Patents by Inventor Ping-Chih Chen

Ping-Chih 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).

  • Patent number: 8974248
    Abstract: A universal serial bus connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, an insulating cover, a terminal module and a shielding shell surrounding the insulating housing, the insulating cover and the terminal module. The insulating housing includes a first base body which defines a first holding groove and a second base body which defines a second holding groove. The first terminals and the second terminals are disposed to the first base body. The insulating cover has a main body received in the first holding groove. The terminal module includes an insulating base and a plurality of third terminals integrally molded to the insulating base. The insulating base has a tongue portion received in the second holding groove, and a second supporting portion. A rear surface of the second supporting portion is flush with a rear surface of the first base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rong-Qin Lan, Ping-Chih Chen, Yin-Lung Wu
  • Publication number: 20140287624
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body having a base portion and a tongue board, a plurality of first terminals each having a first soldering portion, a plurality of second terminals each having a second soldering portion, and a shielding shell enclosing the insulating body. A rear of a top of the base portion is concaved downward to form a groove. A bottom wall of the groove defines a plurality of first terminal grooves. The first and the second terminals are integrated in the insulating body. The first and the second terminals are arranged in two rows in vertical direction and are arranged alternately at intervals in transverse direction. The first soldering portions of the first terminals are levelly located in the first terminal grooves of the insulating body respectively and the second soldering portions of the second terminals project downward beyond a bottom face of the insulating body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rong-Qin Lan, Ping-Chih Chen, Yin-Lung Wu
  • Publication number: 20140287623
    Abstract: A universal serial bus connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, an insulating cover, a terminal module and a shielding shell surrounding the insulating housing, the insulating cover and the terminal module. The insulating housing includes a first base body which defines a first holding groove and a second base body which defines a second holding groove. The first terminals and the second terminals are disposed to the first base body. The insulating cover has a main body received in the first holding groove. The terminal module includes an insulating base and a plurality of third terminals integrally molded to the insulating base. The insulating base has a tongue portion received in the second holding groove, and a second supporting portion. A rear surface of the second supporting portion is flush with a rear surface of the first base body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Applicant: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rong-Qin Lan, Ping-Chih Chen, Yin-Lung Wu
  • Patent number: 8827751
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a supporting body, an insulating body engaged on the supporting body, a plurality of first terminals integrated in the insulating body, a plurality of second terminals integrated in the supporting body, and a shielding shell enclosing the supporting body and the insulating body. The first and the second terminals have contact portions thereof alternately arranged in two rows in longitudinal direction, and have soldering portions thereof vertically located with tail ends thereof projecting beyond a bottom face of the supporting body. The soldering portions are alternately arranged in two rows in longitudinal direction. The electrical connector of the present invention not only has high signal transmission rate and miniaturized structure, but also can be assembled quickly and accurately, thus it saves a lot of manpower and material resources, reduces the production cost and further improves the production efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rong-Qin Lan, Ping-Chih Chen, Yin-Lung Wu
  • Patent number: 8517745
    Abstract: A card connector includes a first insulating housing defining a first receiving room, a second insulating housing defining a second receiving room, a first terminal group molded in the first insulating housing and having a plurality of first contact portions which project in the first receiving room, a second terminal group molded in the second insulating housing and having a plurality of second contact portions which project in the second receiving room, a drawer and a shielding shell. The first insulating housing is mounted on the second insulating housing, and the drawer is movably assembled between the first insulating housing and the second insulating housing. The drawer has two blocking slices bending downward to stretch in the second receiving room for ejecting a card out of the second receiving room by pulling the drawer outward. The shielding shell encloses the insulating housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ou Yang, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: 8517779
    Abstract: An electrical terminal has a soldering plate, a propping plate extending upward and rearward from a front end of the soldering plate, a resilient arm bending upward and then extending forward from a rear end of the soldering plate, and a pressing portion of inverted-V shape connected with a front end of the resilient arm and defining a mouth between a front arm and a rear arm thereof. A top end of the propping plate bends forward and downward to form a lower hook tail stretched in the mouth, resisting against an inner side of the front arm, and apart from an inner turning of the pressing portion. A bottom end of the front arm bends rearward and upward to form an upper hook tail hooking the lower hook tail with a free end thereof resisting against an outer side of the propping plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Tu Zhang, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20130178116
    Abstract: An electrical terminal has a soldering plate, a propping plate extending upward and rearward from a front end of the soldering plate, a resilient arm bending upward and then extending forward from a rear end of the soldering plate, and a pressing portion of inverted-V shape connected with a front end of the resilient arm and defining a mouth between a front arm and a rear arm thereof. A top end of the propping plate bends forward and downward to form a lower hook tail stretched in the mouth, resisting against an inner side of the front arm, and apart from an inner turning of the pressing portion. A bottom end of the front arm bends rearward and upward to form an upper hook tail hooking the lower hook tail with a free end thereof resisting against an outer side of the propping plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Hong Tu ZHANG, Ping-Chih CHEN, Ming-Chiang CHEN
  • Patent number: 8393206
    Abstract: This invention is a ground flutter testing system without a wind tunnel, called Dry Wind Tunnel (DWT) System. The DWT system consists of a Ground Vibration Test (GVT) hardware system, a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) force controller software, and a real-time unsteady aerodynamic force generation software, that is developed from an aerodynamic reduced order model (ROM). The ground flutter test using the DWT System operates on a real structural model, therefore no scaled-down structural model, which is required by the conventional wind tunnel flutter test, is involved. Furthermore, the impact of the structural nonlinearities on the aeroelastic stability can be included automatically. Moreover, the aeroservoelastic characteristics of the aircraft can be easily measured by simply including the flight control system in-the-loop. In addition, the unsteady aerodynamics generated computationally is interference-free from the wind tunnel walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Inventor: Ping-Chih Chen
  • Publication number: 20130057974
    Abstract: A lens module socket includes an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive terminals, an inner shielding shell and an outer shielding shell. The insulating housing has an accommodating space therein for receiving the lens module and a plurality of buckling grooves distributed at outsides of corresponding side walls thereof. The conductive terminals are assembled in the insulating housing. The inner shielding shell surrounds the insulating housing, and has a plurality of side plates which define a plurality of through-holes corresponding to the respective buckling grooves. The outer shielding shell covered on the insulating housing includes a top plate and a plurality of lateral plates extending downward from a periphery of the top plate and defining a plurality of openings. A buckling arm is extended upward and bent inward from a bottom of each opening to be buckled in the corresponding buckling groove through the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., LTD.
