Patents Examined by Travis S Chambers
  • Patent number: 11929568
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for a single pair Ethernet (SPE) wire-to-board connector. The SPE connector may include a female connector portion and a male connector portion. The female connector portion may include a first electrical contact having a first press-fit pin and a first female portion, a second electrical contact having a second press-fit pin and a second female portion, and a first outer shield, the first outer shield mechanically secured to the first insulative housing. The first and second electrical contacts may be positioned partially within the first insulative housing. The male connector portion includes a third electrical contact comprising a first insulation displacement contact (IDC) portion and a first male portion, a fourth electrical contact comprising a second DC portion and a second male portion, and a second outer shield, the second outer shield mechanically secured to a second insulative housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: AVX Corporation
    Inventor: Jackie Mincey
  • Patent number: 11910834
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette atomization core and atomizer is disclosed. The electronic cigarette atomization core includes an atomization member (3), an outer sleeve (24), a connection sleeve (22), and atomization cotton (14). A lower segment of the connection sleeve (22) is sleeved outside an upper segment of the outer sleeve (24). The outer sleeve (24) is sleeved outside the atomization cotton (14). The outer sleeve (24) is provided with a first e-liquid passage hole (2401) capable of communicating an inner cavity of an electronic cigarette e-liquid bin (12) with the atomization cotton (14). The connection sleeve (22) is axially movable or circumferentially rotatable relative to the outer sleeve (24) to close or open the first e-liquid passage hole (2401). A buffer sealing structure is arranged between the connection sleeve (22) and the outer sleeve (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CHINA TOBACCO HUNAN INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jianfu Liu, Kejun Zhong, Xiaoyi Guo, Wei Huang, Xinqiang Yin, Jianhua Yi, Yongquan Zhou, Lizhou Shen
  • Patent number: 11901676
    Abstract: A coupling device is provided having a first connector with a first primary pin and a second primary pin. The coupling device also defines a first recess and a second recess. The first recess is configured to receive a first component selected from the group consisting of a fuse or a jumper, and the second recess is configured to receive a second component selected from the group consisting of a fuse or a jumper. The first recess is closed when the first component is received in the first recess. When the first recess is closed, the first component forms part of a first electrical circuit with the first primary pin. Additionally, the second recess is closed when the second component is received in the second recess. When the second recess is closed, the second component forms part of a second electrical circuit with the second primary pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: HARTING Stiftung & Co. KG
    Inventor: David Mathias
  • Patent number: 11901685
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotatable electrical plug including a non-rotating assembly configured for receiving and being coupled with power lines of the rotatable electrical plug, the non-rotating assembly comprising a substrate, a first ring-shaped conductor and a second ring-shaped conductor; a rotating assembly being rotatable 360 degrees relative to the non-rotating assembly, the rotating assembly comprising at least two electrode terminals; a first rotating conductor and a second rotating conductor connected to the first ring-shaped conductor and the second ring-shaped conductor respectively, at least one of the first rotating conductor and the second rotating conductor comprising a base and two arms extending from the base and extending in two non-parallel directions, each of the two arms including a contacting portion having a contacting surface, the contacting surfaces of the two arms contact two different positions of a same ring-shaped conductor of the first and the second ring-shaped conduc
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Yuangui Hu, Yuebo Tao
  • Patent number: 11901669
    Abstract: The connector shroud of the present invention includes an inner housing, a cam, a coupling nut and a lock nut. The inner housing has a grooved control link formed on an outer surface. The grooved control link extends in a longitudinal direction. The cam is disposed on the inner housing and is rotatable on the inner housing. The coupling nut is sleeved onto the inner housing. The coupling nut is configured to be coupled to an object. The coupling nut includes a tab extending from a rear end. The tab has a control slot formed thereon. The control slot extends in a direction not parallel to the longitudinal direction. The lock nut is sleeved onto the inner housing and includes a first pin and a second pin formed on an inner surface. The first pin is movable in the grooved control link and the second pin is movable in the control slot. When the second pin is in the control slot, a movement of the lock nut causes the coupling nut to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: ACSUPER TECHNOLOGIES INC
    Inventor: Chung-Ming Tseng
  • Patent number: 11889868
