Patents Examined by Xuong M. Chung-Trans
  • Patent number: 10559896
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire has an electric wire including a bonded portion formed over a predetermined length at a part of a conductor exposed due to absence of a sheath over a predetermined length at a part of the electric wire in a longitudinal direction and in which strands of the conductor are bonded to each other; and a terminal including a wire barrel portion, the wire barrel portion covering at least a part of the bonded portion. The wire barrel portion includes a load release portion configured to reduce stress applied to the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoya Sato, Naoki Ito, Yasunori Nabeta
  • Patent number: 10554001
    Abstract: A male plug for coupling with a female jack is arranged to prevent short circuiting during the insertion and removal process. The female jack includes first, second, third, and fourth contact terminals. The first and second contact terminals are separated by a first-to-second jack terminal separation distance, and the second and third contact terminals are separated by a second-to-third jack terminal separation distance. The male plug includes a first ring contact segment arranged to contact the third contact terminal of the female jack. The first ring contact segment has a length less than the first-to-second jack terminal separation distance and the second-to-third jack terminal separation distance. The male plug includes a second ring contact segment arranged to contact the second contact terminal of the female jack. The second ring contact segment has a length less than the first-to-second jack terminal separation distance and the second-to-third jack terminal separation distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas G Criswell, Haidong Wang, ShouBo Feng
  • Patent number: 10553969
    Abstract: An electrical for connecting an electronic package to a printed circuit board, includes a housing and a plurality of contacts therein. The contacts include grounding contacts and signal contacts mixed with each other. The housing includes an insulative plastic body and a conductive plastic body wherein the insulative plastic body includes a main plate and a plurality of columns extending downwardly from the main plate. Each column forms an insulative retaining passageway for receiving the signal contact. The conductive plastic body includes a block with two opposite top and bottom surfaces, and plurality of conductive retaining passageways for receiving the grounding contacts, and a plurality of receiving cavities for receiving the columns are commonly formed in the conductive plastic body in a mixed manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Tzu-Yao Hwang, Ke-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 10553984
    Abstract: A plug jack of a terminal device for an external component and a terminal device are provided. The plug jack of a terminal device for an external component includes a slot provided with a mouth, and a conductive layer connected to a low level is arranged on an inner wall of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Na An, Nan Liu, Gang Ci, Hao Wu, Baolei Guo, Xinfeng Gong
  • Patent number: 10547123
    Abstract: A connector to connect to a liquid metal wire includes a hollow conduit configured to connect to a tubular wire casing, and further includes a reservoir including a solid metal conductor. The reservoir is to receive liquid metal to substantially fill a volume of the reservoir such that the liquid metal extends into the tubular wire casing. The tubular wire casing, filled with the liquid metal, becomes the liquid metal wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Teveri LLC
    Inventors: Gianluca Lazzi, Dulce Maria Altabella Lazzi, Kyle Loizos
  • Patent number: 10547151
    Abstract: Connector adapters that may have a MagSafe connector receptacle and a Universal Serial Bus Type-C connector insert. This may allow MagSafe chargers to be used to charge devices having Universal Serial Bus Type-C connector receptacles. This also may provide the breakaway characteristic of a MagSafe connector system for a device that does not include a MagSafe connector receptacle. Other adapters may have other types of magnetic connector receptacles and connector inserts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald G. Powers, Kevin M. Keeler
  • Patent number: 10535931
    Abstract: A wire connection device includes an electrical wire, an insulation displacement terminal and a stress relaxation member. The electrical wire includes a conductor and an insulation coating on an outer periphery of the conductor. The insulation displacement terminal has a slot in which the electrical wire is fitted. The insulation displacement terminal is connected to the electrical wire by both side portions of the slot being in direct contact with the conductor and pressing the conductor elastically and plastically. The stress relaxation member is fitted in the slot of the insulation displacement terminal to suppress deterioration of a stress applied to the electrical wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuki Yagyu
  • Patent number: 10522943
    Abstract: A versatile device for quickly and conveniently linking electronic apparatuses includes a pair of cooperating bodies with mating interfaces, and magnetically coupling elements having an adjustable degree of attraction and retention. Angularly keyed, selective geometrical interfaces between the bodies facilitate and assure correct relative orientation and mating. A light indicator attests to proper electrical connection between the bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Inventors: Calista A. Termini, Jennifer J. Termini, John W. Cramer, IV
  • Patent number: 10522956
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an electronic device including an electronic apparatus and an electric connector. The electronic apparatus includes an electric connection port. The electric connection port includes a concave trench, a first and second conductive strips are disposed in the concave trench. The first conductive strip and the second conductive strip respectively extend along an extending direction of the concave trench. The electric connector includes a first and second elastic contacts which are exposed and protruded outward. When the electric connector is plugged into the electric connection port, the first elastic contact is in contact with the first conductive strip, and the second elastic contact is in contact with the second conductive strip. The electric connection port may accommodate the electric connector, so that the electric connector may be selectively plugged to any position on the electric connection port along the extending direction of the concave trench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: PEGATRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yi-Wei Lee, Hsien-Tsung Lee, Shih-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 10522938
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a conductive shell, a dielectric holder, and electrical contacts. The conductive shell defines a cavity. The dielectric holder is disposed within the cavity. The electrical contacts are mounted to the dielectric holder within the cavity and are arranged in pairs. The pairs include multiple pairs in a cancellation arrangement and an isolated pair spaced apart from the pairs in the cancellation arrangement. A separation distance from the isolated pair to a closest neighboring electrical contact of the electrical contacts is greater than respective separation distances from each of the pairs in the cancellation arrangement to corresponding closest neighboring electrical contacts of the electrical contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Eric Walton, Graham Harry Smith, Jr., Michael Frank Cina
  • Patent number: 10511119
    Abstract: A waterproof connector (A) includes a housing (10), a sealing member (30) including a ring-shaped seal functioning portion (31) to be fit externally on the housing (10) and sandwiched portions (36L, 36S) projecting along an outer peripheral surface of the housing (10) from the seal functioning portion (31), and a holding member 40 for resiliently sandwiching the sandwiched portions (36L, 36S) between the outer peripheral surface of the housing (10) and the holding member (40) by being mounted on the housing (10). Since the sandwiched portions (36L, 36S) of the sealing member (30) are resiliently squeezed and sandwiched between the outer periphery of the housing (10) and the holding member (40), there is no possibility that the sealing member (30) is positionally deviated from the housing (10) in a circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Makino
  • Patent number: 10505299
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a contact module and a metal shell enclosing the contact module. The contact module includes an insulative housing and a number of conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing. The metal shell includes a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of lateral walls connecting the top wall and bottom wall for forming a receiving room. The metal shell further includes a pair of soldering portions vertically disposed at a rear edge of the lateral walls. Each soldering portion includes a beginning portion connected integrally with the lateral wall and a free-end portion spaced apart from the lateral wall in a transverse direction to form a gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10502004
    Abstract: An electrical submersible well pump motor has metal-to-metal sealing for the power cable electrical connection. A conductor passage in the motor head has a conical seat. A motor contact member electrically connected with the motor is located in the conductor passage below the seat. A metal tube has a lower portion that inserts into an upper portion of the conductor passage. A metal sealing ferrule encircles the tube, and a compression nut deforms the ferrule into sealing engagement with the seat and the tube. An electrical conductor extending from the power cable protrudes downward from the tube and has a conductor contact member on a lower end. The motor contact member and the conductor contact member stab into partial engagement with each other, defining a gap between terminal surfaces of the contact members that can close up during operation due to thermal growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Baker Hughes, a GE Company, LLC
    Inventors: John Knapp, Mark L. Bellmyer, James Christopher Clingman
  • Patent number: 10498094
    Abstract: A connector is equipped with a housing capable of being fitted in a mating connector, a plurality of terminals which are held in the housing and electrically connected to each other, and a noise reduction member or members which are held in the housing. The mating connector is connected to brunch lines among a trunk line and the brunch lines constituting an electric circuit. One of the plurality of terminals is a trunk-line connection terminal which is a pressure contact terminal and is electrically connected to the trunk line directly, and a remaining terminals are branch-line connection terminals which are male terminals or female terminals and are electrically connected to the respective branch lines when the housing is connected to the mating connector. The noise reduction member is not disposed at the trunk-line connection terminal, and the noise reduction member is disposed at the branch-line connection terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masashi Tsukamoto
  • Patent number: 10498064
    Abstract: A terminal includes a bottom wall (12), two side walls (13) rising from the bottom wall (12) and a ceiling wall (14) continuous from the side walls (13) and facing the bottom wall (12), thereby defining a rectangular tube (10) open in a front-rear direction. A resilient contact piece (22) is arranged inside the rectangular tube (10) and has a contact point (22A) facing the ceiling wall (14). Inclination restricting portions (24, 124) are arranged to be perpendicular to the ceiling wall (14) at a lateral side of the contact point (22A) and are provided with facing edge parts (24A, 124A) facing the ceiling wall (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinji Hirano
  • Patent number: 10490962
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for providing a bayonet electrical connector for connecting electrical components, such as for securely connecting a battery or other device to a charger, a bayonet based power source, or for providing a similar type connection for another device such as a radio, using minimal space requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: THALES DEFENSE & SECURITY, INC.
    Inventors: Mehrdad Badie, Jeffrey Dickens
  • Patent number: 10483682
    Abstract: An anti-abrasion connector includes a casing and a main body; the casing having a tube structure mounted around the main body; the main body having a terminal cavity for the terminal to be inserted therein; the casing having at least two protection members; the protection members disposed on an inner side of an edge of the casing; each of the protection members having a connection body and a protection body, respectively; the connection body formed in a curve-shaped structure and connected with the corresponding edge of the casing; the protection body formed in a cuboid shape and connected with the casing through the corresponding connection body. When the casing is mounted around the main body, each of the protection bodies covering an inner wall of the main body. With the optimized connector structure, the anti-abrasion capability during plugging of the connector is improved, enhancing stability of connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: AMPHENOL EAST ASIA ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY (SHEN ZHEN) CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yue Yu
  • Patent number: 10483693
    Abstract: A sliding contact assembly for a DC electrical outlet receives plug contacts of an electrical plug. The assembly includes sliding contact structure having a base and a plurality of electrical sliding contacts fixed to the base. A housing includes a first end wall having an internal top surface and second end wall opposing the first end wall. The second end wall has an internal bottom surface. The housing has a side wall structure defining an internal chamber between the top surface and the bottom surface. The sliding contact structure is disposed in the housing to be movable linearly within the chamber. A spring is disposed between the top surface of the housing and a surface of the base so that when the plug contacts are completely disconnected from the associated sliding contacts, the spring rapidly forces the sliding contacts away from the plug contacts, reducing arcing energy there-between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Zhiguo Pan, Yu Du, Emanuele Borla, Rajib Mikail, Hongrae Kim
  • Patent number: 10476202
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first electrical contact comprising a first aperture and a first insulation displacement opening. Centers of the first aperture and the first insulation displacement opening are aligned. The apparatus also includes an insulated housing comprising a first wire opening, a second wire opening, and a first electrical contact inlet extending through the first and second wire openings. The first electrical contact is at least partially inserted into the first electrical contact inlet such that at least a portion of the first aperture is aligned with the first wire opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: AVX CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brent Lybrand
  • Patent number: 10461476
    Abstract: A connector comprises a housing, a connector body disposed in the housing, a conductive terminal disposed in the connector body, and a conductive shielding sleeve. The conductive shielding sleeve is disposed in the housing such that at least a part of an outer end of the conductive shielding sleeve extends to an exterior of the housing when the conductive shielding sleeve is fully mounted in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiefeng Zhang, Hao Wang, Biao Pan, Bo Gao