Patents Examined by Briggitte R. Hammond
  • Patent number: 12119586
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal connected to a front end portion of an electric wire and a housing in which the terminal is arranged. The housing includes a base portion and cover members. The electric wire extending rearward from a portion of the housing that has the terminal therein is disposed on the base portion. The cover members that are movable between a position in which the cover members cover the base portion and a position in which the cover members are away from the base portion. The cover members include a wire pressing portion that presses the electric wire disposed on the base portion toward the base portion when the cover members are in the position in which the cover members cover the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Teruo Hara, Masaaki Tabata, Hajime Kawase, Hajime Matsui, Hiroki Kobayashi, Kenji Makino, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Takeshi Amakawa
  • Patent number: 12113320
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprise an insulating housing, a spring clip disposed in the insulating housing, and control pieces for opening the spring clip. The insulating housing comprises outer wall sections separately corresponding to wire inserting spaces defined inside the insulating housing. Each outer wall section at least partially extends into a gap formed by a corresponding control piece when the control pieces are switched to a closed state. Moving spaces are defined on an outside of two sides of each of the outer wall sections. The control pieces perform an opening operation and a closing operation in the moving spaces. When the control pieces are in an open state, the spring clip is observed along the moving spaces. Along a width direction of the spring clip, the spring clip is at least partially exposed in projections of the moving spaces along an up-down direction of the moving spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: XIAMEN GHGM INDUSTRIAL TRADE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Bingshui Chen
  • Patent number: 12109901
    Abstract: The present application provides a charging socket including a socket body, the socket body is provided with a charging end configured to connect to a charging plug, a conversion end configured to connect to a battery pack, and a terminal accommodating cavity communicated with and between the charging end and the conversion end; the conversion end is provided with a mating installation groove configured to mount an adapter plug and configured to pluggably connect with the adapter plug. In the charging socket provided in the present application, only the adapter plug is required to be pulled out from the mating installation groove on the socket body when the charging terminal mounted in the terminal accommodating cavity needs to be repaired or replaced, thereby removal of the connection between the charging terminal and the battery pack is completed, which effectively reduces the difficulty of disassembly and assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: TYCO ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY (SIP) LTD., TYCO ELECTRONICS (SHANGHAI) CO. LTD
    Inventors: Renyi (Ronny) Dou, Fangyue (Jason) Zhu, Kaixuan (Evan) Jiang
  • Patent number: 12105119
    Abstract: In order to improve conductivity, the number of components is decreased, and a sliding property of an elastic member can be improved. Elastic force can be controlled in accordance with a characteristic of a contact object, and electrical contact stability with the contact object can be improved. An electrical contactor of the present disclosure is formed by winding a plate member having conductivity. The electrical contactor includes a first contact part that is formed by winding a first tip part of the plate member, a first elastic part that is formed by winding an upper arm part having a tapered shape, a second contact part that is formed by winding a second tip part, a second elastic part that is formed by winding a lower arm part having a tapered shape, and a cylindrical part that is formed by winding a main body part that is a plate member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA NIHON MICRONICS
    Inventor: Tomoaki Kuga
  • Patent number: 12107374
    Abstract: The present invention facilitates making electrical connections. In this terminal block, when an electric wire is inserted in a housing, the end of the electric wire pushes in a block part of a movable member, and a contact part of a locking member with the block part interposed therebetween, thereby releasing the locking of a leaf spring moving part by a hook part of the locking member, and the electric wire is secured by the leaf spring moving part, and the degree to which a display part of the movable member moving in conjunction with the block part is visible through a window part changes according to the change in position of the display part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Masao Nagase, Taijiro Fujiwara, Masato Matoba, Hirokazu Hoshino
  • Patent number: 12100925
    Abstract: A coaxial connector for interconnection with a coaxial cable with a solid outer conductor by ultrasonic welding is provided with a monolithic connector body with a bore. An annular flare seat is angled radially outward from the bore toward a connector end of the connector, the annular flare seat open to the connector end of the connector. An inner conductor cap is provided for interconnection with an inner conductor of the coaxial cable by ultrasonic welding. The ultrasonic welding of each of the inner and outer conductor interconnections may be performed via inner conductor and outer conductor sonotrodes which are coaxial with one another, without requiring the cable and or connector to be removed from their fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC
    Inventor: Kendrick Van Swearingen
  • Patent number: 12095216
    Abstract: A wire-end connector and a connector assembly are provided. The connector assembly includes the wire-end connector and a board-end connector. The wire-end connector includes a housing, multiple conductive wires, and multiple conductive terminals. The housing includes an insulating body with multiple apertures disposed therein, an elastic latch arm, and a flange. The flange is arranged along an outer side of a first opening, and two limiting arms are respectively formed at two end portions of the flange that are adjacent to the elastic latch arm. A midline is defined by each of first partition walls along a third direction, the two adjacent midlines are spaced apart from each other by an interval, and each of the intervals is at least twice a width of each of the first partition walls. The conductive terminals are disposed in the apertures, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: BELLWETHER ELECTRONIC CORP.
