Patents Examined by Harshad C. Patel
  • Patent number: 11688963
    Abstract: A cable shield tunnel for an electrical device includes a ground bus and a floor shim, discrete from the ground bus, and coupled to a circuit card and forming a cable tunnel that receives an end of a cable. The ground bus includes an end wall extending along a first end of the cable tunnel, a first side wall extending from the end wall along a first side of the cable tunnel, and a second side wall extending from the end wall along a second side of the cable tunnel opposite the first side. The first and second side walls are configured to be coupled to the circuit card. The floor shim is provided at a second end of the cable tunnel opposite the first end and is positioned between the cable and the circuit card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY BELGIUM, TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Michael David Herring, Bruce Allen Champion, Megha Shanbhag, Lieven Decrock
  • Patent number: 11688966
    Abstract: An electric power connector for a connective terminal to be plugged in, which includes a carrier, a clamping member, a driven element, a sliding element, and a gear. The clamping member is disposed in the carrier and clamps the connective terminal. The driven element is movably disposed in the carrier and is arranged correspondingly to the clamping member. The sliding element is slidably connected in the carrier and includes a rack and a pushing portion. The gear is rotatably connected to the carrier and engages with the rack. The sliding element is configured to slide relative to the carrier by controlling the gear to rotate. The pushing portion moves with the sliding element to push the driven element to shift to force the clamping member to latch the connective terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: YFC-BONEAGLE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-Cheng Shen, Qing Chen, Jiajia Yao
  • Patent number: 11682855
    Abstract: A connector 10 disclosed by this specification is a connector 10 into which a plate-like mating terminal 100 is insertable and is provided with a plate-like connection terminal 20, a spring portion 80, and a housing 40 including an insertion opening into which the mating terminal 100 is inserted, the spring portion 80 being held in the housing 40. The mating terminal 100 inserted into the insertion opening and the connection terminal 20 are sandwiched by the spring portion 80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Toru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11673481
    Abstract: The evaluation jig comprises a pair of female terminals connectable to a pair of male terminals of a charging connector and an adjustment member capable of adjusting contact resistance of the female terminal and the male terminal. The female terminal is reducible in diameter. The adjustment member includes an annular band attached to an outer peripheral surface of the female terminal and formed in an annulus surrounding the female terminal, a metal band attached to an outer peripheral surface of the annular band and capable of applying external force to the female terminal to reduce the female terminal in diameter, and an adjustment unit capable of adjusting the external force applied by the metal band to the female terminal. The annular band is made of an electrically and thermally insulating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hidetoshi Kusumi, Hisato Kawahara, Hiroaki Yuasa
  • Patent number: 11652313
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing with a housing body and a cover mount. The housing has a cable cavity that extends through the cover mount along a connector axis. The electrical connector includes a first cover. The first cover is located on the first side of the connector axis. A second cover is located on a second side of the connector axis. The first cover engages the second cover to retain the covers in their relative positions. The covers also engage the cover mount to retain their position relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventor: Albert M. CabaƱero
  • Patent number: 11652305
    Abstract: An electrical assembly having a housing with a housing pot and a housing cover closing the housing pot and at least two connection terminals provided for the electrical connection of the assembly. The connection terminals each comprise a base plate, a clamping plate, which can be arranged on the base plate, for clamping at least one electrical conductor between the base plate and the clamping plate, a contact pin protruding into the housing pot, and a screw for fastening the clamping plate to the base plate. The housing pot is a hollow cylinder with a closed bottom and the electrical connection terminals are arranged along an imaginary circular line on the housing. The base plates and/or the clamping plates each have a trapezoidal base area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Binder, Ulrich Staab
  • Patent number: 11646528
