Patents Examined by Nader J Alhawamdeh
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Patent number: 10770841Abstract: A connector system is disclosed that is configured to provide terminals that support data rates of 10 Gbps or more. Such a connector system includes a wafer set configured to enable broad-side coupling of a differential pair of terminals across an air channel formed between the terminals.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Molex, LLCInventor: Kent E. Regnier
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Patent number: 10763631Abstract: A rotational outlet-socket includes an outlet-socket group including at least two outlet-socket units connected in series, and each outlet-socket unit separately performing rotation in a plurality of angles, where an electric conduction member group is disposed in the outlet-socket unit and includes a first electric conduction rod including a first clamping portion, a second electric conduction rod including a second clamping portion, and a ground wire electric conduction rod including a ground wire clamping portion, and the ground wire clamping portion is pivotally connected to and pivots around the ground wire electric conduction rod through a pivotal connection portion by using a pivotal connection piece. The ground wire clamping portion pivots around a rotation axis between the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion when the outlet-socket unit rotates.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: POWERSYNC INTERNATIONAL CORP.Inventor: Meng-Chang Liu
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Patent number: 10759363Abstract: A vehicular circuit body includes a trunk line that extends in at least a front-and-rear direction of a vehicle, a plurality of control boxes that are provided on the trunk line, and a branch line that connects the control box to an accessory. The trunk line and the branch line each includes a power source line having a predetermined current capacity and a communication line having a predetermined communication capacity. The control box includes a branch line connection portion to which the branch line is connected, and a branch line control unit that distributes power from the trunk line to the branch line by controlling the branch line connection portion according to a control program. The control program can be externally changed based on the accessory connected to the branch line.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Takamatsu, Koichi Uezono, Kousuke Kinoshita, Atsushi Nakata, Yasuyuki Saito, Kazuyuki Oiwa, Terumitsu Sugimoto, Taku Furuta, Noriaki Sasaki, Yukinari Naganishi, Sadaharu Okuda, Kunihiko Yamada
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Patent number: 10763608Abstract: An orthogonal female connector includes a plurality of terminal components, a main body, and a shell; the terminal components inserted in the main body and including a 40-pin, a 15-pin, a 7-pin, and a 6-pin terminal members; the terminal components having a board end and a plug end; the board end formed on a lower portion of the terminal component and combined on a printed circuit board; the plug end formed on an anterior portion of the terminal component and connected with a solid state disk interface; an angle included by pins of the board end and the plug end being 90 degrees; such that the 40-pin, 15-pin, 7-pin, and 6-pin terminal members are applied to be connected with a PSAS male connector; and the 15-pin and 7-pin terminal members are corporately applied to be connected with a SAS male connector, simplifying the structure and lowering cost.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: AMPHENOL EAST ASIA ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY (SHEN ZHEN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiang Wang, Lei Liao, Yan-Bin Tan
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Patent number: 10756474Abstract: A plug connector having a firmly fastened protecting element includes a main body, an integrally molded outer shell surrounding the inner shell, and a protecting element. The main body includes a circuit board, a connecting element, a soldering element and an inner shell. The connecting element includes an assembling end, and a function end connected with the assembling end. The assembling end is adjacent to and is connected with one end of the circuit board. The soldering element is connected with the other end of the circuit board. The inner shell is fastened between the connecting element and the soldering element. The inner shell surrounds the circuit board. The protecting element is fastened to one end of the main body adjacent to the assembling end. The protecting element includes a connecting end combined with and is fastened to one end of the outer shell away from the soldering element.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yang-Yang Sun, Ming-Wei Lee
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Patent number: 10756493Abstract: A connector includes a shield shell that has a sub shield body covering the electric connection portions and the terminals of the electric wires externally, and first and second holding members and that hold exposed braids at the terminals of the electric wires. The sub shield body has a second accommodation chamber that covers the exposed braids at the terminals of the electric wires and the first and the second holding members externally. The first and the second holding members are members holding, along axial lines of the terminals of the electric wires, annular development portions of the braids that are formed by annularly developing the exposed braids to the outer side in the radial direction, have annular holding portions interposing the annular development portions therebetween, and are pressed against and fixed to the shield shell along the holding direction of the annular development portions.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventor: Yuki Mori
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Patent number: 10749299Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of contacts having a first pair of contacts and a second pair of contacts, and a housing configured to hold the plurality of contacts, the plurality of contacts each including a contact portion to be in contact with a contact of a mating connector, a connection portion to be connected to a connection target object, and a held portion disposed between the contact portion and the connection portion and embedded in the housing, the first pair of contacts each including, in the held portion, a deformed portion partially separated from the second pair of contacts.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Takashi Tada
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Patent number: 10741943Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB). The apparatus also includes a first dual stacked octal small format pluggable (OSFP) module coupled to the PCB on a top surface of the PCB. The first dual stacked OSFP module comprises two OSFP modules that are vertically stacked. The apparatus further includes a second dual stacked OSFP module coupled to the PCB on a bottom surface of the PCB. The second dual stacked OSFP module comprises two OSFP modules that are vertically stacked. A first bottom of the first dual stacked OSFP module is flush against the top surface of the PCB. A second bottom of the second dual stacked OSFP is flush against the bottom surface of the PCB.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: ARISTA NETWORKS, INC.Inventors: Robert Wilcox, Richard Hibbs, Youngbae Park, Cliff Willis, Aravind Musunuri
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Patent number: 10734792Abstract: The present invention relates to a bus conductor connection structure for electric field relaxation. The bus conductor connection structure for electric field relaxation includes: an enclosure filled with an inert gas; spacers coupled to two side end portions of the enclosure in a facing contact manner and having connection conductors; conductors provided with predetermined intervals being maintained inside the enclosure; and coupling portions formed in end portions of the conductors, wherein the coupling portion is coupled to the connection conductor in a close contact manner with bolts. Accordingly, the bus conductor connection structure for electric field relaxation is allowed to simply fixing conductors and assembling bolts of a gas insulated bus and to reduce a size of the bus by shortening an insulation distance between the bus and the ground by using a shape and arrangement for electric field relaxation.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: HYOSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES CORPORATIONInventors: Jae Gil Ryu, Nak Geun Cho, Hyun Sub Sim, Yun Ho Cho
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Patent number: 10727624Abstract: A strain relief arrangement (4) for a connecting cable (2) has a threaded pin (12), clamping tongues (13), a union nut (3), an enlarged diameter (10, 11) on the threaded pin (12), an extension (15), and a passage bore (25) for the connecting cable (2). By screwing of the union nut (3) onto the threaded pin (12), the clamping tongues (13) move inward and press against the connecting cable (2) for strain relief. The extension (15) is non-round, and an opening (6) of a carrier element (5) is complementary (7, 8) to the extension (15). An enlarged region (16) of the extension (15) has a circumferential groove (20) adjacent to the enlarged diameter (10, 11). The extension (15) can be introduced into the opening (6) of the carrier element (5) and can be fastened by rotation in the opening (6).Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: WABCO Europe BVBAInventors: Thomas Stellmacher, Ingo Brinkmeier, Ingo Jovers, Johann Lucas
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Patent number: 10714870Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electrical socket to receive an electrical plug having a plurality of contact blades. The electrical socket includes a main body having a plurality of socket openings; a cover member disposed in the main body and being detachable from the main body; a rotary member connected to the main body, wherein an end of the rotary member inserts into the main body, wherein the cover member is configured for limiting the rotary member to the main body, the rotary member is able to rotate relative to the main body to make one of the plurality of contact blades inserted in one of the plurality of socket openings prevent sliding out from the one of the plurality of socket openings.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: NINGBO WELL ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD.Inventor: Guolin Yu
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Patent number: 10714853Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a housing, a plurality of terminals, signal terminals, a controller, signal wiring, and a memory. The housing has a first face and a second face opposite to the first face. The plurality of terminals is exposed to the first face, extends in a first direction, and is spaced apart in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. A signal terminal included in the plurality of terminals has a first end in the first direction, and a second end opposite to the first end in the first direction, the second end being closer to a contact position with a socket contact than the first end. The controller is located in the housing. The signal wiring extends from the first end in the housing and electrically connects the first end and the controller. The memory is electrically connected to the controller in the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATIONInventors: Toshitada Saito, Hideki Kawamura, Atsushi Kondo, Katsuyoshi Watanabe, Taku Nishiyama
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Patent number: 10714855Abstract: An electrical connector is used to be electrically connected to a chip module having multiple pins. The electrical connector includes a body to support the chip module upward and provided with multiple accommodating holes penetrating through an upper surface and a lower surface of the body, and multiple terminals correspondingly accommodated in the accommodating holes. Each accommodating hole has a blocking wall. Each terminal includes a base, two first arms bending forward from two opposite sides of the base and extending upward, and a second arm bending forwards from the base and extending downward. The two first arms have two clamping portions and two first guiding portions extending upward from the two clamping portions and away from each other. The blocking wall covers upper ends of the two first guiding portions. The second arm has a second guiding portion and an abutting portion extending downward from the second guiding portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: LOTES CO., LTDInventor: Yang Yang Tu
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Patent number: 10707627Abstract: Hybrid connectors that may transfer power and data with a variety of electronic devices having different types of connector interfaces, may consume a minimal amount of surface area, depth, and volume in an electronic device, and may be readily manufactured.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Reza Nasiri Mahalati, Blake R. Marshall, Liquan Tan, Florence W. Ow, Alex C. Yeung, John Raff, Robert Scritzky, Wei-Hsuan Chen, Eric S. Jol, Madhusudanan Keezhveedi Sampath, Nan Liu, Gianpaolo Lisi, YiBo Liu
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Patent number: 10703307Abstract: A vehicular circuit body includes a trunk line that extends in at least a front-and-rear direction of a vehicle, a plurality of control boxes that are provided on the trunk line, and a branch line that connects the control box to an accessory. The trunk line and the branch line each includes a power source line having a predetermined current capacity and a communication line having a predetermined communication capacity. The control box includes a branch line connection portion to which the branch line is connected, and a branch line control unit that distributes power from the trunk line to the branch line by controlling the branch line connection portion according to a control program. The control program can be externally changed based on the accessory connected to the branch line.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Takamatsu, Koichi Uezono, Kousuke Kinoshita, Atsushi Nakata, Yasuyuki Saito, Kazuyuki Oiwa, Terumitsu Sugimoto, Taku Furuta, Noriaki Sasaki, Yukinari Naganishi, Sadaharu Okuda, Kunihiko Yamada
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Patent number: 10709029Abstract: A plug-in device may include a circuit board, a first connecting piece stacked on the circuit board and a card tray stacked on the first connecting piece. The card tray may include a first mounting face facing the first connecting piece and a second mounting face away from the first connecting piece. The first mounting face may be configured to place a first chip card electrically connected to the circuit board through the first connecting piece. The second mounting face may be configured to place a second chip card electrically connected to the circuit board. A projection of the first mounting face along a direction perpendicular to the first mounting face may overlap that of the second mounting face. A terminal may include the above mentioned plug-in device.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.Inventor: Hanjie Huang
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Patent number: 10707613Abstract: A foldable power plug assembly may include a lever-based mechanism for retracting the metal pins of the assembly such that they do not extend beyond a top surface of a base portion of the assembly and for subsequently extracting the pins from the base portion. When a force is applied to a first pin in a folding direction while the assembly is in a deployed state, the lever-based mechanism may be configured to retract both the first and second pins toward their respective fully retracted positions. When a force is applied to the first pin in an unfolding direction while the assembly is in a retracted state, the mechanism may be configured to unfold both the first and second pins toward their respective fully deployed positions. and extend them to their fully deployed positions. The lever-based mechanism may be simple and intuitive to operate using a single hand.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Hang Du, Tiong Chee Benedict Tay, Yu Weng Alvin Sitoh, Toshiyuki Tanaka
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Patent number: 10700465Abstract: An electrical plug safety device is disclosed having a first planar section having a first pair of holes therethrough, a second planar section having a second pair of holes therethrough, and a pair of collapsible passages each having a first opening joined to one of the first pair of holes of the first planar section and each having a second opening joined to one of the second pair of holes of the second planar section. Each of the pair of collapsible passages comprises a single constriction between the first opening and the second opening. Prongs of an electrical plug inserted through the collapsible passages are shielded from contact as the plug is connected or disconnected from an outlet.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Inventor: Samuel Deskin
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Patent number: 10700474Abstract: A plug connector having unlocking function is disclosed in the present invention. The plug connector includes a base, a signal transmission module, a lock head, a cover and an unlocking device. The lock head has two symmetrical edge protrusions, each of which has an upward inclined surface. The unlocking device includes a sliding member being slidably mounted on the cover and being connected with the lock head, and a pull strip being connected with the sliding member. A connection mouth of the sliding member has two downward inclined surfaces. A free end of the lock head is embedded into the connection mouth, and the upward inclined surface is pressed against the corresponding downward inclined surface. When pulling the pull strip backward, the sliding member moves backward, and the downward inclined surface can push the edge protrusion to move downward and drive the lock head to go down for unlocking.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: OUPIIN ELECTRONIC (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventor: Hsin Chih Chen
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Patent number: 10690329Abstract: Provided is a power supply box device that improves design properties by keeping an operation lever from being visible from outside and that prevents misoperations caused by the operation lever being touched by mistake. A power supply box device 1 that comprises a plug 30: that has an operation lever 31m that protrudes in a radiation direction from a plug main body and extends downward; and that is supported by a lid member so as to be capable of forward and reverse rotation. A box main body has: a housing 12 that houses a power supply; and a lever cover 13 that is supported by the housing 12 so as to be capable of ascending/descending between a lock position that is on an upper side and a lock release position P2 that is on a lower side.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: MODULEX INC.Inventor: Goro Terumichi