Patents Examined by Travis Chambers
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Patent number: 10185844Abstract: A security device for preventing the use of a data sending/receiving component having a connector and positioned in a computer housing includes a locking member. The locking member has a sidewall defining an interior space. A plurality of tabs extends from the sidewall towards an end of the locking member. The tabs are deflectable relative to the sidewall. The tabs of the locking member have a deflected condition in which the tabs extend a first angle from the sidewall to allow for movement of the locking member into the data sending/receiving component in a first direction and an installed condition in which the tabs extend a second angle greater than the first angle to prevent removal of the locking member from the data sending/receiving component. The locking member is incapable of returning to the deflected condition once in the installed condition by accessing the end of the locking member.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Tom Flynn, Christoph Graham
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Patent number: 10186469Abstract: A clamping component is provided to clamp a chip module, which has a circuit board and a protruding portion protruding upward from an upper surface thereof. In a left-right direction, a width of a first region from a left side of the circuit board to a left side of the protruding portion is greater than that of a second region from a right side of the circuit board to a right side of the protruding portion. Two abutting surfaces respectively abut the left and the right sides of the circuit board. A stopping block is located at a left side of an opening, and extends rightward to the left side of the protruding portion and beyond the left side of the circuit board. When the chip module is installed in the clamping component and the circuit board abuts the abutting surfaces, the stopping block is located above the first region.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: LOTES CO., LTDInventors: Gui Bin Lin, Ji Xiao Yu
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Patent number: 10177513Abstract: A bus bar includes a conductive portion with a first face and an opposed second face. The first face and second face extend between a first edge and a second edge. The bus bar includes an insulation surrounding the conductive portion. The insulation includes a cut out where a portion of the insulation is removed to expose a terminal on the bus bar. The terminal includes part of the first face of the bus bar and part of the second face of the bus bar. The terminal is located between the first edge and the second edge of the bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: LEAR CorporationInventors: Michael Glick, Bhupinder Rangi, David Menzies, Lewis Galligan, Imad Beydoun
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Patent number: 10177482Abstract: In a connector, a connector housing includes a terminal accommodating chamber in which a female terminal is to be accommodated, an elastic locking piece configured to lock the female terminal accommodated in the terminal accommodating chamber, and a wall surface. A male terminal insertion hole and a male terminal release hole are formed in the wall surface. A male terminal of a counterpart connector is to be inserted into the male terminal insertion hole so as to be connected to the female terminal, when a fitting operation between the connector and the counterpart connector is performed in a regular fitting posture. The male terminal is to enter the male terminal release hole, when the fitting operation is performed in an irregular fitting posture. The male terminal release hole forms a space which is continuous from the wall surface to the elastic locking piece.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Yazaki CorporationInventor: Naoki Takamura
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Patent number: 10164365Abstract: A female terminal downsized in a male terminal-inserting direction. A terminal body has a reception portion, for receiving a male terminal. A first and second spring portions are arranged to be opposed to each other so as to sandwich the male terminal inserted into the reception portion from an inlet portion thereof. The first spring portion has a first and second contact points brought into contact with the sale terminal in the reception portion. The second spring portion has a third contact point brought into contact with the stale terminal in the reception portion. The third contact point is between the first and second, contact points in the male terminal-inserting direction. The first contact point is in the inlet portion of the reception portion, and the second contact point is at a more inward location in the reception portion than the first contact point.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Osamu Hashiguchi
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Patent number: 10135187Abstract: A plug connector includes a locking member of the plug having extension bases fixed to a second plug housing and cantilever extensions extending from the respective extension bases in the direction of a plugging operation. The cantilever extensions each have an engaged hole to receive corresponding one of protrusions protruded from a receptacle housing. The cantilever extensions are each resilient enough to bend in the protruding direction of the corresponding protrusion. A releasing member allows the protrusions to relatively move in the directions of plugging and unplugging operations. When the releasing member is slid relative to the second plug housing, the releasing member bends the cantilever extensions in the protruding directions of the respective protrusions and thereby release engagement of the protrusions with the engaged holes.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasuaki Fukumoto
