Patents Examined by Peter G Leigh
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Patent number: 12294167Abstract: A connector includes connector pins that have a loop of conductor. The connector connects a first printed circuit board (PCB) to a second PCB with compression of the connector pins between the two boards. In response to compression of the connector, the connector pins make electrical contact with themselves through the loop, while also connecting pads of the first PCB to pads of the second PCB.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiang Li, Konika Ganguly, George Vergis
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Patent number: 12292537Abstract: A connecting module for connecting seismic equipment towed in water, includes a housing having first and second ends opposite to each other, a removable connecting part removably attached to the first end of the housing, an integral connecting part integrally made with the housing at the second end, the integral connecting part having a bore, and one or more pins configured to enter from an outside of the integral connecting part into the bore. An end of the one or more pins has a conical surface that is configured to transfer a radial force FR applied to the one or more pins, as a longitudinal force FL to an electrical insert to be placed in the bore.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: SERCELInventors: Louis Guillou, Jean-Jacques Vignaux
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Patent number: 12294169Abstract: A power connector system having a right-angle type plug connector or a straight type plug connector engageable with a header connector. The right-angle type plug connector is a plug connector having a mating direction, which is 90 degrees from the centerline of the cables exiting from the plug connector. The straight type plug connector is a plug connector having a mating direction, which is parallel to the centerline of the cables exiting the back of the plug connector. The header connector holds at least a female receiving terminal or receptacle made of a high electrical conductivity material. The female receiving terminal or receptacle includes fingers that extend parallel to each other, and are spaced apart from each other, and further includes a reinforcing spring member. The plug connector holds at least a male rectangular tab terminal, the male rectangular tab terminal having a short edge and a long edge.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: J.S.T. CORPORATIONInventors: Sen Ming Lee, Pei Woon Choo
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Patent number: 12288941Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a board-to-board connector terminal and a connector. The board-to-board connector terminal comprises: a male connector terminal including a first part; and a female connector terminal including a second part, wherein in the case of the male connector terminal and the female connector terminal adaptively installed, the male connector terminal is in contact with the female connector terminal; when the male connector terminal is detached from the female connector terminal, the second part abuts against the first part to prevent the male connector terminal being detached from the female connector terminal; in the case of the male connector terminal forcibly detached from the female connector terminal, the first part pushes the second part to cause the second part to be peeled off, such that the female connector terminal is damaged and does not work properly.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: FCI NANTONG LTD.Inventors: Liqing Lei, Zelin Yao
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Patent number: 12283669Abstract: A temperature measuring apparatus for measuring a temperature of a battery pack is provided. A first resistor is connected between a first power supply and a first node, and a second resistor is connected between a second node and a second power supply. A temperature-variable resistive element whose resistance is varied depending on a temperature is connected to between the first node and the second node. A processor measures the temperature of the battery pack based on at least one of a first temperature measured based on a voltage of the first node and a second temperature measured based on a voltage of the second node.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.Inventors: Donghyeon Yu, Seunghyun Lee
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Patent number: 12283765Abstract: A connector is disposed on a board in a first direction and includes a housing, a contact, and a movable. The housing is provided with a bottom surface facing the board and a through hole formed along the first direction. The contact is held in the through hole and has its end portion on a board side exposed at the bottom surface via the through hole. The movable terminal is formed as a separate member from the contact, disposed at a close position to the contact in the through hole, and movable in the first direction relative to the contact. One end of the movable terminal in the first direction is fixed to the board and projects from the bottom surface in accordance with movement of the movable terminal, and a projection amount of the one end changes depending on a position of the movable terminal in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Osamu Hashiguchi
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Patent number: 12283776Abstract: An angled subassembly of an angled connector includes an angled shield and a cable disposed in the angled shield. The angled shield has a first shield section and a second shield section extending at a bend angle with respect to the first shield section. The cable has a first portion positioned in the first shield section and a second portion positioned in the second shield section. The second portion extends at the bend angle with respect to the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Nicholas Lee Evans, Kevin Stauffer
