Patents Assigned to Molex, LLC
  • Patent number: 12689159
    Abstract: A first connector, that is a first connector that mates with a second connector, containing: a first connector main body; a first terminal attached to the first connector main body; a first high-frequency terminal attached to the first connector main body; and a first shield surrounding an entire circumference of the first connector main body; wherein the first shield contains an oblique part that extends obliquely downward, formed on an inner edge at the upper end, and also contains a plurality of linear parts and a plurality of curved parts; the first connector main body being integrally connected at the curved parts, and the first connector main body being separated at the linear parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Jumpei Ebisawa, Taichi Taniguchi, Yoshiteru Nogawa, Makoto Shinyama, Kenta Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12683328
    Abstract: An electrical connector and an electrical connector assembly include an insulative fixing seat, an insulative floating seat floatingly mounted thereabove, a floating terminal and a conductive shell. The fixing seat has a terminal fixing groove which extends horizontally. The floating seat has an insertion hole, an outer wall having an annular groove. The floating terminal includes a float connecting portion elastically connected between a mating portion and a horizontal fixing portion and is floatingly received in the fixing seat. The mating portion extends into the insertion hole, the conductive shell sheathes the fixing seat, the conductive shell has a plurality of elastic mating pieces having tips extending into the annular groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Xue-Hai Zhang
  • Patent number: 12683311
    Abstract: For a connector 10, a stopper surface 35a interferes with a stopper contacted surface 53a when an actuator 50 is in an upright orientation and this restricts movement of the actuator 50 around a support shaft part 52 beyond the upright orientation. The cam control surface 25c and stopper surface 35a are positioned more to the back than at least a part of the support shaft part 52.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hideyo Tagami, Junichi Asanuma
  • Patent number: 12683343
    Abstract: An electrical connection device includes a busbar group and a rack busbar group. The busbar group includes a first busbar and a second busbar. The first busbar is formed with an inserting groove whose upper end and lower end are in form of opened shape. The second busbar is formed with an inserting groove whose upper end and lower end are in form of opened shape. The rack busbar group includes a first rack busbar, a second rack busbar, a first inserting plate, a second inserting plate, a first floating module, a second floating module and a guiding spacer. The first floating module is provided between the first rack busbar and the first inserting plate, the second floating module is provided between the second rack busbar and the second inserting plate. The busbar group is capable of floating relative to the rack busbar group along an up-down direction and a left-right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Yi-Tse Ho
  • Patent number: 12671149
    Abstract: A battery connection module is used to connect a plurality of batteries, includes a plurality of busbars, a connector, a single layer wiring flexible circuit board and a strengthening back board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Yun-Jin Li, Li-Jun Sun, Yong Lin
  • Patent number: 12665693
    Abstract: A reconfigurable optical add and drop multiplexer (ROADM) system is provided. The ROADM system may include a switching system which includes at least one first WSS optically coupled to a tapping coupler and configured to receive an input optical signal from a first circulator, transmit a drop optical signal to a demultiplexer to drop one or more first wavelength channels, and output a through optical signal. The switching system may also include at least one second WSS optically coupled to the at least one first WSS and a multiplexer and configured to receive an add optical signal to add one or more second wavelength channels, receive the through optical signal, and output an output optical signal to a second circulator, and at least one OCM configured to monitor the input optical signal and the output optical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Minchun Li, Gongjian Hu, Lifu Gong, Feng Qing Zhou
  • Patent number: 12658621
    Abstract: An example electrical connector is capable of being fixed to a circuit board and includes a first insulating housing having a front end provided with a first coupling cavity and a receiving cavity provided on a lateral side of and laterally aligned with the first coupling cavity. The electrical connector includes a plurality of first conductive terminals, respectively provided on upper and lower sides of the first coupling cavity, where each first conductive terminal includes a first contact portion extending forwards and a wiring portion extending backwards. The electrical connector further includes a plurality of conducting wires, respectively connected to the wiring portions of the plurality of first conductive terminals, and a second insulating housing, inserted into the receiving cavity of the first insulating housing. The electrical connector also includes a plurality of second conductive terminals, fixed on the second insulating housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: You-Sheng Chen, Wen-Chieh Liang, Jing Liu, Chien Ching Teh, Yueh-Ting Chiang
  • Patent number: 12658622
    Abstract: An electrical connection device includes a cable-end connector. The cable-end connector includes an insulative housing, a circuit board, a cable and a locking member. The insulative housing has a body portion and a mating portion. The body portion is formed with a first opening, the mating portion is connected to the body portion and has a continuous surrounding wall which encircles the first opening, the continuous surrounding wall encircles to form an inner cavity, the inner cavity has a second opening. Each of two opposite sides of the body portion and the mating portion therebetween form a positioning space. The circuit board is provided to the body portion, partially extends out of the first opening and extends to the inner cavity. The cable is electrically connected to a side of the circuit board. The locking member is provided to the insulative housing. The cable-end connector can firmly mate with the board-end connector, so that stability of electrical signal transmission can be promoted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hsin-Hung Hsu, Sheng-Wen Peng, Kuan-Chih Huang
