Patents Examined by Briggitte R. Hammond
  • Patent number: 12237638
    Abstract: Resonance between outer conductors is prevented. A connector includes: a plurality of shield terminals each having an inner conductor surrounded by an outer conductor; and a resonance restriction member that restricts resonance between the shield terminals by connecting the outer conductors to each other and holding the outer conductors at the same potential. Resonance between the shield terminals can be prevented by preventing a potential difference from being generated between the outer conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yorikazu Murabayashi, Suguru Yamagishi
  • Patent number: 12237612
    Abstract: An electrical plug includes a plug housing having a first plug housing section with a longitudinal axis and a friction brake device including a friction brake part arranged on an outer face of the first plug housing section. The friction brake part is exposed towards an outside in a radial direction to the longitudinal axis. The friction brake device provides a friction braking azimuthally around the longitudinal axis below a set torque threshold value for the electrical plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Industrial GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Moncher, Sebastian Achatz, Florian Hartl
  • Patent number: 12237628
    Abstract: A ganged connector assembly includes: a plurality of coaxial connectors, each of the coaxial connectors connected with a respective coaxial cable extending rearwardly therefrom, each of the coaxial connectors including an inner contact and an outer body that is electrically separated from the inner contact; a shell having a plurality of cavities; and a plurality of rear bodies, each of the rear bodies encircling a respective outer body, each of the rear bodies mounted in a respective cavity of the shell. Each of the rear bodies includes a first locking feature. A second locking feature is located in each of the cavities and is fixed relative to the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey D. Paynter
  • Patent number: 12230908
    Abstract: In various embodiments, compact connector designs may be provided that have reduced board pitch (e.g., 1.80 mm, 1.50 mm, 1.27 mm, etc.), but are still capable of accommodating large electrical conductors (e.g., 1.4 mm, 1.1 mm, 0.9 mm, etc.). In this manner, PCB footprint may be reduced (e.g., by 50% when a staggered connector configuration is used), while adequate current carrying capacity may be maintained (e.g., 2 A, 3 A, 4 A, etc.). Additionally, or alternatively, one or more other advantages may be achieved, such as ruggedness (e.g., vibration endurance), error proofing, configuration flexibility, ease of manufacturing, ease of assembly, and/or lowered costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Aymeric Soudy, Cyril Jeune
  • Patent number: 12224513
    Abstract: A connector device includes a connector housing having a terminal accommodating chamber, a terminal configured to be accommodated in the terminal accommodating chamber, an electric wire configured to be connected to the terminal, a corrosion-proof material to be disposed at a position facing the terminal accommodated in the terminal accommodating chamber and a corrosion-proof target portion of the electric wire, and a corrosion-proof material support portion retaining the corrosion-proof material above the connector housing such that the corrosion-proof material can be moved toward the corrosion-proof target portion. A melting point of the corrosion-proof material is set to be lower than a melting point of a material forming the connector housing, and the corrosion-proof material is configured to be melted and then cured while covering the corrosion-proof target portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Syuji Kimura, Sadaharu Okuda, Terumitsu Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 12224521
    Abstract: A system includes a first electrical connector configured to removably couple with a second electrical connector. The first electrical connector includes a housing having an axial opening. The first connector also includes a movable support disposed inside the housing. The movable support includes a first connector portion having a first electrical path with a first radial contact electrically coupled to a first axial contact. The first electrical connector also includes a stationary support disposed inside the housing. The stationary support includes a first mating connector portion having a first mating electrical path with a first mating axial contact coupled to a first electrical cable. The first electrical connector also includes a shuttle pin configured to engage with the second electrical connector through the axial opening in the housing. The shuttle pin is configured to move along a first axial path of travel in a first connection stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ONESUBSEA IP UK LIMITED
    Inventor: Joseph Allan Nicholson
  • Patent number: 12224522
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector of a novel structure capable of suppressing or preventing the transmission of the swing of a wire to a terminal in a connector. A connector 10 is provided with a housing 16 for accommodating a terminal 12, a back retainer 20 mounted in a rear end part of the housing 16 from which a wire 18 connected to the terminal 12 is pulled out, a wire insertion hole 62 provided in the back retainer 20, and a wire holding piece 72 projecting in a pull-out direction of the wire 18 from a peripheral edge part of the wire insertion hole 62. The wire 18 pulled out from the wire insertion hole 62 is tied and fixed to the wire holding piece 72 by a tying tool 82.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Kobayashi, Sunghyun Byun
