Patents Examined by Nader Alhawamdeh
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Patent number: 9912090Abstract: A pressure contact type connector includes: an upper flat plate portion; a lower flat plate portion which is disposed below the upper flat plate portion; a first spring portion which connects the upper and lower flat plate portions; and a second spring portion which extends upward from the lower flat plate portion and applies a resilient force to the upper flat plate portion, in which the first and second spring portions are wound about the upper flat plate portion when viewed from above in a plan view, and extend so that the spring portions do not interfere with each other when being compressed and extended in the vertical direction, the first spring portion is formed to be bent so that a width dimension is larger than a thickness dimension, and the second spring portion is formed to be bent so that a width dimension is larger than a thickness dimension.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: ALPS ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventors: Junichiro Yokota, Takashi Kawahata, Rikiya Suzuki, Seiichiro Sato, Shuji Omura
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Patent number: 9905958Abstract: An insulating housing of an electrical terminal device includes a latching pin arranged on a front side of the housing and that protrudes therefrom in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the front side of the housing, the latching pin engaging in a latching hole arranged on a rear side of the housing in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the rear side of the housing, and a latching hook that protrudes from the front side of the housing and that engages in and latches behind a catch arranged on the rear side of the housing. The latching pin and the latching hole are in the shape of a truncated cone. A plurality of the insulating housings is capable of being plugged on top of one another to form an electrical terminal block.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Stefan Giefers
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Patent number: 9905947Abstract: In examples of the present disclosure, a vented electrical terminal block may include a body that may be configured to support a plurality of electrical terminals In examples, the body may include a plurality of side walls that may extend from the body. The body may include a plurality of apertures extending through the body. A cavity may be defined by an underside of the body. The cavity may receive a cavity fluid. In examples, at least one side wall may include an opening for receiving a sealing fluid, and apertures may be configured to vent said cavity fluid from the cavity when sealing fluid is introduced into the cavity via the opening.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Ferran Juanes Ribas, Montserrat PiƱol Pedret, Enric Aparicio Rollan
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Patent number: 9905944Abstract: A receptacle connection assembly includes a printed circuit board defining two spaced slots in a front edge portion with a mating tongue formed therebetween, a plurality of pads formed on two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue in a diagonally symmetrical manner for a flippable usage and a metallic shield including a tubular capsular portion assembled to the PCB to enclose the mating tongue.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng
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Patent number: 9887483Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a socket, comprising: a seat body including two insertion holes allowing two pins of a plug to insert respectively; wherein, an individual protective door movable member is disposed for each of the insertion holes in the seat body, the protective door movable member is configured in a way that when no pin of a plug is inserted into the insertion holes, the protective door movable members close corresponding insertion holes, and when the pins of the plug are inserted into the insertion holes, the protective door movable members are driven to move along a defined trajectory to open the corresponding insertion holes to allow the pins of the plug to extend into the insertion holes, and wherein movement of the protective door movable members along the defined trajectory makes the movement trajectory of at least a portion of the protective door movable members different from the movement trajectory of another portion of the protective door movable members.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Schneider Electric (Australia) Pty Ltd.Inventors: Dahai Zhang, Pei Shang
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Patent number: 9882298Abstract: The present invention discloses a plug-in connector, including housing, fixing terminals that are connected to the first terminal part and the second terminal part detachably inserting into the clamping grooves provided inside the first terminal part and the second terminal part; at least two power supply terminals; a signal terminal mounting part, provided with two separated rows of terminal grooves therein, wherein the terminal groove includes a plurality of terminal inserting grooves and a plurality of spacing walls that are positioned between the terminal inserting grooves to separate the terminal inserting grooves from each other, and wherein a bottom of the signal terminal mounting part between two terminal groups is provided with a strip-type groove in which conductive plastic is mounted; a pair of terminal groups, having a plurality of signal terminals and ground terminals, and wherein all of the ground terminals are electrically connected through the conductive plastic.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Amphenol Commercial Products (ChengDu) Co., LTD.Inventor: Tao Zeng
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Patent number: 9882306Abstract: A carrier module of a cable connector includes a circuit board and a connecting clip clamping the circuit board. The circuit board has a first surface and a second surface. The connecting clip has a clamping portion and a plurality of positioning arms. The clamping portion has a connecting sheet and two clamping sheets curvedly extended from the connecting sheet. The clamping sheets are respectively abutted against the first and second surfaces. The positioning arms are respectively connected to the clamping sheets and respectively arranged at two opposite sides of the clamping portion. The positioning arms are respectively configured to fix a plurality of cables disposed on the clamping sheets. Thus, the carrier module of the instant disclosure provides a positioning effect for the cables by the connecting clip fixed firmly on the circuit board with good common grounding performance. Besides, the instant disclosure also provides a cable connector.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: TOPCONN ELECTRONIC (KUNSHAN) CO., LTDInventors: Chung-Nan Pao, Yu-Hsiung Lin, Yi-Guang Lai, Ming-Chun Hsu, Kai Wu
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Patent number: 9876304Abstract: The present invention relates to a contacting device for producing an electrical contact between at least one first electrical component and at least one second electrical component, said device having a first contacting region and a second contacting region at a distance therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2015Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: GENTHERM GMBHInventor: Markus Issler
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Patent number: 9871320Abstract: The application relates to a connector that is connectable to a complementary connector on a plugging-in axis to produce an electrical connection. In particular, the connector includes an actuation device mounted to move on said connector between a connection position and a disconnection position, the actuation device comprising a first part configured to cooperate with the complementary connector to fix the connector to the complementary connector in the connection position, and an ejection device translationally mobile along the plugging-in axis into a position protruding toward the complementary connector, the actuation device comprising a second part configured to cooperate in the disconnection position with the ejection device to drive the translational displacement of the ejection device into the protruding position. Further, the actuation device and the ejection device are formed by at least two distinct elements of the connector.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: NICOMATICInventor: Hakan Tezgurler
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Patent number: 9859645Abstract: A connector includes a tubular connector housing inside which a terminal accommodating room is formed, a terminal that is inserted into the terminal accommodating room from behind, and a retainer that retains the terminal which is accommodated in the terminal accommodating room by being mounted to the connector housing from a direction crossing the inserting direction of the terminal, wherein the retainer is formed with a terminal contact part which is inserted from an opening, with which a wall of the terminal accommodating room of the connector housing is formed, to touch the terminal which is accommodated in the terminal accommodating room, and the terminal contact part is formed into such a shape to push the terminal toward the front side of the terminal accommodating room in a process that the retainer moves to a regular position of the connector housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Ryosuke Ohfuku, Tomoyoshi Fukaya, Masatoshi Nakamura, Kazuhide Ikeya
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Patent number: 9859646Abstract: Provided is an electrical connector mounted on a circuit board and including: a first connection terminal whose one end is electrically connected to the circuit board; a housing for supporting the first connection terminal while having the other end of the first connection terminal surrounded by lateral walls and disposed inside the housing, and having an opening toward an upper part opposite to a bottom part where the housing makes contact with the circuit board; a second connection terminal whose one end is electrically connected to the other end of the first connection terminal and whose other end is electrically connected to an external connection terminal inserted in the electrical connector; a lid for engaging the opening of the housing and covering the other end of the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal. The lid has a penetration hole configured to ventilate the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiko Ueda, Toshiyasu Katsuno, Hitoshi Ozaki
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Patent number: 9831587Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical terminal for a female connector. The terminal includes a contact blade having a first sheet plane. The contact blade is configured to contact an electrical pin with a contact force when the terminal is mated with the electrical and a separate support blade having a second sheet plane. The support blade engages with a corresponding contact blade to increase the contact force. The first and second sheet planes are orientated substantially perpendicular to each other. The support blade includes an engaging portion configured to engage the corresponding contact blade transversely in a middle of the corresponding contact blade.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: DELPHI INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS LUXEMBOURG S.A.R.L.Inventors: Francois Cormier, Sylvain Bossuyt, Patrice Cappe
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Patent number: 9831585Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical terminal for a female connector. The terminal includes a contact blade having a first sheet plane. The contact blade is configured to contact an electrical pin with a contact force when the terminal is mated with the electrical and a separate support blade having a second sheet plane. The support blade engages with a corresponding contact blade to increase the contact force. The first and second sheet planes are orientated substantially perpendicular to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: DELPHI INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS LUXEMBOURG S.A.R.L.Inventors: Francois Cormier, Sylvain Bossuyt, Patrice Cappe
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Patent number: 9831592Abstract: Provided is an electrical connector mounted on a circuit board and including: a first connection terminal whose one end is electrically connected to the circuit board; a housing for supporting the first connection terminal while having the other end of the first connection terminal surrounded by lateral walls and disposed inside the housing, and having an opening toward an upper part opposite to a bottom part where the housing makes contact with the circuit board; a second connection terminal whose one end is electrically connected to the other end of the first connection terminal and whose other end is electrically connected to an external connection terminal inserted in the electrical connector; a lid for engaging the opening of the housing and covering the other end of the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal. The lid has a penetration hole configured to ventilate the housing.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kazuhiko Ueda, Toshiyasu Katsuno, Hitoshi Ozaki
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Patent number: 9825385Abstract: According to one embodiment, a holder includes a recessed portion and including an opening, and includes a contact exposed from part of a bottom surface of the recessed portion. A lid covers the holder from the recessed portion side, makes a space in the recessed portion airtight in an engaged state in which the opening of the recessed portion is closed, and includes an elastic member pushing down a contained object contained in the recessed portion. And a lock mechanism forms the engaged state between the lid and the holder.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Akira Tanaka, Masaya Hirashima, Shukuyo Yamada
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Patent number: 9812801Abstract: A cable holding member includes a stopper member and a housing. The stopper member has an attachment surface for supporting a flat cable in a folded state. The housing has a mounting surface which is provided at an opening edge of a housing space for housing the stopper member and on which the flat cable is to be placed, and recesses into which protrusions of the flat cable placed on the mounting surface are to be fitted. The flat cable is placed on the mounting surface, and then, the stopper member is inserted into the housing space of the housing. In this way, the stopper member is attached to the housing with the flat cable being supported on the attachment surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Okura, Chikara Ito, Mitsuru Iida
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Patent number: 9806442Abstract: A plug connection device for connecting a cable having at least one core to a circuit board includes a connector which can be connected to the core of the cable, and a base strip which can be connected to the circuit board The base strip includes a soldering pin which can be electrically connected to the core of the cable in a plug-in region by placing the connector onto the base strip and which can be soldered to the circuit board in a soldering region in order to produce a conductive connection. The soldering region of the soldering pin includes a plurality of contact zones such that the base strip can be connected to the circuit board in different orientations.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Ralf Geske
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Patent number: 9799997Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a conductive contact member disposed in the housing. A first contact portion of the conductive contact member receives a blade contact of an electrical device and a second contact portion electrically engages an inserted electrical wire. A spring member is disposed in the housing and is connected to the contact member. A rotatable member is movable between first and second positions. When the rotatable member is in the second position the spring member secures an inserted wire in electrical engagement with the conductive contact member and prevents removal of the inserted wire. When the rotatable member is in the first position the spring member allows for removal of an inserted wire and allows for insertion of a wire in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventors: Thomas L. Scanzillo, Edward R Bazayev, Robert Simon
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Patent number: 9799973Abstract: Printed circuit board pad layouts and mechanical retainers are disclosed herein. For example, a printed circuit board is disclosed having a row of electrically conductive pads, the row of pads including pairs of signal pads with exactly one reference pad interposed between each pair of the signal pads. As another example, a mechanical retainer is disclosed that may assist in interconnecting two printed circuit boards and that has a longitudinal body with a threaded end, a head at an end opposite the threaded end, and a shank connecting the head to the threaded end.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: ROSS VIDEO LIMITEDInventors: Donald Mark Sizemore, Curtis Rylee Keim, Nicholas Daniel Parry, Mark Justin Sonderegger, Thomas Curtis Brown
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Patent number: 9799976Abstract: A pin contact for an electrical connector is disclosed having a contact body and a pin. The contact body is formed from a metal sheet and has a mating end, a pin receiving space and an offset wall. The pin receiving space extends inward from the mating end. The offset wall has at least one welding region, and an outer surface facing away from the welding region and accessible from the outside. The pin is positioned in the pin receiving space and projects out of the mating end. The pin is welded to the welding region.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Antonio Lehner, Volker Seipel, Harald Kraenzlein