Patents Examined by Phuong Chi Thi Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10879659
    Abstract: A variable connection retention system for a busbar. The retention system comprises of a dielectric overmold base. A main busbar is nested within overmold and engages a mating busbar. The overmold base includes a floating retention nut that displaces axially which engages the main busbar to the mating busbar when torque is applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: KARMA AUTOMOTIVE LLC
    Inventors: Khanh Nguyen, Geng Niu
  • Patent number: 10873168
    Abstract: An electric compressor includes a terminal structure. The terminal structure may include a busbar assembly electrically connected to an inverter and a terminal electrically connected to a motor part. The terminal structure may include at least one electrical connection member. Contact plates may be electrically connected to each end of the electric connection member. The busbar assembly for electrically connecting the terminal and the inverter device may include a plurality of busbars having a large surface area. When high current is applied to the electric compressor, as the surface area of respective members brought into contact with each other for electric connection increases, contact heat resistance decreases, which makes it possible to apply a high current without increasing the size of the terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Kyuho Lee
  • Patent number: 10873163
    Abstract: An electronic power connector including a contact and a contact core. The contact is configured to electrically connect a power supply to a load. The contact core is configured to receive the contact. The contact core includes a transformer winding configured to sense a current and a sensor slot configured to receive a sensor. In some embodiments, the sensor is configured to sense a temperature. In some embodiments, the sensor is configured to sense a voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Shadi Alex AbuGhazaleh, Ryan Gene Papageorge, Thomas Louis Scanzillo
  • Patent number: 10868375
    Abstract: Electrical connector apparatus can have at least two pins, at least one side slot, and at least one latch, facilitating a secure physical connection and a secure electrical connection with a printed circuit board or other unit. The electrical connector apparatus can be a non-staggered dual row surface mount terminal connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: J.S.T. CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vikas Azad, Franklin A. Holub
  • Patent number: 10868394
    Abstract: An illuminated power receptacle includes a base having at least one set of contacts for receiving a plug. Each set of contacts having at least two openings for receiving a respective prong of a plug. There is a cover mounted on the base with an outlet member corresponding to each set of contacts. Each outlet member includes an outlet face with an opaque material and an outer periphery. Each outlet face includes at least two openings configured to receive and guide a respective prong of the plug into the set of at least two openings of the corresponding set of contacts. Each outlet member also includes an outlet rim made of a translucent material disposed about the outer periphery of the outlet face. There is light source disposed between the base and the cover that transmits light that passes through each outlet rim and is blocked by the opaque material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Close, William Henry Dietz, Thomas Louis Scanzillo, Ryan Gene Papageorge, Michael Arthur Salvietti, Jason Zachary Walker, Roy Itzler
  • Patent number: 10855032
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes first and second bodies, an electrical terminal, a shuttle, and a scannable code. The first body includes a wall and a bridge. The wall has an outward surface facing radially outward with respect to a mating axis, and an opposite inward surface defining a blind opening. The bridge extends lengthwise between opposite end portions each attached to the outward surface. The bridge and the outward surface define a through opening opened axially, and spaced radially outward from, the blind opening. The electrical terminal projects axially, is attached to the first body, and is revealed through the blind opening. The second body is axially received in the blind opening and mates with the first body. The shuttle is adapted to axially slide through the opening. The scannable code is secured to the shuttle, faces radially outward, and is concealed by the bridge when the connector is unmated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Felipe De Jesus Davila Morales, Farid Arturo Quiroz Castilla, Moises Munoz Ramos, Ignacio Eduardo Tellez Giron Schroeder
  • Patent number: 10855035
    Abstract: A push-on coaxial cable connector includes a port grip, a joint, and a cable clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: PERFECTVISION MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventor: Charles Darwin Davidson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10851768
    Abstract: Is disclosed an electrical grounding assembly arrangement for reciprocating compressor capable of optimizing the assembly of the electrical grounding connection and allows a quick visual inspection of the same, while providing a saving of electrical conductors, which are nonexistent in light of the invention in question. For this purpose, the casing (of the frequency inverter, which is fixed to the external region of the compressor housing) includes an electrical grounding bus capable of receiving, on its external portion, a fixing metal element specially adapted to electrically connect the outer portion of the electrical grounding bus and the electrical grounding connection of the housing and, at the same time, mechanically fixing the casing to the reciprocating compressor housing by physically locking the external portion of the electrical grounding bus and the electrical grounding connection of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Embraco Industria De Compressores E Solucoes Em Refrigeracao Ltda.
    Inventors: Vagner Roberto Malon, Marcelo Alessandro Santos, Rafael Burg Rech
  • Patent number: 10847932
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing (14) with a lever (18) that is rotatable between an initial position and a connection end position for connection to a mating housing (12). The lever (18) includes a resilient piece (30) cantilevered parallel to the outer surface (16) of the housing (14). A projecting wall (38) projects toward the resilient piece (30) from a peripheral wall (32) surrounding the resilient piece (30). The resilient piece (30) has a locking surface (40A) extending toward a base of the resilient piece (30), and the housing (14) has a locked surface (22A) extending toward a tip of the resilient piece (30). The resilient piece (30) enters a clearance between the projecting wall (38) and the outer surface of the housing (14) when the lever (18) is urged from the initial position to the connection end position with the locking surface (40A) locked to the locked surface (22A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Keisuke Teramoto
  • Patent number: 10840614
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for connecting and disconnecting a first wire to a second wire. More specifically, an apparatus that includes a first electrical contact, a second electrical contact, an insulated housing, and a male contact prong (i.e., a shunt) is disclosed. In an embodiment, the first and second electrical contacts conductively connect with a first and second wire, respectively, via an insulation displacement connector. Furthermore, the male contact prong conductively connects (i.e., shunts) the first and second electrical contacts together. A wire-to-wire contact with shunt allows for two wires to be quickly and efficiently connected and disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: AVX Corporation
    Inventor: Brent Lybrand
  • Patent number: 10840658
    Abstract: A dummy ground plug adapter is provided and comprises a base having two parallel, spaced-apart, rectangular slots formed therethrough and a dummy pin extending from a rear surface of the base. The base and dummy pin are formed from an electrically non-conductive material. The size and spacing of the slots and dummy grounding pin conform to the size and spacing of U.S. standard electrical three-prong plugs and outlets, allowing the prongs of a two-prong plug to slip through the slots and be inserted into a three-prong electrical outlet. The presence of the dummy grounding pin provides support and reduces the chance of the plug moving or loosening in the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ABCR, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles D. Glahe
  • Patent number: 10833455
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a pair of opposite contact modules commonly sandwiching a grounding module therebetween in a transverse direction wherein each contact module includes two sided contacts on two sides of an insulator while the front mating sections and/or the bottom connecting sections of all the contacts are aligned in the same line. The contacts on each side of the insulator include a plurality of differential pair contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other along the side face wherein the lengths of the pair of contacts in each differential pair essentially have the same length for reducing skewing effect by extending the body of the lower contact curvedly while keeping that of the upper contact essentially straight in each differential pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: FU DING PRECISION INDUSTRIAL (ZHENGHOU) CO., LTD., FOXONN INTERCONNECTY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yen-Chih Chang, Shih-Wei Hsiao, Na Yang, Xiao-Li Liu, Meng Liu, Yu-Ke Chen
  • Patent number: 10826236
    Abstract: A plug is connectable to an electrical socket which has concentric ring shaped openings housing electrical contacts. The plug has a body supporting electrically conductive concentric rings insertable into the socket to contact the electrical contacts to form electrical connections. A hollow post extends away from the plug body and has a transverse aperture therethrough. A rod with a narrowed portion is slideable within the post. A spring biases the rod towards a latched position in which the narrow portion is not adjacent to the transverse aperture. A cross-brace is connected to a portion of the rod which extends outside of the post. Pins engage the cross brace and can be pushed to move the brace, and thereby push the rod to position the narrowed portion to an unlatched position adjacent the aperture to enable removal of the plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Inventor: Ran Roland Kohen
  • Patent number: 10826226
