Patents Examined by Phuong Dinh
  • Patent number: 9520692
    Abstract: A communication system has a support and a communication connector attached to the support wherein the connector assembly has a termination lever. The system can further include a wire cap connected to a plurality of cable conductors. The wire cap can include a cover cap. The cover cap latches to the connector assembly when the wire cap and the plurality of cable conductors is terminated to the communication connector assembly. The support can be one of a faceplate, a patch panel, a surface mount box, or a media distribution unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Joshua A. Valenti, Robert E. Fransen
  • Patent number: 9520660
    Abstract: A socket device includes a socket mounted on a circuit board and an engaging member mounted to the socket. The socket defines a sliding groove. The engaging member includes a sliding piece engaged in the sliding groove. The sliding piece can slide along the slot to detach the engaging member from the socket. A chip may be mounted below the engaging member which member may be moved away from the socket to enable user to check the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: HONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (WuHan) CO., LTD., HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ching-Jou Chen, Shen-Fa Tsai, Jie Li, Jin-Cai Gao
  • Patent number: 9520663
    Abstract: A connector for fixing and electrically connecting a flat cable includes a base body and a first inspection window. The base body includes a bottom part and a top part which are opposite to each other. The bottom part and the top part together form a flat-cable slot and an inserting opening. The flat-cable slot and the inserting opening are communicated with each other. The first inspection window extends through two surfaces of the top part which are opposite to each other. The first inspection window communicated with the flat-cable slot. A portion of the flat-cable slot away from the inserting opening is exposed in the first inspection window, and a position of the flat cable in the flat-cable slot is inspectable through the first inspection window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: WISTRON CORP.
    Inventor: Hung-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9520680
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing defining a front and a rear and a first group of contacts. The housing includes a rear base and a front mating tongue defining a first face and a second face opposite to the first face. The first group of contacts is held in the first face of the front mating tongue, the contacts include grounding contacts and signal contacts, each contact includes a retained portion retained in the housing, a contacting portion exposed upon the first face and a connecting leg. The contacting portions of the grounding contacts electrically connect with each other, the retained portions of the grounding contacts electrical connect with each other to reduce electrical length of the electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsiu-Yuan Hsu, Tsu-Yang Wu, Chien-Ping Kao
  • Patent number: 9520672
    Abstract: Disclosed is a closing cap for media-tight sealing of a plug face of a plug-and-socket connector, in particular a round plug-and-socket connector, wherein the closing cap can be detachably fixed to a plug-and-socket connector housing, wherein the closing cap is configured, such that a further closing cap of identical construction can be detachably fixed to the closing cap. The closing caps can be stored, for example stacked one on top of the other, on a plug-and-socket connector housing in a switchgear cabinet. This simplifies storage in that when a closing cap is removed from one connector it may be stored on a closing cap of an adjacent connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jens Horstmann, Bernard Schlegel
  • Patent number: 9520676
    Abstract: A communication connector is provided which can selectively provide compensation to the electrical circuits thereof. The communication connector includes a housing, a circuit board arrangement, contacts and a switchable device. The circuit board arrangement is disposed in the housing and includes electrical circuits and contact pads electrically connected to each other; the contacts is disposed at the circuit board arrangement and electrically connected to the electrical circuits respectively; the switchable device is movable in relative to the circuit board arrangement and has a compensation circuit board and switching contacts electrically connected to each other. The switchable device can be selectively moved to a predetermined position to enable the switching contacts to make contact with the contact pads respectively and enable the compensation circuit board to electrically connect to the electrical circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Surtec Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Chou-Hsing Chen
  • Patent number: 9520675
    Abstract: A lever type connector includes: a female housing having a box shape of which one portion is open; a male housing configured to be inserted into the female housing and provided with a plurality of male terminals; a lever configured to be rotatably coupled with an outer side of the male housing; and a movable plate configured to be mounted on a bottom surface of the male housing, have the bottom surface provided with a plurality of through holes through which the male terminals penetrate, and enclose the male terminal to protect the male terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kyungshin Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong Pil Choi, Jae Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9515417
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a medical monitoring system includes an extension cable for connecting a medical monitoring device to a sensor cable of a sensor. The extension cable includes a head for accepting a plug of the sensor club, wherein the head includes a lid for restraining the plug within an port of the head of the extension cable. Further, the head includes a hinge configured to allow the lid to rotate about the hinge, wherein the hinge is located within the head such that the head includes substantially flat outer surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Timothy W. Fries, Friso Schlottau, Sarah Hayman
  • Patent number: 9516774
    Abstract: An outer sleeve for a CATV filter has, in one embodiment, a first end and a second end. The second end has a face with one or more engagement holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventor: Noah Montena
  • Patent number: 9515441
    Abstract: The embodiments relate to an apparatus allowing for the insertion and removal of multiple like and/or unlike connectors simultaneously without requiring permanent connector modification. The apparatus includes at least a first housing and a second housing. The first housing receives a first connector and the second housing receives a second connector. The first housing has a first variable aperture and the second housing has a second variable aperture. The first aperture is adjusted by a first retainer to hold the first connector in the first housing. The second aperture is adjusted by a second retainer to hold the second connector in the second housing. The first housing has a first exterior wall sized to receive and secure a second exterior wall of the second housing to form an assembly of the connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Khajistha Fattu, Rachael C. Freitas, Murali Neralla, Madeline Vega, George Zacharakis-Jutz
  • Patent number: 9515405
