Patents by Inventor Patrick Costello

Patrick Costello 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: 20200295483
    Abstract: An electrical connector system includes a circuit card assembly and a pluggable module. The circuit card assembly including a host circuit board, a socket connector mounted to the host circuit board, and a guide rail extending along the host circuit board. The socket connector has a socket substrate having upper contacts having mating interfaces being accessible from above the socket connector and being coplanar. The guide rail has a guide feature and a module actuator. The pluggable module includes a module body operatively engaging the guide rail to guide mating of the module body with the guide rail in a module mating direction. The pluggable module includes an actuation feature engaging the module actuator to force mating of module contacts with the upper contacts in a contact mating direction transverse to the module mating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Naoki Hashimoto
  • Publication number: 20200243997
    Abstract: A power connector includes a housing having a mating slot at a front having terminal channels holding power terminals between the slot and the corresponding side of the housing. Each power terminal includes a plate extending from the slot through a rear of the housing to an exterior of the housing for termination to a corresponding power element. The power terminal has a contact array of contacts discrete from and coupled to the plate. Each contact has a plate interface electrically coupled to the plate and a bus bar interface configured to be electrically coupled to a corresponding rail of the bus bar. The contacts are arranged along a corresponding side of the slot for interfacing with the bus bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Michael James Horning, Howard Wallace Andrews, JR., Brian Patrick Costello, David Patrick Orris
  • Publication number: 20200235501
    Abstract: A cable connector includes a twin-axial cable having a first conductor and a second conductor within a core of the cable. The cable connector includes first and second signal contacts including cable terminals terminated to the conductors and substrate terminals generally perpendicular to the cable terminals and terminated to a substrate. The cable connector includes a contact holder having a body encasing portions of the first and second signal contacts. The contact holder has a front and a rear, and a top and a bottom. The cable terminals are arranged proximate to the rear for termination to the cable. The cable extends from the rear of the contact holder. The substrate terminals are exposed at the bottom for termination to the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Richard Elof Hamner, Arash Behziz, Brian Patrick Costello
  • Patent number: 10700454
    Abstract: A cable connector includes a twin-axial cable having a first conductor and a second conductor within a core of the cable. The cable connector includes first and second signal contacts including cable terminals terminated to the conductors and substrate terminals generally perpendicular to the cable terminals and terminated to a substrate. The cable connector includes a contact holder having a body encasing portions of the first and second signal contacts. The contact holder has a front and a rear, and a top and a bottom. The cable terminals are arranged proximate to the rear for termination to the cable. The cable extends from the rear of the contact holder. The substrate terminals are exposed at the bottom for termination to the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Richard Elof Hamner, Arash Behziz, Brian Patrick Costello
  • Patent number: 10684436
    Abstract: A panel mount connector assembly includes a panel mount bracket having a cavity with a front opening. The assembly includes a connector movably received in the cavity holding contacts at a mating end and cables extending from a cable end. The assembly includes a biasing mechanism received in the cavity engaging the connector and forward biasing the connector in the cavity. The biasing mechanism has a biasing force exceeding a mating force with the mating connector such that the connector remains forward biased in the cavity during mating with the mating connector. The biasing mechanism allows the connector to move rearward when the biasing force is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian Patrick Costello
  • Publication number: 20200065754
    Abstract: Sensor-equipped display management systems and methods that may be used to calculate a number of products removed from a display management system based upon motion of one or more mechanisms within the display management system. Additionally, the systems and methods may be used to detect patterns from the sensor data, which may be indicative of attempted theft of products stored within the display management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Costello, Stephen N. Hardy, Tony Dipaolo
  • Publication number: 20200065755
    Abstract: Sensor-equipped display management systems and methods that may be used to calculate a number of products removed from a display management system based upon motion of one or more mechanisms within the display management system. Additionally, the systems and methods may be used to detect patterns from the sensor data, which may be indicative of attempted theft of products stored within the display management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Costello, Stephen N. Hardy, Tony Dipaolo
  • Publication number: 20200065753
    Abstract: Sensor-equipped display management systems and methods that may be used to calculate a number of products removed from a display management system based upon motion of one or more mechanisms within the display management system. Additionally, the systems and methods may be used to detect patterns from the sensor data, which may be indicative of attempted theft of products stored within the display management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Costello, Stephen N. Hardy, Tony Dipaolo
  • Publication number: 20200033544
    Abstract: A panel mount connector assembly includes a panel mount bracket having a cavity with a front opening. The assembly includes a connector movably received in the cavity holding contacts at a mating end and cables extending from a cable end. The assembly includes a biasing mechanism received in the cavity engaging the connector and forward biasing the connector in the cavity. The biasing mechanism has a biasing force exceeding a mating force with the mating connector such that the connector remains forward biased in the cavity during mating with the mating connector. The biasing mechanism allows the connector to move rearward when the biasing force is exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Brian Patrick Costello
  • Patent number: 10530081
    Abstract: A dual connector assembly includes first and second electrical connectors. The first electrical connector has a first housing holding a first contact. The first housing has a mating end mated with a first mating connector and a mounting end mounted to a circuit board. The first housing has a first mounting block including a first mounting surface. The second electrical connector has a second housing holding a second contact. The second housing has a mating end mated with a second mating connector and a mounting end coupled to the mounting end of the first housing. The second housing has a second mounting block facing the first mounting block such that the second mounting surface engages the first mounting surface to locate the second housing relative to the circuit board. The mounting end of the second housing is held spaced apart from the circuit board by the first electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, William Charles McGee, III
  • Patent number: 10506737
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector having a mating end and a mounting end mounted to a PCB. The electrical connector assembly includes an airflow fairing extending rearward from the electrical connector. The airflow fairing has a front end and a rear end. The airflow fairing has a curved profile between the front end and the rear end having a front cross-sectional area at the front end and a rear cross-sectional area at the rear end less than the front cross-sectional area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Chad William Morgan
  • Publication number: 20190356089
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for a communication system includes a housing and a wafer assembly including a PCB terminated contact wafer and a cable terminated contact wafer arranged in a wafer stack. The PCB terminated contact wafer includes a first contact array having first signal contacts having mating portions and terminating ends for termination to a printed circuit board of the communication system. The cable terminated contact wafer includes a second contact array having second signal contacts and a second contact holder having a mating interface and holding terminating ends of the second signal contacts at the mating interface for electrically connection to a cable connector of a cable assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, Michael David Herring, Arash Behziz, Howard Wallace Andrews, JR.
