Patents by Inventor David Tso-Chin Ko
David Tso-Chin Ko 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).
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Publication number: 20110230088Abstract: A cable assembly includes a housing including a main body and a piece of mushy insulation block on the housing, a plurality of contacts receiving in the main body of the housing, and a plurality of cable. Each of the cable includes at least an inner conductor and an outer insulation layer. The inner conductors are soldered to the contacts and the outer insulation layer each has a part fixed in the mushy insulation block of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2010Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: DAVID (Tso-Chin) KO, JIM ZHAO
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Patent number: 7878862Abstract: An electrical connector (100), includes an insulative housing (10), a plurality of conductive contacts (20) retained in the insulative housing, an insulative base (60) secured to the insulative housing, a subsidiary printed circuit board (30) connecting with the conductive contacts, a flexible printed circuit board (50) electrically connecting with the subsidiary printed circuit board, and a shielding shell (70) shielding peripherally around the insulative housing and the insulative base. The subsidiary printed circuit board is attached to the insulative base. A gap (609) is defined between a portion of the insulative base and an edge of the subsidiary printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board has a first strip portion (503) extending out of the insulative base, a second strip portion (501) connecting with the subsidiary printed circuit board, and a folded portion (505) between the two strip portions. The folded portion is received in the gap.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2010Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hou-Yu Shi, David Tso-Chin Ko
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Publication number: 20110003508Abstract: An electrical connector (100), includes an insulative housing (10), a plurality of conductive contacts (20) retained in the insulative housing, an insulative base (60) secured to the insulative housing, a subsidiary printed circuit board (30) connecting with the conductive contacts, a flexible printed circuit board (50) electrically connecting with the subsidiary printed circuit board, and a shielding shell (70) shielding peripherally around the insulative housing and the insulative base. The subsidiary printed circuit board is attached to the insulative base. A gap (609) is defined between a portion of the insulative base and an edge of the subsidiary printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board has a first strip portion (503) extending out of the insulative base, a second strip portion (501) connecting with the subsidiary printed circuit board, and a folded portion (505) between the two strip portions. The folded portion is received in the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: HOU-YU SHI, David Tso-Chin Ko
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Patent number: 7845965Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing (1) with a number of passages (101), a shell (3) covering the insulative housing, a number of contacts (2) received in the passages of the insulative housing, and a spacer (5) assembled to the insulative housing. The contact includes a retaining portion (22), an extending portion (25) extending form the retaining portion and a soldering portion (23) bending from the end of the extending portion, and the all soldering portions are coplanar. The spacer includes a pressing portion (52) and a vertical wall (53). The pressing portion presses on the retaining portion of the contact, and the vertical wall engages with the soldering portion of the contact.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2009Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventor: David Tso-Chin Ko
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Publication number: 20100291804Abstract: A cable connector assembly (200) includes a body portion (1) comprising a cylindrical first connector (11) and a cylindrical second connector (12), an insulative housing (2) connecting the first and second connectors (11, 12) together along a transverse direction thereof, a cable (5) connected with the body portion (1) and an insulative cover (4) over-molded on an electrical connection area between the body portion (1) and the cable (5). The first and second connectors (11, 12) each have a contact (3) located at a central axis thereof. The insulative housing (2) comprises an extending portion (23) extending along a back to front direction perpendicular to the transverse direction, the extending portion (23) locates between the first and second connectors (11, 12).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: WEI ZHANG, HOU-YU SHI, DAVID Tso-Chin KO
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Patent number: 7819675Abstract: An cable assembly (100) includes an insulated housing (1) extending along a front-to-back direction; a plurality of contacts (2) arranged in a row and supported by the insulated housing, said contacts including three grounding contact members spaced by two pair of signal contact members; a cable (4) including two juxtaposed differential wire pairs (41) respectively enclosed by conductive shielding portions (43); a grounding member (3) including a main portion (31), three finger portions (33) extending forwardly from a front side of the main portion and two arm portions (32) formed at lateral sides of a rear segment of the main portion, said grounding member (3) securely engaged with the cable via the two arm portions thereof griping the conductive shielding portions; and the finger portions soldered to the grounding contact members, and inner conductors of the differential pairs soldered to the signal contact members, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2009Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: David Tso-Chin Ko, Yen-Chao Tsai, Tao Wang
