Patents Examined by David L. Pirlot
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Patent number: 5667409Abstract: An improved structure for the connector of a coaxial cable ensures that there are multiple contact points between the contact component and the central wire of the coaxial cable. The connector has holes on the top and bottom of the two ends of the contact component. The material of the holes is punched inward but is not removed from the tube forming the contact component such that a pair of inclined planes extend toward the interior of each end of the tube. One pair of insulation components which slip on the inside of the connector body join with one end of the contact component to fix and to support the contact component in order to increase the quality of transmission. The connector can be used in a specific range of central wire for cable that allows larger current flows, therefore being suitable for use in a combination of TV and telephone as well as with the current cable TV system.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1995Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Inventors: Shen-Chia Wong, Cheng Sun Lan
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Patent number: 5667405Abstract: A coaxial cable connector for connecting a coaxial cable to a terminal port wherein a connector sleeve assists in retaining an end of the coaxial cable, and a coupling member between the sleeve and the port draws the sleeve into flush engagement with an end of the port, an improved sealing device is provided in which an annular seal member is interposed between a grooved portion on the forward end wall of the sleeve, the annular end of the port and within the coupling member, the seal being of a size greater than the groove and being partially compressed into the groove when the sleeve and port are drawn together so as to prevent moisture infiltration through the connecting interfaces between the coupling and connector as well as the coupling and port; and an extension wall of the connector which surrounds the end of the coaxial cable is selectively increased in thickness so as to prevent its collapse when a crimping force is applied to the extension wall.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1996Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Inventor: Randall A. Holliday
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Patent number: 5667404Abstract: The present invention provides a co-axial connector for a high frequency cable which includes a slit in the earth metal fittings. The slit enables the earth metal fittings to be widened and allows insertion of an insulating bushing into the earth metal fittings. After insertion, the slit returns to its home position by the spring tension of the earth metal fittings and retains the insulating bushing by spring tension. This configuration makes assembly easier. Furthermore, after the insertion of the insulating bushing into the earth metal fitting, a shielding cylinder is engaged with the earth metal fittings in order to cover the rear end of the earth metal fittings. This configuration prevents high-frequency signals from leaking, and does not require the widening of the slit, while connected to the other connectors, which loosens the engagement between the earth metal fittings and the insulating bushing.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1995Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Assignee: SMK Corp.Inventors: Tatsuo Kato, Akihiko Ono
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Patent number: 5664972Abstract: The invention pertains to an electrical contact element composed of a perforated piece of sheet metal that has a connection region (3) for an electrical connection on one end and a contact region (2) with a polygonal cross-sectional spring-arm base (7) with smooth walls on the other end, where to form a contact casing (1) with a polygonal plug hole (15) defining the contact sites, at each of the front edges of the walls of the spring arm base (7) turned away from the connection area (3), at least one spring arm (14) extending in the direction of the plug hole (15) is provided; the spring arms (14) extend toward each other as far as the plug hole (15) and form it, and then are bent away at an angle to the outside to form a positioning funnel (10) for a contact plug pin in the front free end region.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1994Date of Patent: September 9, 1997Assignee: Grote & Hartmann GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bernd Zinn, Srboslav Lolic
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Patent number: 5664963Abstract: A press-connecting joint connector with which electrical wires can be readily connected to each other, and a method of press-connecting the electrical wires to the connector. The joint connector (31) includes a connector body (33) with a wire inserting section (47) in which the wires are to be inserted and a press-connecting blade (43) provided in the wire inserting section (47). The wires (W1) and (W2) are inserted in the wire inserting section (47) and the insulation of the wires is cut by the blade such that the blade electrically interconnects the wires. Thereafter, a cutter is inserted into the connector body to thereby cut the waste end portion (105) of at least one of the wires inside the connector body (33). The cutting step may be performed simultaneously to when the wires are pressed into the blades.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1996Date of Patent: September 9, 1997Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Akira Kato
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Patent number: 5664958Abstract: The present invention features a removable electrical connector or adapter for securing the contact prongs of an electric plug to a worn outlet. The connector has a housing with at least two opposing, nonconducting side portions. Each side portion has a top and a bottom. Two contact prongs are spaced apart from each other and are movably mounted to at least one of the side portions. The contact prongs extend out of the top of the housing, which housing also has at least one aperture at the bottom. Electrical plug prongs can be inserted through this aperture to make an electrical connection with the set of contact prongs. In another embodiment, the electrical connector is a self-contained plug, permanently attached to its associated electrical appliance, and having movable prongs and a spring for biasing the prongs inwardly, against the contacts of an outlet, after insertion.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1996Date of Patent: September 9, 1997Assignee: Society of American Independent InventorsInventors: Dale Chadwick, Mark Levy, Gary Roden, John Schneider
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Patent number: 5660568Abstract: A communications card provides an electronic interface between a host computer and a transmission media line. The communications card includes a releasable adaptor which interconnects an electrical connector of the transmission media line to the communications card when in use. In a first attachment position, which may be used as a storage position, the adaptor integrates into the overall configuration of the communication card to present a configuration that conforms with PCMCIA communication card architecture. For certain PCMCIA socket configurations, this integrated attachment position may also be used as an operational position. In a second attachment position, the adaptor forms an extension of the communications card, extending away from the computer socket to accommodate more restrictive socket configurations. The communications card also includes an optional connector terminal to permit connection to an electrical media line connector of a second type.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Simple Technology, Inc.Inventor: Mark Moshayedi
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Patent number: 5660555Abstract: A waterproof connector includes elastic material, seal portion formed on a female connector housing by double molding in such a manner that the seal portion closes openings through which wires are guided, respectively, and covers a flange formed on an outer periphery of the female connector housing. The seal portion has a watertight surface at its front side. A male connector housing has hood portions for receiving the female connector housing. The hood portion includes a front end having an abutment surface for abutment against the watertight surface. With this construction, as the male and female connector housings engaged, metal terminals are fittingly connected together, and each abutment surface is brought into contact with an associated watertight surface, thereby sealing a gap between the two connector housings.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Osamu Ito, Osamu Taniuchi
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Patent number: 5660569Abstract: In a terminal in which a contact plate portion of a contact spring piece is projected through an opening of a bottom plate portion and a stop plate at the tip end of a rear plate portion bent from the contact plate portion is to butt against the opening edge of the bottom plate portion, curved parts are formed in a range extending from the contact plate portion to the rear plate portion. The curved parts have an arcuate section taken along a width direction of the spring piece.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Satoshi Yamada, Shigemitsu Inaba
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Patent number: 5660552Abstract: For removably receiving in a predetermined direction a printed circuit board (11) having first and second side edges, a socket connector comprises an insulator housing having first and second longitudinal ends, a bell crank (33) consisting of first and second crank arms (33(1), 33(2)) pivoted by an axle (29) to the insulator housing at the first longitudinal end, and a push-button (31) for pushing the first crank arm. When the push-button is pressed substantially downwardly in the predetermined direction, the first crank arm rotates outwardly relative to the predetermined direction around the axle. The second crank arm rotates to lift up the first side edge of the printed circuit board. It is preferred that the insulator housing comprises a longitudinal rod (17) preferably having a groove (21) and first and second side members (19(1), 19(2)) extended from the first and the second longitudinal ends to define extensions of the groove for removably receiving the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventors: Keiichiro Suzuki, Tadashi Ishiwa
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Patent number: 5660553Abstract: A bracket for removeably attaching a memory storage device in an equipment slide includes a frame having a face member, a lever and a pair rails. The rails attach to the face member and connect with a memory storage device. The lever rotates to eject the memory storage device from the equipment slide and the lever slides to lock the memory storage device with the equipment slide.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1996Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: HJ&E EngineeringInventor: Henri J. Larabell
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Patent number: 5660566Abstract: A waterproof plug (30) fitted to an outer circumference of a wire (9) and inserted into a terminal insertion cavity (10a) of a connector housing (10) for sealing a space between the wire and the connector housing comprises an elastic cylindrical body (2) formed with: an inner corrugated sealing portion (3) for sealing the outer circumference of the wire; an outer corrugated sealing portion (4) for sealing the inner circumference of the terminal insertion cavity (10a) of the connector housing (10); and, in particular, a press portion (31) expanding radially outward at a free end of the elastic cylindrical body, the press portion being sufficiently deformable radially inward gradually against the wire, when the elastic cylindrical body (2) is being inserted into the terminal insertion cavity of the connector housing.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 1994Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Hideki Ohsumi
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Patent number: 5660559Abstract: A press-connecting joint connector with which electrical wires can be readily connected to each other, and a method of press-connecting the electrical wires to the connector. The joint connector (31) includes a connector body (33) with a wire inserting section (47) in which the wires are to be inserted and a press-connecting blade (43) provided in the wire inserting section (47). The wires (W1) and (W2) are inserted in the wire inserting section (47) and the insulation of the wires is cut by the blade such that the blade electrically interconnects the wires. Thereafter, a cutter is inserted into the connector body to thereby cut the waste end portion (105) of at least one of the wires inside the connector body (33). The cutting step may be performed simultaneously to when the wires are pressed into the blades.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Yamamoto, Akira Kato
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Patent number: 5660561Abstract: A lamp bulb socket include a socket body having a bore to receive therein the base of a lamp bulb. An inner threading is provided on a surface of the bore which is defined by a helical slot surrounding the bore intervened with a helical rib. A chamber is provided in the socket body to be in communication with the bore through access openings defined by portions of helical slot. A cylindrical neutral contact member is received within the chamber to be contactable by the base of the bulb through the access openings. The neutral contact member is retained within the chamber by portions of the helical rib that are intervened between the access openings. The socket body has a central through hole formed on the bottom thereof to receive therein a cylindrical hot contact member with an inner end of the hot contact member exposed within the bore.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1996Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Inventor: Wen-Ling Tseng
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Patent number: 5660565Abstract: The coaxial cable connector includes an inner conductor or "signal wire" connector in the form of a hollow needle, an outer conductor or "wire mesh" or "cable sheath" connector spaced radially from the signal wire connector, insulation spaced radially between the inner and outer conductor connectors, and an external protective sleeve spaced radially from the wire mesh or cable sheath connector. Both the inner conductor needle and the insulation have alignment lugs for ease of manufacture and assembly, and the external diameter of the needle shaped ends are tapered to facilitate a simple method for gripping and providing a seal against water, dirt and debris. The end of a cable is inserted into the coaxial cable connector, without stripping, with the cable signal wire being directed into the signal wire connector. As the coaxial cable is depressed into the protective sleeve, the needle-shaped inner conductor electrically contacts the coaxial cable signal wire.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Inventor: M. Deborah Williams
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Patent number: 5660560Abstract: A water-tight lamp socket which includes a rubber packing ring mounted around the socket body and having two recessed portions disposed at two opposite ends of the wire groove on the socket body, two water sealing retainers respectively mounted around the electric wire in the wire groove of the socket body and set in the recessed portions of the rubber packing ring and held down by the socket cap of the lamp socket to seal the gap of the wire groove, and a water sealing ring mounted within the socket body to seal the gap between the socket body and the lamp bulb.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1995Date of Patent: August 26, 1997Inventors: You-jen Cheng, Tzu-ling Cheng
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Patent number: 5658165Abstract: An electric connection structure is provided for electrically connecting an automobile instrument, such as a speedometer or tachometer, and a flexible wiring plate disposed on a body casing. A male connector, which houses terminals connected to the coils, is provided on the inner mechanism side. A female connector, which accommodates a strip portion of the flexible wiring plate having a conduction portion, is provided on the side of the body casing having the flexible wiring plate at the rear surface thereof. A wiring plate pressing member for pressing and retaining the strip portion is inserted in the female connector from the rear surface side of the meter casing. When the male and female connectors are engaged, the terminals directly contact the conduction portion of the flexible wiring plate.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Hiroyuki Yokota
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Patent number: 5658181Abstract: A die is disclosed for applying radial force to an eccentric workpiece. The die includes a set of faces that are each inclined from an orthogonal relationship with a different radial plane of the workpiece by an offset angle. The die also includes wedges that are positioned on the faces. They each have a jaw surface and a slide surface that are inclined from a parallel relationship with each other by a wedge angle that equals the offset angle of their respective face. The wedges can move over the faces to abut the workpiece along each of a plurality of transverse planes. In each of these planes, their movement can accommodate the workpiece's eccentricity in that plane. In addition, each jaw surface abuts the workpiece in a tangential relationship.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Hughes Aircraft CompanyInventor: Richard A. Brown, II
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Patent number: 5658174Abstract: A female terminal includes a bottom wall, and a pair of opposing side walls extending upwardly from opposite sides of the bottom wall. A hole is formed in each side wall near the top thereof. Top half walls extend inwardly from the tops of the side walls and define a seam therebetween. A spring contact element is located inside the seam and include lug portions engageable in the holes near the tops of the side walls to bias a male terminal into engagement with the bottom wall.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Molex IncorporatedInventors: Kevin C. Benes, John O. Higgins, Jr., Stephen A. Colleran
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Patent number: 5658175Abstract: A one-piece hooded socket contact is disclosed which is formed from a sheet metal blank having spaced trapezoidal-shaped fingers that extend from a forward edge of the blank. The fingers are bent rearwardly and the blank is formed into a cylinder forming the hood of the contact. The fingers extend inwardly toward the center axis of the hood to form the spring beams of the contact. The front portions of the fingers form a lead-in chamfer at the front of the hood.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: ITT CorporationInventor: Steven Zoltan Muzslay