    Abstract: An interface connector disposed at a circuit board, comprising a housing, a first heat dissipating member, and a second heat dissipating member. A first accommodating space is disposed in the housing. The first accommodating space accommodates a first mating connector. One side of the housing is disposed at the circuit board. The first heat dissipating member is disposed at the outside of the housing. The first heat dissipating member passes through the housing and extends into the first accommodating space to be connected with the first mating connector. The second heat dissipating member is disposed at the circuit board. The second heat dissipating member passes through the circuit board and the housing and extends into the housing. The heat from the first mating connector is dissipated through the components of the first heat dissipating member. Thus the heat dissipation issue of mating connector having high power chips can be solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: TieSheng Li, RongZhe Guo, HongJi Chen, Bin Huang, XiaoKai Wang
  • Patent number: 11646527
    Abstract: An electric tool includes a body, a battery pack, and a guide portion including a primary guide unit and a secondary guide unit. The primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit each extend in a preset direction and the primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit each are arranged in the longitudinal direction between a connecting portion of the battery pack and a mounting portion of the body. The primary guide unit and the secondary guide unit implement rigid mating. The primary guide unit includes primary mating surfaces mating with each other in the transverse direction, the secondary guide unit includes secondary mating surfaces mating with each other in the transverse direction, and a ratio of a width of a transverse gap between the primary mating surfaces to a width of a transverse gap between the secondary mating surfaces is greater than or equal to 0.3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Nanjing Chervon Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fukinuki Masatoshi, Xiang Zhao, Muyang Ni
  • Patent number: 11641077
    Abstract: A housing part includes a base section having a pair of oppositely disposed flat sides, a pair of housing sections each extending away from one of the pair of oppositely disposed flat sides, and a plurality of fibers disposed in the base section and the housing sections. A main fiber orientation of the fibers in each of the housing sections is oriented away from the base section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Gregor Panitz
  • Patent number: 11626214
    Abstract: A securing sleeve for securing a shield of an electric conductor to a shielding contact includes a securing section having a bottom disposed between a pair of wings. The bottom supporting the electric conductor. The wings are spaced apart at a free end of each of the wings distal from the bottom by a slot extending in an axial direction in an open state of the securing sleeve. The wings have a plurality of complementary positive locking element at the free ends that secure the securing sleeve in a circumferential direction in a closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Haspel, Markus Eckel
  • Patent number: 11626677
    Abstract: A method includes disposing a terminal pin on an electronic substrate with a base region of the terminal pin in contact with a circuit trace on an electronic substrate, and ultrasonically coupling the base region of the terminal pin to the circuit trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Nino Mercado Tolentino, Dennis Cadiz Yborde, Shutesh Krishnan, Pui Leng Low
  • Patent number: 11626683
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector capable of properly exhibiting functions of a detection piece. A connector is provided with a housing (10) including a cavity (16), a terminal fitting (40) to be inserted into the cavity (16) from behind and including a tubular box portion (41) having open front and rear surfaces, a tab (31) of a mating terminal fitting (30) being inserted into the box portion (41) from front, and a retainer (60) to be mounted into the housing (10) and including a detection piece (64) capable of coming into contact with a rear end of the box portion (41). The detection piece (64) includes a recess (73) for avoiding interference with the tab (31) passed through the box portion (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Miyamura, Kenji Makino, Akiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11626699
    Abstract: In some examples, a connector includes a plug configured to mechanically couple with a socket to establish fluid communication from a first conduit to a second conduit. The plug is configured to mechanically engage the first conduit and the socket is configured to mechanically engage the second conduit. In examples, the plug is configured to insert into a socket well of the socket. The connector includes a clamp head configured to mechanically engage the plug when the plug mechanically couples with the socket. The clamp head is configured to mechanically engage the plug to help sustain the mechanical coupling of the plug and the socket. In some examples, the connector may include an output device configured to provide an output indicating when the plug is mechanically coupled with the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Bellco S.R.L.
