Patents by Inventor Fan-Bo Meng

Fan-Bo Meng 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: 20180062324
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (300) includes: a cable end connector (100) including an insulative support (21), plural contacts (22) insert molded with the insulative support, and a front insulative body (10) mounted to the insulative support, the plural contacts including a pair of USB 2.0 signal contacts (220), plural power contacts (221), plural ground contacts (222), and a detection contact (223), the plural power contacts having a solder tail (2211), plural ground contacts having a solder tail (2221), the detection contact having a solder tail (2230); and a cable (200) including a plurality of wires (201) directly connected to each of the two USB 2.0 signal contacts, one of the power contacts, and one of the ground contacts, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, FAN-BO MENG
  • Publication number: 20180040969
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: a mating portion; a flat cable electrically connecting with the mating portion, the flat cable having plural wires and an outer boot enclosed the wires, the wires including a first wire and a second wire; an inner mold enclosing a part of the mating portion and a part of the flat cable; and a shielding shell enclosed the inner mold, wherein the first wire is a core wire directly enclosed by the outer boot and the second wire comprises a core wire and an insulative layer enclosing the associated core wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, FAN-BO MENG
  • Publication number: 20180001407
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: an electrical connector; and a cable electrically connected with the electrical connector, the cable including plural high-speed wires for transmitting high-speed signal, a pair of low-speed wires for transmitting low-speed signal, a pair of power wires for transmitting power signal, a pair of standby wires, a detection wire for transmitting detection signal, and a power supply wire; wherein the pair of standby wires, the detection wire, and the power supply wire are arranged in a line along a horizontal direction; the high-speed wires are evenly distributed on both sides of the line along a thickness direction vertical to the horizontal direction; the low-speed wires are disposed on a side of the line along the thickness direction; and the power wires are disposed on another side of the line along the thickness direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, FAN-BO MENG
  • Patent number: 9843143
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly comprises a cable including a number of wires, and an electrical connector including a spacer positioning the cable, the spacer defines a front face and a rear face, a number of through holes positioning the wires, and a respective midfellow formed between every two adjacent through holes, wherein a notch is defined on the midfellows in the rear face to make the through holes in fluid communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9780495
    Abstract: A plug connector assembly includes: a mating member; a cable; a printed circuit board (PCB) interconnected between the mating member and the cable; a metal shell enclosing the PCB, a rear of the mating member, and a front of the cable, the metal shell including an upper shell part and a lower shell part both welded to the rear of the mating member; and an insulative outer shell enclosing the metal shell, the rear of the mating member, and the front of the cable, wherein the upper shell part is welded to the lower shell part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9779848
    Abstract: A flat cable (100) includes an insulative carrier (20) extending along a front-to-back direction, a set of signal conductors (10) held by the insulative carrier, and a metal grid layer (30) attached to the insulative carrier. The insulative carrier has a top face facing upwardly and a bottom face facing downwardly. The insulative carrier defines a set of receiving passageways (210) disposed along a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction. The set of signal conductors extend along the front-to-back direction and have different pitches along the transverse direction. The metal grid layer is attached to the top face or the bottom face. The metal grid layer has different densities along the front-to-back direction in order to make the impedance of the flat cable consistent along the front-to-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9751144
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a PCB defining some second conductive pads disposed on a rear end portion of the PCB and some third conductive pads disposed behind the second conductive pads, a cable defining a number of coaxial wires and single wires, and a housing. Each coaxial wire has a first inner conductor, an inner insulative layer enclosing the first inner conductor, a metal braided layer soldered to the corresponding third conductive pads, and an outer insulative layer. Part of the coaxial wires and single wires adjacent to the coaxial wires are disposed on at least one surface of the PCB. Each single wire has a second conductor, a first insulative layer, and a second insulative layer. The first insulative layer is made of heat-resisting material to prevent the adjacent single wires from being damaged when soldering the metal braided layer of the coaxial wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Publication number: 20170207580
    Abstract: A plug connector assembly includes: a mating member; a cable; a printed circuit board (PCB) interconnected between the mating member and the cable; a metal shell enclosing the PCB, a rear of the mating member, and a front of the cable, the metal shell including an upper shell part and a lower shell part both welded to the rear of the mating member; and an insulative outer shell enclosing the metal shell, the rear of the mating member, and the front of the cable, wherein the upper shell part is welded to the lower shell part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, FAN-BO MENG
  • Publication number: 20170207589
    Abstract: A cable includes: plural wires including plural pairs of differential signal wires, a detection signal wire, at least one auxiliary signal wire, a plurality of low speed signal wires, and two power wires arranged adjacent to the low speed signal wires; and a jacket enclosing the plurality of wires; wherein the differential signal wires, the detection signal wire, and the at least one auxiliary signal wire are arranged at an outer periphery of and enclosing the low speed signal wires and the two power wires, and every two adjacent differential signal wire pairs are separated by one of the detection signal wire and the at least one auxiliary signal wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, FAN-BO MENG
  • Patent number: 9705241
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a cable connector assembly including the steps of: connecting a mating member to a cable through an internal printed circuit board; enclosing a shell over the mating member and the cable; fixing a number of dowel pins to the shell; molding a strain relief over the shell; removing the dowel pins to form a number of pinholes in the strain relief; and telescoping an outer over-mold on the strain relief along a front-to-back direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9698544
    Abstract: A plug connector assembly (1) adapted to plug into a receptacle in two reversed directions, includes a mating member (10), a cable (30) electrically connected with the mating member, and an outer shell (50) including a main body (51), and a strain relief member (52) disposed at a rear end of the main body and enclosing the cable. The main body includes a front portion (510) enclosing a rear end (102) of the mating member, and a rear portion (511) opposite to the front portion and connected with the strain relief member. A thickness of the front portion is smaller than a thickness of the rear portion measured along a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9685741
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly comprises a cable, a connector connected with the cable. The connector comprises a plurality of contacts electrically connecting the cable, an insulative housing retaining the contacts, a metal shell having a top shell and a bottom shell assembled with each other around the insulative housing, and a fixing member fixing the cable. The bottom shell includes a rear wall having a opening for the cable to be inserted into. The top shell includes a top wall and a tongue piece extending from the top wall to the cable. The fixing member includes a main body fastening the cable and a soldering portion extending from the main body and soldering with the rear wall of the bottom shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Publication number: 20170110221
    Abstract: A cable (100) includes a plurality of wires (10) and a jacket (20) enclosing the wires. The wires includes a plurality of differential signal wires (11) for transmitting high speed signal, a detection signal wire (12), at least one auxiliary signal wire (13), and a plurality of lower speed signal wires (14). All of the differential signal wires, the detection signal wire and the at least one auxiliary signal wire are arranged at an outer peripheral of and enclosing the lower signal wires. Each two adjacent differential signal wire pairs are separated by one of the detection signal wire and the at least one auxiliary signal wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: JERRY WU, JUN CHEN, FAN-BO MENG
  • Publication number: 20170110223
    Abstract: A USB Type-C cable includes: a number of first wires and second wires, the first wires including a power wire for transmitting a power signal and plural coaxial wires for transmitting high speed signal, the second wires including at least one detective wire for transmitting detective signal, at least one power return wire for grounding, at least one twisted pair of wires for transmitting USB 2.0 signal, and at least one subsidiary wire for transmitting subsidiary signal; a jacket made of insulative material and receiving the first wires and the second wires; and a metal shield layer coating around the twisted pair of wires; wherein the first wires are arranged along an inner wall of the jacket in a circle and forms a cavity without a metal shield layer to receive the second wires, and the detective wire and the subsidiary wire are separated by the power return wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Jerry WU, Jun CHEN, Fan-Bo MENG
  • Patent number: 9627815
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly has a first shell including a plurality of side walls, a receiving cavity surrounded by the side walls and extending therethrough along a front-to-back direction. A number of spring fingers are formed on the respective side walls and protruding inwardly into the receiving cavity. A number of punched holes receiving the respective spring fingers communicate with the receiving cavity. An insulative body includes a base assembled to the first shell and a tongue extending forwardly therefrom. The tongue is received in the receiving cavity and has a top face and a bottom face disposed in a vertical direction. A number of contacts are arranged in a side-by-side manner along a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction and the vertical direction. A second shell covers the first shell and encloses the punched holes therein. An insulative case encloses the second shell therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9627826
    Abstract: A power connector assembly (100) includes a cable (7) including a number of wires (70), an insulative housing (1), and a number of electrical contacts (2). The electrical contacts include at least one detection contact (22) and plural contacts (21). Each of the plural contacts includes a pair of mating portions (211), a pair of middle portions (212) extending rearwardly from the mating portions respectively, a connecting portion (213) connected with the middle portions, and a first soldering portion (214) connected with the connecting portion. The at least one detection contact includes a second soldering portion (223). Each of the first soldering portions and the second soldering portion includes a soldering area soldered to respective one of the wires, and all of the soldering areas are disposed at a common horizontal plane, arranged in a straight line, and soldered to corresponding wires at same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9607738
    Abstract: A USB Type-C cable includes: a number of first wires and second wires, the first wires including a power wire for transmitting a power signal and plural coaxial wires for transmitting high speed signal, the second wires including at least one detective wire for transmitting detective signal, at least one power return wire for grounding, at least one twisted pair of wires for transmitting USB 2.0 signal, and at least one subsidiary wire for transmitting subsidiary signal; a jacket made of insulative material and receiving the first wires and the second wires; and a metal shield layer coating around the twisted pair of wires; wherein the first wires are arranged along an inner wall of the jacket in a circle and forms a cavity without a metal shield layer to receive the second wires, and the detective wire and the subsidiary wire are separated by the power return wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9590363
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an electrical connector (100) and cable (300) connected with the electrical connector. The cable has a plurality of core wires (31) including a plurality of first wires (34) and second wires (35), an outer jacket (32) enclosing on the core wires, and a shielding layer (33) enclosing the second wires. The first wires having a power wire (341) for power transmission and a plurality of coaxial wires (342) for high speed signal transmission, wherein the second wires have a detective wire (351) for detection signal transmission, a pair of ground-wires (352), a twisted pair wire (353) for USB 2.0 signal transmission an spare wire (354). Each of the first wires has a larger diameter than that of second wires, and the first wires are located between the shielding layer and outer jacket, the second wires are enclosed in the shielding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9583889
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) comprising a cable (300) including a plurality of wires (31) and an electrical connector (200) electrically connected with the cable, the electrical connector including a mating member (1) and a metal shell (4), the mating member including a mating shell (14) made of metal material, the mating shell including a mating portion (141) and a mounting portion (142) having a greater dimension than the mating portion, wherein the metal shell includes a main body (43) and a pair of holding portions (44) extending from a front end of the main body, the holding portions profiling an external surface shape of the mounting portion and fixed to the mounting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 9560752
    Abstract: An printed circuit board (14) includes a first insulative layer (140), a first conductive path (141), a second conductive path (142) and an insulative substrate (143) stacked together. The first conductive path is disposed between the insulative substrate and the first insulative layer. The first conductive path includes an engaging portion (146), a middle portion (148) having an end connected with the engaging portion, and a soldering portion (147) connected with an opposite end of the middle portion. The second conductive path is aligned with the middle portion of the first conductive path along a vertical direction, the second conductive path electrically connected with the middle portion of the first conductive path to increase a thickness thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng