Nonconducting Pusher Patents (Class 439/159)
  • Patent number: 9106727
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a SIM card seat and a mobile terminal, which belongs to the electronic technical field. The SIM card seat is used for receiving a SIM card, which comprises a housing, a signal conducting terminal, a card holder and a ejector. The signal conducting terminal is disposed on the motherboard. A receiving space is formed between an area of the motherboard where the signal conducting terminal is located and the housing, which is used for receiving the card holder and ejector. The card holder is used for receiving the SIM card and matching different types of SIM cards. The ejector is used for ejecting the card holder out of the receiving space. The mobile terminal comprises the SIM card seat. The SIM card seat according to the present disclosure can match different types of SIM cards by changing the card holder, thus the mobile terminal having the SIM card can match various SIM cards accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: XIAOMI INC.
    Inventors: Shaojie Wang, Jianjun Zhang, Shasha Shi, Fenghui Wu
  • Patent number: 9083438
    Abstract: A card connector configured in a circuit board for accommodating a subscriber identify module card. The card connector includes a terminal set, a sensing terminal, a housing, and a tray. The subscriber module card is electrically connected to the circuit board via the terminal set. The sensing terminal is electrically connected to the circuit board. The housing has an opening and an accommodating space connected to the opening, and the housing is electrically connected to the circuit board. At least a portion of the tray is a conductor. When the tray is configured in the accommodating space via the opening, the tray is electrically connected to the housing, and the tray abuts the sensing terminal, allowing the housing, tray, sensing terminal to constitute a conductive loop with the circuit board. Furthermore, an electronic apparatus having the card connector is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: HTC Corporation
    Inventors: Yuh-Huei Tsai, San-Chi Ho
  • Patent number: 9083117
    Abstract: A card connector having a housing with a card insertion end, an opposing distal end, and a base. The card connector has a shell positioned on the housing. A card insertion space and a card ejection mechanism receiving space are both positioned between the housing and the shell. The card connector has a card ejection mechanism disposed in the card ejection mechanism receiving space. The card ejection mechanism includes a sliding member, a spring biasing the sliding member in a card-ejecting direction, a lock for locking the sliding member at a locking position; and a sliding member guide. The sliding member guide includes a first guiding member disposed on an interior surface of the base and engageable with a card insertion end of the sliding member; and a second guiding member disposed on an interior surface of the shell and engageable with a distal end of the sliding member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Junya Tsuji, Katsuhiko Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9077109
    Abstract: A card connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive terminals integrally molded to the insulating housing, an ejection mechanism, a card tray slidably assembled to the insulating housing, and at least one restraining element restrained in one side of the card tray. The insulating housing includes a bottom wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, and a rear wall which defines a recess. The second side wall defines a sliding groove. A bottom surface of the sliding groove is concaved downward to form a heart-shaped tracking groove. The ejection mechanism includes a connecting element slidably disposed in the sliding groove, a push button, a guiding element slidably disposed in the sliding groove, a rotating element rotatably disposed in the recess and an elastic element. The push button is mounted to the connecting element and projects beyond a front surface of the insulating housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kuo-Chin Lin, Sheng Nan Yu, Chih Hsien Chiang
  • Patent number: 9076025
    Abstract: A card connector includes an insulating body defining at least one receiving cavity for receiving an electronic card, electrical terminals disposed in the insulating body and projecting into the receiving cavity for contacting with the electronic card, and a securing part. One wall of the receiving cavity is opened with a slot and a ring-shaped receiving groove communicated with the slot and penetrating through the wall to communicate with the receiving cavity. A pillar is formed in the receiving groove. The securing part has a semi-ring elastic portion sleeved round the pillar and located in the receiving groove, and a pair of positioning arms parallelly extending from free ends of the elastic portion to be inserted in the slot and elastically abut against two inner sidewalls of the slot. The elastic portion projects into the receiving cavity for elastically resisting against one side edge of the electronic card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: CHENG UEI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiang Wang, Wei Hong Liao, Yin-Lung Wu
  • Patent number: 9052871
    Abstract: An opening in a housing of a computing device. A port, including an electrical contact to electrically connect to a connector, can be in the opening. The electrical contract to receive power through the port. A memory card can also be inserted through the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Chun-Pu Chen, Ning Chang
  • Patent number: 9053369
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a housing with a cage, a plurality of terminals and a card ejecting mechanism. The cage and the housing are assembled and together define a slot that an electronic card can move in and out along an inserting direction. The card ejecting mechanism is provided to the slot and adjacent to a side wall defining the slot and can move back and forth between a work position and a ejecting position along the inserting direction. The card ejecting mechanism comprises a driving rod and a controlling rod pivotally connected to the driving rod. When the card ejecting mechanism is positioned in the work position the majority of the controlling rod is positioned in the slot and cannot pivot outwardly and when the card ejecting mechanism is positioned in the ejecting position then the controlling rod can pivot outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong-Liang Wang, Shang-Xiu Zeng, Kian Heng Lim
  • Patent number: 9042104
    Abstract: A portable electronic device includes an electronic module and an electronic module fixing structure. The electronic module fixing structure includes a main body, a sliding component, a rod and an elastic component connected between the main body and the sliding component. The main body has a track with a positioning portion. The sliding component is slidably disposed on the main body. The rod is rotatably connected with the sliding component. An end of the rod is adapted to move along the track. When the end is located at the positioning portion, the end and the positioning portion are interfered with each other to position the sliding component. When the electronic module pushes the sliding component, the rod is rotated to drive the end to move away from the positioning portion, and the sliding component pushes the electronic module away from the main body through elastic force of the elastic component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Yu-Han Tsai, Chun-Wang Lin, Ching-Wei Ku, Chia-Hsing Yu, Yao-Te Tsai, Chia-Hung Tsai
  • Patent number: 9033720
    Abstract: Lever-falling prevention walls configured to prevent a pair of arm plates of a lever from falling to an inner side are provided on a collar-like plate portion of a hood to protrude in a same direction as a pair of support wall portions protrudes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Shimizu, Akinori Tashiro, Akihiro Tsuruta, Kazuya Terao
  • Patent number: 9017086
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a main body, a base, an electronic device and a control button is provided. The base is detachably disposed in the main body. The electronic device is detachably disposed on the base. The control button is movably disposed on the main body. When the control button moves relative to the main body along a first direction, the control button drives the electronic device to move away from the base and the main body. When the control button moves relative to the main body along a second direction, the control button drives the base to move such that the base and the electronic device move away from the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Compal Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Shun-Chieh Hu, Hsin-Chien Chu
  • Patent number: 9013888
    Abstract: Systems and methods for ejecting removable entities from electronic devices are provided. A removable entity ejection system may include a driver that may be controllable by software (e.g., via a control unit that may be configured to send electrical signals to the driver). The driver may include a driving component that may apply a force directly, or indirectly, to one or more removable entities to eject the one or more removable entities from an electronic device. When the force is applied indirectly, one or more interfacing components may receive the applied force and may transfer the received force to the one or more removable entities to cause ejection thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Piotr S. Trzaskos, Simon Kao
  • Publication number: 20150099383
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing for insertion and ejection of a device, and an ejection mechanism. The ejection mechanism includes a rod member able to slide in the directions of device insertion and ejection. The rod member includes a main body portion extending in the directions of insertion and ejection, an operating piece connected to a protruding end of the main body portion protruding from the housing and extending in a direction intersecting the insert and ejection directions, and a reinforcing portion connected to the main body portion in front of the protruding end in the insertion direction and able to support the operating piece from the front in the insertion direction. The reinforcing portion includes a supporting end able to support the operating piece from the front in the insertion direction. The supporting end extends in a direction intersecting the length direction of the operating piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Masamitsu Takasaki, Kyoko Motohashi, Shigeru Akiyama
  • Patent number: 9001501
