Patents Examined by Phuong Chi Thi Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10971854
    Abstract: A shielded connector includes a shielding shell, a connector housing, and an annular sealing member. The shielding shell has a tube portion and a flange portion formed at an end of the tube portion. The flange portion is fastened to a wall portion having a hole of a target object to which the shielded connector is fastened. The connector housing is covered with the tube portion and has an end portion projecting in an axial direction beyond the flange portion and inserted in the hole. The sealing member is sandwiched between the flange portion and the wall portion. The sealing member closely contacts with the wall portion by being compressed toward the wall portion and closely contacts with an outer surface of the connector housing by being compressed toward the outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noboru Hayasaka, Shotaro Shibata
  • Patent number: 10971834
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing which is provided with an installation cavity and a jack. A conductive clamp and a movable member are configured in the housing. The conductive clamp is provided with at least one pair of first clamping pieces and at least one pair of releasing pieces. The first clamping pieces and the releasing pieces extend into the installation cavity. The movable member is capable of moving back and forth along the installation cavity. A conducting wire is capable of passing through the jack and is inserted into one pair of first clamping pieces. The movable member is capable of moving forward along the installation cavity, and abutting on one pair of releasing pieces, to force the releasing pieces and drive the first clamping pieces to open outward, so that the conducting wire is capable of detaching from the first clamping pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN GHGM ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bingshui Chen
  • Patent number: 10950954
    Abstract: A method of assembling a terminal assembly includes a terminal and a terminal insert. The terminal insert may be configured to be disposed at least partially in the terminal; the terminal and the terminal insert may be configured to receive at least a portion of a wire; and/or the terminal and the terminal insert may be configured to be crimped to the said wire. The terminal insert may include a first insert wing, a second insert wing a third insert wing, and/or a fourth insert wing. The terminal may include a first wing, a second wing, a third wing, and/or a fourth wing. The first wing of the terminal may be disposed proximate the first wing of the terminal insert and/or the second wing of the terminal may be disposed proximate the second wing of the terminal insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Hans, Edgar Michael Racho, Thomas D. Belanger, Jr., William Presley, David Menzies, Lewis Galligan
  • Patent number: 10946755
    Abstract: A plug socket includes a recess receiving a charging plug in a plug-in direction and a locking element movable from a plug-in position into a blocking position. The recess terminates in an insertion opening in the plug-in direction and has an undercut acting in the plug-in direction to latch a latching element of the charging plug. The locking element in the plug-in position is located in the recess and overlaps the undercut transverse to the plug-in direction. The blocking position is spaced apart from the plug-in position in the plug-in direction and the locking element is located closer to the insertion opening in the blocking position than in the plug-in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Schwan
  • Patent number: 10950957
    Abstract: A connector includes a male plug and a female socket. The male plug includes a plurality of terminals and a first insulation body. Each of the terminals includes a signal contact portion, a U-shaped terminal fixing portion, and a terminal soldering portion. The U-shaped terminal fixing portion of each of the terminals connects the signal contact portion and the terminal soldering portion. The first insulation body includes a plurality of connection slots, and each of the connection slots is configured to receive the terminal correspondingly. The female socket includes terminal portions, and a second insulation body having a plurality of receiving slots. Each of the receiving slots is configured to receive the terminal portion correspondingly. When the male plug is plugged into the female socket, the plurality of terminal portions are held by the signal contact portions of the male plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: DONGGUAN SHUN WEI ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsu-Shen Chin
  • Patent number: 10950959
    Abstract: The disclosed system may include may include (1) a power socket receptacle that (A) fits within a via of a circuit board and (B) is inserted into the circuit board through one side of the via and (2) a power socket plug that (A) fits within the power socket receptacle and (B) is screwed into the power socket receptacle through another side of the via such that the power socket receptacle and the power socket plug collectively provide electrical continuity across the via. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc
    Inventors: Aliaskar Hassanzadeh, Darron L. Holley, Franklin D. Boyden
