Patents Examined by Phuong Dinh
  • Patent number: 9425538
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing having a main portion extending along a mating direction and a connecting portion extending rearwards from the main portion, a tubular contact received in the insulative housing, a cable electrically connected to the tubular contact, a cover assembled to the connecting portion of the insulative housing via the thread, and a snap ring enclosing an outside of a connecting area between the cover and the insulative housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Xiao Fan
  • Patent number: 9425534
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a plug connector. The plug connector comprises a connector housing having a flexible leg. The plug connector further comprises a secondary locking device having a jamming portion and a flexible arm, which is in blocking contact with the flexible leg when the plug connector is not mated with a corresponding counter connector. The plug connector thereby allows for direct mating with a corresponding counter connector, whereby the secondary locking device provides connector position assurance (CPA) functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Delphi International Operations Luxembourg S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Rainer Schmidt, Klaus Mueller
  • Patent number: 9425568
    Abstract: A conductor rail connector to connect the ends of two conductor rails may have first and second connection elements able to be connected to the conductor rail ends using at least one screw element supported on one side on a first side of a conductor rail end and supported on the other side on the first connection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Paul Vahle GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Philip Tembaak
  • Patent number: 9425551
    Abstract: An electrical connector with two guiding posts is disclosed. The electrical connector includes an insulation housing, multiple signal terminals and multiple power terminals. The insulation housing includes a flat base, a mating portion and two guiding posts. The mating portion forms multiple signal terminal insertion openings and multiple power terminal insertion openings. Each signal terminal has a head portion and a tail portion. The head portion is adjacent to the corresponding signal terminal insertion opening, and the tail portion extends out of the bottom surface of the insulation housing. Each power terminal has a head and a tail. The head is adjacent to the corresponding power terminal insertion opening, and the tail extends out of the bottom surface of the insulation housing. Each of the two guiding posts is symmetrically split into two separate sub guiding posts and forms a gap between the two sub guiding posts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Oupin Electronic (Kunshan) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsin Chih Chen
  • Patent number: 9425559
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, a metallic shell and a plurality of connecting portions. The insulated housing is in the metallic shell. The metallic shell includes a tubular body, a connecting plate and a folded portion. The tubular body includes an outer wall and an inner wall. The connecting plate is at the outer wall or the inner wall, and the folded portion is extended from the tubular body toward the connecting plate. The connecting portions are configured to fix the connecting plate to the tubular body so that the connecting plate is fixed on the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: ANVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 9419348
    Abstract: The connection refers to a connecting arrangement with a crimp connector (2) and a wire (3) fixed in place to the crimp connector. The crimp connector encompasses two clamping plates (4, 5) executed as one piece that, in a mounted state, clamp the wire (3) between them and while doing, so fix the wire (3) firmly in place with a force acting in longitudinal axial load direction (B). At least in the mounted state, the inner surfaces of the clamping plates face one another and are at least partially executed as level clamping surfaces (4a, 5a). In the mounted state, the clamping surfaces (4a, 5a) of the clamping plates (4, 5) make contact with one another, whereby an area of the wire section (3?) is pressed partially inside the one clamping plate and partially inside the other clamping plate (4, 5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Actuator Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Krach, Markus Köpfer
  • Patent number: 9419366
    Abstract: The invention relates to a contact assembly for a combined power and data connector and to a socket assembly for a mating socket. In order to provide a combined power and data connector that allows combined transport of electrical power and data signals, which is compact, solid and may be produced cost-effectively, it is intended according to the invention that a connector face of the contact assembly comprises a data section and a second section, wherein the data section comprises a plurality of data contacts, which are separated from the second section by at least one separating wall assembly, the data contacts being arranged on a carrier unit that is mounted on a data section side of the separating wall assembly, that the carrier unit further carries electric power and wherein the at least one separating wall assembly comprises a fixation sub-assembly that fixates the carrier unit onto the separating wall assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics Svenska Holdings AB, TE Connectivity Nederland BV
    Inventors: Rickard Barrefelt, Dolf Campschroer, Sebastiaan Roger Neerincx
  • Patent number: 9413125
    Abstract: An assembly comprising a cable terminator comprising an elongate wire guide comprising a top end and four conductor pair receiving channels, and a securing cap configured for installation over the top end and comprising four pairs of piercing contacts exposed on an upper surface is disclosed. Each pair of the piercing contacts are interconnected with a respective conductor pair, and a coupler connector comprising a forward surface comprising an RJ-45 compatible socket, wherein tines are exposed within the socket and a rearward surface comprising a cable terminator receiving socket. Pairs of contacts are exposed on an end wall of the socket. Each of the tines is interconnected with a respective one of the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: BELDEN CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Marc Fontaine, Jean-Sebastien Plamondon, Virak Siev, Alain Desroches, Luc Milette, Francois Beauregard
  • Patent number: 9407045
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing, signal contacts, and ground shields. The housing extends between a front end and a rear end and defines a cavity at the front end. The signal contacts are held by the housing and are arranged in pairs carrying differential signals. The signal contacts have mating ends in the cavity for mating with a mating connector. The ground shields are held by the housing and extend along the signal contacts in the cavity. The ground shields have center walls and side walls surrounding associated pairs of the signal contacts on at least two sides thereof. The ground shields each have a commoning feature extending outward from a corresponding side wall. The commoning feature mechanically engages another ground shield in a group of ground shields to electrically join the ground shields of the group within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Michael James Horning, Wayne Samuel Davis, Chad W. Morgan, Vincent Ruminski
  • Patent number: 9397427
    Abstract: A card edge connector comprises a housing, a plurality of first terminals and a terminal block. The housing has a first wall and a second wall which are opposite to each other, a slot between the first wall and the second wall and a plurality of terminal grooves spaced apart from each other and provided in the first wall in a row. The first terminals are supported by the first wall and positioned in the terminal grooves. The terminal block comprises an insulative body engaged with the second wall and a plurality of second terminals spaced apart from each other and supported by the insulative body. Each of second terminals has a fixed portion fixedly provided to the insulative body, a contact portion extending out of the insulative body and extending into the slot, and a tail portion extending out of the insulative body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Yi-Tse Ho
  • Patent number: 9397447
    Abstract: To allow easy and reliable establishment of electromagnetic shielding regarding a portion connected to a circuit board with a simple structure, a shield plate provided to a fit-in holding member which keeps a state of fitting in a counterpart connector externally covers board connection legs of counterpart contact members and, simultaneously with an operation of rotating the fit-in holding member when connectors fit together, electromagnetic shielding with respect to the board connection legs is immediately established. Also, a ground connecting units provided to the fit-in holding member are connected to ground connection conductive paths provided at positions near the board connection legs of the counterpart contact members, thereby obtaining favorable electromagnetic shielding characteristics. Also, a connected state at the board connection legs can be favorably confirmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takaki Kurachi
  • Patent number: 9397455
    Abstract: An assembly comprising a cable terminator comprising a wire guide, a cube shaped securing cap comprising an open end for installation over the wire guide, and pairs of piercing contacts for piercing respective conductors of the cable. When assembled, an outer end of each of the piercing contacts is exposed on an outer surface of a respective securing cap sidewall. The assembly also comprises a coupler connector comprising one of a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) socket or a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) plug, a rearward surface comprising a cable terminator receiving socket, wherein pairs of contacts are exposed along at least one side wall of the socket, and further wherein each of a plurality of the tines in the modular socket or the terminal contacts of the plug is interconnected with a respective one of the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: BELDEN CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Marc Fontaine, Jean-Sebastien Plamondon, Virak Siev, Alain Desroches, Luc Milette, Francois Beauregard
  • Patent number: 9394588
    Abstract: A terminal includes a connector portion electrically connectable to an external terminal, a tubular crimp portion formed integrally or separate from the connector portion and crimps with a wire, and a transition portion coupling the two. The tubular crimp portion of a copper or copper alloy metal base material or a metal member having the same is a tubular member closed on transition portion side and reduces in diameter towards the transition portion side such that a conductor-end portion of the electric wire is un-exposed. The tubular crimp portion has a belt-shaped weld portion along a longitudinal direction of the tubular crimp portion. A circumferential direction of the tubular crimp portion matches the RD-direction of the base material. A sum of area ratios R1, R2 and R3 in a rolling plane of the base material, of Cube-, RDW-, and Goss-oriented crystal grains, respectively, is greater than or equal to 15%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: FURUKAWA ELECTRIC CO., LTD., FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Matsuo, Akira Tachibana, Kengo Mitose
  • Patent number: 9391389
