Patents Examined by Harshad Patel
  • Patent number: 9306341
    Abstract: The present invention provided with a power adapter comprises a housing and a power conversion circuit board mounted in the housing. The housing comprises a body, which is a generally cylindrical shell having an accommodating space, an open end and an opposite closed end, wherein the closed end and the cylindrical shell are formed into a one-pieced, integrated structure, The housing also comprises a side dead wall mounted at and adapted to the open end. The power conversion circuit board has a first end connected to the side dead wall and a second end connected to the closed end, wherein the power conversion circuit board is fixedly accommodated within a confined space enclosed by the side dead wall and the body of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: DELTA ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Guojun Wang, Baohua Li, Xiaojun Chen
  • Patent number: 9306313
    Abstract: A first adapter arrangement includes a housing having a sealing end supporting the housing in a vertical wall opening of a casing containing an electronics device, and a connecting end extending externally of the casing for connection with the housing of a companion adapter arrangement. A pair of resilient generally-annular longitudinally-spaced seal members are mounted concentrically about the adapter housing sealing portion for sealing the space between the adapter housing outer surface and the adjacent surface of the casing wall opening. An electrical connector mounted in a through passage contained in the adapter housing includes a conductor contact end connected with the conductors of the electrical device, and a connector contact end adapted for connection with the corresponding contacts of a companion second adapter arrangement. A fastening device serves to connect together the adjacent ends of the adapter housings of the first and second arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Weidmueller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Heggemann, Hans Schlingmann
  • Patent number: 9306336
    Abstract: A high frequency connector includes an insulator, a plurality of terminals, a shielding case and a grounding conductor. The insulator includes a tongue plate portion and a base portion. The terminals respectively have a contact portion arranged on a surface of the tongue plate portion. The contact portion is electrically connected with a docking connector. The shielding case covers outside the tongue plate portion and the base portion. A surface of the base portion is closer to the shielding case than the surface of the tongue plate portion. The grounding conductor is formed to a shielding plate and a first flat plate from a metal sheet. The shielding plate is at least partially fixed within the tongue plate portion. The first flat plate is at least partially exposed from the base portion. The shielding plate and the first flat plate are located in a region covered by the shielding case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: SPEED TECH CORP.
    Inventors: Hua-Chun Chang, Hsien-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 9306307
    Abstract: An electrical contact element, in particular for a medical implant, including a spring sleeve with a bushing for receiving an electrical mating contact in a direction of insertion, at least one groove that is arranged transversely around the bushing at least in areas and that is open to the bushing at least in areas; at least one spring element, arranged in the groove, for electrically contacting the electrical mating contact. Here, at least one feed-through channel is provided to feed the spring element into the peripheral groove and leads from an outer face of the spring sleeve to the at least one groove. The invention further relates to a method for producing a contact element and also to a device for carrying out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marcel Starke, Ronald Rebentisch
  • Patent number: 9296325
    Abstract: A vehicle USB port including: a base body attached to a vehicle-body-side member; a hook main body that is provided with a hinge portion rotatably attached to the base body and a hook portion to anchor an anchored member, and that is rotatable between an in-use position in which the hook portion is usable and a stowed position in which the hook portion is not used; a hook main body retaining portion that is formed at the base body and that retains the hook main body moved to the stowed position; a port opening that is formed at the hook main body retaining portion and that is covered by the hook main body moved to the stowed position; and a USB port that is provided in a position facing the port opening, and to which a USB cable can be coupled through the port opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: NHK SPRING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donghyoun Kim, Hidemi Haga, Takeshi Muto
  • Patent number: 9300061
    Abstract: A battery wiring module is configured to be attached to a battery group including a plurality of batteries each having electrode terminals including a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal and configured to connect the electrode terminals. The battery wiring module includes a plurality of connection units connected to each other in a battery arrangement direction in which the batteries are arranged. Each of the connection units includes a bus bar and a bus bar housing. The bus bar is configured to connect one of the electrode terminals of one of the batteries and one of the electrode terminals of another one of the batteries. The bus bar housing houses the bus bar. The bus bar has a pair of terminal through holes configured to receive the electrode terminals and each of the terminal through holes is formed in a shape elongated in the battery arrangement direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuko Kinoshita, Hiroomi Hiramitsu, Hiroki Hirai, Katsunori Hamana, Tomofumi Tsuji, Mitsuhiro Akasaka, Tetsuya Nakagawa, Yoshinao Kobayashi, Masaru Shitamichi, Daiki Hirano
  • Patent number: 9300070
    Abstract: The connector for a card has a housing for accommodating a card provided with terminal members, and connecting terminals mounted in the housing and contacting the terminal members of the card. Here, at least one of the connecting terminals has a base portion provided along a rear edge of the housing, at least some of the base portion is embedded in a bottom wall portion of the housing, and a contact member forming a hoop along with the base portion. The contact member has a pair of spring portions connected to the base portion, a joining portion joining the pair of spring portions, and a contact portion connected to the leading end of the joining portion for contacting the terminal members of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Naoto Yoshikawa, Masanori Hayashi, Yasuyoshi Matsumoto, Yuki Goto, Mitsuhiro Tomita
  • Patent number: 9293851
    Abstract: An electronic connector includes a housing and a plug extending from the housing. The plug includes at least one flexible region that provides flexing of the plug. In some example embodiments, the plug also includes at least one rigid region. The plug has at least one interconnect. Each interconnect includes a lead and a contact. The contacts are exposed on an exterior surface of the plug, such exposure being provided so as to enable electrical coupling between the plug and an electronic receptacle into which the plug may be removably inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Austin Orand, Brian L. Cash, Aaron B. Weast
  • Patent number: 9287652
    Abstract: A cover-fitted connector includes a connector housing that houses a terminal connected to a terminal of an electric wire, and a cover that covers the electric wire pulled out from the connector housing. The connector housing includes a connector housing body, and a connecting portion connected to the connector housing body. The cover includes a cover body, a connected portion connected with the connecting portion at a time of mating the cover with the connector housing, and a cutout portion having an end portion positioned at a boundary between the connector housing body to cover the connecting portion and configured to expose the connector housing body outside the cover at the time of mating the cover with the connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Chieko Torii, Nozomi Tsurukubo
  • Patent number: 9287634
    Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a crimp terminal capable of maintaining a high level of water-blocking performance for a long time in a state of being pressure-bonded to an insulated wire, a connection structural body including the same, and a connector including such a connection structural body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignees: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Furukawa Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Yukihiro Kawamura, Takashi Tonoike
  • Patent number: 9281635
    Abstract: A connector includes a connecting terminal, a fixed contact, a movable plate, a movable contact provided at an end of the movable plate, a card that includes an insulator and contacts the movable plate, a button that contacts the card, an opening spring connected to the button, and a sliding operation part that controls a contact between the fixed contact and the movable contact. When the sliding operation part is moved in a first direction, the movable contact is brought into contact with the fixed contact and the connector is turned on. When the sliding operation part is moved in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the movable contact is caused to move away from the fixed contact and the connector is turned off. The sliding operation part is provided on a surface that is different from a surface on which the connecting terminal is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignees: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED, NTT FACILITIES, INC.
    Inventors: SeungSeok Beak, Koichi Kiryu, Takashi Yuba, Daiei Iwamoto, Akio Nakamura, Masatoshi Noritake, Keiichi Hirose
  • Patent number: 9276363
    Abstract: A connector comprising a connector body comprising a first end, a second end, and an inner bore defined between the first and second ends of the body, a compression member comprising a first end, a second end, and an inner bore defined between the first and second ends of the cap, the first end of the compression member being structured to engage the second end of the connector body, a clamp comprising a first end, a second end, an inner bore defined between the first and second ends of the clamp, wherein the clamp facilitates threadable insertion of a coaxial cable, and a compression surface disposed within the connector body, wherein axial advancement of the compression member facilitates the clamp being axially advanced into proximity with the compression surface such that the clamp and the compression surface transmit force between one another is provided. An associated method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates, LLC
    Inventors: Werner Karl Wild, Adam Thomas Nugent
  • Patent number: 9270063
    Abstract: A card edge connector for mating with a memory card includes a longitudinal insulative housing, a plurality of contact terminals received in the insulative housing, at least one pair of ejectors and two detect pins having spring and being moveable relatively each other. The ejectors are moveable between locking station and release station. One of the detect pins defines an engaging portion protruding into an inserting slot of the insulative housing for engaging with a bottom edge of the memory card and pushing the detect pins to connect disconnect with each other. Furthermore LED is combined with the detect pins for testing if the memory card is inserted into the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wen-Jun Tang, Xue-Wu Bu
