Patents by Inventor James A. Coffee

James A. Coffee 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: 4729739
    Abstract: A connector for mounting and electrically connecting a chip carrier unit in an electrical circuit has a plurality of electrical contacts secured in openings in the bottom of an electrically insulating body to permit cantilever spring deflection of the contacts in accommodating a chip carrier unit within the connector between the contacts. The contacts comprise wire members of round cross section each having an opposite end bent to be slidable along a narrow line of engagement with an inclined ramp surface on an adjacent side wall of the connector body. Each contact has a bowed portion intermediate the contact ends which is bowed away from the adjacent ramp surface to slidably engage terminals on the chip carrier unit as the unit is inserted into the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: James A. Coffee, Thomas S. Spinelli, Harold M. Yevak, Jr., Debra J. Provazza, Peter A. Foley