Patents Examined by Vanessa Girardi
  • Patent number: 10699859
    Abstract: A switch may include a movable board and a pole board having an inner surface on which a fixed contact point is exposed, the inner surface facing the movable board. A movable contact point may be supported by the movable board and may include a plurality of contact pieces making resilient contact with the inner surface of the pole board. The switch may also include an output terminal corresponding to the fixed contact point. The movable contact point and the fixed contact point may come in contact with each other when a position of the movable contact point is changed via a displacement of the movable board. The fixed contact point and the output terminal may be connected via a board having a disconnection detection circuit. The board may be enclosed in an insulating seal material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Shimada
  • Patent number: 10692667
    Abstract: A keyboard device includes a base, a wing-type connecting element and a keycap. The base plate includes a close-type connecting bracket. The wing-type connecting element includes a first frame and a second frame. A connecting shaft of the second frame is received within the close-type connecting bracket. Consequently, the wing-type connecting element is connected with the base plate. While the keycap is depressed, the connecting shaft is only allowed to be rotated and limited within the close-type connecting bracket. Since the swinging range of the wing-type connecting element is reduced, the keyboard device of the present invention is capable of improving the depressing stability of the keycap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Chuang-Shu Jhuang, Sheng-Huang Huang, Zhi-Hui Zeng
  • Patent number: 10685795
    Abstract: A trigger assembly for use with an electrical device, including a trigger member, an actuator member operably-connected to the trigger member, and a lock-on mechanism for selectably restricting movement of the trigger member relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignees: DEFOND ELECTECH CO. LTD., DEFOND COMPONENTS LIMITED
    Inventor: Kin Yu Wong
  • Patent number: 10680391
    Abstract: A heat destructive disconnecting switch, comprises a first conductive member, a second conductive member, a movable conductive member, an overheating destructive member, an operating component, and a second elastic member. The movable conductive member conducts electricity to the first conductive member and the second conductive member. A first elastic member and the second elastic member act on an operating member. The first elastic member is compressed and provided with a first elastic force, and the second elastic member is provided with a second elastic force. When the overheating destructive member is destructed due to overheating, the first elastic force is diminished or vanishes, causing the second elastic force to be larger than the first elastic force. Consequently, the movable conductive member disconnects the current conducting state between the first conductive member and the second conductive member, thereby achieving a protective effect from overheating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Green Idea Tech Inc.
    Inventor: Hsiang-Yun I
  • Patent number: 10679803
    Abstract: A keycap detachably provided on a guide mechanism of a key switch includes a cap main body having a front face pressed at the time of key input and a rear face on the opposite side to the front face; and a first engaging projection and a second engaging projection, both of which protrude from the rear face of the cap main body with a gap therebetween so that an engaging portion of the guide mechanism is detachably engaged into the gap. At least a part of an area around the first engaging projection and the second engaging projection in the cap main body has a thin part thinner than other parts of the cap main body. As a result, the falling off of the keycap can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Masahiro Kitamura, Mitsuo Horiuchi, Satoshi Douzono
  • Patent number: 10679804
    Abstract: A drip-proof structure of an electronic component includes a rotary body that includes a main body as an operating portion, a first case rotatably supporting the rotary body, a second case that supports the other side surface of the main body of the rotary body and houses, together with the first case, the rotary body, a sliding piece that changes its position to follow rotation of the rotary body, a circuit board that outputs an output signal corresponding to the rotational position of the rotary body, a cover that covers the first and second cases and the circuit board, and first and second drip-proof members arranged between the first case and the cover and between the second case and the cover, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Hiroshi Aoki, Yoshiharu Tsukahara, Satoshi Kuwabara, Naoki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 10658135
    Abstract: A keyboard device includes a key structure, a membrane wiring board and an elastic element. The elastic element is arranged between the key structure and the membrane wiring board. The key structure includes a sleeve, a plunger-type support shaft, a keycap and a resilience element. The plunger-type support shaft is movable upwardly or downwardly relative to the sleeve. When the keycap is depressed in response to an external force, the resilience element and the sleeve interfere with each other. Consequently, the keyboard device provides the operating sound and the operating feedback like a mechanical switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: PRIMAX ELECTRONICS LTD.
