Patents Examined by Nader J Alhawamdeh
  • Patent number: 11133615
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a first connector and a second connector mateable with each other wherein each of the first connector and the second connector has an insulative housing essentially composed of a bottom wall, a side wall and a pair of end walls wherein all the bottom wall and the side wall are rectangular while the end walls are right triangular. The first connector and he second connector are coupled with each other in a complementary manner with the corresponding hypotenuses of the right triangles confronting each other. A sealing member of a frame structure is located at an interface between the coupled edges of the housings in an oblique manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ta-Lung Liu, Kuo-Chun Hsu, Bin Peng, Jian-Kuang Zhu, Ting-Ting Yin, Yu-Jia Deng, Cheng-Jun Zou, Zhong-Bao Wu
  • Patent number: 11128070
    Abstract: An electrical terminal includes a terminal body, at least one interference lug, and at least one circuit connection part. The terminal body includes a front end and a back end in a longitudinal direction. The interference lug is arranged in parallel to the longitudinal direction and extends outwardly in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The at least one circuit connection part is connected to the terminal body. An electrical connector is also provided, and the electrical connector includes a base and the electrical terminal. The base includes at least one installation trough, and a guiding groove is arranged in the at least one installation trough, the at least one interference lug is adapted to slide into the guiding groove, so as to guide and position the electrical terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yung-Chih Hung
  • Patent number: 11121501
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing member having a fitting part that houses a terminal and is fitted to a counterpart connector provided in a connection target and a fixed part that is fixed to a fixed wall surface of the connection target together with the fitting part in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector. The fixed part has through holes, which communicate with fastening holes formed in the fixed wall surface along a fitting direction between the fitting part and the counterpart connector and into which fastening bolts fastened to the fastening holes are inserted along the fitting direction, in the state in which the fitting part has been fitted to the counterpart connector, and a screw hole into which a separation member is screwed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kitagawa, Masanobu Higashitani, Kengo Machida, Maho Shinohara, Masatoshi Yamada, Toshiaki Nozawa, Noboru Hayasaka
  • Patent number: 11121491
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a receptacle including an insertion port into which a plug is inserted, a lid configured to open and close the insertion port and maintain, while the plug is inserted into the insertion port, a state in which the lid is opened by the plug, and a switch configured to change over according to the opening and closing of the lid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ke Wang, Nobuyuki Otsuki, Takashi Akahane, Masatoshi Tanaka, Takeshi Tamura
  • Patent number: 11121509
    Abstract: An electrical connector, electrical connector assembly, electrical device and electrical interconnection system configured for use in electronic devices with direct connect orthogonal architectures. The electrical connector comprises: an insulating housing; at least one electrically conductive terminal, with at least a part of each of the at least one electrically conductive terminal being accommodated in the insulating housing; and a mounting flange, the mounting flange having a mounting hole for mounting the electrical connector to component PCB. A threaded connecting member may pass through the mounting hole and be connected to a first PCB. A portion of the mating interface part of the connector may extend below the mounting interface of the connector so as to abut an edge of the PCB. The electrical connector can simultaneously provide compactness and robustness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: FCI CONNECTORS DONGGUAN LTD.
    Inventors: Hua-Kun Wei, Yi-Lin Liu
  • Patent number: 11121505
    Abstract: A system is provided comprising of a first plug module and a second plug module, which can be plugged together, wherein the first plug module has a locking arrangement, whereby the plug modules can be reversely locked to each other. The system can be arranged within the housings of industrial plugs and is thus better protected from mechanical loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Harting Electric GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Vollmer, Till Riechmann, Malte Frerking
  • Patent number: 11114788
    Abstract: A PCB direct connector is directly mounted to a circuit board, and the PCB direct connector includes terminal members arranged in two rows to respectively contact upper conductive patterns and lower conductive patterns provided to an upper surface and a lower surface of the circuit board, and a connector housing configured to accommodate the terminal members therein and allow a connector connection portion formed at one side of an end of the circuit board to be fitted into and released from the connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Inventor: Sung-Gyu Kim
  • Patent number: 11108182
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector. A plug connector includes an insulative plug housing and a plurality of blade type male contacts retained in the plug housing. Each of the blade type male contacts includes a contacting section composed of two opposite primary mating planes and two opposite side locking planes. Correspondingly, a receptacle connector includes an insulative receptacle housing and a plurality of clip type female contacts retained in the receptacle housing. Each of the clip type female contacts includes a pair of contacting portions sandwiching the two opposite primary mating planes of the corresponding blade type male contact therebetween in a first horizontal direction. A metallic blade type locking piece retained in the receptacle housing, includes a pair of locking arms sandwiching the two opposite side locking planes therebetween in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Cheng-Jun Zou, Kuo-Chun Hsu, Bin Peng, Jian-Kuang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11101600
    Abstract: A connector mounting mechanism includes a base, a power module, a guide buffer module, a first position guide block, a first joint guide block, a second position guide block, and a second joint guide block. The first position guide block is connected with the power module and movably received in the guide buffer module. The first joint guide block is disposed on the guide buffer module and connected with the power module, and is configured to fix a first connector. The second joint guide block is disposed at the second position guide block and configured to fix a second connector. The power module drives the first joint guide block to be plugged into the second joint guide block after driving the first position guide block to be guided into the second position guide block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignees: MAINTEK COMPUTER (SUZHOU) CO., LTD, PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tien-Ju Lin
  • Patent number: 11095058
    Abstract: A multichannel connector assembly includes a plug connector comprising an insulation body, a plurality of conductive terminals, and a shield housing enclosing outside the insulation body, and a socket connector comprising an insulation base, a plurality of docking terminals housed in the insulation base, and a shell enclosing outside the insulation base. The shell includes an inter-buckling portion elastically deformable and provided with an inter-buckling protruding portion and an inter-contacting protruding portion. The inter-buckling protruding portion is capable of engaging with an opposite connector, and the inter-contacting protruding portion is capable of forming a grounded potential connection to the opposite connector by elastically deforming. A ring side portion provided by the shield housing, the base portion and the side end portions provided by the insolation body encircle to form a cut-off region where the conductive terminal soldering portion is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Electric Connector Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sean Zhang, Sam Zhao, Chao Zhang
  • Patent number: 11081830
    Abstract: A seal part includes an elastic body that is in close contact with outer peripheral surfaces of a plurality of wires and an inner peripheral surface of a wire accommodation portion, and a rigid body that has an outer peripheral surface disposed to face the inner peripheral surface of the wire accommodation portion. The rigid body has a plurality of wire through holes allowing wires to coaxially pass through respectively. The elastic body includes first seal portions that respectively correspond to the wire through holes, and that are in close contact with the outer peripheral surfaces of the wires passing through the wire through holes, and a second seal portion that is in close contact with the inner peripheral surface of the wire accommodation portion in the wire accommodation portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuya Minamino
  • Patent number: 11081826
    Abstract: A connector (1) includes a housing (2), a first terminal (31) and a second terminal (32). The terminals (31, 32) are side by side and parallel. One end of each terminal is inserted into the housing (2) and the other end projects from the housing (2). Each of the terminals (31, 32) includes a base (33) projecting from the housing (2) and a connecting portion (34) that is wider than the base (33) toward both sides in an arrangement direction (Y) of the first and second terminals (31, 32). The connecting portion (34) of the first terminal (31) projects farther from the housing (2) than the connecting portion (34) of the second terminal (32). An insulating member (4) is at a position adjacent to the connecting portion (34) of the second terminal (32) in the arrangement direction (Y) on a surface of the base (33) of the first terminal (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventor: Ryuichi Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 11081837
    Abstract: The present invention relates to multi-core plug-in electrical connection structures, in particular to a multi-core plug-in electrical connection structure for logging while drilling tools, which comprises a socket shell with a guiding function arranged at an end of a logging while drilling tool A and a plug shell with a guiding function arranged at an end of a logging while drilling tool B; wherein the socket shell is provided with a socket inner core with a buffering effect therein; and the plug shell is provided with a plug inner core with a buffering effect therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xinzhen He, Qingyun Di
  • Patent number: 11081817
    Abstract: A connector (1) includes a housing (2) and first and second terminals (31, 32). One end of each terminal (31, 32) is inserted into the housing (2) and the other end thereof projects from the housing (2). Each terminal (31, 32) includes a base (33) projecting from the housing (2) and a connecting portion (34) that is wider than the base (33) toward both sides in a (Y) direction. The connecting portion (34) of the first terminal (31) projects farther from the housing (2) than the connecting portion (34) of the second terminal (32) in an (X) direction. The base (33) includes a flat plate (330) having a thickness in a (Z) direction. A side part of the base (33) of the first terminal (31) adjacent to the connecting portion (34) of the second terminal 32 in the (Y) direction is bent with respect to the flat plate (330).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventor: Ryuichi Fujisaki
  • Patent number: 11075493
    Abstract: The application provides an electrical connector, which includes: an insulating body; a conductive body; and a plurality of grounding terminals and a plurality of signal terminals. A plurality of L-shaped protrusions are arranged on the conductive body, a row of L-shaped protrusions are formed between every two adjacent terminal rows, the L-shaped protrusion includes a short edge portion and a long edge portion, the short edge portion is electrically connected to the corresponding grounding terminal by a second end of the short edge portion, and the long edge portion isolates a part of differential signal terminal pairs in adjacent terminal rows that are at least partially overlapped in the column direction. By such electrical connector, the differential signal terminal pairs may be shielded well to avoid crosstalk interference, a common-ground effect is achieved between the grounding terminals, and overall operational effectiveness of the electrical connector is effectively improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: STARCONN ELECTRONIC (Su Zhou) Co., LTD
    Inventors: Sanyo Lin, Fu Su, Maoshan Chen, Kai Wu
  • Patent number: 11070013
    Abstract: A connector assembly having an outer ground contact and a one piece over-molded housing and a method of assembly. The outer ground contact has an outer contact socket portion and an outer contact termination portion. The outer contact termination portion has openings which extend through a wall of the outer contact termination portion. The one piece over-molded housing has a nose cone portion, an inner dielectric portion and transition portions which extend between the nose cone portion and the inner dielectric portion. The nose cone portion is positioned outside of the outer contact termination portion. The inner dielectric portion positioned inside of the outer contact termination portion. The transition portions extend from the nose cone portion, through the openings, to the inner dielectric portion. The positioning of the transition portions in the openings securely mounts the outer grounding contact to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventor: Christian Perry Brandt
  • Patent number: 11063386
    Abstract: A connector is provided with terminals, stoppers, and a socket insulator. The stoppers are attached to the respective terminals and are housed together with the terminals in the housing parts of the socket insulator. The stoppers are provided with parts to be locked, and lock spring parts that support the parts to be locked. Locking parts and operation parts are formed on the socket insulator. When the stoppers are housed in the housing parts, the locking parts are located rearward of the parts to be locked, and the locking parts restrict rearward movement of the stoppers. The operation parts can be operated in a prescribed direction that intersects the longitudinal direction. When operated, the operation parts cause the parts to be locked to move in the prescribed direction, and the restriction applied by the locking parts to the parts to be locked in released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Yasukazu Itou, Katsuhiko Nakazawa
  • Patent number: 11056816
    Abstract: An electrical terminal includes a terminal body and a mounting portion. The terminal body includes a front end, a rear end, and two lateral edges opposite to each other. The front end and the rear end are arranged opposite to each other, and the two lateral edges are connected to the front end and the rear end. The terminal body further includes one or more bending wings formed on one of the two lateral edges. The bending wing is provided with a notch, one side of the notch corresponding to the front end is closed. The mounting portion is extended from the rear end, and the mounting portion is provided with a fixing member. An electrical connector is also disclosed, which includes the electrical terminal provided with the notch to achieve the fixing operation of the electrical terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Yung-Chih Hung
  • Patent number: 11056802
    Abstract: Provided is a connector configured to sufficiently prevent foreign matter from entering from outside by controlling the surface pressure of the fillers. The connector (10) according to the present disclosure includes a pair of a first fitting object (16) and a second fitting object (30) capable of being fitted together; fillers (70) provided in the first fitting object (16) and the second fitting object (30), respectively; and a pressing portion provided, in a protruding manner, to an inner surface of at least one of the first fitting object (16) and the second fitting object (30). The pressing portion presses a corresponding one of the fillers toward the other one of the fillers provided in the other fitting object when the first fitting object (16) and the second fitting object (30) are fitted together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Tetsuya Hata, Shigeki Ohara
  • Patent number: 11050200
    Abstract: A power connector assembly with hermaphroditic power connectors. The housing and the terminals of first and second mating power connectors may have like mating interfaces. The first power connector may include a plurality of first terminals, where the mating portion of each first terminal of the plurality of first terminals includes a first flat portion, and a first bent portion coupled to the first flat portion and including a first set of fingers parallel to the first flat portion. The second power connector may include a plurality of second terminals, where each second terminal of the plurality of second terminals includes a mating portion with a second flat portion, and a second bent portion coupled to the second flat portion and including a second set of fingers parallel to the second flat portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventor: James M. Sabo