Patents Examined by Hien Vu
  • Patent number: 10148023
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, provided with multiple accommodating holes penetrating therethrough, multiple terminals, and multiple solder posts. Each terminal is located in a corresponding accommodating hole and provided with a retaining portion. Each solder post is provided with a base, a fixing portion extending upward from the base, and a welding portion extending downward from the base. The base has a first surface, the welding portion has a second surface, and the first surface and the second surface are connected to form an intersecting angle. A width of the base is greater than a width of the fixing portion, and the width of the base is greater than a width of the welding portion. A corresponding retaining portion retains the fixing portion, and the welding portion is located outside the corresponding retaining portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ted Ju, Zuo Feng Jin
  • Patent number: 10148043
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector for mating with a complementary receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing enclosed within a metallic shell and forming a mating cavity and two rows of contacts disposed in the housing by opposite sides of the mating cavity in the vertical direction. The grounding contact includes a first contacting section for contacting the corresponding terminal of the complementary receptacle connector and a second contacting section in front of the first contacting section for contacting the grounding collar of the complementary receptacle connector wherein the second contacting section is optionally connected to the metallic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10135188
    Abstract: An enclosure assembly for an electrical connector is disclosed. The enclosure assembly comprises a housing body having a catch securing the housing body to a portion of the electrical connector and a lock. The lock is movable between an unlocking position and a locking position in which the lock prevents movement of the catch, and pivotable from the locking position into a secured position preventing movement of the lock back to the unlocking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Connecteurs Electriques Deutsch
    Inventor: Laurent Houry
  • Patent number: 10135161
    Abstract: A connector has a conductive member attaching portion to which an end portion of a conductive member is to be attached, and a holder portion provided with an insertion hole into which the conductive member is inserted, and a fitting hole into which the conductive member attaching portion is fitted, the fitting hole being in communication with the insertion hole, the holder portion being configured to hold the conductive member attaching portion. The holder portion is provided with engaged portions with which engaging portions, which are provided at respective ends of the conductive member in the width direction, engage. The conductive member attaching portion is provided with a closing portion configured to close a part of the insertion hole. When the conductive member attaching portion has been fitted into the holder portion, the closing portion closes a part of the insertion hole with the engaging portions engaged with the engaged portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Sunada
  • Patent number: 10131297
    Abstract: In an electric connection box and a wire harness, a side cover is attached to an outer peripheral surface of a housing, and the housing and the side cover form a side space portion. An electric wire extends from an internal space portion to the side space portion and is routed to the outside of the housing through the side space portion. In the electric wire, an electric wire main body is formed along an inclined direction of an inclined wall of the side cover. A regulating portion is formed along the inclined direction of the inclined wall in the housing in the side space portion. A gap between the electric wire and the housing is filled with the regulating portion. In the side space portion, the electric wire main body is positioned between the inclined wall of the side cover and the regulating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takaaki Kakimi, Tatsuhiko Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10128611
    Abstract: A ferrule assembly for terminating an electrical connector to a cable includes an inner ferrule, an outer ferrule and an inner ferrule sleeve. The inner ferrule has an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner ferrule is conductive and provides electrical shielding. The outer ferrule is positioned radially outside of the inner ferrule such that a cable shield of the cable is received between the inner ferrule and the outer ferrule. The outer ferrule secures the cable shield between the inner ferrule and the outer ferrule. The inner ferrule sleeve is positioned radially inside of the inner ferrule. The inner ferrule sleeve substantially fills the space between the inner ferrule and an inner jacket of the cable. The inner ferrule sleeve is dielectric and electrically isolating the inner ferrule from an inner conductor of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David James Rhein, Aric J. Boyer, Thomas Robert DeWitte
  • Patent number: 10116090
    Abstract: A female connector includes a main body, a base, and a lock arm. The main body includes a connection hole for receiving a male connector, and a slot communicating with the hole. The base is located on the removing direction side relative to the slot. The lock arm includes a first arm with a free end, extending in the receiving direction from the base inside the slot, a middle portion extending from the free end away from the hole, a second arm spaced from the first arm, extending from the middle portion in the removing direction, and a lock projection extending from the free end into the hole for fitting in a lock hole of the male connector or abutting a protrusion of the male connector from the removing direction side. At least the first and second arms and the middle portion can be compressed between the base, and an edge of the lock hole or the protrusion as applying load on the projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuta Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 10116105