    Inventors: Niccolo Chelli, Giuliano Giganti
  • Patent number: 11626687
    Abstract: A connector housing for an electrical plug connector includes a cable duct and an oscillation suppressor pivotable about a pivot axis into the cable duct. The cable duct receives an electrical cable of a predefined outer diameter along a plug-in direction. The cable duct in a cross section perpendicular to the plug-in direction has a clear dimension in a pivoted state of the oscillation suppressor in the cable duct equal to or less than the predefined outer diameter of the electrical cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Sabine Schelhorn
  • Patent number: 11616330
    Abstract: A power connector assembly includes a busbar having a mounting surface and openings extending into the busbar being open at the mounting surface and power contacts arranged in a power contact array electrically connected to the busbar. Each power contact includes a main body, a first compliant pin extending from the main body, and a second compliant pin extending from the main body. The first compliant pin is received in the corresponding opening of the busbar to electrically connect the power contact to the busbar. The second compliant pin is configured to be received in a plated via of a printed circuit board to electrically connect the power contact to the printed circuit board. The power contact array mechanically and electrically connects the busbar to the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Michael David Herring, Robert Patterson
  • Patent number: 11607506
    Abstract: A dispersion device includes a first dispersion generating system, a second dispersion generating system and an outlet end element including a first outlet corresponding to the first dispersion generating system and a second outlet corresponding to the second dispersion generating system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Buket Sahin, Gerd Kobal, Qiang Wang, Christopher S. Tucker
  • Patent number: 11611178
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided. The electrical connector capable of electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding may include a female connector including a female portion in which a plurality of terminals are disposed; a male connector including a male portion including a plurality of pins electrically connected with the terminals; and a shielding member disposed between the female connector and the male connector, wherein the male portion includes an inner surface forming a space in which the pins are positioned and an end surface connected to the inner surface, the shielding member is formed of a conductive elastic body, a portion of the shielding member is disposed between the inner surface of the male portion and an outer surface of the female portion so as to be in contact with the inner surface of the male portion and the outer surface of the female portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SENSOR VIEW CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byoung Nam Kim, Kyoung Il Kang, Dong Il Yim
  • Patent number: 11600934
    Abstract: A conductor terminal with an insulating material housing and a spring-force terminal connection. The spring-force terminal connection has a contact body which is shaped out of a sheet element and has a base portion, lateral wall portions that protrude from the base portion and are mutually spaced, and solder connection contact tongues. The base portion together with the lateral wall portions forms a conductor receiving channel for receiving an electric conductor, and leaf spring tongues protrude from the lateral wall portions so as to face one another, each leaf spring tongue has a clamping edge for clamping an electric conductor received in the conductor receiving channel. The insulating material housing has a conductor insertion opening which leads to the conductor receiving channel on the front face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Konrad Stromiedel, Henry Stolze
  • Patent number: 11600976
    Abstract: A cable gland and methods for earthing, grounding, bonding, and electromagnetic capability with armored, metal-clad, and metallic-sheathed cable types. The cable gland comprises a gland body, a plurality of extensions, an elastomer seal, a compression member configured to rotate the plurality of extensions towards to the elastomer seal, and an earthing insert mounted in the gland body configured to electrically connect a cable to a neutral and/or grounded conductor. The cable gland is configured to provide an air-tight seal between the exterior of the cable and the elastomer seal through rotation of the plurality of extension upon the elastomer seal. The cable gland may include an o-ring and nut to secure the cable gland to a planar body. The earthing insert comprises a grounding spring in electrical communication with a metallic portion of the cable and a neutral and/or grounded conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Inventors: Allen Todd Gibson, Melissa A. Ver Meer, Solomon Otto Whitaker
  • Patent number: 11594834
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly that can quickly and easily be secured to two electrically conductive structures, such as a flat flexible conductor having multiple electrically conductive traces and a printed circuit board having multiple electrically conductive traces, without the use of specialized tools and/or methods is disclosed. The electrical connector assembly includes a housing having a plurality of slots defined therein. An electrical contact is disposed within each of the plurality of slots. Each electrical contact includes a first portion engaged with the housing, a second portion adapted to engage the first electrically conductive structure when inserted within the housing, and an intermediate portion located between the first portion and the second portion and adapted to engage the second electrically conductive structure when inserted within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventor: Edgar Michael Racho