Patents Examined by Harshad C. Patel
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Patent number: 10931055Abstract: An electrical connector includes a unitary base elongated along a longitudinal direction. A first tongue extends forwardly from the base and has a uniform thickness along the longitudinal direction. The first tongue comprises a plurality of spaced apart first contacts. A second tongue extends forwardly from the base and comprises a plurality of spaced apart second contacts. The first and second tongues define a gap therebetween that extends from a front edge of one of the first and second tongues toward the unitary base.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANYInventors: Vincent Tan, Kok Hoe Lee, Rao Vittapalli, Yunlong Qiao, Saujit Bandhu
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Patent number: 10923845Abstract: The subject matter of the invention is an electrical equipment, notably configured to be on board a vehicle, including an electronic board, a female electrical connector transferred onto the electronic board and configured to receive a blade so as to electrically connect it with the electronic board. Said connector includes two claws opposite and at a distance from each other, the two claws being configured to receive said blade while each coming around a respective lateral trench of the blade.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Vako Siemens eAutomotive France SASInventors: Eloi Mortain, Sébastien Hary
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Patent number: 10923853Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a power connector which comprises an insulative housing and a terminal. The insulative housing defines a terminal receiving groove therein and comprises a stopping wall. The terminal is positioned in the terminal receiving groove and comprises a mating portion, a stopping portion and a wire connecting portion. The stopping portion abuts against the stopping wall and comprises a first horizontal portion and a second horizontal portion. The first horizontal portion comprises a first front end edge. The second horizontal portion comprises a second front end edge.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: You-Xiang Zheng, Hao Yin
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Patent number: 10916899Abstract: An electrical receptacle including a body having a plurality of electrical connections, a device face connected to the body and movable with respect to the body, a plurality of electrical plug contacts positioned behind the device face, and wherein the electrical plug contacts retain an electrical plug prong at a first tension when the device face is in a first position and the electrical plug contacts retain the electrical plug prong at a second tension when the device face is in a second position.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Inventors: Jeffrey P. Baldwin, Ryan Liebengood
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Patent number: 10916871Abstract: A connection device connecting a plurality of PCB connectors with a printed circuit board includes a first positioning rib, a second positioning rib, and an elastic member between the first positioning rib and the second positioning rib. A distance between the first positioning rib and the second positioning rib is adjustable by deformation of the elastic member.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignees: TE Connectivity Italia Distribution S.r.l., TE Connectivity Italia S.r.l.Inventor: Davide Chiarelli
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Patent number: 10910745Abstract: A circuit board connector apparatus includes a housing, a terminal, and a reinforcing fitting. The housing includes a protruding wall that protrudes in a height direction, a peripheral wall that protrudes in the height direction and surrounds the perimeter of the protruding wall, and a receiving portion between the protruding wall and the peripheral wall, the receiving portion being recessed in the height direction. The reinforcing fitting includes a first and a second portion extending toward the terminal along at least a length portion of the peripheral wall in a state of each being connected to an end portion placed in a width portion of the peripheral wall and in a state of being spaced apart in the height direction from each other. The second portion is located on a side closer in the height direction to a mounting surface than the first portion, and at the same position as an outer end of the first portion, or inward of the outer end in the housing, in a width direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Shohei Hosoda
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Patent number: 10910765Abstract: A lever-type connector has a lever that rotates about a shaft on a first housing between a retracted position and a connection start position. The first housing and a second housing are connected by rotation of the lever from the connection start position. A detector is movable between a standby position and a detection position with respect to the lever. The lever includes a lock on an end separated from the shaft. The second housing includes a full locking portion to engage the lock when the housings are connected. The detector locks the lock at the standby position and becomes movable to the detection position when the full locking portion engages the lock. The first housing includes a housing-side lock, and the lever includes a lever-side lock that locks the housing-side lock at the retracted position. The lever-side lock is at a position different from the lock of the lever.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Inventor: Wataru Ochiai
