Patents by Inventor Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen

Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen 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: 10826255
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The outer housing is of an insulative molding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    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: 20190288465
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The outer housing is of an insulative molding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: TERRANCE F. LITTLE, CHIH-PI CHENG, WEI-HAO SU, CHENG-CHI YEH, YUAN ZHANG, STEPHEN SEDIO, Hendrikus P.G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 10312646
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts and a shielding plate. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The shielding plate is embedded within the mating tongue and includes a pair of rigid notches in two opposite lateral sides for locking to a pair of corresponding latches of a complementary plug connector. The outer housing is of an insulative molding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Wei-Hao Su, Cheng-Chi Yeh, Yuan Zhang, Stephen Sedio, Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 10276993
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts and a shielding plate. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The shielding plate is embedded within the mating tongue and includes a pair of rigid notches in two opposite lateral sides for locking to a pair of corresponding latches of a complementary plug connector. The outer housing is of an insulative molding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Wei-Hao Su, Cheng-Chi Yeh, Yuan Zhang, Stephen Sedio, Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 10263372
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing comprising a base portion defining a rearward surface and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; plural conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing and each having a contacting portion exposed to the top and bottom surfaces of the tongue portion, a fixing portion embedded in the base portion, and a soldering portion extending backwardly out of the base portion; a shielding plate affixed to the insulative housing; a shielding shell covering the insulative housing and defining a sol space with the rearward surface of the base portion; and a waterproof sheet; wherein the base portion further comprises a stepped portion in the sol space, the waterproof sheet is formed by solidification of liquid insulative material flowing from the stepped portion to the rearward surface, and the waterproof sheet encloses the stepped portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Yao, Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen, Chin-Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20180090892
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts and a shielding plate. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The shielding plate is embedded within the mating tongue and includes a pair of rigid notches in two opposite lateral sides for locking to a pair of corresponding latches of a complementary plug connector. The outer housing is of an insulative moulding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Wei-Hao Su, Cheng-Chi Yeh, Yuan Zhang, Stephen Sedio, Hendrikus P.G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 9923291
    Abstract: An audio jack connector, assembled to a printed circuit board having a number of conductive pads, includes an insulative housing having a number of receiving grooves and a number of terminals received in the receiving grooves. Each audio terminal includes an elastic portion having a number of compressive contacts laterally. The elastic portion is pressed laterally by the printed circuit board so that the compressive contacts are contacted with the conductive pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 9843148
    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. The lower bracket is located upon a bottom side of the shield and includes a bottom wall, two sidewalls and a rear wall commonly surrounding the through hole type tail sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Wei-Hao Su, Cheng-Chi Yeh, Yuan Zhang, Stephen Sedio, Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 9819105
    Abstract: A card connector assembly includes: an electrical connector for being mounted behind an opening in a housing of an electronic device, the electrical connector including a cam groove, a slider, a biasing member, and a cam bar coupled between the cam groove and the slider; and a card tray insertable into the electrical connector through the housing opening for moving the slider from the ejected position to the inserted position; wherein the cam bar has a push portion; the card tray includes a latch, the latch being adapted to be stopped by the electronic device housing when the slider is at the inserted position; and when pushing the card tray to move the slider from the inserted position to the ejected position, the push portion of the cam bar releases the latch for the slider together with the card tray to move to the ejected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chin-Yu Chen, Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Publication number: 20170302037
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing comprising a base portion defining a rearward surface and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; plural conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing and each having a contacting portion exposed to the top and bottom surfaces of the tongue portion, a fixing portion embedded in the base portion, and a soldering portion extending backwardly out of the base portion; a shielding plate affixed to the insulative housing; a shielding shell covering the insulative housing and defining a sol space with the rearward surface of the base portion; and a waterproof sheet; wherein the base portion further comprises a stepped portion in the sol space, the waterproof sheet is formed by solidification of liquid insulative material flowing from the stepped portion to the rearward surface, and the waterproof sheet encloses the stepped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: TAO YAO, Hendrikus P.G. Van der Steen, CHIN-YU CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170207558