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector assembly comprising: an insulative housing; a metallic plate formed in the insulative housing; a first terminal module formed on a top surface of the insulative housing; a second terminal module formed on a bottom surface of the insulative housing; and a metallic shell assembled to and formed around the insulative housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: SHENZHEN EVERWIN PRECISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huaguang Zhao, Yayong Li
  • Patent number: 9509071
    Abstract: A sealed circuit board connector for electrically connecting a connector to a circuit board. The connector includes an interface housing which has at least one signal contact in the connection region and which has at least two press-in elements with press-in zones. The interface housing is designed with a contact area for a seal. The seal is arranged in the sealing region of the circuit board plug. The seal has a passage opening for the at least one signal contact or contacts and has in each case one opening for the at least two press-in elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Amphenol-Tuchel Electronics GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Filipon, Danica Holley, Michael Knodler
  • Patent number: 9509068
    Abstract: A terminal strip and a method of improving a creepage dielectric strength of the same includes a base plate, a barrier, each constructed from an insulating material, and a plurality of terminals constructed from a conducting material. The terminals are connected to the base plate and spaced along a surface thereof. The barrier is disposed between adjacent terminals and configured such that the creepage dielectric strength of the insulating material between adjacent terminals is equal to or greater than a bulk dielectric strength of the insulating material between adjacent terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Harold J Hansen
  • Patent number: 9509101
    Abstract: A modular electrical connector with separately shielded signal conductor pairs. The connector may be assembled from modules, each containing a pair of signal conductors with surrounding partially or fully conductive material. Modules of different sizes may be assembled into wafers, which are then assembled into a connector. Wafers may include lossy material. In some embodiments, shielding members of two mating connectors may each have compliant members along their distal portions, such that, the shielding members engage at points of contact at multiple locations, some of which are adjacent the mating edge of each of the mating shielding members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., John Robert Dunham, Mark W. Gailus, Donald A. Girard, Jr., David Manter, Tom Pitten, Vysakh Sivarajan, Michael Joseph Snyder
  • Patent number: 9502786
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical contact element for contacting an electrical strand conductor, wherein the electrical contact element has a connecting side and a plugging side. A splicing element is provided in a connecting sleeve that forms the connecting side so as to electrically contact an electrical strand conductor in a more effective manner. The splicing element is provided for the purpose of separating out the individual strands of the conductor, contacting as large as possible a surface of the individual strands and penetrating the surface of the strands during a squeezing or crimping action. The arrangement provides a reliable, electrical contact of strand conductors in which a surface of the individual strands that is not suitable for being contacted and is poorly conductive is penetrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Xiafu Wang, Nicole Spilker, Stefan Garske, Martin Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9502795
    Abstract: A clamping wire structure of a terminal block includes an insertion base (10) and a spring (20). The insertion base (10) includes an insertion slot (12), a contact section (13), a linking piece (14), a first connection portion (15), an extension element (16), a connection slot (161), and a conductive pin (17). The insertion base (10) bends, so that the insertion slot (12) is positioned correspondingly above the extension element (16), and the linking piece (14) is inserted in the connection slot (161) to allow the insertion slot (12) and the extension element (16) to surroundingly form an insertion space (100). The spring (20) is bent into a V-shaped spring. The spring (20) is inserted in the insertion space (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: DINKLE ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shang-Tsai Wu
  • Patent number: 9496655
    Abstract: A high-frequency electronic connector includes an insulating main body, a terminal module and a metal shielding plate. The insulating main body includes a matching portion and a mounting portion. The terminal module includes signal terminals and grounding terminals. Each of the signal terminals and the grounding terminals has a docking portion, a main body portion, and a trailing portion. The docking portions extend out of the matching portion and are aligned in two opposite rows. The trailing portions extend out of the mounting portion. The main body portions are fixed on the insulating main body. The main body portion of each of the grounding terminals has a notch. The metal shielding plate is disposed at the notches and electrically connected with the grounding terminals. The metal shielding plate is located between the two opposite rows of the signal terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SPEED TECH CORP.
    Inventors: Kuo-Hua Huang, I-Ting Hsieh, Chien-Yu Hsu
  • Patent number: 9490575
    Abstract: A quick release connector for tensioned power lines, the connector comprising: a first component, said first component attached to a power line segment; and a second component attached to a second generally collinear power line segment, said second component comprising a locking clamp mechanism that selectively clamps the first component and automatically releases upon the application of a longitudinal force of predetermined magnitude along the clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick McCammon, Andrew Rekeweg
  • Patent number: 9484661
    Abstract: An embodiment of an electrical connector assembly includes a shell, a plurality of fixed conductors, and a potting container. The shell includes a plurality of walls extending in a first direction from a base having at least one opening. The base and the plurality of walls define a shell outer surface and a shell inner surface. The shell inner surface bounds an inner volume of the shell and has an inner shell profile. The plurality of fixed conductors project through the opening into the inner volume of the shell. The potting container includes an outer surface complementing the shell inner profile, and a cavity receives the fixed conductors through a slot in the base. A potting compound fills the cavity such that the potting compound completely surrounds the conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventor: Lalit Savla
  • Patent number: 9484686
    Abstract: An electric connecting module (12) for an electric component (10) of a motor vehicle (40) has a connecting section (22) with at least two electrical contacts (36). A connecting housing (24) has a connecting opening that can be connected to the connecting section (22). The connecting housing (24) has at least one cable opening (18) that opens laterally on the connecting housing (24) in relation to the connecting opening for routing electric connecting lines (14) through the connecting opening (18) and to connect them to the contacts (36). The connecting housing (24) can be connected to the connecting section (22) in different rotational positions to route the connecting lines (14) in different directions in relation to the electric component (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: DR. ING. H.C.F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Naser Abu Daqqa, Thomas Schmid