Patents Examined by Justin M Kratt
  • Patent number: 11749938
    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: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Koen Maddens, Thierry Goossens
  • Patent number: 11749947
    Abstract: An electrical connector connected with a cable connector. The cable connector comprises a plurality of ground terminals, a plurality of signal terminals, and an electromagnetic shielding member. The electrical connector comprises a circuit board, a plurality of ground conductive pads, a plurality of signal conductive pads, and a shielding ground conductive pad. The circuit board comprises an electrical connecting area. The plurality of ground conductive pads are disposed on a surface of the electrical connecting area of the circuit board at intervals. The plurality of signal conductive pads are disposed on the surface of the electrical connecting area of the circuit board at intervals. At least one signal conductive pad is disposed between two adjacent ground conductive pads. The shielding ground conductive pad is disposed on the surface of the electrical connecting area of the circuit board and is disposed on one side of the plurality of ground conductive pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignees: Dongguan Luxshare Technologies Co., Ltd, HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bin Huang, Ming Li, RongZhe Guo, HongJi Chen, KaiDe Wang, Tao Zeng, ShuYao Shen
  • Patent number: 11749951
    Abstract: An electrical connector, comprising a housing, a circuit board, a cable, and a shielding member. The housing comprises an accommodating space and a plurality of through grooves. The plurality of through grooves are disposed on an inner surface of the housing along a first direction at intervals. Each of the through grooves extends in a second direction and penetrates the housing. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. The circuit board is disposed in the accommodating space and protrudes from the housing. The cable is disposed in the accommodating space. One end of the cable protrudes from the housing. One end of the cable disposed in the accommodating space is connected to the circuit board. The shielding member is disposed in the accommodating space and covers the plurality of through grooves. The accommodating space and the plurality of through grooves are partitioned by the shielding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: XiaoKai Wang, XiaoPing Wu, BaiYu Duan
  • Patent number: 11749950
    Abstract: A shielding housing structure of an electric connector includes an insulating body including a first terminal slot for insertion of a first terminal set, a second terminal slot for insertion of a second terminal set, a socket for insertion of a preset board; a shielding housing having an accommodation space assembled with a top side of the insulating body, and top holes and lateral holes formed thereon, and an insertion hole formed on upper edges of the lateral holes; and a movable cover having a top covering plate having top openings, and a side covering plate having lateral openings. The top covering plate is plugged into the insertion hole, and can be slid to a first position to form thermal convection ventilation holes on the shielding housing structure, or the top covering plate can be slid to a second position to form an enclosing status of the shielding housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: ACES ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Yuan Chen, Jen-Sheuan Huang
  • Patent number: 11742624
    Abstract: A female high-frequency connector includes a female inner terminal connected to a core wire of a cable in which an outer periphery of an insulator covering the core wire is covered with a braid, a female inner housing accommodating the female inner terminal in an inner terminal accommodating chamber, a tubular female shield body covering an outer periphery of the female inner housing, a female crimping member having a braid crimping piece that is crimped from above the braid, and a tubular female shield sleeve having a tubular braid covered portion that is inserted between the insulator and the braid and having a fitting portion that extends from the braid covered portion and is inserted between the outer periphery of the female inner housing and an inner periphery of the female shield body to cover a gap between the braid crimping piece and the female shield body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Isao Kameyama, Michikazu Aono
  • Patent number: 11728594
    Abstract: A connector includes: a contact batch that is composed of two or more groups of contacts; an inner shield that electrically separates the two or more groups of contacts from each other; a body in which the contact batch and the inner shield are press-fitted and fixed; and a shell that covers the contact batch, the inner shield, and the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hideto Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11728600
    Abstract: A universal DC power adaptor for a PRC-148 radio, a PRC-152 radio, a Handheld ISR Transceiver, and similar devices and a method of using the same, is disclosed. The universal DC power adaptor includes mounting and locking features that are common to both the PRC-148 radio and the PRC-152 radio. The universal DC power adaptor further includes certain mounting and locking features that are unique to the PRC-148 radio and other mounting and locking features that are unique to the PRC-152 radio. The universal DC power adaptor also provides an output voltage suitable for both the PRC-148 and PRC-152 radios. Such features also are compatible with the Handheld ISR Transceiver, making the universal DC power adaptor compatible with the ISR Transceiver as well. Additionally, the universal DC power adaptor includes programmable control electronics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: LAT ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Laura Thiel, Giancarlo Urzi, Carlos Cid