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Patent number: 7794271Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulator (1), a plurality of conductive terminals (2) held in the insulator, a plurality of wires (4), a spacer (3) and a metal shell (6, 7). Each wire comprises an inner conductor (41) conductively connecting with the terminals, and at least one of the wires is a coaxial cable (4a) which has a shielding braid layer (43) enclosing the corresponding inner conductor. The spacer is mounted on the insulator and used for supporting the wires. The spacer comprises an inner surface with thereof a plurality of slots (31) for receiving the responding wires and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, and a through-hole (32) is formed through the inner and outer surfaces. The metal shell is mounted on and covers the insulator. The spring finger (75) is formed integrate with the metal shell and extends inwards, and the spring finger passes through the through-hole to electrically connect with the shielding braid of the coaxial cable.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2008Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lin Wu, David Tso-Chin Ko, Wei-Ya Cheng, Hai-Wei Wang
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Patent number: 7758388Abstract: An electrical connector assembly comprises a receptacle connector (100) and a plug connector (200) mating with the receptacle connector. The receptacle connector (100) has a receptacle housing (10) and a plurality of receptacle contacts (12) received in the receptacle housing, and the receptacle housing comprises a base portion (102) and an expansion portion (104) extending outwards from the base portion. The plug connector comprises a plug housing (20) and a plurality of plug contacts (21) retained in the plug housing. Each of the receptacle contacts and the plug contacts define a mating portion (121, 211), a retention portion (123, 213) retained with associated housing and a tail portion (124, 214) extending beyond the associated housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Bin Xu, Su-Feng Liu, David Tso-Chin Ko
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Patent number: 7736156Abstract: A connector assembly (100) adapted for electrically connecting with a complementary connector along a mating direction includes an insulative housing (2) defining a mating port, a number of contacts (3) disposed in the housing, a circuit board (4) located on a rear side of the housing and including a front surface facing to the rear side of the housing and an opposite rear surface, and a number of solder tails (8) located behind the rear surface of the circuit board and electrically connecting the contacts with the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2007Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: David (Tso-Chin) Ko
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Publication number: 20100120294Abstract: A cable connector assembly (200) includes an electrical connector (100), a cable (91) connected with the electrical connector and an insulated cover (92) over-molded on an electrical connection between the electrical connector and the cable. The electrical connector includes a first connector (1) and a second connector (2), each of the first connector and the second connector have a contact, a middle tube enclosing the contact and an outer tube enclosing the middle tube. A first insulated housing (70) is defined between the outer tube and the middle tube of the first connector, and a second insulated housing (80) is defined between the outer tube and the middle tube of the second connector, the first insulated housing is unitarily molded with the second insulated housing. The insulated cover comprises a pair of receiving channels (921, 922).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2009Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: DAVID Tso-Chin Ko, HOU-YU Shi
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Publication number: 20100093217Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes a housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) receiving in the housing, a metal shell (6), enclosing the housing and including two stopping tabs (620) formed at two sides of thereof, and two insulative cover (4,5), comprising cooperation structure (42) respectively to interfere with the two side of the stopping tabs and assembling to the metal shell along different directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: HOU-YU SHI, DAVID Tso-Chin KO, CHANG-MAO LI
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Publication number: 20100093218Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) includes an insulative housing (22) having a plurality of contacts received therein, a cable assembly (3) connected with the contacts by a printed circuit board (5), an upper shielding member (11) and a lower shielding member (12) together with the upper shielding member to form a receiving space (10). Each of the upper shielding member and the lower shielding member have a base portion (111, 121) and a plurality of vertical walls (113, 114, 115, 123, 124, 125) extending from the base portion. The lower shielding member (12) defines a stopping portion (126) to prevent the upper shielding member (11) from moving along a transverse direction. The stopping portion (126) is of U-shaped and comprises a first restricting flake (1261) and a second restricting flake (1262), and a corresponding vertical wall (113) of the upper shielding member is located between the first restricting flake (1261) and the second restricting flake (1262).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2009Publication date: April 15, 2010Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Xiao-Kang ZHANG, Hou-Yu SHI, David Tso-Chin KO
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Publication number: 20100081335Abstract: A cable assembly includes an insulation housing, a plurality of contacts, a plurality of wires and a spacer. The housing includes a mating portion, a pair of flat portions extending from two sides of the mating portion, and a receiving space formed between the two flat portions. Each of the contacts is received in the housing and has a rear surface. The wires are corresponding to the contacts and each wire is connected its corresponding contact. The spacer is attached to the housing and has a front surface attached to the rear surface of the contact. The spacer includes a plurality of slots received in the receiving space. And the wires are respectively received in the slots.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2009Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: DAVID (Tso-Chin) KO
