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).

  • Patent number: 9450341
    Abstract: An 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 set has multiple conductive terminals. The shielding-grounding plate is mounted in a rear end of the insulative housing and has a shielding body mounted in the rear end of the insulative housing and located between the terminal sets and two resilient hooking arms formed on and protruding forward respectively from two opposite sides of the shielding body and extending in the insulative housing. The shielding-grounding plate is located above the conductive terminals of the two terminal sets and shields the terminal sets such that each terminal set would not interfere with the other terminal set with cross talk when implementing signal transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek, Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160268741
    Abstract: A standing-type electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, and an outer shell. The metallic shell defines a receiving cavity therein. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity and includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending from one side of the base portion. The outer shell includes a sleeve enclosing the metallic shell, two or more extending sheets respectively extending from two sides of the sleeve, and two or more positioning portions at the extending sheets. The extending sheets are abutted against a circuit board. The circuit board defines positioning holes positioned with the positioning portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, RUI SU, LONG-FEI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160268746
    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 plurality of legs respectively located at two sides of the base portion and extending downward from the bottom of the base portion, so that the positioning plate can be assembled with a circuit board stably.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen
  • Publication number: 20160268722
    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: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, RUI SU, LONG-FEI CHEN
  • Patent number: 9444177
    Abstract: A waterproof electrical receptacle connector includes a plastic shell, a metallic shell, an insulated housing, and a sealing member (e.g., a waterproof glue block). The plastic shell has a through hole and includes an inserting end and a sealed end respectively at two sides of the through hole. The metallic shell is disposed in the through hole and the metallic shell defines a receiving cavity. The insulated housing is disposed in the receiving cavity. A plurality of receptacle terminals is assembled to the insulated housing. The sealing member is filled in the sealed end to fill a gap between the metallic shell and the plastic shell, and the sealing member is also filled in the bottom of the base portion where the receptacle terminals are exposed for improving the waterproof function of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Rui Su, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9425559
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, a metallic shell and a plurality of connecting portions. The insulated housing is in the metallic shell. The metallic shell includes a tubular body, a connecting plate and a folded portion. The tubular body includes an outer wall and an inner wall. The connecting plate is at the outer wall or the inner wall, and the folded portion is extended from the tubular body toward the connecting plate. The connecting portions are configured to fix the connecting plate to the tubular body so that the connecting plate is fixed on the tubular body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: ANVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 9419390
    Abstract: A USB electrical receptacle connector includes a metal shell, an insulation housing, upper-row terminals, and lower-row terminals. The metal shell defines a receptacle cavity therein for receiving the insulation housing. The insulation housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending forward from the base portion. The upper-row and lower-row terminals adjacent to the upper-row terminals are held on the insulation housing. The lower-row terminals include signal terminals and power terminals held on the insulation housing and adjacent to the signal terminals. The power terminals and the signal terminals are aligned at the same level. Each power terminal includes a second body, a second contact portion, a second extending portion, and a second tail portion. Wherein, the width of the second body, the width of the second extending portion, and the width of second tail portion are relatively greater than those of a conventional terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Pin-Yuan Hou, Yu-Lun Tsai, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9413123
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a metal shell, an insulation housing, upper-row elastic terminals, and lower-row elastic terminals. The metal shell defines a receiving cavity to receive the insulation housing. The insulation housing includes an upper member, a lower member, and a mating room between the upper member and the lower member. The upper-row elastic terminals are held on a lower surface of the upper member and include upper-row elastic contact segments extending toward the mating room for transmitting first signals. The lower-row elastic terminals are held on an upper surface of the lower member and include lower-row elastic contact segments extending toward the mating room for transmitting second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Publication number: 20160211593
    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: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, RUI SU, LONG-FEI CHEN
  • Patent number: 9397433
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, terminals and a fixing base. The insulated housing includes a base member and terminal slots defined through the base member along a longitudinal direction. The terminals are at the insulated housing, and each of the terminals includes a body portion and a tail portion. The connecting segments are at the terminal slots respectively, and the tail portions are respectively extending from the connecting portions and protruded out of a rear side of the base member. The fixing base is at the rear side of the base member, and includes a partition board and barriers. The partition board defines two lateral surfaces corresponding to each other. The barriers are respectively extending from the lateral surfaces, and through grooves are defined between the barriers. Each of the barriers is covered to two sides of the corresponding soldering portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Publication number: 20160181744