    Abstract: A card connector assembly includes: an electrical connector for being mounted behind an opening in a housing of an electronic device, the electrical connector including a cam groove, a slider, a biasing member, and a cam bar coupled between the cam groove and the slider; and a card tray insertable into the electrical connector through the housing opening for moving the slider from the ejected position to the inserted position; wherein the cam bar has a push portion; the card tray includes a latch, the latch being adapted to be stopped by the electronic device housing when the slider is at the inserted position; and when pushing the card tray to move the slider from the inserted position to the ejected position, the push portion of the cam bar releases the latch for the slider together with the card tray to move to the ejected position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: CHIN-YU CHEN, Hendrikus P.G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 9548567
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing, a metal shell (3) covering the insulative housing for defining a receiving space, a slider (4) moveably assembled on the insulative housing, a spring member (5) biasing the slider, and a pin member (6). The slider includes a base portion (41) and an actuating portion (42) sidewardly protruding from the base portion into the receiving space. The slider has a guiding slot (410), an inner heart-shaped slot (411) connecting with the guiding slot, and an outer cam slot (412) connecting with the inner heart-shaped slot. The pin member has a first end (61) secured to the insulative housing and a second end (62). The second end is normally guided in the inner heart-shaped slot but guided to the outer cam slot when a card is improperly inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Publication number: 20160359250
    Abstract: An audio jack connector, assembled to a printed circuit board having a number of conductive pads, includes an insulative housing having a number of receiving grooves and a number of terminals received in the receiving grooves. Each audio terminal includes an elastic portion having a number of compressive contacts laterally. The elastic portion is pressed laterally by the printed circuit board so that the compressive contacts are contacted with the conductive pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventor: Hendrikus P.G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 9501672
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing, a metal shell (3) covering the insulative housing for defining a receiving space (10) and having an opening (31) extending along a front-and-rear direction, and a slider (4) movable on the insulative housing along the front-and-rear direction. The slider includes a base portion (41), an operating portion (44) extending upwardly from the base portion to be exposed outside of the metal shell through the opening, and an actuating portion (45) extending sidewardly from the base portion into the receiving space for ejecting an insertion card. The operating portion is operable to move the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Publication number: 20150263455
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing, a metal shell (3) covering the insulative housing for defining a receiving space, a slider (4) moveably assembled on the insulative housing, a spring member (5) biasing the slider, and a pin member (6). The slider includes a base portion (41) and an actuating portion (42) sidewardly protruding from the base portion into the receiving space. The slider has a guiding slot (410), an inner heart-shaped slot (411) connecting with the guiding slot, and an outer cam slot (412) connecting with the inner heart-shaped slot. The pin member has a first end (61) secured to the insulative housing and a second end (62). The second end is normally guided in the inner heart-shaped slot but guided to the outer cam slot when a card is improperly inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventor: Hendrikus P.G. Van der Steen
  • Publication number: 20150214661
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing, a metal shell (3) covering the insulative housing for defining a receiving space (10) and having an opening (31) extending along a front-and-rear direction, and a slider (4) movable on the insulative housing along the front-and-rear direction. The slider includes a base portion (41), an operating portion (44) extending upwardly from the base portion to be exposed outside of the metal shell through the opening, and an actuating portion (45) extending sidewardly from the base portion into the receiving space for ejecting an insertion card. The operating portion is operable to move the slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventor: Hendrikus P.G. Van der Steen
  • 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
  • Patent number: 8388380
    Abstract: A waterproof connector for mounting to a circuit board includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts fixed in the insulative housing, a metallic shell enclosing the insulative housing and a soldering plate fixed to a peripheral wall of the metallic shell. The insulative housing includes a tongue portion residing in a receiving space which is jointly formed by the insulative housing and the metallic shell. The peripheral wall defines a pair of latch holes in communication with the receiving space for locking with an inserted plug connector. The soldering plate is fixed to the peripheral wall so as to seal the pair of latch holes. The soldering plate is located between the peripheral wall and the circuit board. The soldering plate includes at least one emboss for surface mounting onto the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 8262397
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) assembled in the insulative housing, an ejector (4) assembled at a side of the insulative housing, and a metallic shell (3) comprising a stopper portion (313). The ejector includes a slider (41) moveable along a mating direction and an ejection direction opposite to the mating direction, a spring member (43) for urging the slider to move along the ejection direction, and a pin member (42) having one end (421) secured on the insulative housing and the other one end (422) moveably guided by the slider. The stopper portion (313) stops the spring member (43) from urging the slider (41) during movement of the slider along the ejection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 7497733
    Abstract: A shield connector (1) for electrically connecting an electronic component to a printed circuit board (2) comprises a housing (10) configured by a first, second, third, and fourth sidewalls (101, 102, 103, 104) defining a receiving space (105) together, a pair of contact module (30) assembled on an opposite sidewalls of the housing (10), and a pair of soldering assemblies (50) detachable to the contact module. Said soldering assembly at least has a soldering member for electrical connected to a printed circuit board and an attached portion attaching to the contact module. Consequently, present electrical connector can fit in different mobile phones to meet different requirements thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen