Patents Examined by Travis Chambers
  • Patent number: 9887485
    Abstract: A ruggedized electrical connector that includes a shell that has an interface front side and an opposite rear side for mounting on a printed circuit board. An interface sealing member is coupled to the interface front side of the shell. The interface sealing member substantially covers the interface front side of the shell for preventing contaminants from passing externally around the shell. A contact subassembly is received in the shell and includes a plurality of contacts and a housing supporting the contacts. Each of the contacts has an interface end and a tail end. The interface ends are arranged in a mating platform extending from the housing toward the front side of said shell for engaging a mating connector. An internal sealing member is coupled around the housing for preventing contaminants from passing internally though the shell. A rear shield is coupled to the rear side of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Kent Harold Lambie, John Mark Pahulje, Jun Cao, Adrian Green
  • Patent number: 9882303
    Abstract: A modular electrical connector assembly and method of assembly. The modular electrical connector assembly includes a first housing, a second housing and a third housing. The first housing has first electrical contacts inserted therein. The first housing has first contact isolation walls positioned between adjacent first electrical contacts. The second housing has second electrical contacts inserted therein. The second housing has second contact isolation walls positioned between adjacent second electrical contacts. The third housing has a first opening for positioning the first housing therein and a second opening for positioning the second housing therein. The third housing has third contact isolation walls. Respective first contact isolation walls, second contact isolation walls and third contact isolation walls align to provide separation between adjacent first electrical contacts and separation between adjacent second electrical contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Guadalupe Chalas, John Wesley Hall
  • Patent number: 9877514
    Abstract: A vaporizer comprising a mouthpiece and battery. The mouthpiece preferably includes an upper chamber and a lower chamber separated by a small distance and providing an air pathway through the length of the mouthpiece, and a cooling liquid surrounding a portion of the lower chamber. Electrically connected to the battery is a pan that includes a heating element that heats the top surface of the pan to a desired temperature for vaporizing, but not combusting, a substance desired to be inhaled. A pan protector, made of an insulating material, surrounds the sides of the pan to prevent injury to a user. The vaporizer further includes a controller for ensuring that the pan is heated only to a pre-selected temperature sufficient to vaporize, but not combust, the chosen substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Cloud V Enterprises
    Inventor: Vahan Eksouzian
  • Patent number: 9876321
    Abstract: A cable assembly including a cable, a metal clamp, and a tuboid metal case. The cable includes a outer insulator and a outer conductor thereinside. The outer conductor includes a protruding portion protruding to one side in the first direction from an end portion of the outer insulator on the one side in the first direction. The clamp holds the protruding portion and includes an end portion on the other side in the first direction. The metal case includes a swaged portion, which houses at least the end portion of the outer insulator and the end portion of the clamp. Swaged from outside, the swaged portion is in pressure contact with and fixed to at least the end portion of the outer insulator and the end portion of the clamp so that the end portion of the outer insulator is elastically deformed and the end portion of the clamp is plastically deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Daisuke Sasaki
  • Patent number: 9876312
    Abstract: A double locking mechanism between plate end and cable end of Ethernet vehicle connector. The double locking mechanism includes a plate end connector body, a cable end connector body and a locking plate, in which the connector bodies are pluggable with each other. The plate end connector body includes a fastening plate located at its top end, at the near pluggable end, the fastening plate is provided with an inward hook, which is provided with a sliding slope at the near pluggable end. The cable end connector body includes a fastening bar located at the top of itself, the fastening bar includes a long incline and a short incline respectively located at its near and distal pluggable ends. The locking plate includes a longitudinal resilient fastener and two transverse resilient fasteners respectively located in the middle and at the two sides of the locking plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Amphenol East Asia Electronic Technology (Shen Zhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zuxin Li
  • Patent number: 9876301
    Abstract: The utility model discloses an electrical connector for Christmas lamp trees which comprises an upper and a lower connecting base, first columnar electrodes and elastic devices are arranged in the upper connecting base, second arc-shaped electrodes are arranged in the lower connecting base, and the elastic devices cause the first electrodes to tightly abut against the second electrodes. The first columnar electrodes and the second arc-shaped electrodes form a point-to-surface contact, so that the reliability of electrical connection is increased greatly, allowing a Christmas lamp tree to be universal to high and low voltages. Moreover, sufficient contact between upper and lower layers and natural effect of the Christmas lamp tree can still be ensured even if the Christmas lamp tree is subjected to an external force, and multiple sets of first and second electrodes are electrically connected in one-to-one correspondence, leading to diversified functions of the Christmas lamp tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Inventor: Jidai Zhou
  • Patent number: 9871307
    Abstract: A connector for coupling a coaxial cable (240) to a strip line comprises a first plate (210) to be arranged above a conductor (220) of the strip line to which a center conductor (244) of the coaxial cable (240) is soldered, the first plate (210) including: a first solder portion (212) to which a braid (242) of the coaxial cable (240) is soldered; and an aperture (214) formed adjacent to the first solder portion (212) and configured to prevent heat propagation of a solder point of the first solder portion (212) and the braid (242) of the coaxial cable (240) and to expose a solder point of the conductor (220) of the strip line and the center conductor (244) of the coaxial cable (240), wherein a biggest dimension of the aperture (214) is shaped to be less than 5% of highest frequency wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Nokia Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Patrick Le Cam, Thomas Julien, Lin Yu
  • Patent number: 9865954
    Abstract: A plug connection having a first plug with a first contact piece and a second plug with a second contact piece. In the plugged state of the plug connection, the contact pieces are axially in contact with one another in a spring-biased manner. The first contact piece has a three-dimensionally curved end face, while the second contact piece has a flaring depression in the end face thereof such that an annular contact zone is formed between the contact pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Martin Zebhauser
  • Patent number: 9859637
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided and includes a conductive terminal having a first end with a top flat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiaozhi Fu, Hongjun Yin, Xiang Xu, Ming Shi
  • Patent number: 9853403
    Abstract: A board to board connector assembly is disclosed in this invention, which includes a female connector and a male connector. Each female terminal has an elastic engaging section and a first protrusion located on the top of the elastic engaging section. Each male terminal has an elastic arm and a second protrusion located on the top of the elastic arm. When the female connector is matched with the male connector, the second protrusion passes the first protrusion, and a bottom surface of the second protrusion and a bottom surface of the first protrusion are engaged with each other and together form a holding state. The board to board connector assembly can ensure the reliable connection of the two connectors by the engagement of the female and male terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: OUPIIN ELECTRONIC (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hsin Chih Chen
  • Patent number: 9847603
    Abstract: A grounding system for electrically connecting a first component to a second component. A connection plate has a hole and is configured to be in electrical contact with the first component. A receptacle plate is in electrical contact with the connection plate, and has a receptacle opening aligned with and larger than the hole. A pin has a first end configured to be electrically connected to the second component and an opposed second end receivable through the receptacle opening and through the hole. An electrical connector is retained in electrical contact with the pin. The electrical connector is movable along the pin and biased toward the second end, receivable in the receptacle opening and configured to be in electrical contact with a circumferential surface of the receptacle opening, and has an outer dimension greater than that of the hole so as to be prevented from passing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: PAT TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Chau Thien Vo, Nicholas Parent
  • Patent number: 9847592
    Abstract: A sensor includes contact springs placed in contact with electrode terminals on major surfaces of a sensor device. At least one of the contact springs includes a spring contact portion, a spring holding portion, a spring bent portion, and a spring connecting portion. The spring contact portion contacts an outer surface of one of the electrode terminals. The spring holding portion is turned from the spring contact portion and extends outside the spring contact portion so as to overlap the spring contact portion in the contacting direction. The spring bent portion is bent inwardly from the spring holding portion and extends at a given angle to the contacting direction. The spring connecting portion is bent from the spring bent portion and extends in the axial direction of the sensor. Such a structure enables the contact spring to be reduced in size and thickness without sacrificing a required mechanical strength thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Hino
  • Patent number: 9843113
    Abstract: Various crimpless electrical connector assemblies are disclosed. The crimpless connector can include a crimpless contact configured to join two electrical conductors. A portion of the crimpless contact can be received in an outer housing that comprises a tapered lumen. The crimpless contact can be coupled to an activation unit, such as with a threaded connection. Rotation of the activation unit can cause the crimpless contact to translate within the outer housing and the tines to be compressed against the first conductor, thereby physically securing the first conductor in the crimpless connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: ITT MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventor: Charles Campbell
