Patents Examined by Phuong Dinh
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Patent number: 9787016Abstract: The invention regards a plug comprising a housing, a number of connectors and a selector outlet having a movable selector part whereby the configuration of the connectors may be changed when the selector part is moved. The housing may have a triangular cross section defined by a first side A, a second side B and a third side C and where the number of connectors allows for connection of two or more electrical circuits. The invention also relates to a system of plugs and a method of producing the same.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Fischer Lighting ApSInventor: Stig Elmvang
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Patent number: 9787010Abstract: An electrical connector has at least one latch that is rotatable on the connector body to allow a module board to be clamped between an upper clamp surface of the latch and a lower clamp surface of the connector body. The electrical connector has connector pins having contact points within an opening of the connector body. When a module board is inserted into the opening, the contact points are pushed from a first height elevation to a second height elevation, which is level with the lower clamp surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: YAMAICHI ELECTRONICS USA, INC.Inventor: Hiroshi Takahira
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Patent number: 9780501Abstract: A power cable connector assembly includes: an electrical connector including an insulative housing, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing, and an outer case enclosing the insulative housing; a cable electrically connecting with the electrical connector, the cable including a number of core wires connected with corresponding contacts; and a sensor enclosed by the outer case, the sensor including a number of conductive wires connected with corresponding core wire; wherein the insulative housing defines a receiving cavity between two of the contacts, the sensor is inserted into the receiving cavity, and electrical transmission through said core wires is controlled by the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen
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Patent number: 9774130Abstract: An electrical connector with a terminal module enclosed within an insulative shield wherein the terminal module includes a plurality of terminals embedded within an insulative main body. The insulative main body forms a rear mounting standing part and a front mating tongue part extending forwardly from the rear mounting standing part. The insulative shield forms a rearward step against a forward shoulder of the base portion so as to prevent further forward movement of the base portion relative to the insulative shield. The insulative main body forms a protrusion and the insulative shield forms a securing hole to receive said protrusion for securing the insulative shield and the terminal module together.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Jun Zhao, Guang-Xin Gu, Jing-Jie Guo
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Patent number: 9774144Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., John Robert Dunham, Mark W. Gailus, Donald A. Girard, Jr., David Manter, Tom Pitten, Vysakh Sivarajan, Michael Joseph Snyder
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Patent number: 9774107Abstract: A socket includes: a base; a connection fitting including a bracket and a spring member, configured to form pressure springs by dividing the spring member into two in a width direction by a slit provided to the spring member, and assembled to an upper surface of the base; and a case cover configured to fit to the base and to cover the connection fitting. The pressure springs of the spring member are pressed and elastically deformed by an operation driver inserted through an operation hole provided to the case cover, to sandwich between the bracket and the pressure springs a lead inserted through an insertion hole provided to the case cover. A guide partition wall configured to engage with the slit of the spring member is integrally molded with an inner surface of the case cover.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Ryunosuke Kamo, Kenichiro Masaki, Tomokazu Ikeda, Keisuke Yano
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Patent number: 9768544Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained in the housing to commonly form a terminal module, a metallic shield enclosing the terminal module and forming a mating cavity, and a glue groove formed in a base of the housing and located behind the mating cavity, in which a glue part is received. The shield forms an opening communicating with the glue groove, through which the liquid type glue is injected into the glue groove and solidified therein.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Xiao-Bo Du, Chun-Ming Yu, Guo-Hua Zhang, Bin Guo
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Patent number: 9763661Abstract: The present disclosure relates to adapter assemblies for use with and to electrically and mechanically interconnect electromechanical surgical devices and surgical loading units, and to surgical systems including hand held electromechanical surgical devices and adapter assemblies for connecting surgical loading units to the hand held electromechanical surgical devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: Covidien LPInventors: Earl M. Zergiebel, David M. Chowaniec, Ryan Williams, Anand Subramanian
