Patents by Inventor Chih-Pi Cheng

Chih-Pi Cheng 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).

  • Publication number: 20150255905
    Abstract: A receptacle connection assembly includes a printed circuit board defining two spaced slots in a front edge portion with a mating tongue formed therebetween, a plurality of pads formed on two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue in a diagonally symmetrical manner for a flippable usage and a metallic shield including a tubular capsular portion assembled to the PCB to enclose the mating tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG
  • Publication number: 20150244098
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a mating tongue, a plurality of first contacts retained in the housing and exposed upon a first mating face of the mating tongue, and a plurality of second contacts retained in the housing and exposed upon a second mating face of the mating tongue. The first contacts offset with the second contacts in a front elevational view. The mating tongue defines a receiving room at a front portion thereof and extending in a transverse direction, the receiving room runs through the first mating face to directly face to the first contacts and synchronously runs through the second mating face to directly face to the second contacts, which is suitable for minimization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: HAO-YUN MA, CHIH-PI CHENG
  • Publication number: 20150229077
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes an insulative housing with a mating tongue, a plurality of contacts having front contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue and rear tail sections extending downwardly outside of the housing for mounting to a printed circuit board. A metallic shield encloses said housing and forms a capsular mating cavity with said mating tongue extending forwardly therein. A metallic shielding plate includes a front horizontal section embedded with the mating tongue to isolate the contacting sections of the contacts which are located on two different opposite surfaces, and a rear vertical section extending downwardly from a rear edge of the front horizontal section to isolate the tail sections of the contacts which are arranged in two rows with said rear vertical section therebewteen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, CHAO-CHIEH CHEN, CHUN-CHIEH YANG, HSUEH-LUNG HSIAO, YUAN ZHANG, WEI-HAO SU, STEPHEN SEDIO, MING-CHING CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150222059
    Abstract: A plug connector mateable with the receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing enclosed in a metallic shell, defining a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue, and equipped with a plurality of contacts on opposite sides in the vertical direction. A latch forms a pair of locking heads extending into two opposite lateral sides of the receiving cavity to lock with a shielding plate embedded within a mating tongue of the complementary receptacle connector during mating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, HSUEH-LUNG HSIAO, MING-LUN SZU, CHAO-CHIEH CHEN
  • Publication number: 20150207280
    Abstract: A plug connector mateable with the receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing enclosed in a metallic shell, defining a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue, and equipped with a plurality of contacts on opposite sides in the vertical direction. A latch forms a pair of locking heads extending into two opposite lateral sides of the receiving cavity to lock with a shielding plate embedded within a mating tongue of the complementary receptacle connector during mating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, WEI-HAO SU, CHENG-CHI YEH, YUAN ZHANG, MING-LUN SZU, CHI-TUNG KUAN
  • Publication number: 20150200504
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a housing defining a base and a mating tongue forwardly extending therefrom, a first row of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections and surface mount type tail sections for mounting on a PCB, a second row of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections and through hole type tail sections for mounting in the PCB; a metallic shield including a capsular segment surrounding the mating tongue to define a mating cavity and a rear wall covering a rear face of the base to surrounding the surface mount type tail sections and a lower bracket attached to the metallic shielding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, WEI-HAO SU, CHENG-CHI YEH, YUAN ZHANG, STEPHEN SEDIO, Hendrikus P.G. Van der Steen
  • Publication number: 20150194772
    Abstract: A plug connector for use with a complementary receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing defining a receiving cavity therein and a plurality of passageways on opposite of the mating cavity, a pair of terminal modules stacked on each other and a metallic shell. Each terminal module includes an insulator and a plurality of contacts loaded on insulator, the contacts includes contacting sections extending out of the insulator and tail extending out of the insulator. The insulators of the stacked terminal modules are located behind the insulative housing and the contacting sections of the contacts are disposed in the corresponding passageways. The terminal modules and the insulative housing are commonly enclosed in the metallic shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, SHUO-HSIU HSU, WEI-HAO SU
