Patents by Inventor Chad Williams

Chad Williams has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • ELECTRICAL CABLE
    Publication number: 20200118714
    Abstract: An electrical cable includes a conductor assembly having a first conductor, a second conductor, a first insulator surrounding the first conductor and a second insulator surrounding the second conductor. The first insulator has a first thickness between the first conductor and an outer surface. The second insulator has a second thickness between the second conductor and an outer surface. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness. A cable shield is wrapped around the conductor assembly and engages the outer surface of the first insulator along a first segment and engaging the outer surface of the second insulator along a second segment. The cable shield has an inner edge and a flap covering the inner edge. The cable shield forms a void at the inner edge located closer to the first conductor than the second conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Craig Warren Hornung, Megha Shanbhag, Chad William Morgan
  • ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR AND CONNECTOR SYSTEM HAVING PLATED GROUND SHIELDS
    Publication number: 20200106202
    Abstract: Electrical connector includes a housing, signal contacts, and ground shields. The signal contacts are coupled to the housing and positioned for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating connector. The ground shields are coupled to the housing and at least partially surround the signal contacts to shield the signal contacts. The ground shields are plated with a ground-material composition along one or more contact segments of the ground shields that come into compression engagement with one or more other conductive members. The ground-material composition includes a tin-nickel (Sn/Ni) alloy plating layer. The signal contacts are plated with a signal-material composition that is different than the ground-material composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Rodney Ivan Martens, Chad William Morgan, Suvrat Bhargava
  • Flashlights & Methods of Use
    Publication number: 20200103094
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a flashlight capable of generating and projecting multiple colors within one flashlight unit where said flashlight contains an extendable lens, a light source, a moveable member positionable at various locations to be moved across said light source, a rechargeable power source and a tail cap switch for ‘on’ and ‘off’ functions as well as dimming and brightening of a light source beam. The moveable member is slidably fixed to move perpendicular to a light source whereby movement to designated positions allows communication displaying different color light sources is positioned between a power source and a flashlight lens whereby a releasably-urging spring and rotatable, keyed cam ring serve to compress and release said spring to allow for color change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Chad William Stevenson, Bobby John Housos, Kyle Kenneth Fabian
  • Electrical cable
    Patent number: 10600536
    Abstract: An electrical cable includes a conductor assembly having a first conductor, a second conductor, a first insulator surrounding the first conductor and a second insulator surrounding the second conductor. The first insulator has a first thickness between the first conductor and an outer surface. The second insulator has a second thickness between the second conductor and an outer surface. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness. A cable shield is wrapped around the conductor assembly and engages the outer surface of the first insulator along a first segment and engaging the outer surface of the second insulator along a second segment. The cable shield has an inner edge and a flap covering the inner edge. The cable shield forms a void at the inner edge located closer to the first conductor than the second conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Craig Warren Hornung, Megha Shanbhag, Chad William Morgan
  • Electrical connector and electrical contact configured to reduce resonance
    Patent number: 10594085
    Abstract: Electrical contact includes a base portion and a mating portion having a leading end of the electrical contact. The mating portion includes a contact finger coupled to the base portion and extends between the base portion and the leading end. The contact finger has an engagement surface that is shaped to define a primary contact zone. The electrical contact also includes a resonance-control protrusion shaped to define a stub-contact zone. The stub-contact zone is positioned at the base portion or between the base portion and the primary contact zone. The primary contact zone and the stub-contact zone are configured to engage another contact. The stub-contact zone is configured to impede electrical resonance along a stub portion of the other contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Chad William Morgan, Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Douglas Edward Shirk
  • Circuit card assemblies for a communication system
    Patent number: 10587064
    Abstract: A circuit card assembly includes an electrical connector having a housing mounted to a PCB. The housing has a mounting end and a mating end extending between a front and a rear. The housing has a cavity at the mating end configured to receive a second electrical connector. The housing holds deflectable contacts having spring beams at the mating end having mating interfaces. The circuit card assembly includes a contact actuator in the cavity engaging the spring beams and moving the spring beams between compressed positions and released positions. The mating interfaces of the spring beams are spaced apart from the second electrical connector in the compressed positions and are configured to engage and electrically connect with the second electrical connector in the released positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan
  • Sensing mechanism for valve operation
    Patent number: 10578228
    Abstract: A flush valve assembly has a pilot valve and a drive train for selective driving the pilot valve between an open position and a closed position. The drive train has a drive gear coupled to a motor for rotating the drive gear and a valve gear coupled to the pilot valve and intermeshing with the drive gear. At least one of the drive gear and the valve gear have a flag extending outwardly therefrom. A sensor positioned to detect the flag and establish a rotational position of the drive gear and the valve gear to thereby establish an opened or closed position of the pilot valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: ZURN INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Marc G. Block, Chad Williams, Alan Kaid, Michael G. Askew
  • Shielding structure for a contact module of an electrical connector
    Patent number: 10566740
    Abstract: A contact module includes a dielectric holder holding signal contacts having mating portions extending forward of the dielectric holder. A shield structure is coupled to the dielectric holder providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The shield structure has first and second ground shields having corresponding mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder. The shield structure has ground blades extending between the first and second ground shields having mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder at least one of above or below the mating portions of the signal contacts. The ground blades electrically connect the mating portions of the first ground shield and the mating portions of the second ground shield immediately forward of the mating end of dielectric holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Justin Dennis Pickel, Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Timothy Robert Minnick, Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli
  • Electrical connector for a circuit card assembly of a communication system
    Patent number: 10553968