  • Patent number: 10944230
    Abstract: It is aimed to provide a circuit board connector and a circuit board connector manufacturing method capable of enabling molding by a small-size molding apparatus by performing insert molding in three stages. A circuit board connector (1) includes a case resin portion 2, a connector resin portion 3 having a base (31) and a tower (32) and connector terminals (6A, 6B and 6C). The connector resin portion (3) includes core resin portions (4A, 4B and 4C) for covering intermediate parts (63) of the connector terminals (6A, 6B and 6C) and an outer resin portion (5) for covering the core resin portions (4A, 4B and 4C). A resin material constituting the case resin portion (2) is joined to a resin material constituting the outer resin portion (5) by resin molding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventor: Yui Ito
  • Patent number: 10944194
    Abstract: A coaxial connector includes a cylindrical external conductor including a metal material, a first insulating member arranged in the external conductor, a second insulating member including a front surface plate in which a wire insertion hole is formed and a plurality of elastic pieces which extends from the front surface plate toward a rear surface and of which an end overlaps with a side of a front surface of the first insulating member and is movable in a direction from a front surface toward a rear surface, and a center electrode arranged in a hollow portion in the first and second insulating members and including a terminal led out from a rear surface of the first insulating member to outside and clamping pieces for clamping the wire connected to the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshige Takakuwa, Takahiro Ando
  • Patent number: 10931074
    Abstract: An AC (Alternating Current) plug for providing power via a power circuit is assembled by: selecting a cover that includes prongs and structures on an inner side; positioning a PCB (printed circuit board) that includes contact pads connecting the PCB to the power circuit on structures of the inner side of the cover; positioning the spring mounted terminals on structures on the inner side of the cover such that a first end of each spring mounted terminal is positioned on a contact pad of the PCB; positioning a cap on the spring mounted terminals, the PCB and the cover, such that assembly holes of the cap, the PCB and the cover are aligned; and fastening the cap to the cover, such that the first end of each spring mounted terminal is secured against a respective contact pad and each spring mounted terminal is loaded and exerts a force against a prong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Sultenfuss, Priyank Jatin Gajiwala
  • Patent number: 10931064
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having contact channels. The housing has a mounting end configured to be mounted to a circuit board. The electrical connector includes signal contacts received in corresponding contact channels. The signal contacts have mating ends and terminating ends configured to be terminated to the circuit board. Each terminating end has a shoulder, a neck extending from the shoulder and a pin extending from the neck. The neck is narrower than the complaint pin and the shoulder. The electrical connector includes conformal pin organizers coupled to the mounting end of the housing. Each conformal pin organizer has a signal opening receiving the terminating end of the corresponding signal contact. The conformal pin organizer has opening edges extending along the signal opening. The conformal pin organizers are positioned along the terminating ends such that the opening edges engage the necks of the corresponding terminating ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Graham Harry Smith, Jr., Charles Raymond Gingrich, III
  • Patent number: 10923849
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing including an accommodation passage and a retainer insertion space, and a retainer including an insertion wall extending along the connector mating direction and a locking claw protruding from a rear portion thereof toward an accommodation passage direction. In the housing, a locking protrusion is provided at a rear portion of the retainer insertion space. When the retainer is inserted into the retainer insertion space from a connector mating front side, the locking claw gets over the locking protrusion to be engaged therewith, and thus a pre-locked position at which detachment of the retainer to the front side is prevented is obtained. When the retainer is moved in a widthwise direction, a full-locked position at which the locking claw engages with a step in the rear portion of the connector terminal, and detachment of the connector terminal toward the rear side is prevented is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 10923836
    Abstract: A deformable shield for mitigating radio frequency interference with a male coaxial connector includes a flexible hollow body having opposed front and rear ends, a concave section of the body proximate the front end, defining an open mouth of the shield configured to receive a female coaxial port, and a bellows section of the body behind the concave section. The bellows section terminates at the rear end with another mouth configured to be fit upon the male coaxial connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: PCT International, Inc.
