Patents Examined by Hien D. Vu
  • Patent number: 10707629
    Abstract: A connector including coupling and sleeve flanges defining opposing recesses separated by an axial gap along an elongate axis. The connector also includes a arcuate bridge member radially biased outwardly against at least one of the internal contact surfaces of the opposing recesses and spanning the axial gap. The arcuate bridge member maintains electrical conductivity across the axial gap even when the sleeve does not electrically contact the coupling member. At least one of the contact surfaces defines a conical surface which is responsive to the radially biased conductive bridge member to produce a radial force against the internal contact surfaces. The radial force produces an axial force component along the elongate axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Noah P. Montena, Robert M. Parker
  • Patent number: 10707603
    Abstract: An electrical cable connector comprising an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive contacts arranged on the insulating housing to be connected respectively with cables, and a resilient shell member attached to the insulating housing, wherein the resilient shell member includes a concealing portion for concealing a portion of the insulating housing on which the conductive contacts are arranged, a strip-shaped portion surrounding partially the insulating housing so as to cause an inner surface portion thereof to come into resilient contact with an outer surface portion of a mating connecting device, a pair of extended strip-shaped portions each extending to be bent from one of end portions of the strip-shaped portion so as to have a free end portion, and a pair of holding portions extending from the concealing portion for positioning respectively the extended strip-shaped portions from the outside thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Yufu, Takao Yamauchi
  • Patent number: 10693266
    Abstract: A coaxial electrical interconnect is disclosed. The coaxial electrical interconnect can include an inner conductor including an electrically conductive spring probe. The coaxial electrical interconnect can also include an outer conductor including a plurality of electrically conductive spring probes disposed about the inner conductor. Each spring probe can have a barrel and a plunger biased out of the barrel. The plunger can have a first plunger portion external to the barrel and a second plunger portion disposed partially in the barrel. The first and second plunger portions can have different diameters. A barrel of the spring probe of the inner conductor can be located proximate a plunger of at least one of the spring probes of the outer conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Chad Patterson, Duke Quach, Ethan S. Heinrich, Michael M. Fitzgibbon
  • Patent number: 10686280
    Abstract: The present invention provides a floating connector that includes a connector housing and a connector body. The connector housing has a housing opening, and the housing opening includes a plurality of conductive terminals. The connector body includes a housing member having a plurality of housing member terminal openings, a tongue connector, and a plurality of S-type conductive terminals connecting the housing member and the tongue connector. Wherein, the displacement of the housing member between the tongue connector retrieved by the deformation range of the S-type conductive terminals. When the connector body is connected with the connector housing, the plurality of S-type conductive terminals and the plurality of conductive terminals remain electrically connected in a floating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: P-TWO INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventor: Pi-Miao Chen
  • Patent number: 10680365
    Abstract: A plug board module with a circuit board, comprising at least one plug board, at least one circuit board and at least one cover. The plug board has a first plug-in area and a board trough, and the first plug-in area is formed with a plurality of first jacks and disposed with least one terminal set. The circuit board is disposed in the board trough and has a side conductive portion and a butt component, and conductive terminals disposed outside the first plug-in area are oppositely disposed in the side conductive portion. The cover covers the plug board and the circuit board, and has a plurality of through holes communicating with the first jacks. Thereby, the plug board can be connected to side conductive slots through the conductive terminals to achieve electrical conduction with the circuit board that is provided for an evaluation board to plug in directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Inventor: Jui Hsiang Lin
  • Patent number: 10673192
    Abstract: A power plug adapter includes a housing assembly, four plug assemblies movably arranged on the housing assembly, two rotating columns vertically arranged in the housing assembly and only rotating around an axis, and a movable pin arranged between the two rotating columns in an abutting mode. The plug assemblies are arranged in correspondence with one or more plastic bodies, one or more plug pins fixed on the plastic bodies, and one or more sliding buttons connected to the end of each of the plastic bodies. One or more sliding grooves for the sliding buttons to slide are provided on a shell of the housing assembly. In this construction, interlocking among the four plug assemblies can be achieved. The requirement of design, manufacture and assembly precision for the plug assembly and rotating column of the present invention are relatively decreased, and the possibility of a stuck fault is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: SHENZHEN OULI TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Song Liu
  • Patent number: 10673158
    Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a first connector having a first contact and a second connector having a second contact. The first contact has a first supported portion which is supported not to be moved in a horizontal direction, a first resiliently-support portion extending from the first supported portion and a first contact point supported by the first resiliently-support portion. The second contact has a second supported portion which is supported not to be moved in the horizontal direction, a second resiliently-support portion extending from the second supported portion and a second contact point supported by the second resiliently-support portion. Under a completely-mated state where the first connector and the second connector are completely mated with each other, the first contact point is in contact with the second supported portion, and the second contact point is in contact with the first supported portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigeharu Aoki, Akira Kimura
  • Patent number: 10673170
    Abstract: A lid arrangement including a lid and a surrounding panel. The lid includes a top wall facing outwards and one or more wall of a side wall and/or an end wall. The lid is transitable from a closed position to an open position via an intermediate position, the lid in the open position allowing access to the one or more wall of the side wall and/or the end wall. One of the lid and the surrounding panel includes a pivot axis and the other includes a slot configured to receive the pivot axis. The slot is configured for translational displacement of the pivot axis within the slot, allowing the lid to transit from the closed position to the intermediate position, and for pivotal displacement of the pivot axis within the slot, allowing the lid to transit from the intermediate position to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventor: Artur Hopfen
  • Patent number: 10658802
    Abstract: A plug comprising: a plurality of pins or a plurality of sockets; a body portion housing the plurality of pins or the plurality of sockets and the body portion extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the plurality of pins or the plurality of sockets; a connection section connected to the body portion and extending from the body portion at an obtuse angle; and a cord connected to an end of the connection section; wherein the body portion and the connection section are connected at a joint and the joint includes a sub-flush radius on an underside of the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignees: Gyrus Acmi, Inc., Olympus Winter & Ibe Gmbh, Gyrus Medical Limited
    Inventors: Friedemann Schreiber, Mario Arnold, Daniel Thomas, Kester J. Batchelor
  • Patent number: 10647275
    Abstract: The rotary connector device includes a rotator and a stator. The connector housing section of the rotator is formed so as to be capable of holding a rotator side connector configured to enable an electrical connections with the outside, and includes: a connector holding section protruding from the rotator main body of the rotator to the outside of an annular space in the stator; and a cover member that is a member configured to at least partially cover the connector holding section along a direction in which the connector holding section protrudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventor: Masatoshi Ushiyama
  • Patent number: 10651580
    Abstract: A circuit board connecting device comprising an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive contacts arranged on the insulating housing, and a resilient shell member attached to the insulating housing, wherein the resilient shell member includes a strip-shaped portion surrounding partially a board-facing surface portion of the insulating housing so as to cause an inner surface portion thereof to come into resilient contact with an outer surface portion of a mate connecting device, a pair of bent projecting portions each elongating to be bent from an end portion of the strip-shaped portion for projecting in a direction remote from the insulating housing, and a pair of extending portions each extending further to be bent from an end portion of the bent projecting portion so as to be opposite to the strip-shaped portion, so that the whole of the strip-shaped portion, the bent projecting portions and the extending portions constitute a spring member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenji Yufu
  • Patent number: 10644431
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a first-housing having a first-electrical-terminal, and a second-housing including a second-electrical-terminal disposed within a protective-shroud. The second-electrical-terminal includes a planar blade-shaped isolator formed of a dielectric material. The planar blade-shaped isolator has a spine, a tip, and a web. The tip includes a plurality of locating-tabs extending along the longitudinal-axis from a mid-line of the tip and overlaying the web. The second-electrical-terminal has a conductor formed of a single piece of electrically conductive-material. The conductor has a first-side that overlays a second-side and defining a U-shaped bend and a gap between the first-side and the second side. The gap is configured to receive the plurality of locating-tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Reedy, Michael L. Mellott, Steven William Marzo, Glenn E. Robison, Hoi Lui, Sudhakar Subramanian, Rangarajan Sundarakrishnamachari
  • Patent number: 10637165
    Abstract: Electrical wiring devices that incorporate clamp-type wire terminal connections are described. The electrical wiring devices include for example, single and duplex blade-type electrical receptacles, blade-type locking electrical receptacles, single or multi-pole electrical switches, combination switches and blade-type receptacles, blade-type plugs for electrical cords and blade-type connectors for electrical cords. The electrical wiring devices include a plurality of contact assemblies. Each contact assembly includes a wire terminal and a plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thomas L. Scanzillo, Edward Bazayev
