Patents by Inventor Fang-Yue Zhu

Fang-Yue Zhu 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).

  • Patent number: 9323962
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing and a metal shell enclosing the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a inserting slot. The contacts include a plurality of grounding contacts and signal contacts, the contacts each comprise a retaining portion retained in the insulative housing, a contacting portion extending forwardly from a side of the retaining potion and extending into the inserting slot and a soldering portion extending from the other side of the retaining portion. The shield shell has a top wall covering a top of the insulative housing and the shield shell comprising at least a pair of resisting arms, the pair of resisting arms resisting the two sides of the grounding contact along a left-to-right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Qiu Han, Jian-Fei Yu, Fang-Yue Zhu, Jin-Kui Hu
  • Patent number: 9190775
    Abstract: An electrical card connector 100 includes an insulative housing 1 defining a card receiving space 12, a plurality of contacts 2 retained in the housing 1 and an ejector 3 assembled to the housing 1. The ejector 3 includes a slider 31, a spring 32 and a cam follower 33. The cam follower 33 includes a pivoting end 331, a sliding end 333 and a connecting portion 332 connecting with the pivoting end 331 and the sliding end 333. The housing has a first recess 112 defining a bottom wall and a second recess 113 defining a top wall and connecting with the first recess 112 along a left-to-right direction, the first recess 112 and the second recess 113 both are formed along an up-to-down direction, the pivoting end 331 is received in a pivoting hole 3114 surrounded by the first and second recesses 112, 113.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang-Yue Zhu, Chun Ye, Yu-Che Huang
  • Patent number: 9077103
    Abstract: An electrical card (100) connector includes an insulative housing (1), a set of contacts (2) received in the housing and a locking portion (17) retained in the housing (1). The housing (1) defines a receiving cavity (10) for receiving an electrical card. The locking portion (17) has an elastic arm (171) connected with the housing (1) and a latching portion (172) extending forwardly from the elastic arm (171) and extending into the receiving cavity (10) to retain the electrical card. The locking portion (17) can deflect along a left to right direction under stress, so the insertion and extraction force of the electrical card insert in and eject out of the receiving cavity (10) moderately, it can not only ensure the electrical card connector (100) lock the electrical card firmly but also ensure the electrical card not be damaged easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chun Ye, Fang-Yue Zhu, Jian-Fei Yu, Jin-Kui Hu
  • Publication number: 20140322975
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing and a metal shell enclosing the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a inserting slot. The contacts include a plurality of grounding contacts and signal contacts, the contacts each comprise a retaining portion retained in the insulative housing, a contacting portion extending forwardly from a side of the retaining potion and extending into the inserting slot and a soldering portion extending from the other side of the retaining portion. The shield shell has a top wall covering a top of the insulative housing and the shield shell comprising at least a pair of resisting arms, the pair of resisting arms resisting the two sides of the grounding contact along a left-to-right direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MING-QIU HAN, JIAN-FEI YU, FANG-YUE ZHU, JIN-KUI HU
  • Publication number: 20140315403
    Abstract: An electrical card connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts mounted to the insulative housing and a cover covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a receiving space and a mounting wall in a rear of the receiving space. The contact has a contacting portion extending into the receiving space and a retaining portion retained to the mounting wall. The cover has a top wall covering a top of the receiving space. The contacts include a grounding contact, the top wall has an elastic finger extending therefrom and touching the grounding contact to achieve grounding. By this arrangement, the electrical card connector has an additional grounding path, and improves the performance of the electrical card connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MING-QIU HAN, FANG-YUE ZHU, JIAN-FEI YU, JIN-KUI HU
  • Patent number: 8858247
    Abstract: An electrical card connector 100 comprises an insulative housing 1 defining a card receiving space 12, a plurality of contacts 2 retained in the housing 1, an ejector 3 assembled to the housing 1 and a metal shell 4. The ejector 3 comprises a slider 31, a spring 32 and a cam follower 33 for controlling positions of the slider 31. The cam follower 33 comprises a pivoting end 331, a sliding end 333 and a connecting portion 332 connecting with the pivoting end 331 and the sliding end 333. The housing 1 has a recess 112 defining an opening along an up-to-down direction, the pivoting end 331 of the cam follower 33 is received in the recess 112 and extends laterally beyond an outer side of the recess 112, the shell 4 has a limiting portion 4102 mating with the recess 112 near the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang-Yue Zhu, Chun Ye, Yu-Che Huang
  • Publication number: 20140187067
    Abstract: An electrical card connector 100 comprises an insulative housing 1 defining a card receiving space 12, a plurality of contacts 2 retained in the housing 1 and an ejector 3 assembled to the housing 1. The ejector 3 comprises a slider 31, a spring 32 and a cam follower 33. The cam follower 33 comprises a pivoting end 331, a sliding end 333 and a connecting portion 332 connecting with the pivoting end 331 and the sliding end 333.The housing has a first recess 112 defining a bottom wall and a second recess 113 defining a top wall and connecting with the first recess 112 along a left-to-right direction, the first recess 112 and the second recess 113 both are formed along an up-to-down direction, the pivoting end 331 is received in a pivoting hole 3114 surrounded by the first and second recesses 112, 113.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: FANG-YUE ZHU, CHUN YE, YU-CHE HUANG
  • Publication number: 20140065871
    Abstract: An electrical card (100) connector includes an insulative housing (1), a set of contacts (2) received in the housing and a locking portion (17) retained in the housing (1). The housing (1) defines a receiving cavity (10) for receiving an electrical card. The locking portion (17) has an elastic arm (171) connected with the housing (1) and a latching portion (172) extending forwardly from the elastic arm (171) and extending into the receiving cavity (10) to retain the electrical card. The locking portion (17) can deflect along a left to right direction under stress, so the insertion and extraction force of the electrical card insert in and eject out of the receiving cavity (10) moderately, it can not only ensure the electrical card connector (100) lock the electrical card firmly but also ensure the electrical card not be damaged easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHUN YE, FANG-YUE ZHU, JIAN-FEI YU, JIN-KUI HU
  • Publication number: 20140030928
    Abstract: An electrical card connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of the contacts received in the insulative housing and a metal shell covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a receiving cavity receiving a first and a second electrical cards. The contacts include a plurality of first contacts connecting with the first electrical card and a plurality of second contacts combining with the first contacts to contact with the second electrical card. The metal shell has at least one elastic arm extending into the receiving cavity and contacting with a pad of the second electrical card but not contacting with a pad of the first electrical card to instead of a grounding contact of an electrical connector of prior art. It would reduces the number of the contacts to make the structure of the contact easy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: FANG-YUE ZHU, YU-CHE HUANG, JIN-KUI HU
  • Publication number: 20130337672
    Abstract: An electrical card connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing, a push-push mechanism and a metal shell. The push-push mechanism includes a slider and a link rod. The slider has an outer surface at a laterally side thereof, a heart-shape groove with a heart-shaped block located in a middle thereof depressing from the outer surface and a straight guiding groove communicating with the heart-shape groove. The link rod has a first end portion assembled to the insulative housing and a second end portion sliding in the heart-shape groove and the straight guiding groove. The slider further has an engaging surface depressing from a part of the outer surface in front of the heart-shaped groove, and the heart-shape groove with the heart-shaped block is also retracted from the outer surface together with the engaging surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: FANG-YUE ZHU, YU-CHE HUANG, JIN-KUI HU
  • Patent number: 8597057
    Abstract: An electrical card connector for holding a card with a notch defined on a lateral side thereof, includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts and a push-push mechanism. The push-push mechanism includes a slider movable between an initial position and a final locking position along a front-to-back direction, a spring abutting against the slider and an elastic locking arm having a card lock for locking with the notch of the card. The slider further includes a rigid protrusion to engage with the notch of the card. The rigid protrusion not only helps the card lock hold the card when the slider is located at the final locking position, but also helps the card lock prevent the card from flying out of the card receiving space when the slider moves from the final locking position back to the initial position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Fang-Yue Zhu, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 8529298
    Abstract: An electronic card connector defining a receiving space for receiving an electronic card, includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts retain in the insulative housing, and a metal shell covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a bottom wall. The metal shell has a top wall opposed to the bottom wall, and a pair of side walls. The metal shell defines a depressed portion outwardly recessed from an intersection portion of the top wall and the side wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang-Yue Zhu, Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20130005168
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) and an ejector (3) assembled to the insulative housing (1). The insulative housing (1) defines an inserting slot (15) and an inserting opening (150) in front of the inserting slot (15). The ejector (3) includes a limiting block (34) movable between a first position and a second position. When the limiting block (34) is at the first position, the limiting block (34) covers the inserting opening (150) to prevent an electrical card (300) from moving forwardly. When the limiting block (34) is at the second position, the inserting opening (150) is fully exposed to exterior for the electrical card (300) could be inserted into the inserting slot (15) or withdraw from the inserting slot (15). The electrical card connector (100) could be used by one single hand and would be operated conveniently for user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: CHUN YE, FANG-YUE ZHU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20120252276