  • Publication number: 20260164150
    Abstract: Apparatus for routing optical wavelengths over one or more optical fibers from a first physical site to a second physical site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2025
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Applicant: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Mark E. Boduch, Lifu Gong
  • Patent number: 12651870
    Abstract: Connector assemblies for high speed data communication are described. In one example, a connector assembly includes a plug mating interface, a surface mating interface, and a wafer assembly between the plug mating interface and the surface mating interface. The wafer assembly includes a wafer insert, a channel shield, a plurality of signal conductors extending within the channel shield, a conductive gasket positioned over open edges of the channel shield, and a shield cover positioned over the conductive gasket. The conductive gasket can be embodied as a conductive elastomeric gasket and provides a conductive shield over open edges of the channel shield. The conductive gasket can be positioned between the shield cover and the open edges of the channel shield. The conductive gasket and the shield cover help to enclose open areas in the channel shield and provide additional shielding for the signal conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Javier Resendez, Jerber Mendoza, John C. Laurx, Jose J. Gonzalez, Jr., Marc E. Krause, Scott Edwards, William J. Miller, II
  • Patent number: 12627086
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a shielding cage, a partitioning assembly and a plurality of supporting members. The shielding cage has a plurality of walls and an internal space defined by the plurality of walls, the plurality of walls includes two side walls. The partitioning assembly is assembled to the two side walls of the shielding cage and partitions the internal space into two inserting chambers arranged up and down, the partitioning assembly includes two partitioning plates which are arranged up and down and two grounding elastic pieces which are respectively assembled to front ends of the two partitioning plates, the two partitioning plates are spaced apart from with each other by a preset interval to together constitute an air flow passageway and a front end opening positioned to a front end of the air flow passageway. The plurality of supporting members are supported between the two partitioning plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hui-Hsuan Yang, Bhakteesh Arwankar, Weiming Chen, Saiyed Muhammad Hasan Ali
  • Patent number: 12614991
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of bridge inverters for wireless charging. In an exemplary embodiment, a bridge inverter circuit includes a bridge driver and first and second transistors (e.g., metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs), etc.) coupled with the bridge driver. First and second power inductors are respectively coupled with the first and second transistors. A resonant tank is coupled with the first and second transistors and the first and second power inductors. The bridge inverter circuit may include only one bridge driver and only two transistors. The first and second power inductors may be located before the bridge inverter stage such that the first and second power inductors are in the DC domain rather than the AC domain. The resonant tank may include at least one additional inductor-capacitor (LC) component. The bridge inverter circuit may be configured to be operable for producing half sine waves for each half cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Bazil Nawaz
  • Patent number: 12609473
    Abstract: An electrical terminal includes a contact partially surrounded by a hood. In an embodiment, the contact has a deflectable contact beam and an indentation with which a male terminal engages. In an embodiment, the hood has a polarization rib having at least one flap which is configured to expand the seal. The electrical terminal is used with a connector assembly having a housing forward of a seal and a seal cover rearward thereof. A first length is defined between ends of the portion of the hood that surrounds the contact and a second length is defined between the ends of the seal. In an embodiment, the first length is a minimum of 1.1 times the second length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Yves Le Pottier, Dwaraganathan Bhagyanathan-Sathianathan, Suraj Handithavalli Purushothama, Kevin C. Hough
  • Patent number: 12609489
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes: a connector body; and a terminal attached to the connector body, the connector being mated with a counterpart connector, wherein the connector body includes a recessed groove part and a pair of side walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the connector body, arranged in parallel demarcating both sides of the recessed groove part, the terminals are arranged with a plurality along each wall forming a pair of terminal group rows in parallel, where ground terminals included in each terminal group row are arranged in mutually facing positions, at least one ground terminal included in each terminal group row includes a board connecting part positioned to the inside of the connector body in the width direction and a board connecting part positioned to the outside of the connector in the width direction, and the board connecting part positioned on the inside is longer than the board connecting part positioned on the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Makoto Shinyama, Nobuyuki Kondo
  • Patent number: D1125071
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Krishnaprasad Darbal Somanath, Gautam Sharma, Harsha Thyagaraj, Sreenath A, Shivasharan Basavaraj Mahajanshetty, Patrick J Killian
  • Patent number: D1127728
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Manohara Ramakrishna Gowda, Goolappa Basavaraj Madiwalar
  • Patent number: D1127730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Makiko Ikeda
  • Patent number: D1127731
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Lupco Zabjanovski
  • Patent number: D1129383
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Shivaraj Kumar M, Prajwal Vadavadagi, Sourabh Shrinivas Joshi
  • Patent number: D1130322
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Shivaraj Kumar M, Muttanna Belle