Patents Assigned to Molex, LLC
  • Patent number: 12095184
    Abstract: A terminal including a main body part retained by a connector main body and a contact part connected to the upper end of the main body part and the free end of which can be connected to a counterpart terminal of a counterpart connector. The contact part including a connector base connected to the upper end of the main body part, a spring arm connected to the tip of the connector base and bent in a substantially s-shape, and a contact flexure part formed near the free end of the spring arm. The connector main body including a pair of side wall parts that extend in the longitudinal direction thereof and that retain the main body part. The connector base including an outward expanding part that bulges outward from the upper end of the main body part toward the connector main body and straddling the side wall parts without making contact with the side wall parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Kenji Miyahara, Mikiji Tanaka, Hiroshi Shimoyama, Yoshiteru Nogawa
  • Patent number: 12085548
    Abstract: A gas sensor network system provides near real-time monitoring of fugitive emissions of VOC compounds in chemical plants and facilities. The present disclosure provides a sensor placement method which determines where to place sensors within a facility. The sensor placement method includes obtaining plant layout, gas composition, meteorological conditions and/or other types of information regarding a facility, determining the types of gas and ancillary sensors needed, and generating the minimum detection distances required based on the sensitivities of the sensors to the gas compounds involved. And, then calculating the minimal number of sensors required for each sensor type with optimized sensor locations to ensure best coverage of potentially leaking components within the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Eben Daniel Thoma, Alexander S. Chernyshov, Wenfeng Peng, Ling-Yin Lin, Jingxue Xu
  • Patent number: 12088032
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of conductive terminals and a metal shell. The housing includes a base portion, a tongue protruding forwardly from the base portion and a terminal fixing portion positioned behind the base portion; a groove is provided between the base portion and the fixing portion to allow glue to fill therein; the fixing portion is provided with at least one fencing portion at a side of the fixing portion adjacent to the groove, the fencing portion is formed with a hollow recessed groove therein. The terminals are provided to the housing; each terminal includes a mating portion exposed on the tongue, a soldering portion extending out of the fixing portion and a connecting portion connected between the mating portion and the soldering portion; a part of the connecting portion is exposed to the groove. The shell sheathes an outer circumference of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Yun-Fang Yang, Zhong-Shan Han, Hao Yin
  • Patent number: 12088046
    Abstract: A backplane connector includes a shielded design that has wafers with signal terminals supported as edge-coupled terminal pairs for differential signaling. A ground shield is mounted on each wafer and provides a U-channel that partially shields each terminal pair. An insert can be provided to help connect the ground shield to a U-shield to provide U-shaped shielding structure substantially the entire way from a tail to a contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: John C. Laurx, Chien-Lin Wang, Vivek Shah
  • Patent number: 12088050
    Abstract: A connector system for a pluggable IO connector is disclosed that includes a plug with two rows of pads on two sides of a mating blade and a receptacle with two connection regions that is configured to engage the two rows of pads. In an embodiment the connector system can support double the data bandwidth of a typical connector, such as a QSFP connector, while allowing for backward compatibility with convention plug assemblies that have a single row of pads on each side the mating blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Kent E. Regnier
  • Patent number: 12068791
    Abstract: An optical interconnect module for coupling a photonic integrated chip to an optical ferrule is provided. The optical interconnect module may include a coupler for interfacing to the photonic integrated chip, the coupler comprising at least one guide pin. The optical interconnect module may include an optical ferrule configured for being removably attached to the coupler, the optical ferrule comprising at least one through hole for receiving the at least one guide pin from the coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas R. Marrapode, Zuon-Min Chuang, Sung-Ping Huang, Wenzong Chen
  • Patent number: 12060018
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of power delivery (PD) assemblies, including powering, charging, and data connect devices usable within vehicles, etc. In exemplary embodiments, a power block (e.g., standalone power block, wireless charger, etc.) may be connected via a vehicle harness to a user interface (PD charger only) or a user interface (USB hub with charging and data). Accordingly, power blocks having the same or common form factor and vehicle harnesses having the same or common configuration (Vbus PD, GND, CC1, and CC2) may therefore be used to interchangeably connect to charger only user interfaces or to user interfaces with charging and data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Luis Ramses Rubio Romero
  • Patent number: 12046845