  • Patent number: 10637173
    Abstract: An apparatus (2) for establishing an electrically conductive connection is disclosed. The apparatus (2) comprises at least one first electrical conductor element (4), which has a first contact pole (4?). In addition, the apparatus (2) comprises at least one second electrical conductor element (6), which has a second contact pole (6?). The at least one first electrical conductor element (4) is surrounded in at least some areas by a first electrically insulating casing element (8), by means of which the first contact pole (4?) of the at least one first conductor element (4) is accommodated and/or held. The at least one second electrical conductor element (6) is also surrounded in at least some areas by a second electrically insulating casing element (12), by means of which the second contact pole (6?) of the at least one second conductor element (6) is accommodated and/or held.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: GENTHERM GMBH
    Inventors: Simon Hanke, Felix Brunner, Markus Ißler
  • Patent number: 10622761
    Abstract: A movable floating connector is disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a fixed structure coupled to a chassis, a movable floating connector assembly, and an elastic object. The movable floating connector assembly includes a receiving connector configured to engage with a module connector of an insertable module removable from the chassis. The elastic object is interfaced between at least a portion of the fixed structure and at least a portion of the movable floating connector assembly. The elastic object is configured to provide a force on the movable floating connector assembly against a direction of insertion of the insertable module to maintain a consistent engagement between the receiving connector of the movable floating connector assembly and the module connector of the insertable module across a variation in length in the direction of insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Held, Michael Haken, Tiffany Jin
  • Patent number: 10622742
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an earphone socket, a mounting structure and a mobile terminal. The earphone socket includes: a support base; a functional assembly including a microphone resilient component, a right channel resilient component and a left channel resilient component which are fixed on the support base; and an earthing resilient component fixed on the support base. The microphone resilient component includes a first arc-shaped sleeve. The right channel resilient component includes a second arc-shaped sleeve. The left channel resilient component includes a circular sleeve and a first resilient contact piece coupled to the circular sleeve. The first arc-shaped sleeve, the second arc-shaped sleeve, and the circular sleeve are arranged to define a plughole configured to mate with the earphone plug. The first resilient contact piece is configured to press the earphone plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Jia Chen
  • Patent number: 10622773
    Abstract: In order to enable a simple and secure handling on a wiring of a safety switching apparatus, a safety switching apparatus for the secure switching on and/or off of at least one electrical machine is made available that comprises at least one conductor plate having at least one control unit for controlling the electrical machine and having electrical contacts and a plug connector that can be plugged onto the conductor plate for electrically connecting to the contacts, wherein the plug connector is provided with first connector sockets for the connection of at least one signal encoder and with second connector sockets for the connection of the electrical machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventor: Markus Saumer
  • Patent number: 10615526
    Abstract: A surface-mount connector includes, a connector body, connection terminals provided to the connector body that are placed on terminal solder portions on a surface of a circuit board, and a positioning portion provided to the connector body that includes a solder portion being press-fitted into a through-hole of the circuit board with the connection terminals placed on the terminal solder portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Yasushi Masuda
  • Patent number: 10615544
    Abstract: A plug electrical connector including an insulator, a pair of side-latches, a terminal set, and a shielding shell is provided. The pair of side-latches and a plurality of terminals of the terminal set are arranged along a first axis, and each of them extends along a second axis. The pair of side-latches and the terminal set are respectively disposed in the insulator, and the pair of side-latches are located on two sides of the terminal set. The shielding shell covers the insulator along the second axis. The side-latch includes at least one protrusion exposed out of the insulator along a third axis and structurally leaning against the shielding shell, such that the shielding shell is electrically connected with the pair of side-latches. The first axis, the second axis, and the third axis are orthogonal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Ming-Yung Chang, Cheng-Che Tsai
  • Patent number: 10615535
    Abstract: A connector includes a cavity for stowing a pre-installed sealing member. The cavity is defined by a first or coupler seal cavity formed on the inside surface of a coupler and a second or insert seal cavity formed on the outer periphery of an insert. Relative motion of the coupler and the insert during assembly causes the sealing member to be displaced from a stowed or inactive seal position to an assembled or active seal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventor: Harold J. Watkins