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Patent number: 7682184Abstract: An FFC connector according to the present invention includes a FFC (1) and an insulator (3). The FFC defines upper and lower surfaces (10) and (11) opposite to each other, a number of gold fingers (101) formed with the upper surface and exposed outside to contact with a complementary connector, and a reinforcement plate (4) held on the lower surface and supporting the gold fingers during mating with the complementary connector. The insulator abuts against the upper surface of the FFC and has a receiving room (310) for receiving the FFC.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: David Tso-Chin Ko, Jin-Cheng Yao, Guo-Hua Yang
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Publication number: 20100068939Abstract: An electrical connector assembly comprises a receptacle connector (100) and a plug connector (200) mating with the receptacle connector. The receptacle connector (100) has a receptacle housing (10) and a plurality of receptacle contacts (12) received in the receptacle housing, and the receptacle housing comprises a base portion (102) and an expansion portion (104) extending outwards from the base portion. The plug connector comprises a plug housing (20) and a plurality of plug contacts (21) retained in the plug housing. Each of the receptacle contacts and the plug contacts define a mating portion (121, 211), a retention portion (123, 213) retained with associated housing and a tail portion (124, 214) extending beyond the associated housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventors: Bin Xu, Su-Feng Liu, David Tso-Chin Ko
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Publication number: 20100065326Abstract: A cable assembly (100) comprises a mating member (3), a print circuit board (2), a LED (24) attached to the print circuit board, a cable (6), a light pipe (4) having a visible area (431), an insulative shell (1), an inner cover (7), and a ring (5) located in the light pipe and neighboring to the light pipe. The cable has a positive wire (61) and a negative wire (62) connected with the mating member (3), and a strain relief portion (64) molded on the wires. A detective contact (631) is connecting with the cable. The insulative shell encloses the print circuit board, the cable and the mating member. The visible area (431) is exposed out of the insulative shell. The inner cover is over-molded on a junction between the cable and the detective contact. The ring is enclosing one of the inner cover and the strain relief portion, and the ring is lighter in color than the inner cover or the strain relief portion enclosed by the ring.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2009Publication date: March 18, 2010Inventor: David (Tso-Chin) Ko
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Patent number: 7651375Abstract: A cable assembly in accordance with the present invention comprises an electrical connector including an insulative housing defining a mating portion and a pair of positioning portions extending rearwardly from the mating portion, a plurality of terminals received in the insulative housing and at least one metal shell surrounded the insulative housing; a cable electrically terminated to the terminals; and a rear cover substantially enveloping the insulative housing and snugly supported by the positioning portions.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., LtdInventors: Jiang-Hua Zhu, David Tso-Chin Ko, Hai-Wei Wang, Xiao-Li Li
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Publication number: 20100009574Abstract: An electrical interconnection device (100) includes a first connector (10), a second connector (20) defining a positioning member (25), a connecting member (30), a cover (50) enclosing the first connector and the second connector to combine therebetween and a restricting member (40) assembled to the first connector. The connecting member (30) electrically connects the first connector with the second connector. The restricting member (40) comprises a plate (41) mounted to the first connector and an elastic portion (44) connected to the plate, said elastic portion has at least two elastic arms spaced from one another, the elastic arms being selectively locked into positioning grooves (253) of the positioning member, while said first connector and second connector are swiveled.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: HOU-YU SHI, DAVID Tso-Chin KO
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Patent number: 7641507Abstract: A cable connector includes an insulative housing, some terminals, an insert and a shield. The insulative housing includes a main body, a pair of side arms respectively rearward extending from the middle of the two sides of the main body to form a receiving space between the two side arms. The forward section of said main body is a mating portion with some evenly disposed grooves. The rearward section of said main body is a connecting portion with some troughs corresponding to the grooves. Each side arm includes two pair of separated receiving slots on the tail thereof to be connected to the receiving space. Each of terminals includes a mating piece on the forward part thereof to be received in the mating portion and a connecting piece on the rearward part thereof to be received in the connecting portion. The insert includes a main body with a grid to form some passages corresponding to the troughs of the housing and two pair of fastening portions respectively extending from two sides of the main body.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2008Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Inc. Co., Ltd.Inventor: David Tso-Chin Ko
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Publication number: 20090325417Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing(1) with a number of passages(101), a shell(3) covering the insulative housing, a number of contacts(2) received in the passages of the insulative housing, and a spacer(5) assembled to the insulative housing. The contact includes a retaining portion(22), an extending portion(25) extending form the retaining portion and a soldering portion(23) bending from the end of the extending portion, and the all soldering portions are coplanar. The spacer includes a pressing portion(52) and a vertical wall(53). The pressing portion presses on the retaining portion of the contact, and the vertical wall engages with the soldering portion of the contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventor: DAVID TSO-CHIN KO