    Inventors: Sheng-An Tsai, Li-Jen Chien, Hsiang-Wen Cheng
  • Patent number: 10651618
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electrical connection device and a plug assembly, the electrical connection device comprises a receptacle assembly and a plug assembly. The receptacle assembly comprises a cage and a connector. The plug assembly comprises an outer housing and a communication module provided in the outer housing. The outer housing has a main body which can be inserted into the cage along the mating direction to be mated with the connector. The receptacle assembly is provided with at least one guide groove extending along the mating direction, and the outer housing of the plug assembly is provided with at least one guide block protruding from the main body to correspond to the at least one guide groove, when the plug assembly is mated with the receptacle assembly, the at least one guide block enters into the corresponding guide groove along the mating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Bing-Jyun Wang
  • Patent number: 10650987
    Abstract: A press sound producing keyboard switch includes a base, a guiding inclined surface and an elastic piece provided on the base, and a cap covering the base to define an accommodating cavity. A press assembly, a spring and a conduction assembly is disposed in the accommodating cavity. A press block is provided on the press assembly. Wherein the press block is in triangular shape, length of a bottom surface of the press block is less than width of a bottom surface of the guiding inclined surface, an end portion of the elastic piece is located below the press block and above the guiding inclined surface, and the press block is located at a side of the guiding inclined surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Inventor: FuXi Wu
  • Patent number: 10653028
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a stiffener, a rail frame pivotally mounted to one end of the stiffener, a carrier frame assembled to the rail frame in a sliding manner, and a load plate pivotally mounted to the end of the stiffener outside of the rail frame. The carrier frame includes latches to retain the CPU thereon. The rail frame includes a pair of opposite sliding channels extending in the front-to-back direction, along which the carrier frame is moveable. A front transverse bar is located in front of the sliding channels and above the sliding channels in the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Po-Yuan Su
  • Patent number: 10629392
    Abstract: Disclosed is a underwater high-sensitivity button switch. The underwater high-sensitivity button switch includes an upper cover, a lower cover and a hollow block; the upper cover and the lower cover are made of an elastic material; the hollow block is made of a rigid material; two ends of a through hole of the hollow block are respectively sealed by the upper cover and the lower cover; a mounting block is held in the through hole of the hollow block; the mounting block is provided with a bridge-cutoff block; the bridge-cutoff block is made of a conductive material; two unconnected lug bosses are arranged on the bridge-cutoff block; the two lug bosses are respectively connected with a conducting wire; a button fixing seat is held in the through hole of the hollow block; the button fixing seat is provided with a button cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Divevolk (Zhuhai) Intelligence Tech Co,, Ltd
    Inventors: Jingsong Liu, Songdong Liu
  • Patent number: 10629390
    Abstract: A modular electrical switching device (1A) obtained by juxtaposing a control module (10) and a switching module (20), each comprising a mechanism that rotates about a rotation axis (A), coupled together by complementary coupling end pieces (11, 12; 21, 22). The control module (10) is designed to be controlled by a control rod (3) as well by a front control through a front entry opening (30) provided on the front side of the control module (10) as by left or right side control through two side entry openings (34, 35) provided on the sides of the control module (10), respecting a same direction of operation. The coupling end pieces (11, 12) of the control module (10) are provided on separated male (110) and female (120) coupling parts inserted between the modules (10, 20), when they are juxtaposed to form the switching device (1A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SOCOMEC
    Inventor: Denis Kuhn
  • Patent number: 10629395
    Abstract: A keyboard device includes a substrate, keycaps, and a membrane circuit board. The substrate has an upper surface including assembly areas, and the upper surface has an assembly member. The keycaps are disposed on the substrate and respectively corresponding to the assembly areas. The membrane circuit board is disposed between the substrate and the keycaps. The membrane circuit board includes an upper membrane layer having an upper layer hole, a lower membrane layer having a lower layer hole, and a spacing layer having a middle layer hole. The upper layer hole, the middle layer hole, and the lower layer hole communicate with each other. The assembly member protrudes upwardly from the lower layer hole, the middle layer hole, and the upper layer hole. The upper membrane layer includes a water-baffling edge between edges of the upper layer hole and the middle layer hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chia-Hung Fu, Chun-Wei Chien
