Patents Examined by Phuongchi Nguyen
  • Terminal fitting
    Patent number: 8241075
    Abstract: A rectangular tubular terminal connecting portion (11) includes two side plates (17) standing up from opposite sides of a base plate (15) via curved portions (16). A resilient contact piece (20) includes a substantially arcuate turned portion (21) extending forward from a front end (15F) of the base plate (15) and a main portion (22) extending back from an extending end of the turned portion (21). First slits (24) extend back from a front end (11F) of the terminal connecting portion (11) along lateral edges (21S) of the turned portion (21), second slits (25) extend from the rear ends of the first slits (24) along the front ends (15F, 16F) of the base plate (15) and the curved portions (16), and protecting plates (26) defined by the first and second slits (24, 25) are cantilevered toward the turned portion (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryotaro Ishikawa, Kazuaki Takeda, Katsuya Uezono
  • Signal transmission device
    Patent number: 8241048
    Abstract: A signal transmission device is provided. The signal transmission device comprises a linked unit, a switch button, a data connector and a lock fastener. The linked unit includes a first shaft, a second shaft, a first elastomer and a second elastomer. The switch button is attached/disposed on the linked unit. The data connector rotates and expands according to the first shaft and the first elastomer. The lock fastener rotates and moves according to the second shaft and the second elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Ability Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jen Hung Hsiao
  • Electrical connector for photovoltaic modules
    Patent number: 8235749
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for electrically connecting a junction box of a photovoltaic (PV) module to an electrical cable of a power distribution system. The electrical connector includes a housing extending along a central longitudinal axis from a cable segment to a mating segment. The housing has an intermediate segment that extends between the cable and mating segments. The intermediate segment includes a flange. The housing is configured to be mounted to a frame for the PV module. An electrical contact is held by the housing and is configured to establish an electrical connection between the junction box and the electrical cable. A biasing mechanism extends over the intermediate segment of the housing. The biasing mechanism extends from a flange end to a frame end. The flange end is engaged with the flange of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Michael Weldon, Kyle D Thompson
  • Connector
    Patent number: 8235752
    Abstract: A connector has an inner housing with a cavity for housing a terminal fitting, an outer housing assembled displaceably to the inner housing and a rubber plug. The rubber plug has a sealing portion, a vibration reducing portion and a vibration absorbing portion. The sealing portion is mounted fixedly on a rear end portion of the terminal fitting and is brought into close contact with an inner peripheral surface of the cavity. The vibration reducing portion is fit in a holding hole formed in the outer housing and thus is displaced with the outer housing. The vibration absorbing portion has a smaller thickness than the vibration reducing portion and connects the sealing portion to the vibration reducing portion. The vibration absorbing portion is outside the holding hole and in front of the holding hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideto Nakamura
  • Connector
    Patent number: 8235736
    Abstract: A connector is connectable to a cable having a plurality of signal wires and a drain wire. Each of the signal wires includes a signal conductor. The connector comprises a plurality of contacts, a holding member and a shell. The holding member is provided with an accommodating portion configured to accommodate an end part of the drain wire. The accommodating portion extends through the holding portion along a predetermined direction. The contacts configured to be connected to the signal conductors, respectively. The contacts are held by the holding member so that connection works between the contacts and the signal conductors are performable along the predetermined direction. The shell covers, at least in part, the holding member. The shell has a fixing portion exposed in the accommodating portion so that the end part of the drain wire is fixable to the fixing portion within the accommodating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Limited
    Inventors: Masahide Watanabe, Takeshi Shindo, Takahiro Yamaji
  • Quick mounting device
    Patent number: 8231403
    Abstract: A quick mounting device for appliances that is quickly and easily engaged and disengaged mechanically and electrically without the use of tools and furthermore has two mechanical engagement mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Inventor: Benjamin J. Smith
  • Connection receptacle lock and security structure
    Patent number: 8231393
    Abstract: A lock and security structure for a connection receptacle includes a connection port, a pawl portion, and a lock and security portion. The connection port forms a receiving space and a slide channel in the receiving space. The pawl portion includes a fixed end and the pawl portion is located adjacent to an end surface of the connection port. The pawl portion forms at least one barb. The lock and security portion includes a bar portion and a board portion. The bar portion is formed on one end of the board portion. The lock and security portion is movable along the slide channel in the slide channel. When the lock and security portion is moved to a first position, the bar portion engages the pawl portion and when moved to a second position the bar portion disengages from the pawl portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Inventor: Yu-Tai Liang
