Patents Examined by Harshad C. Patel
  • Patent number: 9945885
    Abstract: An adjustable clamping device for mechanical and electrical connection to sides of a conductor includes a first clamping member having a first base and a first arm, a second clamping member having a second base and a second arm, and a coupling member configured to adjustably couple the first clamping member with the second clamping member such that the first arm is spaced from the second arm by a desired distance. The coupling member is also configured to prevent decoupling of the first clamping member from the second clamping member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Brian K. Hanson, Andrew M. Haberek
  • Patent number: 9936736
    Abstract: A system, method, and device comprising a hybrid electronic communication vapor device comprising an electronic communication device and an electronic vapor device wherein the electronic vapor device is powered by at least one of battery, charging, and power system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: LUNATECH, LLC
    Inventors: John David Cameron, Dean Becker, Gene Fein
  • Patent number: 9935383
    Abstract: An assembly has a connector, a circuit board, a cable, a light pipe, and an outer casing. The connector has an insulating body with conductive terminals fixed therein. The circuit board is behind the connector, is electrically connected with two conductive terminals, and has two light-emitting elements. The cable has a plurality of wires, and the conductive terminal is electrically connected with the wire. An inside of the light pipe is formed with a first receiving cavity that receives the connector and the circuit board therein. The outer casing has first and second insulating casings which are latched to each other and are combined to form a second receiving cavity. The light pipe is received in the second receiving cavity and is partially exposed out of the outer casing. Light from the light-emitting elements emits outwardly via the light pipe. The cable extends rearward out of the outer casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Zhen-Liang Li
  • Patent number: 9935386
    Abstract: A coupling device, in particular a multiple coupling (1), connects a first line portion to a second line portion by a first coupling body (3) and second coupling body (5). A connection unit (23, 25) can be inserted into an accommodating opening (41, 42) in each coupling body (3, 5). A plug-in connection between line portions having electric conductors has an electrical connector (63) with plug-shaped and/or socket-shaped contact elements (67, 69). The connection unit (23, 25) is a cartridge with a single-part, sleeve-shaped housing (37) having a through-passage (39) accommodating the connector (63).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: EISELE PNEUMATICS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Viktor Deister, Hakan Bolat
  • Patent number: 9929525
    Abstract: A terminal connection structure includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a terminal guide. The first terminal includes a held portion. The second terminal includes a plate-shaped base portion, a pair of holding portions projecting from one end of the base portion to hold the held portion from both sides, and a plate-shaped bridge portion projecting from the other end of the base portion in a direction crossing relative to the base portion. The terminal guide includes a guide hole having one end at which the first terminal is disposed, and the other end from which the second terminal is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: NSK LTD.
    Inventors: Toshiaki Asada, Yusuke Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 9929521
    Abstract: A wrapped electrical cable, such as a charging cable, is disclosed which is more rugged than standard electrical cables. The electrical cable includes plug heads with a hole therethrough for receiving a cable, and a cable extending from the hole through one plug head to the hole through the opposing plug head. The cable and cord may be further wrapped in a sheath of cord, such as paracord. The cord may have connectors on either end, allowing a user to loop the cord for carrying and/or storage and/or hooking the cord to a load, or daisy chain multiple cords together to lengthen the cord. The plug heads and/or caps may be formed at least partly of transparent material and include one or more light sources/ The plug heads may also include two or more connector types in a single plug head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Inventors: Garrett Aida, Nial Spencer
  • Patent number: 9929494
    Abstract: An electrical connector that may include a socket body and that includes four lateral walls, a rear wall, a catch feature and a catch support. The lateral walls may adjoin one another and the rear wall. The catch support may adjoin two of the lateral walls along edges of the catch support to define a catch cavity and a plug cavity on opposing sides of the catch support. A first side of the rear wall may face the plug cavity and a second side bounds a rear surface of the socket body. The catch feature may couple with the catch support. Electrical pins may pass through the rear wall of the socket body such that one end of each of the pins is within the plug cavity, and an opposing end of each of the pins extends away from the rear surface of the socket body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mathias Schmidt, Adam Mittleman
  • Patent number: 9929502
    Abstract: An electrical connector and a cable connector having the electrical connector are disclosed. The electrical connector includes an insulating housing, first and second modules, two conductive latching members, a shielding piece, two conductive elastic sheets, and an outer shielding shell. Each module has an insulating member and a group of conductive terminals. The shielding piece has a plate body and two grounding portions. The plate body separates the conductive terminals of the first module from the conductive terminals of the second module. The grounding portion contacts and electrically connects with the conductive latching members. The conductive elastic sheets are mounted on an outer side of the insulating housing. The outer shielding shell encloses an outer periphery of the two conductive elastic sheets, the two conductive latching members and the insulating housing. The present disclosure can promote signal transmitting quality during high speed data transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Xue-Hai Zhang
  • Patent number: 9917399
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a main body, a base portion, and a tapered end. The electrical connector extends axially in a first direction and an opposite second direction. The main body is configured to connect to an electrical cable. The base portion abuts the main body at a first end of the base portion and has an outer shoulder at a second end of the base portion. The tapered end extends and tapers from the outer shoulder in the second direction. The tapered end includes a plurality of resilient fingers separated by slots. The fingers extend away from the base portion in the second direction to a distal end of the fingers. The slots extend radially through the tapered end. The slots further extend axially in the first direction from the distal end through the outer shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Marc A. Gessford, Neil C. Clayton, Edward Larry Alexander, Jr., Domenic Anthony Lopresti, David Skoog
  • Patent number: 9913496
