Patents Examined by Harshad Patel
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Patent number: 9225123Abstract: A USB receptacle mateable with a USB plug along a mating direction is disclosed. The USB receptacle comprises a holder member made of insulator, a shell made of conductor, and a detection pin made of conductor which is separated and is different from the shell. The detection pin is made of resiliently-deformable material and is held by the holder member so as not to be in direct contact with the shell. The detection pin includes a first contact portion and a second contact portion. The first contact portion and the second contact portion pinch a part of a plug shell of the USB plug when the USB receptacle is mated with the USB plug.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Kouhei Ueda
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Patent number: 9225124Abstract: A connector includes an electronic component (60), a holder (20) for holding the electronic component (60), a housing (10) including an insertion opening (11), into which the holder (20) is insertable and which is open only in one direction, and configured to accommodate the holder (20) holding the electronic component (60), and conductive members (40) for conductively connecting the electronic component (60) and mating terminal fittings. The conductive members (40) include holder press-fit portions (51, 53) to be press-fitted into the holder (20) and housing press-fit portions (55) to be press-fitted into the housing (10) and the holder (20) is held in the housing (10) by the conductive members (40).Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2014Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Motohiro Ando, Tomoyuki Kondo
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Patent number: 9219334Abstract: A connection terminal includes a movable contact portion protruding out of a contact hole of a housing of the connection terminal, and is adapted to be pressed; a first curved portion continuously formed, the first curved portion including a free end portion having a fixed portion; a second curved portion continuously formed, the second curved portion including a free end portion having the movable contact portion; a rigid coupling portion interposed between the first curved portion and the second curved portion, and an abutment portion disposed on an opposite side to the second curved portion with respect to the movable contact portion, and adapted to be displaced toward the rigid coupling portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 22, 2015Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Takahiro Sakai, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9209538Abstract: A memory card connector includes first and second connectors including first and second housings having first and second storage sections, respectively, and first and second contacts which connect with terminals of first and second memory cards removably-inserted into the first and second storage sections, respectively. The first and second connectors are superposed on each other in a direction of thickness thereof. Each first contact includes a first tail which is mountable to a circuit board and positioned on an outer peripheral side of a first side surface of the first housing. The second housing includes a second side surface located at a different position from the first side surface as viewed in the thickness direction. Each second contact includes a second tail which is mountable to the circuit board and positioned on an outer peripheral side of the second side surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: KYOCERA Connector Products CorporationInventors: Kazuta Yoshida, Yoshifumi Okabe, Hidehiro Nakamura
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Patent number: 9203185Abstract: A multi-segmented security loop cable has a plurality of electrical conductor segments, each having a male connector on one end and a female connector on the other end, the connectors being joined by an electrical cable. Socket contacts and pin contacts are crimped to the stripped ends of individual wires in the cable. The contacts are embedded in a male or female body to form either a plug housing or a receptacle housing. The housings have a compression ring installed thereon to retain the contacts in the body. The housings have a strain relief member over-molded thereon to complete the connectors by chemically bonding to the connector body, exposed wire insulation and the cable outer jacket to form an integral unit of these elements for electrical and mechanical protection. A method of using the security loop cable is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: PAIGE ELECTRIC COMPANY, LPInventor: Mark D. Ahlers
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Patent number: 9203186Abstract: A lever-type connector is provided, with the lever-type connector having a housing containing a contact, a wire cover attachable to a rear side of the housing, and a lever rotatably attached to the housing. The wire cover includes a guide with a cover guide surface extending toward the housing and a stopper surface extending from an end of the wire cover and intersecting the cover guide surface. The lever includes a pair of side plates positioned around the wire cover, each of the pair of side plates having a guide protrusion positioned along an end thereof and projecting toward the housing and engaging the guide when the lever is made at a predetermined angle once the lever is attached to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Seiji Shishikura, Kazushige Sakamaki
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Patent number: 9203175Abstract: An inline connector assembly having a bottom body structure and a top body structure hingedly connected thereto. The bottom body structure has a plurality of resilient conductive members to receive the conductive portions of the inline tail which is received in a longitudinal bore in the top body structure. A latch structure is provided to maintain the inline connector assembly in a closed position. An electrode tail guide and stop member are provided in the inline connector assembly for ease of electrode insertion and tail contact alignment.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: PMT CorporationInventor: Benjamin J. Osa
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Patent number: 9196429Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a contact structure for electromechanical switch. The contact structure is using the design including a PCB and a moving contact to allow the actuations and have great switch characteristics whose range is from DC to high frequency.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: INTAI TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventor: Richard Loon Sun
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Patent number: 9196988Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first connector having a first mounting side that extends along a first plane. The first connector is configured to be mounted to a first circuit board along the first mounting side such that the first circuit board extends approximately parallel to the first plane. A second connector is configured to mate with the first connector. The second connector has a second mounting side that extends along a second plane that extends approximately perpendicular to the first plane. The second connector is configured to be mounted to a second circuit board along the second mounting side such that the second circuit board extends approximately parallel to the second plane. The first and second connectors are configured to move relative to each other along a float axis that extends approximately perpendicular to the second plane when the first and second connectors are mated together.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventor: Kevin Michael Thackston
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Patent number: 9190791Abstract: A splice connector for a busway system utilizes individual connectors made of a conductive material and having a u-shaped cross-section that fit over ends of a pair of busbars to be connected to each other, and within which are mounted multi-contact louvers that extend the length of the connectors to establish a low impedance electrical connection between the connector and the respective busbars. The louvers are secured in place by a dovetail groove that retains the louvers within the connectors and causes the individual contact sections of the louvers to bow outwardly so as to press against the busbars when the connector is fitted over the busbars. The connectors are snapped into insulative housing halves or sections that align the connectors with the busbars, and that provide isolation between horizontally aligned pairs of connectors.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: Power Distribution, Inc.Inventors: Mario L. Jaena, Vladimir Gulkarov, Isaac Folk
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Patent number: 9190767Abstract: An object is to provide an electrical connection structure between a module device and outside having high reliability of electrical connection and excellent assembling performance. There is provided the electrical connection structure of a module device, wherein a housing accommodating the module device has a mounting hole for mounting a cable connector electrically connected with an external device, a contact of the module device side is disposed inside a housing positioned in the mounting hole, the structure includes a terminal pressed and connected to the contact of the module device side, and a connector housing that accommodates and holds the terminal, the terminal is held in the connector housing so as to have airtight and watertight properties from a connection portion between the terminal and a core wire of a cable to a covering portion of the cable, and the cable connector and the housing are connected so as to have the watertight property.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: SMK CorporationInventor: Takanobu Makimura
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Patent number: 9176537Abstract: Particular examples described herein provide for an electronic device, such as a notebook computer or laptop, which includes a circuit board coupled to a plurality of electronic components (which includes any type of hardware, elements, circuitry, etc.). The electronic device may also include a connector assembly that is positioned within at least a portion of a recess of the electronic device, where the connector assembly includes: a first assembly that is to receive a connector; and a second assembly that is to receive an identification module that is to provide an association between a user and the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Sameer Sharma, Douglas Satzger, Gadi Amit, Yoshikazu Hoshino, Chadwick Harber, Daniel Clifton, Phil Houdek, Stanislav Moiseyenko, Nathan Jauvtis
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Patent number: 9172166Abstract: To provide a press-fit terminal and a terminal press-fit structure that enable shortening of a press-fit portion in its longitudinal direction and miniaturization of a connector. A press-fit terminal has insertion stoppers that are projectingly provided on respective flanks of a press-fit portion and that have respective engagement surfaces oriented orthogonally to a press-fit direction; and holding projections that are projectingly provided on respective protruding leading-end faces of the insertion stoppers and that bite into interior side walls of a press-fit hole of a housing which receives the press-fit portion. Each of the holding projections is projectingly formed in a portion of the protruding leading-end face of the insertion stopper along its thicknesswise direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2013Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Kousuke Kida, Akihiro Tsuruta
