Patents Examined by Phuong Dinh
  • Patent number: 9484691
    Abstract: An RJ45 socket connector includes an insulative housing and a terminal module received in the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a receiving space, a number of partitions, and a number of receiving passageways each formed between every two adjacent partitions. The terminal module comprises an insulative body and a row of conductive terminals insert molded in the insulative body, the conductive terminal having a fixed portion fixed in the insulative housing and an elastic contact portion extending from the fixed portion and received in a corresponding receiving passageway. The insulative body defines a trough and a number of tubers disposed in the trough, every two adjacent tubers defining a groove for accommodating a downwardly moved conductive terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Sheng-Pin Gao, Hai-Long Fu
  • Patent number: 9484649
    Abstract: An electromechanical assembly includes a socket housing having a cavity for seating an integrated circuit and a first plurality of electrical contacts in the cavity to electrically connect an integrated circuit seated in the socket housing with a circuit board upon which the electromechanical assembly is mounted. The socket housing has a supporting body on a different plane than a bottom surface of the cavity. The socket housing has a second plurality of electrical contacts that form a first row across the supporting body and a third plurality of electrical contacts that form a second row across the supporting body. The socket housing has alignment elements. The electromechanical assembly also includes a card edge connector having slots that accept the alignment elements of the socket housing, a fourth plurality of electrical contacts that form a third row, and a fifth plurality of electrical contacts that form a fourth row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Brian Samuel Beaman, Wen Hsin Chen
  • Patent number: 9478922
    Abstract: A connector comprises an inner conductor (1) and an outer conductor (2); an insulating medium (3) is provided between the inner conductor and the outer conductor, the insulating medium forming an unclosed cavity, and an opening of the unclosed cavity being a port for termination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION, ZTE PLAZA, KEJI ROAD SOUTH
    Inventors: Wei Sun, Xiangwen Wu, Yiyun Bao
  • Patent number: 9477633
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly adapted for military use comprising a high-density maintenance connector which supports high bandwidth video export and low level maintenance functions, a lower density I/O connector, the stacking feature allows multiple branches in a distribution center, custom to each user, and the programmability allows for identical cables/stacking connectors to be used in different configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Choiniere, Mark P. Devins, David A. Richards, Kevin D. Galli
  • Patent number: 9472902
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of upper-row receptacle terminals, and a plurality of lower-row receptacle terminals. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell. The upper-row receptacle terminals are held in the insulated housing and include a plurality of tail portions protruded from a bottom of the insulation body to be arranged into a row. The lower-row receptacle terminals are held in the insulated housing and include a plurality of tail portions protruded from the bottom of the insulated housing to be arranged into a first row and a second row. The tail portions of the lower-row receptacle terminals are parallel to the tail portions of the upper-row receptacle terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 9472867
    Abstract: Provided is an electric contact with a stable electric resistance value. An insertion rod portion passing through a coil spring is provided on a first contact member, and a cylindrical portion in which a part of the insertion rod portion passing through the coil spring is provided on a second contact member. A tilt mechanism tilts the second contact member to bring the insertion rod portion into contact with the cylindrical portion. This can stabilize the electric resistance value. A reduced diameter portion in which the diameter decreases with an increase in the distance from the cylindrical portion is formed at least near a tip of the insertion rod portion. This can suppress changes in the contact pressure of the cylindrical portion and the insertion rod portion to make expansion and contraction operation smooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: ENPLAS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Ueyama
  • Patent number: 9472894
    Abstract: An electrical connector for mounting to a flexible substrate and for coupling with a mating connector having a low-profile. The connector comprises a cover portion arranged to extend in a plane parallel to the substrate so as to cover a mounting hole in the substrate. The connector further comprises a body portion comprising a connection port projecting from the cover portion, the connection port having electrical contacts within an end face of the port. The body portion further comprising an alignment collar arranged circumferentially around the connection port, the alignment collar being provided with an alignment feature at a discrete circumferential position for angularly aligning the mating connector with respect to the connection port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: ITT MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: Peter Jordan
  • Patent number: 9466931
    Abstract: A device for connection into a socket on an electronic apparatus includes a plug portion inserted into the socket, a substantially rigid body, and a cover connecting the plug portion to the body. The cover includes a flexible joint, and the plug portion is electrically connected to the body through the joint. The plug portion protrudes from an edge of the cover, and the joint can flex about an axis spaced by a fixed distance of less than 15 mm from the edge of the cover from which the plug portion protrudes and parallel thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Inventor: Christopher David Challis King
  • Patent number: 9465173
    Abstract: An improved connector assembly is disclosed wherein end segment portions of a male plug have increasing cylindrical wall cylindrical wall diameter from the outer-most segment to an intermediate segment to an inner segment. The female receptacle has its female receptacle dimensions arranged to accept the male plug such that increasing cylindrical wall diameters exist from its outer-most segment to an intermediate segment to an inner-most segment. The increased diameters enhance the sealing with a strong and sustainable sealing pressure wherein coupling forces between the male plug and female receptacle are minor until the end of the insertion of the male plug into the female receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Geospace Technologies Corporation
    Inventor: Timothy D. Becker
  • Patent number: 9455512
    Abstract: An electrical connector with locking structures is disclosed. The electrical connector comprises an insulation housing, two locking plates, multiple power terminals and multiple signal terminals. The insulation housing forms two locking structures, each of which includes a platform, a vertical fastener passage, a horizontal holding passage and a vertical block. There forms a gap between the vertical block and a bottom support wall of the holding passage. Each locking plate is an L type and has a horizontal locking portion, a vertical locking portion and a locking foot. The horizontal locking portion is fixed in the holding passage, the vertical locking portion is clamped in the gap, and the locking foot is used to fix the electrical connector on a circuit board. The locking structure can ensure the locking plate to be fixed on a preset position, thereby protecting the electrical connector when using.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: OUPIIN ELECTRONIC (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin Chih Chen
  • Patent number: 9455505
    Abstract: Connection device for connecting at least one electrical conductor to at least one spring-type terminal which is provided in a housing of the connection device and which comprises a mechanical drive, the mechanical drive being arranged or installed in the housing and comprising a blade which has a broad face and a narrow face for actuating the spring-type terminal, the broad face of the blade moving the spring-type terminal into an open position in which the electrical conductor can be inserted into an insertion opening of the spring-type terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Woehner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alex Buettner, Philipp Steinberger, Joram Masel
  • Patent number: 9446673
    Abstract: A lock mechanism, when a restricting member is being moved to a predetermined position which corresponds to one of a locked state or an unlocked state, imparts a torque, using a motor, to move the restricting member from an inner-side position near the predetermined position to the predetermined position using a toggle spring disposed between the restricting member and a vehicle body side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Mitsuba Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Maruyama, Hiroyuki Senda
  • Patent number: 9450341
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector has an insulative housing, two terminal sets, a shielding-grounding plate and a shell. The terminal sets are mounted in the insulative housing and each terminal set has multiple conductive terminals. The shielding-grounding plate is mounted in a rear end of the insulative housing and has a shielding body mounted in the rear end of the insulative housing and located between the terminal sets and two resilient hooking arms formed on and protruding forward respectively from two opposite sides of the shielding body and extending in the insulative housing. The shielding-grounding plate is located above the conductive terminals of the two terminal sets and shields the terminal sets such that each terminal set would not interfere with the other terminal set with cross talk when implementing signal transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek, Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Patent number: 9450336
    Abstract: A combination includes an electronic device and an electrical connector. The electronic device includes a device housing with a mating area, and a device terminal set formed in the mating area. The electrical connector includes a connector casing with a mating region, a connector terminal set to mate with the device terminal set, and an auxiliary unit with an abutment part covering a part of the mating region of the connector casing. When the mating region of the electrical connector mates with the mating area of the electronic device, the abutment part of the auxiliary unit abuts against the device housing such that the electrical connector is stabilized and prevented from moving relative to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Wistron Crop.
    Inventor: Hui-Wen Wu
  • Patent number: 9450345
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connector (1), comprising a plurality of terminals (4), and a circuit board (7). The circuit board (7) comprises a plurality of traces for electrically connecting the terminals (4) with a plurality of pads (11). The pads (11) can electrically connect strands from a cable with the traces. The circuit board (7) further comprises a vertical connecting portion (8) for connecting the terminals (4) with the traces, and a first horizontal connecting portion (10) with pads (11), wherein the first horizontal connecting portion (10) is physically connected to the vertical connecting portion (8). According to the invention the circuit board (7) comprises a second horizontal connecting portion (10) with pads (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: ODU GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Josef Weigand
  • Patent number: 9450344
    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: September 20, 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: 9437958
    Abstract: A terminal connecting structure includes: an electric wire in which a conductor is covered by an insulative covering; a conductor connecting terminal to which a conductor exposed portion in which the covering of an end portion of the electric wire is removed and the conductor is exposed is electrically connected; a water sealant for molding the conductor connecting terminal; and a fixing terminal which includes a terminal fixing portion that is to be fixed and electrically connected to a mount part, and which is electrically connected to a part of the conductor connecting terminal in a state where the water sealant is removed from the part of the conductor connecting terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukinari Naganishi, Kenji Osada, Tomokazu Yoshida
  • Patent number: 9437990
    Abstract: A receptacle block defines at least one socket at which a plug connector may be received. First contact members extend into each socket to receive a primary signal from a plug connector. Second contact members extend into one or more of the sockets to read physical layer information from any plug connector inserted into the socket. A sensing contact is positioned to electrically connect to one of the second contact members when a plug connector is inserted into the respective socket. At least a portion of the sensing contact is flexible to follow the movement of the one second contact member. In certain implementations, the second contact members have resilient sections that are identical to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Taylor, Loren J. Mattson
  • Patent number: 9437955
    Abstract: A connector for electrical supply of a unit of the hydraulics which can be arranged or is arranged at a casing of such unit. Thereby at least one current path penetrates a connector bottom of the connector and the connector bottom is sealed with a silicone-containing compound against penetrating moisture in an area of this passage. The compound is an adhesive having high adhesive forces. A casing of a unit of the hydraulics can include such connector. A method of sealing a connector bottom of a connector penetrated by a current path is disclosed via which connector a unit of the hydraulics is adapted to be electrically supplied, the method includes a step of sealing a passage of the current path through the connector bottom with silicone-containing adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GmbH
    Inventors: Liebhart Zaiser, Thomas Wenzler
  • Patent number: 9431727
    Abstract: A terminal connection structure for an electric wire, the electric wire including an internal conductor which is covered with a first insulating cover (21) and an external conductor which is provided coaxially with the internal conductor to surround an outer circumference of the first insulating cover and covered with a second insulating cover, the terminal connection structure including: a first terminal which is connected to a part where the internal conductor is exposed; a second terminal which is connected to a part where the external conductor is exposed; and an insulating portion which is interposed between the first insulating cover and the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Kazuhiro Tomine, Takaaki Miyajima