Patents Examined by Khiem M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11217917
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a first connector. The first connector has a main body. The main body has a first end wall and a second end wall opposite to each other. Multiple first terminals are provided on the main body. The first connector is used to be mated with a circuit board. The circuit board has multiple first conductive portions, multiple second conductive portions and multiple first wires electrically connecting the first conductive portions and the second conductive portions correspondingly. The second conductive portion is correspondingly electrically connected to the first terminal. The first end wall is located closer to the first conductive portion relative to the second end wall. A top surface of the first end wall is lower than a corresponding first conductive portion adjacent to the first end wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ren Fei Yang, Zhen Feng Lyu
  • Patent number: 11211750
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector each equipped with a grounding bar. The plug connector includes an insulative plug housing with a mating tongue, and a plurality of stationary plug contacts retained in the plug housing. The plug contacts include a plurality of signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts. The grounding bar forms a set of first fingers, a set of second fingers and a set pf third fingers respectively located at different positions, to respectively contact the different three positions of the respective grounding contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsu-Yang Wu, Ching-Hsiang Chang, Wei-Chou Lin
  • Patent number: 11205867
    Abstract: A grid array connector system is provided that includes cables that are mounted on a board which has a chip packaged mounted thereon. The cables include conductors that are connected to support vias positioned in openings in the board and the conductors are connected to the support vias. The board can be connected to a second board which provides a stiffening ring. The board can be connected to the second board by deflectable terminals which are press-fit into the second board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Keith Lloyd, Gregory Walz, Colby Waggener, Karen Hille, Bruce Reed, Sagar Dalvi, Chitaou Tsai
  • Patent number: 11202380
    Abstract: An engine control system includes an integrated engine control module assembly having an engine control module and an adapter module. The integrated engine control module assembly further includes a first connector, a second connector, and a hermetic enclosure. The first connector includes a connection circuit configured to connect the integrated engine control module assembly to engine hardware. The second connector is configured to connect the adapter module to engine hardware. The hermetic enclosure houses the engine control module and is configured to protect the engine control module from environmental conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Pandey, Daniel R. Harshbarger, William D. Meyer, Mark Swain
  • Patent number: 11201430
    Abstract: Power connection assembly including a connection module and electric cable terminations to be locked in/unlocked from the module in a desired insertion position. Terminal block includes a plurality of independent connection modules. A cavity in the body of a connection module is provided into which it is possible to insert an electric cable termination that is able to be fastened and locked in at least two separate insertion positions, preferably a multitude thereof, through sliding/translational movement of a locking plate over the body that is provided with reliefs, preferably ridges that interleave in complementary reliefs, preferably ridges of the sleeve of the termination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: RADIALL
    Inventors: Patrice Becavin, Kévin Castillon
  • Patent number: 11196219
    Abstract: An electrical connector electrically connects a first electrical module and a second electrical module, for insertion by the first electrical module along a first direction. The electrical connector includes a first group of terminals arranged in a row along a second direction, having multiple signal terminals and multiple ground terminals and forming at least one first terminal unit and at least one second terminal unit. Each of the terminals has a contact portion, a tail portion, and a middle portion located between the contact portion and the tail portion. In the second direction, the middle portions of the first terminal unit form a first row of the middle portions, and the middle portions of the second terminal unit form a second row of the middle portions. Viewing from the second direction, the first and second rows of the middle portions are staggered, thus improving the crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Qi Xiao Yang, Yong Fu Wang
  • Patent number: 11191911
    Abstract: There is provided a receptacle for use with an apparatus for generating an inhalable medium, the receptacle including a chamber for containing a flavor material, whereby, in use, at least one of a vapor and an aerosol generated by the apparatus can flow through the flavor material to entrain one or more constituents from the flavor material to produce the inhalable medium. The receptacle is configured to maintain an air gap separation between an outlet end of the chamber and flavor material when it is received in the chamber, the outlet end being configured to enable the inhalable medium to flow out of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
    Inventor: Ugurhan Yilmaz
  • Patent number: 11196211
    Abstract: A connector assembly including a plurality of female connectors respectively having a predetermined number of pins, and at least one male connector having a plug terminal contacting the pin and coupled with the plurality of female connectors. The plurality of female connectors are provided to be assembled with each other along one direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventor: Dong-Wan Ko
  • Patent number: 11183796
    Abstract: A first terminal assembly includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal includes a first body portion and a first extension arm. The first extension arm includes a first contact portion to contact a second connector. The second terminal includes a second body portion and a second extension arm. The second extension arm includes a second contact portion to contact the second connector. The first contact portion and the second contact portion are arranged in a staggered manner in a left-to-right direction and a top-to-bottom direction perpendicular to a connector mating direction. As a result, a space between the first contact portion and the second contact portion is increased, thereby improving the quality of signal transmission. The present application also relates to a first terminal module, a first connector and a connector assembly with the above-mentioned first terminal assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Dongguan Luxshare Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tao Song, Kun Liu
  • Patent number: 11177593
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connector that comprises a housing and wafers. The housing comprises a top wall and a bottom wall separated from each other in a mounting direction. The wafers are mated to the housing in a mating direction and supported by the housing. A first wafer is configured to be limited in the mounting direction. A second wafer is configured to be limited in the mating direction. A possible benefit from a match between a limiting block of the first wafer and a limiting groove of the housing and a match between the limiting block of the first wafer and a limiting opening of the housing is that the first wafer is less easy to move between the top wall and the bottom wall of the housing along the mounting direction and can be more firmly supported by the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Han-Lin Goh, Daw-Wei Lee, Ser-Kiat Toh
  • Patent number: 11177586
    Abstract: A contact device includes a first contact housing extending along a longitudinal axis and a shielding-spring unit electrically and mechanically connected to the first contact housing. The shielding-spring unit contacts an electrically conductive housing of a system. The shielding-spring unit has a first shielding spring and a second shielding spring arranged in a rotated manner relative to the first shielding spring in a circumferential direction around the longitudinal axis. The first shielding spring and the second shielding spring engage one another and lie against one another in an axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Reinhardt
  • Patent number: 11171437
    Abstract: Provided is a connector including at least one plate-like housing body, a plurality of groove-like terminal housing chambers each opened in an upper surface of the housing body and parallelly arranged, a plurality of connection terminals provided at ends of a plurality of electrical wirings and housed and disposed in the terminal housing chambers, respectively, and a cover part overlapping with the upper surface of the housing body to cover the terminal housing chambers, wherein an elastic locking claw, which allows each of the connection terminals to be inserted into each of the terminal housing chambers by elastic deformation and is locked to each of the connection terminals to prevent each of the connection terminals from coming out of each of the terminal housing chambers by elastic restoring, is provided to protrude from a bottom surface of each of the terminal housing chambers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Arai, Yuya Fukami, Daisuke Ebata, Ryuta Takakura, Masaki Mizushita, Tetsuya Nishimura, Haruka Nakano, Housei Mizuno
  • Patent number: 11154667
    Abstract: The present invention an electronic inhaler for the delivery of pharmaceuticals through vaporization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Joshua Rabinowitz
  • Patent number: 11158964
    Abstract: An electronic component includes: a first terminal that is inserted into a first through hole in a substrate; and a second terminal that is inserted into a second through hole in the substrate, wherein a length of the first terminal from a first end that is inserted into the first through hole to a second end is longer than a length of the second terminal from a third end that is inserted into the second through hole to a fourth end, and a cross sectional area of a portion of the first terminal positioned on a side of the second end with respect to a first joined portion is larger than a cross sectional area of a portion of the second terminal positioned on a side of the fourth end with respect to a second joined portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takahide Mukoyama, Tetsuro Yamada, Mitsuhiko Sugane, Yoshiyuki Hiroshima, Kohei Choraku, Kazuki Takahashi, Akiko Matsui, Shigeo Iriguchi
  • Patent number: 11152732
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes at least one conductive terminal mounted to a housing. The conductive terminal has a body, two elastic arms formed by extending upward from the body, a conducting portion connected below the body and having a strip connecting portion to be connected to a first strip, and a connecting portion provided at an upper end of the body to be connected to a second strip to assist mounting and located between the two elastic arms. A method for manufacturing the electrical connector includes: forming at least one conductive terminal and a first strip connected thereto; connecting a second strip to the connecting portion of the conductive terminal; disconnecting the conducting portion of the conductive terminal and the first strip; operating the second strip to control the conductive terminal to be mounted to a housing; and releasing a control force of the second strip onto the conductive terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Chien Chih Ho
  • Patent number: 11152751
    Abstract: A first hold-down includes a reinforcing plate part that covers a CPU board opposed surface. A suction cover includes a flat-plate suction plate part covering an electrical contact spring piece of each contact and thereby able to be sucked by a suction nozzle, a plurality of attachment spring pieces configured to catch on a connector so that the suction plate part is detachable from a connector, and a first main deformation restraining part projecting from the suction plate part toward the CPU board opposed surface in order to inhibit the suction plate part from being deformed toward the CPU board opposed surface in the state where the suction cover is attached to the connector. The first main deformation restraining part is disposed to come into contact with the reinforcing plate part when the suction plate part is deformed toward the CPU board opposed surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Ltd.
    Inventors: Junji Oosaka, Yuichi Takenaga, Akihiro Matsunaga, Ching-Hsin Wang
  • Patent number: 11152738
    Abstract: A holding frame for an industrial electrical connector for holding similar and/or different electrical connector modules is provided, the holding frame consisting largely of a three-dimensionally bent wire frame. Such a holding frame can be produced particularly economically. The holding frame is used in particular in applications in which particularly high mechanical stability is not required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andre Tiemann, Heiko Meier, Mirko Mossig, Michael Przyborowski
  • Patent number: 11146019
    Abstract: A sliding electrical outlet assembly includes a housing that can be coupled to a vertical support surface and the housing has a slot extending into an interior of the housing. A first contact is integrated into the housing and the first contact is electrically coupled to a power source. A second contact is integrated into the housing and the second contact is electrically coupled to the power source. A plurality of outlet units is each slidably insertable into the slot. Each of the outlet units engages the first contact and the second contact when the outlet units are rotated into a locked position to supply electrical power for an electrical device. Each of the outlet units is slidable along the slot to facilitate electrical power for the electrical device to be located at a plurality of locations along the vertical support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventors: Marianne Hunnicutt, Michael Hunnicutt, Victoria Keyser
  • Patent number: 11146000
    Abstract: An electrical connector is used to mate with an electronic component having a conductor. The electrical connector includes an insulating body having an accommodating hole, and a terminal accommodated in the accommodating hole. A protruding portion protrudes from a first wall of the accommodating hole. An elastic arm of the terminal has a main body portion. A pre-pressurized portion and a contact portion of the elastic arm respectively have a first contact end and a second contact end. The second contact end is located closer to the main body portion than the first contact end. Prior to the first contact end abutting the protruding portion, a horizontal projection of the first contact end along an insertion direction at least partially overlaps with a horizontal projection of the protruding portion along the insertion direction and passes beyond a horizontal projection of the second contact end along the insertion direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Chien Chih Ho
  • Patent number: 11139618
    Abstract: An electrical module is electrically conducted with an electronic component, and includes multiple conductors having a first row of conductors arranged in a left-right direction and an insulating body fixing the first row of conductors. Each conductor has a contact portion in contact with the electronic component. A distance between each two adjacent contact portions of the conductors in the left-right direction is defined as a contact interval. The first row of conductors have at least one pair of signal conductors and at least two ground conductors. Each two adjacent sides of the pair of signal conductors has one ground conductor. The contact interval from one signal conductor to its adjacent ground conductor is defined as a first contact interval. The contact interval from the other signal conductor to its adjacent ground conductor is defined as a second contact interval. The first and second contact intervals are not equal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Qi Xiao Yang, Yong Fu Wang, Wei Xue Zhong, Biao Zhang, Jia Xu Yin