    Inventors: HONG-TU ZHANG, Ai-Gong Chi, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: 8282400
    Abstract: An electronic connector includes an insulating case, a metal plate and a contact module. The insulating case includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a receiving space defined therein, and a plurality of grooves defined at the top surface. The metal plate is retained in the receiving space and attached to the bottom surface of the insulating case. The contact module is retained in the receiving space, which includes an insulating housing, a plurality of contacts and a ground terminal. Each contact includes a first connecting portion extended above the top surface and aligned with the corresponding groove of the insulating case. The ground terminal includes a second connecting portion and a contacting portion. The second connecting portion is extended above the top surface and aligned with the corresponding groove of the insulating case. The contacting portion is connected to the metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ou Yang, Ping-Chih Chen, Hong-Tu Zhang, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: 8246379
    Abstract: A battery connector includes an insulating body having a base board and a fastening tongue protruding upward and then extending forward from a rear of the base board, and an electrical terminal which has a base plate, two elastic arms parallel and apart located over the base plate by means of two rear ends thereof curvedly connected with a rear edge of the base plate respectively, and two contact arms oppositely extending outward from two front ends of the elastic arms. The base plate is inserted rearward to be clipped between the fastening tongue and the base board, and the elastic arms are located at two opposite sides of the fastening tongue. The contact arms can be respectively connected with the positive electrode of one of two batteries and the negative electrode of the other battery to realize a series connection between the two batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Tu Zhang, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20120164855
    Abstract: A connector terminal curved from a strip-shaped metal plate has a soldering plate of which a substantial middle of one end edge extends upward to form a bracket plate, an arched connecting portion bent upward from the other end of the soldering plate and apart facing the bracket plate, and a flexible arm extending from a free end of the connecting portion towards the bracket plate and parallel to the soldering plate. Two opposite side edges of a top end of the bracket plate oppositely protrude to form a pair of blocking ears. A free end of the flexible arm is arched upward to form an inverted-V shaped contacting portion adjacent to the bracket plate. Two ends of a distal edge of the contacting portion further extend beyond the two opposite side edges of the bracket plate to form a pair of resisting tails respectively restrained under the blocking ears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., LTD.
    Inventors: HONG-TU ZHANG, PING-CHIH CHEN, MING-CHIANG CHEN
  • Patent number: 8206188
    Abstract: A connector terminal curved from a strip-shaped metal plate has a soldering plate of which a substantial middle of one end edge extends upward to form a bracket plate, an arched connecting portion bent upward from the other end of the soldering plate and apart facing the bracket plate, and a flexible arm extending from a free end of the connecting portion towards the bracket plate and parallel to the soldering plate. Two opposite side edges of a top end of the bracket plate oppositely protrude to form a pair of blocking ears. A free end of the flexible arm is arched upward to form an inverted-V shaped contacting portion adjacent to the bracket plate. Two ends of a distal edge of the contacting portion further extend beyond the two opposite side edges of the bracket plate to form a pair of resisting tails respectively restrained under the blocking ears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng UEI Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Tu Zhang, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20120122322
    Abstract: An electronic connector includes an insulating case, a metal plate and a contact module. The insulating case includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a receiving space defined therein, and a plurality of grooves defined at the top surface. The metal plate is retained in the receiving space and attached to the bottom surface of the insulating case. The contact module is retained in the receiving space, which includes an insulating housing, a plurality of contacts and a ground terminal. Each contact includes a first connecting portion extended above the top surface and aligned with the corresponding groove of the insulating case. The ground terminal includes a second connecting portion and a contacting portion. The second connecting portion is extended above the top surface and aligned with the corresponding groove of the insulating case. The contacting portion is connected to the metal plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., LTD.
    Inventors: OU YANG, PING-CHIH CHEN, HONG-TU ZHANG, MING-CHIANG CHEN
  • Patent number: D660248
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Tu Zhang, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: D660249
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Chih Chen, Hong-Tu Zhang, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: D663695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong-Tu Zhang, Ai-Gong Chi, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: D664503
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ou Yang, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: D671075
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ou Yang, Hong-Tu Zhang, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Patent number: D671498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ou Yang, Hong-Tu Zhang, Ping-Chih Chen, Ming-Chiang Chen