elastic arm extending from the connecting portion toward a direction away from the same one side of the base portion, and at least one fixing portion extending from another side of the base portion. A width of the connecting portion is less than a width of the base portion and less than a width of a location of the first elastic arm near the connecting portion as well as a width of a location of the second elastic arm near the connecting portion. The fixing portion and the first elastic arm are respectively located at different sides of the base portion, thus achieving good elasticity and thinness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Zuo Feng Jin
  • Patent number: 11855369
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes multiple terminals. Each terminal includes a conductive portion. The terminals include first and second high speed signal terminals and a low speed signal terminal. The conductive portions of the first and second high speed signal terminals and the low speed signal terminal are correspondingly defined as first, second and third conductive portions. An adapter board is located above a circuit board to be conductively connected to a cable directly or indirectly. The adapter board includes first and second signal circuit layers located at different heights. The first signal circuit layer includes a first high speed signal circuit conductively connecting the first conductive portion and a conductive wire of the cable. The second signal circuit layer includes a second high speed signal circuit conductively connecting the second conductive portion and another conductive wire of the cable. The third conductive portion is conductively connected to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jun Liu, Chien Chih Ho, Wen Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 11848509
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body having a mating slot and multiple accommodating slots are in communication with the mating slot. Multiple terminals are accommodated in the accommodating slots. The terminals include ground terminals. Each terminal includes a connecting portion, an elastic arm, a tail portion, and an extending portion located between the connecting portion and the tail portion. The extending portion of each terminal extends obliquely downward and backward from the connecting portion. A grounding member is provided on the insulating body. The grounding member has a multiple upper and lower extending arms. A length of each upper extending arm is shorter than a length of each lower extending arm in the front-rear direction. The upper and lower extending arms respectively abut the ground terminals, thus shortening the transmission paths of the terminals. The grounding member and the ground terminals are in stable connection, thus reducing the resonance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wen Chang Chang, Nan Zhou
  • Patent number: 11817666
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, and multiple terminals and a base plate insert-molded with the insulating body. The insulating body has an outer side edge. Multiple grooves are concavely provided inward from the outer side edge. Two protruding blocks protrude toward each other and inward each of the grooves from two opposite sides of each of the grooves. The base plate has multiple strip connecting portions. Prior to the insert-molding, the strip connecting portions are integrally connected to a same strip. After the insert-molding, the strip connecting portions are broken from the strip, each strip connecting portion is located in a corresponding groove, and upper and lower surfaces of each strip connecting portion are exposed in the corresponding groove. The strip connecting portions do not exceed outward beyond the outer side edge. Two opposite sides of each strip connecting portion abut the two protruding blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Chien Chih Ho
  • Patent number: 11817644
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, multiple lower terminals, a conductive plate, and multiple upper terminals. Each lower terminal has a base portion. The lower terminals include lower signal terminals connected to the plate and lower ground terminals separated from the plate. The upper terminals include upper signal terminals and upper ground terminals. Each upper terminal has a fixing portion and an elastic arm. The fixing portion is located above and fixed to the base portion. A metal sheet exists between two adjacent fixing portions of the upper terminals in the left-right direction and separated from the upper signal terminals. The sheet is integrally connected with the upper ground terminals adjacent thereto in the left-right direction and is separated in the front-rear direction. The sheet is located above and fixed to the plate. The elastic arm is located right above the front upper terminal adjacent thereto or the sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yu Lun Tsai
  • Patent number: 11735854
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes multiple terminals formed by cutting from a metal plate and bending. The portion of the metal plate with the terminals being removed is defined as a base plate. Each terminal has a base portion and an elastic arm connected thereto. The base portion is at least partially horizontally provided to be coplanar to the base plate. A cutting slot is formed between the base plate and the base portion. A through slot is formed between the base plate and the elastic arm. An insulating body is provided with through holes running vertically therethrough. A portion of the cutting slot and the through slot are exposed in a corresponding through hole. The terminals include signal terminals and ground terminals. The base plate forms a connecting portion between the through slot and the cutting slot of each ground terminal to be connected to the ground terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chien Chih Ho, Wen Chang Chang, Zuo Feng Jin, Chang Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 11695239
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes multiple electrical modules sequentially stacked along a vertical direction. Each electrical module includes an insulating block being arc-shaped, a row of conductors fixed to the insulating block, and a first shielding member. The row of conductors includes multiple first grounding conductors and multiple pairs of first signal conductors arranged on the insulating block along a left-right direction. The two first signal conductors in a same pair of first signal conductors have a same length. The first shielding member has a first main body portion overlapping with a projection of one pair of first signal conductors in the vertical direction. The first shielding member and each conductor bend and extend downward from a top thereof and backward from a front thereof to be arc-shaped. The first contact portions of the row of conductors located on the same electrical module are located on a same horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Song Liang Zhu, Lun Cai
  • Patent number: 11626693
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a body and multiple conductive terminals. The body has an insertion slot. Each conductive terminal has a contact portion entering the insertion slot and a conductive portion passing downward beyond a bottom surface of the body. Each side of the insertion slot has first terminal groups and second terminal groups. The conductive portions of each first terminal group are located away from the insertion slot relative to the conductive portions of each second terminal group. The conductive portions are provided in four rows in a lateral direction. The conductive terminals include signal terminals and ground terminals. The circuit board has an adjusting hole and four rows of connecting points corresponding to the conductive portions. Each row of the connecting points include multiple signal connecting points and multiple ground connecting points. The adjusting hole is located between two signal connecting points in two adjacent rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xin Hu, Yi Yu, Zhi Jie Li
  • Patent number: 11594846
    Abstract: An electrical connector is used to be electrically connected to a mating component. The electrical connector includes one or more shielding members, forming multiple receiving holes; and multiple terminals, including at least one signal terminal and at least one ground terminal correspondingly accommodated in the receiving holes. The ground terminal has a mating portion upward abutting the mating component, an elastic portion pressed vertically to elastically deform, and a positioning portion having a cross-section in a circular shape. The positioning portion and the shielding members are conductively connected to each other by at least three conductive portions, and the three conductive portions are provided to form a triangle. An insulating block is between the signal terminal and a corresponding shielding member to be accommodated in a corresponding receiving hole. The positioning portion with a circular cross-section has a larger area when the volume of the receiving hole remains unchanged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Zuo Feng Jin
  • Patent number: RE50783
    Abstract: An electrical terminal includes a base, a first elastic arm and a second elastic arm formed side by side by extending upwardly from an upper end of the base, and a protruding portion. The first elastic arm has a mating portion, and the second elastic arm has a contact portion. The protruding portion protrudes and extends from a first side of the first elastic arm, and the first side of the first elastic arm is adjacent to the second elastic arm. A lower surface of the protruding portion has a contact surface overlapping with the contact portion in a vertical direction, such that the contact portion upwardly abuts the contact surface. When the chip module presses downwardly on the electrical terminal, the contact portion can move on the contact surface, such that the chip module does not need to press downwardly on the contact portion with a relatively large pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chien Chih Ho, Zuo Feng Jin, Yong Jun Dai, Chih Kun Chen