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Patent number: 10135201Abstract: A connector cover module adapted to be disposed on a connector on a mother board is provided. The connector cover module includes a cover body and at least one light guide bar. The cover body includes a top surface, a plurality of lateral surfaces, and at least one arm extending from one of the lateral surfaces and bending outward to form an accommodating groove. The light guide bar is disposed beside one of the lateral surfaces, held by the arms, and located in the accommodating groove bent and formed by the arms. A cover body is further provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Chih-Ming Lai, Yung-Shun Kao
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Patent number: 10128600Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a connection terminal and a connector. The connection terminal comprises a terminal body, a plug-in part, and a stop part. The plug-in part is disposed at an axial front end of the terminal body and extends along an axial direction of the terminal body to enable a plug-fit with a mating terminal. The stop part is disposed at an axial front end of the terminal body for stopping the connection terminal from a continued forward insertion when the connection terminal is mounted in place in a connector housing. The stop part extends along a radial direction of the terminal body and is arranged to be stop-fittable with a rear end of the plug-in part along the axial direction of the terminal body. The connection terminal according to the present disclosure has a simplified structure with good processability and high mechanical strength.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiaopeng Yu, Weidong Zhang
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Patent number: 10111469Abstract: Electronic cigarettes may include an electronic cigarette, and a replaceable vaporizer assembly. Electronic cigarette may include an electronic cigarette body, and a replaceable vaporizer assembly. In certain embodiments, the electronic cigarette body may include a mouthpiece, an E-liquid storage tank, an E-liquid refill cap, a mounting ring, a connector, and a vaporizer mounting base having an internal thread. The replaceable vaporizer assembly may include an external thread of a vaporizer assembly base. The replaceable vaporizer assembly may be replaced by removing the mouthpiece, unscrewing the replaceable vaporizer assembly to detach the external thread of the vaporizer assembly base from the internal thread of the vaporizer mounting base, pulling up the replaceable vaporizer assembly, replacing a new replaceable vaporizer assembly, and reinstalling the mouthpiece back in place. The electronic cigarette includes a top adjustable air intake.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: SHENZHEN KANGER TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Xiaochun Zhu
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Patent number: 10084264Abstract: Electrical connector includes a connector body having a front side configured to engage a first electrical component and a mounting side configured to engage a second electrical component. The electrical connector also includes a plurality of signal conductors extending through the connector body. The signal conductors include mating interfaces and mounting interfaces that are positioned for engaging the first and second electrical components, respectively. The electrical connector also includes a ground structure extending generally parallel to and between two of the signal conductors. The connector body has a resonance-control surface that faces the ground structure. The resonance-control surface is shaped to include alternating distal and proximal areas. The proximal areas are closer to the ground structure than the distal areas.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Xingling Zhou, Timothy Robert Minnick
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Patent number: 10079448Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a first connector having a mating portion and a rear portion; a cable connected with the first connector; and a seizing structure bundling the cable. The seizing structure includes a metal wire wrapping the cable, a middle insulative layer cladding the metal wire, and an outer insulative layer wrapping the middle insulative layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDInventors: Wen-Feng Lv, Dou-Feng Wu, Xiao-Li Li, Chien-Hsun Huang
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Patent number: 10079440Abstract: An electrical terminal having a contact portion, a wire termination portion and a transition portion. The contact portion is configured to receive a mating terminal along a mating axis. The wire termination portion defines a wire termination axis that intersects the mating axis. The transition portion extends between the contact portion and the wire termination portion. The transition portion extends parallel to the mating axis and the wire termination axis. An engagement section extends at an angle from the transition portion. The engagement section has a push surface intersecting the mating axis. Wherein a force can be applied to the push surface to mate the contact portion with the mating terminal.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Edward Didonato, David Tracy Humphrey, Raymond L. Landon, III
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Patent number: 10074948Abstract: A power receptacle with a housing having an inwardly extending chamber, the inwardly extending chamber having a depth dimension that is between 0.5 inches and 5 inches, more typically between 1 and 5 inches, sized and configured to releasably receive a portable power supply inside the chamber. The housing includes an internal electrical charging interface. When the portable power supply is in the chamber, the portable power supply electrically engages the electrical charging interface to thereby charge the portable power supply. The receptacles can be in-wall or in-floor units. The housings can be a “custom” housing size and/or may be configured to occupy a single gang box or a compartment of a multi-gang junction box.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power LimitedInventors: Rahul Natwar Goyal, Pramod Kumar
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Patent number: 10050375Abstract: An electrical connector for downhole well equipment has a housing having a cavity. A rigid rearward insulator is sealed within the cavity, the rearward insulator having a rearward insulator passage. An electrical conductor has an insulation layer and extends in a forward direction into the rearward insulator passage. An electrical connector terminal joins to a tip of the conductor. The insulation layer has a forward end spaced rearward from the connector terminal, defining an exposed portion of the conductor between the forward end of the insulation layer and the connector terminal. A grommet of resilient electrical insulation material within the rearward insulator passage has a grommet passage with a forward passage portion extending around the connector terminal and an intermediate passage portion sealing around the exposed portion. The grommet has an outer surface in sealing engagement with the rearward insulator passage.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLCInventors: Ryan Semple, David Tanner
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Patent number: 10050376Abstract: According an aspect of the invention, a connector includes a housing that includes a fitting portion having an outer periphery to which a cylindrical counterpart fitting portion of a counterpart connector is loosely fitted, a ring-shaped packing that includes a main body that is formed of an elastic member and is externally inserted in a tightly fitted manner to the outer periphery of the fitting portion so as to water-tightly seal a space between the fitting portion and the counterpart fitting portion, a ring-shaped resin ring portion that is provided at a base end of the packing, is formed of resin having a higher rigidity than the main body, and is locked to an engagement portion provided in the housing, and a notch portion that is provided in a part of an inner periphery of the resin ring portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Shogo Suzuki, Kenichi Kawashima
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Patent number: 10050394Abstract: A resilient conductive contact spring is bent to define at least three tulip-shaped receptacles for receiving conductive devices that are to be electrically connected together by the contact spring. The contact spring can be included in a socket arrangement for connecting an electrical component mounted within a housing with a bus bar power supply system arranged outside the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Inventors: Stefan Aporius, Bernd Van Giesen
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Patent number: 10044140Abstract: Cabling arrangements or associated components can be provided that use plugs and sockets for connection. A locking mechanism can secure a plug in a seated configuration in a socket. A handle may be operable to disengage the locking mechanism, for example, to facilitate removal of the plug from the socket. A tab can be provided that is configured for detachably coupling with the handle. The tab can be configured to detach from the handle in response to a detachment force exerted on the tab that is less than a disengagement force that is sufficient when exerted on the handle to disengage the locking mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Paolo Gianrossi, Kevin Patrick Windsor
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Patent number: 10027149Abstract: Electrical charging device chassis and cases are provided herein. An example device includes a chassis for a computer, the chassis having a sidewall extending perpendicularly from the chassis, the chassis being configured to enclose computer components of the computer, the computer components having an energy storage device, the chassis comprising an electrical connector that extends from the sidewall. The device also includes a circuit mounted on the chassis that charges the energy storage device when the electrical connector is coupled with a power source.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Inventor: William J. Warren
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Patent number: 10027071Abstract: Cable connection device for connecting a power cable to an electrical installation of a power network, comprising a conductor element having a first end portion, a second end portion, and a middle portion disposed between the first and the second end portion. The conductor element comprises a connector socket arranged at the first end portion, for mating with a cable plug. The connector socket is integrally formed with the middle portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Inventors: Mark Gravermann, Friedrich A. Busemann, Gerhard Lohmeier, Jens Weichold, Bernd Schubert, Giuliano Bolcato, Werner Roehling, Michael Petry
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Patent number: 10027065Abstract: An electrical connector with an edge protective structure is provided, which includes a shielding housing and a tongue board module. The shielding housing has a receiving space for receiving the tongue board module therein. The tongue board module has an insulated retaining member, a protection board and a plurality of terminals. The insulated retaining member has a front edge and two side edges. The insulated retaining member has a slit, which passes through the front edge and extends toward the two side edges. The protection board is disposed in the slit. The terminals include at least two elongated terminals and at least two shortened terminals. The elongated terminals are used to transmit power or to ground. The protection board has a protrusive edge, which is protruded outside the front edge of the insulated retaining member and is exposed to an outside of the two side edges.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: BELLWETHER ELECTRONIC CORPInventor: Hsing-Yu Lee