Patents by Inventor Yang-Yang Zhou

Yang-Yang Zhou 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: 9793662
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing and a rear terminal organizer. The rear terminal organizer is assembled to the rear of the insulated housing. The rear terminal organizer includes a base and a gluing passage. The front of the base corresponds to the rear of the insulated housing. The width of the base is greater than the width of the insulated housing. The periphery of the base is protruded from the periphery of the insulated housing. The gluing passage is formed at a peripheral area of the base, and the gluing passage is defined through the base from the front to the rear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Patent number: 9742120
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing and a plurality of plug terminals. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a semi-tubular portion extending from one side of the base portion. The semi-tubular portion includes a portion, a front stopping portion at a front lateral surface of the portion, and a plurality of side blocks extending outward from two sides of the portion. The plug terminals include a plurality of signal terminals, one or more power terminal, and one or more ground terminal. The plug terminals are held in the insulated housing and at the surface of the portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Long-Fei Chen, Yang-Yang Zhou, Chun-Wei Wei
  • Patent number: 9673556
    Abstract: A perpendicular plug connector has an insulative housing, multiple first conductive terminals, multiple second conductive terminals, a base, a reinforcing fastening element and a shell. The first conductive terminals and the base are mounted on the insulative housing. The reinforcing fastening element is mounted on and tightly abutting the base. The shell accommodates the insulative housing and the first conductive terminals. The reinforcing fastening element allows fasteners such as bolts and rivets to extend through and fasten the perpendicular plug connector securely on a circuit board and enhances structural strength of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Long-Fei Chen, Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Patent number: 9647393
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, and a terminal organizer. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively held at the top and the bottom of the insulated housing. The first receptacle terminals are longer than the second receptacle terminals. In assembly, the first receptacle terminals, of bar shape, are firstly processed with the terminal organizer. And then, the first receptacle terminals and the terminal organizer are assembled on the base portion and the tongue portion. Hence, the insert-molding procedure would not be affected by the first receptacle terminals with longer length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9647358
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, a plurality of terminals, a metallic shell, and a positioning plate. The insulated housing includes a base portion, an upper portion, and a lower portion. The upper portion and the lower portion are extending from one side of the base portion. A mating room is between the upper portion and the lower portion. The terminals are held in the insulated housing. The metallic shell includes a tubular portion and a receiving cavity defined in the tubular portion. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity. The positioning plate is at the rear of the metallic shell to enclose the base portion. The positioning plate includes a first leg and a second leg respectively located at two sides of the base portion, so that the positioning plate can be assembled with a circuit board stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9620909
    Abstract: An interference-proof electrical plug connector has an insulative housing, two terminal sets, a shielding-grounding plate and a shell. The terminal sets are mounted in the insulative housing and each terminal sets has multiple conductive terminals. Each terminal set has multiple conductive terminals and at least one pair of super-speed signal terminals. Each super-speed signal terminal has a mounting section including a widening tab laterally protruding from the mounting section toward an adjacent super-speed signal terminal to reduce the distance between the super-speed signal terminals of the pair. The shielding-grounding plate is mounted in a rear end of the insulative housing. The widening tabs of each pair of the super-speed signal terminals effectively diminish impedance of the super-speed signal terminal such that input loss and return loss of the super-speed signal terminals are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Long-Fei Chen, Yang-Yang Zhou, Mao-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9614333
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, a recess structure, and a passage structure. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the insulated housing. The recess structure and the passage structure are formed at the rear of the insulated housing, so that a sealing member can be filled in the recess structure and the passage structure to cover and shields the rear of the insulated housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9590336
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, and a rear cover plate. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the insulated housing. The rear cover plate includes a baffle plate and one or more hole. The hole is formed on the surface of the baffle plate for checking tail portions of the second receptacle terminals which are formed as SMT (surface mount technology) legs. Accordingly, the soldering condition between the tail portions of the second receptacle terminals and contacts of a circuit board can be checked from the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9577360
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a base, a terminal set, a pair of holding pieces, an insulating body and a shell. The base has two holding piece slots respectively formed in two sides of the bottom of base. The pair of holding pieces is assembled into the holding piece slots respectively. Each holding piece is C-shaped and has a notch formed in a rear end of the holding piece and serving to hold a PCB board. A front end of each holding piece is assembled into the base. Given the pair of holding pieces with an assemblable structure, the size of the holding pieces can be tailored to the requirement of customers. The shell is formed by a two-stage of drawing process to enhance overall strength of the shell to facilitate the plating process afterwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Long-Fei Chen, Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Patent number: 9538652
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector assembly has an insulative housing, a first terminal set, a second terminal set and a circuit board. The first and second terminal sets are mounted in the insulative housing. The first terminal set has multiple first conductive terminals each including a first soldering section. The second terminal set has multiple second conductive terminals each including a second soldering section. The first and second soldering sections are soldered on an identical surface of the circuit board such that only one single soldering process is required to solder all of the first and second conductive terminals to the circuit board. The production rate of the electrical plug connector assembly is therefore improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Patent number: 9531144
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, and a plurality of plug terminals. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a first groove and a plurality of second grooves. The plug terminals are held in the insulated housing in a single row manner. Each of the plug terminals includes a flexible contact portion, a body portion, and a plurality of cut portions. The flexible contact portion is extending backward from the body portion in the front-to-rear direction and protruded from the insulated housing. The cut portions are at the body portion and correspond to the first groove, and the flexible contact portions respectively correspond to the second grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9515436
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, a plurality of upper-row plug terminals, a plurality of lower-row plug terminals, and a rear terminal organizer. The insulated housing includes a rear assembling portion defined at the rear of the insulated housing. The rear terminal organizer is assembled to the rear of the insulated housing. The rear terminal organizer includes a plurality of through holes and a buckling portion. The through holes are defined through the rear terminal organizer from the front to the rear. The rear of the upper-row plug terminals and the rear of the lower-row plug terminals respectively pass through the through holes. The buckling portion is defined at the front of the rear terminal organizer. The buckling portion is adapted to be mated and engaged with the rear assembling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20160344122
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a base, a terminal set, a pair of holding pieces, an insulating body and a shell. The base has two holding piece slots respectively formed in two sides of the bottom of base. The pair of holding pieces is assembled into the holding piece slots respectively. Each holding piece is C-shaped and has a notch formed in a rear end of the holding piece and serving to hold a PCB board. A front end of each holding piece is assembled into the base. Given the pair of holding pieces with an assemblable structure, the size of the holding pieces can be tailored to the requirement of customers. The shell is formed by a two-stage of drawing process to enhance overall strength of the shell to facilitate the plating process afterwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: YA-FEN KAO, YU-LUN TSAI, PIN-YUAN HOU, CHUNG-FU LIAO, LONG-FEI CHEN, YANG-YANG ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20160329667
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, a recess structure, and a passage structure. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the insulated housing. The recess structure and the passage structure are formed at the rear of the insulated housing, so that a sealing member can be filled in the recess structure and the passage structure to cover and shields the rear of the insulated housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, LONG-FEI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160329646
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, and a rear cover plate. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the insulated housing. The rear cover plate includes a baffle plate and one or more hole. The hole is formed on the surface of the baffle plate for checking tail portions of the second receptacle terminals which are formed as SMT (surface mount technology) legs. Accordingly, the soldering condition between the tail portions of the second receptacle terminals and contacts of a circuit board can be checked from the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, LONG-FEI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160322756
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing and a plurality of plug terminals. The insulated housing includes a base portion and a semi-tubular portion extending from one side of the base portion. The semi-tubular portion includes a portion, a front stopping portion at a front lateral surface of the portion, and a plurality of side blocks extending outward from two sides of the portion. The plug terminals include a plurality of signal terminals, one or more power terminal, and one or more ground terminal. The plug terminals are held in the insulated housing and at the surface of the portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Long-Fei Chen, Yang-Yang Zhou, Chun-Wei Wei
  • Publication number: 20160315424
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, a plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, and a pin positioning base. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell. The first receptacle terminals and the second receptacle terminals are respectively held at the top and the bottom of the insulated housing. The first receptacle terminals are longer than the second receptacle terminals. In assembly, the first receptacle terminals, of bar shape, are firstly processed with the pin positioning base. And then, the first receptacle terminals and the pin positioning base are assembled on the base portion and the tongue portion. Hence, the insert-molding procedure would not be affected by the first receptacle terminals with longer length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, LONG-FEI CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160315431
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, and a plurality of plug terminals. The insulated housing is received in the metallic shell. The insulated housing includes a first groove and a plurality of second grooves. The plug terminals are held in the insulated housing in a single row manner. Each of the plug terminals includes a flexible contact portion, a body portion, and a plurality of cut portions. The flexible contact portion is extending backward from the body portion in the front-to-rear direction and protruded from the insulated housing. The cut portions are at the body portion and correspond to the first groove, and the flexible contact portions respectively correspond to the second grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, LONG-FEI CHEN
  • Patent number: 9478923
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a metallic shell, an insulated housing, and a grounding sheet. The insulated housing is received in a receiving cavity of the metallic shell and includes a mating room and side assembling cavities. The side assembling cavities are defined at two sides of the insulated housing and communicate with the mating room. The grounding sheet is at the insulated housing and in contact with the metallic shell. The grounding sheet includes a main body in the insulated housing, side arms extended toward the side assembling cavities from two sides of the main body, hook portions extended toward the mating room from the fronts of the side arms, and mounting legs extended from the rears of the side arms and protruded from the side assembling cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Mao-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: D797063
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Yang-Yang Zhou, Long-Fei Chen