Patents by Inventor Wen Hsien Tsai

Wen Hsien Tsai 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: 9735511
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metal shell, an insulation housing, upper-row plate terminals, and lower-row plate terminals. The metal shell defines a receptacle cavity to receive the insulation housing. The insulation housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending from one side of the base portion. The tongue portion includes an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper-row plate terminals are held on the base portion and tongue portion and include upper-row contact segments at the upper surface for transmitting first signals. The lower-row plate terminals are held on the base portion and tongue portion and include lower-row contact segments at the lower surface for transmitting second signals. The upper-row plate terminals and the lower-row plate terminals are point-symmetrical with a central point of the receptacle cavity as the symmetrical center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 9692166
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector is disclosed. The electrical receptacle connector includes a plurality of upper-row receptacle terminals and lower-row receptacle terminals. The plurality of upper-row receptacle terminals and lower-row receptacle terminals have 180 degree symmetrical, dual or double orientation design which enable the electrical plug connector to be inserted into the electrical receptacle connector in either of two intuitive orientations. Each of the receptacle terminals includes a flat contact portion, a soldering portion and a connecting portion. The flat contact portion is extended from one end of the connecting portion, and the soldering portion is extended from the other end of the connecting portion. The width of the connecting portion is different from the width of the flat contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Chung-Fu Liao
  • Patent number: 9634437
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, upper-row terminals, lower-row terminals, and a grounding sheet. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion. The tongue portion is extended from one side of the base portion and has an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper-row terminals are disposed at the base portion and the tongue portion and include a ground terminal located at the upper surface The lower-row terminals are disposed at the base portion and the tongue portion and include a ground terminal located at the lower surface. The grounding sheet is disposed at the insulated housing and located between the ground terminal of the upper-row terminals and the ground terminal of the lower-row terminals. The grounding sheet includes one or more protruded portion in contact with the ground terminal of the upper-row terminals or the ground terminal of the lower-row terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 9620904
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical receptacle connector and an electrical plug connector. The electrical receptacle connector includes a first insulation housing, upper-row plate terminals, and lower-row plate terminals. The first insulation housing includes a first base portion and a tongue portion extending from one side of the base portion. The upper-row plate terminals and the lower-row plate terminals are at an upper surface and a lower surface of the tongue portion, respectively. The electrical plug connector includes a second insulation housing, upper-row elastic terminals, and lower-row elastic terminals. The second insulation housing includes a second base portion, an upper member, a lower member, and a mating room between the upper member and the lower member for receiving the tongue portion. The upper-row elastic terminals and the lower-row elastic terminals are respectively above and below the mating room.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 9537250
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, plate terminals, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base portion. The plate terminals are at the insulated housing. The plate terminals include soldering segments exposed out of the bottom of the base portion. The metallic shell encloses four sides of the insulated housing and includes a top cover plate, a rear cover plate, and pins. The top cover plate is located atop the base portion. The rear cover plate is extending downwardly to the rear side of the base portion from the rear side of the top cover plate. The rear cover plate includes a bottom surface and a bent sheet substantially perpendicular to an outer wall of the rear cover plate and extended outward from the outer wall of the rear cover plate, and the pins are extending downwardly from the bottom surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Mao-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9502837
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulation housing, a metal shell and plural buckling members. The insulation housing includes an insertion cavity, plural lateral sides and plural assembling spaces. The insertion cavity is disposed at a front portion of the insulation housing. The lateral sides are disposed at two sides of the insulation housing. The assembling spaces are disposed at the lateral sides and communicate with the insertion cavity. The metal shell encloses the insulation housing. The buckling members are respectively disposed in the assembling spaces and each includes a arm portion, a hook portion and a soldering portion. The arm portion is disposed in the assembling portion, the hook portion is extended from a front portion of the arm portion toward the insertion cavity, and the soldering portion is extended from a rear portion of the arm portion and exposed out of the assembling space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Chung-Fu Liao
  • Patent number: 9478916
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base member, an upper portion, a lower portion and a mating room between the upper portion and the lower portion. The base member includes a plurality of recessed portions. The upper and lower portions are extending from one side of the base member. The metallic shell encloses the insulated housing, and the metallic shell includes a rear case body and a front case body. The base member is inside the rear case body. The front case body is drawn from the rear case body to be formed at a front side of the rear case body. The front case body protrudes from the front side of the rear case body. The front case body defines a receiving cavity therein to dispose the upper portion and the lower portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Alan MacDougall
  • Patent number: 9472907
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing and a metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a base member, an upper portion, a lower portion and defines a mating room between the upper portion and the lower portion. The upper portion and the lower portion are extending from one side of the base member. The metallic shell encloses the insulated housing, and includes a front shell and a rear shell. The front shell includes a front cover portion and a rear cover portion. The rear cover portion is extending from a rear side of the front cover portion. The rear shell encloses the front side of the base member and includes a front extending plate propped on the rear cover portion, so that the front shell and the rear shell are fixed with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 9472902
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of upper-row receptacle terminals, and a plurality of lower-row receptacle terminals. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell. The upper-row receptacle terminals are held in the insulated housing and include a plurality of tail portions protruded from a bottom of the insulation body to be arranged into a row. The lower-row receptacle terminals are held in the insulated housing and include a plurality of tail portions protruded from the bottom of the insulated housing to be arranged into a first row and a second row. The tail portions of the lower-row receptacle terminals are parallel to the tail portions of the upper-row receptacle terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 9461424
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector, provided to connect with an electrical plug connector, includes a metal shell, an insulation housing and a conductive piece. The conductive piece is disposed at a tongue portion of the insulation housing and includes a contact portion, two laterally soldering portions and an abutting portion. The contact portion is disposed at a rear contact region of the tongue portion, the two laterally soldering portions are respectively extending from two sides of the contact portion, and the abutting portion is extending from the contact portion to attach on a base portion of the insulation ho thus abutting against an inner wall of the metal shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 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: 9450337
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulating housing, two terminal sets, and a metallic component. The insulating housing includes a front portion and a rear portion, and a receiving cavity is formed inside the front portion. The two terminal sets separately include a plurality of terminals and are arranged in an upper-row terminal set and a lower-row terminal set. Each terminal includes a contact portion disposed in the receiving cavity, a retaining portion retained in the insulating housing, and a soldering portion disposed in the rear of the insulating housing. The metallic component includes a plate body and two latches. The plate body is disposed in the rear portion and clamped between the upper-row and lower-row terminal sets. The two latches are separately disposed at two sides of the plate body and symmetrical to each other. The plate body and the two latches are formed in one piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9312644
    Abstract: An electrical connector plug for electrical connection to an electrical connector socket. The electrical connector plug includes: an insulation body extending in a longitudinal direction and including a base portion a mounting portion fixed to the base portion; two rows of resilient conductive terminals mounted in the insulation body and arranged symmetrically in pivotal rotation with respect to the longitudinal direction, each comprising a horizontal segment fixed on the base portion and a bended protrusion contact segment extending from the horizontal segment; an electrical conductive plate mounted on the mounting portion including a front segment and an impedance drop segment, extending from the front segment toward the base portion; and a shielding case mounted on the base portion and electrically connected to the metal housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai, Mao-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9281582
    Abstract: A receptacle for an electrical connector includes a metal housing body, a plastic main body positioned in the metal housing body, and flat terminals. The plastic main body incorporates with the metal housing body to form an accommodating space for being plugged into by a plug. First and second tongue parts disposed on the plastic main body are respectively close to upper and lower sides of the metal housing body. Each flat terminal includes a fixing part, a contacting part formed in a flat shape, and a soldering part. The contacting parts are respectively disposed on first and second tongue parts and respectively are exposed to the accommodating space in downward and upward directions. A tongue of a plastic body of the receptacle, i.e. first and second tongue parts, and the flat terminals are thus minimally damaged, to prevent the expensive cost of repairing a damaged receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Pin-Yuan Hou, Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Publication number: 20160064866
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes an insulated housing, upper-row terminals, lower-row terminals, and a grounding sheet. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion. The tongue portion is extended from one side of the base portion and has an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper-row terminals are disposed at the base portion and the tongue portion and include a ground terminal located at the upper surface The lower-row terminals are disposed at the base portion and the tongue portion and include a ground terminal located at the lower surface. The grounding sheet is disposed at the insulated housing and located between the ground terminal of the upper-row terminals and the ground terminal of the lower-row terminals. The grounding sheet includes one or more protruded portion in contact with the ground terminal of the upper-row terminals or the ground terminal of the lower-row terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Publication number: 20160064864
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulating housing, two terminal sets, and a metallic component. The insulating housing includes a front portion and a rear portion, and a receiving cavity is formed inside the front portion. The two terminal sets separately include a plurality of terminals and are arranged in an upper-row terminal set and a lower-row terminal set. Each terminal includes a contact portion disposed in the receiving cavity, a retaining portion retained in the insulating housing, and a soldering portion disposed in the rear of the insulating housing. The metallic component includes a plate body and two latches. The plate body is disposed in the rear portion and clamped between the upper-row and lower-row terminal sets. The two latches are separately disposed at two sides of the plate body and symmetrical to each other. The plate body and the two latches are formed in one piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun TSAI, Pin-Yuan HOU, Chung-Fu LIAO, Wen-Hsien TSAI