Patents by Inventor William A. Morgan

William A. Morgan 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: 11831095
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Justin Dennis Pickel, Timothy Robert Minnick, Chad William Morgan, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
  • Patent number: 11817653
    Abstract: A contact module includes a frame assembly having a leadframe and a dielectric frame partially encasing the leadframe. The leadframe includes ground conductors each having a transition portion extending between a mating end configured to be mated to a mating connector and a terminating end configured to be terminated to one of a circuit board or a cable conductor. The dielectric frame includes dielectric material encasing at least a portion of each transition portion. Each mating end extends from the dielectric frame for connection with the mating connector. Each terminating end extends from the dielectric frame for connection with the circuit board or the cable conductor. The contact module includes resistive elements within the dielectric frame. Each resistive element is coupled in series with the transition portion of the corresponding ground conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Justin Dennis Pickel
  • Patent number: 11811171
    Abstract: A cable card assembly includes a circuit card and cables terminated to the circuit card. Each cable has signal conductors, an insulator, and a cable shield. The cable card includes conductor holders forward of the insulators manufactured from a dielectric material and having conductor channels that receive the signal conductors. The cable card assembly includes ground shields coupled to the circuit card providing electrical shielding for the cables. Each ground shield includes a side walls and an end wall. The end wall has an end wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield. The first side wall has a first side wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield. The second side wall has a second side wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Bruce Allen Champion, Jeffrey Stewart Simpson, Chad William Morgan
  • Patent number: 11785731
    Abstract: A cable connector module includes a housing having a cavity and a cable connector module received in the cavity. The cable connector module includes a circuit card having rows of signal contact pads on a mounting surface. The cable connector module includes cable assemblies terminated to the circuit card arranged in rows each having a cable and a ground clip coupled to an end of the cable. The cable connector module includes a cable holder coupled to the housing that holds the cables assemblies relative to each other within the cavity of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli, Leo Joseph Graham
  • Publication number: 20230299544
    Abstract: A cable card assembly includes a circuit card and cables terminated to the circuit card. Each cable has signal conductors, an insulator, and a cable shield. The cable card includes conductor holders forward of the insulators manufactured from a dielectric material and having conductor channels that receive the signal conductors. The cable card assembly includes ground shields coupled to the circuit card providing electrical shielding for the cables. Each ground shield includes a side walls and an end wall. The end wall has an end wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield. The first side wall has a first side wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield. The second side wall has a second side wall connecting portion coupled to the cable shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Bruce Allen Champion, Jeffrey Stewart Simpson, Chad William Morgan
  • Patent number: 11757221
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a connector housing having a mating end at a front of the connector housing configured to be mating with a mating electrical connector. The connector housing includes a contact module chamber. An electrical connector includes a stack of contact modules received in the contact module chamber. Each contact module includes a module body holding a plurality of contacts. The contacts have mating ends at the mating end of the connector housing for mating with the mating electrical connector; and an electrical connector includes a contact module biasing members between the contact modules and the connector housing to forward bias the contact modules in the contact module chamber, wherein the contact module biasing members are compressible to allow the contact modules to move independent from each other relative to the connector housing in the contact module chamber when mating with the mating electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Justin Dennis Pickel
  • Patent number: 11749920
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing holding wafer assemblies in a wafer stack each including a wafer body holding a leadframe with signal contacts arranged in pairs and extending between mating ends and mounting ends. Each pair includes a primary signal contact and a secondary signal contact. Each signal contact has a main body extending through the wafer bodies and a mating end extend from the wafer body presented at the mating interface. The mating ends are twisted 45° relative to the main bodies. The mating end of the primary signal contact is arranged at a first side of the main body and the mating end of the secondary signal contact is arranged at a second side of the main body to define a twisted pair interface configured to be mated with the mating signal contacts of the mating electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Justin Dennis Pickel, Timothy Robert Minnick, Chad William Morgan, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
  • Publication number: 20230267399
    Abstract: A method of providing a driver of a vehicle with feedback for self-coaching, via a driver electronic device includes querying a server from access software on the driver electronic device, wherein the querying comprises querying the server with a query comprising a predefined driver; receiving, by the access software, driver coaching data associated with the predefined driver, the driver coaching data being based on an output from an active safety system on the vehicle; listing, by the access software, a user-selectable item representing the received driver coaching data via a display of the driver electronic device; and conveying the driver coaching data to the driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Shaun M. Howard, William Morgan, Hans M. Molin
  • Publication number: 20230268682
    Abstract: A separable connector interface includes at least one electrically conductive element with a metal polymer composite deposited thereon. The metal polymer composite has conductive particles dispersed within a protective binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Ranjan Deepak DESHMUKH, David Patrick ORRIS, Chad William MORGAN, Rodney Ivan MARTENS
  • Publication number: 20230214856
    Abstract: An example system includes: at least one memory; programmable circuitry; and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: cache a first ordered list of internet protocol (IP) addresses in a domain name system (DNS) cache; cache a second ordered list of IP addresses in the DNS cache; access a first server identifier from a first server associated with the first ordered set of IP addresses; access a second server identifier from a second server associated with the second ordered list of IP addresses; hash the first and second server identifiers to generate a user identifier; and store the user identifier as a cookie.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: William Morgan, Jose Mortensen, Kevin K. Gaynor, Kevin Zollicoffer
