Patents Examined by Paul D Baillargeon
  • Patent number: 12160074
    Abstract: An in-wall power adapter adapted to receive a voltage is described. The in-wall power adapter may comprise a first plurality of contact elements comprising a first contact element adapted to receive a line voltage signal, a second contact element adapted to receive a neutral voltage, a third contact element adapted to receive a ground voltage, and a fourth contact element adapted to receive a communication signal; a recess adapted to receive a control module; a switch having a first terminal coupled to receive the line voltage; and a second plurality of contact elements associated with the recess and comprising a fifth contact element adapted to receive the communication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Smart Power Partners LLC
    Inventors: John J. King, Stephen DeLano, Tyler J Miller, Tho Nguyen, Benjamin F. Feldman, Thomas E. Musman
  • Patent number: 12149028
    Abstract: Introduced is a connector assembly in which a CPA member, which assists in fastening a first connector and a second connector, securely connects the first connector and the second connector, and prevents a short circuit of an electrical signal, may be automatically inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation, Tyco Electronics AMP Korea Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bum Woo Nam, Kun Teak Lim, Chang Ho Lee, Ki Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 12132287
    Abstract: A connector includes: a rod-shaped terminal; and a housing having a terminal accommodating chamber configured to accommodate the terminal. The terminal has: a rotation restricting portion configured to engage with an inner wall of the terminal accommodating chamber to restrict rotation of the terminal about an axis of the terminal; a contact configured to be electrically connected to a counterpart terminal; and a hole configured to allow a bolt to be screwed into the hole about the axis. The housing has: a holding portion that holds the terminal inside the terminal accommodating chamber; and an opening configured to expose the hole of the terminal to an outside of the terminal accommodating chamber. The connector is configured to have a gap between the inner wall of the terminal accommodating chamber and the terminal, the gap increasing from the rotation restricting portion of the terminal toward the opening of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuichi Motoshige
  • Patent number: 12126110
    Abstract: A connector 10 includes a connector body 20, a lever 90 rotatably supported on the connector body 20 and configured to properly connect the connector body 20 and a mating connector body 120 at a connection position, a detector portion 60 separate from the connector body 20 and to be fit to a mating detector portion 160 when the lever 90 is at the connection position, and a detection-side sealing portion 80 to be liquid-tightly arranged between the detector portion 60 and the mating detector portion 160. The detector portion 60 and the lever 90 include movement converting portions for converting a rotational movement of the lever 90 into a linear movement of the detector portion 60 with respect to the mating detector portion 120 by contacting each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Takuya Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 12126119
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a plug head, a plug terminal module, a locking member and a retaining body installed on one side of the plug connector. The plug terminal module includes a number of first plug terminals and a number of second plug terminals. The first plug terminals and the second plug terminals have a same structure and number. The first plug terminals and the second plug terminals are symmetrically arranged on opposite sides of the plug connector head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LEADER PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Wang, Jinqi Li, Jiamei Wan
  • Patent number: 12126130
    Abstract: A spring-loaded terminal is designed as a direct plug-in terminal for connecting a conductor. The terminal includes a busbar for contacting the conductor, a clamping spring for retaining the electrical conductor in the terminal, and a retaining spring for latching the clamping spring in an open position so that the conductor can be inserted into a contact area. The clamping spring has a pivotable clamping leg and a clamping edge. The retaining spring has a pivotable pivoting leg having at least one retaining device as a first latching device. The clamping leg has a corresponding latching device cooperating with the retaining device of the pivoting leg in a latching state of the clamping leg. The clamping leg is adjustable from the latching state by displacing the electrical conductor into a clamping state in which the clamping leg is unlatched from the retaining device and presses the electrical conductor with the clamping edge of the clamping leg against the busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stephan Fehling, Walter Hanning, Michael Herrmann, Heike Schmidtpott, Andreas Rutz, Michael Lenschen, Karlo Stjepanovic
  • Patent number: 12113325
    Abstract: A bus module (100) includes an insulating body (10) and multiple conductors (20), and the insulating body (10) includes a first insulator (11), a second insulator (12) installed at a position corresponding to the first insulator (11), and two locking arm (111) installed on two sides of the first insulator (11) separately. Each conductor (20) is parallelly embedded in the insulating body (10) and includes a lapping plate (21), a clamping portion (22) extended from the lapping plate (21) and an end pin (23) extended from the lapping plate (21) in a direction away from the clamping portion (22), and the lapping plate (21) is disposed between the first insulator (11) and the second insulator (12) and exposed to the outside, and the clamping portion (22) is accommodated in the second insulator (12), and the end pin (23) is accommodated in the first insulator (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: DINKLE ENTERPRISE CO., LTD., DINKLE ELECTRIC MACHINERY (CHINA) CO., LTD., LI YANG ELECTRIC MACHINERY (DONGGUAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shang-Tsai Wu
  • Patent number: 12113315
    Abstract: A connector includes a female terminal module and a male terminal module that is to be coupled to the female terminal module. The female terminal module includes a female-side inner conductor, a female-side derivative, and a female-side outer conductor. The female-side outer conductor receives therein the female-side inner conductor via the female-side derivative. The male terminal module includes a male-side inner conductor, a male-side derivative, and a male-side outer conductor. The male-side outer conductor receives therein the male-side inner conductor via the male-side derivative and is connected to the female-side outer conductor. The female-side fitting portion of the female-side derivative and the male-side fitting portion of the male-side derivative are fitted to each other with recess-protrusion fitting. The male-side inner conductor includes a male connection portion and the male connection portion is inserted in the female-side fitting portion and connected to the female-side inner conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yorikazu Murabayashi, Hiroyuki Kodama, Kazuya Kobayashi, Suguru Yamagishi, Toyohisa Takano
  • Patent number: 12107360
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a terminal connection structure of a novel structure capable of advantageously preventing rotational displacements between two terminals without being accompanied by an increased spring force of a spring member. A terminal connection structure is provided with a first terminal 10 including a first connecting portion 32, a second terminal 12 including a second connecting portion 24, and a spring member 14 for sandwiching the first and second connecting portions 32, 24 in an overlapped state. At least one 44 of contact surfaces of the first and second connecting portions 32, 24 has a contact point portion 42 in the form of a curved surface bulging toward the other contact surface 30. The spring member 14 includes a pressing point 50 for pressing the first and second connecting portions 32, 24 in an overlapping direction at a position separated from the contact point portion 42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Yuya Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 12095187
    Abstract: A receptacle connector with a metal housing encircling an insulative housing with a slot to receive a paddle card of a plug connector. The metal housing may have a tab engaging a wall of the insulative housing bounding the slot. The tab may be positioned such that, if a plug is improperly inserted into the receptacle, it presses against the tab. The tab may be configured to distribute force generated during an attempt to mate a misaligned plug away from thin wall portions of the insulative housing at an end of the slot. The tab may extend over a surface of the insulative housing beyond that thin wall portion and may be recessed into the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Amphenol East Asia Ltd.
    Inventor: Lo-Wen Lu
  • Patent number: 12088078
    Abstract: A waterproof construction of a three-phase line part includes a three-phase line part having three bus bar construction bodies, a first terminal block provided on one end side of the three-phase line part, a second terminal block provided on the other end side of the three-phase line part, and a tubular exterior member that covers a middle portion of the three-phase line part. One end of the tubular exterior member is water-tightly fixed to a first housing of the first terminal block, and the other end thereof is water-tightly fixed to a second housing of the second terminal block, in a state that the tubular exterior member covers the three-phase line part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuto Ito, Keisuke Sasaki
  • Patent number: 12088035
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle assembly including first and second prong receiving members, a housing and a tamper resistant member. The housing has the prong receiving members positioned therein and electrically isolated from each other. The tamper resistant member is slidingly coupled to the housing. The tamper resistant member is restricted from sliding if only a first portion of the tamper resistant member is pressed upon proximate to one of the prong receiving members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Group Dekko, Inc.
    Inventor: Shawn J. Kondas
  • Patent number: 12074391
    Abstract: A connection portion of a lead wire is close to a surface of a metal plate, held at an accurate position, and held while preventing the wire from being movable. A connection structure of the lead wire includes the metal plate, the lead wire connected to the surface of the metal plate, and a pair of holding protrusions. The holding protrusions sandwich at least two parts of the lead wire to dispose the lead wire at a fixed position. Each of the holding protrusions has a holding gap sandwiching and holding the press-fitted lead wire. A connection space of the lead wire and the metal plate is provided between the holding protrusions. The lead wire is held on the surface of the metal plate with the holding protrusions and is connected to the surface of the metal plate in the connection space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: PANASONIC ENERGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Yamane, Dai Yanase
  • Patent number: 12068552
    Abstract: A circuit board including a through-hole into which a press-fit terminal portion is inserted in a depth direction; an inner wall land provided on an inner wall of the through-hole; and a plurality of inner layer lands which are provided in an inner layer of the circuit board, are planes substantially parallel to a mounting surface of the circuit board, and are in contact with the inner wall land. The inner wall land has a first region that is in contact with the press-fit terminal portion and a second region that is not in contact with the press-fit terminal portion. Among the plurality of inner layer lands, a first inner layer land, which is an inner layer land disposed on an identical surface with the first region of the inner wall land, is wider than a second inner layer land which is an inner layer land disposed on an identical surface with the second region of the inner wall land.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Kawakita, Shiro Yamashita, Toshikazu Shigyo
  • Patent number: 12066482
    Abstract: A socket for an electrical component including a socket main body 11 including a contact pin, an operating member 12 provided in the socket main body 11 in a vertically movable manner and urged upward, an opening/closing body 14 provided in the socket main body 11 as being capable of being opened and closed and configured to press an electrical component arranged in the socket main body 11 by being closed, an opening/closing link mechanism 15 connected to the opening/closing body 14 with a base end part 15a thereof connected to the socket main body 11 and the operating member 12 to close the opening/closing body 14 when being lifted by the operating member 14, and a depression mechanism 16 which depresses a leading end part 15b of the opening/closing link mechanism 15 when the opening/closing body 14 is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 12051867
    Abstract: A card edge connector with a locking system, which may include a locking member integrally formed with a connector housing. The locking member may deflect upon insertion of an edge of a board into the connector and spring back to engage an opening in the board. The locking member and the opening in the board may have perimeters that are rounded, allowing relative rotation about an axis through the opening even though the board is locked within the connector. Such a configuration may provide a simple and secure locking system. Such a configuration may support connecting two parallel boards, each with a card edge connector, through a riser board with opposite ends inserted into the two connectors. Relative rotation of the board with respect to the connectors enables skew, in a direction parallel to the surfaces of the parallel boards, while securing each of those boards to the riser board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Amphenol Commercial Products (Chengdu) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bing Liu, Tao Zeng, Ronald Nico Adriaan Daamen, Thierry Goossens
  • Patent number: 12049176
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an electrical harness. In one example, the electrical harness may include a first conductor coupled to a second conductor by a coupler where the conductors may be formed of plates arranged in parallel along a length of the first and the second conductors. The coupler may include electrical bridges of varying dimensions to maintain electrical continuity between the first conductor and the second conductor through the coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas M. O'Neil
  • Patent number: 12040580
    Abstract: An operable wire connector comprises an insulating housing (1), an operating handle (2) rotatably mounted inside the insulating housing (1), a transmitting piece (3), an electric conductor (4), an elastic clamping piece (5) with a fixed portion (51) connected to the electric conductor (4) and an elastic free portion (52) resisted by the transmitting piece (3), and a cover (6) assembled with the insulating housing (1); an adjustable gap is formed between the elastic free portion (52) and the electric conductor (4) for receiving a wire, and the gap will continuously be present due to the action of a rotation limiting portion (12). The operating handle (2) is pulled reversely, so that the wire comes into contact with the electric conductor (4); when the user pulls and turns up the operating handle (2) again, there is no need to continuously use force, and the wire will be take out easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Ningbo Degson Electrical Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Gaosong Ding
  • Patent number: 12034251
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a connector module having a connector body with side edges and end edges. The connector body has contact channels holding contacts. The connector assembly includes a mounting frame having side walls and an end wall opposite a window between the side walls. The window is open to and provides access to a passage that receives the connector module. The mounting frame includes a connector module support structure for supporting the connector module in the passage that defines a confined space oversized relative to the connector body of the connector module to allow a limited amount of floating movement in the confined space in a lateral direction that is perpendicular to the mating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Keith Edwin Miller, Francis John Blasick, Michael John Walmsley
  • Patent number: 12021337
    Abstract: A swivel arrangement including high voltage electrical swivels concentrically arranged around a common axis, each swivel including: a first annular housing part and a second annular housing part together defining an internal annular volume; a first solid electrical conductor stationary with respect to the first annular housing part, and a second solid electrical conductor stationary with respect to the second annular housing part, wherein the first and second electrical conductors are arranged within the internal annular volume for making conductive sliding contact with each other, wherein the first annular housing part and second annular housing part are rotatable relative to each other around the common axis while the first and second electrical conductors are in sliding contact with each other; wherein the swivels are arranged concentrically around the common axis so that a plane normal to the axis intersects at least two, preferably three, of the electrical swivels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SINGLE BUOY MOORINGS INC.
    Inventors: Eric Martineau, Mathias Bertrand, Jean Pierre Benoit