Patents Examined by Larisa Z. Tsukerman
  • Patent number: 8323039
    Abstract: The invention concerns a contact element (10) with a sliding contact element (11) for fitting flush against an electrically conductive rail and a support element (12) for connecting the sliding contact to a contact plug (13), which serves as a connector to an electric conductor, wherein the sliding contact element, the support element, and the contact plug are parts of a molded part which is constructed as a single unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Schunk Kohlenstofftechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Lippert, Henrik Neuweger, Ulrich Ringleb
  • Patent number: 8096829
    Abstract: A terminal assembly is provided for terminating a center conductor of a coaxial cable. The terminal assembly includes a terminal body having a pin at one end and a cavity at the other end for accommodating a center conductor therein. A contact member is supported within the cavity. The contact member includes plural inwardly directed cantilevered beams extending from a contact base for deflectable engagement with the inserted center conductor. The terminal body includes an inwardly directed shoulder for engagement with the beams at a location between the base and the distal ends of the beams. The location defines a deflection fulcrum at a location distal from the base so as to provide increased contact engagement force between the distal ends of the beams and the center conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Belden Inc.
    Inventors: Allen L. Malloy, Charles Thomas
  • Patent number: 8092259
    Abstract: a connector structure includes: a receptacle connector including (a) a receptacle terminal in which a receptacle contact portion is provided and (b) a housing into which a fiber material is impregnated, and in which a storage space is provided to store the receptacle contact portion; a plug connector engaged into the receptacle connector, the plug connector having a plug terminal in which a plug contact portion is provided, the plug contact portion being inserted between the receptacle contact portion and a partition wall in the storage space; and a contact inhibition member which is provided between the partition wall of the storage space and the receptacle terminal to suppress the plug contact portion from contacting the partition wall of the storage space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Yoko Murata, Setsuo Kojima
  • Patent number: 8025529
    Abstract: A coaxial panel comprising a frame with a plurality of openings and a mounting frame for holding a plurality of coaxial jacks that is mounted to the frame is disclosed. Each mounting frame includes an exterior surface that includes an intermating structure for slidably coupling a first mounting frame to a second identical mounting frame in a sliding direction either in a vertical orientation or a horizontal orientation. The intermating structure configured such that two coupled mounting frames cannot be pulled apart in a direction generally perpendicular to the sliding direction. The coaxial jacks mounted to the mounting frame and the mounting frame include slidably intermating alignment structures for aligning front coaxial cable connection locations of the coaxial jacks with the plurality of openings in the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Bade, Zakh Bluband, Jeffrey Louis Peters
  • Patent number: 8002570
    Abstract: In resin molded parts with lock arms, a peripheral wall 12a protruding toward a rear side vertical to a main body part is connected to the peripheral edge of the substantially plate shaped main body part 12. Belt plate shaped lock arms 13 are connected to the peripheral wall with ends protruding toward a front side vertical to the main body part by connecting base ends 13a to the outer surfaces of the peripheral wall. The lock arms have slits 17 which are formed in intermediate parts of the lock arms in the direction of width of the lock arms and continuously extend from the end faces of the base ends of the lock arms to parts before the ends to ensure engaging parts 14 in the ends of the lock arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kaoru Matsumura, Kazuto Ohtaka, Hideki Homma
  • Patent number: 8002569
    Abstract: An electric connection box which can easily attach electric components to an attachment portion of box body. The electric connection box includes a box body having the attachment portion attaching the relay on an upper surface of the box body, and a relay fixed on the box body. The attachment portion includes a tube, a plurality of openings and a plurality of holding portions arranged in the opening. The tube inserts the relay into an inside thereof, and stands from the upper surface. The opening passes through the tube 5, and is arranged with a space along a circumferential direction of the tube. The holding portion presses the relay toward the inside of the tube, and holds the relay to the tube. The holding portion includes an arm and a protrusion projecting toward the inside of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Ikeda, Kazuyuki Kawashita
  • Patent number: 7993164
    Abstract: A power adapter for extending power from an electrical power source to a electrical device. The power adapter includes an adapter body, including an exchange surface, having one or more sets of interior electrical contacts. The power adapter further includes an end section that is attachable and detachable from the body. The end section includes (i) a set of end section interior electrical contact elements that make contact with the at least one set of interior electrical contacts, and (ii) a plug connector, electrically connected to the set of end section interior electrical contacts, and adapted to mate with a corresponding electrical receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Manjirnath Chatterjee, Yoshimichi Matsuoka, Peter Skillman
  • Patent number: 7993156
    Abstract: A contact insert for a connecting terminal of a multiplicity of mutually isolated connection elements, designed in particular for printed circuit boards, with a spring force element being mounted symmetrically, with the spring force element designed with a simple section geometry and its simple mounting together with the advantageous connection to the contact insert, results in a closed terminal cage which makes it possible to reduce the physical height of the dielectric housing to a major The connecting terminal is used as a linking element in printed circuit board connection technology for providing a reliable supply to industrial electronics and economic individual wiring on printed circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dieter Holste
  • Patent number: 7988498
    Abstract: Disclosed is an earphone jack including a housing, a circuit connector mounted in the housing, and a plurality of first connecting terminals each including a first connecting section outwardly protruded from the housing, to be connected to a circuit of an audio appliance, and a second connecting section extending from the first connecting section while being bent to have a C shape such that the second connecting section elastically fits around an associated one of the connecting terminals of the earphone plug. It is possible to elastically support the earphone plug even after the earphone plug is repeatedly inserted into and separated from the housing, because the first connecting terminals have a structure bent to have a circular shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Korea Air Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jong-In Lim, Thomas A Hall
  • Patent number: 7972180
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body having an accommodating base and at least one tongue plate extending forwardly from the accommodating base. The tongue plate has at least one accommodating space in communication with the accommodating base. Each accommodating space being provided with at least one stopper. At least one first conductive terminal and at least one second conductive terminal are received in the accommodating base. The second conductive terminal has a second connecting portion and a second contacting portion extending towards the accommodating space. The first conductive terminal is partially located below the second connecting portion, and has at least a portion extended under the stopper. The second connecting portion is located at a level higher than that of the stopper. This arrangement can prevent the first conductive terminal from contacting with the second conductive terminal, and a normal connection of the electrical connector is guaranteed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Lotes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yao Li, Wu Feng
  • Patent number: 7946856
    Abstract: The invention relates to a connector for electrically connecting at least one terminal arranged on a surface of a surface-mount device to a corresponding substrate contact of a circuit substrate. The connector for electrically includes at least one resilient electrically conductive interconnection element being connectable to the at least one substrate contact and configured to establish a releasable electrical contact with the at least one terminal, and a connector housing for mounting the at least one interconnection element. The interconnection element is affixed to the housing by means of a foil-shaped carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Nederland BV
    Inventor: Peter Dirk Jaeger
  • Patent number: 7942690
    Abstract: A cable positioner is formed integrally with a connector and/or a plug, or is shaped and sized to matingly engage a connector and/or a plug. The connector cable positioner can define at least one groove. The groove is sized to secure the cable in a desired position and direct it in a desired direction. The positioner may define at least one retaining tab, or lip, at the extent of at least one groove wall to produce an interference fit with the cable when pushed through the retaining tab, while surrounding the groove enough to effectively create a groove wall more than 180 degrees around the grove to retain the cable in the groove. The at least one tab can pinch, or otherwise secure, at least a portion of the cable to hold the cable in desired position and direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: HTI IP, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Berkobin, Fred Blumer, Randy Holmes
  • Patent number: 7938678
    Abstract: A socket member includes an insulated body, one connection unit disposed within the insulate body and one transmission terminal. The connection unit includes a connection body having a first side formed with a through hole and a fixing seat projecting from the first side and having a reception channel in spatial communication with the through hole. The transmission terminal includes a first terminal element having a first connecting section extending into the through hole in the connection body for establishing electrical connection with an inserted plug and a clamping section received within the reception channel. The second terminal element has a second connecting section clamped by the clamping section of the first terminal element and a soldering section for soldering onto a printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Concraft Holding Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuo-Chi Lee, Chin-Huang Lin
  • Patent number: 7931474