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Patent number: 12284768Abstract: Press-in machine for pressing electrical, electronic, mechanical and/or electromechanical components into a substrate, in particular into a circuit board or carrier board, including a lower tool, which for pressing-is in contact against the underside of the substrate, an upper tool, which with an upper pressing unit for pressing-in the component can be moved against the component along the z-axis toward the substrate, and a changing unit for automatically changing the lower or upper tool. The changing unit includes a magazine in which a plurality of tools can be deposited, one or more tool-holders, a tool being provided in or on each of the tool-holders, a displacement unit with which the respective tool holder can be moved along a displacement direction out of the magazine and into a pressing receptacle of a pressing unit, and a locking device, with which the respective tool-holder can be locked in the pressing receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: ERSA GmbHInventors: Kevin Friedrich, Lothar Schwab, Kathrin Englert, Sebastian Becker
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Patent number: 12272900Abstract: A connector assembly device includes a terminal clamping device clamping and fixing a terminal of a connector and an insertion module. The insertion module includes a housing clamping device clamping and fixing a housing of the connector, a terminal guide device having a conical guide hole guiding the terminal into the housing, and a linear moving device driving the housing clamping device and the terminal guide device to move towards the terminal. The terminal is inserted into the housing through the conical guide hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: An (Joshua) Yang, Lvhai (Samuel) Hu, Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu
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Patent number: 12266883Abstract: A modular high-current connector (1) has a first housing part (7) and a second housing part (8) connected thereto. The high-current connector (1) has a pin contact (9), the pin contact (9) being substantially cylindrical and having a connection region (A?) and a contact region (K?) for making electrical contact with a device socket or a mating connector. The contact region (K?) of the pin contact (9) projects out of the high-current connector (1) on the plug-in side.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: HARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KGInventors: Nando Hoppe, Benjamin Krüger
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Patent number: 12266892Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a connector. The connector is suited to connectorizing exactly two conductors. The connector includes a forward connector body, a rear connector body, a metal frame and exactly two electrical contacts. The rear connector body interfaces with the forward connector body. Further, the metal frame, which includes a shielding interface, surrounds at least a portion of both the forward and rear connector bodies. The electrical contacts extend from the rear connector body into the forward connector body. A first of the electrical contacts is electrically coupled to a first conductor of a shielded cable and the second of the electrical contacts is electrically coupled to a second conductor of the shielded cable. The shield interface of the metal frame is electrically coupled to the shield of the shielded cable.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Shawn Phillip Tobey, Paul John Pepe, Scott Martin Keith, Jeffrey A. Oberski
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Patent number: 12266879Abstract: An arrangement for connecting electrical connections, in particular through a housing, for a device for driving a compressor with a connection arrangement with at least one electrically conductive connecting element and at least one contact device, fixed in a PCB, for mounting the connecting element in an axial direction. The contact device exhibits at least one spring contact element with elastically de-formable lamellar contact springs that are in electrically conductive contact with the connecting element. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for mounting the arrangement for connecting electrical connections, a device for driving a compressor of a vaporous fluid, in particular an electric motor, with the arrangement and a use of the device according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventors: Bernd Gunermann, Eric Rooks, Oliver Gormanns, Senol Gecgel
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Patent number: 12266890Abstract: A connector fitting structure including: a first connector; and a second connector. The first connector includes a guide groove provided in a first housing. The guide groove includes: a first groove portion extending along a connector fitting direction; a second groove portion formed to gradually increase in width from a side of the first groove portion toward a side of the second connector; and a connection portion that connects the first groove portion and the second groove portion. The second connector includes a projection portion provided on a second housing and inserted into the guide groove. The projection portion has a recessed portion formed on a front end side of the projection portion and on at least one side surface of the projection portion that faces groove side surfaces of the guide groove.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Seiji Kozono, Yoshitaka Tsushima, Masaya Okamoto
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Patent number: 12267959Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, hardware resources available to data processing systems may be customized. The hardware resources may be customized through addition or replacement of interchangeable hardware components. The interchangeable hardware components may include features that may improve the likelihood of successfully adding or replacing the interchangeable hardware components.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Eduardo Escamilla, Matthew Dang, James Utz
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Patent number: 12255426Abstract: There is provided a multi-plug adapter comprising: a type-C pin assembly comprising pins and a pin support body; at least one additional pin assembly comprising a different pin arrangement; a housing for housing the pin assemblies, wherein the housing comprises a plurality of holes in a first face allowing deployment of the selected pins therethrough; an actuation mechanism cooperable with each pin assembly, wherein the actuation mechanism is adapted to selectively move each pin assembly between a stowed configuration in which the pins are stowed within the housing and a deployed configuration in which the pins protrude through the respective holes in the first face of the housing and are engageable in a complementary socket; an electrical output, wherein the electrical output is electrically connected to each pin assembly in the deployed configuration; and wherein the type-C pins are at least partially located within the pin support body in the stowed configuration and wherein the type-C pins and pin supportType: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: HYPHENATE INC.Inventor: Min-Kyu Choi
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Patent number: 12249792Abstract: A safety assembly having a cover plate for mounting to a pre-existing electrical receptacle and a safety housing for removably attaching to the cover plate. The safety housing is a unitary construction having a front end and a back-end wall with four side walls extending therebetween to provide an open interior, wherein the front end is substantially open and configured for securing to the cover plate. The cover plate has one or more pairs of slots positioned near an opening in the cover plate for exposing a socket of the electrical receptacle and the safety housing comprises one or more attachment mechanisms configured to removably engage with the one or more pairs of slots to removably couple the safety housing the cover plate.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Inventors: Stephen D. Sheldon, Matthew E. Sheldon
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Patent number: 12249796Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of conductive terminals, a plurality of grounding terminals and two shielding elements. The plurality of the conductive terminals are mounted in the insulating body. The plurality of the grounding terminals are mounted in the insulating body. The plurality of the grounding terminals are located adjacent to two outer sides of the plurality of the conductive terminals. The two shielding elements are disposed at a front end of an upper surface and a front end of a lower surface of the insulating body. Each shielding element has a base frame. Two sides of a rear edge of the base frame are connected with two contact portions. The contact portions of the two shielding elements contact with the plurality of the grounding terminals.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Pei-Yi Lin, Chuan-Hung Lin, Sheng-Nan Yu, Sheng-Yuan Huang, Chun-Fu Lin
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Patent number: 12244088Abstract: A connector includes a terminal fitting that includes a terminal connection section, and a housing that includes a terminal accommodating section in which the terminal fitting is inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber in the terminal accommodating section in a terminal insertion direction and accommodated at an accommodation completion position, wherein the terminal connection section is a tubular section bent in a tubular shape with end surfaces of two end portions facing each other, and includes a recess that is recessed from a distal end of the terminal connection section on a terminal insertion direction side, in a terminal removal direction opposite to the terminal insertion direction, the terminal insertion direction being a tube axis direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Daisuke Yamanashi, Takashi Sone
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Patent number: 12237606Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative base having a top surface, a bottom surface, and plural holes extending through the top surface and the bottom surface; a group of contacts mounted to corresponding holes, each contact having an upper contacting arm and a side portion; and a standoff secured to the side portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventor: Shuo-Hsiu Hsu
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Patent number: 12237623Abstract: A shield connector is provided with a housing including a module accommodation chamber and a terminal module to be inserted into the module accommodation chamber from behind the housing. The terminal module is formed such that an inner conductor is surrounded by a dielectric and the dielectric is surrounded by an outer conductor. The outer conductor includes a projecting portion projecting from a position rearward of a front end of the outer conductor on an outer surface of the outer conductor. An inner wall surface constituting the module accommodation chamber has a facing inner surface facing the outer surface formed with the projecting portion. The facing inner surface is formed with a projection-like backlash eliminating portion. The projecting portion is arranged behind the backlash eliminating portion with the terminal module inserted in the module accommodation chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hiroyoshi Maesoba, Toshifumi Ichio