  • Patent number: 9265170
    Abstract: Embodiments related to integrated circuit (IC) connectors are described. In some embodiments, an IC assembly may include an IC package substrate, an intermediate member, and a male connector. The IC package substrate may have first signal contacts on a top or bottom surface, and the bottom surface may have second signal contacts for coupling with a socket on a circuit board. The intermediate member may have a first end coupled to the first signal contacts and a second end extending beyond the side surface. The male connector may be disposed at the second end of the intermediate member, and may have signal contacts coupled to the signal contacts of the intermediate member. The male connector may be mateable with a female connector when the female connector is brought into engagement in a direction parallel to the axis of the intermediate member. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Rajasekaran Swaminathan, Ram S. Viswanath, Sanka Ganesan, Gaurav Chawla, Joshua D. Heppner, Jeffory L. Smalley, Vijaykumar Krithivasan, David J. Llapitan, Neal E. Ulen, Donald T. Tran
  • Patent number: 9257758
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an integrated extension cable/cord tie device includes male jack, a female jack, and a cable connected to the male jack and female jack. The cable comprises at least one electrical conductor forming an electrical connection between the male jack and the female jack, and a mechanical component that allows the cable to be bent to at least partially around an object upon the application of a first force, to substantially retain its shape after removal of the first force so as to remain at least partially around the object after removal of the first force, and to be unbent upon the application of a second force to be removed from the object. In another embodiment, the mechanical component is integrated directly into a non-detachable cord of a device or a detachable cord usable with one or more devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: NUDL INNOVATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Harvey Kellman
  • Patent number: 9252509
    Abstract: A terminal connection structure for an electric cable includes a first terminal connected to a part of an internal conductor which is exposed by peeling off a first insulating covering, a second terminal connected to a part of an external conductor which is exposed by peeling off a second insulating covering, and a housing member that surrounds an outer periphery of the first terminal and an outer periphery of the second terminal and contains the first terminal and the second terminal which are arranged coaxially in a separated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Takaaki Miyajima
  • Patent number: 9252532
    Abstract: A device for attaching an aircraft cabin module, which device comprises a component with limbs for the releasable locking of a plug pin, fitted to the aircraft cabin module, and a plurality of electrical contacts. The component is configured in U shape as the rail component, the limbs thereof having locking points for the releasable locking of the plug pin fitted to the aircraft cabin module and the center portion thereof connecting the two limbs comprising the electrical contacts for the voltage supply and for the exchange of data with the aircraft cabin module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Riedel, Michael Weidel
  • Patent number: 9236695
    Abstract: In a coaxial connector, a body part includes an upper surface, a bottom surface, a side surface, and a hole provided in the upper surface so that a substantially rodlike probe is to be inserted therein from an upper side. A fixed terminal is fixed to the body part. A movable terminal includes a lead portion disposed on the side surface, a fixed portion bent relative to the lead portion to extend in a horizontal direction and fixed to the body part, and a leaf spring portion bent relative to the lead portion to extend in the horizontal direction and contacting the fixed terminal from a lower side. The leaf spring portion is separated from the fixed terminal when pressed down by the probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Hoshiba, Yukihiro Kitaichi
  • Patent number: 9236683
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to network connectors, and more particularly, to apparatuses, systems, and methods associated with network jacks having compatibility with more than one plug and corresponding plugs. In one embodiment, the present invention is a jack having multiple printed circuit boards, wherein each circuit board is used for connection to a particular style of a plug. In one embodiment, the jack according to the present invention is compatible with an RJ45 plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Robert E. Fransen, Michael K. Yuan, Satish I. Patel
  • Patent number: 9226711
    Abstract: The invention generally relates to intravascular imaging catheters and methods of making catheters for imaging systems. The invention provides a connector for an imaging catheter that includes a unitary body with very thin electrical contacts that are formed on the surface of the body. Due to the scale of the contacts, the connector operates essentially as a single unitary piece of material. Each of the leads may be less than about 100 ?m wide and less than about 8 ?m thick, and further the leads may be spaced apart by less than about 160 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Volcano Corporation
    Inventors: Duane De Jong, Douglas Meyer