Patents Examined by Renee S. Luebke
  • Electrical connection support assembly and method of use
    Patent number: 10958212
    Abstract: An assembly to electrically attach equipment is provided. The assembly may include a junction box and the equipment may include solar panels. The junction box may include a housing with side openings through which interconnecting conductors may pass through and into an inner cavity within the box. The housing also may include bottom openings through which conductors from the solar panel may pass through and into the inner cavity within the box. Within the cavity, the junction box may include flat conductive plates to which the ends of the conductors are electrically connected. In this way, a set of junction boxes may be used to electrically connect a group of solar panels in series. Each junction box may also include a diode configured between its flat conductive plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventor: Frank C Pao
  • Tamper resistant mechanism for electrical wiring devices
    Patent number: 10958009
    Abstract: Tamper resistant cartridges for electrical devices are provided. The tamper resistant cartridges include a housing and one or more tamper resistant assemblies configured to normally block access to electrical contacts with the electrical device, and to permit access to such electrical contacts when the line phase prongs of a plug are inserted into the electrical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: HUBBELL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Mark Anthony Mozdzer, Thomas L. Scanzillo, Edward Bazayev, Jason Zachary Walker
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 10944196
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body and multiple conductive terminals. Each conductive terminal has: a main body portion; an elastic arm bending and extending upward from the main body portion; a through slot running through the elastic arm, forming a first elastic arm and a second elastic arm at two opposite sides thereof; and a contact portion bending and extending upward from the elastic arm. A width of the first elastic arm is greater than a width of the second elastic arm. The contact portion defines a virtual center line along an extending direction thereof. A gap between an inner side wall of the first elastic arm on a side thereof adjacent to the through slot and the center line is smaller than a gap between an inner side wall of the second elastic arm on a side thereof adjacent to the through slot and the center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Zi Sheng Ou
  • Device housing for an electrical device
    Patent number: 10938146
    Abstract: Various embodiments include device housing for an electrical device comprising: an inner housing with a first lower shell and a first upper shell; and an outer housing with a second lower shell and a second upper shell. There is a cable insertion opening defined by a cable seating profile in the first lower shell and a flush cable cover profile in the first upper shell for a cable routed to the device; a clamping body retained by the inner housing; and a friction and/or form-fitting contact between the clamping body and the cable can be effected by means of the outer housing when the clamping body is pressed onto an outer surface of the cable by the upper shell of the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Severin Wattenhofer, Hideki Ito, Felix Schilter
  • Reversible cable assembly connector
    Patent number: 10938155
    Abstract: Connectors or connector assemblies include first and second latching members attached to a housing thereof for latching the connector to a mating connector are provided. When the connector mates with the mating connector in a first/second mating orientation, the first/second latching member, but not the second/first latching member latches the connector to the mating connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Kok Hoe Lee, Saujit Bandhu
  • High-frequency electrical connector
    Patent number: 10931050
    Abstract: An electrical connector with improved high frequency performance. The connector has conductive elements, forming both signal and ground conductors, that have multiple points of contact distributed along an elongated dimension. The ground conductors may be formed with multiple beams of different length. The signal conductors may be formed with multiple contact regions on a single beam, with different characteristics. Signal conductors may have beams that are jogged to provide both a desired impedance and mating contact pitch. Additionally, electromagnetic radiation, inside and/or outside the connector may be shaped with an insert electrically connecting multiple ground structures and/or a contact feature coupling ground conductors to a stiffener. The conductive elements in different columns may be shaped differently to reduce crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas S. Cohen
  • Board-to-board connector and board-to-board connector assembly
    Patent number: 10931044
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a board-to-board connector including a body, multiple terminals and a pair of metal fittings. The body has an accommodating recess. The terminal is disposed on the body and a portion of each of the terminals extends to the accommodating recess. The metal fittings are disposed on the body and beside the accommodating recess. The terminals are located between metal fittings. Each of the metal fittings has at least one limiting portion that extends to the accommodating recess. The limiting portion leans against a corner of the accommodating recess so that the metal fittings and the body generate a two-dimensional limitation. A board-to-board connector assembly is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ta-Teh Meng, Mei Shi, Ya-Ping Liang, Wen-Liang Men, Zheng Li, Ping Shi, Meng Liu, Bo-Wen Xu, Jia-Ying Wu, Hsin-Yu Chang
  • Female connecting member, male connecting member, and mobile terminal
    Patent number: 10923852
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a female connecting member, a male connecting member, an adapter, a mobile terminal, and an electronic equipment. The female connecting member has a first end face. The first end face has a first groove. The first groove is defined by a first side face and a first bottom face encompassed by the first side face. The first side face is provided with N conductive rings along a depth direction of the first groove, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignees: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Maozhao Huang, Zimei Yang
  • Rail terminal assembling structure
    Patent number: 10910737
    Abstract: A rail terminal assembling structure includes a protection member formed with an assembling passage defined by a contact side section, a connection side section and two lateral sections. The connection side section has a first locating section, an elastic locating section and a second locating section. An end section of a conductive plate extends into the assembling passage and securely attached to the contact side section. A metal leaf spring has a first section, a second section and an elastic bight section connected between the first and second sections. The first section has a first located section and an insertion section. When the first section extends into the assembling passage and the first section elastically pushes/presses the elastic locating section until the insertion section reaches the elastic locating section, the elastic locating section is elastically engaged with the insertion section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignees: Switchlab Inc., Switchlab (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Wu, Wei-Chi Chen, Ming-Shan Tai
  • Electrical connector
    Patent number: 10903603
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector comprising a first connector portion, a second connector portion and a locking mechanism, wherein the first connector portion has a first electrical contact element and at least one magnet, and wherein the second connector portion has a second electrical contact element and at least one second magnet with a polarity which is reversed in relation to the first magnet, wherein the first and the second contact element are designed to establish an electrical connection between the first and the second connector portion for power and/or data transmission, and wherein the locking mechanism is of self-locking design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: ROSENBERGER HOCHFREQUENZTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Folke Michelmann, Markus Schichl, Herbert Wurm
  • Connector with upper and lower covers
    Patent number: 10892582
    Abstract: A connector includes a terminal configured to be connected to a wire, a plate-like housing has a terminal accommodating portion configured to accommodate the terminal, the housing having a ceiling wall portion that blocks an upper of a front portion of the terminal accommodating portion and an opening portion which is opened at an upper of a rear portion of the terminal accommodating portion, and a cover configured to cover the opening portion of the terminal accommodating portion when the cover is assembled to the housing. A protruding portion is provided on a front end portion of the cover. The protruding portion presses the terminal located in a primary locking position forward in the front-rear direction to move the terminal from the primary locking position to a regular insertion position when the cover is assembled to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Kawashima, Keiichiro Kurashige
  • Membrane keyboard structure and conductive method of same
    Patent number: 10804050
    Abstract: A membrane keyboard structure and a conductive method thereof allows a first surrounding portion of a first flexible circuit layer to be deformed to pass through an through hole to be in direct contact and conduction with a second surrounding portion temporarily when it is pressed through the coordination of a first flexible sheet body, first flexible circuit layer configured on the first flexible sheet body, spacer layer positioned on one side of the first flexible sheet body adjacent to the first flexible circuit layer, second flexible sheet body configured on one side of the spacer away from the first flexible circuit layer and second flexible circuit layer configured on one side of the second flexible sheet body adjacent to the spacer layer. Whereby, the present invention can achieve the contact and conduction anywhere to make the use thereof easier and more convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Inventor: Jen-Wen Sun
  • Connector with reduced components
    Patent number: 10763611
    Abstract: The connector includes: at least one contact; a housing to which the contact is arranged; a shell formed into a cylindrical shape inside of which the housing is disposed; and a joining member formed of a resin material; wherein the housing and the contact form an integral unit by means of the joining member, and the joining member is closely fitted within an inner surface of the shell or the joining member is integrally coupled to the inner surface of the shell. Thus, the number of components of the connector can be reduced but the manufacturing flexibility thereof can be increased and the connector can be easily miniaturized and manufactured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kenichi Toda
  • Holding frame for a heavy plug-type connector
    Patent number: 10756475