    Abstract: A high speed connector includes a plurality of wafer-style components, the wafers including two columns of conductive terminals that are supported in an insulative support body by a plurality of channels. Ribs may be provided to help secure one of the terminals in one of the plurality of channels. The two columns of terminals are configured to form broadside coupled terminal pairs and an air channel is at least partially disposed in the wafer between two adjacent broadside coupled terminal pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: John C. Laurx, Peerouz Amleshi, David E. Dunham
  • Patent number: 7918668
    Abstract: A socket connector assembly includes a socket substrate, terminals, and conductive posts. The socket substrate has a mating side and an opposite mounting side with holes extending through the socket substrate. The terminals are disposed above the mating side of the socket substrate and are configured to engage conductive pads of a mating substrate of an electronic package. The conductive posts are disposed in the holes and are elongated between upper and lower ends. The upper ends are electrically coupled with the terminals and the lower ends are configured to be electrically joined with a circuit board. The posts electrically couple the electronic package with the circuit board by providing conductive pathways through the socket substrate between the mating side and the mounting side of the socket substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Alan R. MacDougall
  • Patent number: 7918681
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a base having a through hole, a cover body slidably located on the base, a plurality of pins received in the base, a pushing piece installed on the upper surface of the cover body and having an opening, and a driving device for pushing the cover body and the base to have a relative motion. The cover body has a receiving hole that passes through the upper surface and the lower surface of the cover body. The driving device is received in the through hole, the opening, and the receiving hole. The driving device has an upper blocking portion and a lower blocking portion. The pushing piece, the cover body, and the base are located between the upper blocking portion and the lower blocking portion, in order to prevent the cover body from warping to cause the driving device being operated abnormally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Lotes Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ted Ju
  • Patent number: 7914347
    Abstract: An electrical connector has first and second connector bodies. The first connector body has an inclined surface and the second connector body has arms that correspond to the inclined surfaces. At the end of the inclined surfaces are generally flat portions forming a ledge that prevent the connector bodies from separating. To unmate the connector bodies, one connector body is rotated relative to the other, causing the arms to move from the generally flat portion to the outer surface of the second connector to allow them to be moved axially away from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Corning Gilbert Inc.
    Inventor: Eric James Paulus
  • Patent number: 7914348
    Abstract: A probe connector includes an insulating housing having a base, and a plurality of probe pin assemblies. The base defines a front surface which has a plurality of inserting holes arranged side by side. The inserting hole has a channel at a bottom thereof and reaching a rear surface of the base, and a mating lump protruded inwards from a rear portion of an inner surface thereof. The probe pin assembly has a cylindraceous barrel received in the inserting hole, an elastic element accommodated in the barrel, and a plunger. The barrel has a notch at a rear end of a periphery thereof for engaging with the mating lump. A conduct element of strip shape is extended rearwards from the rear end of the barrel, and exposed out of the insulating housing through the channel for being soldered to a PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Han Lin
  • Patent number: 7914323
    Abstract: A connector apparatus includes a main body and a cover. The main body includes a fixed member and a receiving member. A plurality of connectors is fixed in the fixed member. The receiving member is configured for receiving another connector. The cover is detachably mounted to the receiving member to cover the another connector in response to the another connector being installed in the receiving member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignees: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wen-Hsiang Hung, Lei Shen, Zhen-Xing Wu, Jun-Jie Zheng, Yong-Hua Xiao
  • Patent number: 7901242
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a power converting circuit and a modular power connection interface. By the power converting circuit, an input voltage is converted into several output voltages required for powering corresponding electronic devices. The modular power connection interface includes an output member and a connecting member. The output member includes a plurality of pins and a daughter board. The pins are arranged on at least one surface of the daughter board and electrically connected to the power converting circuit so as to transmit the output voltages. The connecting member has a first connecting part and multiple second connecting parts. The first connecting part is electrically connected with the pins of the output member, and the second connecting parts are electrically connected with corresponding electronic devices, so that the output voltages are transmitted from the power converting circuit to the electronic devices through the modular power connection interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Hung-Chuan Chen