  • Publication number: 20230216254
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a contact holder holding first and second contacts in contact channels terminated to ends of conductors of a cable. The contacts have mating ends forward of the front of the contact holder. The cable connector assembly includes a contact shield coupled to the contact holder having a base and a shroud. The base surrounds a base chamber that receives an end of the cable and the contact holder and provides electrical shielding at first and second interfaces. The shroud surrounds a shroud chamber that receives the mating ends of the first and second contacts to provide electrical shielding along the mating ends of the first and second contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli
  • Publication number: 20230208059
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Justin Dennis Pickel, Timothy Robert Minnick, Chad William Morgan, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
  • Publication number: 20230208058
    Abstract: A socket connector includes a substrate having an upper surface and a lower surface. The substrate has a ground plane between the upper surface and the lower surface. The substrate includes contact channels between the upper and lower surfaces. The socket connector includes socket contacts received in corresponding contact channels. Each socket contact includes a contact body, an upper mating element, and a lower mating element. The upper mating element is deflectable relative to the contact body and extends to the upper surface to interface with a first electrical component. The lower mating element is deflectable relative to the contact body and extends to the lower surface to interface with a second electrical component. A plurality of the socket contacts are electrically connected to the ground plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Chad William Morgan
  • Publication number: 20230187859
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing holding wafer assemblies in a wafer stack each including a wafer body holding a leadframe with signal contacts arranged in pairs and extending between mating ends and mounting ends. Each pair includes a primary signal contact and a secondary signal contact. Each signal contact has a main body extending through the wafer bodies and a mating end extend from the wafer body presented at the mating interface. The mating ends are twisted 45° relative to the main bodies. The mating end of the primary signal contact is arranged at a first side of the main body and the mating end of the secondary signal contact is arranged at a second side of the main body to define a twisted pair interface configured to be mated with the mating signal contacts of the mating electrical connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Justin Dennis Pickel, Timothy Robert Minnick, Chad William Morgan, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
  • Publication number: 20230148022
    Abstract: A system is provided for enabling a music video streaming service to display a music video for any song is provided. The system preferably includes a music video archive, including songs having associated regular music videos in the form of single audiovisual assets including visual content; a song archive, comprising songs in the form of single audiovisual assets which do not include any visual content, i.e. that do not have associated regular music videos; an image archive, including images having metadata that associate the images with artists of songs featured in the song archive; and at least one processing device, arranged to, when a song from the song archive is selected to be played on the music video streaming service, automatically and in real-time create a music video for the song, in the form of a video slide-show, using images from the image archive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Magic Media Works Limited t/a ROXi
    Inventors: Rob LEWIS, William MORGAN
  • Publication number: 20230137275
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a connector housing having a mating end at a front of the connector housing configured to be mating with a mating electrical connector. The connector housing includes a contact module chamber. An electrical connector includes a stack of contact modules received in the contact module chamber. Each contact module includes a module body holding a plurality of contacts. The contacts have mating ends at the mating end of the connector housing for mating with the mating electrical connector; and an electrical connector includes a contact module biasing members between the contact modules and the connector housing to forward bias the contact modules in the contact module chamber, wherein the contact module biasing members are compressible to allow the contact modules to move independent from each other relative to the connector housing in the contact module chamber when mating with the mating electrical connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Justin Dennis Pickel
  • Publication number: 20230138913
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes an electrical connector mounted to a circuit board having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. A connector mount having a bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board proximate to the mating edge. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount to move relative to the circuit board during mating with the mating electrical connector. The connector mount has a biasing member compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board. The electrical connector is movably coupled to the connector mount in a confined envelope in at least one floating direction perpendicular to the mating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald, Douglas Edward Shirk
  • Publication number: 20230057831
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Chad William Morgan, David Allison Trout, Jeffrey Byron McClinton
  • Publication number: 20230053864
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a plurality of cells, compositions and methods for identifying modulators of a target protein. The cells, compositions and methods comprise a (i) a target domain gene (ii) an intracellular chimeric G-protein alpha subunit comprising an endogenous G-protein alpha subunit with a humanized C-terminus; and (iii) an inducible reporter, wherein the expression of the reporter is dependent on the activation of the target domain encoded by target domain gene, and wherein the target domain gene comprises a barcode. The disclosure further relates to a host cell comprising a plurality of exogenous landing pads integrated in the host cell's genome, wherein each exogenous landing pad is integrated at a safe harbor genome loci in the host cell's genome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Isom, William Morgan, Nicholas Kapolka, Geoffrey Taghon, Jacob Rowe
  • Publication number: 20230057471
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Douglas Edward Shirk, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald