Patents by Inventor Tao Yao

Tao Yao 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: 10062999
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing; a shielding shell attached to the insulative housing to form a receiving space; a metal shell for mounting on a printed circuit board, the metal shell being affixed to the shielding shell; and an insulative shell insert-molded with the metal shell and enclosing the shielding shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Yao, Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10063024
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals carried by the insulative housing, a metallic shielding plate retained in the insulative housing, and a shielding shell attached to the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a number of receiving slots located at a back-end thereof. The terminals have a number of soldering portions exposed from the insulative housing. Each receiving slot is located between every two neighboring soldering portions to receive soldering material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Yao, Jing-Jie Guo
  • Patent number: 9997865
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a plug connector including an insulative housing, plural conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing, a shielding plate affixed to the insulative housing, and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; and an insulative shell attached to the plug connector and a silicon o-ring integrated with an opening of the insulative shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERNCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Tao Yao
  • Patent number: 9985393
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts, the insulative housing having a rear base and a front tongue, the base having a pair of side latching walls; and a shielding shell enclosing the contact module, the shielding shell having a main part and a pair of side arms extending rearwardly from the main part, each side arm having an inserting portion and a soldering leg; wherein each inserting piece engages a corresponding side latching wall to prevent an associated soldering leg from moving outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Tao Yao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 9954317
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts, the insulative housing having a base and a tongue; a shielding shell enclosing the contact module and having a pair of soldering legs; an insulative outer cover enclosing the shielding shell; and a pair of brackets insert-molded with the outer cover; wherein each of the pair of brackets is locked to the insulative housing to prevent a corresponding soldering leg from moving outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Tao Yao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 9923317
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprising an insulative body, a plurality of terminals secured in said insulative body, and a grounding shell. Wherein said grounding shell is composed of two U-shaped collar shells oppositely assembled onto said insulative body. The connector also includes an insulator injected upon said grounding shell and a metallic shell assembled upon said insulator. Each collar shell includes a spring arm extending beyond said insulator and abutting against said metallic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Yao, Jing-Jie Guo
  • Patent number: 9912106
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing defining a base portion and a tongue portion, two rows of terminals and a shielding shell. The tongue portion defines a thickened step at a root to the base portion, the base portion defines a front and a rear side, and an upper and a lower retaining slots. The shell is retained on the base portion and surrounding the tongue portion so as to define a mating cavity between the shell and the tongue portion. The shell defines an upper and a lower-front stopping portions inwardly received in corresponding retaining slots to prevent a forward movement of the housing. The upper and lower front stopping portions extend forwardly into the mating cavity across the front side of the base portion so as to prevent a mating connector from damaging the housing during the mating connector is inserted into the mating cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Yao, Jing-Jie Guo
  • Publication number: 20180013243
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing defining a base portion and a tongue portion, two rows of terminals and a shielding shell. The tongue portion defines a thickened step at a root to the base portion, the base portion defines a front and a rear side, and an upper and a lower retaining slots. The shell is retained on the base portion and surrounding the tongue portion so as to define a mating cavity between the shell and the tongue portion. The shell defines an upper and a lower-front stopping portions inwardly received in corresponding retaining slots to prevent a forward movement of the housing. The upper and lower front stopping portions extend forwardly into the mating cavity across the front side of the base portion so as to prevent a mating connector from damaging the housing during the mating connector is inserted into the mating cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: TAO YAO, JING-JIE GUO
  • Publication number: 20170373441
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts, the insulative housing having a base and a tongue; a shielding shell enclosing the contact module and having a pair of soldering legs; an insulative outer cover enclosing the shielding shell; and a pair of brackets insert-molded with the outer cover; wherein each of the pair of brackets is locked to the insulative housing to prevent a corresponding soldering leg from moving outwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: JUN ZHAO, TAO YAO, CAI-YUN ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20170373440
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a contact module including an insulative housing and an upper and lower rows of contacts, the insulative housing having a rear base and a front tongue, the base having a pair of side latching walls; and a shielding shell enclosing the contact module, the shielding shell having a main part and a pair of side arms extending rearwardly from the main part, each side arm having an inserting portion and a soldering leg; wherein each inserting piece engages a corresponding side latching wall to prevent an associated soldering leg from moving outwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: JUN ZHAO, TAO YAO, CAI-YUN ZHANG
  • Patent number: 9853404
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a tongue portion, the tongue portion defining two opposite surfaces, each surface of the tongue portion including twelve terminal positions; and two rows of terminals being reversely-symmetrically arranged at the two surfaces of the tongue portion, each terminal having a contact portion exposed on the tongue portion, each row of terminals comprising two grounding terminals respectively arranged at the first and the twelfth terminal positions of the twelve terminal positions, and two power terminals respectively arranged at the fourth and the ninth terminal positions of the twelve terminal positions, the second, third, tenth and eleventh terminal positions of the twelve terminal positions being defined as vacant spaces, one or more further power terminals being arranged at the vacant spaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Tao Yao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20170352968
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing comprising a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; a number of upper and low terminals mounted in the insulative housing and exposed to an upper surface and a lower surface of the tongue portion, the upper terminals and the lower terminals being equal in number, both the upper terminals and the lower terminals comprising five intermediate terminals arranged centrally in succession and one grounding terminal spaced from the five intermediate terminals by two terminal positions, each of the five intermediate terminals having a reserved space for not arranging a terminal, the five intermediate terminals comprising an auxiliary terminal; and a shielding plate disposed between the upper terminals and the lower terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: JIAN-LI ZHANG, TAO YAO, JUN ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20170338584
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a plug connector including an insulative housing, plural conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing, a shielding plate affixed to the insulative housing, and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing; and an insulative shell attached to the plug connector and a silicon o-ring integrated with an opening of the insulative shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventor: TAO YAO
  • Patent number: 9806475
    Abstract: An electrical connector having a metallic base insert-molded with an insulative base to initially form a basic unit and successively with an internal PCB inserted in a frame structure of the metallic base to form an intermediate assembly with the reinforced mating portion thereof. An insulator is applied upon a front region of the intermediate assembly to secure the internal PCB and the basic unit together and commonly form a sub-assembly. A die-casting metallic shield encloses the sub-assembly and secured to the metallic base to commonly form the final receptacle connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Tao Yao, Yong-Qi Wang
  • Publication number: 20170310501
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an upper and lower terminal modules each including plural terminals; a metallic plate secured between the upper and lower modules; a metallic bracket accommodating the secured metallic plate and upper and lower terminal modules; and an insulative body insert-molding the metallic bracket with the secured metallic plate and upper and lower terminal modules to form a tongue exposing the terminals of each of the upper and lower terminal modules. The metallic bracket contacts the metallic plate and borders the tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: YONG-QI WANG, TAO YAO
  • Publication number: 20170302037
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing comprising a base portion defining a rearward surface and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; plural conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing and each having a contacting portion exposed to the top and bottom surfaces of the tongue portion, a fixing portion embedded in the base portion, and a soldering portion extending backwardly out of the base portion; a shielding plate affixed to the insulative housing; a shielding shell covering the insulative housing and defining a sol space with the rearward surface of the base portion; and a waterproof sheet; wherein the base portion further comprises a stepped portion in the sol space, the waterproof sheet is formed by solidification of liquid insulative material flowing from the stepped portion to the rearward surface, and the waterproof sheet encloses the stepped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: TAO YAO, Hendrikus P.G. Van der Steen, CHIN-YU CHEN
  • Publication number: 20170288333
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion; a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing; a shielding shell attached to the insulative housing to form a receiving space; a metal shell for mounting on a printed circuit board, the metal shell being affixed to the shielding shell; and an insulative shell insert-molded with the metal shell and enclosing the shielding shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: TAO YAO, JUN ZHAO
  • Patent number: D800358
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wen-Tao Yao, Jia-Su Wang
  • Patent number: D801556
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Wen-Tao Yao
  • Patent number: D807537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: JIAXING SUPER LIGHTING ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO., LTD
    Inventor: Wen-Tao Yao