    Abstract: Connectors that may provide illumination at an opening in order to facilitate the mating to a corresponding connector by a user. The illumination may be generated on a tongue of a connector insert or in a connector receptacle. For connector receptacles, illumination may be guided to illuminate an opening of the connector receptacle, it may be guided out of a front edge of a tongue in the connector receptacle, or it may be guided in other directions. For connector inserts, illumination may be out of a front edge or sides of a tongue in the connector insert, or it may be guided in other directions. The illumination may be colored or patterned to convey information to a user. Other examples may include a connector system having a connector insert with a light guide to provide illumination from a connector receptacle to an opening in the connector insert where it may be viewed by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chia Chi Wu, Zhengyu Li, Zheng Gao
  • Patent number: 10111468
    Abstract: A vaporization device is provided having a plurality of pens each having a battery, a mouthpiece, and a ventilated end. A vaporization device is also provided which is disposable having a plurality of pens, each having a vaporization chamber containing a coil, a battery, a PCB, a sensor, and a tank containing e-liquid for vaporization in the pen vaporization chamber through the coil of the pen to create a vaporization product which is mixed in a vapor port of the device through which a plurality of vaporization products are delivered to a user through the mouthpiece of the device in a single vaporization event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: DB INNOVATION INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Fornarelli
  • Patent number: 10103483
    Abstract: A coaxial plug-in connector arrangement is provided having an electrically conductive outer sleeve, and an electrically conductive inner sleeve which is insertable into the outer sleeve in the axial direction and is electrically connectable to the outer sleeve. A first contact pin is insertable into the outer sleeve from a side facing away from the inner sleeve. A second contact pin is insertable into the inner sleeve from a side facing away from the outer sleeve. An insulating part in which an inner conductor part is mounted is located in the inner sleeve. The two contact pins are connectable to one another in an electrically conductive manner via the inner conductor part. An arresting element is mountable on one of the two sleeves before insertion of the inner sleeve into the outer sleeve. The inner sleeve is detachably fixable in the outer sleeve by means of the arresting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: KATHREIN-Werke KG
    Inventors: Werner Haegele, Erik Baechle, Guenter Waeller, Stefan Berger, Thomas Haunberger, Mario Guenther, Manfred Stolle
  • Patent number: 10103454
    Abstract: A terminal has a plurality of clamping portions in which surfaces facing each other serve as clamping surfaces. The plurality of clamping portions are crimped such that the respective clamping surfaces are substantially parallel to each other, thereby clamping strands configuring a fiber conductor, by the clamping surfaces. Each of the plurality of clamping portions is bent at least once in a longitudinal direction of an electric wire so as to maintain a state where the clamping surfaces are substantially parallel to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Hisashi Hanazaki
  • Patent number: 10096921
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing, a plurality of electrical signal contacts carried by the dielectric housing, and a ground plate carried by the dielectric housing. The electrical signal contacts are arranged along a first plane, wherein the signal contacts define signal pairs. The signal contacts further define respective mating and mounting ends. The ground plate includes a ground plate body oriented in a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane and offset from the first plane. The ground plate body defines first and second opposed surfaces. The ground plate includes at least one rib that defines first and second opposed surfaces, wherein the first surface of the rib projects from the first surface of the ground plate body in a direction toward the first plane between adjacent signal pairs, and the second surface is recessed into the second surface of the ground plate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Douglas M. Johnescu, Jonathan E. Buck
  • Patent number: 10096948
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base and a frontal tongue, the base having a front face; an upper and lower rows of contacts mounted in the insulative housing and exposed respectively to two opposite sides of the tongue; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing and having a protruding wall (44) abutting the front face of the insulative housing base; and a fixing plate (6) received inside the shielding shell and welded to the protruding wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yang-Yang Yu, Jin-Guo Qiu, Shao-Cong Zhou, Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10096913
    Abstract: An electric wire with terminal metal fitting includes an electric wire including a conductor portion and an insulating coating portion, and a terminal metal fitting including an electric-wire coupling portion coupled to a terminal portion of the electric wire. The electric-wire coupling portion includes an exposed-conductor press-bonded portion press-bonded to the exposed conductor portion; an insulation-coating press-bonded portion press-bonded to the insulating coating portion, and an intermediate integrated continuous-contact portion ensuring integrally continuous contact between the exposed-conductor press-bonded portion and the insulation-coating press-bonded portion such that the exposed conductor portion is not exposed to the outside. The electric-wire coupling portion has an inner side surface where an insulating resin layer is formed at least in a front end portion and a rear end portion in an extending direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kei Sato