    Abstract: An electrical connector for a circuit card assembly includes a receptacle housing and a mating housing movable relative to the receptacle housing in a connector mating direction. The electrical connector includes contact modules each having a leadframe having signal contacts with a mating conductor, a mounting conductor and a flexible conductor between the mating conductor and the mounting conductor. Each contact module includes an inner dielectric body and an outer dielectric body separate and discrete from the inner dielectric body. The flexible conductors extend between the inner and outer dielectric bodies to allow relative movement of the inner dielectric body in the connector mating direction relative to the outer dielectric body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan
  • Vertical communication system
    Patent number: 10547133
    Abstract: A communication system includes a receptacle connector assembly and a pluggable module. The receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage and a communication connector received in the receptacle cage and mounted to a host circuit board. The communication connector includes a connector housing holding contacts and extending between a front and a rear with a bottom of the connector housing mounted to the host circuit board and a longitudinal card slot open at a top of the connector housing. The pluggable module is received in the module channel in a loading direction and includes a module body and a plug board having a mating edge. The plug board is held in the module body in a vertical orientation with the mating edge at a bottom of the plug board being received in the card slot with the contact pads electrically coupled to corresponding contacts of the communication connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan
  • Circuit card assemblies for a communication system
    Patent number: 10522925
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first circuit card assembly having a first PCB and a first electrical connector with first contacts and a second circuit card assembly having a second PCB and a second electrical connector with second contacts. At least one of the PCBs include a slot configured to receive the other PCB when mated in a board mating direction. The first electrical connector is mated to the second electrical connector in a connector mating direction perpendicular to the board mating direction. The first contacts are mated to the second contacts in a contact mating direction as the first PCB and the second PCB are mated in the board mating direction and as the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector are mated in the connector mating direction. The contact mating direction is non-parallel to the board mating axis and non-parallel to the connector mating axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Jeffrey Sypolt, Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Margaret Mahoney Fernandes
  • Airflow fairings for circuit card assemblies of a communication system
    Patent number: 10506737
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector having a mating end and a mounting end mounted to a PCB. The electrical connector assembly includes an airflow fairing extending rearward from the electrical connector. The airflow fairing has a front end and a rear end. The airflow fairing has a curved profile between the front end and the rear end having a front cross-sectional area at the front end and a rear cross-sectional area at the rear end less than the front cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Chad William Morgan
  • ELECTRICAL CABLE
    Publication number: 20190348196
    Abstract: An electrical cable includes a conductor assembly having a first conductor, a second conductor and an insulator surrounding the first conductor and the second conductor. The insulator has an outer surface. The conductor assembly extends along a longitudinal axis for a length of the electrical cable. The first conductor has a first core and a first conductive layer on the first core. The second conductor has a second core and a second conductive layer on the second core. The first and second cores are dielectric. The electrical cable includes a cable shield around the conductor assembly engaging the outer surface of the insulator and providing electrical shielding for the first and second conductors. The cable shield extends along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Craig Warren Hornung, Chad William Morgan
  • CIRCUIT CARD ASSEMBLIES FOR A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190319384
    Abstract: A communication system includes a first circuit card assembly having a first PCB including a first slot and a first electrical connector mounted to the first PCB along the first slot and having a first mating end. The communication system includes a second circuit card assembly having a second PCB and a second electrical connector mounted to the second PCB and having a second mating end. The first and second circuit card assemblies are mated along a board mating axis parallel to the first slot with the first PCB oriented perpendicular to the second PCB. The first and second mating ends are oriented parallel to the board mating axis. The second PCB is received in the first slot to align the second mating end with the first mating end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: John Joseph Consoli, Chad William Morgan
  • ELECTRICAL CABLE
    Publication number: 20190318841
    Abstract: An electrical cable includes a conductor assembly having a first conductor, a second conductor and an insulator surrounding the first conductor and the second conductor. The insulator has an outer surface and extends along a longitudinal axis for a length of the electrical cable. The conductor assembly has a coating layer on the outer surface of the insulator being conductive defining an inner electrical shield of the electrical cable. A cable shield is wrapped around the conductor assembly and has an inner edge and an outer edge. The outer edge is wrapped over the inner edge to form a flap covering the inner edge and extending along the longitudinal axis. The cable shield engages the inner electrical shield and forms an outer electrical shield exterior of the inner electrical shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Craig Warren Hornung, Chad William Morgan
  • PROCESS AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING THE SPLIT OF LIQUID REFLUX IN A DIVIDED WALL COLUMN
    Publication number: 20190299116
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the fractionation technology that is used to create purified phenol and acetone products. More specifically, the present invention relates to a fractionation technology that is used to create crude acetone and crude phenol streams using a dividing wall column intended to remove cumene, alpha-methyl styrene and water from the product side of the wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Russell C. Schulz, Chad A. Williams, James W. Harris, Nikunj Manubhai Patel
  • SHIELDING STRUCTURE FOR A CONTACT MODULE OF AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20190305486
    Abstract: A contact module includes a dielectric holder holding signal contacts having mating portions extending forward of the dielectric holder. A shield structure is coupled to the dielectric holder providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. The shield structure has first and second ground shields having corresponding mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder. The shield structure has ground blades extending between the first and second ground shields having mating portions extending forward of the mating end of the dielectric holder at least one of above or below the mating portions of the signal contacts. The ground blades electrically connect the mating portions of the first ground shield and the mating portions of the second ground shield immediately forward of the mating end of dielectric holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Justin Dennis Pickel, Jeffrey Byron McClinton, Timothy Robert Minnick, Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli
  • Trim plug
    Patent number: D858117
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Chad William Brackenridge, Kristopher Allen Gillhespy, Colton Daniel Wilson
  • Wrench
    Patent number: D869253
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Inventor: Chad William Wooters
  • Zipper pull
    Patent number: D875601
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Inventor: Chad William Wooters