  • Patent number: 10627297
    Abstract: A sensor includes a base layer and a pressing unit protruding with respect to the base layer. The pressing unit includes a first structure unit and a hollow second structure unit disposed on the first structure unit and having a bottom side opened. The second structure unit has a shape portion on a surface facing the base layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akira Ebisui, Hiroshi Mizuno, Tomoko Katsuhara, Taizo Nishimura, Yoshiaki Sakakura, Toshio Kano, Toshiyuki Onodera, Takeshi Takahashi, Toru Takahashi, Tatsuo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10622996
    Abstract: An adjustable sensing capacitance microelectromechanical system (MEMS) apparatus includes an ASIC and a sensing component. The ASIC includes a top surface, a readout circuit and a plurality of electrical switches. The sensing component, configured to sensing physical quantity, includes a fixed electrode and a movable electrode. The fixed electrode includes a plurality of electrode units. The movable electrode is able to be moved relative to the fixed electrode. The electrical switches are respectively and electrically coupled to the electrode units so as to control a working status of each of the electrode units, thereby changing a sensing capacitance of the MEMS sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yu-Wen Hsu, Chao-Ta Huang, Chin-Fu Kuo, Che-Kai Yeh
  • Patent number: 10622168
    Abstract: A locking structure of switch device includes a connection seat formed with a main body assembling hole. An arm protrudes from the connection seat. A restriction section is formed on the arm. A shift body is assembled on the connection seat and movable between a first position and a second position. The shift body has a shift section aligned with the arm in the second position. A lever member is disposed on the shift section. Two ends of the lever member are respectively formed with a ridge section and a push/press section. When the shift body moves from the first position to the second position, the ridge section passes over the restriction section into a locked state. When pressing the push/press section, the ridge section is driven by way of leverage to backward pass over the restriction section into an unlocked state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: Switchlab Inc., Switchlab (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Yuan Wu, Wen-Bing Hsu
  • Patent number: 10614973
    Abstract: An interlock apparatus according to embodiments is configured to block an operation of a third circuit breaker while a first circuit breaker and a second circuit breaker operate and include a mover and a rotator. The mover include a first connector connected to the first circuit breaker, a second connector connected to the second circuit breaker, and a central part disposed between the first connector and the second connector and is rectilinearly moved along one direction in response to operations of the first circuit breaker and the second circuit breaker. The rotator include a first engagement part engaged with to the third circuit breaker and a second engagement part engaged with the central part and be rotated around a shaft passing through the first engagement part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jae-Kwan Seo
  • Patent number: 10608383
    Abstract: A shielded connector comprises an inner housing accommodating a contact and a shield shell surrounding the inner housing. The inner housing has a catch protrusion. The shield shell has a shell main body formed with an opening extending through the shield shell and a cover tab supported by the shell main body. The catch protrusion is inserted from an inside of the shield shell into the opening and the cover tab covers the opening while being set back from the catch protrusion toward an outside of the shield shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Tadashi Kumamoto, Kazuhiro Mizukami
  • Patent number: 10600585
    Abstract: A gear unit housing for a gear unit includes a two-sided control lever for moving two switching contacts of a circuit breaker in opposite directions. The gear unit housing includes a housing cassette having a housing base and a cover plate detachably connected to the housing cassette by screw connections and lying opposite to the housing base. A bearing shaft for mounting the control lever for rotation about the bearing shaft is connected to the housing cassette and to the cover plate and extends between the housing base and the cover plate. At least one stud element form-lockingly connects the housing cassette and the cover plate. A gear unit having the gear unit housing is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sebastian Huebner, Martin Krehnke, Andrzej Nowakowski
  • Patent number: 10598142
    Abstract: A switch device includes an operation button operated by a push operation on an operating surface, light sources arranged on a lighting substrate to illuminate an illumination target of the operation button, and a plurality of switches that are arranged on a switch substrate different from the lighting substrate so as to be located on an end portion side of the operation button and are turned on due to displacement of the operation button caused by the push operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Toshiaki Imai, Ryoji Takahashi, Shuichi Iwata