Patents Examined by Travis Chambers
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Patent number: 9056536Abstract: An electrical connector plug configured for use with tractor-trailers has an elongated housing having a hollow interior. A female electrical connector is coupled to a first end of the housing. An electrical cable is coupled to a second end of the housing. A ridge member is formed on a top surface of the housing. A collar is movable along a length of the housing. A locking mechanism is used to secure the collar at different lengths on the housing. A handle is hingly coupled to the collar to disengage the electrical connector plug from an electrical connector.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Inventor: Albert Bartoli
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Patent number: 9054450Abstract: A connector adapted to: (a) extend through an opening in a board to protrude from both a top surface of the board and a bottom surface of the board, (b) secure the connector to the board, and (c) electrically connect a power supply to a terminal on the board. The connector includes a housing having: (a) a leg section, (b) a head section at a first end of the leg section of the housing, and (c) a receiving recess at a second end of the leg section adapted to receive the power supply board. This connector also includes an elastically deformable retainer piece having: a) a cantilever spring section fixed at a first end to the leg section of the housing and adapted to be below the bottom surface of the board, and (b) an apex section at a second end of the cantilever spring section adapted to bear against the bottom surface of the board. This connector further includes an elastically deformable contact protruding from the head section of the housing adapted to contact the terminal of the board.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Taisuke Nagasaki, Hirokazu Kato
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Patent number: 9055684Abstract: A contact piece of a gold finger comprises: a first main body segment; a second main body segment; and a transition segment connected to the first main body segment and the second main body segment, respectively, in a vertical direction, in which an upper edge and a lower edge of the transition segment are inclined with respect to a lateral direction respectively. A gold finger and a connector comprising the same are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignees: Shenzhen BYD Auto R&D Company Limited, BYD Company LimitedInventors: Bingbin Xie, Daocheng Pang
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Patent number: 9053837Abstract: A guarded coaxial cable assembly includes a micro-coaxial cable and an adjacent structure for protecting the micro-coaxial cable.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Holland Electronics, LLCInventor: Michael Holland
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Patent number: 9048602Abstract: A cover for an electronic device is provided that may include a connector housing integrally molded with the cover. The connector housing may define a cavity configured to receive a connector plug therein, and a plurality of connector springs may be configured to contact the connector plug when the connector plug occupies the cavity. The plurality of springs may be protected and, as such, may not be visible when the cover is removed from the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Kari Ensio Seitz, Jari R. Kytöläinen, Petri Ihalainen, Pasi Hyttinen, Jarmo Ketko, Michaela Reuscher, Andreas Fromel, Ralf Beck
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Patent number: 9048554Abstract: An electrical connector for use with a circuit board including an insulating housing used to be fixed to a circuit board, a plurality of signal contacts arranged on the insulating housing along a longitudinal direction of the same, at least one ground contact provided in an arrangement of the signal contacts on the insulating housing, and a conductive shell member provided for covering partially a portion of the insulating housing and to be connected with a grounding portion of the circuit board, wherein the conductive shell member has a ground connecting reed-like portion formed thereon so as to correspond to the ground contact and both of the ground connecting reed-like portion of the conductive shell member and the ground contact are connected by means of soldering with the grounding portion of the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Dai-Ichi Seiko Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tetsuya Tagawa, Masatoshi Takemoto
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Patent number: 9048579Abstract: A lever (4) mounted on a cover (3) is held at a standby position and, in that state, the cover (3) is fitted to a housing (1) in a connecting direction to a position where the cover (3) is not aligned with the housing (1). At this position, gear teeth of the lever (4) and rack teeth of sliders (2) do not interfere with each other and are not engaged. If the cover (3) is subsequently moved in a direction perpendicular to the connecting direction via a guiding action of the engagement of guide receiving portions (9) of the connector housing (1) and U-shaped guide portions (15) formed on the cover (3), the cover (3) is smoothly mounted at a proper mounting position. At this time, since the guide portions (15) vertically sandwich the guide receiving portions (9), upward detachment of the cover (3) is prevented.