    Abstract: A terminal connected to the end of an electrical wire, including: a main body portion connected to a core wire of the electrical wire and a contacting portion connected to the front end of the main body portion having a portion with a U-shaped cross-section that connects to a mating terminal, wherein the contacting portion includes: an upper plate portion connected to the main body portion, a lower plate portion that is parallel with the upper plate portion, a side plate portion that connects one of either the left or right edges of the upper plate portion and the lower plate portion, a tip mating recessed portion demarcated on three sides by the upper plate portion, the lower plate portion, and the side plate portion, an inclined protruding piece that extends diagonally downward from the back end of the lower plate portion, and a middle plate portion that extends between the inclined protruding piece and the upper plate portion in the width direction of the contacting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hiroki Kobayashi, Ayako Matsumoto, Kensuke Yamada
  • Patent number: 12027802
    Abstract: A connector includes a connector body and a terminal attached to the connector body, the connector being fitted with a counterpart connector, the connector body includes a recess being fitted with a counterpart connector body of the counterpart connector and side walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the connector body, the side walls defining both sides of the recess. The terminal includes a plurality of terminals disposed along each of the side walls, and the plurality of terminals disposed along each of the side walls include one high frequency terminal and ground terminals disposed on both sides of the high frequency terminal. In plan view, a straight line connecting high frequency terminals disposed along both the side walls is inclined with respect to a center line of the connector body in a width direction, and a shield plate of the counterpart connector extends along the center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Someya, Naoto Sasayama, Ryunosuke Miyamoto, Kenta Arichika
  • Patent number: 11994503
    Abstract: Computer systems, methods, and apparatuses for estimating changes in gas emissions are described. A computer system may monitor overall emission levels based on sensor outputs from a plurality of gas sensors in a facility. The computer system may estimate a total emission level over a time interval based on the accumulative, gas-response-factor weighted detections of the gas sensors. Emissions from maintenance activities may be excluded as appropriate. The total emission level may be compared with total emission level estimated from different time intervals and/or different facilities. The computer system may be further used for comparing emissions across multiple facilities, or emissions from facilities across multiple regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Wenfeng Peng, Ling-Ying Lin, Alissa Nedossekina
  • Patent number: 11996620
    Abstract: An antenna device includes an insulating carrier and a first primary antenna having a first feeding-in section, a first auxiliary antenna having a second feeding-in section and a second grounding section, a second primary antenna having a third feeding-in section, a second auxiliary antenna having a fourth feeding-in section and a grounding face which are provided on a face of the carrier. The first primary and auxiliary antennas and the second primary and auxiliary antennas are positioned at two side edges of the carrier which are away from each other. The grounding face is positioned between both the first primary and auxiliary antennas and the second primary and auxiliary antennas. The grounding face is provided with a first grounding section adjacent to the first feeding-in section, a third grounding section adjacent to third feeding-in section and a fourth grounding section adjacent to the fourth feeding-in section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Ping Zhang, Guang Yong Zhong, Xue Tian Zhao, Chun Xia Zhang, Hai Liu, Kang Cheng, Qian Gao
  • Patent number: 11988867
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a package structure having a photonic integrated circuit, the package structure includes a substrate, a chip and an optical module. The chip has an optical waveguide structure and a recessed portion. The optical waveguide structure is adjacent to the recessed portion. The recessed portion faces the substrate, and the chip is engaged to the substrate by flip chip. The optical module is provided in the recessed portion of the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Chih-Wei Peng, Chih-Chung Hsu, Chih-Chung Wu, Zuon-Min Chuang
  • Patent number: D1028897
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Ravikanth Desai, Rahul Bhaskar, Narayan Mithun, Kalidindi Ramesh Raju, Debashis Sarkar
  • Patent number: D1028898
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: You-Xiang Zheng, Hai-Sheng Luo
  • Patent number: D1031656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Pan, You-Xiang Zheng
  • Patent number: D1032529
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Pan, You-Xiang Zheng
  • Patent number: D1033366
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Satoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: D1034465
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Ravikanth Desai, Rahul Bhaskar, Narayan Mithun, Kalidindi Ramesh Raju, Debashis Sarkar
  • Patent number: D1036388
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas R. Marrapode, Jesus Enrique Fung, Andrew Kolak, Wenzong Chen, Sung-Ping Huang, Chih Chung Wu, Sheng-Pin Su, Chien-Lang Tai
  • Patent number: D1040765
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas R. Marrapode, Jesus Enrique Fung, Andrew Kolak, Wenzong Chen, Sung-Ping Huang, Chih Chung Wu, Sheng-Pin Su, Chien-Lang Tai