  • Patent number: 12224517
    Abstract: An electrical junction box includes a frame body, a rescue terminal portion formed in a rectangular parallelepiped shape in a plan view and including a longitudinal side face, two lateral side faces connected to the longitudinal side face, and an upper face, a resin cover configured to cover the longitudinal side face, the two lateral side faces and the upper face. The resin cover includes a rotary shaft extending along the longitudinal side face and provided on a side where the longitudinal side face is provided and on a base end portion of the rescue terminal portion opposite to the upper face, the resin cover being configured to rotate with respect to the frame body about the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akinori Nakashima, Hiroki Goto, Takao Nogaki
  • Patent number: 12224525
    Abstract: A connector and a connector assembly are disclosed. The connector assembly can have: a first connector having a first housing on which a first latch device is formed; and a second connector having a second housing on which a first latch slot and a padlock hole are formed. When the first connector and the second connector are assembled to a pre lock position, the first latch device is locked into the first latch slot and blocked by a padlock locked into the padlock hole to prevent the first connector and the second connector from being further assembled to a final lock position. Therefore, the present invention can reliably prevent the first connector and the second connector from being accidentally matched together and improve the safety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: TYCO Electronics Technology (SIP) Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Suzhou) Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianghua Zhu, Jun Zong, Siqi Chen
  • Patent number: 12218475
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a connector enabling good heat dissipation. A connector 11 according to the one aspect of the present disclosure is provided with a housing 13 made of metal, a flat plate-like busbar 14 to be held in the housing 13, a first ceramic member 18 to be interposed between one flat surface 14a of the busbar 14 and a first contact portion 17 of the housing 13, a second ceramic member 20 to be interposed between another flat surface 14a of the busbar 14 and a second contact portion 19 of the housing 13, and a bolt 21 and a nut 22 for collectively fastening the busbar 14, the first and second ceramic members 18, 20 and the first and second contact portions 17, 19.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuta Kanematsu, Junichi Mukuno
  • Patent number: 12212825
    Abstract: A sensor module according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a housing, a sensor board, an external connector, a flexible printed circuit, and a metallic shield case. The flexible printed circuit electrically connects the sensor board and the external connector, the flexible printed circuit including a signal line and a ground line. The shield case includes a bottom portion that is arranged between the flexible printed circuit and the external connector. The external connector includes a first connection pin that is connected to the signal line, a second connection pin that is connected to the ground line, and a third connection pin that is connected to the bottom portion of the shield case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hirofumi Owaki, Tomonori Agawa, Kunihiko Togano, Hiroo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 12212083
    Abstract: Various configurations of compressible electrical assemblies are disclosed herein. Each variation of the compressible electrical assemblies includes at least one dielectric, an inner conductor and an outer conductor. Each inner and outer conductor may be configured as a compressible contact. One embodiment of a compressible electrical assembly includes an inner compressible contact, and outer compressible contact and a dielectric disposed at least partially between the inner compressible contact and the outer compressible contact. Each compressible contact also has a divaricated-cut section with a plurality of cuts defined by at least one cut angle measured between a pair of opposing inner surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS RF LLC
    Inventors: Donald Andrew Burris, Thomas Edmond Flaherty, IV, Daniel Michael Grabowski
  • Patent number: 12212103
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an electrically conductive shell sized to receive and retain an electrically insulating housing insert, where the housing insert includes a cavity for receiving and retaining a wire-terminating electrical contact therein. The shell and housing insert each including keying features designed to cooperate with one another to resist independent rotation of the housing insert within the shell. The electrical connector further includes a wire sealing grommet coupled to the housing insert to improve connector performance and minimize arcing issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: CARLISLE INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: William James DeWitt
  • Patent number: 12206206