    Abstract: A vaporizer device of cotton-free e-cigarette, comprising: an outer sleeve, a supporting frame arranged inside the outer sleeve, a vaporizer unit fixed into the supporting frame, a filter piece and a liquid percolation piece sequentially connected to one end of the supporting frame, and a fixation seat connected to other end of the supporting frame. A backflow groove is made inside the supporting frame to prevent leakage caused by the backflow of residual liquid. The filter piece is made of heat-resisting material. The liquid percolation piece is connected at one end with a liquid storage cup by snap joints. Another end of the filter piece keeps a safe distance away from the vaporizer unit to avoid being burned. The liquid storage cup and the outer sleeve are assembled to form a slit therebetween to prevent the backflow of residual liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Inventor: Guangrong Lin
  • Patent number: 9912081
    Abstract: A cover assembly for an electrical connector at the end of a sheathed cable containing several insulated wires. An insulation piercing clip couples light bulb leads to the wires. A translucent housing encloses the light bulb, said insulation piercing clip, the entire section of unsheathed insulated wires, a portion of the electrical connector and a portion of the sheathed cable. The cover assembly is illuminated by the light bulb when power flows through the electrical connector and may be color coded to indicate connector function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: DSM&T Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Sergio Corona
  • Patent number: 9912113
    Abstract: A system for implementing an electrical rotary joint in a large-diameter system using relatively small-diameter capsule slip rings is described herein. The system includes a system rotor that rotates about a system axis of rotation, and a system stator that is stationary with respect to the system rotor. The system also includes at least one conductive contact channel disposed on one of the system rotor and the system stator. The system further includes at least one capsule slip ring (CSR) coupled to the other of the system rotor and the system stator. The at least one CSR has a conductive annular element coupled thereto, the conductive annular element in mechanical contact with the at least one conductive contact channel such that the at least one CSR forms an electrical rotary joint between the system rotor and the system stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Morpho Detection, LLC
    Inventors: Jared William Moore, Steven Leslie Hills
  • Patent number: 9907341
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an E-liquid separation mechanism and electronic cigarettes having the E-liquid separation mechanism. The E-liquid separation mechanism includes an E-liquid storage tank assembly, and a vaporizer assembly. The E-liquid storage tank assembly and the vaporizer assembly are slidedly and rotatably connected through an E-liquid storage tank connector and a silicone gel sealing cover. When a user uses the electronic cigarette, the user pushes the E-liquid storage tank assembly down from an up position, and rotates the vaporizer assembly using an E-liquid separation control handler from a first position to a second position to allow E-liquid in the E-liquid storage tank to flow into a cylindrical E-liquid storage medium to be vaporized by one or more heating elements formed between a first E-liquid storage tank base opening and a first vaporizer E-liquid opening, and a second E-liquid storage tank base opening and a second vaporizer E-liquid opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN KANGER TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaochun Zhu
  • Patent number: 9905964
    Abstract: An accessory to device coupling system can include a first magnet array adapted for assembly with respect to a surface of an electronic device and a second magnet array adapted for assembly with respect to a surface of an accessory device, the accessory device configured to interact electrically with the electronic device. The first magnet array can include a first plurality of magnets arranged in a first pattern of alternating polarities, and the second magnet array can include a second plurality of magnets arranged in a second pattern of alternating polarities that corresponds to the first pattern of alternating polarities. The corresponding alternating polarity patterns can cause the second magnet array to couple to the first magnet array with a normalized attraction force only at an intended orientation and alignment, and with less than half of the normalized attraction force at any other orientation and alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brett W. Degner, David H. Narajowski, Oliver C. Ross, Hao Zhu, Erik A. Uttermann, Stephen R. McClure, Melody L. Kuna
  • Patent number: 9901114
    Abstract: A battery rod assembly, an electronic cigarette, and an electronic cigarette charging apparatus are provided. In the electronic cigarette, on end of the battery rod assembly (1) is provided with an external electrode (12) and an internal electrode (11). A clamping groove (13) is disposed in an inner sidewall of the external electrode (12). A charging base (2) of the electronic cigarette charging apparatus comprises a first charging electrode (21) for being electrically connected to the internal electrode (11) and a second charging electrode (22) for being electrically connected to the external electrode (12). The second charging electrode (22) is provided with a buckling bending portion (221) protruding toward the direction away from the first charging electrode (21), and the position of the buckling bending portion (221) is corresponding to that of the clamping groove (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. SHENZHEN BRANCH
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Patent number: 9905969
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey Baldwin, Ryan Liebengood
  • Patent number: 9905957
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector including a body having a cavity, an electrical connection portion on the body, a wire locking mechanism in the cavity, and a current transmitter electrically connecting the electrical connection portion and the wire locking mechanism. The body may include a cover pivotable from an open position to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey Baldwin, John Klein, Ryan Liebengood
  • Patent number: 9899749
    Abstract: A crimp terminal including a core-wire crimping section (16) for crimping a core wire of an electric wire including a plurality of strands includes serrations (18a, 18b) provided on a surface where the core wire of the core-wire crimping section (16) is to be crimped, small serrations (18b) are provided in a region to which a large crimping force is applied during a swaging and crimping process, and large serrations (18a) are provided in a region to which a small crimping force is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takaya Kondou
  • Patent number: 9887497
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a circuit board including a contact pad. The circuit board includes one or more chips on the circuit board. The circuit board further includes a signal pin having a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion between the first end and the second end. The first end of the signal pin is in contact with the contact pad, where the signal pin has a resonant frequency outside a predetermined frequency range. The apparatus includes a lossy dielectric material surrounding the intermediate portion of the signal pin, where the lossy dielectric material is configured to absorb radio frequency signals from the signal pin in the predetermined frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jagan Vaidyanathan Rajagopalan, Akshay Mohan
  • Patent number: 9887475
    Abstract: A low-cost electrical connector that is capable of providing a single or a multiplicity of continuous electrical connections between two individual printed circuit boards, and method of making thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Garry M. Loy