Patents by Inventor Long-Fei CHEN

Long-Fei CHEN 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: 20170155215
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a mount member, a tongue, first terminals, second terminals, and a shielding plate. The mount member and the tongue are received in a metallic shell. The terminals and the shielding plate are on the mount member and the tongue. The tongue includes terminal grooves and recesses. The terminal grooves are formed on a first surface of the tongue. Each of the recesses is recessed toward a tip of the tongue from an inner sidewall in the corresponding terminal groove. Flat contact portions of the first terminals are held in the terminal grooves. End portions of the flat contact portions are received in the recesses. Therefore, upon the tongue is deflected, the flat contact portions are constrainted in the recesses and not detached from the tongue, thereby improving stability and reliability in the contact with an electrical plug connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, RUI SU, LONG-FEI CHEN
  • Patent number: 9666964
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulator and a blanking contact set. The insulator includes a tongue portion and an insulator rear end. The blanking contact set includes a plurality of blanking contacts. At least one of the blanking contacts includes a connecting portion, a contacting portion, and a soldering portion. The connecting portion is combined with the insulator. The contacting portion extends from the connecting portion toward the tongue portion and stretches out of a first surface of the tongue portion. The soldering portion extends from the connecting portion toward the insulator rear end and stretches out of the insulator rear end. A central axis of the contacting portion is spaced from a central axis of the soldering portion by an offset. The connecting portion connects the contacting portion and the soldering portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Long Fei Chen, Rui Su, Chien-Tsung Chuang
  • Publication number: 20170149165
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided, which includes: a housing having a port and an opening; an insulating body having a tongue plate formed in the housing; a plurality of conductive terminals provided on the insulating body; and a seal body formed between the tongue plate and the port. The tongue plate protrudes from the port to a region outside of the housing, such that the housing is free from enclosing the tongue plate. A seal body is provided between the tongue plate and the port to seal off the port so as to be waterproofed, without increasing the contour size of the electrical connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun TSAI, Pin-Yuan HOU, Chung-Fu LIAO, Long-Fei CHEN, Chien-Tsung CHUANG, Yun-Jhong WONG
  • Patent number: 9660373
    Abstract: A waterproof electrical receptacle connector includes a plastic shell, a metallic shell, an insulated housing, and a buckling member. The plastic shell includes a shell body, a through hole defined in the shell body, and an assembling hole defined on the shell body. The metallic shell is received in the through hole and defines a receiving cavity. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity and includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending from the base portion. The buckling member is positioned with the assembling hole and includes a buckling body and a hook extending from the bottom of the buckling body and protruded out of the assembling hole. Accordingly, the hook is protruded out of the assembling hole and engaged with a buckling hole of a circuit board, so that the front of waterproof electrical receptacle connector can be firmly positioned with the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Rui Su, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9647393
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, and a terminal organizer. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively held at the top and the bottom of the insulated housing. The first receptacle terminals are longer than the second receptacle terminals. In assembly, the first receptacle terminals, of bar shape, are firstly processed with the terminal organizer. And then, the first receptacle terminals and the terminal organizer are assembled on the base portion and the tongue portion. Hence, the insert-molding procedure would not be affected by the first receptacle terminals with longer length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9647358
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, a plurality of terminals, a metallic shell, and a positioning plate. The insulated housing includes a base portion, an upper portion, and a lower portion. The upper portion and the lower portion are extending from one side of the base portion. A mating room is between the upper portion and the lower portion. The terminals are held in the insulated housing. The metallic shell includes a tubular portion and a receiving cavity defined in the tubular portion. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity. The positioning plate is at the rear of the metallic shell to enclose the base portion. The positioning plate includes a first leg and a second leg respectively located at two sides of the base portion, so that the positioning plate can be assembled with a circuit board stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9647369
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a first insulated member and a second insulated member that are received in a metallic shell. A plurality of first receptacle terminals and a plurality of second receptacle terminals are respectively held in the first insulated member and the second insulated member. The first insulated member includes a tongue portion. The second insulated member includes a terminal positioning portion on the surface of the first insulated member. The surface of the terminal positioning portion and the surface of the tongue portion are at the same horizontal plane. A surface texture of the terminal positioning portion is different from a surface texture of the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Long-Fei Chen, Dong Xiang, Da-Wei Zhu
  • Patent number: 9647396
    Abstract: A standing-type electrical receptacle connector includes a first terminal module, a second terminal module, and a grounding plate that are received in a metallic shell. The first terminal module includes a first insulated member and first receptacle terminals. The second terminal module includes a second insulated member and second receptacle terminals. The first receptacle terminals include first ground terminals, and tail portions of the first ground terminals are extending out of the first insulated member. The second receptacle terminals include second ground terminals, and tail portions of the second ground terminals are extending out of the second insulated member. The grounding plate includes legs each disposed between the corresponding tail portions, each of the legs and the corresponding tail portions are aligned along a vertical line and inserted into the same ground soldering hole of a circuit board. Therefore, the cost for soldering procedure can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Long-Fei Chen, Rui Su
  • Patent number: 9640925
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, first and second groups of terminals, an adapting circuit board, and extension terminals. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell and includes a base portion, upper and lower tongue portions, and a partition plate. Upper and lower plug openings are respectively formed between the partition plate and the upper portion of the metallic shell and between the partition plate and the lower portion of the metallic shell. The terminals are held in the insulated housing. The adapting circuit board is disposed at the rear of the insulated housing and includes an upper-row contact set connected to the first group of terminals and a lower-row contact set. One ends of the extension terminals are connected to the lower-row contact set, and the other ends of the extension terminals are extended to the bottom of the insulated housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Rui Su, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9634409
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, and a plurality of second receptacle terminals. The insulated housing received in the metallic shell is assembled with the first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals. The tail portion of the power terminal of the second receptacle terminals is adjacent to and combined with the tail portion of the power terminal of the first receptacle terminals. The tail portion of the ground terminal of the second receptacle terminals is adjacent to and combined with the tail portion of the ground terminal of the first receptacle terminals. The combined tail portions can be inserted into the same soldering hole of a circuit board. Therefore, the cost and time for the soldering procedure of the connector manufacturing can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Long-Fei Chen, Chien-Tsung Chuang
  • Publication number: 20170110812
    Abstract: A receptacle electrical connector has an insulative mounting bracket, a first terminal set, a second terminal set, a shielding plate and a shell. The shield plate has two connection portions formed respectively on two opposite sides of the shielding plate and each connection portion 53 has a strip cross section. The strip cross section is formed on the connection portion, and the two strip cross sections of the connection portions are exposed out of two opposite sides of the insulative mounting bracket. During the insert-molding processes of insulative mounting brackets, connecting arms of strips are connected to the strip cross sections of multiple shielding plates for simultaneously forming multiple insulative mounting brackets. Therefore, production efficiency and production rate of the receptacle electrical connectors are enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Yu Lun Tsai, Pin Yuan Hou, Chung Fu Liao, Chuan I Lin, Dong Xiang, Da Wei Zhu, Long Fei Chen, Rui Su
  • Publication number: 20170110817
    Abstract: A reinforced electrical receptacle connector has an insulative mounting bracket, a first terminal set, a second terminal set, a shielding plate and a shell. The insulative mounting bracket has a base and a tongue formed on the base. The shielding plate is embedded in the insulative mounting bracket and has two corner reinforcing tabs are formed on respectively on two front corners of the shielding plate. Each corner reinforcing tab has a front edge being flush with the front edge of the tongue and an outside edge being flush with one of the outside edges of the tongue. The shell accommodates the insulative mounting bracket. The front corners of the shielding plate are substantially hidden in the front corners of the tongue, which prevents inadvertent rupture at the front corners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Yu Lun Tsai, Pin Yuan Hou, Chung Fu Liao, Rui Su, Long Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9627796
    Abstract: A waterproof electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, a metallic shell, and a sealing member (e.g., a waterproof glue block). The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extended from one side of the base portion. The metallic shell includes a tubular portion and an outer peripheral portion. The outer peripheral portion is formed by deep drawing techniques and extended from the rear of the tubular portion. The inner dimension of the outer peripheral portion is greater than the inner dimension of the tubular portion. A filling groove is forming between the inner wall of the outer peripheral portion and the outer surface of the base portion. The sealing member is formed at the filling groove to fill a gap between the inner wall of the outer peripheral portion and the outer surface of the base portion and fill the bottom of the base portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Rui Su, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9620909
    Abstract: An interference-proof electrical plug connector has an insulative housing, two terminal sets, a shielding-grounding plate and a shell. The terminal sets are mounted in the insulative housing and each terminal sets has multiple conductive terminals. Each terminal set has multiple conductive terminals and at least one pair of super-speed signal terminals. Each super-speed signal terminal has a mounting section including a widening tab laterally protruding from the mounting section toward an adjacent super-speed signal terminal to reduce the distance between the super-speed signal terminals of the pair. The shielding-grounding plate is mounted in a rear end of the insulative housing. The widening tabs of each pair of the super-speed signal terminals effectively diminish impedance of the super-speed signal terminal such that input loss and return loss of the super-speed signal terminals are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Long-Fei Chen, Yang-Yang Zhou, Mao-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9614310
    Abstract: A standing-type electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, and a plurality of second receptacle terminals. The insulated housing received in the metallic shell is assembled with the first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively held at two sides of the insulated housing along a width direction of the insulated housing, and the length of each of the body portions of the receptacle terminals gradually increases along the width direction of the insulated housing. The tail portions are extending out of the insulated housing and soldered on a circuit board. Accordingly, the standing-type electrical receptacle connector can be assembled to the circuit board in a standing manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9614333
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, a recess structure, and a passage structure. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the insulated housing. The recess structure and the passage structure are formed at the rear of the insulated housing, so that a sealing member can be filled in the recess structure and the passage structure to cover and shields the rear of the insulated housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen
  • Publication number: 20170085021
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a first insulated member and a second insulated member that are received in a metallic shell. A plurality of first receptacle terminals and a plurality of second receptacle terminals are respectively held in the first insulated member and the second insulated member. The first insulated member includes a tongue portion. The second insulated member includes a terminal positioning portion on the surface of the first insulated member. The surface of the terminal positioning portion and the surface of the tongue portion are at the same horizontal plane. A surface texture of the terminal positioning portion is different from a surface texture of the tongue portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, LONG-FEI CHEN, DONG XIANG, DA-WEI ZHU
  • Publication number: 20170085036
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell and one or more insertion modules. The metallic shell includes two first walls, two second walls, and several protrusions. The walls form an insertion space. The protrusions are extending toward the insertion space from the first walls, and the protrusions are integrally formed on the first walls seamlessly. The insertion module includes an insulated housing, first receptacle terminals, second receptacle terminals, and a grounding plate between the first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals. When the electrical receptacle connector is mated with an electrical plug connector, the protrusions are in contact with a metallic shell of the electrical plug connector. Because the walls of the metallic shell are seamless, the connector assembly of the plug and receptacle can be waterproof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, LONG-FEI CHEN, DONG XIANG
  • Publication number: 20170085040
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a mount member received in a metallic shell. A tongue portion is integrally formed with a front end of the mount member. Accordingly, a grounding plate, first receptacle terminals, and second receptacle terminals that are at the front end of the mount member can be positioned. In addition, the front ends of the first receptacle terminals are held in a first surface of the tongue portion, and the front ends of the second receptacle terminals are held in a second surface of the tongue portion. Since the tongue portion and the mount member are formed integrally with each other, the first receptacle terminals, the second receptacle terminals, and the mount member can be firmly positioned with each other. Accordingly, when the connector is impacted by a foreign force, the components of the connector would not detach from each other easily.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, LONG-FEI CHEN, DONG XIANG, DA-WEI ZHU
  • Patent number: 9590336
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, and a rear cover plate. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the insulated housing. The rear cover plate includes a baffle plate and one or more hole. The hole is formed on the surface of the baffle plate for checking tail portions of the second receptacle terminals which are formed as SMT (surface mount technology) legs. Accordingly, the soldering condition between the tail portions of the second receptacle terminals and contacts of a circuit board can be checked from the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen