Patents Examined by Harshad C. Patel
  • Patent number: 11387585
    Abstract: A female electrical terminal includes a securing end and a mating end coupled along a longitudinal axis to the securing end. The mating end includes a housing provided with an opening configured to receive a male contact. A contact pad located within the housing is oriented to be brought into contact with the male contact received within the opening, wherein a surface of the contact pad includes a plurality of protrusions extending from the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Inventors: John Morello, James M. Rainey
  • Patent number: 11381045
    Abstract: A fan connector comprises a connector body, a plurality of chip terminals, a plurality of wiring terminals, and a chip circuit board. The connector body comprises an electrical connection slot, a chip slot, and a wiring slot. The plurality of chip terminals and the plurality of wiring terminals are disposed on a sidewall of the electrical connection slot. The plurality of chip terminals corresponds to the plurality of wiring terminals, respectively. The chip circuit board comprises a chip, a circuit board, and a plurality of conductive pads. The chip circuit board is inserted into the chip slot. The plurality of conductive pads is in contact with the corresponding chip terminals. One end of the connector body is connected to a fan, in which a wire passes through the wiring slot and connects to the plurality of wiring terminals. An external plug is possible to insert into the electrical connection slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yung-Chih Hung
  • Patent number: 11381046
    Abstract: An electrical extending outlet having a rigid body slidably extendable such that, in use, extends the outlet of a wall above a restrictive surface. The rigid body has a male connector on its lower end that is rotatable to allow the rigid body to be positioned in a number of positions relative to the wall outlet. On the upper end of the rigid body is at least one female outlet which a user can insert a male plug of an electrical device. The rigid body has a fastener to attach the rigid body to the wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Greer
  • Patent number: 11369141
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette including a mouthpiece assembly, an atomization assembly, and a base assembly. The mouthpiece assembly and the base assembly are disposed on two ends of the atomization assembly, respectively. The mouthpiece assembly includes a mouthpiece; a mouthpiece base; a movable cover; and a slidable block. The atomization assembly includes a seal gasket; a first permanent seat; a first seal ring; a glass tube; a second seal ring; an elastic sealing device including a connection bolt, a seal sleeve, a spring, and a second permanent seat; and an atomizer. The base assembly includes an airflow regulation ring; a fixed ring; a joint; an insulation ring; and a base. The mouthpiece base is connected to the slidable block. The mouthpiece base and the slidable block are disposed on two sides of the movable cover, respectively. The mouthpiece is in threaded connection to the mouthpiece base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventor: Tuanfang Liu
  • Patent number: 11367987
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a male connector and a female connector matched with the male connector; the female connector includes a female connector housing and female connector copper terminals; a side surface of the female connector housing has a first wiring hole; an upper part of the female connector housing has sockets corresponding to the female connector copper terminals; the upper part of the female connector housing has slots; the female connector housing has a first installation portion; the male connector includes a male connector housing and male connector copper terminals; a side surface of the male connector housing has a second wiring hole; a bottom part of the male connector has pillars matched with the slots; the male connector has a second installation portion; the male connector copper terminals extend outwardly from the male connector housing and connects the female connector copper terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: FAYEUNG LIGHTING CO,. LTD
    Inventor: Zhaoyuan Li
  • Patent number: 11355885
    Abstract: A connector can include a bolt, a housing, a sealing member, and a holder. The housing can include a fixing part having a through hole into which the bolt is inserted, and an inserting part. The fixing part can be fixed to a wall part by the bolt and the inserting part can have a tubular shape that projects from the fixing part to be inserted into a hole part of the wall part. The sealing member can be mounted on an outer surface of the inserting part to seal between the inserting part and the hole part. The holder can include an abutting part that is positioned between an outer surface of the inserting part and the hole part, and the holder can be fixed to a distal end part of the inserting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tetsuya Sekino
  • Patent number: 11355887
    Abstract: A connector applied to a wire harness includes a housing housing a terminal, a front holder assembled to an end portion in an axial direction of the housing, and a restriction member assembled to the housing. One of the housing and the front holder has a latch claw portion that latches the housing and the front holder. The other of the housing and the front holder has a latch arm portion extending along the axial direction and latched to the latch claw portion. The restriction member has a restriction piece that is located adjacent to the latch arm portion that is in a state of being latched to the latch claw portion, the restriction piece restricting displacement of the latch arm portion toward a latch release side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11349248
