Patents Examined by Khiem M. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11289854
    Abstract: An electrical connecting device includes an insulated body, a first terminal set, and a conductive shielding member. The insulated body includes a base and a tongue plate connected to the base. The first terminal set includes several first signal terminals and several first ground terminals. Each of the first signal terminals and the first ground terminals includes a fixed portion and a contact portion. The fixed portion of each of the first signal terminals and the fixed portion of each of the first ground terminals is in the base, and the contact portion of each of the first signal terminals and the contact portion of each of the first ground terminals are extending to the tongue plate and exposed from the tongue plate. The conductive shielding member is in the insulated body, and the conductive shielding member is near but not in contact with the first terminal set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: SPEED TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cheng-Hsiang Hsueh, I-Ting Hsieh, Chih-Cheng Chen
  • Patent number: 11289844
    Abstract: An electrical connector body is provided includes first and second housing portions formed from molded plastic. The housing portions include first and second interface surfaces that are configured to butt against one another to define a housing and one or more electrical components are disposed within an interior of the housing. The one or more electrical components may comprise connectors of a male or female cord cap, an in-line surge suppression circuit, and/or a compact automatic transfer switch. In one implementation, each of the first and second connector body portions may include a strain relief extension for engaging an electrical cord and a compression member (3691) may be disposed over the strain relief extensions to secure together the first and second connector body portions. The compression member may be selected from a set of compression members based on a size of the electrical cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Zonit Structured Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: William Pachoud, Steve Chapel
  • Patent number: 11289830
    Abstract: A modular high speed, high density electrical connector configurable for use in multiple configurations, including a direct attach orthogonal configuration. The connector is assembled with modules that include shielded pairs of signal conductors with mating ends that are rotated approximately 45 degrees with respect to intermediate portions of the signal conductors. The connector may have a mating interface with receptacles in one connector and pins in the mating connector. The pins may be small diameter and may be implemented with superelastic wires so as to resist damage despite having very small effective diameter. A compact mating interface resulting from small diameter mating contact portions may enable other portions of the connector, including the shielding surrounding the signal conductors to be smaller, which may raise the resonant frequency of the connector and extend its bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., John Robert Dunham, Mark W. Gailus, John Pitten
  • Patent number: 11283204
    Abstract: Systems and methods for simultaneously coupling a plurality of high speed electrical connectors to a Printed Wiring Board (“PWB”). The methods comprise: obtaining a composite electrical connector comprising the plurality of high speed electrical connectors which are serially arranged in a side-by-side manner and coupled to each other; automatedly engaging a smooth surface of the composite electrical connector; placing the composite electrical connector on the PWB so that pins of the plurality of high speed electrical connectors are concurrently inserted into vias formed in the PWB; and coupling the composite electrical connector to the PWB by soldering the pins in the vias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Eagle Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Dale Loch, Michael T. DeRoy
  • Patent number: 11283222
    Abstract: A header assembly includes a header housing and contact modules coupled to the header housing each having a frame assembly with a signal leadframe and a dielectric frame. The dielectric frame includes mating portion extensions at a front of the dielectric frame. The signal leadframe includes mating portions extending forward from the mating portion extensions. Each contact module includes a ground shield having ground shrouds providing electrical shielding for the mating portions. Each ground shroud includes shroud walls forming a shroud cavity receiving the corresponding mating portion extension. Each ground shroud includes a shroud transition to vary a depth of the shroud cavity along a length of the ground shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Douglas Edward Shirk, Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Wei Peng, Justin Dennis Pickel, Timothy Robert Minnick, Edward Lee Hengst, Karen Elizabeth Benjamin
  • Patent number: 11283221
    Abstract: The present disclosure a connector including an insulating body, a number of terminal modules and a shielding member. The insulating body includes a base and a mating portion protruding from the base. The terminal modules are installed in the insulating body. The terminal modules include a first signal terminal module and a ground terminal module. The first signal terminal module includes a first insulating block and a first signal terminal. The ground terminal module includes an insulation block and a ground terminal. The first signal terminal and the ground terminal are respectively provided with a first contact portion and a ground contact portion. The first insulating block and the insulation block are provided with through holes communicating with each other. The shielding member is inserted in the through holes to be coupled with the ground terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SPEED TECH CORPORATION
    Inventors: ChengHsiang Hsueh, ITing Hsieh, HuaChun Chang
  • Patent number: 11276966
    Abstract: A pluggable module includes a pluggable body extending between a cable end and a mating end rearward of the cable end. The pluggable body has a module cavity. The pluggable module includes a module circuit board received in the module cavity. The module circuit board has a mating edge at a mating end configured to be plugged into a first slot of a communication connector. The pluggable module includes a plug connector extending between a plug mating end and a plug mounting end. The plug mounting end is mounted to the module circuit board. The plug connector includes plug contacts extending between the plug mating end and the plug mounting end. The plug mating end is configured to be plugged into a second slot of the communication connector to mate the plug contacts with the communication connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVIVES GmbH
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Clarence Leon Yu
  • Patent number: 11276965
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body. Multiple terminals are provided on the insulating body, including two signal terminal pairs and two adjacent ground terminals located between the two signal terminal pairs. A metal shell is provided and covering outside the insulating body, and includes a neck portion extending backward from a top plate, and a first elastic arm, a second elastic arm and a third elastic arm formed by respectively extending backward from the neck portion. Each of the three elastic arms has a contact portion. The contact portions of two adjacent elastic arms are staggered to each other. A ground terminal is provided between two adjacent elastic arms. When the neck portion deviates toward different directions, each of the two ground terminals is in contact with the contact portion of at least one of the elastic arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Wei Jin Cheng
  • Patent number: 11276978
    Abstract: Provided is a method for manufacturing an electric connector. The electric connector is an electric connector having contact portions on both one surface and the other surface opposite to the one surface of a plate-shaped fitting portion that fits with a mating connector, and can accurately position a plurality of first terminals forming the contact portion on the one surface of the fitting portion and a plurality of second terminals forming a contact portion on the other surface of the fitting portion through a shield plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tadashi Sakaizawa, Kenichi Naganuma
  • Patent number: 11271341
    Abstract: A retaining frame for retaining plug-connector modules and/or plug connectors for installation in a plug connector housing, has two side parts each with at least one surface and at least one frame element designed to be fitted together to form the retaining frame. The surfaces of the side parts, once joined together, form a fastening surface having at least one recess for receiving a plug connector. The frame elements of the side parts of the retaining frame, once joined together, are spaced apart from one another and form at least one receiving region for receiving the plug-connector modules. On the fastening surface, at least one fixing element is provided, which can be fixed there in such a way that the side parts joined together to form the retaining frame are fixed, and that a plug connector accommodated in the recess is also axially fixed in the retaining frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventors: Dieter Riepe, Alexej Beckstedt
  • Patent number: 11271333
    Abstract: A terminal module, comprising a first cover, a first insulator, a second insulator, and a second cover. The first insulator is installed on the first cover, comprising a plurality of terminal bases and a plurality of first accommodating grooves. The plurality of terminal bases is disposed at the bottom of the first insulator. A terminal group is disposed in each of the terminal bases. The second insulator is disposed on the first insulator, comprising a plurality of second accommodating grooves. The plurality of second accommodating grooves correspond to the plurality of first accommodating grooves. Each of the first accommodating grooves and the corresponding second accommodating groove accommodate a cable collectively. The cable is electrically connected to the corresponding terminal group. The second cover is installed on the first insulator, so that the first insulator and the second insulator are disposed between the first cover and the second cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignees: Dongguan Luxshare Technologies Co., Ltd, HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tao Song, Kun Liu, GuoDong Zhang, KaiDe Wang, ZhenLiang Zhang, Hang Yan
  • Patent number: 11264765
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes two adjacent terminal groups in a front-rear direction, including a front terminal group and a rear terminal group. Each terminal group includes a ground terminal and a signal terminal. The ground terminal has a first base portion and a first elastic arm. The first elastic arm includes two extending arms and a through slot formed therebetween. The signal terminal has a second base portion and a second elastic arm. The first elastic arm and the second elastic arm are used to be electrically connected to a mating member. In a same terminal group, the signal terminal is located in front of the first base portion, and the second elastic arm runs through the through slot. The mating member presses on the first elastic arm. The first elastic arm of the ground terminal of the rear terminal group abuts the ground terminal of the front terminal group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Chien Chih Ho, Yong Jun Dai
  • Patent number: 11258190
    Abstract: The invention relates to a direct burial ground lug. The lug is preferably constructed of a phosphor bronze material. The block may have two through holes to install two conductors, rods, cables, and the like. Stainless steel threaded screws are used to hold the rod and ground conductor in a stable condition. The threaded screws insert into threaded holes positioned perpendicular to the through holes. The direct burial ground lug allows the ground rod and ground conductor to be connected for a continuous grounding system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventor: Frederick Scott Fisher
  • Patent number: 11258207
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system consisting of a first plug connector module (2) and a second plug connector module (3), each of which is to be used in a modular industrial plug connector. The first plug connector module (2) has a first shield transfer element (5), and the second plug connector module (3) has a second shield transfer element (6). A cable connected to the plug connector module (2, 3) can be secured on a connection side (A) of each shield transfer element (5, 6), and the shield transfer elements (5, 6) can be brought into electric contact with each other on the plug side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jakob Dück, Christof Hermoni, Heiko Meier
  • Patent number: 11258206
    Abstract: The present disclosure disclosed a terminal assembly comprising a first terminal module and an electric conductive part. The first terminal module comprises a plurality of first ground terminals and a plurality of first signal terminals. At least one first signal terminal is provided between two adjacent first ground terminals. The electric conductive part is disposed on the first terminal module. The first signal terminal is closer to a surface of the electric conductive part than the first ground terminal. The electric conductive part is distancing from both the first signal terminal and the first ground terminal while the first signal terminals are closer to the electric conductive part than the first ground terminals, the electric conductive part and the ground terminal could surround the first signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: YunFeng He, HongJi Chen, HaoHan Chen
  • Patent number: 11245233
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a cable concentrator and an electronic device having the same, where the cable concentrator includes main body and ground partition plate. The main body includes sidewall portions and bottom plate portion together forming accommodation portion to accommodate cable connectors. The bottom plate portion has positive terminal holes and negative terminal holes. The ground partition plate is located in the accommodation portion and divides the accommodation portion. The ground partition plate has ground bent tabs respectively corresponding to the negative terminal holes of the bottom plate portion and are electrically connected to negative terminals on a circuit board and thus grounding the negative terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chih-Ming Lai, Yung-Shun Kao
  • Patent number: 11239586
    Abstract: A cable assembly module includes: a front mating member; a rear cable linked behind the mating member and including a pair of signal wires; a pair of signal contacts retained upon the front mating member, each of said signal contacts including a middle retaining section associated with the front mating member, a front mating section spaced from the front mating member in a deflectable manner, and a rear connecting section mechanically and electrically connected to the corresponding signal wires, respectively; and a pair of grounding contacts located by two sides of the pair of signal contacts; wherein the front mating sections are adapted for being directly mated with circuit pads of a printed circuit board disposed in a plane, and the rear cable extends along a direction inclined with the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jie Zheng, Terrance F. Little
  • Patent number: 11239585
    Abstract: Provided is a board coupling structure in which a power supply circuit board is formed as a separate board, more specifically, to a board coupling structure in which a signal processing circuit board for processing signals such as image signals, voice signals, and the like and a power supply circuit board are formed as different types of boards and the different types of boards are laterally coupled to each other. The board coupling structure includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board formed of a smaller number of layers than the number of layers of the first circuit board, and a fastening unit configured to laterally fasten a contact edge of the first circuit board to a contact edge of the second circuit board which are facing each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: SOLUM CO., LTD
    Inventor: Chang Min Seo
  • Patent number: 11233360
    Abstract: A connector including a contact element arranged in an interior of the connector and contacting an electrical connection element and an impedance improving element located at a side of the electrical connection element. The impedance improving element has a reception channel through which the contact element extends and a deformation section adapted to be deformed at least one of radially and axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Mandel, Bert Bergner, Samir Aboulkassem, Mohammad Nikfal, Ralf Schmidt, Hyo Chang (Chris) Yun
  • 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