Patents Examined by Phuongchi T Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9748687
    Abstract: A connector has a front shell and a back shell. The front shell is provided with a first contact portion and a fixed portion. The first contact portion surrounds a periphery of the fixed portion in a plane orthogonal to a predetermined direction. The back shell is provided with an opening portion and a second contact portion. The second contact portion surrounds a periphery of the opening portion in a plane orthogonal to the predetermined direction. The second contact portion is in contact with the first contact portion in the predetermined direction so that the fixed portion is visible within the opening portion in the predetermined direction and that the back shell is positioned with respect to the front shell. The fixed portion and the second contact portion are fixable to each other using a conductive fixing agent through the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9742108
    Abstract: A connector is configured such that a fitting-side component (10) is fit into a receiving-side component (20). The fitting-side component (10) includes a block-shaped main body (11) and a lock (15) standing on an outer surface of the main body (11). The receiving-side component (20) includes a receptacle (21) open forward and externally fittable to the fitting-side component (10). A locking surface (16) is provided on a surface of the lock (15) facing an opening side of the receptacle (21) in a fitted state of the fitting-side component (10) and the receiving-side component (20). The locking surface (16) stands substantially at a right angle to a separating direction from the receiving-side component (20). The receiving-side component (20) includes a lock projection (35) projecting on an inner surface of the receptacle (21) for locking the locking surface 16 from the opening side of the receptacle (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Junya Matsuura
  • Patent number: 9742112
    Abstract: A two sided electrical connection system that automatically connects two connector sides together is provided. A male side and female side of the connector have bodies shaped such that the male side may be received by the female side automatically by a force of gravity. Guiding structure around the female side of the two sided connector allows the male side to be guided into place without requiring perfect alignment of the two sides of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Inventor: Nikhil Dubbaka
  • Patent number: 9742087
    Abstract: A connector is provided which has an actuator able to rotate around a pressure-applying portion arranged below upper beams between an open orientation and a closed orientation, and a stopping portion. The actuator is able to move with the actuator in the closed orientation between a first position where the stopped portion of the actuator comes into contact with the stopping portion to prevent rotation of the actuator from the closed orientation to the open orientation, and a second position where the stopped portion of the actuator has moved away from the stopping portion to allow rotation of the actuator from the closed orientation to the open orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hideyo Tagami, Yasuaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9742097
    Abstract: A waterproof connector includes a housing (10) provided with cavities (11) capable of accommodating terminal fittings (T) and open backward, a dummy plug (30) configured to be held in close contact with an inner surface of the cavity (11) by being inserted into the cavity (11) from behind, tapered surfaces (18) formed on a rear surface of the housing (10) to surround openings (16) of the cavities (11) and inclined to come closer to the inner surfaces (17) of the cavities (11) toward the back, and a pressing portion (32) provided on the dummy plug (30) and configured to be pressed against the tapered surface (18) by a forward force acting on the dummy plug (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9735520
    Abstract: A push-on coaxial cable connector includes a port grip, a joint, and a cable clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: PerfectVision Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Darwin Davidson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9728893
    Abstract: A plug connector includes an insulating housing, and a terminal surrounding the insulating housing. The insulating housing has a fastening portion. Two opposite sides of a top of the fastening portion protrude upward and are arched outward to form two fastening pieces. A fastening slot is formed among a lateral wall, an inner wall and a bottom wall of the terminal. Two portions of a top surface of the lateral wall protrude upward to form two insertion portions. The fastening portion is fastened in the fastening slot. One of the two insertion portions is located between one side of one of the two fastening pieces and one side of the other fastening piece. The other insertion portion is located between the other side of the one of the two fastening pieces and the other side of the other fastening piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang Jin Lou, Bo Liu
  • Patent number: 9719638
    Abstract: An electrical connection structure (100) of a lamp cap, comprising a substrate (20), a plastic piece (30) and a lamp cap (60), wherein the lamp cap (60) comprises a first electrode (61) and a second electrode (62). The first electrode (61) is insulated from the second electrode (62) and the second electrode (62) is fixed relative to the first electrode (61). The plastic piece (30) is arranged above the first electrode (61). An electronic element, and a first connection end (21) and a second connection end (22) which are electrically connected to the electronic element, are provided on the substrate (20). The first electrode (61) is electrically connected to the first connection end (21). The second electrode (62) is of a rod-shaped structure. The second connection end (22) comprises a connection part (222) and a contact part (221).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: XIAMEN ECO LIGHTING CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Qiyuan Wang, Yunnan Lin, Liping Lin
  • Patent number: 9722340
    Abstract: A connector structure includes a plurality of terminals to be connected to an electric wire, an electronic component configured to control an external component to be connected to the terminals, and a housing holding the terminals and the electronic component to accommodate the terminals and the electronic component. Each terminal includes a connection portion to be connected to the electric wire, and an extension portion having a cross section of an arc shape and extending from the connection portion. The housing is configured to hold the plurality of terminals and the electronic component such that the cross sections of the extension portions are arranged to form a substantially circular shape that surrounds the electronic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hajime Kato, Takaaki Miyajima, Takeshi Innan
  • Patent number: 9722350
    Abstract: A connector terminal with a unit-mountable connector of that includes a connector body having an adapter engagement end and a unit engagement end, and a mounting member therebetween for mounting the connector body to a unit. An insert extends through the connector body and has an inner bore extending between a cable interface end and a unit interface end, and a connector body interface portion between the ends. One or more double-sided contacts are received in the insert. The double-sided contact is one-piece with one end that is a cable termination end configured to terminate to a conductor of a cable and an opposite end that is a unit termination end configured to terminate to a conductor of the unit. The unit-mountable connector is adapted to mate with a cable sealing adapter. The cable sealing adapter is devoid of contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventor: Robert B. Baldwin
  • Patent number: 9716340
    Abstract: A connector is such that a first housing (10) is provided with a slider (21) formed with two cam grooves (24), a second housing (30) is formed with two cam followers (36) and contact edges (27) are formed at entrances (24E) of the cam grooves (24). An outer peripheral surface of the cam follower (36) has a substantially semicircular surface (41) on a rear side in an entering direction into the cam groove (24). A receiving surface (44) extending in the same direction as the entering direction into the cam groove (24) from an end part of the substantially semicircular surface (41) facing the contact edge part (27) is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the cam follower (36), and at a right angle or at an angle ? smaller than a right angle to a sliding direction of the slider (21).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masakazu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9716325
    Abstract: An electronic component unit includes an accommodation member, electronic components, and a bus bar including a rectangular unit. The accommodation member accommodates the electronic components and the bus bar in an accommodation space portion of an inner space portion. The accommodation member has a dividing wall that forms divided space portions by dividing the accommodation space portion. The dividing wall is provided with a slit that communicates the adjacent divided space portions. The rectangular unit of the bus bar is exposed to the inside of each of the divided space portions, when the rectangular unit is held by being inserted into the slit. The electronic components that are individually accommodated in the respective divided space portions are connected to the rectangular unit being exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuya Tsubouchi, Takahiko Mitsui, Yosuke Fukuhara
  • Patent number: 9711884
    Abstract: A terminal connection structure includes a male terminal; and a female terminal having an elasticity and configured to have the male terminal fitted therein such that the female terminal sandwiches the male terminal from opposite sides; wherein the male includes a base material, a first primary coat coated on the base material, a second primary coat coated on the first primary coat, and a surface layer coated on the second primary coat, and the first primary coat and the second primary coat have different hardnesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masayoshi Nishihata
  • Patent number: 9705216
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to providing electrical connectivity to electric-powered components mounted in parallel on a wiring board. An electrical apparatus is provided in which electricity is conducted from an electrically conductive member onto first and second electrically conductive pathways, of a wiring board through the use of first and second resiliently-deformable electrically conductive connectors. First and second electric-powered components are mounted to the respective first and second electrically conductive pathways. The first and second resiliently-deformable electrically conductive connectors are compressed between the electrically conductive member and the wiring board such that the first connector provides an electrical connection between the conductive member and the first electrically conductive pathway, and the second connector provides an electrical connection between the conductive member and the second electrically conductive pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Denis Vaughan Weale, Julian Peter Mayes
  • Patent number: 9705240
    Abstract: A vibration resistant connector is disclosed. The connector employs a friction member to create a resistance between a coupling nut of the connector and a connector body of the connector that is disposed in a cavity formed by the coupling nut. In some embodiments, the friction member is in the form of an O-ring that encircles a portion of the connector body and that is compressed by the coupling nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Winchester Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: John E. Benham, David J. Camelio
  • Patent number: 9705290
    Abstract: An electrically conductive cover which in assembly is received over at least part of a spark plug boot and at least part of a nut portion of a metal body of a spark plug received in the boot. The cover may have an opening through which an arm portion of the boot extends which arm portion receives an electric wire for supplying a current at a high potential voltage to the spark plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Walbro LLC
    Inventor: Robby L. Linton
  • Patent number: 9705237
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a mating cavity opening forwardly. The electrical connector has a main body, a terminal module and a sealing member. The terminal module has an insulator and a plurality of conductive terminals received therein. The conductive terminals have contacting portions exposed into the mating cavity and connecting legs. The terminal module is received in the main body. The sealing member is filled in a gap between the terminal module and main body to seal the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chun-Chieh Yang, Zhi-Hui Zhu, Qin-Xin Cao
  • Patent number: 9705254
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided comprising a female member configured to couple with male member. The female member includes a female receptacle having an opening, and a female electrode is at least partially disposed within the female receptacle. A resilient member is configured to enhance electrical connection between the female electrode and a male connector electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: TRAXXAS LP
    Inventors: Jon Kenneth Lampert, Serlaathan Hariharesan, Brock Dennison
  • Patent number: 9698536
    Abstract: A receptacle connector mounted to the printed circuit board, includes an insulative housing defining a mating tongue and a metallic shell enclosing the housing to form a mating cavity in which said mating tongue forwardly extends. A complementary plug connector includes a shell with a bull-nose tip. A metallic piece is mounted around a root of the mating tongue and equipped with a plurality of spring tangs to contact the relatively rigid bull-nose tip of the shell of the complementary connector for EMI/RFI protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Stephen Sedio, Chih-Pi Cheng, Yuan Zhang, De-Cheng Zou, An-Jen Yang
  • Patent number: 9692144
    Abstract: An electric connector (10) includes a first connector seat (1) and a second connector seat (2). The first connector seat (1) has plural cable clamps (11), and each cable clamp (11) includes a pair of U-shaped rods (12). Each pair of U-shaped rods (12) has a pocket (121), two inner sides (122), and two outer sides (123). The two inner sides (122) have plural cable fixing slots (124), and the cable fixing slots (124) have a slot width (h) tapered towards the first connector seat (1). The second connector seat (2) has plural pins (21), and each pin (21) is passed and coupled to each pocket (121).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignees: KUNSHAN AMPHENOL ZHENGRI ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., AMPHENOL LTW TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jen-Yuan Hung