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Patent number: 10910771Abstract: A cable fixture including a first pressing member that includes a first plate portion facing a first outlet and a first connector of a first cable plugged into the first outlet, and a second plate portion bent from the first plate portion to one side in a facing direction between the first plate portion and the first outlet; and a supporting member configured to support the first pressing member and capable of fixing the second plate portion at a position where the first plate portion abuts on the first connector.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Takanaga Yokosawa, Takashi Watanabe
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Patent number: 10905004Abstract: In some embodiments, an interconnectable circuit board may include one or more of the following features: (a) a first electrically conductive pad located on a top of the circuit board, (b) a plated through hole on the conductive pad which passes through the circuit board, (c) a second electrically conductive pad coupled to the plated through hole; the second conductive pad capable of being electrically connected to a third electrically conductive pad attached to a top of a second interconnectable circuit board, (d) cut marks indicating safe locations for separating the circuit board, and (e) a second cut mark adjacent to the first cut mark where the area between the first and second cut mark can be utilized to make a safe cut through the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Metrospec Technology, L.L.C.Inventors: Henry V. Holec, Wm. Todd Crandell
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Patent number: 10903612Abstract: A dock includes a first section and a second section joined with a spring hinge assembly. An applied force opens the dock and a device may be placed within the dock. The first section includes a first concavity which approximately conforms to a top surface of the device. Within the first concavity is a ridge which comes into contact with part of the top surface of the device. The second section includes a second concavity within which a bottom surface of the device fits. Electrical contacts such as pogo pins within the second section come into contact with electrical contacts on the bottom surface of the device. Annular elastomeric features around at least some of the pogo pins have a top edge which may come into contact with the bottom surface of the device. The spring hinge applies a force that closes the dock, retaining the device therein.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Maya Shirish Sathaye, Ippei Matsumoto, Manish Avinash Mantrawadi, Douglas W. Moskowitz
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Patent number: 10899241Abstract: A connecting element for electrically connecting a cable to an electrical device of a motor vehicle includes a housing in which at least two electrical contacts are at least partially accommodated and a passage which extends from a first opening of the housing, through the housing, to a second opening of the housing and through which a coolant can flow. In order to allow an electrical connection which satisfies relatively stringent requirements, the electrical contacts are thermally coupled to the passage for active cooling by the coolant.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Johannes Ott, Juha Tauriainen, Boris Zuev
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Patent number: 10903594Abstract: A board-to-board connector assembly includes a connector interposer between first and second connectors each having a connector housing holding contacts and having a card slot for interfacing with a circuit card edge of a corresponding add-in card. The connector housings have board guides configured to engage the add-in cards and guide mating therewith. The connectors have latches configured to latchably engage the add-in cards to secure the connector to the add-in cards. The connector interposer electrically interconnects the first contacts and the second contacts.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Michael David Herring, Matthew Ryan Schmitt, Arash Behziz
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Patent number: 10897105Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of conductors, a magnetic core, and a housing, the housing includes a housing member that is provided with a housing chamber that houses the plurality of conductors and the magnetic core, an abutment surface on which a core assembling portion abuts, and an opening that is arranged to face the abutment surface at an interval and exposes the core assembling portion housed in the housing chamber outward, the core assembling portion being composed of the respective intermediate portions of the plurality of conductors and the magnetic core housed in the housing chamber; a cover member that closes the opening; and a pressing member that is sandwiched between the cover member and the core assembling portion by pressing the core assembling portion to push the core assembling portion against the abutment surface when the housing member and the cover member are in an assembled state.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Hayato Iizuka, Kazuma Kayo, Hajime Kato
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Patent number: 10892573Abstract: The present disclosure relates to data acquisition, and in particular to thin film connectors between a lead assembly and a data acquisition system. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a connector that includes a button having a housing and conductive pins extending from a proximal end of the housing through a base plate into a cavity on a distal end of the housing. The connector further includes a thin-film adapter having: (i) a supporting structure, (ii) bond pads formed on the supporting structure, (iii) a cable having conductive traces electrically connected to the bond pads, and (iv) feedthroughs that pass through the supporting structure and are electrically connected with the bond pads. Each conductive pin extends through a feedthrough, and each conductive pin is in electrical connection with one or more conductive traces via each bond pad.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLCInventors: Bo Lu, Annapurna Karicherla, Huanfen Yao
