Patents Examined by Justin M Kratt
  • Patent number: 12237616
    Abstract: An electrical interconnection system with an adapter mounted in an opening within a connector interface of a panel of an electronic enclosure is described. A sealing member may be used to prevent passage of foreign matter, such as liquid, gas or dust particles into the enclosure and into the mating region between the adapter and a mating plug connector. The sealing member may comprise a base and a sidewall configured to wrap around an outer border of the adapter. The sealing member may be configured to form a first sealing interface with the panel, and a second sealing interface with the plug connector. The first and second sealing interfaces may be orthogonal to each other. The sealing member may be made of an elastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Koen Maddens, Thierry Goossens, Mithun Hormese Paul
  • Patent number: 12225939
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating device is provided, including a heater assembly including at least one heating element; an aerosol-forming substrate proximate to the assembly and including a liquid mixture including nicotine and a first aerosol-former having a boiling temperature higher than nicotine; a power supply to supply power to the assembly to generate an aerosol from the substrate; a mouthpiece to draw aerosol out of the device; and control circuitry to control the supply of power to the assembly, supply a first power to the element or to supply a power sufficient to maintain the element at a first temperature or first temperature range, between user puffs, and supply a second power to the element being higher than the first power or to raise a temperature of the element above the first temperature or the first temperature range, during user puffs, to provide preferential evaporation of nicotine over the first aerosol former.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Irene Taurino
  • Patent number: 12230907
    Abstract: A contact is accommodated in a contact accommodating portion of a second insulator, an end portion of an electric wire is accommodated in an opened electric-wire-end-portion accommodating portion of a projection of a first insulator, the projection is accommodated in a projection accommodating portion of a contact with a flexible conductor being sandwiched therebetween and such that the opened electric-wire-end-portion accommodating portion is opposed to an electric-wire connection piece of the contact, the electric wire extends from the electric-wire-end-portion accommodating portion and makes contact with an electric-wire contact portion of the electric-wire connection piece of the contact, and a part of the flexible conductor is sandwiched between an outer surface of the projection and a conductor contact piece of the contact and makes contact with the conductor contact piece of the contact, whereby the electric wire is electrically connected to the flexible conductor via the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Akira Kimura
  • Patent number: 12230922
    Abstract: An electrical header for use in an electrical connector assembly includes a body adapted to mount to an object and having an opening formed therethrough for receiving an electrical terminal. The body further defines a plug on a first side thereof and adapted to engage with a mating electrical connector of the assembly. The plug includes a pair of first opposing sidewalls extending from the body and defining a locking feature adapted to engage with a corresponding locking feature of the mating connector, and a pair of second opposing sidewalls extending from the body and defining a keying feature. The first and second pairs of opposing sidewalls are adapted to mate with a first mating connector oriented in a first direction, and mate with a second mating connector oriented in a second direction distinct from the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Robert DeWitte, Adam Price Tyler, Lindsey Gatesman, David James Rhein
  • Patent number: 12225639
    Abstract: A portable aerosol-generating device for receiving an aerosol-generating substance includes a chamber arranged to receive an aerosol-generating substance and an aerosol-generating unit configured to generate an aerosol from the aerosol-generating substance for a user to inhale in use. The chamber is configured to be releasably inserted into the device through an opening in the device. This allows the chamber to be removed from the device and cleaned between consecutive uses of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: JT International S.A.
    Inventors: Pingkun Liu, Yongbao Yuan, Juan José Moreno Rodríguez, Damian Dickson
  • Patent number: 12224514
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector has a housing, in which at least one insertion opening and at least one guide for a complementary plug connector with at least one electrical contact pin are arranged. At least one contact element that is elastically deflectable out of the path of the contact pin is mounted in the housing and at least partially protrudes into the insertion opening when the complementary plug connector is absent. The lateral edge of the contact element facing the contact pin, in its front section, encloses an acute angle with the path of the contact pin during the insertion when viewed in the direction of the deflection of the contact element. When the cable plug connector is fully inserted, a flat contact section of the contact element, adjoining the lateral edge, in the transverse direction abuts in contact with the contact pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: NEUTRIK AG
    Inventor: Oliver Dobler
  • Patent number: 12218402
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for securing a first module and a second module in a space between a first mount and a second mount. The device comprises a biasing apparatus configured to urge the first module and the second module away from each other, thereby urging the first module against the first mount and urging the second module against the second mount. Further, the device comprises a release apparatus configured to move the first module and the second module toward each other, thereby moving the first module away from the first mount and moving the second module away from the second mount. The device provides an uncomplicated and flexible mounting and demounting of the first module and second module, thus attaining a flexible and uncomplicated attachment of each module to the respective mount and a flexible and uncomplicated detachment of each module from the respective mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Niklas Lekselius, Stefan Bornholm
  • Patent number: 12218445
    Abstract: A female multipolar connector includes a first internal terminal; a second internal terminal; a first external terminal; and a first insulator that holds the first external terminal. The first internal terminal is a male type and is arranged on an inner side portion of the first external terminal. The second internal terminal is a female type and is arranged on an outer side portion of the first external terminal. A height of the first external terminal is greater than a height of the first internal terminal. The first external terminal is the female type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuma Amemori, Takahiro Jodo
  • Patent number: 12212091
    Abstract: Provided is a connector apparatus including: a circuit board; a connector; and a mold resin portion, wherein the circuit board includes a conductor path, the connector includes a housing with a cylindrical shape and made of a resin, and a terminal projecting outward in an axial direction of the housing from inside the housing, the terminal being configured to connect to the conductor path, the mold resin portion collectively covers the circuit board, the terminal located outside the housing, and a portion of the housing; the housing and the mold resin portion include a welded portion formed by welding together constituent materials of the housing and the mold resin portion, and the welded portion is provided around an entire periphery of the housing and has a difference between a maximum width and a minimum width along a circumferential direction of the housing of 30% or less of the maximum width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Yamashita, Tatsuo Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 12212041
    Abstract: A plug-in electronic expansion module for pump electronics of a centrifugal pump for expanding the pump electronics with at least one additional function has a housing having a lower face and connecting formations thereon for attachment to a pump housing of the pump electronics. Electronics in the module housing provide the additional function. A base is provided on the lower face, and an electrical interface connected to the pump electronics includes a flat support projecting tongue-like from the base on the lower face of the module housing through an opening in the pump housing and carrying contact-forming electrical traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: WILO SE
    Inventors: Stephan Karns, Markus Brockmann, Daniel Bencak, Arno Kefenbaum, Timo Starkmuth, Herve Bouilly, Franck Terrien, Dirk Nowak, Peter Kleine-Rumberg
  • Patent number: 12206198
    Abstract: A plurality of cavities 22 of a housing 20 extend in a front-rear direction and are arranged side by side in a width direction. The housing 20 includes a recess 32, 32A open in one surface in a height direction in a partition wall 23 partitioning between the cavities 22 adjacent in the width direction. The recess 32, 32A is shaped by cutting the partition wall 23 in the width direction. A front mask 60 includes an end wall 62 projecting from a front wall 61 and to be arranged on one surface side in the height direction of the housing 20, and a projection 67, 67A projecting from the end wall 62, to be fit into the recess 32, 32A to fill up the recess 32, 32A and contactably facing a front surface of the recess 32, 32A without contacting terminal fittings 50.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Keisuke Teramoto
  • Patent number: 12201159
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette preheating method comprises setting preheating parameters and preheating routine in a microcontroller MCU. The preheating parameters at least include preset temperature value, and preset heating time or preset target temperature value. The preheating routine comprises: after turning on the electronic cigarette, activating preheating function when preheating button arranged on the electronic cigarette is pressed, detecting real-time temperature value by means of a temperature sensor; by means of the microcontroller MCU, comparing the real-time temperature value with the preset temperature value, and determining whether preheating of the cigarette liquid stored inside the liquid storage chamber is required. If no, directly entering an available stand-by state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: HUIZHOU HAPPY VAPING TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Guangrong Lin, Xianbin Zheng, Xiyong Zhang
  • Patent number: 12199383
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an upper connector unit and a lower connector unit in a vertical direction. Each connector unit includes a contact module received within an insulative housing. The contact module includes an upper contact unit and a lower contacts unit stacked with each other. Each of the upper contact unit and the lower contact unit includes a front/outer contact part and a rear/inner contact part each including a plurality contacts essentially composed of a plurality of differential-pair signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a the transverse direction wherein the differential-pair signal contacts are stamped and formed from sheet metal and successively integrally formed with a plurality of insulative transverse bars via insert-molding while the grounding contacts are directly blanked from sheet metal and associated with corresponding shielding plates assembled to the insulative transverse bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Patrick R. Casher, Chih-Hsien Chou, An-Jen Yang
  • Patent number: 12193500
    Abstract: Disclosed is an aerosol generating system including a cigarette and an aerosol generating device. The cigarette includes a first substrate section and a second substrate section which include a non-tobacco material sheet containing an aerosol generating material, and the aerosol generating device includes a single heater disposed so that a heating area of the first substrate section is different from a heating area of the second substrate section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sung Jong Ki, Young Joong Kim, In Su Park, John Tae Lee, Sun Hwan Jung, Eun Mi Jeoung
  • Patent number: 12184024
    Abstract: A connector adapter includes a first sub-adapter directly and electrically connected with a first end of a connector and a second sub-adapter directly and electrically connected with a second end of the connector. The first end of the connector is electrically connected to a first cable through the first sub-adapter and to a test equipment through the first cable. The second end of the connector is electrically connected to a second cable through the second sub-adapter and to the test equipment through the second cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liyun Zhu, Zhigang Song, Peng Zhai, Yunhe Wang
  • Patent number: 12184010
    Abstract: Examples of connectors, connector assemblies, and wafer assemblies for improved shielding and thermal performance are described. In one example, a wafer assembly includes a ground path assembly and a row of conductors. The ground path assembly includes a first ground shield and a second ground shield. The row of conductors includes a plurality of communication signal conductors and a plurality of ground conductors arranged in the row of conductors. The first ground shield extends along a first pair of communication signal conductors among the plurality of communication signal conductors and the second ground shield extends along a second pair of the communication signal conductors among the plurality of communication signal conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Kolak, Dominic Steier, Li Zhuang, Scott Sommers, Hazelton P. Avery, Pu Xie, Chia Hung Mou, Jerry Shubert, Daniel Wenzel
  • Patent number: 12185456
    Abstract: A circuit board and an electronic package using the same are provided. The circuit board includes a rigid board body, at least one bendable extension portion, connecting members, and shielding members. The rigid board body includes conductive layers and dielectric layers therebetween. The extension portion is connected to a side of the rigid board body and formed by layers of the conductive layers and at least one layer of the dielectric layers extending outside the rigid board body. The connecting members are arranged on a connecting end of the extension portion and electrically connected to a signal layer of the conductive layers. The shielding members are arranged around the corresponding connecting members and electrically connected to a ground layer of the conductive layers. The connecting members and the shielding members protrude from the connecting end. A height of the shielding members is lower than a height of the connecting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: First Hi-tec Enterprise Co., Ltd., NEXCOM International Co., Ltd., Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Min-Lin Lee, Sheng-Che Hung, Ching-Shan Chang, Ying-Tsuen Liou
  • Patent number: 12184003
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a casing, and a first and a second circuit boards. The casing has a bottom shell and a cover. The bottom shell has an inner bottom surface and an open top. A first carrying platform and a second carrying platform protruded from the inner bottom surface. The cover has an inner top surface facing the inner bottom surface. A first and a second holder blocks are protruded from the inner top surface. The first circuit board is carried on the first carrying platform and clamped between the first carrying platform and the first holder block. The second circuit board is carried on the second carrying platform, stacked on the first circuit board, and clamped between the second carrying platform and the second holder block. The second circuit board has an opening for the first holder block to pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: JESS-LINK PRODUCTS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chieh-Ming Cheng, Hsu-Feng Chang
  • Patent number: 12184016
    Abstract: A contact device includes a first contact element extending along a straight line and a second contact element inclined with respect to the first contact element. The first contact element has a connecting body extending along the straight line, a first contact portion, and a flap. The first contact portion has a first contact socket. The flap is connected to a first fixed end at a first side of the connecting body. The first contact portion is connected to the connecting body. The flap extends along the first straight line to the first contact portion and a free end of the flap is arranged at a distance from the first contact portion. The second contact element has a second contact portion engaging the first contact socket and electrically contacting the first contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Mandel, Samir Aboulkassem, Christian Schrettlinger
  • Patent number: 12170424
    Abstract: A contact includes a cantilever beam and a protection tab. The cantilever beam extends from a beam connected end to a beam free end along an insertion direction. The protection tab extends from a tab connected end to a tab free end in a direction opposite to the insertion direction. The tab free end is positioned adjacent to the beam free end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Nathan William Swanger, Nicholas Lee Evans, Neil Franklin Schroll, Guenther Mumper, John Wesley Hall, Jochen Brandt