    Abstract: The Present Disclosure discloses a card tray including a top panel portion facing the opposite face of a card having terminal members on one face, a front panel portion standing erect at the front edge of the top panel portion and facing the front end of the card, and a rear panel portion standing erect at the rear edge of the top panel portion and facing the rear end of the card. The card tray further includes a notch portion formed in the front panel portion so as to expose at least a portion of the front end of the card, and a card holding spring portion disposed near the rear panel portion, biasing the card forward and applying pressure to the front end of the card in a portion other than the notch portion of the front panel portion. The card is grasped longitudinally to expose the entire face of the card on the terminal member side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Masamitsu Takasaki, Yuji Naito, Mitsuhiro Tomita, Naoto Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20150079812
    Abstract: A USB socket having a receptacle that comprises first electrical connectors for receiving a USB plug having second electrical connectors that are configured for mating with the first electrical connectors further comprises at least an ejector. The ejector is electrically connected to a control unit for receiving a control signal. The ejector further having a pusher for pushing an inserted USB plug in the direction out of the receptacle to a position where the first electrical connectors are disconnected from the second electrical connectors. The pusher may be configured for activation of a push action as a consequence of receiving the control signal from the control unit. Various possible embodiments thereof are shown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventor: Anil Goel
  • Patent number: 8971051
    Abstract: A chip card ejecting mechanism includes a base body, a push member, a rotating member and an elastic member resisting between the base body and the rotating member. The base body includes a guiding member defining a hole and having a number of guiding rails. Each guiding rail includes a resisting surface and a guiding surface. The push member includes a push rod extending through the hole and a number of active gears. Each active gear defines an active cooperative surface. The rotating member includes a number of the passive gears. Each passive gear includes a passive cooperative surface. When the push member is pressed toward the rotating member by a transient external force, the rotating member compresses the elastic member until the active cooperative surface arrives at the guiding surface, the elastic member releases and drives the passive cooperative gears to slide along the first sliding slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventor: Hua-Xiang Liang
  • Patent number: 8968029
    Abstract: The present invention relate to a socket for a nano SIM card first to third connection parts arranged in a transverse direction, and fourth to sixth connection parts arranged in parallel with the first to third connection parts. The socket comprises: first to sixth terminals each comprising a contact part configured to be brought into close contact with an associated one of the connection parts of the nano SIM card and a soldering part configured to be soldered to a print circuit board; a housing comprising through-openings for first to sixth contact parts, which are formed at positions corresponding to the positions of the respective connection parts of the nano SIM card when the nano SIM card is inserted into the socket; and a cover coupled to the housing to define a space between the housing and the cover so that the SIM card is inserted into the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Uju Electronics Co. Ltd.
    Inventor: JuYoung Yun
  • Patent number: 8961207
    Abstract: A card connector includes a main body having a receiving space, a plurality of terminals attached to the main body, a card ejecting mechanism including a levering member pivoted adjacent to the rear of the receiving space and an actuator movable inward and outward, and two detective terminals below the actuator, forming a switching circuit with the actuator for controlling electrical connectivity of the terminals. The actuator is configured to rotate the levering member. When the actuator is at the outward position, the plurality of terminals in enabled; when the actuator is moved beyond a triggering position, the plurality of terminals is disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Kian Heng Lim, Lay Khim Ang
  • Patent number: 8956168
    Abstract: The electrical outlet safety device is placed between an electrical plug and the corresponding electrical outlet or receptacle to which the plug is connected. The safety device includes a thin body portion formed of a material adapted to expand rapidly if exposed to a predetermined temperature. A series of thin, electrically and thermally conductive blades extends from the body, with the blades being captured between the prongs of the plug and the internal contacts of the receptacle when installed therewith. If excessively high electrical resistance and correspondingly high temperature are produced in one or more of the electrical connections between the plug and the outlet, the blades of the safety device transmit the excessive temperature to the body, whereupon the body is transformed to an expansive electrically insulating foam that expels the plug from the receptacle. Springs may be included within the body to provide additional expansive force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Kuwait University
    Inventor: Bader Shafaqa Al-Anzi
  • Patent number: 8951053