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Patent number: 9172156Abstract: A coaxial cable connector comprising a connector body having a first end and a second end, wherein the connector body is configured to receive a coaxial cable through the second end, a first cooperating surface disposed within the connector body, wherein the first cooperating surface is a surface of a clamp, the clamp is configured to threadably engage an outer conductor of the coaxial cable, and a second cooperating surface, wherein the second cooperating surface cooperates with the first cooperating surface to collapse an outer conductor of the coaxial cable, wherein at least a portion of the second cooperating surface malleably deforms to a variable axial thickness of a non-uniform collapsed portion of the outer conductor is provided. An associated method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2012Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: John Mezzalingua Associates, LLCInventors: Adam T. Nugent, Ian J. Baker, Christopher P. Natoli, Noah Montena
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Patent number: 9172176Abstract: A digital card connector assembly (10) for mounting to a panel (100) having a slot (101) whereby a digital card (90) may be inserted into the digital card connector assembly to communicate with an electronic device (95). The digital card connector assembly includes a connector body (10), a cable assembly (50), and a radio frequency (RF) shield (30). The connector body has a plurality of electrical contacts configured to make contact with a plurality of electrical contacts of the digital card when the digital card is inserted into the digital card connector assembly. The cable assembly has a plurality of electrical conductors (87) electrically connected to the plurality of electrical contacts of the connector body. The RF shield is affixed to the connector body and is configured to make electrical contact with the panel when the digital card connector assembly is mounted to the panel.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2014Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: GENESIS TECHNOLOGY USA, INC.Inventors: Tao Chuan Chen, Ronald L. Hodge, William Gray Vallely
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Patent number: 9167734Abstract: A shielding apparatus connectable between a circuit board and a connector having pins connectable to the circuit board is provided. The shielding apparatus includes a wall element defining opposite sides and connection locations respectively connectable with the connector and the circuit board and is configured as an electro-magnetic interference skirt to block radiation emanating from and receivable by the pins.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANYInventor: Jayson Kahle Bopp
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Patent number: 9160089Abstract: Provided is a wire-to-board connector including a plug attached to a wire, and a receptacle mounted on a circuit board. The plug and the receptacle are formed of metal. The plug is fitted into the receptacle to electrically connect the wire to the circuit board. The receptacle has an accommodating portion formed in a tubular shape. The plug has an inserted portion to be inserted into the accommodating portion of the receptacle. The inserted portion includes a body plate and an elastic piece elastically supported in a cantilevered manner by the body plate. The elastic piece of the inserted portion has a free end. The accommodating portion has an engaged portion. When the inserted portion is inserted into the accommodating portion, the free end engages with the engaged portion along with an elastic deformation of the elastic piece, thereby allowing the plug to be fitted into the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.Inventor: Kenichi Shimoji
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Patent number: 9153926Abstract: A USB plug connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing, a metal shield (3) covering the insulative housing, a PCB (4) soldered with the contacts, an insulative cover (5) partly molded over a part of the metal shield, and a cable (6) connecting to the PCB and electrically connected with the contacts. The metal shield includes a top wall (31), a bottom wall (32), a front wall (33) connecting with the top wall and the bottom wall, and a pair of sidewalls (34) extending from two lateral edges of the front wall and retained between the top wall and the bottom wall. Each sidewall has a pair of protrusions (35) respectively on an upper edge and a lower edge thereof. Each of the top wall and the bottom wall has a number of cutouts (312) correspondingly receiving the protrusions.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhuang-Zhi Wu, Xue-Chao Wang, Xiao-Li Li
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Patent number: 9153878Abstract: A method is provided for attaching a termination arrangement to a shielded cable which includes a conductive core, a core insulation layer, a conductive shield layer, and an outer insulation layer. A length of the outer insulation layer is removed to expose an end portion of the conductive shield layer and a length of the core insulation layer is removed to expose a portion of the conductive core. The termination assembly is provided having a terminal, a core crimp section in electrical communication with the terminal, and an inner ferrule section connected to the core crimp section. The core crimp section is positioned adjacent to the exposed conductive core and crimped around said conductive core in electrical contact therewith. The inner ferrule section is positioned adjacent to the exposed conductive shield layer and crimped around the core insulation layer. The core crimp section is separated from the inner ferrule section.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eric B. Poma, Kurt Paul Seifert, William J. Palm
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Patent number: 9153915Abstract: Provided is a connector including a first connector having a first terminal and a first mating guide portion, and a second connector having a second terminal engaging the first terminal and a second mating guide portion fitted with the first mating guide portion, in which the first mating guide portion includes a fixed terminal for detecting the mating of the first connector and the second connector, the second mating guide portion includes a resilient terminal for detecting the mating of the first connector and the second connector, and the fixed terminal or the resilient terminal has a piezoelectric electric element.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Hirokazu Suzuki, Toshihiro Niitsu, Osamu Matsuzaka, Hiroshi Ueno