  • Patent number: 9843137
    Abstract: An electronic connector includes a base, an extension protruding from the base, and a nose forming a terminal end of the extension. The extension includes first and second connection faces and ground electrical contacts located along the first and second connection faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Ivan Andrew McCracken, Duane Martin Evans, Brett Tomky
  • Patent number: 9843141
    Abstract: An electrical connector used for mating a mating connector includes an insulating body having a base and a tongue extending from the base, a plurality of terminals fixedly disposed in the base portion in an upper row and a lower row, and a middle shielding sheet embedded in the tongue and located between the upper row and the lower row of terminals. The middle shielding sheet has a notch concavely formed on a front end of the middle shielding sheet and overlapping a central line of the middle shielding sheet along a longitudinal direction, at least one first projection portion extending from the notch, and at least one second projection portion extending from the notch. The first projection portion locates in front of the second projection portion, and the first projection portion is farther away from the central line of the middle shielding sheet than the second projection portion is.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jian Min Peng, Zhi Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 9843122
    Abstract: A fixing element may include a pin connecting surface configured to conductively contact a pin of a busbar, and a detent configured to latch with the pin. The detent may be disposed above the pin connecting surface and bent in a first direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the fixing element. The fixing element may also include a tab separated from the detent along the longitudinal axis of the fixing element, and a board connecting surface joined to the tab. The board connecting surface may be bent in a second direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the fixing element. The second direction may be opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Lisa Draexlmaier GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Fuessl, Christian Friedrich
  • Patent number: 9843129
    Abstract: A flushing arrangement for flushing a surface of a wet-mateable connector for subsea use is provided. The flushing arrangement has a cartridge adapted to form a chamber around the surface to be flushed prior to flushing. The cartridge has a sealing portion adapted to be sealed against a part of the connector. An inlet port for receiving a fluid from a fluid source and an outlet port for discharging a fluid are provided. Plural flow channels are formed in the cartridge, the plural flow channels comprising flow channels providing a fluid connection between the inlet port and the chamber for enabling a flow of fluid into the chamber and flow channels providing a fluid connection between the chamber and the outlet port for enabling a flow of medium out of the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christopher Burrow, Christopher Plant
  • Patent number: 9837729
    Abstract: A HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) DIY (Do-It-Yourself) connector kit includes a connector head having a plurality of terminals, a wire terminal having a plurality of alignment slots, and a wire alignment unit which includes a guider holder detachably holding the wire terminal in position and a plurality of wire slots aligned with the alignment slots respectively when the wire terminal is disposed at the guider holder. Therefore, the wire slots are arranged for retaining wires of HDMI cable in position when wire conductors thereof are inserted into the corresponding alignment slot. After the wire conductors are retained at the alignment slots, the wire terminal is detached from the guider holder to ensure only the wire conductors to be retained at the alignment slots respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Inventor: Philip Yuan Yang Lin
  • Patent number: 9837731
    Abstract: A connector is disclosed. The connector comprises a housing having an insertion passageway, an operating lever having an end pivotably connected to the housing, and a spring having a first end fixed to the operating lever and an opposite second end extending into an interior of the connector. The operating lever is movable between an open position and a closed position. The second end of the spring closes the insertion passageway when the operating lever is in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Hua Li, Guangming Zhao
  • Patent number: 9831622
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a universal socket converter with power bank, including a housing, wherein the front of the housing is provided with a USB power jack, a universal power jack and an indicator light, the upper and lower ends of the back of the housing are respectively provided with a retractable power-taking plug, the middle part of the back of the housing is provided with a foldable power-taking plug; the inside of the housing is provided with a circuit board and a storage battery, wherein the circuit board is provided with a USB power socket and an integrated universal power socket, wherein the USB power socket and the integrated universal power socket are provided with conductors inside, wherein the conductors are connected with the circuit board, the circuit board is connected with the storage battery, the retractable power-taking plug and the foldable power-taking plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Inventor: Yuying Lin