Patents Examined by Briggitte R. Hammond
  • Patent number: 11848525
    Abstract: A single-pair Ethernet device comprises a first input contact and a second input contact, which are configured for electrically contacting a single-pair Ethernet input conductor pair, further comprises a first output contact and a second output contact, which are configured for electrically contacting a single-pair Ethernet output conductor pair, comprises a first conduction path, which in at least one operation state electrically conductively connects the first input contact to the first output contact, and comprises a second conduction path, which in the operation state electrically conductively connects the second input contact to the second output contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: REICHLE & DE-MASSARI AG
    Inventors: Matthias Gerber, Bernhard Hofer, Marco Zurkirchen
  • Patent number: 11843192
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for connecting wires and interlocking wires to an electrical component. More specifically, an electrical connector that includes an insulative housing, two electrical contacts, and two interlocking contacts is disclosed. In an embodiment, each electrical contact includes a female end, a press-fit end, and a transition portion. The transition portion is designed such that the first female end and the first press-fit end may be properly aligned depending on the application. The transition portion also provides support and stability to the electrical contacts when they are disposed within the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes four contact recesses. In an embodiment, the electrical connector allows for the safe, efficient, re-usable, and reliable connection for connecting high-voltage wires to a corresponding sensitive electrical component (e.g., a printed circuit board).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: KYOCERA AVX COMPONENTS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wolfgang Neef, Marvin Stockschlaeder, Matthias Techt
  • Patent number: 11835083
    Abstract: Assembly comprising a first part and a second part movable relative to each other in translation along a connection axis between a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration. The first part comprises one of a rail and a groove, and the second part comprises the other, the rail being configured to slide axially in the groove. The assembly comprises a ring rotatably mounted on the first part about the connection axis, the ring comprising at least one pin. The second part defines a locking ramp, a first housing and an unlocking ramp. The assembly comprises a return system for exerting a return force on the ring to a position of rest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventor: Stephane Ilie Razvan
  • Patent number: 11831117
    Abstract: A conductive terminal adapted to be installed in an insulative housing of a connector comprises a mating portion located at a front of the terminal for engaging with a terminal of a mating connector, and a crimping portion located at a rear of the terminal for crimping to a wire. A blocking portion of the terminal is located between the mating portion and the crimping portion and engages with the insulative housing to constrain the movement of the conductive terminal in the housing in a longitudinal direction and in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo (Leo) Chen, Hongbo (Daniel) Zhang
  • Patent number: 11827126
    Abstract: A power supply and signal transmission device for a vehicle seat rail is provided. The device includes a contact-type power supply unit configured to supply power to an electrical device mounted on a seat, and a contact-type signal transmission unit configured to transfer seat drive control signals. The contact-type power supply unit and the contact-type signal transmission unit are directly mounted on the seat rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Kia Corporation, Daechang Seat Co., LTD-Dongtan
    Inventors: So Young Yoo, Hyeong Jong Kim, Han Su Yoo, Seon Chae Na, Sang Ho Kim, Seok Hwan Kim, Tae Hong Han, Sang Yeong Park
  • Patent number: 11824288
    Abstract: A cable connection device is provided. The cable connection device includes a casing, a connection component, a power cable and a circuit board. The casing includes a first accommodation space, a second accommodation space and a channel. The channel is in communication between the first accommodation space and the second accommodation space. The connection component is penetrated through the channel and includes a clamping part disposed in the first accommodation space and a first conductive part disposed in the second accommodation space. Portion of the power cable is disposed in the first accommodation space. The clamping part clamps the power cable and partially pierces the insulating sleeve, so that the clamping part is connected with the wire core. The circuit board is disposed in the second accommodation space and comprises second conductive part. The second conductive part is contacted with the first conductive part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Hung-Sheng Hsieh, Yu-Wei Kuo
  • Patent number: 11824294
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a substrate that includes a plurality of ground traces at first and second surfaces of the substrate, and a ground coupling assembly that couples pairs of ground traces at each of the first and second surfaces, and further couples the ground traces at the first surface to the ground traces at the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAMTEC, INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan E. Buck
  • Patent number: 11811156
    Abstract: A battery pole terminal, having an annular section, which surrounds a cylindrical or conical receiving space at least in sections in a circumferential direction, the annular section having an interruption with respect to the circumferential direction with two opposite edges. A gripping section for a clamping mechanism is provided at each of the edges. Furthermore, the battery pole terminal has a clamping mechanism which acts on the gripping sections and can exert a clamping force on the edges, pushing the opposite edges toward each other. A force limiting mechanism is provided which, when a minimum distance between the edges is reached, prevents an increase in the clamping force on the gripping sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Henryk Frenzel
  • Patent number: 11811094
    Abstract: A wiring module includes a first housing section row, a second housing section row, and linking sections. The first housing section row includes first housing sections that are arranged in an arrangement direction and include connection bus bars therein, respectively. The second housing section row includes second housing sections that are arranged in the arrangement direction and include the connection bus bars and output bus bars therein, respectively, and is disposed away from the first housing section row with respect to a crossing direction that crosses the arrangement direction. The linking sections are disposed between the first and second housing section rows and link the first and second housing section rows. The first housing sections are connected by a first warping section that can be deformed with warping and the second housing sections are connected by a second warping section that can be deformed with warping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Taiji Yanagida, Hiroki Shimoda, Yoshinori Ito, Takehito Yoda
  • Patent number: 11811184
    Abstract: A connector includes, in one embodiment, a first component, a coupling element configured to engage the first component, and a second component configured to engage the first component. The second component, in one embodiment, is configured to produce a spring, pushing or biasing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Trevor Ehret, Richard A. Haube, Noah P. Montena, Souheil Zraik
  • Patent number: 11799232
    Abstract: An electrical coupler has first and second housing halves and first and second contacts retained within the first and second housing halves. Wherein the first housing half is identical to the second housing half and the first contact is identical to the second contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Benjamin S. Novak, Satish I. Patel, Roman J. Churnovic
  • Patent number: 11791580
    Abstract: A plug connector for mating with a receptacle connector which is provided with a groove at an upper surface thereof includes: an insulating body; and a locking elastic piece on the insulating body, wherein the insulating body includes a main body and a mating portion extending forward from the main body, a bottom of the mating portion protrudes downward to form a sinking portion, and the sinking portion is located entirely above the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yang-Tsun Hsu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng, Cai-Yuan Wang
  • Patent number: 11780341
    Abstract: A charging inlet, to which a charging connector provided external to a vehicle is connected, includes a housing and a terminal unit provided in the housing. The terminal unit includes a first DC pin, a second DC pin, a first communication pin, a second communication pin, and a ground pin. The housing includes a blocking member. When an AC/DC charging connector complying with CCS and supporting AC charging and DC charging is to be connected to the charging inlet, blocking members interfere with at least one of a first AC terminal, a second AC terminal, a third AC terminal, and a neutral point terminal that are provided in the AC/DC charging connector, to block connection between the AC/DC charging connector and the charging inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yamato Niwa, Tomoya Ono, Toru Ando
  • Patent number: 11784444
    Abstract: Provided are a fully-shielded high-frequency connector and a connector assembly. The fully-shielded high-frequency connector includes an insulating base, a shell, a signal terminal and a shielding conductive stiffener. The insulating base includes an insulating body, a fitting portion and a gland portion, a first through hole structure and a second through hole structure. The signal terminal includes a contact portion, a connection portion and a mounting portion. The shielding conductive stiffener includes a tube structure, a fixing connection structure and a cover plate structure. The shell includes a main body portion, a bonding portion, a fixing portion and a snap portion. The fixing portion is electrically connected to the cover plate structure and an outer conductor of the coaxial cable. The bonding portion and the snap portion cooperate to assemble and fix the insulating base and the shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Inventors: Bean Peng, Marlin Lai, Kevin Yin
  • Patent number: 11784420
    Abstract: Provided is a cable holding member which includes: an insulated main body; a through-hole; a bend portion; and a cover portion, in which the through-hole is configured to allow a cable to be inserted therethrough from one end side toward the other side of the main body, the cover portion is configured in such a manner as to be bendable relative to the main body along the bend portion, and at least a part of the cover portion is configured to, upon the cover portion being bent relative to the main body, be capable of covering a plane intersecting with a direction where the cable is inserted, at an opening end face of an opening portion of the through-hole, the opening end face being located on the other end side, or a vicinity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeshi Ito, Makoto Yasuda
  • Patent number: 11784421
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of electrical connection, in particular to a self-coupled wire connector using a bend spring sheet and conductor sheet, including a main body, a spring sheet and a conductor sheet; a coupling space for accommodating the spring sheet and the conductor sheet is formed inside the main body; a wire plugging hole passing through the coupling space is formed in the main body; the spring sheet and the conductor sheet are assembled in the coupling space, and are kept in a self-coupling state through the coupling space; a wire presses against the spring sheet and the conductor sheet to force the spring sheet and the conductor sheet to be self-coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Dongguan Chenming Electronic Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Qiang Tan
  • Patent number: 11777267
    Abstract: Provided is a connector assembly capable of suppressing temperature rise in a bus bar during energization. The connector assembly of the present invention includes a connector portion having an insertion port, and a bus bar portion having a bus bar, and the bus bar includes a first connection part, a second connection part extending in an opposite direction from the first connection part along the first direction, and a joint portion joining the first connection part and the second connection part. The width of the joint portion is larger than that of each of the first connection part and the second connection part in a range from one end to another end of the joint portion, and a distance from the one end to the another end of the joint portion is larger than the width of each of the first connection part and the second connection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazuya Kumazawa
  • Patent number: 11777265
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a shielded Y-shaped splice connector having a housing that includes a lower body, an upper cover, and three openings arranged to receive three cable fixing devices on the housing. The periphery of the lower body and the periphery of the upper cover are each formed of a flat surface arranged to form the contact surface of the lower body and the upper cover when the housing is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Pawel Olek, Agnieszka Styczen, Olaf Patz, Tomasz Slizowski, Wojciech Lesniak, Marcin Podolak, Michal Kuligowski, Marek Manterys
  • Patent number: 11764525
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes contact pins, insulating housings for containing the contact pins therein and metallic outer contacts for respectively covering the housings. Each of the contact pins includes a horizontally extending portion, a contact portion, a connection portion, a downwardly extending portion and a press-fitting shoulder extending from a side portion of a base end portion of the horizontally extending portion in a width direction thereof. A width of the press-fitting shoulder of each of the contact pins decreases from a base side toward a tip side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUMI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuma Endo, Hiroyuki Sadohara, Takahiro Kanda
  • Patent number: 11764501
    Abstract: A battery clamp having a first inner metal battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion, a second inner metal battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion, a first outer insulating battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion connected to the first inner metal battery clamp, and a second outer insulating battery clamp member having a handle portion and a clamp portion connected to the second inner metal battery clamp. The first inner metal battery clamp member and/or the second inner metal battery clamp member having an inclined connection plate for connection with a battery cable, the inclined connect plate configured to allow a user to access the inclined access plate with a tool while avoiding interference with the handle portions of the battery clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: The Noco Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Lewis Nook, William Knight Nook, Sr., James Richard Stanfield, Derek Michael Underhill