  • Patent number: 10096939
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a connector capable of suppressing opening deformation of an operating member and avoiding enlargement. A U-shaped operating member (11) is arranged to straddle a housing (10) and is linearly movable from an initial position to a connection position while arms (37) slide on the housing (10) and proceeds with a connecting operation of the housing (10) and a mating housing (12) by cam engagement of the arms (37) with the mating housing (12) during a movement. The housing (10) includes support shafts (18) and the arms (37) include linearly extending long grooves (39) into which the support shafts (18) are inserted to be slidable in contact therewith. The support shaft (18) includes jaws (19) and the long groove (39) includes an engaging edge (44) configured to contact the jaws (19) in an opening direction of the arm (37).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Chikusa, Shinji Iihoshi
  • Patent number: 10090622
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector including a first connector housing with a wall arranged substantially perpendicular to the connecting axis. The wall has an opening for insertion of a second connector housing. A first collar extends from the wall concentrically around the opening. A second collar extends from the wall concentrically around the first collar. The first collar and the second collar are spaced apart. A sleeve-shaped coding element is attached with a first end to the free end of the first collar. The first collar and the sleeve-shaped coding element are arranged concentrically around the opening. A sealing element is arranged in a sealing area between the first collar and the second collar. The sleeve-shaped coding element includes a supporting feature at its first end which is suitable for holding the sealing element in its position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Ludwig, Gert Droesbeke
  • Patent number: 10084247
    Abstract: It is aimed to reduce work man-hours when a twisted pair cable is brought into pressure contact. A connector (C) includes two insulation displacement terminal fittings (30) with which wires (41A, 41B) constituting a twisted pair cable (40A, 40B) are individually brought into pressure contact, a holder (10) configured to hold the two insulation displacement terminal fittings (30) such that pressure contact portions (34) formed in the insulation displacement terminal fittings (30) are arranged in a direction intersecting with a routing direction of the twisted pair cable (40A, 40B), and a dividing rib (37, 38) formed in the holder (10) and configured to separate two wires (41A, 41B) to correspond to two pressure contact portions (34) in the process of bringing the twisted pair cable (40A, 40B) closer to pressure contact positions with the pressure contact portions (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Matsui, Yasuo Omori
  • Patent number: 10084251
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with a plurality of contacts therein. The housing includes an elongated base extending along a longitudinal direction, and a pair of deflectable latches extending forwardly from two opposite ends of the base. The base includes a first side wall and a second side wall commonly define a receiving slot is therebetween in a vertical direction to receive a memory module therein. Each latch forms an inner face confronting a corresponding side edge of the memory module. The inner face is recessed around a bottom/root section of the latch so as to be spaced from the side edge of the memory module for not potentially damaging the side edge of the memory module during rotational installation of the memory module into the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wei-Guo Sun, Guang-Lei Xu
  • Patent number: 10074941
    Abstract: A high-speed connector includes an insulating body, an insulating cap, two terminal sets and two shielding sheets. The insulating body includes a body portion and a tongue plate. The tongue plate divides the interior of the body portion into two accommodating spaces. The insulating cap is fitted around the front end of the tongue plate of the insulating body. Each of the two terminal sets includes a terminal base and a plurality of terminals. The two shielding sheets are disposed on one side of each of the two terminal sets respectively. A plurality of ground ports is disposed on one side of each shielding sheet respectively, in which the plurality of ground ports contacts the plurality of ground terminals of the plurality of terminals of each terminal set so that the two shielding sheets form ground shielding with the ground terminals of each terminal set respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NEXTRONICS ENGINEERING CORP.
    Inventors: Hou-An Su, Hung-Wei Hsu, Chang-Fa Yang, Xiao-Qiong Liao, Mei-Jie Zhou
  • Patent number: 10058126
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a cartridge (12) and an atomizing assembly (13); the atomizing assembly (13) is fixed in the cartridge (12); the atomizing assembly (13) comprises a reservoir (105), a liquid guiding medium (106) and a heating element (107); the reservoir (105) has a liquid storage cavity (108) storing tobacco liquid and a liquid outlet (109); the liquid outlet (109) communicates with the liquid storage cavity (108); the liquid guide medium (106) is porous liquid guiding material, and is connected to the liquid outlet (109); the heating element (107) is fixed in the cartridge (12), and a gap exists between the heating element (107) and the liquid guide medium (106); the liquid guide medium (106) guides the tobacco liquid out of the reservoir (105) via the liquid outlet (109) and stores the tobacco liquid; the gap exists between the heating element (107) and the liquid guide medium (106) so that the heating element (107) heats the liquid guide medium (106) without directly contacting the liquid
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Shenzhen Smoore Technology Limited
    Inventor: Zhiping Chen