    Abstract: A receptacle connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of conductive terminals arranged in the insulative housing, a metal shell and a slide mechanism. The metal shell is engaged with the insulative housing to form a first mating space and an entrance for entering into the first mating space. The slide mechanism is provided in the metal shell and comprises a slide block and a reset resilient element connected to the slide block. The slide block can move between a front position close to the entrance and a rear position away from the entrance. When the slide block is positioned at the front position, an inner side face of the slide block and the metal shell together form a second mating space, and the slide block is capable of being pushed to move to the rear position to move out of the first mating space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventor: Yi-Tse Ho
  • Patent number: 8944833
    Abstract: A card connector includes: a housing to receive a card; a sliding member to slide together with the card in a range including a first position, a second position and a third position, the sliding member being locked to the housing at the first position, the sliding member is unlocked from the housing at the second position, the card being removable at the third position; a rotary member, rotatably supported by the sliding member, to press the card in a card ejection direction; a lock mechanism to lock the sliding member in the first position to the housing and unlock the sliding member from the housing by sliding of the sliding member from the first position to the second position; a first biasing member to bias the sliding member in the card ejection direction; a second biasing member to bias the rotary member in the card ejection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Koki Takahashi, Kazuya Orui
  • Patent number: 8926347
    Abstract: An electrical connector module for mating with a complementary connector module comprises a housing defining a channel formed on a top surface thereof and a mounting slot recessed downwardly from a bottom surface of the channel; a releasing mechanism received into the channel, the releasing mechanism defines a tab extending into the mounting slot, and an actuator formed on a front end thereof; and a resilient piece received into the mounting slot, the resilient piece having a front end abutting against a front inner surface of the mounting slot and a rear end abutting against the tab; the complementary connector module comprises a latching member locked in the front end of the channel and located above the actuator; the releasing mechanism moves forwardly, the actuator extends into a front end of the channel and raises up the latching member along a vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Jun Zhu, Qing-Man Zhu, Chien-Chiung Wang
  • Patent number: 8902602
    Abstract: An ejection mechanism includes a top cover, a bottom cover having a first sidewall and a second sidewall, and a sliding assembly. The sliding assembly includes a sliding block and an elastic rod. The sliding block defines a containing groove which is divided into an insertion rail and an ejection rail. The sliding block is configured to move back and force between the first and second sidewalls. A first distal end of the elastic rod is fixed in a fixing hole of the first sidewall. When the card is inserted into the ejection mechanism, the second distal end slides along the insertion rail until the second distal end is locked in a joint of the insertion and ejection rails. When the second distal end of the elastic rod disengages from the locked position by an external force, the second distal end slides in the ejection rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hua-Yong Wang
  • Publication number: 20140342590
    Abstract: The electrical outlet safety device is placed between an electrical plug and the corresponding electrical outlet or receptacle to which the plug is connected. The safety device includes a thin body portion formed of a material adapted to expand rapidly if exposed to a predetermined temperature. A series of thin, electrically and thermally conductive blades extends from the body, with the blades being captured between the prongs of the plug and the internal contacts of the receptacle when installed therewith. If excessively high electrical resistance and correspondingly high temperature are produced in one or more of the electrical connections between the plug and the outlet, the blades of the safety device transmit the excessive temperature to the body, whereupon the body is transformed to an expansive electrically insulating foam that expels the plug from the receptacle. Springs may be included within the body to provide additional expansive force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: KUWAIT UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: BADER SHAFAQA AL-ANZI
  • Publication number: 20140342591
    Abstract: A device is provided that attaches and dettaches a connector for an electric vehicle of a battery replacement type. The device automatically connects and separates a connector at a battery and a connector at a vehicle when replacing a battery in an electric vehicle. The device may include a connector housing that is disposed on a battery mounting module for mounting and separating the battery and a connecting member that is connected to a cable at the vehicle, movably disposed within the connector housing, and selectively connected with the connector at the battery. A movable member is movably disposed within the connector housing in correspondence to the connecting member by a guide pin of the connector at the battery and a power transmitting member is connected to the connecting member and the movable member and moves the connecting member opposite to the movement direction of the movable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicants: KIA MOTORS CORPORATION, HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Duk Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 8870584
