Patents Examined by Phuong Chi Thi Nguyen
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Patent number: 10971854Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Yasuhiro Tanaka, Noboru Hayasaka, Shotaro Shibata
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Patent number: 10971834Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: XIAMEN GHGM ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Inventor: Bingshui Chen
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Patent number: 10950954Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Michael Hans, Edgar Michael Racho, Thomas D. Belanger, Jr., William Presley, David Menzies, Lewis Galligan
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Patent number: 10946755Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventor: Ralf Schwan
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Patent number: 10950957Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: DONGGUAN SHUN WEI ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hsu-Shen Chin
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Patent number: 10950959Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Juniper Networks, IncInventors: Aliaskar Hassanzadeh, Darron L. Holley, Franklin D. Boyden
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Patent number: 10944230Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventor: Yui Ito
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Patent number: 10944194Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Hiroshige Takakuwa, Takahiro Ando
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Patent number: 10931074Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 27, 2020Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Andrew Thomas Sultenfuss, Priyank Jatin Gajiwala
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Patent number: 10931064Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 2020Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Graham Harry Smith, Jr., Charles Raymond Gingrich, III
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Patent number: 10923849Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.Inventor: Yoshinori Hayakawa
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Patent number: 10923836Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: PCT International, Inc.Inventor: Timothy L. Youtsey
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Patent number: 10910752Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 23, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Inventors: Akio Kimura, Kyohei Ida
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Patent number: 10910751Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.Inventor: Richard Maroney
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Patent number: 10910743Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Antonio Palomo Lorenzo, Oscar Cano Salomo
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Patent number: 10910748Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, Michael David Herring
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Patent number: 10900617Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.Inventors: Qiyuan Wang, Yunnan Lin, Liping Lin
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Patent number: 10903596Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Inventor: Razvan Ilie
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Patent number: 10892566Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 11, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: TDK ELECTRONICS AGInventors: Yun Jiang, Karsten Frey, Klaus-Juergen Schmid
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Patent number: 10886648Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Makoto Aoki