    Abstract: A terminal connection structure for an electric wire includes a first terminal having a first extension section extended from a first connection section in a nearly semi-cylindrical shape and connected to the first terminal member of a mating connection device to be connected to the electric wire and a second terminal having a second extension section extended from a second connection section in a nearly semi-cylindrical shape and connected to the second terminal member of the mating connection device to be connected to the electric wire, the first extension section and the second extension section being disposed coaxially so as to be opposed to each other and to form a nearly cylindrical shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshitake Ohmori, Hajime Kato, Kazuhiro Tomine, Takaaki Miyajima
  • Patent number: 9385479
    Abstract: A connector sub-assembly includes a dielectric carrier, plural signal conductors, and a ground frame. The dielectric carrier is defined by first and second overmolded bodies that engage one another at an overmold interface. An intermediate segment of each signal conductor is encased within the dielectric carrier. The ground frame is held between the first and second overmolded bodies at the overmold interface. The ground frame includes a ground bus bar encased within the dielectric carrier and plural ground conductors extending from the ground bus bar. The second overmolded body is formed in-situ on an inner side of the first overmolded body. An inner side of the second overmolded body at the overmold interface is partially defined by a profile of the inner side of the first overmolded body and partially defined by the ground frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Ryan Schmitt, Paul Steven Sremcich, Steve Douglas Sattazahn, Brandon Michael Matthews
  • Patent number: 9385500
    Abstract: An electrical connector can be configured to mate with at least one complementary electrical connector. The electrical connector includes a dielectric connector housing including a housing body that defines a mounting interface configured to be mounted onto a substrate and a mating interface configured to receive at least one complementary electrical connector along a mating direction. A plurality of electrical contacts are supported by the connector housing and spaced apart from each other along a lateral direction that is substantially perpendicular to the mating direction. The electrical contacts include 1) a mating portion that is configured to mate with a complementary electrical contact of the complementary electrical connector, and 2) a mounting portion configured to electrically connect to the substrate. The electrical connector can further include at least one electrically insulative fin supported by the housing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: FCI ASIA PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Thierry Goossens
  • Patent number: 9379492
    Abstract: A connector having a housing and a plurality of contact element pairs fixed inside the housing, wherein at least two contact element pairs are arranged adjacent to each other in one row and at least one contact element pair is spaced from the row at identical spacings from the at least two contact element pairs in the row, and wherein a shielding element is arranged between the contact element pairs of the row and the further contact element pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Zebhauser, Thomas Müller, Christian Schmidt, Till Bredback
  • Patent number: 9379498
    Abstract: A coaxial connector includes an outer conductive member including a board mounting portion and a main body portion; an insulation member disposed in the outer conductive member; a central conductive member supported with the insulation member; and a metal member disposed in the outer conductive member below the insulation member. The metal member includes a through hole for retaining the central conductive member therein. The central conductive member is situated in the through hole away from an inner surface of the through hole by a first distance at an upper portion of the through hole. The central conductive member is situated in the through hole away from the inner surface of the through hole by a second distance at a lower portion of the through hole. The first distance is greater than the second distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsubasa Kaneko, Takashi Sawai
  • Patent number: 9373921
    Abstract: A socket device comprises a socket body including a swerve part, wherein a first socket part extends from an end of the swerve part and a second socket part extends from the other end of the swerve part, an electric power line extends from the interior of the swerve part, an accommodation groove is configured on the lateral wall of the socket body where the electric power line extends out thereby accommodating and attaching the electric power line into the accommodation groove to achieve the objective of electric power line accommodation; meanwhile, the first socket part and the second socket part extending from the two ends of the swerve part can further improve the application flexibility of the socket device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Inventor: Chia-Hua Lin
  • Patent number: 9368922
    Abstract: A connector includes a base having a top portion, a front portion, a back portion and two side portions, a terminal set disposed at the base and exposed from the top portion, a detecting assembly disposed at the base and a casing having a main body, an extension portion, two lateral portions and two first soldering legs. At least a part of the base, the terminal set and the detecting assembly are surrounded by the main body. The extension portion is extended from the main body above the top portion and folded towards the front portion to cover a part of the main body. The two lateral portions are connected to two sides of the extension portion and folded towards two sides of the base. The first soldering legs are connected to the lateral portions and extended away from the top portion. The main body and the extension portion have resilient portions and second resilient portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: CHANT SINCERE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Hui Yen, Chun Chi Chou