Patents Assigned to Molex, LLC
  • Patent number: 12272896
    Abstract: An example connector assembly includes a guide shielding cage with a cage body and an upper heat sink bracket. The cage body includes upper window. A lower wall of the upper heat sink bracket is formed with a window corresponding to the upper window. The connector assembly also includes an upper heat sink module including a heat dissipating member. The heat dissipating member is capable of moving between a releasing position which is higher and an acting position which is lower relative to the upper insertion space. The cage body further includes fixing pieces positioned at two sides of the top wall and extend upwardly. The lower wall of the upper heat sink bracket engages with the fixing pieces of the cage body, and the upper heat sink bracket further comprises a latching piece which extends from the lower wall and latches into the top wall of the cage body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Che-Yuan Yang
  • Patent number: 12266870
    Abstract: A stacked patch antenna is disclosed that provides desirable performance in a cost effective and space efficient manner. A frame system is used to support a first patch and a second patch and a director plate that can be positioned between the first patch and the second patch. The design of the system allows for the first patch and the second patch to have a lower effective dielectric constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Cheikh Thiam, Ahmad M. Yacoub, Mohamed O. H. Khalifa, Mohammad Alrefai
  • Patent number: 12260060
    Abstract: A smart digital computer platform is disclosed that collects, analyzes, and/or renders appropriate information about fugitive emissions identified by a sensor network-based emissions monitoring system in a facility. More specifically to the methods used by the smart digital computer platform to analyze, filter, and transform the collected monitoring data into a visual output that is capable of being rendered on a graphical user interface (GUI) on a screen display with, in some embodiments, a restricted form factor. For example, smart analytics may be used to cull, filter, and transform the data displayed in a pop-up dialog box on a GUI. In another example, the transformed data may be translated into a visual, graphical element that conveys an abundance of appropriate, tailored information to a particular type of user viewing the GUI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Ling-Ying Lin, Alissa Nedossekina, Wenfeng Peng, Alexander Chernyshov
  • Patent number: 12248190
    Abstract: A biased connector assembly is disclosed that includes a receptacle configured to mount to a substrate and form an electrical connection therewith, and a plug connector. The receptacle includes a cage that defines a port having a connector positioned therein. The connector may include a slot that is aligned with the port. The port includes one or more biasing members positioned therein. The plug connector includes a pluggable transceiver module to be inserted into the port and a card with at least one contact pad configured to engage with a terminal of the connector. The one or more biasing members may bias the plug module away from the connector such that a stub length of the contact pad is within a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Gianni Ryan Bardella, Dominic Steier
  • Patent number: 12249795
    Abstract: High-speed connectors and connector assemblies that include structures for alignment and/or improved thermal performance. In one example, a connector assembly, comprising: a housing comprising a port; a wafer assembly with contacts positioned in the port of the housing, the wafer assembly comprising a row of conductors, the row of conductors comprising a plurality of communication signal conductors and a plurality of ground conductors arranged in the row of conductors, wherein each communication signal conductor is positioned next to a ground conductor among the plurality of ground conductors in the row of conductors; and a ground path assembly comprising the plurality of ground conductors, a conductive ground shield, and a metal ground shield insert that is stitch mated with the conductive ground shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hazelton P. Avery, Li Zhuang, Pu Xie, Chia Hung Mou, Jerry Shubert, Andrew Kolak, Daniel Wenzel, Dominic Steier, Scott D. Sommers
  • Patent number: 12244101
    Abstract: A connector assembly is disclosed to include a shielding cage and a receptacle connector. The shielding cage forms at least one insertion space and a front end port communicatively coupled to the insertion space, the insertion space is defined by a top wall, a bottom wall and two side walls which cooperate with each other. The receptacle connector is provided to a rear segment of the shielding cage and includes a receptacle housing. The shielding cage further includes at least one stopping piece and at least one support stopping block which extend into the insertion space, the support stopping block is interposed between the stopping piece and the receptacle housing and supports the stopping piece. In another manner, the shielding cage may include a withdrawing stop portion and a rear stopping piece, the withdrawing stop portion is used to limit the receptacle housing to displace rearwardly, the rear stopping piece is used to stop the receptacle housing from behind the receptacle housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Che-Yuan Yang, You-Qian Lu, Chun-Hsiang Chiang
  • Patent number: 12237604