    Inventor: Timothy L. Youtsey
  • Patent number: 10910752
    Abstract: A large-current terminal (30) includes a male terminal (50) having a male-side contact surface (54), a female terminal (60) having a female-side contact surface (64), a coil spring (70) including male-side contacts (72) for contacting the male-side contact surface (54) and female-side contacts (71) for contacting the female-side contact surface (64). A spring holder (40) holds the coils spring (70) and includes male-side and female-side openings (44, 45) for exposing the male-side and female-side contacts (72, 71). The coil spring (70) is compressed in a facing direction of the contact surfaces (54, 64) by disposing the male-side contact surface (54) to face both the female-side contact surface (64) and the male-side openings (44) with the female-side contact surface (64) directed toward the female-side openings (45). The spring holder (40) is movable such that the female-side opening (45) approaches the female-side contact surface (64) as the coil spring (70) is compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventors: Akio Kimura, Kyohei Ida
  • Patent number: 10910751
    Abstract: A coaxial cable connector includes a body configured to engage a coaxial cable having a conductive electrical grounding property, a post configured to engage the body and the coaxial cable when the connector is installed on the coaxial cable, a nut assembly configured to engage an interface port at a first retention force, and a conductive insert configured to be coupled with the nut assembly. The conductive insert is configured to engage the interface port at a second retention force that is greater than the first retention force, and the conductive insert is configured to maintain electrical contact between the interface port and the nut assembly, even when the nut assembly is in a loosely tightened position on the interface port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventor: Richard Maroney
  • Patent number: 10910743
    Abstract: An electrical assembly includes a first housing member, a second housing member, and/or a circuit board. The first housing member may be connected to the second housing member, and the second housing member may be configured to move to prevent removal of a connector from the circuit board. Movement of the second housing member relative to the first housing member may be restricted when the connector is improperly connected or only partially connected to the circuit board or the first housing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Antonio Palomo Lorenzo, Oscar Cano Salomo
  • Patent number: 10910748
    Abstract: A cable socket connector assembly for an electronic system includes a socket assembly having a socket substrate including socket substrate conductors. The socket assembly has socket contacts extending between terminating ends and mating ends with the terminating ends terminated to corresponding socket substrate conductors and the mating ends configured to be terminated to corresponding package contacts of an electronic package of the electronic system. The cable socket connector assembly includes a cable assembly terminated to the socket assembly having an array of cables each having a cable conductor terminated to a corresponding socket substrate conductor. The socket contacts and the corresponding socket substrate conductors define electrical paths between the cable conductors of the cables and the package conductors of the electronic package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Michael David Herring
  • Patent number: 10900617
    Abstract: A light bulb apparatus has a plurality of LED modules, a substrate, a driver circuit board, a plastic piece, a radiator and a lamp cap. The substrate has aluminum material for mounting the plurality of LED modules, a first connection end and a second connection end. The first connection end and the second connection end are electrically connected to the plurality of LED modules. The plastic piece with a guiding groove is used for inserting the driver circuit board. The radiator has a top plate and a side wall. The substrate is fixed on the top plate, and the side wall are connected to the plastic piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Qiyuan Wang, Yunnan Lin, Liping Lin
  • Patent number: 10903596
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a male contact and a female contact, which are movable between a non-inserted position and an inserted position. An insertable part of the male contact is inserted along an insertion axis into a housing of the female contact. The female contact includes a body and a plurality of strips protruding axially from the body and distributed angularly. The strips are radially flexible. The connector can also include a number of annular restraints that are structurally identical to one another, arranged on the strips, and suitable for exerting a centripetal radial pressure on the strips. At least two restraints respectively have distinct angular orientations from one another relative to the body around the insertion axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventor: Razvan Ilie
  • Patent number: 10892566
    Abstract: A conductor connection, a connection piece and a method for fabricating a conductor connection are disclosed. In an embodiment a conductor connection includes a connection piece including one or more openings and a wall whose distance from a longitudinal axis of the connection piece increases toward at least one of the openings, and several electric conductors, wherein each of the electric conductors extends through one of the openings into the connection piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: TDK ELECTRONICS AG
    Inventors: Yun Jiang, Karsten Frey, Klaus-Juergen Schmid
  • Patent number: 10886648
    Abstract: A communication module includes a wiring board including ground wiring, an electronic component provided on the wiring board, and a first connector provided on the wiring board and electrically connected to the electronic component via the wiring board. The first connector includes a metal member electrically connected to the ground wiring, and a plurality of pins arranged in an arrangement direction and including a plurality of high-frequency signal pins used for transmission of a high-frequency signal and a plurality of non-high-frequency signal pins for a use different from the transmission of the high-frequency signal. The plurality of high-frequency signal pins include a plurality of first pins successively arranged in the arrangement direction. None of the plurality of non-high-frequency signal pins is interposed between the plurality of first pins and the metal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Makoto Aoki