Patents by Inventor Pin-Yuan Hou

Pin-Yuan Hou 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: 20230411893
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a mini type FAKRA connector, which includes a metal housing, a plastic housing, a pin, and multiple terminals. The plastic housing is assembled to the metal housing, and a portion structure of the metal housing and a portion structure of the plastic housing are overlapped to form a tunnel. The pin is inserted into the tunnel to fix the metal housing and the plastic housing together. The terminals penetrate the metal housing and the plastic housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Jiaqi Li, Qihui Zhu, Pin-Yuan Hou, Jia Chen
  • Publication number: 20230170645
    Abstract: An electrical connector, including an insulating body, multiple terminals, a metal shell, a collar, and a water-proof glue, is provided. The terminals are disposed in the insulating body. The metal shell is disposed outside the insulating body and surrounds the insulating body and the terminals. The collar is sleeved onto an outer wall of the metal shell. The collar has a first plate portion, a second plate portion, and a bending portion. The bending portion is connected between the first plate portion and the second plate portion. The first plate portion is connected to the outer wall of the metal shell, and the second plate portion is away from the outer wall of the metal shell. The water-proof glue is disposed between the second plate portion of the collar and the bending portion and the outer wall of the metal shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yubin Li, Qihui Zhu, Pin-Yuan Hou, Shu-Fen Wang
  • Publication number: 20230170646
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a plurality of terminals, a first insulating body, a second insulating body, a shell, and a waterproof member is provided. The terminals are respectively retained in the first insulating body and the second insulating body. The shell is sheathed to the first insulating body and the second insulating body. The shell has a front edge and a rear edge opposite to each other along an insertion direction. The front edge is used for mating another electrical connector. At least one opening is formed by the rear edge and the second insulating body. The first insulating body and the second insulating body are separated from each other. A space is formed by the first insulating body, the second insulating body, and the shell. The space is communicated with an external environment via the at least one opening. The waterproof member is filled into the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yubin Li, Yao Mei Wang, Guan Liao, Pin-Yuan Hou, Shu-Fen Wang
  • Publication number: 20230104592
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulating body, multiple terminals, a shell, and a sealing adhesive is provided. The terminals are disposed in the insulating body. The shell is assembled to the insulating body. The shell has an insulative exterior shell, surrounding the insulating body and the terminals. Portions of the insulating body and the terminals protruding from a front side of the insulative exterior shell are configured to be connected to another electrical connector. The sealing adhesive is filled between the shell and the insulating body and located at a rear side of the insulative exterior shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Pin-Yuan Hou, Yubin Li, Shu-Fen Wang
  • Patent number: 11349248
    Abstract: The invention provides a universal serial bus connector, including an insulating body and a plurality of terminals. The insulating body has a tongue portion and at least one recess located on the tongue portion. The terminals pass through the insulating body, and the terminals expose the insulating body from the tongue portion. The recess corresponds to at least one terminal and is located in an extending direction of the corresponding terminal on the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Er Li Huang, Pin-Yuan Hou, Yao Mei Wang, Hsien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11121507
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a base member and a plurality of first terminals disposed in the base member is provided. Each of the first terminals has an contact segment and an tail segment opposite to each other. The contact segments respectively belong to two different parallel planes, and the tail segments are located on a same plane. The first terminals form a plurality of terminal sets in the tail segments, and each of the terminal sets includes a ground terminal, a pair of super speed differential terminals, and a power terminal which are adjacent to each other and are sequentially arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Pin-Yuan Hou, Yu-Lun Tsai, Hsu-Fen Wang, Yu-Chai Yeh
  • Patent number: 11075490
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. Two metal sheets are arranged at two sides of the tongue portion. Each of the metal sheets includes a hook structure protruding from a side portion of the tongue portion and a through hole adjacent to the hook structure. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity. The insulated housing is held in the receiving cavity. The contact arms are formed by the through holes of the metal sheets in an elastic manner, to avoid the hooks on both sides of the electrical plug connector in contact with the metal sheets in a poor interference manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Dong-Fang Zeng, Shien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11031725
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. A coverage region adjacent to the base portion is held on a surface of the tongue portion. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The receptacle terminals include a body portion and a contact portion, the body portion is held in the base portion and the tongue portion, and the contact portion is outwardly extending from one end of the body portion. Each of the receptacle terminals includes an avoidance portion between the contact portion and the body portion. The avoidance portion of each of the receptacle terminals is covered by the coverage region of the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Dong-Fang Zeng, Shien-Lung Huang
  • Publication number: 20210151924
    Abstract: The invention provides a universal serial bus connector, including an insulating body and a plurality of terminals. The insulating body has a tongue portion and at least one recess located on the tongue portion. The terminals pass through the insulating body, and the terminals expose the insulating body from the tongue portion. The recess corresponds to at least one terminal and is located in an extending direction of the corresponding terminal on the tongue portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Er Li Huang, Pin-Yuan Hou, Yao Mei Wang, Hsien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11011864
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity, the insulated housing is held in the receptacle cavity. An insertion opening is on a first end of the metallic shell, a stopping portion is inwardly bending on a second end of the metallic shell, and the stopping portion is extending to a surface of the base portion. When an electrical plug connector is inserted into the receptacle cavity, an end portion of the electrical plug connector is in contact with the stopping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Dong-Fang Zeng, Shien-Lung Huang