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, and a pair of contacts which are secured together by a clamp mounted within the housing. Each electrical contact includes a planar body, spring fingers extending from a first end of the body, and a coupling extending from the body to couple the electrical contacts to the housing. A first deflection zone between the clamp and first ends of the spring fingers allows the spring fingers to deflect in a lateral direction to receive the conductive component within the receiving space. A second deflection zone between the first ends of the spring fingers and the second ends of the bodies allow the bodies and spring fingers to deflect in the lateral direction when the conductive component is received within the receiving space, but the conductive component is not directly aligned with the receiving space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Chiuming Lu, Robert Piszczor
  • Patent number: 12222320
    Abstract: An electrode stack assembly includes an electrically insulative substrate having a cavity therethrough extending, a first counter electrode on a top surface thereof and extending through the substrate, a second sensing electrode on a bottom surface thereof and extending through the substrate, and a third electrode having a top body portion on a top of the substrate, a bottom body portion on a bottom of the substrate, and a coupling pin passing through the substrate and electrically coupling the top and bottom body portions. The third electrode electrically separates the pin of the sensing electrode from the counter electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Miao Xu, Wenfeng Peng, Mariusz Kloza, Amram Netanel Afenzer
  • Patent number: 12216377
    Abstract: An optical modulating device of the present disclosure includes an optical splitter, an optical phase modulator and an optical combiner. The optical splitter splits an inputting optical signal by an optical splitting ratio to generate a first split optical signal and a second split optical signal. The optical phase modulator phase modulates the first split optical signal and the second split optical signal to respectively generate a first modulating optical signal and a second modulating optical signal. The optical combiner combines the first modulating optical signal and the second modulating optical signal by a combining ratio to generate an outputting optical signal having a chirp, the combining ratio being equal to the optical splitting ratio, a value of the combining ratio being a positive number, and the value being less than one or more than one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Kuen-Ting Tsai, Zuon-Min Chuang
  • Patent number: 12212021
    Abstract: A battery connection module is provided. The battery connection module is adapted to connect a plurality of batteries, the battery connection module includes a plurality of busbars and a single layer wiring flexible circuit board. The plurality of busbars are used to connect a plurality of batteries in series. The single layer wiring flexible circuit board has multiple connector connecting points positioned to a front end portion thereof and a multiple traces, front ends of the multiple traces are respectively connected to the multiple connector connecting points, and rear end connecting points of some of the multiple traces are electrically and mechanically connected to the plurality of busbars, the multiple traces includes at least one rounding trace and at least one rounded trace, the rounding trace rounds the rear end connecting point of the rounded trace so as to round from one side of the at least one rounded trace to the other side of the at least one rounded trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Yong Lin, Shang-Xiu Zeng, Kian-Heng Lim, Yun-Jin Li
  • Patent number: 12199381
    Abstract: A connector assembly is provided and includes a shielding cage, a receptacle connector and a light guiding member. The shielding cage has a plurality of walls, a receiving space defined together by the plurality of walls, a front end opening communicated to the receiving space and an aperture communicated to the receiving space. The receptacle connector is received in a rear segment of the receiving space of the shielding cage. The light guiding member has at least two light guiding pipes, each light guiding pipe has a first segment positioned to the front and a second segment positioned to the rear. The first segments of the two light guiding pipes are positioned outside the shielding cage and the second segments of the two light guiding pipes pass through the aperture and enter into the rear segment of the receiving space of the shielding cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Sheng-Ping Yen, Chun-Hsiang Chiang
  • Patent number: D1063849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Chetan Ravindra Bavalatti, Muttanna Belle, Harsha Thyagaraj
  • Patent number: D1065091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: KrishnaPrasad Darbal Somanath, Gautam Sharma, Harsha Thyagaraj, Sreenath A, Shivasharan Basavaraj Mahajanshetty
  • Patent number: D1065092
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Bandura, Venkatesh Sathish, Jeffrey Alan Joniak, Jay S. Kruger, Patrick J Killian
  • Patent number: D1065093
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Bandura, Venkatesh Sathish, Jeffrey Alan Joniak, Jay S. Kruger, Patrick J Killian
  • Patent number: D1066254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Chetan Ravindra Bavalatti, Muttanna Belle, Harsha Thyagaraj
  • Patent number: D1067198
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Gautam Sharma, Harsha Thyagaraj, Jeevan Suresh Gurrapukonda
  • Patent number: D1068679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Michael A. Bandura, Jay S. Kruger
  • Patent number: D1069716
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: KrishnaPrasad Darbal Somanath, Gautam Sharma, Harsha Thyagaraj, Sreenath A, Shivasharan Basavaraj Mahajanshetty
  • Patent number: D1069728
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Gautam Sharma, Harsha Thyagaraj, Jeevan Suresh Gurrapukonda