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of slit type passageways, a plurality of blade type contacts retained with the corresponding slit type passageways, respectively, and a plurality of wires having the inner conductors soldered upon the tails of the contacts behind the rear face of the housing. The rear face forms a plurality of standoffs on which the front ends of the exposed inner conductor abut, respectively. A waterproof glue plate fills the back space of the housing behind the rear face to enclose the exposed inner conductors and the corresponding tails and seal the rear face of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ting-Ting Yin, Bin Peng, Jian-Kuang Zhu, Kuo-Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 10811828
    Abstract: A USB cable contains: a holder, a body, and a conductive assembly. The holder includes a protective shell, a connection disc, and a decoration cap. The protective shell has a first accommodation chamber, a fixing sheet, and a protection cap. The body includes a receiving seat, a male plug, a locking member, a fixer, a PCB, a resilient piece, and a covering member. The receiving seat has a second accommodation chamber. The conductive assembly includes a first lid, a second lid, a defining sheet, a PCB plug, and a retractable wire. The retractable wire is connected with the PCB of the body, the PCB plug is accommodated in the cross-cross groove of the covering member, the body is received in the first accommodation chamber of the protective shell of the holder, and the receiving seat is connected with the decoration cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Inventors: Wei-Feng Zhou, Chun-Wai Chan
  • Patent number: 10804665
    Abstract: A terminal crimping method includes covering an end portion of an electric wire with a fixing cylinder portion of a terminal, caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion by a pair of dies including pressing projections each having a flat shape in which a length in one axial direction is longer than a length in the other axial direction orthogonal to the one axial direction in a plan view, and caulking the fixing cylinder portion by the pressing projections to form crimp recess portions, in the caulking and crimping the fixing cylinder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoki Masuda, Yoshinao Sato, Takeo Ida, Junpei Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10794546
    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: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Qiyuan Wang, Yunnan Lin, Liping Lin
  • Patent number: 10797426
    Abstract: A method of making an electrical connector which includes an insulative housing having a tongue with two opposite surfaces and plural contacts with contacting portions exposed to the two opposite surfaces of the tongue, characterized by the steps of: forming the plural contacts from a single contact carrier to have one contact thereof with a contacting portion oriented reversely-symmetrically with respect to a contacting portion of another contact thereof; insert-molding the plurality of contacts with an insulator to form the insulative housing while exposing front ends of the contacts; and severing a carrier strip of the contact carrier from the front ends of the contacts while leaving the front ends inwardly of a front end surface of the insulative housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10797437
    Abstract: A socket for receipt of a light bulb to connect the light bulb to a power source wherein the socket has an external configuration adjacent the socket opening configured to cooperate with an attachment such as a cap or decorative element. The socket further includes an external configuration along its outer side surface and/or its bottom surface configured to cooperate with an attachment such as a mounting clip or stake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Wintergreen Corp.
    Inventors: William Hale, Frank Skinner
  • Patent number: 10790606
    Abstract: A plug connector for easy locking and unlocking is disclosed, including a base, a signal transmission module, a lock head, a cover and a pull strip. The plug connector of the present invention employs a holding-down structure of the pull strip, which can drive an edge block of the lock head to go down and further force the lock head to go down by pulling the pull strip backward. When releasing the pull strip, the lock head can automatically go up. Therefore, in the present invention, the pull strip can control the lock head, thereby completing the locking and unlocking work. The locking and unlocking way of the present invention is safe, effective and convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: OUPIIN ELECTRONIC (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin Chih Chen