    Abstract: A fluid delivery lock and key system and kit for the refill of an electronic vaping device. The device may utilize a bottle with a pipette head key to one lateral end which may deploy one of a wide number of possible protruding shapes. The lock mechanism may further deploy one of a wide number of matching intruding shapes. The protruding shapes and intruding shapes being engageable with each other for lock and key functionality. The mounting base may be reversibly attached to one end of an electronic cigarette cartridge. The pipette head key may be configured to rotatably engage with the lock mechanism such that a liquid filling hole can be transitioned to an open position and a closed position. The open position permitting fluid delivery into a liquid tank with the closed position preventing fluid escape from the liquid tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Inventor: Sucipto Kokadir
  • Patent number: 11894645
    Abstract: A terminal assembly structure according to one or more embodiments includes: a terminal having a crimp portion configured to crimp and connect to a core wire of an electric wire and a fastening portion configured to be fastened by a fastening member; and a holder having a base configured to mount the terminal when fastening the terminal to the holder. The holder has a plurality of ribs extending in a fastening direction of the fastening member and arranged around the fastening portion of the terminal when the fastening portion is set and positioned onto the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Sano, Tomoki Matsukawa, Koudai Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11894637
    Abstract: A connector for exactly two conductors that includes a forward connector body, a rear connector body, a metal frame and exactly one pair of electrical contacts. The rear connector body interfaces with the forward connector body. The metal frame surrounds at least a portion of both the forward connector body and the rear connector body. The metal frame including a shielding interface, wherein the metal frame is secured to the forward connector body with at least two retaining features. The exactly one pair of electrical contacts comprises a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact that extend from the rear connector body into the forward connector body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Paul John Pepe
  • Patent number: 11888272
    Abstract: A touch protected busbar system (TP-BSYS) comprising at least one hybrid busbar (1) having a current-carrying rail profile (2) and a contact-receiving rail profile (3) providing contact openings (4) configured to receive protruding electrical contacts (6) of electrical devices (ED-A) to be connected to said touch protected busbar system (TP-BSYS), wherein the at least one hybrid busbar (1) is at least partially covered by electrical isolating touch protection elements (TPE) of said touch protected busbar system (TP-BSYS) and/or at least partially encapsulated by an electrical isolating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: WOEHNER BESITZ GMBH
    Inventors: Joram Masel, Philipp Steinberger, Hubert Lenker, Alexander Scholz
  • Patent number: 11883915
    Abstract: A rotating power connection for connecting an electrical supply power cable to an electric welding torch body is provided. In the rotating power connection, the mechanical load is carried by steel bearings, and the electric load is carried by multi-contact, spring loaded fins made out of highly conductive materials or coatings. In some examples, a rotating power connector is affixed to a torch before the power connection to a wire feeder. The rotating power connector advantageously allows for rotation of the welding torch relative to the unicable while providing continual electrical connection at the high current levels employed in welding applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Tiejun Ma, Romeo Cossette, Craig Matthew Bondy
  • Patent number: 11881649
    Abstract: A high-current connector includes an insulating body which has at least one contact carrier having at least one contact chamber, which has at least two through-openings on the plug-in side, and at least two electrically conductive plug-in contacts which are arranged parallel to one another in the contact chamber and each have a cable connection region at a first end and a plug-in region opposite at a second end, the plug-in regions of the plug-in contacts being guided through one of the through-openings each of the contact chamber. The high-current plug connector also has an electrically conductive connection element which is inserted into the contact chamber and which has at least two contact receptacles, into each of which one of the plug-in contacts is inserted interlockingly and frictionally by its plug-in region, and the at least two plug-in contacts are electrically conductively connected to one another by the connection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Kliever
  • Patent number: 11862886
    Abstract: A connector clip is disclosed. The connector clip includes a base, a cover, a hinge coupling the cover and the base, and a fastener. The base has a first base side joined to a second base side via a connecting base side. The cover has a first cover side joined to a second cover side via a connecting cover side. The fastener holds the first base side and the first cover side in a fixed position when the connector clip is in a closed configuration in which the connecting base side is parallel to the connecting cover side. An internal cable opening is formed in part by the connecting base side and the connecting cover side when the connector clip is in the closed configuration. The connector clip secures a cable passing through the internal cable opening and connected to a board in its place in the closed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yaw-Tzorng Tsorng, Chen-Chien Kuo, Tang-Shun-Lee Chen, Chin-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 11862887
    Abstract: A socket used to connect a processor assembly to a PCB is protected during handling and/or processor installation using a laterally removable pin cover. To install the processor assembly, the processor assembly is paced in a cover removal position. While the processor assembly is in the cover removal position, the laterally removable pin cover is laterally removed from the socket. The processor assembly may then be placed into the installed position without ever exposing the connector pins on the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benito Joseph Rodriguez, Anand Avinash Kulkarni, Rameez Kadar Kazi, Christy Felix Pradeep Antony, Robert Forrest Koerner
  • Patent number: 11855375
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes first and second components and pairs of engagement members each including male and female engagement members. The male engagement member includes an insertion part having a substantially flat plate shape. The female engagement member includes first and second clamping parts arranged to be opposed to each other. In each of the pairs of engagement members, the male and female engagement members are respectively arranged on one and another of the first and second components. The first and second components are coupled when the female engagement member clamps the insertion part inserted between the first and second clamping parts in each of the pairs of engagement members. Each of the first and second clamping parts is bent to form a projecting portion toward an opposed surface. A gap is provided at a distal end of each of the first and second clamping parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Motohiko Fujimura, Toshihiko Bessho, Eiji Nishimura, Shinya Kimura, Shigeru Nakabayashi, Manabu Egawa, Hiroshi Ogura
  • Patent number: 11855367
    Abstract: Trace wire connectors that include a cover that can be attached to a base and used to electrically interconnect two or more tracer wires without having to remove insulation from the tracer wires. The cover has multiple portals that permit one or more tracer wires to pass into an inner cavity of the cover. The base has multiple cradles on which tracer wires passing into the cavity can rest. The cover can be oriented relative to the base for use with a through tracer wire and a dead-end tracer wire, or for use with multiple dead-end tracer wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: John Kenneth Carrozzo, Jr., Michael Constatin von Kannewurff, Stephen Andrew Skolozdra
  • Patent number: 11855397
    Abstract: Systems involve implementations such as a stand assembly including a base having an exterior face; a wall portion including an exterior face, the wall portion coupled to the base, the exterior face of the wall portion extending perpendicular with respect to the exterior face of the base; a support assembly including a first elongated portion extending perpendicular with respect to the wall portion; and an interface including a plurality of electrical contacts, wherein the interface is movably coupled having at least a first position and a second position. Other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Pioneer Square Brands, Inc.
    Inventor: Riley Edwin Lynch
  • Patent number: 11855403
    Abstract: A connector includes an insulation housing formed with a plurality of terminal slots, and a plurality of terminals inserted into the plurality of terminal slots. Each of the plurality of terminals has a pin protruding from a bottom of the insulation housing for insertion into a terminal hole in a circuit board. At least one latch is formed on the insulation housing for insertion and locking into a latch hole defined in the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Chen, Hongbo Zhang, Jianding Du
  • Patent number: 11841606
    Abstract: An accessory shoe apparatus on an electronic apparatus includes an engagement member and a communication. A shoe apparatus on an accessory apparatus is detachably attachable to the accessory shoe apparatus. The engagement member engages with the shoe apparatus and including an opening portion that faces the engaged shoe apparatus. The communication element performs wireless communication with the shoe apparatus via an inside of the opening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenji Ishii, Natsumi Sekiguchi, Yoshinobu Okano
  • Patent number: 11843195
    Abstract: A conductor connection terminal with an insulating material housing having a conductor insertion opening for inserting an electrical conductor in a conductor insertion direction, with a busbar and a clamping spring, wherein the clamping spring has a clamping leg and wherein the clamping leg and the busbar form a clamping point for the electrical conductor to be clamped. The insulating material housing has a base side, wherein the base side is arranged adjacent to the side of the busbar facing away from the clamping point and wherein the base side has an opening, wherein on the side of the busbar facing away from the clamping point, two contact tabs protrude from the busbar, wherein the contact tabs are designed to contact a second electrical conductor between the contact tabs, wherein the second electrical conductor can be led through the opening of the base side between the contact tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Michael Meyer
  • Patent number: 11837819
    Abstract: A power extension cord comprises a body, a cavity extending completely through the body, and a gap disposed along a perimeter of the body that extends through to the cavity, such that the cavity is accessible from the exterior of the receptacle head through the gap. One or more receptacles are disposed along the exterior of the body. Preferably, a gate may be provided, the gate having an open position in which the cavity is accessible through the gap and a closed position in which the gate blocks the gap and restricts access to cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: 360 Electrical, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Brandon Eshelman, Cameron Bigler