Patents by Inventor Jian-Fei Yu

Jian-Fei Yu 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: 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: 8202125
    Abstract: A card connector includes a first inserting slot (151) for insertion of a first memory card (200) with first terminals (3) extending thereinto; a second inserting slot (152) for insertion of a second memory card (300) with second terminals (4) extending thereinto; and a partition wall (14) located between the first and second inserting slots for separating the first and second inserting slots. The partition wall has one spring arm (142) integrally extending therefrom and located between the first and second inserting slots, when one of the first and second memory cards (200, 300) is inserted into the corresponding one of the first and second inserting slots (151, 152), the spring arm (142) protrudes into the other one of the first and second inserting slots (151, 152) so as to prevent the other one of the first and second memory cards from being inserted into the other one of the first and second inserting slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Li Li, Jian-Fei Yu, Ke-Hua Ye, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20110294323
    Abstract: A card connector includes an insulative housing defining a card receiving space, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing, an ejector received in the insulative housing and a metal shell covering the insulative housing. The ejector includes a movable slider, a spring, and a pin member, the slider defines a heart-shaped slot, and the pin member has a positioning end being rotatablely retained to the insulative housing and a free end being slidable along the heart-shaped slot to lock the slider. A latching piece is retained to the insulative housing and has a catching portion catching the pin member and an elastic portion connecting with the catching portion. When the pin member slides, the catching portion will bring the elastic portion to deflect and provide an outward or inward force to the pin member so as to control a movement trace of the pin member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN-FEI YU, FENG ZHOU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20110281446
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having an inserting slot, and a bottom wall under the inserting slot. The bottom wall defines a supporting surface extending along a front-to-back direction, a horizontal guiding surface located in front of the supporting surface, and a plurality of depressions recessed from the supporting surface and arranged in one row along a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction. A plurality of first contacts each has a planar first contact portion retained in the depression. A plurality of second contacts each has an arc-shaped second contact portion extending upwardly beyond the supporting surface and protruding into the inserting slot. The second contact portions are located behind the first contact portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2011
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN-FEI YU, XI-FU XU, XIAO-MING HUANG, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20110230072
    Abstract: A card connector (100) comprises an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing (1) and an ejecting mechanism (4). The insulative housing (1) defines an interface (14) in front and a receiving space (10) extending backwardly from the interface (14). The ejecting mechanism (4) comprises a slider (41), a spring (42) sandwiched between the slider (41) and the insulative housing (1), and a pole (43) for controlling the slider (41). The slider (41) defines a heart-shape groove (414) and a heart-shape block (415) located in the heart-shape groove (414). The heart-shape groove (414) includes a first slot (4141). The heart-shape block (415) includes a mucro (4154) at a rear end thereof. The mucro (4154) and the first slot (4141) define an escaping space (4153) therebetween. When the pole (43) moves aslant, the escaping space (4153) will receive the pole (43) for avoiding the pole (43) colliding with the mucro (4153).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN-FEI YU, FENG ZHOU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20110189897
    Abstract: A card connector includes an insulative housing (1), a set of terminals (2) insert molded into the insulative housing and a metal shell (5) attached to and covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a receiving space (11) and a bottom wall (12) located under the receiving space. The bottom wall has a recess (126) recessed downwardly from an upper face (18) thereof and located in a front region thereof, and a recessed wall (121) located under the recess and defining an upper face located lower than the upper face of the bottom wall. The terminals includes retaining portions (21) retained in the recessed wall, contacting portions (22) protruding upwardly into the receiving space, and tail portions (23) extending outwardly of the insulative housing for being mounted onto a printed circuit board. The retaining portions (21) have upper faces exposed to the recess (126) and coplanar with the upper face of the recessed wall (121).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN-FEI YU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20110189875
    Abstract: A card connector (1) for connecting an electronic card (200), comprises an insulative housing (1) and an ejector (4). The insulative housing (1) defines a receiving space (10) extending backwardly along a front to back direction for receiving the electronic card (200). The ejector (4) comprises a slider (41), a spring (42) sandwiched between the slider (41) and a rear end of the insulative housing (1), and a pole (43) for controlling movement of the slider (41). The slider (41) includes a first protrusion (411) and a second protrusion (412), the card connector (100) has a first guiding groove (151) engaging with the first protrusion (411) and a second guiding groove (152) engaging with the second protrusion (412), the slider (41) defines a locking portion (413) extending inwardly into the receiving space (10), the first guiding groove (151) provides an escaping groove (1512) for the first protrusion (411). Thereby the slider (41) can move along a insertion direction of the electronic card (200) steadily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN-FEI YU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Patent number: 7972156
    Abstract: An electronic card connector includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts and a first switch terminal retained on the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a receiving space, a receiving slot communicating with the receiving space along an up to down direction and a limiting block at a front side of the receiving slot. The first switch terminal has a fastening portion retained on the insulative housing, a connecting portion forwardly extending to the receiving slot, a limiting portion forwardly extending to a lower side of the limiting block and a tail portion. The switch terminal further has a guiding portion extending sidewardly. The insulative housing has a pre-pressing surface at one side of the receiving slot to pre-press the guiding portion and prevent the switch terminal from bouncing upwardly to resist a front side of the limiting block in an assembly process of the switch terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Zhou, Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20110111635
    Abstract: A card connector includes a first inserting slot (151) for insertion of a first memory card (200) with first terminals (3) extending thereinto; a second inserting slot (152) for insertion of a second memory card (300) with second terminals (4) extending thereinto; and a partition wall (14) located between the first and second inserting slots for separating the first and second inserting slots. The partition wall has one spring arm (142) integrally extending therefrom and located between the first and second inserting slots, when one of the first and second memory cards (200, 300) is inserted into the corresponding one of the first and second inserting slots (151, 152), the spring arm (142) protrudes into the other one of the first and second inserting slots (151, 152) so as to prevent the other one of the first and second memory cards from being inserted into the other one of the first and second inserting slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: LI LI, JIAN-FEI YU, KE-HUA YE, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Patent number: 7927117
    Abstract: An electrical card connector defines a receiving space for receiving an electrical card, and includes an insulative housing and an ejecting mechanism retained in the insulative housing. The ejecting mechanism includes a slider, a coil spring for driving the slider moving along an insertion direction of the electrical card, and a latch spring secured on the slider and extending into the receiving space for pressing on the electrical card. The electrical card connector further includes a limiting portion abutting against the latch spring to increase a lock force on the electrical card, thus the electrical card would be prevented from flying out of the electrical card connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 7909628
    Abstract: A card connector (100) for insertion of an electrical card (200) includes an insulative housing (1) defining a receiving space (12) for insertion of the electrical card; a set of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing; and an ejecting mechanism (3) including a slider (31), a coil spring (33) for urging the slider, a connecting rod (34) for restraining the slider, and a spring member (32) retained in the slider. The spring member has a retaining portion (322) retained in the slider, an arcuate cantilever locking arm (324) extending from the retaining portion and protruding towards the receiving space for retaining the electrical card, and a restricting portion (326) extending from a front free end portion (325) of the locking arm and being restricted in a cavity (316) of the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Fang-Yue Zhu, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20110053396
    Abstract: An electronic card connector includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts and a first switch terminal retained on the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a receiving space, a receiving slot communicating with the receiving space along an up to down direction and a limiting block at a front side of the receiving slot. The first switch terminal has a fastening portion retained on the insulative housing, a connecting portion forwardly extending to the receiving slot, a limiting portion forwardly extending to a lower side of the limiting block and a tail portion. The switch terminal further has a guiding portion extending sidewardly. The insulative housing has a pre-pressing surface at one side of the receiving slot to pre-press the guiding portion and prevent the switch terminal from bouncing upwardly to resist a front side of the limiting block in an assembly process of the switch terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: FENG ZHOU, JIAN-FEI YU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20110034050
    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: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fang-Yue Zhu, Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20100267260
    Abstract: A card connector (100) for insertion of an electrical card (200) includes an insulative housing (1) defining a receiving space (12) for insertion of the electrical card; a set of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing; and an ejecting mechanism (3) including a slider (31), a coil spring (33) for urging the slider, a connecting rod (34) for restraining the slider, and a spring member (32) retained in the slider. The spring member has a retaining portion (322) retained in the slider, an arcuate cantilever locking arm (324) extending from the retaining portion and protruding towards the receiving space for retaining the electrical card, and a restricting portion (326) extending from a front free end portion (325) of the locking arm and being restricted in a cavity (316) of the slider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN-FEI YU, FANG-YUE ZHU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Patent number: 7794249
    Abstract: A card connector (100) for connecting an electronic card (200) includes an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing (1), and an ejector (3). The insulative housing (1) defines a receiving space (10) for receiving the electronic card (200). The ejector (3) includes a slider (31) retained in the insulative housing (1), a spring (32) and a pole (33) mounted between the slider (31) and a rear end of the insulative housing (1). The slider (31) has an inner side wall (310), an inclined face (3100) angled with respect to the inner side wall (3100) to abut against the electronic card (200), and a protrusion (3102) projecting inwardly from the inner side wall (310) to resist the electronic card (200) sideward. Thereby the electronic card (200) can be inserted in or ejected from the card connector (100) smoothly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao, Hua Yin
  • Publication number: 20100227489
    Abstract: An electrical card connector defines a receiving space for receiving an electrical card, and includes an insulative housing and an ejecting mechanism retained in the insulative housing. The ejecting mechanism includes a slider, a coil spring for driving the slider moving along an insertion direction of the electrical card, and a latch spring secured on the slider and extending into the receiving space for pressing on the electrical card. The electrical card connector further includes a limiting portion abutting against the latch spring to increase a lock force on the electrical card, thus the electrical card would be prevented from flying out of the electrical card connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: September 9, 2010
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao
  • Publication number: 20100184335
    Abstract: A card connector for connecting a memory card with asymmetric side edges comprises an insulative housing having a recess for receiving the memory card. The insulative housing has an inlet in the front end of the recess for inserting the memory card, and a pair of arms in two sides of the recess. The pair of arms are asymmetric and corresponding to the side edges of the memory card, so that the card connector can block card like SD card inserted into the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2010
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JIAN-FEI YU, QI-JUN ZHAO
  • Patent number: 7758387
    Abstract: An electrical card connector for insertion of a first card and a second card which is wider than the first card, includes an insulative housing defining a front mating port, a card receiving space extending backwardly from the mating port for receiving the first and the second cards, and a plurality of terminals for mating with a first card and a second card wider than the first card. A card restriction mechanism is fixed to the insulative housing and includes a guiding body and an elastic spring located on the guiding body. The guiding body restricts and guides the first card and second cards to be inserted into the receiving space while the cards moving through the mating port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao, Hua Yin
  • Patent number: 7744391
    Abstract: A memory card connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing, a card eject mechanism and metal shell attached to the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a card receiving cavity for insertion of a memory card. The card eject mechanism includes a slider moveable along card-insertion or card-withdraw directions and a locking member fixed to the slider. The locking member includes a protrusion which forms a sideward dimple. The metal shell includes a top wall covering the card receiving cavity. The top wall defines a slit for receiving the protrusion. An arced surface of the dimple is driven to abut against an inner side of the slit in order to reduce friction therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao, Hua Yin
  • Patent number: 7717724
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) for insertion of an electrical card (200) includes an insulative housing (1) defining a receiving space (14) for insertion of the electrical card. The insulative housing includes a bottom wall (10) and a side wall (12) extending from a lateral side of the bottom wall. A number of terminals (3) are retained in the insulative housing and extend into the receiving space for electrical connection to the electrical card. An ejecting mechanism (4) includes a slider (41) movable along card-insertion or card-withdraw directions, a coil spring (42) for urging the slider, and a connecting rod (43) having an one-end bend portion retained in the insulative housing and an other-end bend potion movable in a heart-shaped cam groove (412) formed in the slider. The side wall of the insulative housing has a protrusion (125) extending from an upper side thereof to abut downwardly against the slider (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao, Hua Yin