    Inventor: Yen-An Chen
  • Patent number: 12095183
    Abstract: A press-fit terminal has a press-fit portion that includes a first piece and a second piece that are formed as a result of the metal plate being split into two parts in a width direction of the metal plate by a long slit extending in a lengthwise direction of the metal plate. The first piece is curved to protrude in one direction of the thickness direction of the metal plate, and the second piece is curved to protrude in the other direction of the thickness direction of the metal plate. Each of the first piece and the second piece includes a large thickness portion that is provided at a protruding end portion and two small thickness portions that are provided on both sides in the lengthwise direction with the large thickness portion interposed between the two small thickness portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideki Goto
  • Patent number: 12088052
    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: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thomas L. Scanzillo, Edward Bazayev
  • Patent number: 12088036
    Abstract: An electric metallic tube (EMT) conduit apparatus includes an electric metallic tube (EMT) conduit, a first insulated connector housing attached to a first end of the electric metallic tube (EMT) conduit and a second insulated connector housing attached to a first end of the electric metallic tube (EMT) conduit. The first insulated connector housing includes a plurality of electrically conductive male pins and the second insulated connector housing includes a plurality of electrically conductive female pins. A plurality of conductors within the electric metallic tube (EMT) conduit include a first end attached to one of the male pins of the first insulated connector housing, and a second end attached to one of the female pins of the second insulated connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Inventor: Glenn Liubakka
  • Patent number: 12088044
    Abstract: The invention relates to a connector (1) for data connections, in particular of the RJ type, with a latch element (6) for securing a connection to a counter-connector. In order to simplify a disconnection of the connector (1) and the counter-connector, even when the connection is secured by the latch connection, the invention provides that the connector (1) is provided with a gripping end (5, 5?) that is adapted to transfer the latch element (6) from its latch position (L) and to disconnect the connector (1) from the counter-connector by a single movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignees: CommScope Technologies LLC, CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA, CommScope Connectivity Spain, S.L.
    Inventors: Longinos De Dios Martin, Danny Thijs, Sheldon Muir
  • Patent number: 12088027
    Abstract: In some embodiments, systems and methods for connector assembly for use with an AC or DC power interface of a power conversion device, such as a converter and an inverter, are provided. The connector assembly can include a circuit board, a power connector, and a pin. The power connector can have a base configured to be secured relative to the circuit board and define a first channel extending through the power connector along a first channel axis. The first pin can have a first pin body that extends along a first pin axis and a first connection element that extends along the first pin axis from the first pin body to a first terminal end that is skewed relative to the first pin axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
    Inventors: Alireza Khaligh, Fariborz Musavi
  • Patent number: 12088033
    Abstract: An electrical plug forms an electrical plug connection to a coupling that is complementary to the plug. The electrical plug includes a plurality of metal contact elements for electrically contacting an electrical apparatus arranged in a housing, a contact carrier element and a receiving element for receiving the coupling in a receiving space surrounded by the receiving element. The receiving element can be introduced into the housing in a first direction through an opening in the housing. The receiving element, to form the plug, can be brought into engagement in the first direction with the contact carrier element, the contact elements being guided through the contact carrier element and having contact regions which, when the receiving element has been brought into engagement with the contact carrier element, extend into the receiving space, away from the contact carrier element, counter to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Bucher Hydraulics AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Laeng, Thomas Huber
  • Patent number: 12080973
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal fitting connected to an end of an electric wire; a housing including a housing chamber and an electric wire drawing port; a first waterproof member that is elastically deformable and fills a space between an inner peripheral surface of the housing and an outer peripheral surface of a cover of the electric wire in the housing chamber to form a first sealed space part between the first waterproof member and the electric wire drawing port; a second waterproof member that is elastically deformable and includes one end part, an other end part, and a tubular part, the tubular part having a second sealed space part that communicates with the first sealed space part through the electric wire drawing port; and a ventilation component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuto Ito, Keisuke Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12080504
    Abstract: A strike pin assembly for a fuse assembly in which the strike pin assembly is maintained in a locked position by a holding force of a filament and an interference provided by a plurality of retention bodies. Upon a breakage of the filament, such as, for example, in response to heat generated by operation of a fuse element, a trigger can be displaced via a first biasing force in a distal direction such that the trigger is positioned at a location that does not impede an inward displacement of a plurality of retention bodies from a recess of a firing pin. Upon the inward displacement of the retention bodies, a second biasing force can displace the firing pin in the distal direction such that a portion of the firing pin can protrude out from an adapter of the strike pin assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Matthew Cawood, Aaron Motes
  • Patent number: 12080965
    Abstract: A cable connector includes a base and a mating portion extending downwardly from a lower side of the base, and an upper and a lower platform around an upper side of the base. First and second rows of contacts include connecting sections. The connecting sections of the first row are exposed upon the lower platform and the connecting sections of the second row are exposed upon the upper platform. Upper and lower rows of wires are located above the housing. Two grounding brackets are mounted upon the upper and lower platforms. Each bracket includes bulged sections and tails. Inner conductors of the wires are connected to the connecting sections of the differential-pair contacts, the braiding layers of the wires are sandwiched between the bulged sections and the housing in the vertical direction, and the tails are connected to the connecting sections of the grounding contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Terrance F. Little
  • Patent number: 12080963
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly and its manufacturing method are described, wherein the electrical connector assembly includes a bridging conductive component. The multiple conductive terminals achieve electrical connection through the bridging conductive component without the use of jumper wires, meeting the requirements for signal transmission in the electrical connector assembly. The manufacturing method of the electrical connector assembly involves the step of combining multiple electrical connector components with the bridging conductive component. Thus, during the assembly of the electrical connector assembly, customization of the electrical connection relationship of conductive terminals can be achieved by adjusting multiple electrical connector components and the bridging conductive component. This customization ensures compliance with the requirements for signal transmission in the electrical connector assembly, meeting the specific needs and developments of electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: DONGGUAN TARNG YU ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., TARNG YU ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ying-Chung Chen, Mu-Jung Huang
  • Patent number: 12074404
    Abstract: An RF connector that has a main body, a clamp, and a cap. The connector has an internal torque limiting mechanism that enables the connector to be installed in the field such that the connector is correctly positioned at the axial stop point of the RF cable during insertion. This is enabled by an internal preloaded cap/seal interface that requires a predetermined breakaway torque to cause the cap to rotate relative to the clamp. The breakaway torque is less than a torque that would be required to over-install the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Sawyer Urtz, Jr., Jeremy Charles Benn
  • Patent number: 12068557
    Abstract: A modular plug system including a plug housing including a top surface, bottom surface and two opposing side surfaces, a front end and an opening opposite the front end, and a cavity extending from the front end to the opening in the back end, a load bar sized to engage the cavity in the modular plug, the load bar including two extensions on an upper surface of the load bar, the extensions sized to engage two openings in the top surface of the plug housing when the load bar is inserted into the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sentinel Connector Systems, Inc
    Inventors: Robert Brennan, Randy Schwartz
  • Patent number: 12068565
    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: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thomas L. Scanzillo, Edward Bazayev