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Patent number: 9768557Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a first end and a second end with a mating slot formed between the first and second ends configured to receive a mating connector having contact pads. A leadframe assembly is disposed in the housing. The leadframe assembly has a contact array including ground contacts and signal contacts interspersed between corresponding ground contacts. The leadframe assembly has an overmold body supporting the ground and signal contacts. The overmold body has lossy ground absorbers coupled to corresponding ground contacts. The lossy ground absorbers are manufactured from lossy material absorbing electrical resonance propagating through the leadframe assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Michael John Phillips, Thomas Taake de Boer, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli, Sandeep Patel, Linda Ellen Shields
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Patent number: 9768543Abstract: A cable end termination is for a coaxial cable that includes inner and outer conductors and a dielectric layer therebetween that is subject to outgassing in a vacuum environment. The cable end termination may include a tubular bi-metallic body that includes a first longitudinal portion including a first metal and a second longitudinal portion joined with the first longitudinal portion and that includes a second metal having a different coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) than the first metal. The tubular bi-metallic body may have a first end receiving the coaxial cable and a second end opposite the first end that carries a dielectric body to define a hermetic seal for the dielectric layer in the vacuum environment. A center pin contact may extend through the dielectric body, and a center conductor contact may couple the center pin contact to the inner conductor.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2016Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: SRI HERMETICS, LLCInventor: Edward A. Taylor
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Patent number: 9761965Abstract: An electronic device (1) is described comprising a base module (2) and an electronic module (3) detachably pluggable onto the base module (2). The base module (2) comprises an insulation material housing (16) with a snap-in base (5) for attaching the base module (2) on a carrier rail and plug contacts (7, 8) on the side walls. The electronic module (3) comprises an insulation material housing (20) and is connectable to the plug contacts (7, 8) of the base module (2) in the attached state on the base module (2). The base module (2) and the electronic module (3) comprise interacting snap-in elements (23, 26) for locking the base module (2) and the electronic module (3) to each other when the electronic module (3) is attached to the base module (2) A snap-in element (23) of the electronic module (3) comprises a protruding activation lug (27) on a second face (15) of the electronic device (1). The electronic module (3) comprises a protruding catch lug (19) on its first face (11) opposite the second face (15).Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: WAGO VERWALTUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBHInventors: Viktor Mickmann, Axel Buchmeier
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Patent number: 9761980Abstract: A connector comprises an insulating housing (10) defining a plurality of isolated terminal chambers and a plurality of conductive terminals (20) disposed in respective terminal chambers of the insulating housing. Each of the terminal chambers has a bottom portion (101) on one side of the insulating housing and an opening (102) through a surface (103) on the opposite side of the insulating housing. Each of the conductive terminals comprises a fixing portion (201) that is fixed on the bottom portion of a corresponding terminal chamber, a contact portion (203) that is projecting out of the opening, and a middle portion (202) that is connected between the fixing portion and the contact portion and slanting from one end of the fixing portion towards the other end of the fixing portion. The middle portion and the contact portion are configured to move both towards the bottom portion and in a longitudinal direction of the insulating housing in response to pressure imposed on the contact portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Xianlong Zeng, Xuewu Zhao, Ming Zhong
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Patent number: 9763351Abstract: A computing apparatus adapted for rear access installation of a computer card with blind mating. The apparatus includes an enclosure with a rear access opening and a circuit board mounted in an interior space of the enclosure with an upward facing connector. The apparatus includes a guide assembly comprising a guide mounted within the interior space, and the guide includes a travel surface extending over the upward facing connector of the circuit board. The apparatus includes a card carrier with a frame that houses a computer card, e.g., a PCIe card, which includes a connector extending outward from the card carrier frame. The card carrier rides upon the travel surface when the card carrier is inserted into the enclosure and then pivots about a contact surface in the guide assembly when the computer card connector is proximate to the upward facing connector to provide vertical insertion of the computer card.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Sean Kenneth Ulrich, Eric Munro Innes