    Abstract: Provided is a wire cover-equipped connector that can prevent a wire from being caught on a wire cover when the wire cover is being attached. The wire cover-equipped connector includes: a housing including a wire lead-out surface; and a wire cover configured to be disposed on the housing so as to cover the wire lead-out surface. The housing includes a slide-receiving portion at a position in line with the wire lead-out surface, the wire cover includes a slide portion configured to slide against the slide-receiving portion, and a wire escape space formed so as to be separated from the slide-receiving portion, and the slide portion includes, in a front end thereof in a sliding direction of sliding against the slide-receiving portion, a wire guiding portion inclined in a direction opposite to the sliding direction while extending toward the wire escape space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Daisuke Kataoka, Kazuo Nakai
  • Patent number: 12199372
    Abstract: A coupler includes a housing and a contact sub-assembly. The housing includes a channel having openings at first and second ends of the housing. The first end receives a first connector having a first pair of contacts and the second end receives a second connector having a second pair of contacts. The contact sub-assembly includes exactly one pair of coupling contacts and a body portion supporting the pair of coupling contacts. The contact sub-assembly is positioned centrally within the housing and includes an anti-rotation feature and one or more crush ribs to create an interference fit with an interior surface of the housing. The pair of coupling contacts serve to couple the first and second connectors for both power and data transmission. In certain embodiments, contacts sub-assembly utilizes a circuit board to electrically couple contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Paul John Pepe, Shawn Phillip Tobey
  • Patent number: 12191611
    Abstract: An extension socket includes a shell, a connecting wire, a wire box, a rotating shaft and a take-up reel. An electric connecting socket being formed in the shell, and a side wall of the shell being surrounded to form a first accommodating cavity. The electric connecting wire being electrically connected with the electric connecting socket. The wire box being arranged in the first accommodating cavity, and a side wall of the wire box being surrounded to form a second accommodating cavity. The rotating shaft being connected to an inner wall of the wire box. And the take-up reel being arranged in the second accommodating cavity and rotatably connected with the rotating shaft, and the take-up reel being used for winding the electric connecting wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Yujun Huang
  • Patent number: 12191616
    Abstract: There is provided a terminal for an electrical power cable that includes a conductive clip, a terminal block, and a set screw. The clip resides in the terminal block and includes a plurality of openings sized to receive low voltage connectors, such as spade connectors. The openings in the clip are arranged to organize the spade connectors and their respective pigtail connections. The location and orientation of the clip and the spade connectors is such that, when the set screw is installed in the terminal block, force is applied by the set screw onto the clip. The clip compresses and secures the spade connectors to the terminal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: William Henry Dietz
  • Patent number: 12184021
    Abstract: Electrical wiring devices that incorporate clamp-type wire terminal connections are described. The electrical wiring devices include for example, single and duplex blade-type electrical receptacles, blade-type locking electrical receptacles, single or multi-pole electrical switches, combination switches and blade-type receptacles, blade-type plugs for electrical cords and blade-type connectors for electrical cords. The electrical wiring devices include a plurality of contact assemblies. Each contact assembly includes a wire terminal and a plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas L. Scanzillo, Edward Bazayev
  • Patent number: 12183998
    Abstract: Electrical wiring devices that incorporate clamp-type wire terminal connections are described. The electrical wiring devices include for example, single and duplex blade-type electrical receptacles, blade-type locking electrical receptacles, single or multi-pole electrical switches, combination switches and blade-type receptacles, blade-type plugs for electrical cords and blade-type connectors for electrical cords. The electrical wiring devices include a plurality of contact assemblies. Each contact assembly includes a wire terminal and a plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas L. Scanzillo, Edward Bazayev
  • Patent number: 12184015
    Abstract: The present invention provides target devices such as filter units with at least one receiving channel with a stop surface that is electrically conductive and at least one cable with a connector assembly on a first end portion. The connector assembly includes a first member with an open channel. The first member is coupled to the end portion of the outer conductor with the free end of the inner conductor and the end portion of the dielectric extending through the open channel to reside forward of the first member. The first member resides in a respective one of the at least one receiving channel against the stop surface. The connector assembly also includes second member with an open channel. The second member is slidably coupled to the first end portion of the at least one cable and presses the first member against the stop surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC
    Inventors: Jarno Konttinen, Tero Kamarainen, Marko Uusitalo