  • Systems and methods of coupling electrical conductors
    Patent number: 8231402
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for coupling a plurality of electrical conductors, such as wires. A connector is provided including a plurality of bores or channels formed into a preferably unitary connector body, wherein at least a portion of one or more of the bores or channels intersects at least a portion of another of the bores or channels. The bores or channels are preferably formed along bore axes, which may be coplanar. A method according to the present invention includes inserting an insulated electrical conductor into a connector body and rotating a conductive rotational member threaded into a bore or channel formed in a connector body so as to electrically contact the conductive portion of the insulated conductor and at least one other electrically conductive surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: NDI Medical, LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth P Rundle
  • Lighting system and cap for such lighting system
    Patent number: 8226440
    Abstract: A lighting system comprising an electrical lamp (6) having an electrical lamp connector (32), a holder (5) having a front electrical connector adapted to be back-connected to a power supply and a cap (7) to interface the electrical lamp and the holder, said cap extending along a mounting direction between a top side for receiving the lamp connector and an opposite bottom side for receiving the holder connector, and having axial holes extending between the bottom side and the top side for receiving within at least a part of an electrical cap connector able to electrically connect the lamp connector with the holder connector once the lighting assembly is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Arnaud Mouchon, Philippe De Montureux, Jelle Pelsma, Antonius Nicolaas Theelen
  • Auxiliary electric socket for automobile
    Patent number: 8215999
    Abstract: An auxiliary electrical socket for automobile vehicles that includes a unitary body having a connecting tongue and a barrel adapted to receive a plug. This socket also includes a one-piece assembly that has a connecting member and a ring. The ring receives the barrel and constitutes a member for joining the socket and a structural element of the vehicle. The unitary body and the one-piece assembly include integral nesting-type assembly and positioning means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Francis Lau, Jean-Louis Bonnet, Jean-Michel Can, Michel Garric
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 8215990
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a housing, a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, a plurality of third terminals and a cage provided on the exterior of the housing. The housing comprises a base and a tongue. The base is provided with a base wall and an assembly slot provided on the base wall to which the mated tongue mates. The tongue is provided with a body and a plurality of terminal installation slots recessed downward at intervals from the top surface of the body, the rear end of the terminal installation slots being defined by a boss part. A yield notch is provided at each location where each terminal passageway corresponds to the boss part. Because the boss parts increase the strength of the tongue, and by utilizing the yield notches, the contacts are able to prevent the boss parts from entering the terminal installation slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventor: Yi-Tse Ho
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 8215984
    Abstract: An electrical connector with contact locking bodies separate from a housing which are secured from accidentally falling off the housing and prevent foreign matters from entering the connector through a gap between the contact locking bodies or through gaps between the contact locking bodies and the housing. The electrical connector includes a lower housing having a recess that opens in an upper surface, a contact that passes through the recess of the lower housing in the front-rear direction and is received therein, a lance block that is received in the recess of the lower housing from above the upper surface and prevents the contact from falling off, and an upper housing that is positioned on the upper surface side of the lower housing to cover the lance block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventor: Shuji Yokozeki
  • Modular connector for electric connections
    Patent number: 8210882
    Abstract: Modular connector for electrical connections, provided with an external anchoring system which facilitates the grouping and fixing of several connectors through male and female couplings, both laterally and transversally. For first-sight recognition, the wraparound insulating carcasses (4) are standard color-keyed to identify the conductors. For the recognition of each circuit it is provided with an upper cover (6) which can be signaled by the user. The conductor part has a set of one or more metallic parts always of the same pole (1), and the set is built into a wraparound insulating carcass (5), having the same color as the conductor cable for this element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Daisel Innova, S.L.
    Inventors: Joaquin Tomás Gilabert, Juan Carlos Tomás Gilabert
  • Female connector element and connector including same
    Patent number: 8210859
    Abstract: The invention relates to a female element (2) that comprises at least one terminal conduction component and a receptacle (20) for receiving a body (10) of a male element (1) along a longitudinal direction (X2-X?2). The female element (2) has a proximal portion (210) fitted to receive an electric power cable (C2). The receptacle (20) includes a guiding chamber (205) for said body (10) in translation along said longitudinal direction (X2-X?2), and at least one guiding edge for guiding said body (10) revolving around an axis (X1-X?1) of said body (10), the one or each guiding edge being disposed, along said longitudinal direction (X2-X?2), between said guiding chamber (205) and the one or each terminal component. The guiding chamber (205) has a cylindrical form with a circular base circumscribed on a triangular base of the body (10) of the male element (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Staubli Faverges
    Inventors: Alain-Christophe Tiberghien, Philippe Guin, Jean-Claude Corsetti
  • Water-proof cover for electrical connectors
    Patent number: 8210862
    Abstract: A cover for an electrical connector including a plug and a receptacle includes a water-proof sheet having adhesive secured to a sheet outer peripheral portion, the adhesive forming a water-tight seal with electrical cords of the plug and receptacle, and the cover forming a water-tight seal completely surrounding the connected plug and receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Inventor: Brandon J. Cargo
  • Female terminal fitting
    Patent number: 8206187
    Abstract: A tab (51) of a male terminal (50) is inserted into a main portion (11) of a female terminal (10). The tab (51) contacts a contact portion (16) of a resilient contact piece (15) to connect the female and male terminals (10, 50) electrically. A guiding portion (18) is formed on an inner surface of the main portion (11) for guiding the tab (51) inserted into the main portion (11) to a position where the tab (51) contacts the contact portion (16). The guiding portion (18) extends from a position before a contact position of the tab (51) with the contact portion (16) to the contact position while being inclined with respect to an inserting direction of the tab (51).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Nakamura, Ryotaro Ishikawa, Song Zheng
  • Connector and cable assembly
    Patent number: 8202111
    Abstract: A connector with which a cable assembly with suppressed generation of a noise during high-speed signal transmission can be formed, and a cable assembly using the connector. The connector includes: a substrate; multiple signal terminals provided parallel to each other on one surface of the substrate; and a ground layer provided on another surface of the substrate Each of the signal terminals and the ground layer are disposed in such a manner that at least a portion of the ground layer and at least a portion of each of the signal terminals are superposed on each other with the substrate therebetween. Multiple holes are formed in the portion of the ground layer superposed on each of the signal terminals. A largest diameter of each of the holes is smaller than a distance between the centers of the signal terminals adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventor: Shigeru Kojima
  • Printed circuit board connector
    Patent number: 8202107
    Abstract: A connector soldered to a PCB has an insulating housing of which two opposite ends recessed to form a pair of fixing recesses, terminals mounted in the insulating housing having soldering portions projected out of a bottom of the insulating housing, a latch member and a positioning member. The latch member has a base slice inserted in the fixing recess. A top of the base plate extends sideward and then is bent downward to form a folded plate apart facing the base plate to define an interval therebetween. The positioning member movably mounted to the latch member has a base slice inserted in the interval and a soldering slice perpendicularly connected at a bottom of the base slice for being soldered with the PCB. The base slice of is capable of moving up-and-down in the interval to adjust the soldering slice to be level with the soldering portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hung-Chi Wang, Mei-Chuan Yang
  • Electrical plug connector with strand guide
    Patent number: 8192224
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical plug connector (1) for an electrical cable (2), with a strand guide (10) which is provided on the electrical plug connector (1) so as to be able to move, wherein the strand guide (10) or the electrical plug connector (1) has a release means (112, 212) which can be used to separate the strand guide (10) from the electrical plug connector (1). The invention further relates to a manufactured electrical cable with an electrical plug connector (1) according to the invention; and also to an electrical or electronic apparatus or component, with an electrical plug connector (1) according to the invention or a manufactured electrical cable according to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Schmidt, Martin Szelag
  • Electronic part and lead
    Patent number: 8192208
    Abstract: A lead configured to join to a signal line of an electronic part through solder is disposed in an opposing relationship to the signal line and extends for sliding movement. A first opposing face section including a pair of faces having wettability to the solder is formed on surfaces of the signal line and the lead. Further, a second opposing face section including a pair of faces having wettability lower than the wettability of the first opposing face section is formed on the surfaces of the signal line and the lead along an extending direction of the lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignees: Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu Component Limited
    Inventors: Hiroaki Tamura, Fumihiko Tokura