  • Patent number: 11011863
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulating body, a plurality of terminals, and at least one grounding member is provided. The terminals and the grounding member are disposed in the insulating body. At least one grounding terminal among the terminals and the grounding member next to the grounding terminal form an integrally-molded structure. A portion of the grounding terminal and a portion of the grounding member are misaligned from each other along an arrangement direction of the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Hsu-Fen Wang, Kang Qin Li, Xi Wang
  • Patent number: 11005199
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector has an insulated housing, two elastic buckle elements, multiple plug terminals, and a plug metallic shell. The insulated housing has a terminal portion and two connecting portions. The two elastic buckle elements are respectively mounted in receiving grooves of the two connecting portions of the insulated housing. Multiple plug terminals are arranged on the terminal portion of the insulated housing. An electrical receptacle connector is detachably connected with the electrical plug connector. The electrical receptacle connector has a receptacle insulated housing and multiple receptacle terminals. The receptacle insulated housing has an inserting portion and two receptacle connecting portions. The multiple receptacle terminals are mounted in a mounting slot of the receptacle insulated housing. When the electrical plug connector is connected with the electrical receptacle connector, the multiple plug terminals may contact the multiple receptacle terminals and are conducted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Shuang-Xi Xiao
  • Patent number: 10971840
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulating body and a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating body is provided. At least one of the terminals has a first section and a pair of second sections. The second sections structurally extend and branch out from the first section. On a plane where the terminals are located, orthogonal projections of the second sections are misaligned and do not overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Hsu-Fen Wang, Kang Qin Li, Xi Wang
  • Publication number: 20200235517
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. A coverage region adjacent to the base portion is held on a surface of the tongue portion. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The receptacle terminals include a body portion and a contact portion, the body portion is held in the base portion and the tongue portion, and the contact portion is outwardly extending from one end of the body portion. Each of the receptacle terminals includes an avoidance portion between the contact portion and the body portion. The avoidance portion of each of the receptacle terminals is covered by the coverage region of the tongue portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yu-Lun TSAI, Pin-Yuan HOU, Dong-Fang ZENG, Shien-Lung HUANG
  • Publication number: 20200235535
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. Two metal sheets are arranged at two sides of the tongue portion. Each of the metal sheets includes a hook structure protruding from a side portion of the tongue portion and a through hole adjacent to the hook structure. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity. The insulated housing is held in the receiving cavity. The contact arms are formed by the through holes of the metal sheets in an elastic manner, to avoid the hooks on both sides of the electrical plug connector in contact with the metal sheets in a poor interference manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Dong-Fang Zeng, Shien-Lung Huang
  • Publication number: 20200235515
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, receptacle terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion outwardly extending from the base portion. The receptacle terminals are held in the base portion and disposed at the surface of the tongue portion. The metallic shell includes a receptacle cavity, the insulated housing is held in the receptacle cavity. An insertion opening is on a first end of the metallic shell, a stopping portion is inwardly bending on a second end of the metallic shell, and the stopping portion is extending to a surface of the base portion. When an electrical plug connector is inserted into the receptacle cavity, an end portion of the electrical plug connector is in contact with the stopping portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Yu-Lun TSAI, Pin-Yuan HOU, Dong-Fang ZENG, Shien-Lung HUANG
  • Patent number: 10615540
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, contact terminals held in the insulated housing, an outer shell covering the insulated housing, and hook members. First buckle structures are at side arms at two sides of the insulated housing. Each of the hook members includes a second buckle structure mating with the corresponding first buckle structure. The buckle structures are of crescent shapes and mated with each other. When the press portion of the hook member is pressed by an excessive force, the first/second buckle structure stops the second/first buckle structure to prevent the elastic arm of the hook member from deforming. When the elastic arm is bounced back excessively, the first/second buckle structure stops the second/first buckle structure to prevent the hook member from detaching off the side arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Pin-Yuan Hou, Shuang-Xi Xiao, Yu-Chai Yeh
  • Patent number: 10608358
    Abstract: A cable connector including a first base, a second base, a plurality of first terminals disposed in the first base with a plurality of first tail segments exposed out of the first base, a plurality of second terminals disposed in the second base with a plurality of second segments exposed out of the second base, and a plurality of cables electrically connecting the second terminals is provided. The first and the second bases are detachably assembled, such that the first tail segments are detachably connected to the second contact segments in structural contact to electrically connect the first terminals and the second terminals. An electrical adaptor is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Pin-Yuan Hou, Yu-Lun Tsai, Hsu-Fen Wang, Yu-Chai Yeh
  • Patent number: 10483700
    Abstract: An all-in-one electrical receptacle connector includes an audio connector body, an audio connector component, and an electrical connector. The audio connector component is assembled with an audio fixation groove of the audio connector body, and the electrical connector is assembled with a connector fixation groove of the audio connector body. Accordingly, the audio receptacle connector (audio jack) is assembled with receptacle connector(s) with different connection interfaces (e.g., Micro USB, USB type-C, HDMI) to have an all-in-one electrical receptacle connector including the audio receptacle connector and the electrical connector in the electronic product. Therefore, the waterproof function of the housing of the electronic product can be improved effectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Jia Chen, Pin-Yuan Hou, Jia-Qi Li, Hsu-Fen Wang
  • Patent number: D892746
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Hsien-Lung Huang, Hsu-Fen Wang