    Abstract: A card connector includes an insulative housing with a first card receiving space, a number of first contacts extending into the first card receiving space, a push-push mechanism and a stop wall. The push-push mechanism includes a slider, an elastic member for urging the slider and a locking arm fixed to the slider. The locking arm includes a hook for locking a first card and a resilient buffering member protruding forwardly beyond the slider. The stop wall is located adjacent to an insertion opening of the first card receiving space. The stop wall is capable of resisting against the resilient buffering member so as to slow down the first card when the first card is quickly ejected along the card extraction direction. As a result, the first card can be prevented from flying off the card connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Kunshan Jiahua Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Fei-Song Ma
  • Publication number: 20140315403
    Abstract: An electrical card connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts mounted to the insulative housing and a cover covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a receiving space and a mounting wall in a rear of the receiving space. The contact has a contacting portion extending into the receiving space and a retaining portion retained to the mounting wall. The cover has a top wall covering a top of the receiving space. The contacts include a grounding contact, the top wall has an elastic finger extending therefrom and touching the grounding contact to achieve grounding. By this arrangement, the electrical card connector has an additional grounding path, and improves the performance of the electrical card connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: MING-QIU HAN, FANG-YUE ZHU, JIAN-FEI YU, JIN-KUI HU
  • Publication number: 20140315404
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulative unit, a shielding shell, a plurality of terminals and a card ejecting mechanism. The card ejecting mechanism comprises a shaft member, a lever member and a push rod. The shaft member has a base portion fixed to the insulative unit and a shaft portion extending from the base portion and protruding from the insulative unit. The lever member has an operating portion, a pushing portion and a shaft hole positioned between the operating portion and the pushing portion. The shaft hole receives the shaft portion therein and the lever member can rotate about the shaft portion between two positions. The push rod is provided correspondingly to the operating portion and slides under pushing from an external force to push the operating portion, so as to allow the lever member to rotate from the receiving position to the pushing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: October 23, 2014
    Applicant: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong Liang WANG, Shang-Xiu ZENG, Kian Heng LIM
  • Patent number: 8858247
    Abstract: An electrical card connector 100 comprises an insulative housing 1 defining a card receiving space 12, a plurality of contacts 2 retained in the housing 1, an ejector 3 assembled to the housing 1 and a metal shell 4. The ejector 3 comprises a slider 31, a spring 32 and a cam follower 33 for controlling positions of the slider 31. The cam follower 33 comprises a pivoting end 331, a sliding end 333 and a connecting portion 332 connecting with the pivoting end 331 and the sliding end 333. The housing 1 has a recess 112 defining an opening along an up-to-down direction, the pivoting end 331 of the cam follower 33 is received in the recess 112 and extends laterally beyond an outer side of the recess 112, the shell 4 has a limiting portion 4102 mating with the recess 112 near the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fang-Yue Zhu, Chun Ye, Yu-Che Huang
  • Patent number: 8851912
    Abstract: An exemplary electrical connector assembly includes a power plug and a power socket. The power plug includes a magnet. The power socket includes a pop-up mechanism. The pop-up mechanism includes a sliding assembly which can be switched from a first position to a second position. When the sliding assembly is switched from the first position to the second position, the pop-up mechanism generates a magnetic field which repels the magnet of the power plug, and the power plug moves away from the power socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun-Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8851911
    Abstract: A card connector for receiving a card is provided. The card connector includes a housing a plurality of contacts, a slider and a stopper. The housing includes a front wall, a rear wall, and a card receiving passageway formed therein. The contacts are secured in the housing. The slider is positioned and slidable between the front wall and the rear wall. The stopper is supported by the slider and includes end sections positioned adjacent to the slider, such that a space is provided between one of the end sections and the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Junya Tsuji, Tatsuki Watanabe, Yuki Kudo
  • Patent number: 8840410
    Abstract: A charger for charging an electronic device includes a base, a connector for connecting to the electronic device, and a pop-up mechanism. The pop-up mechanism includes a restricting unit, a pushing pillar and a return structure. The restricting unit includes a restricting sidewall and a bottom sidewall. The pushing pillar is connected to the bottom sidewall via a spring. The pushing pillar includes a resilient engaging arm. The pushing pillar is urged by the spring to an uppermost position where a top of the resilient engaging arm is located above the return structure. When the pushing pillar is pressed downwards, the resilient engaging arm slides in a positioning cutout of the return structure to hold the pushing pillar in a lower position. When the pushing pillar is further pressed downwards, the resilient engaging arm escapes from the positioning cutout to drives the pushing pillar returns to the uppermost position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun-Liang Zhang, Che-Yu Chou, Qun Huang, Tai-Shan Zhu, Wen-Chih Lan, Tao Jiang, Hai-Qian Ge, Wei-Wei Yu, Zhi-Jun Shi, Ji-Bing Guo, Hua-Yong Wang, Zhou Chen
  • Publication number: 20140270675
    Abstract: A switch pack holds rows and columns of connector plugs and permits collective coupling of the plugs into ports. The switch pack includes a housing having a front face with front openings and a rear face with rear openings. An internal frame forms channels between the front openings and the rear openings, each channel holding a respective connector plug. One or more locking members releasably snap lock to the frame. Each locking member includes at least one blocking edge which extends into a channel and blocks removal of the channel's plug via the rear opening. A release tool for the switch pack includes a first wall with first tabs and a second wall with second tabs, connected to the first wall by a third wall. Each of the first and second tabs protrudes into a channel of the first and second rows of channels to depress a plug latch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventor: Zhao Yu
  • Patent number: 8814582
    Abstract: A card connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive terminals integrally molded with the insulating housing, an ejection mechanism, a handle lever, and a shielding shell covered on the insulating housing. The insulating housing has a bottom wall which defines a sliding groove. The ejection mechanism includes a sliding block slidably disposed to the sliding groove of the insulating housing, an elastic element and a guide pin. The sliding block has a base body, and an extending portion extending forward from the base body. The handle lever slidably disposed to the insulating housing and the sliding block has a base board, a first sliding rail and a second sliding rail. The first sliding rail is slidably disposed to the other side of the insulating housing adjacent to the first side wall, and the second sliding rail is slidably mounted to the extending portion of the sliding block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Proconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yun Chien Lee, Ta Chih Yu, Chih Chiang Lin
  • Publication number: 20140213084
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus including a main body, a base, an electronic device and a control button is provided. The base is detachably disposed in the main body. The electronic device is detachably disposed on the base. The control button is movably disposed on the main body. When the control button moves relative to the main body along a first direction, the control button drives the electronic device to move away from the base and the main body. When the control button moves relative to the main body along a second direction, the control button drives the base to move such that the base and the electronic device move away from the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: COMPAL ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Shun-Chieh Hu, Hsin-Chien Chu
  • Publication number: 20140213085
    Abstract: A card edge connector includes an ejector (3) with a pushing portion (32) extending from distal end thereof, the ejector (3) moves between an opening station and a locking station, and at least pair detecting contacts (4) which includes two detecting pins (41, 42), one of the detecting pins defines a spring engaging arm having an engaging portion (425) opposite to the pushing portion (32) which presses on the engaging portion (425) in the locking station or leave the engaging portion (425) in the opening station, thereby making the two detecting pins engage or disengage with each other for detecting if a memory card is inserted in the card edge connector or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: ZE-LIN YAO, XIAO-ZHI FU
  • Publication number: 20140199866
    Abstract: A card edge connector for mating with a memory card includes a longitudinal insulative housing, a plurality of contact terminals received in the insulative housing, at least one pair of ejectors and two detect pins having spring and being moveable relatively each other. The ejectors are moveable between locking station and release station. One of the detect pins defines an engaging portion protruding into an inserting slot of the insulative housing for engaging with a bottom edge of the memory card and pushing the detect pins to connect disconnect with each other. Furthermore LED is combined with the detect pins for testing if the memory card is inserted into the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: WEN-JUN TANG, XUE-WU BU
  • Patent number: 8777669
    Abstract: A card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (10), a number of contacts (30) retained in the insulative housing, a metal shell (20) attached to the insulative housing for cooperatively defining a receiving space (60), and a tray (40) received in the receiving space. The metal shell includes a pair of elastic portions (24). The tray has a frame portion (41) having two lateral edges. Each lateral edge has a notch (410), a dent (415), and a projecting portion (411) between the notch and the dent. The elastic portion is secured with the notch when the tray is fully inserted in the receiving space along an insertion/ejection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiao-Dong Hu, Yusho Nakase, Shi-Jie Tan
  • Patent number: 8777645
    Abstract: An accommodating device for holding a card having an engaging portion in place is illustrated. The accommodating device includes a tray, a spring member, a covering member mounted on the tray, a latching mechanism, and a depressible button. The tray includes a bottom plate and two first sidewalls protruding from opposite edges of the bottom plate, which cooperatively defines a receiving channel for insertion of the card. The spring member is positioned on the bottom plate and compressed by the card when the card is received in the receiving channel. The latching mechanism includes a first resilient strip having a first hunched portion, a second resilient strip fixed to the cover, and a latching block fixed to the first and second resilient strips. The latching block is configured for lockingly engage with the engaging portion. The depressible button is arranged above the first hunched portion of the first resilient strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yan-Bang Cao
  • Patent number: 8770996
    Abstract: A card connector has a base, a card ejection mechanism and a card seat. The base has a first space for at least one set of terminals to be mounted therein, a second space with the card ejection mechanism mounted therein, and a spring leaf mounted in the second space. The card seat has a tongue. The tongue has a card-holding slot formed in a top of the tongue and mounted inside the first space of the base, and an engagement part formed on a bottom of the tongue and corresponding to the spring leaf of the base. When the card seat is inserted in the base, the engagement part of the tongue engages the spring leaf of the base for the card seat to be securely held by the base. When the card seat is removed from the base, the card ejection mechanism is pressed to squeeze the spring leaf of the base for the engagement part of the tongue to disengage from the spring leaf and the card seat can be ejected from the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Transcendent Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuei-Sang Hsu
  • Patent number: 8770995
    Abstract: A card connector comprises a housing, an auxiliary urging member and a card guide mechanism. The housing is provided with connection terminals connected to a card housed therein. The auxiliary urging member is capable of urging the card in a direction opposite to an insertion direction of the card. The card guide mechanism is provided with an urging member capable of urging the card in the direction opposite to the insertion direction of the card. The urging member and the auxiliary urging member are also configured to cooperate with each other to move the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Yuji Naito, Mitsuhiro Tomita, Yoko Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20140187067
    Abstract: An electrical card connector 100 comprises an insulative housing 1 defining a card receiving space 12, a plurality of contacts 2 retained in the housing 1 and an ejector 3 assembled to the housing 1. The ejector 3 comprises a slider 31, a spring 32 and a cam follower 33. The cam follower 33 comprises a pivoting end 331, a sliding end 333 and a connecting portion 332 connecting with the pivoting end 331 and the sliding end 333.The housing has a first recess 112 defining a bottom wall and a second recess 113 defining a top wall and connecting with the first recess 112 along a left-to-right direction, the first recess 112 and the second recess 113 both are formed along an up-to-down direction, the pivoting end 331 is received in a pivoting hole 3114 surrounded by the first and second recesses 112, 113.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: FANG-YUE ZHU, CHUN YE, YU-CHE HUANG
  • Patent number: 8767381
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with an ejectable component assembly having a connector that can receive and retain a removable module within a housing of the electronic device. The ejectable component assembly may also be provided with an ejector mechanism for at least partially ejecting the removable module from the connector. The ejector mechanism may receive a user input force at an ejector user interface, translate that user input force into an ejection force, and apply that ejection force onto the removable module for ejecting the module. The ejector user interface may be provided at any suitable position of the housing that may not interfere with other functions of the device. The path along which the ejector mechanism translates the user input force into the ejection force between the ejector user interface and the removable module may be provided in any suitable way throughout the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ashutosh Shukla, Benjamin Pope, Kenneth Jenks, Scott Myers
  • Publication number: 20140179138
    Abstract: A protection device for protecting a power cable connector includes one sensor, a separation mechanism and a processing unit. The sensor is for sensing a relative distance and a moving speed of an external object. The separation mechanism is connected to the power cable connector in a separable manner. The processing unit is electrically connected to the sensor for controlling the separation mechanism to separate from the power cable connector as the sensor senses that the relative distance is less than a separation distance and the moving speed is not zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Wistron Corporation
    Inventors: Hsih-Bin Dai, Kuan-Chieh Chen, Cheng-Lan Lee, Yi-Sheng Kao
  • Publication number: 20140170875
    Abstract: A card edge connector includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing and an ejector retained the insulative housing to lock an electronic card. The insulative housing includes a central slot for receiving the electronic card and two end portions located on opposite sides of the central slot respectively. Said card edge connector also includes a metal member located on the end portion of the insulative for electrically connecting to the metal member. Thus, said card edge connector having a higher electrical function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: XUE-HAI SHEN, ZHUANG-XING LI, WEN-JUN TANG, XUE-WU BU
  • Patent number: 8747163
    Abstract: A card connector assembly includes a card connector (100) and a memory card (5) received in the card connector. The card connector includes an insulative housing (2), a number of contacts (3) retained in the insulative housing, a slider (41) assembled on the insulative housing and movable relative to the insulative housing, a spring (42) urging the slider along a card ejection direction; and a metal shell (7) covering the insulative housing for defining a card receiving space. The metal shell includes a spring leaf (711, 712) extending into the card receiving space. The memory card forms a metal plate (52) on a top surface thereof and a number of metal traces (51) on a bottom surface thereof. The metal plate is located above the metal traces along a vertical direction and the spring leaf contacts with the metal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Stephen Sedio
  • Patent number: 8747127
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a receiving slot, a mating plate slidably received in the receiving slot, an ejection mechanism, and a resetting mechanism. The mating plate is exposed at a front end of the receiving slot and is provided with a urging portion and a first engaging portion. The ejection mechanism is provided with a stopping portion for correspondingly stopping the urging portion, so that the ejection mechanism can drive the mating plate to slide outwards. The resetting mechanism is provided with a second engaging portion for being correspondingly engaged with the first engaging portion, so that the resetting mechanism can drive the mating plate to return to an original position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Lotes Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi Yong Zhou, Yong Quan Wu, Jun Liu, Chang Wei Huang
  • Patent number: 8747131
    Abstract: A card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (10), a number of contacts (30) retained in the insulative housing, a metal shell (20) covering the insulative housing for defining a receiving space (60), and an ejector (50) assembled on the insulative housing. The ejector includes a cam portion (51) and a shaft (52) actuating the cam portion. The cam portion includes a pivoting portion (510), a first arm portion (511) and a second arm portion (512) respectively and angularly extending from the pivoting portion, and at least one positioning portion (513) extending from the pivoting portion along a vertical direction. At least one of the metal shell and the insulative housing defines a hole (19, 25) receiving the at least one positioning portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusho Nakase, Xiao-Dong Hu, Shi-Jie Tan, Zhen-Ye Lin
  • Patent number: 8740634
    Abstract: A rear side connection terminal arranged along the back end edge of a housing is provided with a base part in which at least a portion is embedded in a bottom wall part of the housing, a contact arm part in a cantilever shape in which a tip end extends slanted upwards towards a front end of the housing, a contact part that is connected to a tip end of the contact arm part and that contacts with a terminal member of the card, and a contact arm support part that includes a curved part that projects rearward with a bottom side front end coupled to a back end of the base part and a top side front end coupled to a back end of the contact arm part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Ryo Uesaka, Masamitsu Takasaki, Masanori Hayashi, Yuji Naito, Mitsuhiro Tomita
  • Patent number: 8740635
    Abstract: A card connector includes a tray having a side wall and a breach region formed on the side wall, a main body including a front opening for inserting the tray and a side portion defining a side of the front opening, a plurality of terminals attached to the main body, and a detective switch including a spring member that is attached to the side portion of the main body and includes a press portion configured to extend into the card-holding space of the tray through the breach region of the tray when the tray is inserted in the main body. A card connector can include a card locking element, and a card ejecting mechanism. The card ejecting mechanism can comprise an actuator movable between an outward position and an inward position and a levering member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Kian Heng Lim, Chiu-Ming Lu
  • Publication number: 20140148025
    Abstract: Lever-falling prevention walls configured to prevent a pair of arm plates of a lever from falling to an inner side are provided on a collar-like plate portion of a hood to protrude in a same direction as a pair of support wall portions protrudes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomohiko Shimizu, Akinori Tashiro, Akihiro Tsuruta, Kazuya Terao