Patents by Inventor Richard James Long
Richard James Long 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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Patent number: 11848523Abstract: A connector housing assembly comprises a housing defining an accommodation space having a left side wall and a right side wall opposite to each other in a transverse direction of the housing. A partition member is inserted into the accommodation space for dividing the accommodation space into an upper insertion chamber and a lower insertion chamber. A shielding member is installed within the partition member and includes elastic contacts extending from lateral sides of the partition member for pressing on the left and right side walls of the accommodation space.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignees: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hongwen Yang, Hongqiang Han, Richard James Long, Alex Michael Sharf
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Publication number: 20230402799Abstract: A receptacle cage includes conductive cage walls forming a cavity defining a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The cage walls include an upper wall above the module channel and a lower wall below the module channel. The cage walls include a port at a front of the receptacle cage providing access to the module channel. The receptacle cage includes an upper EMI absorber extending along the upper wall above the module channel and a lower EMI absorber extending along the lower wall below the module channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2022Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Richard James Long, Alex Michael Sharf
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Publication number: 20230253739Abstract: A receptacle cage includes cage walls including exterior walls and an interior wall. The exterior walls form a cavity and include a top wall, a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, and a rear wall. The interior wall is received in the cavity and divides the cavity into a first module channel at a first side of the interior wall and a second module channel at a second side of the interior wall. The interior wall includes a front edge, a rear edge, an upper edge, and a lower edge. The upper edge is joined to the top wall along a majority of the upper edge. The lower edge is joined to the bottom wall along a majority of the lower edge. The rear edge is joined to the rear wall along a majority of the rear edge. The exterior walls provide external shielding for the first and second module channels. The interior wall provides shielding between the first and second module channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Richard James Long, Alex Michael Sharf, Freddy R. Galindo Palomino
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Patent number: 11626694Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage including cage walls including a top wall and forming a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The top wall includes an opening open to the pluggable module. The receptacle connector assembly includes an EMI gasket coupled to the top wall at the opening. The EMI gasket provides electrical shielding at the opening. The EMI gasket has a base including a mounting surface coupled to the top wall of the receptacle cage. The EMI gasket has a plurality of mating interfaces. The receptacle connector assembly includes a heat sink coupled to the receptacle cage having a heat sink base with a thermal interface located in the module channel and configured to engage the pluggable module to dissipate heat from the pluggable module. The base engages the mating interfaces of the EMI gasket to electrically connect the heat sink to the EMI gasket.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Richard James Long, Steven David Dunwoody, Alex Michael Sharf
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Publication number: 20220302651Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage including cage walls including a top wall and forming a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The top wall includes an opening open to the pluggable module. The receptacle connector assembly includes an EMI gasket coupled to the top wall at the opening. The EMI gasket provides electrical shielding at the opening. The EMI gasket has a base including a mounting surface coupled to the top wall of the receptacle cage. The EMI gasket has a plurality of mating interfaces. The receptacle connector assembly includes a heat sink coupled to the receptacle cage having a heat sink base with a thermal interface located in the module channel and configured to engage the pluggable module to dissipate heat from the pluggable module. The base engages the mating interfaces of the EMI gasket to electrically connect the heat sink to the EMI gasket.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2021Publication date: September 22, 2022Inventors: Richard James Long, Steven David Dunwoody, Alex Michael Sharf
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Patent number: 11374363Abstract: A pluggable module includes a pluggable body having an upper shell at the top and a lower shell at the bottom that define an interior chamber. The upper shell includes side walls extending to the top and an upper wall extending between the side walls. The upper shell includes an airflow channel and EMI prevention fins having EMI channels therebetween in flow communication with the airflow channel. The upper wall along the airflow channel is at a first depth from the top and the upper wall along the EMI channels is at a second depth deeper than the first depth.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Jacob Rita, Eric David Briant, Michael John Phillips, Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long
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Patent number: 11317547Abstract: A shielding housing includes a receptacle configured to receive an electrical connector assembly including an electrical connector and a mating connector connected to the electrical connector. The receptacle is formed as a straight passage with an opening at each end of the straight passage. Either end of the straight passage receives one of the electrical connector and the mating connector along a mating axis coaxial with the straight passage.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignees: TE Connectivity Services GmbH, TE Connectivity Belgium BVBA, TE Electronics Svenska ABInventors: Lieven Decrock, Rickard Valentin Barrefelt, Dustin Rowe, Yublia May, Kylie Elizabeth Hostrander, Richard James Long, Julia Anne Lachman, Jacob Rita, Charles Jameson Valentine, Magnus Andersson
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Patent number: 11245230Abstract: A receptacle cage includes cage walls forming a module channel that is configured to receive a pluggable module. The cage walls extend between a front end and a rear end of the receptacle cage. At least one of the cage walls is a latch wall including a latching feature configured to engage a latch of the pluggable module to retain the pluggable module in the module channel. The receptacle cage includes a first slider pressure tab. The first slider pressure tab extends from the latch wall into the module channel. The first slider pressure tab is configured to engage a slider arm of the latch to press the slider arm inward toward a pluggable module body of the pluggable module.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2020Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Steven David Dunwoody, Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long
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Publication number: 20210408735Abstract: A connector housing assembly comprises a housing defining an accommodation space having a left side wall and a right side wall opposite to each other in a transverse direction of the housing. A partition member is inserted into the accommodation space for dividing the accommodation space into an upper insertion chamber and a lower insertion chamber. A shielding member is installed within the partition member and includes elastic contacts extending from lateral sides of the partition member for pressing on the left and right side walls of the accommodation space.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicants: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Hongwen Yang, Hongqiang Han, Richard James Long, Alex Michael Sharf
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Publication number: 20210359470Abstract: A receptacle cage includes cage walls forming a module channel that is configured to receive a pluggable module. The cage walls extend between a front end and a rear end of the receptacle cage. At least one of the cage walls is a latch wall including a latching feature configured to engage a latch of the pluggable module to retain the pluggable module in the module channel. The receptacle cage includes a first slider pressure tab. The first slider pressure tab extends from the latch wall into the module channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2020Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Steven David Dunwoody, Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long
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Patent number: 11152750Abstract: A receptacle cage assembly includes a receptacle cage having first and second side walls extending from a top wall at first and second corners. A gasket has EMI springs electrically connected to the receptacle cage and a panel in a panel opening including top EMI springs and first and second side EMI springs. A first corner EMI spring is located outward of the first corner of the receptacle cage to engage the panel at a first corner of the panel opening. A second corner EMI spring is located outward of the second corner of the receptacle cage to engage the panel at a second corner of the panel opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long, Steven David Dunwoody
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Publication number: 20210288457Abstract: A electrical connector includes an inner conductor having a first mating end configured to be coupled to an electrical component and a second mating end and an outer conductor having a first mating end configured to be coupled to the electrical component and a second mating end. The outer conductor has a bore receiving the inner conductor. The inner conductor is coaxial with the outer conductor. A shielding gasket is separate and discrete from the outer conductor and coupled to the first mating end of the outer conductor. The shielding gasket has an outer surface facing the electrical component and configured to interface with the electrical component. The shielding gasket provides perimeter shielding around the first mating end of the inner conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Richard James Long, Alex Michael Sharf
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Publication number: 20210288447Abstract: A receptacle cage assembly includes a receptacle cage having first and second side walls extending from a top wall at first and second corners. A gasket has EMI springs electrically connected to the receptacle cage and a panel in a panel opening including top EMI springs and first and second side EMI springs. A first corner EMI spring is located outward of the first corner of the receptacle cage to engage the panel at a first corner of the panel opening. A second corner EMI spring is located outward of the second corner of the receptacle cage to engage the panel at a second corner of the panel opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long, Steven David Dunwoody