  • Patent number: 11728583
    Abstract: A mechanical grounding clamp including a body, having an upper plate defining a threaded hole therethrough and having an outer surface, a lower plate spaced apart from the upper plate and having an inner surface, and a connecting plate connecting the upper plate to the lower plate, a fastener mateable with the threaded hole in the upper plate and having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end extendable through the threaded hole of the upper plate and toward the inner surface of the lower plate. There may be a nut on the fastener for driving toward the upper plate to secure a grounding conductor to the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Evan Martin, Logan Michael Trombley, Sam Carbonneau, Reid Ruland
  • Patent number: 11715913
    Abstract: An adapter connector includes a terminal assembly, a first adapter housing and a second adapter housing. The terminal assembly includes a first terminal clamping portion at a first end and a second terminal clamping portion at a second end. The first adapter housing includes a number of first receiving grooves for receiving the first terminal clamping portion. The second adapter housing includes a number of second receiving grooves for receiving the second terminal clamping portion. The terminal assembly is provided with a first lock assembly locked with the first adapter housing and a second lock assembly locked with the second adapter housing. This arrangement facilitates the assembly of the adapter connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Dongguan Luxshare Technologies Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Shengyu Wu, Chuanqi Gong, Hongji Chen
  • Patent number: 11714206
    Abstract: A detector includes an enclosure having a side wall, a sensor array positioned in an enclosed portion of the enclosure, a controller connected to the sensor array and positioned in the enclosure, with the controller being connected to a first electrical connector within the enclosure, a second electrical connector positioned external to the side wall, with the first and second electrical connectors being removably connected to each other through the side wall, and a third electrical connector in electrical communication with the second electrical connector, with the third electrical connector configured to contact a fourth electrical connector of an energy storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Varex Imaging Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaoyang Shen, Matthew McCabe, Marcelo Costa
  • Patent number: 11710932
    Abstract: A shielding spring shell has a contact tab with a pair of spring sections adjoining a fillet. One of the spring sections is an at least radially resilient radial spring and another of the spring sections is an at least axially resilient axial spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Listing, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Jürgen Sauer, Soenke Sachs, Jochen Fertig, Ivan Ivanov, Marco Wolf
  • Patent number: 11710931
    Abstract: A backplane connector includes a housing and a number of terminal modules assembled to the housing. The housing includes a base, a first side wall and a second side wall. The base, the first side wall and the second side wall jointly form a receiving space. The terminal module includes a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal. The housing includes a number of insulating protrusions integrally extending from the base. The insulating protrusions extend into the receiving space. The terminal modules are assembled in the insulating protrusions. Compared with the prior art, the insulating protrusions of the present disclosure is integrally formed with the base, thereby improving the structural strength of the housing and improving the durability of the backplane connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Xiaogang Liu, Kun Liu, Rongzhe Guo, Chuanqi Gong, Tao Song
  • Patent number: 11705673
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a high-speed connector including an insulating body and a terminal module. The terminal module includes a number of terminal groups. Each terminal group includes a number of ground terminals, a number of signal terminals and a shielding piece. The ground terminal includes a ground pin. The signal terminal includes a signal pin. The shielding piece includes a number of convex portions and a number of surrounding portions. The ground pins and the signal pins are distributed in a staggered manner. At least one ground pin is in contact with the convex portion of the shielding piece. The surrounding portion surrounds the signal pins. When the ground pins and the signal pins are no longer in the same plane or the same row, the shielding piece can prevent cross-talk among signals, thereby improving the transmission quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Bin Huang, Rongzhe Guo, Hongji Chen, Huanhuan Shen, Chenhui Zeng
  • Patent number: 11699874