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Patent number: 10886641Abstract: A copper busbar has at least one stepped hole for fastening a cable shoe vi a screw connection. The stepped hole extends from a first surface of the copper busbar to a second surface of the copper busbar. The stepped hole has at least a first region, a second region and a third region, wherein the first region of the stepped hole adjoins the first surface, with a radius of the stepped hole being constant over the length of the second region with the second radius value. The third region adjoins the second surface, wherein the third region has at least at the second surface a radius with a third radius value which is less than the second radius value.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventor: Philipp Kneissl
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Patent number: 10886667Abstract: Electromagnetic shielding about both of electric connectors, which are in a mutually mated state, can be sufficiently carried out by a simple configuration. Shield wall portions composed of electrically-conductive members opposed to contact connecting portions (board connecting portions) of a plurality of contact members arranged in multipolar shapes are provided; electromagnetic shielding functions with respect to the contact connecting portions in the respective electric connectors are obtained well by the respective shield wall portions; and, when both of the electric connectors are mated with each other, the shield wall portions are configured to be in an inner/outer double disposition relation in which they are opposed to each other and efficiently block the gaps between the shield wall portions and wiring boards so that sufficient EMI measures can be expected.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.Inventor: Kosuke Ozeki
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Patent number: 10886644Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for contacting a contact surface on a flexible circuit board with a metal contact outside the flexible circuit board, with the aid of a press-fit pin. An attachment piece having a sleeve for receiving the press-fit pin is a mechanically and electrically coupled to the flexible circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Vitesco Technologies Germany GmbHInventors: Nikolaus Taschner, Tilo Liebl
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Patent number: 10879637Abstract: A cable assembly includes a first cable and a second cable that is arranged co-axial to the first cable. Proximal ends of the first and second cables are provided with a connector assembly. The connector assembly from each proximal end is adapted to connect with one another, or a pair of receptacle ports located within a PCB, the PCB being disposed alongside the co-axially arranged first and second cables.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Tesla, Inc.Inventors: In Jae Chung, Zheng Gao, Ron Rosenberg, Joel Torres Diaz, Adnan Esmail, Satyan Chandra
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Patent number: 10873140Abstract: To provide a cable connection structure used in a vehicle antenna device, capable of being reduced in size, easy to assemble, and having required tensile strength. The cable connection structure includes a connection terminal 10, a circuit board 20, a base plate 30, a positioning abutting part 40, and a cable clamp 50. The connection terminal 10 is attached to a braided wire 3 of a coaxial cable 1. The circuit board 20 has a signal line connection hole 21 and a ground line connection hole 22. The base plate 30 has a cable insertion hole 31. The positioning abutting part 40 is used for determining the position of the circuit board 20 on the base plate 30. The cable clamp 50 grasps a protective outer cover 4 of the coaxial cable 1, holds a core wire 2 such that the core wire 2 is exposed at a predetermined height position, and holds a connection terminal 10 such that the connection terminal 10 is exposed at a predetermined height position.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: HARADA INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Taira, Akitomo Takahashi, Junichi Kawahata
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Patent number: 10866126Abstract: A connection unit for connecting an external device to a main device is provided. A connection unit 100 includes a main body part 200 including a main connector terminal 220 to be connected to a connection port of a main device, a sub body part 300 including a sub connector terminal 320 to be connected to a connection port of an external device, and an electric cable 500 electrically connecting the main connector terminal 220 to the sub connector terminal 320. The main body part 200 and the sub body part 300 are united by engaging by an engaging means that is engageable and disengageable, and vary a relative position between the main body part 200 and the sub body part 300 by disengaging by the engaging means. The external device is electrically connected to the main device and is simultaneously attached to the main device by connecting the main device to the external device with the connection unit 100 while the main body part 200 and the sub body part 300 are united.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATIONInventors: Keisuke Iori, Shuji Hayashida