    Abstract: The invention provides a universal serial bus connector, including an insulating body and a plurality of terminals. The insulating body has a tongue portion and at least one recess located on the tongue portion. The terminals pass through the insulating body, and the terminals expose the insulating body from the tongue portion. The recess corresponds to at least one terminal and is located in an extending direction of the corresponding terminal on the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Er Li Huang, Pin-Yuan Hou, Yao Mei Wang, Hsien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11342693
    Abstract: A terminal retention hole of a receptacle housing has guide grooves for permitting sliding of protruding guide parts of a receptacle terminal in the engaging longitudinal direction of the protruding guide parts. Each of the plug terminals has a base part and a contact part extending from the base part. A thickness of the plug terminal contact part in the horizontal direction is smaller than the thickness of the plug terminal base part in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Masayuki Arai, Shigeru Akiyama, Qiucen He
  • Patent number: 11329412
    Abstract: A female terminal has a mating segment, and the mating segment includes a pair of channels. Each of the channels has a base wall, an upper side wall and a lower side wall. Each of the channels has a base part, a port part, and a connection part connecting the base part and the port part. A base wall of the connection part of each of the channels is connected to a base wall of the base part. An upper side wall and a lower side wall of the connection part respectively have a cantilever contact component connected to the base wall of the connection part. In each of the channels, a base wall of the port part is connected to the base wall of the connection part. The port part of each of the channels and a port part of another channel together form a frame port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DONGGUAN XUNTAO ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yung-Chih Hung
  • Patent number: 11329423
    Abstract: An electric connector includes a tubular conductive shell, covers provided outside the shell to cover at least part of the shell, and a movable cover coupled to the cover through a rotary shaft. The cover has locking pieces on a cable side. The movable cover has locking pieces to be engaged with the locking pieces. At least one of the locking piece or the locking piece includes multiple locking pieces arranged along a circumferential direction of a circle about the rotary shaft. The locking pieces and the locking pieces form a ratchet mechanism, and have such a structure that the locking pieces and the locking pieces are movable in an approaching direction and movement in a direction in which the locking pieces and the locking pieces are separated from each other is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Chamura, Marek Robert Policht
  • Patent number: 11329439
    Abstract: A brush for an electric machine includes at least one brush body having an electrical resistance, which is configured to electrically contact at least one component moving relative to the brush body during operation of the electric machine, and which sustains wear during the operation of the electric machine along a wear direction, as a result of friction contact with the component. The brush includes a detection device configured to determine wear of the brush body, where the detection device comprises a plurality of detection zones which are mutually spaced apart along the wear direction, the respective electrical resistance of which differs from the electrical resistance of the brush body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Laemmermann, Robert Wagner
  • Patent number: 11316298
    Abstract: Provided is a safety socket, including a first conductive seat, a second conductive seat, a first terminal, a first insulator, a second terminal, a second insulator, a first conductive sheet and a second conductive sheet. The first conductive seat includes a first elastic body. The first elastic body includes a first elastic connecting portion and two first elastic pieces. Both ends of the first elastic connecting portion are respectively integrally formed with the bottom ends of the first elastic pieces. The second conductive seat includes a second elastic body and a second socket terminal. The second elastic body includes a second elastic connecting portion and two second elastic pieces. Both ends of the second elastic connecting portion are respectively integrally formed with the bottom ends of the first elastic pieces. The elastic body can be reset by its own elastic force without a spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: DONGGUAN KEBEN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng Ding, Li Qin Ye, Chen Yuan Cheng, To Yung, Yu-Hung Hsiao
  • Patent number: 11311114
    Abstract: A drive caddy assembly comprises a plastic frame and a plastic faceplate that includes a plastic tab and a plastic spring that moves along a spring axis that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the drive caddy assembly. The plastic spring is configured to compress from a resting state along the spring axis without moving perpendicular to the spring axis during insertion of the drive caddy assembly into a drive receptacle of a storage server, and is further configured to return to the resting state when the drive caddy assembly is fully seated in the drive receptacle. The plastic tab extends from a side of the plastic spring and is configured to engage with the drive receptacle in a manner that translates a force on the drive caddy assembly along the longitudinal axis into a force on the plastic spring along the spring axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Pavilion Data Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Fleisher, Ray Siruno