    Abstract: Provided is a connector including a surrounding wall with an improved strength against an outward force. The connector of the invention includes a contact that contacts a counter contact of a counter connector, a housing to which the contact is fitted and attached, and a surrounding wall disposed to surround the housing. A gap is provided between the housing and the surrounding wall, and in a connector fitting state, the surrounding wall is in contact with a counter surrounding wall of the counter connector that has entered the gap. The surrounding wall is provided with a protrusion portion protruding outward in a second direction intersecting a first direction, and an end portion on a board side of the protrusion portion in the first direction is in contact with a board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Junji Oosaka, Akihiro Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11682866
    Abstract: A shield connection structure includes a shielded cable 20, a conductive interposing members 40 to be mounted on the shielded cable 20, a conductive inner shell 50 for covering the interposing member 40, a conductive annular outer shell 60 for covering the inner shell 50, and a retainer 80 made of synthetic resin and to be mounted in the outer shell 60. The interposing member 40 contacts an electromagnetic shield member 23 exposed from an insulation coating 24 and the inner shell 50 and electrically connects the electromagnetic shield member 23 and the inner shell 50. The inner shell 50 contacts the interposing member 40 and the outer shell 60 and electrically connects the interposing member 40 and the outer shell 60. The retainer 80 holds the inner shell 50 with the inner shell 50 held in contact with an inner surface of the outer shell 60.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Uemura
  • Patent number: 11682864
    Abstract: Various examples of high speed connectors and connector assemblies that use connector side plate designs and include structures for improved thermal performance are described. In one example, a connector assembly includes a housing, a side plate on one side of the housing, and a wafer assembly that includes a row of conductors and a protrusion, with the protrusion being located at one end of the row of conductors. The side plate can include an aperture, and the protrusion can be inserted into the aperture to align the row of conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Kolak, Dominic Steier, Li Zhuang, Scott Sommers
  • Patent number: 11677192
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a metal shielding cage. The metal shielding cage includes a cage body, a back cover and a grounding member. The cage body has a top wall, a mounting side and two side walls, the top wall, the mounting side and the two side walls together define a receiving space extending along a front-rear direction, the receiving space has a front opening toward the front and a rear opening positioned at the rear, the back cover and the grounding member are assembled at the rear opening of the cage body, and the grounding member is provided with an elastic grounding finger row toward the mounting side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Che-Yuan Yang
  • Patent number: 11677178
    Abstract: An electrical power and/or electronic data unit is mountable in a floor, and is fitted with an upper bezel that is openable and closable to provide selective access to an interior of the unit, which is optionally fitted with one or more electrical power or data outlets. A lower insert including an intumescent block is supported below an upper housing, and is angularly adjustable relative to the upper housing. One or more bores or openings formed in the lower insert allow the passage of cords into a pass-through opening in the upper housing, and out through an upper bezel cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Inventors: Norman R. Byrne, Aaron G. Lautenbach, Matthew R. Haller, Marc A. Mitchell, Matthew R. Andree, Peter J. Maher, Timothy C. Cramblet
  • Patent number: 11677191
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulating body, a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating body, a first metallic shell enclosing the insulating body to form an interface for being plugged by another electrical connector, and a second metallic shell is provided. The first metallic shell has a first soldering leg close to the interface, and the second metallic shell encloses the first metallic shell, wherein the first soldering leg extends away from the insulating body, penetrates the second metallic shell and protrudes out of the second metallic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Shu-Fen Wang, Yi Hsu
  • Patent number: 11670891
    Abstract: A connector and a connector device that are small and have a drainage function are provided. A connector includes: a contact; a first insulator; a first shield member; a second shield member having a tubular portion; and a second insulator. A first communicating portion that is in communication with the outside is formed in a lower wall of the tubular portion of the second shield member, the lower wall facing the second insulator. A second communicating portion that is in communication with the outside and the first communicating portion is formed in the second insulator. The first shield member has a facing wall that faces the first communicating portion, and a bent wall that is bent toward the second insulator from an end portion of the facing wall on an opposite side to the opening side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Asano, Shuya Yokobori, Yutaka Sanda, Koji Minami, Tatsuya Morishita