Patents Examined by Phuong Dinh
  • Patent number: 9787016
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Fischer Lighting ApS
    Inventor: Stig Elmvang
  • Patent number: 9787010
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: YAMAICHI ELECTRONICS USA, INC.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Takahira
  • Patent number: 9780501
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen
  • Patent number: 9774130
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Guang-Xin Gu, Jing-Jie Guo
  • Patent number: 9774144
    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: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    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: 9774107
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Ryunosuke Kamo, Kenichiro Masaki, Tomokazu Ikeda, Keisuke Yano
  • Patent number: 9768544
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiao-Bo Du, Chun-Ming Yu, Guo-Hua Zhang, Bin Guo
  • Patent number: 9763661
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Earl M. Zergiebel, David M. Chowaniec, Ryan Williams, Anand Subramanian
  • Patent number: 9768557
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael John Phillips, Thomas Taake de Boer, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli, Sandeep Patel, Linda Ellen Shields
  • Patent number: 9768543
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SRI HERMETICS, LLC
    Inventor: Edward A. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9761965
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: WAGO VERWALTUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Viktor Mickmann, Axel Buchmeier
  • Patent number: 9761980
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Xianlong Zeng, Xuewu Zhao, Ming Zhong
  • Patent number: 9763351
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sean Kenneth Ulrich, Eric Munro Innes
  • Patent number: 9748706
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Wen-Feng Lv, Yi-Wen Cheng, Dou-Feng Wu, Xiao-Li Li, Chien-Hsun Huang
  • Patent number: 9741500
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Insu Seo
  • Patent number: 9728886
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Richard Riedel, Dietmar Volkl, Otto Nachbauer
  • Patent number: 9728871
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Glen Gutgold, Tracy Lee Smith
  • Patent number: 9728877
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Keisuke Nakamura
  • Patent number: 9728919
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven David Dunwoody, Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long
  • Patent number: 9722378
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: POWERTECH INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jung-Hui Hsu