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Patent number: 11121511Abstract: A electrical connector includes an inner conductor having a first mating end configured to be coupled to an electrical component and a second mating end and an outer conductor having a first mating end configured to be coupled to the electrical component and a second mating end. The outer conductor has a bore receiving the inner conductor. The inner conductor is coaxial with the outer conductor. A shielding gasket is separate and discrete from the outer conductor and coupled to the first mating end of the outer conductor. The shielding gasket has an outer surface facing the electrical component and configured to interface with the electrical component. The shielding gasket provides perimeter shielding around the first mating end of the inner conductor.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbHInventors: Richard James Long, Alex Michael Sharf
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Patent number: 11114797Abstract: A cage includes a housing and a partition assembly mounted in the housing and separating an inner space of the housing into an upper space and a lower space. The partition assembly includes a first support plate and a second support plate arranged horizontally, and at least a pair of support frames disposed between the first support plate and the second support plate to separate the first support plate from the second support plate by a predetermined height. The support frames have a plurality of through holes. The support frames are formed by bending a front end of one of the first support plate and the second support plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., TE Connectivity Services GmbHInventors: Chenxi Wang, Hongqiang Han, Alex Michael Sharf, Jingtao Zhu, Wenyu Liu, Steven David Dunwoody, Richard James Long
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Publication number: 20210167554Abstract: A receptacle cage includes shielding walls forming a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The shielding walls include first and second side walls extending from a top wall to form a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The top wall is non-planar and has a shroud extending therefrom forming a cage polarization feature. The shroud has a first shroud side wall, a second shroud side wall and a shroud top wall forming a polarization feature channel configured to receive a polarization feature of the pluggable module.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long, Steven David Dunwoody
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Publication number: 20210066859Abstract: A pluggable module includes a pluggable body having an upper shell at the top and a lower shell at the bottom that define an interior chamber. The upper shell includes side walls extending to the top and an upper wall extending between the side walls. The upper shell includes an airflow channel and EMI prevention fins having EMI channels therebetween in flow communication with the airflow channel. The upper wall along the airflow channel is at a first depth from the top and the upper wall along the EMI channels is at a second depth deeper than the first depth.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Jacob Rita, Eric David Briant, Michael John Phillips, Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long
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Patent number: 10939594Abstract: A receptacle cage includes cage walls extending between a front end and a rear end including a top wall and side walls forming a module channel receiving a pluggable module. The receptacle cage includes a gasket at the front end having EMI springs electrically connected to the cage walls. Each EMI spring has a deflectable portion between a base and a distal end. The distal end is split with a first end beam and a second end beam at the distal end separated by a gap. The deflectable portion is spaced apart from the cage wall and is deflectable toward the cage wall. Each EMI spring has first and second side edges between the base and the distal end. The EMI springs are arranged side-by-side without gaps between adjacent EMI springs.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Richard James Long, Alex Michael Sharf, Steven David Dunwoody
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Publication number: 20210051824Abstract: A shielding housing includes a receptacle configured to receive an electrical connector assembly including an electrical connector and a mating connector connected to the electrical connector. The receptacle is formed as a straight passage with an opening at each end of the straight passage. Either end of the straight passage receives one of the electrical connector and the mating connector along a mating axis coaxial with the straight passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicants: TE Connectivity Belgium BVBA, Tyco Electronics Svenska AB, TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Lieven DECROCK, Rickard Valentin BARREFELT, Dustin ROWE, Yublia MAY, Kylie Elizabeth HOSTRANDER, Richard James LONG, Julia Anne LACHMAN, Jacob RITA, Charles Jameson VALENTINE, Magnus ANDERSSON
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Patent number: 10923856Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage having first and second side walls extending from a top wall to form a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The top wall is non-planar and has a shroud extending therefrom forming a cage polarization feature. The shroud has a first shroud side wall, a second shroud side wall and a shroud top wall forming a polarization feature channel configured to receive a polarization feature of the pluggable module.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATIONInventors: Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long, Steven David Dunwoody