    Abstract: A holding frame for a heavy plug-type connector can receive identical and/or different plug-type connector modules. The holding frame comprises a main body which has two side parts which lie opposite one another, and at least one fixing clip which is held at least on a side part, and by way of which the plug-type connector modules can be fixed within the main body. The at least one fixing clip has at least one holding arm which moves parallel to the plane of the side parts during the introduction of a plug-type connector module into the holding frame. As a result, plug-type connector modules can be introduced into the holding frame particularly simply and even in the installed state of said holding frame. At the same time, the holding frame variant which is shown here is more stable than the previously known holding frames which have the same functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andre Tiemann, Heiko Meier, Jörg Ziegenhahn, Andre Beneke
  • Laser weld coaxial connector and interconnection method
    Patent number: 10431909
    Abstract: A coaxial connector, the coaxial connector interconnectable with a coaxial cable by a process including providing a connector body with a bore; inserting a leading end of the coaxial cable into the bore from a cable end of the connector body, and laser welding between the outer conductor and the connector body from a connector end of the connector body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ronald A. Vaccaro, Kendrick Van Swearingen, James P. Fleming, James J. Wlos, Nahid Islam
  • Control panel for vehicle and method for manufacturing such control panel
    Patent number: 10367503
    Abstract: A control panel and method of making a control panel for a dashboard of a passenger compartment of a vehicle. The control panel includes a trim element, a support element and a piezoelectric film. The trim element includes at least one control area. The piezoelectric film extends between the trim element and the support element. The support element has at least one recess facing the control area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: FAURECIA INTERIEUR INDUSTRIE
    Inventor: Omar Ben Abdelaziz
  • Electrical connector with plug and socket
    Patent number: 10361512
    Abstract: There is provided a connector in which a plug is put to a socket in any rotational direction around an axis and is guided to a normal position smoothly hereby providing proper connection with a simple structure. On opposite surfaces of the plug and the socket, there are provided a tilted cam surface and a cam follower with which the plug and the socket are slidably contacted to each other, rotated and positioned in a rotational direction around the axis when the plug is fitted onto the socket axially. At the center of one of the opposite surface of the plug and the socket, a pin-receiving hole is formed, and a center pin at the center of the other fits into the pin-receiving hole before the tilted cam surface comes in contact with the cam follower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: WITCO OF JUPITER DENTSU CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshiyuki Seido
  • Removable switching element for an electrical switching device and switching device for switching an electric current comprising such a removable element
    Patent number: 10361042
    Abstract: A removable switching element for switching an electric current for an electrical switching device includes a housing; first and second fixed electrical conductors; a mobile electrical conductor that can be moved between a first position, in which the mobile electrical conductor electrically connects the first and second fixed electrical conductors; and a second position, in which the mobile electrical conductor is electrically isolated from the first and second fixed electrical conductors. The housing includes two windows passing therethrough, one being located facing an area of contact between the mobile conductor and the first fixed electrical conductor and the other being located facing an area of contact between the mobile conductor and the second fixed electrical conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventor: Patrick Comtois
  • Rotary control system for a device
    Patent number: 10345849
    Abstract: This rotary control system for a device includes a rotary control member, rotationally mobile about a first fixed axis, between first and second positions, and a rotary control handle, intended to be secured in rotation with the rotary member about the first axis. It also includes a blocking device, that can be selectively moved, when the rotary member is in its first position, between a blocking configuration, in which it prevents the movement of the rotary member to its second position, and a release configuration, wherein the movement of the rotary member to its second position. This system further includes a locking plate, rotationally mobile about the first axis relative to the rotary member, when the rotary member is in its first position, between a locking position, in which a first orifice passing through the rotary member is superposed with a second orifice passing through the locking plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Daniel Sinthomez, Florent Pitis
  • Keyboard switch
    Patent number: 10325734
    Abstract: A keyboard switch includes a key top movable vertically on receiving a depressing force, a plunger engaged with a lower portion of the key top and movable vertically with the key top, a cup rubber disposed under the plunger and supporting the plunger from below, a housing arranged on an outer peripheral side of the plunger and cup rubber, a plate supported on the housing and extending laterally, and a spacer interposed between the plate and key top. The spacer is removably mounted onto the keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: TOPRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Iijima