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, upper-row receptacle terminals, and lower-row receptacle terminals. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extended from one side of the base portion. The tongue portion has an upper surface, a lower surface, and a front lateral surface. The lower-row receptacle terminals correspond to the upper-row receptacle terminals and include signal terminals which include high speed transmitting terminals. Each of the high speed transmitting terminals includes a bending portion, an extension portion, and a cutout portion. The bending portion is extended upward from the front end of the flat contact portion and inserted into the tongue portion, the extension portion is extended forward from the top of the bending portion toward the front lateral surface, and the cutout portion is defined at the extension portion and near to the bending portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Mao-Sheng Chen
  • Publication number: 20160181722
    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 diameter of the outer peripheral portion is greater than the inner diameter of the tubular portion. A filling groove is formed 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: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Rui Su, Long-Fei Chen
  • Publication number: 20160181734
    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: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20160181723
    Abstract: A waterproof electrical receptacle connector includes a plastic shell, a metallic shell, an insulated housing, and a sealing member (e.g., a waterproof glue block). The plastic shell has a through hole and includes an inserting end and a sealed end respectively at two sides of the through hole. The metallic shell is disposed in the through hole and the metallic shell defines a receiving cavity. The insulated housing is disposed in the receiving cavity. A plurality of receptacle terminals is assembled to the insulated housing. The sealing member is filled in the sealed end to fill a gap between the metallic shell and the plastic shell, and the sealing member is also filled in the bottom of the base portion where the receptacle terminals are exposed for improving the waterproof function of the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, RUI SU, LONG-FEI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160181743
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, a plurality of upper-row receptacle terminals, and a plurality of lower-row receptacle terminals. The insulated housing includes a base portion. Each of the upper-row receptacle terminals includes a tail portion protruded from the base portion. Each of the lower-row receptacle terminals includes a tail portion protruded from the base portion. The tail portions of the upper-row receptacle terminals and the tail portions of the lower-row receptacle terminals are protruded from the base portion, aligned into a line, and spaced from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Rui SU, Lin-Feng CHEN
  • Patent number: 9368926
    Abstract: An electrical connector plug having resilient contact terminals electrically connects to an electrical connector socket with a casing and two groups of engaging terminals mounted on or in the casing. The electrical connector plug has an electrically conductive housing. A coupling device extends in a longitudinal direction and has a base portion. The resilient contact terminals are mounted on the coupling device axially symmetrically arranged with each other in the longitudinal direction, each of which has a flat section and an upwardly protruding contact section. A metallic shield frame is electrically connected to and secured to the electrically conductive housing, having a frame section, a front section, and two lateral protective sections. The respective lateral protective sections have a height no less than that of the upwardly protruding contact sections of the resilient contact terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Alan Robert MacDougall
  • Patent number: 9362680
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, and two conductive contact members. The two conductive contact members are respectively received in a top concave region and a bottom concave region of the insulated housing. When the electrical plug connector is inserted into a metallic shell of the electrical receptacle connector, each conductive contact members of the electrical plug connector comes in contact with the inner surface of the metallic shell of the electrical receptacle connector and a low-impedance grounding path is established between the metallic shell of the electrical plug connector and the metallic shell of the mating electrical receptacle connector through each conductive contact member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Alan MacDougall
  • Publication number: 20160156114
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector assembly has an insulative housing, a first terminal set, a second terminal set and a circuit board. The first and second terminal sets are mounted in the insulative housing. The first terminal set has multiple first conductive terminals each including a first soldering section. The second terminal set has multiple second conductive terminals each including a second soldering section. The first and second soldering sections are soldered on an identical surface of the circuit board such that only one single soldering process is required to solder all of the first and second conductive terminals to the circuit board. The production rate of the electrical plug connector assembly is therefore improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicant: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen KAO, Yu-Lun TSAI, Pin-Yuan HOU, Chung-Fu LIAO, Yang-Yang ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20160156145
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, a plurality of upper-row plug terminals, a plurality of lower-row plug terminals, and a rear positioning block. The insulated housing includes a rear assembling portion defined at the rear of the insulated housing. The rear positioning block is assembled to the rear of the insulated housing. The rear positioning block includes a plurality of through holes and a buckling portion. The through holes are defined through the rear positioning block from the front to the rear. The rear of the upper-row plug terminals and the rear of the lower-row plug terminals respectively pass through the through holes. The buckling portion is defined at the front of the rear positioning block. The buckling portion is adapted to be mated and engaged with the rear assembling portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160156136
    Abstract: An 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 set has multiple conductive terminals. The shielding-grounding plate is mounted in a rear end of the insulative housing and has a shielding body mounted in the rear end of the insulative housing and located between the terminal sets and two resilient hooking arms formed on and protruding forward respectively from two opposite sides of the shielding body and extending in the insulative housing. The shielding-grounding plate is located above the conductive terminals of the two terminal sets and shields the terminal sets such that each terminal set would not interfere with the other terminal set with cross talk when implementing signal transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou