Bared Cable Wrapped Into U-shape About Insertion Projection Patents (Class 439/496)
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Patent number: 12015221Abstract: An electrical connector having a main support with a front and back, top and bottom, and left and right opposite the left. Fingers extend forwardly from the front of the main support to a tip. The fingers each have a top and bottom and are arranged from left to right of the main support with gaps defined between them. A flexible circuit board has inner and outer surfaces with electrical leads on the outer surface. Openings are defined through the flexible circuit board between the electrical leads. The flexible circuit board is wrapped around the fingers such that the outer surface of the flexible circuit board is supported on both the top and the bottom of the fingers and the openings in the flexible circuit board are aligned with the gaps between the fingers.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: Jami Matti Jormakka, Joona Henrik Siivonen
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Patent number: 11728586Abstract: A wire-clamping connector assembly includes a wire-clamping connector and a mating connector that are mated with each other. The wire-clamping connector includes a casing and a conductive cable. The casing includes a first wire-fixing portion, a second wire-fixing portion, and a third wire-fixing portion that is located therebetween. A first gap is formed between the first wire-fixing portion and the third wire-fixing portion, and a second gap is formed between the second wire-fixing portion and the third wire-fixing portion. The conductive cable includes a conductive cable body and insulating bodies that cover the conductive cable body. The conductive cable passes through the first gap and the second gap, such that a third extension section is surroundingly arranged below the third wire-fixing portion. An extension direction of the conductive cable is perpendicular to a mating direction of the mating connector and the wire-clamping connector.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: CVILUX CORPORATIONInventors: Keng-Sheng Tsai, Chin-Chiang Chen
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Patent number: 11509098Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrical connecting assembly, comprising an electrical connector and a circuit board. The electrical connector comprises a plurality pairs of signal terminals and a plurality of ground terminals. One ground terminal is disposed between two pairs of adjacent signal terminals. Each of the signal terminals comprises a bent part and a signal terminal plugging part. Each of the ground terminals comprises a shielding part and a ground terminal plugging part. The circuit board comprises a plurality pairs of signal terminal plugging holes and a plurality of signal ground terminal plugging holes. The plurality of ground terminal plugging holes are arranged along a baseline. Each pair of the signal terminal plugging holes are respectively disposed on two sides of the baseline. The bent parts of the plurality of the signal terminals alternately extend toward two sides of the baseline.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTDInventors: Bin Huang, RongZhe Guo, HongJi Chen, HuanHuan Shen
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Patent number: 11460738Abstract: A display device is provided and includes a display panel comprising a substrate; a case provided on a back side of the substrate, the case having an outer surface; and a flexible wiring board, one end of which is connected to a top surface of the substrate, curved along the outer surface of the case; wherein the flexible wiring board is fixed to a side surface of the substrate and the outer surface of the case with an adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Tomoya Tezen, Ken Sugiyama, Kosuke Matsubara, Koji Hiramoto, Takeshi Kaneki
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Patent number: 11398691Abstract: There is provided a circuit board assembly constructed by stacking a first circuit board having a first contact portion and a second circuit board having a second contact portion to allow the first and second contact portions to contact each other, which is bendable along a first direction. The first circuit board has a first hole that is formed within a range in which a pair of first projection pieces are present in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, at least part of the first hole being situated between the pair of first projection pieces in the first direction, and the second circuit board has a second hole that is formed within a range in which the pair of second projection pieces are present in the second direction, at least part of the second hole being situated between the pair of second projection pieces in the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2020Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Tetsuya Komoto, Osamu Hashiguchi, Akihiro Matsunaga
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Patent number: 11394145Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a housing that is configured to receive a planar first substrate, The first substrate includes an electrically conductive first contact region. The electrical connector assembly is further configured to receive a planar second substrate that includes an electrically conductive second contact region defining a ridge protruding from a surface of the second substrate. The housing is configured to align the first contact region with the second contact region. The electrical connector assembly also includes a force application device applying a compressive contact force to the first and second substrates, thereby putting the first contact region in intimate compressive contact with the second contact region.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Inventors: Jeffrey S. Campbell, Wesley W. Weber, Jr.