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Itou, Takao Hata, Tomohiko Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9048561Abstract: A waterproof structure for a connector includes a housing, a shield wire, a shield terminal, a first packing, and a second packing. The housing has a tubular housing part. The shield wire passes through the inside of the tubular housing part and extends from the housing. The shield terminal has a first section, a second section and a third section. The first section and the second section get into the tubular housing part such that the shield wire passes through the inside of the shield terminal, the first section joints with a braided shield wire of the shield wire, and the third section protrudes from the tubular housing part. The first packing seals a gap between the second section of the shield terminal and the tubular housing part. The second packing seals a gap between the shield wire and the third section of the shield terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Koichi Nakamura, Yuji Arita, Toru Suzuki
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Patent number: 9033729Abstract: A connector assembly for mounting to a panel includes a cap connector having a cap housing, a cap terminal block held in the cap housing and holding a plurality of cap terminals and a mounting clip coupled to the cap housing to secure the cap housing to the panel. The cap housing has an inner shroud, an inner flange surrounding the inner shroud and an outer flange extending outward from the inner flange. The inner flange has panel retention features extending therefrom. The inner shroud is loaded through an opening in the panel until the panel retention features engage the panel and temporarily secure the cap housing to the panel between the panel retention features and the outer flange. The mounting clip is coupled to the cap housing to secure the cap housing to the panel between the mounting clip and the outer flange.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: David Allen Klein, Rohan Narang, Kevin John Peterson, Robert Daniel Irlbeck, Ronald Louis Marion
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Patent number: 9033740Abstract: High-speed interposer connectors that may be space-efficient, reliable, and may be readily manufactured. One example may provide an interposer connector that may be particularly space-efficient in a vertical direction by using an interposer to form an electrical connection between conductors and a main-logic board or other appropriate substrate. Another example may provide a reliable connection between conductors and a main-logic board by using fasteners to fix an interposer to the main-logic board. Another example may provide connectors that are well-suited to handling high-speed signals by providing a shield to at least partially cover a top of an interposer connector.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Erik J. Shahoian
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Patent number: 9028276Abstract: A jumper sleeve configured to be installed on an outer side of a male F-connector to facilitate easy connection of and maintain ground continuity across the male F-connector and a female F-connector. In one embodiment, a conductive element is installed on an inner surface of the jumper sleeve and conductively engages an outer surface of the male F-connector to maintain ground continuity across the male and female F-connectors.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: PCT International, Inc.Inventors: Brandon Wilson, Paul Sterkeson, Timothy L. Youtsey
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Patent number: 9022800Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulator base having a rear retaining portion and a front tongue portion, a first terminal module with a plurality of first terminals thereof, a second terminal module with a plurality of second terminals thereof and interlocked with the first terminal module, and a shielding shell retained to the insulator base. A heat dissipation metal plate is embedded in the insulator base, and the heat dissipation metal plate provides a contact ear extending out of the insulator base and contacting with the shielding shell for heat dissipating.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: An-Jen Yang, Terrance F. Little
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Patent number: 9017092Abstract: An electronic connector includes a base, a tapered extension protruding from the base, and a nose forming a terminal end of the tapered extension. The tapered extension includes first and second connection faces tapering toward each other from the base to the nose symmetrically about a first symmetry plane. The tapered extension further includes first and second flank surfaces that form respective opposing sides of the tapered extension between the first and second connection faces. The first and second flank surfaces may taper toward each other from the base to the nose symmetrically about a second symmetry plane. The tapered extension further includes a set of electrical contacts located along the first and second connection faces. The electronic connector may further include one or more magnetically attractable elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Ivan Andrew McCracken, Duane Martin Evans, Brett Tomky
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Patent number: 9017099Abstract: An instrument box and a terminal block including a resin housing and a bus bar are provided. The resin housing has a housing body fixed to a box wall surface; and a bus bar housing formed integrally with the housing body and inserted into an insertion hole of the box wall surface. The bus bar has a bus bar body inserted into the insertion hole with fitted in the resin housing and housed in the bus bar housing; a first terminal connecting portion on one side of the bus bar body to connect with the cable terminal end outside the instrument box; and a second terminal connecting portion on another side of the bus bar body to connect with the terminal inside the instrument box.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventors: Tomohiro Ikeda, Yoshinobu Furuya, Kiyotaka Hanaoka, Takahiko Okumura
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Patent number: 9004954Abstract: An electrical connection assembly includes a first connector which includes a first electrical contact surrounded by a first connector wall defining a first connector cavity. The first connector wall includes a plurality of ribs extending into the first connector cavity. A second connector is matable with the first connector along a mating axis and includes a second electrical contact in electrical communication with the first electrical contact when the first connector is mated with the second connector. The second connector includes a second connector body surrounding the second electrical contact.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ronald A. Baldwin, Christopher Adrian Margrave
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Patent number: 9004935Abstract: A safety plug device that is disposed in a high-voltage battery to interrupt power supply. The device includes a female housing, a male housing, and a grip part. The female housing includes a terminal part and the male housing is equipped with a fuse and is removably coupled to the female housing. The grip part is slidable on the male housing in forward and backward directions, is simultaneously coupled to the male housing in a vertical direction, and is equipped with an interlock pin connected to an interlock connector at a rear end thereof. In particular, the grip part slides forward to release the interlock pin and to be coupled to the male housing, to allow the grip part and the male housing to be removed in an upward direction to interrupt the power supply.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Hae Kyu Lim
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Patent number: 8998642Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a daughter card connector formed of a plurality of wafers. Each wafer is formed with cavities between the contacts of the signal conductors. The cavities are shaped to receive lossy inserts whereby crosstalk is reduced. The connector system may also or alternatively include a front housing formed with shield plates also to aid in reducing cross-talk. The front housing is adapted to mate between the wafers of the daughter card connector and a backplane connector of the electrical connector system. In an alternative embodiment, the front housing portion may include lossy conductive portions for cross-talk reduction.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: David Paul Manter, Thomas S. Cohen
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Patent number: 8998657Abstract: An electrical connection device has a first end and a second end configured to be electrically coupled to a first conductor and a second conductor. A pair of conductive elements are arranged between the first end and the second end and configured for engagement with the first and second conductors. The conductive elements include a respective flat segment and a bent segment. The bent segments define an opening in which one of the first and second conductors are configured to be received. The bent segments include a number of corners configured to engage opposing sides of the one of the first and second conductors at a number of discrete points along at least a portion of the length of the at least one first and second conductors.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Reliance Controls CorporationInventors: Kurt Von Eckroth, Neil A. Czarnecki
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Patent number: 8992241Abstract: A flex circuit blind attachment apparatus is provided and includes a plate, a fastening member affixable to the plate and configured to draw the plate toward and away from a circuit board and jaws supportively disposed on the plate. The jaws are configured to be opened with the plate being drawn toward the circuit board such that a pin of a flex connector to be connected to the circuit board is released by the jaws following disconnection of the flex connector and the circuit board. The jaws are also configured to capture the pin with the plate being drawn away from the circuit board prior to connection of the flex connector and the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert R. Genest, John J. Loparco, John G. Torok, Wade White
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Patent number: RE45456Abstract: An elongate electrical conductor (2) is disclosed that is adapted for electrically connecting with an electrical contact, the conductor (2) includes a longitudinally extending elongate body (61) for defining a first contact surface (62); and a plurality of longitudinally spaced apart ribs (66) that extend from the body (61) to respective free ends (67) that are spaced apart from the first contact surface (62) for allowing the contact to be progressed between the body (61) and one or more of the ribs (66), each rib (66) including a respective second contact surface (68) that is opposed with the first surface (62) wherein, upon progression of the contact between the body (61) and the one or more ribs (66), the first surface (62) and the respective one or more second surfaces (68) are resiliently biased into engagement with the contact.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Power & Data Corporation Pty Ltd.Inventors: John Ashton Sinclair, Jaroslav Emil Haba, Kevin Truskett, Jeffrey Allan Jackson