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Patent number: 9748706Abstract: An electrical connector connecting with a cable electrically includes a mating member, a printed circuit board connected with the mating member and the cable electrically, a light source positioned on the printed circuit board, a detector controlling the light source, a light transmissive member permitting transmission of a light emitted from the light source therethrough, a metal shell enclosing the light transmissive member and the printed circuit board, and a detective member connecting the detector and the metal shell electrically.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Wen-Feng Lv, Yi-Wen Cheng, Dou-Feng Wu, Xiao-Li Li, Chien-Hsun Huang
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Patent number: 9741500Abstract: A terminal connecting mechanism for a molded case circuit breaker that does not need a tool for connection or release between a wire and a terminal is disclosed. The terminal connecting mechanism of a molded case circuit breaker comprises a supporter having a through hole portion for allowing passing through of a terminal of the molded case circuit breaker and a terminal seat portion where the terminal, which has passed through the through hole portion, is mounted; a spring of which one end is supported by the supporter; and a lever member being in contact with the other end of the spring, rotataby moving to a position for allowing insertion of a wire to contact the terminal, and pressurizing the wire by means of an elastic force of the spring to maintain a contact state between the wire and the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Insu Seo
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Patent number: 9728886Abstract: A coupling part for an electrical line has an insulator having a receiving side and an oppositely lying plug-in side and throughholes, in which are arranged insulated electrical contact elements relative to each other, to which, in the mounted position, the electrical conductors of the line are connected on the receiving side of the insulator. A surrounding prefabricated housing is mounted over the connecting point of the conductors and contact elements, so that on the one side it stretches up to and over the insulator and on the other side up to and over the line.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: NEXANSInventors: Richard Riedel, Dietmar Volkl, Otto Nachbauer
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Patent number: 9728871Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a mating end, a rear end opposite the mating end, and an exterior wall extending at least partially between the mating end and the rear end. The exterior wall includes a cavity with a latch held on the housing at least partially received in the cavity and a latch actuator at least partially received in the cavity. The latch actuator has first and second release mechanisms. The first release mechanism includes a pull tab being linearly movable within the cavity during a pull release operation, and the second release mechanism includes a push button being movable within the cavity during a push release operation for interacting with the latch to release the latch during the push release operation.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Glen Gutgold, Tracy Lee Smith
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Patent number: 9728877Abstract: A connector is attachable to a first connection object in an up-down direction and is connectable with a second connection object which is to be inserted rearward into the connector along a front-rear direction perpendicular to the up-down direction. The connector comprises a plurality of terminals and a holding member. The holding member has a holding portion and a sandwiched portion. Each of the terminals has a connecting portion and a contact portion. The sandwiched portion and the connecting portion at least overlap with each other when the connector is viewed along the up-down direction. One of the sandwiched portion and the connecting portion is visible when the connector is viewed along an upward direction of the up-down direction. A remaining one of the sandwiched portion and the connecting portion is visible when the connector is viewed along a downward direction of the up-down direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Keisuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 9728919Abstract: Receptacle assembly includes a receptacle cage having an interior cavity forming first and second module passages. The first and second module passages are configured to receive respective pluggable modules through first and second port openings, respectively, in a loading direction that is parallel to a Z-axis. The receptacle assembly also includes a cage cover positioned at the front end between the first and second port openings. The cage cover includes first and second module fingers. The cage cover also including a ground tab that engages an inner surface of the receptacle cage. The first and second module fingers extend lengthwise in the loading direction. The ground tab extends lengthwise along a Y-axis that is perpendicular to the Z-axis.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Steven David Dunwoody, Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long
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Patent number: 9722378Abstract: A conductive device and a socket for providing electric power are provided. The conductive device includes a block body, at least two terminal structures, and an equipotential layer. The block body has a fixing portion having at least two holes formed thereon. The two terminal structures are arranged inside of the block body and respectively near to the holes. The equipotential layer is electrically connected to the two terminal structures and set to have the same polarity as that of the two terminal structures.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: POWERTECH INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Jung-Hui Hsu