  • Patent number: 11309652
    Abstract: The present invention provides a contact with low impedance even in a high frequency band. The contact (1) includes a base part (3), a contact part (5), and a spring part (7). The spring part (7) is elastically deformed to bias the contact part (5) in the x-axis positive direction and the z-axis positive direction. The contact part (5) includes a sliding part (23A) oriented in the x-axis positive direction. The base part (3) includes a part to be slided (14) oriented in the x-axis negative direction. The contact part (5) is biased in the x-axis positive direction by the spring part (7), so that the sliding part (23A) is in pressure contact with the part to be slided (14). The contact part (5) is configured to be slidable in the z-axis direction relative to the base part (3) while maintaining a state in which the sliding part (23A) is in pressure contact with the part to be slided (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nakamura, Hiroyoshi Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 11309673
    Abstract: The current invention is regarding an electrical slip ring system for high speed applications, which require slip rings to operate at speeds more than 60,000 RPM. It consists of multiple single stage slip rings and multiple gear devices, where all the stators, except the last one, are rotational. The speed limit on the slip ring market, by using the advanced fiber brush bundles, is about 10,000 RPM without cooling, or lubricating. The basic idea is that by designing gears, we can always can make sure the relative speed between the rotor and the stator in each stage is <=10000 rpm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: PRINCETEL, INC.
    Inventors: Hong Zhang, Joe Ritacco, Boying B Zhang
  • Patent number: 11303048
    Abstract: A plug connector for electrically connecting a tag connector to an electrical line of a motor-driven garden and/or forestry working apparatus includes a tag connector receptacle portion and a line receptacle portion. The tag connector receptacle portion has a first surface-clamping leg, a second surface-clamping leg, a first peripheral guiding blade and a second peripheral guiding blade, wherein the surface-clamping legs are disposed so as to be opposite one another and wherein the peripheral guiding blades are disposed so as to be opposite one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Georg Maier, Michael Schneider, Mario Haefele, Rolf Walter
  • Patent number: 11303079
    Abstract: A modular electrical system with electrical and/or data outlets provides an unobtrusive power and/or data source that can be routed along a floor, a table or other work surface in a work area. The modular system includes a plurality of electrical wiring modules, a plurality of junction modules each having multiple outputs, and a plurality of electrical power or data units connected to the junction modules and to surfaces in the work area. Optionally, a modular floor runner system is assembled together from rigid floor runner modules interposed with junction modules, with one or more flexible branch extensions selectively coupled to any desired junction module. The floor runner modules and junction modules include housings that protect electrical wiring held internally, while being minimally intrusive for use in walking areas. Optionally, a table mounted modular electrical system is connectable to a floor runner system, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Norman R. Byrne, Timothy J. Warwick, Gerald N. Vander Till
  • Patent number: 11303059
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrical connector comprising: an electrical connector housing comprising an upper surface, a lower surface, and two opposite sidewalls; at least one positioning component disposed on an upper surface of the electrical connector housing; a plurality of heat sinks are disposed on the upper surface of the electrical connector housing; the plurality of the heat sinks are respectively disposed on two sides of the corresponding positioning component; each heat sink comprises at least one securing groove; the securing grooves of the heat sinks disposed correspondingly; the plurality of securing grooves correspond to the positioning components; and a securing structure is secured to the at least one the positioning component and the two sidewalls of the electrical connector housing. The securing structure presses the plurality of the heat sinks against the upper surface of the electrical connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: BaiYu Duan, Zhen Luo, XiaoKai Wang, XiaoPing Wu
  • Patent number: 11298176
    Abstract: A surgical device multi-socket for a high-frequency generator for connecting an electro-surgical instrument, an electro-surgical high-frequency generator, an electro-surgical device plug and an electro-surgical system. The invention also relates to a cable for an electro-surgical instrument and an electrosurgical instrument. In particular, the invention relates to a surgical device multi-socket for a high-frequency generator for connecting an electro-surgical instrument, in particular a bipolar applicator, including a coaxial socket which is designed to accommodate the coaxial plug element, and a first contact opening which is designed to accommodate a contact pin, and/or a second contact opening which is designed to accommodate a contact pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH
    Inventors: Benjamin Holub, Mario Arnold