    Abstract: An electrical card connector comprises an insulative housing having an inserting slot for receiving a first card and a second card, and a plurality of contacts retained in the housing respectively and including a plurality of first contacts for engaging with the first card, and a plurality of second contacts cooperating with the first contacts for engaging with the second card. The first contacts and the second contacts have retaining portions fixed with the housing, contact portions protruding into the inserting slot from the retaining portions, and soldering portions extending beyond the housing from the retaining portions. The contact portions of the first contacts and the contact portions of the second contacts are positioned at different position along a front-to-back direction. At least one of the first contacts and one of the second contacts share a same soldering tail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: FANG-YUE ZHU, JIAN-FEI YU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20120231647
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing (1), and a mounting member (3) disposed on the insulative housing (1). The insulative housing (1) defining a receiving space (110). The mounting member (3) includes a first metal plate (31) defines an elastic plate (312) protruding into the receiving space (110) for abutting against the electrical card (200) when the electrical card (200) is inserted into the receiving space (110). The electrical card (200) can be fixed reliably and withdrawn from the electrical card connector (100) conveniently in virtue of the elastic plate (312).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN-FEI YU, FANG-YUE ZHU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20120178302
    Abstract: An electrical card connector for holding a card with a notch defined on a lateral side thereof, includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts and a push-push mechanism. The push-push mechanism includes a slider movable between an initial position and a final locking position along a front-to-back direction, a spring abutting against the slider and an elastic locking arm having a card lock for locking with the notch of the card. The slider further includes a rigid protrusion to engage with the notch of the card. The rigid protrusion not only helps the card lock hold the card when the slider is located at the final locking position, but also helps the card lock prevent the card from flying out of the card receiving space when the slider moves from the final locking position back to the initial position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN-FEI YU, FANG-YUE ZHU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Patent number: 8157577
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes a receiving space (10) for receiving an electrical card, and includes an insulative housing (1) and an ejecting mechanism (4) retained in the insulative housing (1). The ejecting mechanism (4) includes a movable slider (41), a coiled spring (42) urging the slider forwardly and a link rod (43) for controlling the slider to be positioned at a first position or a second position. The slider (41) includes a heart-shape groove (414) for guiding and limiting a movement of the slider (41) and a bulge (417) located at front of the heart-shape groove (414). The bulge (417) defines a second inclined plane (4171), the second inclined plane (4171) faces the heart-shape groove (414) for facilitating inclining movement of the link rod (43).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang-Yue Zhu, Li Li, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 8070520
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a set of first contacts (21), and a metal shell (4) covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a receiving space (15) for receiving a first card and a bottom wall (11) under the receiving space. The bottom wall has a set of slots (111) extending along the first card insertion direction. The slots include a special slot (110) having a protrusion (1101) extending thereinto. The contacts have first retaining portions (214) retained in the insulative housing, first contacting portions (212) received in the slots (111) and bending upwardly into the receiving space (15) for mating with the first card, and first tail portions (215) extending from the first retaining portions for being mounted to a PCB. The first contacts include a special contact (210) having a connecting portion (216) extending along the special slot (110) and located between the first contacting portion (212) and the first retaining portion (214).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang-Yue Zhu, Yun-Song Sun, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 8033865
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing (1) for mating with an electrical card and a block (3). The insulative housing (1) defines a front mating face (14), a receiving space (10) extending backwardly from the mating face (14) and an installing wall (11) located at a rear end of the receiving space (10). The block (3) is retained in the insulative housing (1) for positioning the contacts (2). The installing wall (11) defines a through hole (111) for receiving the block (3). The block (3) has a pair of elastic segments (36) located at lateral sides thereof and a pair of slots (341) located beside the elastic segments (36) respectively for supporting elasticity of the elastic segments (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Li, Fang-Yue Zhu, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20110159739
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing (1) for mating with an electrical card and a block (3). The insulative housing (1) defines a front mating face (14), a receiving space (10) extending backwardly from the mating face (14) and an installing wall (11) located at a rear end of the receiving space (10). The block (3) is retained in the insulative housing (1) for positioning the contacts (2). The installing wall (11) defines a through hole (111) for receiving the block (3). The block (3) has a pair of elastic segments (36) located at lateral sides thereof and a pair of slots (341) located beside the elastic segments (36) respectively for supporting elasticity of the elastic segments (36).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: LI LI, FANG-YUE ZHU, QI-JUN ZHAO