Patents Examined by Travis S Chambers
  • Patent number: 11217936
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to strain relief devices for communication connectors. The strain relief devices are configured to couple to the communication connectors via existing fastener components (e.g., screw receivers), and support optic fiber and/or other cables that extend from the communication connectors at a desired position. The strain relief devices prevent the cables from being damaged by a lack of sufficient support during installation, removal, use, repair, and/or transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Donald Earl Irwin, Michael Keith Hertstein
  • Patent number: 11217928
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprising a plug arranged and designed to connect to a receptacle. The plug includes an electrically-insulating body, a conductor ring, and a conductive member connected to the plug conductor ring. The receptacle includes an electrically-insulating body, a conductor ring having an axial inner bore and an annular groove facing radially inward, a conductive member connected to the receptacle conductor ring, and an electrically-conductive contact having a generally annular profile, at least a portion of the electrically-conductive contact received in and contacting the annular groove and at least a portion of the electrically-conductive contact not received in the annular groove. Upon insertion of the plug into the receptacle and substantially radially aligning the plug and receptacle conductor rings, the electrically-conductive contact is elastically deformed and provides electrical contact between the plug conductor ring and the receptacle conductor ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: RAMPART PRODUCTS LLC
    Inventors: Sean W Carter, Michael A Czuppon, Edward J Beshoory
  • Patent number: 11211745
    Abstract: An electrical connector having a housing having a pin plate holder and a pin block holder. The pin block holder has a pin block holder stabilizing section. The pin plate holder has a pin plate holder stabilizing portion. With the pin block holder and the pin plate holder fully mated, the pin block holder stabilizing section engages the pin plate holder stabilizing portion to prevent the movement of the pin plate holder relative to the pin block holder in multiple directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Eric J. Torrey, Hurley Chester Moll, Matthew Bryan Hitchcock
  • Patent number: 11205866
    Abstract: A joint structure of a high-voltage cable includes a cable core wrapped from interior to exterior sequentially by an inner insulating layer, a shielding layer and an outer insulating layer, a section of the inner and outer insulating layers is stripped at an end of the cable core, and a length of the stripped section of the outer insulating layer is greater than a length of the stripped section of the inner insulating layer. The end of the cable core is connected to an external terminal, a connection between the end and the external terminal and an adjacent section of the inner insulating layer are wrapped by a heat-shrinkable tube, a spacing is provided between an end of the heat-shrinkable tube and the outer insulating layer, the shielding layer within the spacing is wrapped by a copper foil and connected externally to a cable connector via the copper foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: JING-JIN ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pengyang Sun, Hao Zhang, Yanhao Wang
  • Patent number: 11201584
    Abstract: A junction box for an electrical connection of a photovoltaic module, comprising a plug-in module and a housing module. The plug-in module comprises a plug element and a connection element, wherein the plug element enables a plug-in connection with an external electrical connection line, and the connection element provides a connection option for an internal electrical supply line into the photovoltaic module. The housing module can be connected to, and detached from, the plug-in module and can also be attached to the photovoltaic module in order to offer protection of a connection area of the photovoltaic module against outer influences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: HANWHA Q CELLS GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Olyschlaeger, Henning Busse
  • Patent number: 11191173
    Abstract: An electrical connector arrangement includes a storage device coupled to a connector housing. The storage device is configured to store physical layer information pertaining to the electrical connector arrangement. The storage device also has contacts that enable the physical layer information to be read from the storage device by a media reading interface. A connector assembly includes at least one receptacle assembly; a printed circuit board; and a media reading interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Joseph C. Coffey, Loren J. Mattson
  • Patent number: 11189962
    Abstract: A cable connector includes a soft body. The soft body has at least one connecting portion. An outer wall surface of the connecting portion is provided with a hard casing. The soft body is made of a soft material, such as rubber and silicone rubber. The hard casing is made of a hard material, such as plastic, and has higher rigidity than the soft body. When a bushing of a cable is inserted into the connecting groove of the connecting portion, the hard casing is configured to resist deformation, so that the connecting portion will not be deformed by insertion of the bushing, thereby improving the electrical connection between the cable connector and the bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: CHARDON TAIWAN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tsung-Mien Liang
  • Patent number: 11189969
    Abstract: A plug-in connector system includes: a first plug-in connector part and a second plug-in connector part, which are connectable to one another in a plug-in manner along a plug-in direction; and an encoding device having a first encoding part connectable to the first plug-in connector part and a second encoding part connectable to the second plug-in connector part. The first encoding part and the second encoding part are arrangeable together on the second plug-in connector in a pre-assembly position and the first encoding part is connectable with the first plug-in connector part during connecting of the first plug-in connector part and the second plug-in connector part and to remain on the first plug-in connector part during detaching of the first plug-in connector part and the second plug-in connector part from each other. One of the second plug-in connector part and the second encoding part has a locking section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Joerg Soefker
  • Patent number: 11183780
    Abstract: In a connection structure of the present disclosure, compression of a first connecting part of a first conductor forming a connecting component causes the first connecting part to be directly coupled to a second connecting part of a second conductor forming a body to be connected, to form an electrical connection structure, wherein the first conductor is made of copper or a copper alloy; and the second conductor has a Vickers hardness HV1 of 110 or more as measured at a position of the second connecting part in a state where the electrical connection structure is formed, and a Vickers hardness HV2 of 80% or more of the Vickers hardness HV1, the Vickers hardness HV2 being measured at a position of the second conductor which does not form the electrical connection structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Kaneko
  • Patent number: 11183798
    Abstract: A connector device is provided, including a vehicle connector and a charging connector which are detachably connected to each other. The vehicle connector has electric power line terminals substantially coplanar with a flat connection surface and a plurality of signal line terminals which are arranged on a radial outside of the electric power line terminals The charging connector has electric power line terminals and a plurality of signal line terminals which are arranged substantially coplanar with a flat connection surface and are respectively in surface contact with the electric power line terminals and the plurality of signal line terminals during the connection with the vehicle connector. The connector connection determination device determines whether a connection state between the two connectors according to a detection result of whether the signal line terminals are in contact with each other when the charging connector is attached to the vehicle connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Kitamoto
  • Patent number: 11177611
    Abstract: A quick-locking male connector includes: an inner contact; an insulator; an outer contact; a spring basket with a plurality of spring fingers; an elastic claw with at least radially-inward one tooth and a radially-outward nub; a connector body attached to the outer contact; and a coupling nut having at least one radially-inward extending nub. The coupling nut is movable between a rear unsecured position, in which the nub of the coupling nut is rearward of the nub of the claw, and a forward secured condition, in which the nub of the coupling nut engages the nub of the claw and forces the at least one tooth of the claw radially inward to engage with a thread of an outer conductor body of a mating female connector. The spring fingers of the spring basket apply radially-outward pressure to the outer conductor body of the mating female connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jianping Wu, Hongjuan An, Jien Zheng
  • Patent number: 11177606
    Abstract: A fluid ejection device, in an example, that includes a housing with the housing including a plurality of lateral hooks to engage with a plurality of posts of a connector, the lateral hooks running, at least partially, parallel to a cable receiving surface wherein a portion of a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising electrical interconnects extends beyond the cable receiving surface to interface with the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Jeffrey F Bell
  • Patent number: 11177596
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a terminal assembly and board end connector. The terminal assembly comprises a plurality of terminals, a terminal insulation body and a conductive plastic. Each of the terminals comprises a terminal body, a plugging end part and a connecting end part. The plugging end part and the connecting end part are provided at two ends of the terminal body. The terminal insulation body covers the plurality of the terminal bodies of the plurality of terminals. The conductive plastic is disposed on one side of the terminal insulation body. A surface of the conductive plastic close to the terminal body is parallel to the terminal body. The SI performance of the board end connector equipped with the terminal assembly of the present disclosure can be improved by paralleling a surface of the conductive plastic close to the terminal body to the terminal body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: XueHai Shen, RongZhe Guo, HongJi Chen
  • Patent number: 11167099
    Abstract: A method for controlling a vaporizer device may include determining a first temperature, vaporizing an inhalable substance at the first temperature, raising the first temperature by a temperature quantity, wherein a second temperature is a sum of the temperature quantity and the first temperature; and vaporizing the inhalable substance at the second temperature, wherein the temperature quantity is less than 3° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: FREELANDER INNOVATIONS USA, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Freelander
  • Patent number: 11171432
    Abstract: An interconnect system includes various anti-backout latches that are movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position. When in the engaged position, the anti-backout latches can be configured to prevent an interconnect module, such as an optical transceiver, from becoming unmated from a host module. When in the disengaged position, the anti-backout latches permit the interconnect module to become unmated from a host module. Securement members are also disclosed that secure a heat sink to a module housing of the interconnect module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: SAMTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Liam Parkes, Eric Zbinden, Keith Guetig, Jignesh H. Shah, Jean Karlo Williams Barnett, Chadrick Paul Faith, R. Brad Bettman
  • Patent number: 11171428
    Abstract: A terminal metal part is provided which can suppress changes in characteristic regarding the connection while suppressing galvanic corrosion. In the terminal metal part, a tin plating layer is formed thicker in a crimping region with a conductor crimping lug than in an electric connecting region contactable with a mating terminal. With this, it is difficult for the conductor section and an alloy section as a base under the tin plating layer in the crimping region to come into a direct contact with each other, which can suppress galvanic corrosions. Furthermore, forming the tin plating layer can have less influence in the electric connecting region and changes in characteristics regarding the connection to the mating terminal can be suppressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seiko Maehori, Hirohito Nakata
  • Patent number: 11165176
    Abstract: A block terminal for a motor includes a block base, a busbar, bushings, and fixing nuts. The busbar is disposed in the block base and includes end portions protruding outward from the block base. The end portions include coupling holes. The bushings are mounted on sides of the block base. The fixing nuts are insert-mounted in the coupling holes of the busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeong Woo Seo, Jung Kyu Yim
  • Patent number: 11146006
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high-power board-to-board floating connector that comprises a male header and a female socket. The male head comprises a first electrode, a first housing and a first insertion element. The female socket comprises a second electrode, a second housing, a floating member, and a second insertion element. The second housing combines with the floating member to form a connection part which can be slightly moved in one or more directions, so that the male head can be connected to the female socket in a permissible range, and then the first electrode is electrically connected to the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: P-TWO INDUSTRIES INC.
    Inventor: Pi-Miao Chen
  • Patent number: 11133626
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses are provided in which outlets are coupled to a power distribution unit (PDU) or PDU module in various configurations. The outlets may be coupled to a recessed surface within a PDU housing. The outlets may be coupled to a printed circuit board that is at least partially disposed within the PDU housing. The outlets may extend away from the recessed surface or printed circuit board towards or beyond a front face of the PDU housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Server Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Travis Irons, James P. Maskaly, Peter Giammona, Mark Ramsey
  • Patent number: 11133631
    Abstract: Systems for adjusting power outputs of isolated electronic devices are described. A first connector including an external power pin and a field power pin connects an electronic device to a power supply. The first connector receives a first current level from the power supply at the external power pin, and a second current level from the power supply at the field power pin. A jumper block is configurable in a first position which electrically isolates the external power pin from the field power pin, and a second position which electrically couples the external power pin to the field power pin. The first position directs the first current level from the external power pin to a second connector, and the second position directs a combination of the first current level and the second current level from the external power pin and the field power pin to the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher P. Klicpera, Eric Trongone