Patents Examined by Harshad C. Patel
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 9887492
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing having a guide part to which a male terminal is inserted, a connection part exposed on the guide part so as to make contact with a terminal member of the male terminal in a state where the male terminal is inserted, a cover member provided on the guide part so as to cover the connection part, while making contact with the connection part, in a state where the male terminal is not inserted, and a spring configured to urge the cover member toward an opening of the guide part in the state where the male terminal is not inserted. The cover member is moved, upon inserting the male terminal, to a side of the guide part opposite to the opening so as not to cover the connection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventor: Hideaki Umehara
  • Patent number: 9887496
    Abstract: In a contact connecting of preferably a number of shielded conductor pairs to a board in particular of a plug for high-speed data connections, the board is formed of multiple layers and contains a conductor path tier and a ground tier. A ground contact zone of the ground tier projects, in a tongue-like manner, towards the connected conductor pairs. In the region of the ground contact zone, the individual conductor pairs are pressed in contact against the corresponding pair shielding thereof. To this end, in particular a clamping element is provided that is also used to achieve the shield contacting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: LEONI Kabel GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Janssen, Christoph Untiedt
  • Patent number: 9882324
    Abstract: An electrical connector is disclosed. The electrical connector has an insulation body formed with a receiving slot and a terminal disposed in the receiving slot. The electrical connector is matable with an identical electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Shi, Xiang Xu, Xiaozhi Fu, Yuquan Chen, Yong Yang
  • Patent number: 9882294
    Abstract: A connector for connecting a motor is provided. The connector for connecting a motor for electrically connecting a three phase coil connecting portion that is drawn out from a motor and a three phase power terminal that is connected with a power cable includes: i) a under terminal block that houses the each power terminal and the each coil connecting portion; ii) an upper terminal block that is coupled to the under terminal block and that presses the each power terminal and the each coil connecting portion; and iii) an engagement portion that engages the under terminal block and the upper terminal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: MyungKyu Jeong, GaEun Lee, Young Jin Seo
  • Patent number: 9876323
    Abstract: An electrical connector for use with wires is disclosed that includes an electrical contact and an insulated housing. The electrical contact includes a wire contact portion and a connector contact portion. The wire contact portion connects the electrical connector to a wire. The connector contact portion includes a male contact prong and a female contact socket. The electrical contact may be positioned within an insulated housing that is designed to connect both the male contact prong and the female contact socket when mated with another electrical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: AVX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brent Lybrand
  • Patent number: 9871316
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, an electronic device includes: a housing including a first face facing a first direction, a second face on an opposite side of the first face, and a third face adjacent to the first and second faces; a connector protruding from the third face; and a first cover connected to the housing, including a fourth face, and being pivotable between a first position where the fourth face faces the first direction and a second position where the fourth face faces the first face. The first cover includes a first stopper that, when the first cover pivots from the first position to the second position, contacts the connector and is elastically deformable in a direction that is a pivoting axial direction of the first cover and is a separating direction from the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Hayakawa, Shiro Harashima
  • Patent number: 9865977
    Abstract: Integrated signal pair elements are disclosed that can be inserted into and removed from a backplane connector housing as a single piece. Each element includes an insulative frame that supports a pair of conductive terminals in a spaced-apart arrangement. The frame is attached to a ground shield that provides a ground plane that extends around three sides of the signal pair. Cable wires can be terminated to tail portions of the signal pair and an insulative material is molded over the cable wire termination area to form an integrated signal pair element. The individual signal pair elements may also be commoned together in a linear array of signal pair elements by a commoning member that contacts the ground shields of the array of signal pair elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Javier Resendez, Michael D. Rost, Eric A. Deichmann, Kenneth F. Janota
  • Patent number: 9865950
    Abstract: A plug connector assembly having a first plug connector and a second plug connector, wherein the plug connectors each have at least two contact elements, wherein the contact elements of the first plug connector make contact with the contact elements of the second plug connector at contact points in the plug-connected state of the plug connector assembly, such that the contact elements of the two plug connectors are designed in the form of contact lugs which project into a free space and can be elastically deflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Dandl, Thomas Höfling, Christian Biermann, Thomas Schmid
  • Patent number: 9860973
    Abstract: A contactor coupled to an electrode of a semiconductor package mounted on a mounting surface of a wiring board, the contactor includes: a cable including a core line; a connector attached to a front end of the cable, and to be inserted into a through hole that penetrates the wiring board in a thickness direction thereof; and a signal land formed on a front end surface of the connector, and electrically coupled with the core line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshihiro Morita
  • Patent number: 9859634
    Abstract: A connection assembly includes an optical electronic part and a socket. A conductive pad connected to a photoelectric conversion element of the optical electronic part is oriented with imaging field of view upward, and slidably contacts a contact of the socket. The optical electronic part includes an insulating case with a flange protruding along a horizontal plane, and a conductive pad that is exposed in an outer surface parallel to the horizontal plane. The socket includes a guide portion that slidably guides the flange portion along the horizontal plane, and a contact fixed to a housing opposed to the outer surface in which the conductive pad is exposed, with a contact portion located in a movement locus of the conductive pad sliding with the flange portion along the horizontal plane. As the insulating case is operated, the contact makes sliding contact with the conductive pad to provide a self-cleaning effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Ejiri, Haruhiko Kondo
  • Patent number: 9848653
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cotton-free electronic cigarette, a heat-insulating and heat-dissipating component of a vaporizer device of the cotton-free electronic cigarette, and a method for heat insulation and heat dissipation. The heat-insulating and heat-dissipating component consists of a heat insulation sleeve and a vapor flow passage. The heat insulation sleeve is provided inside an outer pipe and outside a vaporizer unit. The heat insulation sleeve, the outer pipe and the vaporizer unit have a same central longitudinal axis. A method for heat insulation and heat dissipation of the cotton-free electronic cigarette comprises: dissipating heat generated from the vaporizer unit along the vapor flow passage formed between an exterior longitudinal flat surface of a liquid storage cup and the heat insulation sleeve, and discharging the heat outside the cotton-free electronic cigarette through thermal conductivity of the heat insulation sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Inventor: Guangrong Lin
  • Patent number: 9848652
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cotton-free electronic cigarette preventing liquid spill, comprising a vaporizer assembly, a mouthpiece assembly and a battery control assembly. The vaporizer assembly comprises an outer sleeve, a liquid storage cup, a vaporizer unit and a heat insulation sleeve. An air passage is formed between an exterior longitudinal flat surface of the liquid storage cup and the heat insulation sleeve. The liquid storage cup is sheathed with the outer sleeve, an inner wall of the outer sleeve and an exterior arc surface of the liquid storage cup forms an arc-shaped slit. An inner wall of the outer sleeve and the exterior longitudinal flat surface of the liquid storage cup forms a vapor flow passage. The vapor flow passage is interconnected to the arc-shaped slit. The mouthpiece assembly is fixed to one end of the outer sleeve to seal an outlet of the arc-shaped slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Inventor: Guangrong Lin
  • Patent number: 9853389
    Abstract: A high-voltage cable plug (1) for installing on an end of a high-voltage cable (20) has an insulating part (14) attached to the end of the high-voltage cable (20). The insulating part is cone-shaped at least in some sections on the outer surface of the insulating part and can electrically tight contact a socket element (2) associated with the high-voltage cable plug (1) when the plug-in connection is established. The high-voltage cable plug (1) has a protective element (40) at or near the end of the high-voltage cable plug facing the socket element (2). The protective element protrudes beyond the end of the high-voltage cable plug (1) facing the socket element (2) in a radial direction, with respect to a longitudinal axis (10) of the high-voltage cable plug (1), to such an extent that the protective element (40) prevents damage to the high-voltage cable plug (1) or to the socket element (2) when the high-voltage cable plug (1) is inserted into and removed from the socket element (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: PFISTERER KONTAKTSYSTEME GMBH
    Inventor: Jan Henrik Wilhelm Kuhlefelt
  • Patent number: 9847608
    Abstract: A modular plug connector includes a plug connector housing, a retaining frame accommodated therein, and at least one plug connector module. The retaining frame is connected to the plug connector housing by fasteners. The at least one plug connector module is accommodated in a module slot in the retaining frame by retaining elements. The plug connector modules are equipped with sensors, which are connected to evaluating electronics in the module plug connector. The evaluating electronics are provided for processing and rendering measured values of the sensors in the plug connector modules, recognizing the accommodated plug connector modules, and managing the configuration of the modular plug connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: HARTING AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Markus Bruex, Lutz Troeger, Markus Friesen
  • Patent number: 9831601
    Abstract: A connector assembly is provided which has a connector position assurance apparatus that maintains a required CPA insertion force when the CPA is fastened and before the counterpart connector is fastened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Joon Woo Kim