Patents by Inventor Mitchell Kunane Storry
Mitchell Kunane Storry 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).
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Publication number: 20210234310Abstract: An electrical contact includes a main body extending along a longitudinal axis between a mating end and a terminating end of the socket contact. The main body has a first side, a second side, a front, and a rear. The electrical contact includes a mating contact extending from the main body at the mating end including a mating interface configured for mating with a mating electrical contact. The electrical contact includes a contact tail extending from the main body at the terminating end.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Charles Raymond Gingrich, III, Graham Harry Smith, JR., Mitchell Kunane Storry
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Patent number: 9948019Abstract: A connector for a cable assembly includes a shell, a contact housing, and multiple finger clips. The contact housing is held in a chamber of the shell. The contact housing defines contact cavities extending through the contact housing between front and rear ends thereof. The finger clips are held in the contact cavities. The finger clips have deflectable latches. The contact cavities of the contact housing are configured to removably receive electrical contacts therein through the rear end. The deflectable latch of the finger clip in the corresponding contact cavity is configured to engage a retention shoulder of the electrical contact to removably secure the electrical contact in the contact cavity. The electrical contacts held in the contact housing are configured to mate with corresponding mating contacts of a mating connector.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Mitchell Kunane Storry
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Publication number: 20180026387Abstract: A connector for a cable assembly includes a shell, a contact housing, and multiple finger clips. The contact housing is held in a chamber of the shell. The contact housing defines contact cavities extending through the contact housing between front and rear ends thereof. The finger clips are held in the contact cavities. The finger clips have deflectable latches. The contact cavities of the contact housing are configured to removably receive electrical contacts therein through the rear end. The deflectable latch of the finger clip in the corresponding contact cavity is configured to engage a retention shoulder of the electrical contact to removably secure the electrical contact in the contact cavity. The electrical contacts held in the contact housing are configured to mate with corresponding mating contacts of a mating connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Mitchell Kunane Storry
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Patent number: 9793631Abstract: A flexible circuit to wire transition member and method which transitions wires connected to a standard wire termination connector to a flexible circuit. The transition member includes a housing with a flexible circuit receiving recess provide proximate a first surface of the housing. A wire receiving recess is provided in the housing proximate a first surface of the housing. A contact extends between the flexible circuit receiving recess and the wire receiving recess, the contact provides an electrical connection between a flexible circuit received in the flexible circuit receiving recess and a wire received in the wire receiving recess.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS UK LTD.Inventors: Keith Edwin Miller, Kyle Gary Annis, Eric Douglas Springston, II, Mitchell Kunane Storry, Robert John William Hudd, Jonathan Mark Eyles, Philip James Hammond
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Patent number: 9766415Abstract: A panel-mountable header connector includes conductors and a housing. The housing holds the conductors in a cavity of the housing. The housing has a front end and a rear end. The housing has a latch set and a stop feature which define a panel mounting zone therebetween. The panel mounting zone is configured to align with an opening in a panel when the housing is mounted to the panel. The latch set is configured to engage a front side of the panel, and the stop feature is configured to engage a rear side of the panel to retain the panel in the panel mounting zone. At least one of the latch set or the stop feature is stepped such that a width of the panel mounting zone is variable to accommodate the panel having one of multiple thicknesses.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TYCO ELECTRONICS SERVICES GmbHInventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Matthew Richard McAlonis, Mitchell Kunane Storry, Richard Barry Crawford, Mark Roy Dowsett, Gareth Leslie Bannister
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Patent number: 9742081Abstract: A press-fit circuit board connector is provided including a housing having a mating end and a mounting end. The housing has a contact holder including a plurality of contact channels. Contacts are received in corresponding contact channels. Each contact has a mating pin and a mounting pin opposite the mating pin. The mating pin is compliant and configured for compliant mating with a corresponding socket contact of a mating connector. The mounting pin is compliant and configured for press-fit mechanical and electrical connection to a circuit board. The mating pins of the contacts are arranged at the mating end to define a pin mating interface having a first pattern and the mounting pins of the contacts are arranged at the mounting end to define a pin mounting interface having a second pattern different than the first pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Mitchell Kunane Storry, Brent David Yohn
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Patent number: 9515408Abstract: A connector system includes a cartridge having a cavity configured to hold one or more connector modules therein. The cartridge has a port opening to the cavity. The cartridge receiving the one or more connector modules through the port. The connector system includes a release mechanism housed in the cavity. The release mechanism configured to eject the one or more connector modules when actuated. The connector system includes a release button exposed beyond the cartridge and operably coupled to the release mechanism. The release button being pressed to an actuated position to activate the release mechanism. The release button is configured to be in a locked position to avoid inadvertent activation thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Kevin Michael Thackston, Matthew Richard McAlonis, Albert Tsang, Mitchell Kunane Storry, Nicholas Paul Ruffini
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Patent number: 9490571Abstract: An electrical connector includes a shell having a cavity and a wafer assembly received in the cavity. The wafer assembly includes a wafer housing holding a plurality of electrical wafers configured to be electrically mated to a mating connector. The wafer housing has a front end and the wafers extend forward from the front end being arranged parallel to each other within the cavity. Each wafer includes a first edge and a second edge with at least one trace between the first and second edges. An interfacial seal is provided along the front end. The interfacial seal is configured to seal between the electrical connector and the mating connector. The interfacial seal provides an environmental seal for the wafer assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Mitchell Kunane Storry, Kevin Michael Thackston, Kenneth P. Dowhower
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Publication number: 20160131856Abstract: A panel-mountable header connector includes conductors and a housing. The housing holds the conductors in a cavity of the housing. The housing has a front end and a rear end. The housing has a latch set and a stop feature which define a panel mounting zone therebetween. The panel mounting zone is configured to align with an opening in a panel when the housing is mounted to the panel. The latch set is configured to engage a front side of the panel, and the stop feature is configured to engage a rear side of the panel to retain the panel in the panel mounting zone. At least one of the latch set or the stop feature is stepped such that a width of the panel mounting zone is variable to accommodate the panel having one of multiple thicknesses.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2014Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Matthew Richard McAlonis, Mitchell Kunane Storry, Richard Barry Crawford, Mark Roy Dowsett, Gareth Leslie Bannister
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Publication number: 20150333439Abstract: A connector system includes a cartridge having a cavity configured to hold one or more connector modules therein. The cartridge has a port opening to the cavity. The cartridge receiving the one or more connector modules through the port. The connector system includes a release mechanism housed in the cavity. The release mechanism configured to eject the one or more connector modules when actuated. The connector system includes a release button exposed beyond the cartridge and operably coupled to the release mechanism. The release button being pressed to an actuated position to activate the release mechanism. The release button is configured to be in a locked position to avoid inadvertent activation thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Kyle Gary Annis, Kevin Michael Thackston, Matthew Richard McAlonis, Albert Tsang, Mitchell Kunane Storry, Nicholas Paul Ruffini