Patents Examined by Nader J Alhawamdeh
  • Patent number: 11557855
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly having a first electrical connector or header including a base and a shroud extending therefrom. The shroud defines a first opening arranged opposite the base and a second lateral opening defined between two ends thereof. A second or mating connector of the assembly includes a mating end received within the first opening of the shroud in an insertion direction. A body of the second electrical connector is received within the second lateral opening of the shroud and includes a pair of covers or hoods with channels for receiving and mechanically joining the two ends of the shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaobao Geng, Weiping Zhao (George)
  • Patent number: 11552426
    Abstract: A sealed connector assembly includes a female connector having an inner wall, an outer wall substantially parallel to the inner wall, and a resilient seal circumferentially extending from the inner wall and a male connector having a shroud extending parallel to the mating axis and a male blade stabilizer (MBS) moveable from a pre-staged position to a fully staged position and back to the pre-staged position. The MBS is configured to move from the pre-staged position to the fully staged position as the shroud is received between the outer wall and the resilient seal, thereby disposing the MBS between the inner and outer walls and retaining the resilient seal in an intended location. The MBS remains engaged to female connector until the shroud is withdrawn from between the outer wall and the resilient seal, thereby retaining the resilient seal in the intended location as the male connector is unmated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Rangarajan Sundarakrishnamachari, Sivakumar Jogula
  • Patent number: 11543071
    Abstract: A connection apparatus of a detachable gimbal and an unmanned aerial vehicle are disclosed. The connection apparatus of a detachable gimbal includes: an alignment component, where the alignment component is configured to align a circuit connection terminal of an unmanned aerial vehicle with a circuit connection terminal of a gimbal; a pre-installed component disposed on the alignment component, where the pre-installed component moves relative to the alignment component to fixedly connect the gimbal to a fuselage of the unmanned aerial vehicle; and a locking component disposed on the pre-installed component, where the locking component locks the pre-installed component when the pre-installed component moves relative to the alignment component to a preset location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Liangjun Hu
  • Patent number: 11539102
    Abstract: A battery connector including a conductive plate configured to contact a first battery and a second battery so as to electrically connect the first battery and the second battery to each other, an upper fixer configured to be coupled the first battery, and a lower fixer configured to be coupled to the second battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: LG ENERGY SOLUTION, LTD.
    Inventors: Ro Un Kim, Sang Uck Kim, Gil Young Lee, Sang Sok Jung
  • Patent number: 11522329
    Abstract: A terminal-wire bonding method includes: arranging a first core at a second end of a first terminal-wire having a first terminal connected with the first core exposed from an insulating sheath at a first end, onto a side of an anvil and a second core at a second end of a second terminal-wire having a second terminal connected with the second core exposed, at a first end, from an insulating sheath longer than the insulating sheath of the first terminal-wire, onto a side of a horn; and bonding the first core at the second end and the second core at the second end together by ultrasonic bonding between the horn and the anvil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Sato, Hiroshi Aoki, Naoki Ito, Yasunori Nabeta
  • Patent number: 11522316
    Abstract: A connector 10 includes: a first housing 11A, a first terminal 51A attached to the first housing 11A; a second housing 11B separate from the first housing 11A; a second terminal 51B attached to the second housing 11B; a flexible member 81 where the first terminal 51A and second terminal 51B are connected to two ends, and connecting the first housing 11A and second housing 11B; and an aligning member 41 having a flexible member insertion cavity 44 where the flexible member 81 is inserted, and that is movably arranged between the first housing 11A and second housing 11B in a condition where the flexible member 81 is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Shuichi Sato, Koji Murakami, Mikiji Tanaka, Naoya Inoue
  • Patent number: 11522322
    Abstract: An electrical connector of an electrical connector assembly. The electrical connector includes a housing with a mating face for mating with a mating electrical connector. Contact receiving cavities extend into the housing from the mating face. Contacts are provided in the contact receiving cavities. Mating portions of the contacts extend from the mating face in a direction away from the housing. Protrusions extend from the mating face in a direction away from the housing. The protrusions extend proximate edges of the mating portions of the contacts. The protrusions form reverse chamfers which cooperate with lead-in chamfers provided in a surface of the mating electrical connector. The positioning of the protrusions in the lead-in chamfers fills in air gaps provided by the lead-in chamfers to provide an impedance match along the mating portions of the contacts when the electrical connector is mated with the mating electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Charles Raymond Gingrich, III, Graham Harry Smith, Jr., Michael Frank Cina
  • Patent number: 11522324
    Abstract: A dual direction connector interface includes a housing having first and second sides transverse to each other, and first and second dielectric bodies carried in the first and second sides, respectively, which have first and second bores formed therethrough, respectively. A conducting pin is carried within the housing. The conducting pin has a head and a shank. The first and second conductive bodies are carried on the head of the conducting pin and have first and second passages, respectively, formed therein for receiving a center conductor of a coaxial cable. The first and second passages are registered with the first and second bores, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Kang Lin
  • Patent number: 11509093
    Abstract: A connector assembly device includes a connector element and a connector position assurance (CPA) device mounted to move relative to the connector element between a delivery position and a locking position. The connector element includes a first locking device and a second locking device. The CPA device includes a locking lance that has an associated first locking device configured to implement a first form-fitting connection with the first locking device of the connector element and an associated second locking device configured to implement a second form-fitting connection with the second locking device of the connector element in the locking position. The form-fitting connections prevent any movement of the CPA device in a direction from the locking position towards the delivery position and take place in different planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics France SAS
    Inventors: Hyunji Yuk, Xavier Rouillard, Carlos Salgado
  • Patent number: 11495924
    Abstract: An ethernet bridge mounting arrangement includes a housing including a cover portion and a back portion and a wall mount. The housing is configured to be coupled with the wall mount, and the housing is rotatable relative to the wall mount about an axis that extends in a direction perpendicular to a rear surface of the housing between a first rotational orientation, where latching members extending from the housing can be received by and removed from latch openings in the wall mount, and a second rotational orientation, where the housing is prevented from being pulled away from the wall plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Stankovski, David Barany, Noah P. Montena, Harold J. Watkins, Daniel Daoust
  • Patent number: 11493013
    Abstract: A current detector includes: a printed circuit board; and a resistor for detecting an electric current of the electrochemical device, wherein a connector having a first terminal is mounted on the printed circuit board, and the resistor has a second terminal which is brought into contact with the first terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignees: GS YUASA INTERNATIONAL LTD., IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Okachi
  • Patent number: 11473891
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a detonation connector having an electric wire mounting structure, the detonation connector includes: an electrically conductive wire-connecting bracket member having a plurality of electric wire mounting gloves to which a leg line or a leading line is mounted; a lower casing member at which the wire-connecting bracket member is positioned; and an upper casing member covering the lower casing member, wherein the lower casing member may be provided with an opening through which a leg line passes, and the lower casing member is provided with a leg line mounting part therein. Accordingly, a stable connection state in the connector is maintained by fixing a double coated electric wire or a single coated electric wire in a state of being mounted to an opening of the detonation connector and the connection stability and the connection reliability of the leg line and the leading line are secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HANWHA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Doo Hyun Lee, Ki Chui Park
  • Patent number: 11476603
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes electrical contacts that are configured to be mounted to an electrical cable, and mating ends that are configured to be surface mounted to a contact pad of an underlying substrate, such that the mating ends flex and apply a pressure against the contact pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SAMTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Earl Buck, Keith Guetig
  • Patent number: 11476599
    Abstract: A cable system component includes a nut having a seal-grasping surface portion and a seal having an elastically deformable tubular body attached to the nut. The body has a posterior sealing surface that cooperatively engages the seal-grasping surface portion of the nut and a forward sealing surface configured to cooperatively engage an interface port. The seal includes a nonconductive elastomer overlying a conductive elastomer in a radial dimension of the seal. The conductive elastomer is configured to make an electrical ground connection with the interface port before a center conductor of the coaxial cable makes an electrical connection with an internal contact of the interface port when the nut is coupled with the interface port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventor: Harold J. Watkins
  • Patent number: 11469532
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an internal conductor configured as a movable element, thereby providing a connector for preventing the occurrence of the breakdown or damage of a pin of a male connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Junkosha Inc.
    Inventor: Hiromi Yasumoto
  • Patent number: 11462851
    Abstract: A machine case includes a bottom cover and a top cover with a connection port, encloses a printed circuit board therein. An internal flat cable is equipped with a first connector at one end thereof and mounted upon a center region of the printed circuit board, and a second connector at another end thereof and disposed in the connection ports without electrically connecting to the printed circuit board. The second connector includes a plurality of contacts integrally formed within an insulator via insert-molding. A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing having a mating port adapted to be mated with the connection port. A printed circuit board is embedded within the housing and forms mating pads on two opposite surfaces in a reversely symmetrical manner so as to have the two corresponding mating pads on two opposite surfaces in the diagonal direction share the same circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Terrance F. Little
  • Patent number: 11462853
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative front housing, an insulative rear housing and a plurality of contacts. The front housing forms a mating cavity. The contact includes a contacting section extending into the mating cavity, a retaining section retained to the front housing, and a connecting section connected with the wire. The rear housing includes a front receiving space and a rear receiving space communicating with each other. The rear portion of the front housing is assembled into the front receiving space of the rear housing to have the connecting sections of the contacts exposed in the front receiving space. The rear receiving space receives the corresponding wires therein with corresponding opening to allow the wires to extend therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shun-Ying Yuan, Bin Peng, Jian-Kuang Zhu, Kuo-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 11462867
    Abstract: A structure for fixing a connector to a fixing portion includes the connector and the fixing portion. The fixing portion includes a bracket and a fitting portion. The bracket is erected on the fixing portion. The connector includes a lock portion configured to, when the bracket is inserted into the lock portion by attaching the connector to the fixing portion, lock the bracket. The fitting portion is configured such that a part of the connector is fitted into the fitting portion when the connector is attached to the fixing portion. The bracket may be integrally molded with the fixing portion molded with a resin. The fitting portion may have a hole portion running along a fitting direction in which the connector is attached to the fixing portion, and a slit may be formed in the fitting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhide Takahashi, Takashi Matsunaga, Eiji Aoki, Takahiro Kubo
  • Patent number: 11456552
    Abstract: A cover has both ends in an extension direction being connected to an insulating member body. A dividing portion formed in a part of the extension direction divides the cover into a first section and a second section. The first section and the second section come into contact with a spring contact when a male terminal contact portion is inserted between a pair of female terminal contact portions. On contact with the spring contact, the first section and the second section elastically deform at least in an opposing direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuya Minamino, Takashi Sone
  • Patent number: 11450990
    Abstract: A method for shielding and grounding a connector assembly from electromagnetic interference (EMI) including at least one of a step of directing the EMI to at least an electrically conducting seal, and a step of directing the EMI to at least a male/female joint stamped shield. The EMI, generated by, e.g., at least a battery cable assembly or the like, housed within at least a male connector assembly or a female connector assembly of the connector assembly, has a flow path that is conducted through at least the electrically conductive seal and the male/female joint stamped shield of the connector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: J.S.T. CORPORATION
    Inventor: David Demaratos