  • Publication number: 20150194768
    Abstract: An electrical connector adapted for mounting on a printed circuit board, includes an insulating housing including a rear base and a front mating tongue, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulating housing and including contacting sections arranged on the mating tongue and mounting tails out of the insulating housing a shielding retained on the insulating housing and including a front mating port section thereby defining a mating cavity between the mating port section and the mating tongue and a metallic bracket attached on the shielding. The bracket defines a pair first supporting legs adjacent to the mating port sections which has no supporting leg split therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, WEI-HAO SU, SHUO-HSIU HSU
  • Publication number: 20150194770
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a forwardly extending mating tongue, a plurality of contacts with contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and a metallic shield enclosing the insulative housing to define a mating cavity. A metallic shielding plate is embedded within the mating tongue and forms a pair of locking notches in two opposite lateral sides. The mating tongue further includes in two opposite lateral sides a pair of recesses aligned with and intimately located inside of the pair of locking notches, respectively, in the transverse direction. The housing and the corresponding contacts commonly form the terminal module which is composed of an upper terminal module, a lower terminal module commonly sandwiching a shielding plate module therebetween in the vertical direction. The metallic shield optionally defines a clip structure by folding an extension on a rear lower edge thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, CHIH-HSIEN CHOU, SHUO-HSIU HSU, CHIH-KAI YANG
  • Publication number: 20150171561
    Abstract: A plug connector includes an insulative housing with mating slot, contacts disposed in the housing by two sides of the mating slot, and a pair of side arms located by two opposite ends of the mating slot in a horizontal transverse direction. a receptacle connector includes an insulative housing defining a horizontal mating tongue; contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue; and a monolithic horizontal metallic shielding plate disposed and extending substantially fully the mating tongue. The shielding plate defines side protruding edge sections exposed outside of corresponding side edges of the mating tongue and a notch structure on each side protruding edge section, the pair of side arms each defines a hook structure to engagement with the notch structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, CHIH-KAI YANG
  • Publication number: 20150171574
    Abstract: A receptacle connector mounted to a PCB, includes an insulative housing defining a mating tongue and a metallic shell enclosing the housing to form a mating cavity in which said mating tongue forwardly extends. A metallic shielding plate is embedded within a mid-level of the mating tongue wherein a leg of the shielding plate and a tail of an outermost grounding contact share the same conductive grounding region on the PCB. A plug connector mateable with the receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing defining a mating cavity to receive the mating tongue and equipped with a plurality of contacts and a metallic latch beside the mating cavity, wherein a tail of one grounding contact and a leg of the latch share the same conductive grounding region on a paddle card, which is behind the mating cavity and on which tails of the contacts are electrically and mechanically mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, CHIEN-PING KAO, WEI-HAO SU, AN-JEN YANG, DE-CHENG ZOU, CHIH-HSIEN CHOU
  • Publication number: 20150171573
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a flippable pug connector for connecting with a cable. The receptacle connector includes a terminal module assembly defining a mating tongue loading with two rows of contacts on opposing surface of the mating tongue and a metallic shell retained on the terminal module assembly and enclosing the mating tongue, thereby defining a mating cavity between the metallic shell and the mating tongue. The plug connector includes an insulating housing defining a center slot with side walls and two rows of contacts on the side walls and a metallic shell attached to an outer periphery of the insulating housing. The mating cavity of the receptacle connector is configured to be symmetrical to a horizontal center line without orientation limits so as to allow the plug connector to be mated in two opposite orientations, and the center slot receives the mating tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, SHUO-HSIU HSU, CHIH-KAI YANG, AN-JEN YANG
  • Publication number: 20150126069
    Abstract: A flappable plug connector and a complementary receptacle connector are provided wherein the plug connector defining a mating tongue, is made with a pair of insert molding housings which are associated with the contacts thereof, commonly sandwiching a paddle card therebetween with a pair of power contacts exposed on two opposite lateral sides to form a sub-assembly. The corresponding receptacle connector defines a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue of the plug connector. The plug connector defines a V-Bus clip surrounding the mating tongue for power transfer and the receptacle connector includes a pair of deflectable power contacts by two sides of the receiving cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, JIM ZHAO, CHIH-PI CHENG, CHUN-YI CHANG, STEPHEN SEDIO
  • Publication number: 20150093936
    Abstract: A receptacle connector mounted to the printed circuit board, includes an insulative housing defining a mating tongue and a metallic shell enclosing the housing to form a mating cavity in which said mating tongue forwardly extends. A complementary plug connector includes a shell with a bull-nose tip. A metallic piece is mounted around a root of the mating tongue and equipped with a plurality of spring tangs to contact the relatively rigid bull-nose tip of the shell of the complementary connector for EMI/RFI protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, STEPHEN SEDIO, CHIH-PI CHENG, YUAN ZHANG, DE-CHENG ZOU, AN-JEN YANG
  • Patent number: 8979575
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for use with an electronic package, includes an electrical connector having a plurality of contacts, and an assistant heat sink mounted upon the electrical connector and having an opening to allow the electronic package connecting with the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Pi Cheng, Andrew Cheng
  • Publication number: 20150072562
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a mating tongue defining top and bottom surfaces thereon. Each surface is provided with a plurality of conductors in one row wherein the characters/categories of the conductors on the top surface are sequentially arranged to be same with those on the bottom surface with a pair of power conductors in two notches at two lateral side edges. The corresponding receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board, defines a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue therein. Opposite top and bottom rows of contacts are respectively located by upper and bottom sides of the receiving cavity and categorized essentially in a same sequence with the conductors of the plug connector for respectively connecting to the corresponding conductive pads, respectively. A pair of power contacts are located by two lateral sides of the receiving cavity to couple to the corresponding power conductor portions in the notches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, CHUN-YI CHANG, STEPHEN SEDIO, MING-LUN SZU
  • Publication number: 20150044886
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a mating tongue defining top and bottom surfaces thereon. Each surface is provided with a plurality of conductors in one row wherein the characters/categories of the conductors on the top surface are sequentially arranged to be same with those on the bottom surface with a pair of power conductors in two notches at two lateral side edges. The corresponding receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board, defines a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue therein. Opposite top and bottom rows of contacts are respectively located by upper and bottom sides of the receiving cavity and categorized essentially in a same sequence with the conductors of the plug connector for respectively connecting to the corresponding conductive pads, respectively. A pair of power contacts are located by two lateral sides of the receiving cavity to couple to the corresponding power conductor portions in the notches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, STEPHEN SEDIO, CHUN-YI CHANG, PEI TSAO, WEI-HAO SU
  • Publication number: 20150024612
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a connector tab connected to and extending longitudinally away from a rear body, the tab includes opposite first and second major surfaces. A first plurality of contacts is carried by the tab on the first major surface and a second plurality of contacts is carried by the tab on the second major surface. The contacts include differential signal pairs. Each pair of the differential signal pairs is consisting of two individual contacts and said two contacts are located adjacent to each other but at the first and second main surface respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, STEPHEN SEDIO, CHUN-YI CHANG, CHIH-PI CHENG
  • Publication number: 20140377969
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a base seat, a plurality of contacts fixed in the base seat and a shielding shell surrounding the base seat. The shielding shell definies a body portion retained in the base seat, a rear wall attached the rear face of the base seat, a pair of first soldering portions extending outside of the body portion and a pair of second soldering portions bending from the rear wall. The first soldering portion and the corresponding second soldering portion are adjacent to each other to form a same soldering position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: CHIH-PI CHENG, KUO-CHUN HSU
  • Patent number: D737211
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Stephen Sedio