  • Publication number: 20190279149
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to sensor-equipped display management systems. In one aspect, the systems and methods may be utilized to calculate a number of products removed from a display management system based upon motion of one or more mechanisms within the display management system. In another aspect, the systems and methods may be utilized to detect patterns from the sensor data, which may be indicative of attempted theft of products stored within the display management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: John Swafford, Patrick Costello
  • Publication number: 20190260160
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first module and a second module. Each of the first and second modules extends parallel to a longitudinal axis between a respective front end and a respective rear end opposite the front end. Each of the first and second modules includes a respective shell and one or more electrical connectors held by the shell and exposed at the respective front end for mating to a corresponding mating electrical device. The shell of the second module is mechanically coupled to the shell of the first module between the front and rear ends of the first module. The second module is movable relative to the first module parallel to the longitudinal axis to allow for separately mating the first and second modules to the corresponding mating electrical devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventor: Brian Patrick Costello
  • Publication number: 20190260150
    Abstract: An electrical power connector assembly includes a plug module having a plug carrier with a plug mating end, a plug cable end and a plug channel extending therebetween, a plug contact received within the plug channel, and a plug cable connected to the plug contact. The assembly includes a receptacle module having a receptacle carrier with a receptacle mating end, a receptacle cable end and a receptacle channel extending therebetween, a receptacle contact received within the receptacle channel and being matable and unmatable with the plug contact, and a receptacle cable connected to the receptacle contact. The assembly includes a safety mechanism received within the plug channel configured to move within the plug channel between an unmated position wherein the plug contact is isolated from electrical contact from the receptacle contact and a mated position that provides for mating between the plug contact and the receptacle contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventor: Brian Patrick Costello
  • Publication number: 20190201252
    Abstract: Disposable absorbent articles, such as adult pads or liners for light incontinence, with reduced lengths for improved fit and comfort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicant: ATTENDS HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Alice Tilson KOEHLER, Charles F. SCHROER, Jr., John Patrick COSTELLO
  • Patent number: 10339495
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to sensor-equipped display management systems. In one aspect, the systems and methods may be utilized to calculate a number of products removed from a display management system based upon motion of one or more mechanisms within the display management system. In another aspect, the systems and methods may be utilized to detect patterns from the sensor data, which may be indicative of attempted theft of products stored within the display management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: RTC Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John Swafford, Patrick Costello
  • Patent number: 10297962
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a base disposed along a central axis having a base terminal end and a base contact end. A lever arm is disposed along the central axis and has a biasing end and a lever arm contact end. At least two conductors are interposed between the base and the lever arm, and include contact ends opposite each other separated by an opening configured to receive a power busbar. The conductors have terminal ends opposite each other and separated by a slot configured to receive an electrical component. A hinge pivotally attaches between the base and the lever arm at a pivot axis for rotation of the lever arm about the pivot axis between an engaged position for electrical coupling of the at least two conductors with the power busbar and a disengaged position for electrical decoupling of the at least two conductors from the power busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Costello, David Patrick Orris
  • Patent number: 10257955
    Abstract: A cable backplane system includes cable backplanes each including a tray configured to be coupled to a chassis and a plurality of cable connector assemblies mounted to the tray. The tray has a plate extending between a front and a rear with mounting locations receiving corresponding cable connector assemblies. The trays are oriented parallel to each other with front openings between the fronts of the plates and rear openings between the rears of the plates. Each cable connector assembly has a housing holding contacts terminated to corresponding cables. Each cable connector assembly has a holder mounted to the corresponding mounting location of the plate. The holder is mounted to the plate and removable from the plate through the rear opening at the rear of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian Patrick Costello
  • Patent number: 10211582
    Abstract: An electrical power distribution system includes a first bus bar and a clamp mounted to the first bus bar. The clamp includes a fixed base and a movable plate that define a track therebetween along a broad face of the first bus bar. The track receives a second bus bar therein such that the broad face of the first bus bar engages a corresponding broad face of the second bus bar. The clamp includes a lever connected to both the movable plate and the first bus bar. Pivoting movement of the lever in a locking direction forces linear movement of the movable plate relative to the first bus bar towards the fixed base such that respective inner sides of the movable plate and the fixed base sandwich the second bus bar therebetween to secure the second bus bar in engagement with the first bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Patrick Orris, John Joseph Consoli, Brian Patrick Costello