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Patent number: 11342729Abstract: A power panel of an electrical distribution system including a bus stack with a plurality of conductive bars spaced from one another and a plurality of insulators, an electrical accessory is coupled to the plurality of bus bars, and each insulator includes a main body and a safety feature that extends from the main body. The safety features from adjacent insulators extend towards one another to define a gap sized to prevent insertion of a foreign object therein. The gap is further sized to permit insertion there through of a conductive component to establish an electrical connection between multiple bus bars and the electrical accessory.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AGInventors: Shawn Couceiro Fonseca, Justin Daniel Dubrosky, Dennis James Rehmer
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Patent number: 11296446Abstract: A connector for a flat flexible cable includes a cable housing and a contact having an elastic portion. The cable housing includes a first housing having a termination passage extending through the first housing and a second housing mated with the first housing. A flat conductor exposed in a window extending through an insulation material of the flat flexible cable is held between the first housing and the second housing. The elastic portion extends through the termination passage and elastically bears against the flat conductor to electrically connect the contact to the flat conductor.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Inventor: Christopher Ryan Raybold
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Patent number: 11211726Abstract: A connector includes a pushing member having a projection, and a contact having a projection accommodating portion of a recess shape, the projection includes a holding portion extending across the projection in a direction orthogonal to a projecting direction of the projection and holding a flexible conductor, when the projection is inserted into the projection accommodating portion of the contact together with the flexible conductor with a middle part of the flexible conductor being held by the holding portion of the projection, parts of the flexible conductor that are situated on opposite sides of and are adjoining the middle part of the flexible conductor are sandwiched between a lateral surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion to contact the inner surface of the projection accommodating portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Tetsuya Komoto, Seiya Matsuo, Osamu Hashiguchi, Akira Kimura, Akihiro Matsunaga
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Patent number: 11165179Abstract: A connector includes a pushing member including a projection and a pushing member-side flange formed at a root portion of the projection, and a contact having a projection accommodating portion, the pushing member-side flange including a pair of fixing portions separately arranged on opposite sides of the root portion of the projection across the projection, when the projection is inserted into the projection accommodating portion together with the flexible conductor with a part of the flexible conductor being laid along a lateral surface of the projection being fixed by the pair of fixing portions, the part of the flexible conductor laid along the lateral surface of the projection being sandwiched between the lateral surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion to contact the inner surface of the projection accommodating portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventors: Tetsuya Komoto, Seiya Matsuo, Akihiro Matsunaga
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Patent number: 11038288Abstract: An electrical connector includes wiring with multiple wires. Each wire has a conductor covered in insulation. Each wire has a stripped portion that exposes the conductors. The stripped portions are stacked on top of one another. A housing has first and second housing portions. The first housing portion receives the stripped portions. The second housing portion includes a spring that is configured to urge the stripped portions into engagement with one another when the first and second housing portions are secured to another in an assembled connector condition. In one example, an external electrical terminal is mounted to the first housing portion and is electrically connected to the stripped portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: APTIV TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: David R. Peterson, Joseph Sudik, Jr.
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Patent number: 11005201Abstract: The present invention discloses a connector for flat conducting wires that is directed into the insertion opening, the front end comes in contact with the first locking protrusion and the second locking protrusion of the connector, respectively causing the first elastic arm and the second elastic arm to deform, thereby causing the first operating part and the second operating part to move towards the third surface until the indented notches correspond to the first locking protrusion and the second locking protrusion, which subsequently causes the first elastic arm and the second elastic arm to return to their former position by means of elastic force, latch-locking the front end of the flat conducting wire in the accommodating space, and through exerting an external force on the upper portion of the first operating part and the upper portion of the second operating part to unlatch and separate from the accommodating space.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: P-TWO INDUSTRIES INC.Inventor: Shien-Chang Lin
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Patent number: 10933949Abstract: A bicycle operating apparatus comprises an operating member, a hydraulic unit, an electrical switch, and a wireless transmitter. The operating member is configured to be operated by a user. The hydraulic unit is configured to be operatively coupled to the operating member and is configured to operate a bicycle component in response to an operation of the operating member. The electrical switch is configured to be activated by an input operation from the user. The wireless transmitter is configured to be electrically connected to the electrical switch and is configured to wirelessly transmit a signal to an additional bicycle component in response to the input operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: SHIMANO INC.Inventor: Takafumi Nishino
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Patent number: 10798820Abstract: A connector-equipped circuit body includes a circuit body configured by a flexible board where a wiring pattern formed of a conductor for electric connection is provided, and a connector connected to the circuit body. At a connection portion of connection between the circuit body and the connector, an auxiliary conductive layer independent of the wiring pattern is provided so as to be multilayered for the wiring pattern.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Masahiro Takamatsu, Yoshiaki Ichikawa, Kimitoshi Makino, Makoto Kobayashi, Tomoji Yasuda
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Patent number: 10686267Abstract: A mounting structure has a first board, an extended portion which is extended from the end portion of the first board and has a smaller thickness than the first board, and a second board having a connection terminal connected to a connector. The second board is placed on the extended portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Yurika Otsuka
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Patent number: 10637171Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing that is configured to receive a planar first substrate having an electrically conductive first circuit trace with a first contact region, such a flat cable. The housing is further configured to receive a planar second substrate having an electrically conductive second circuit trace with a second contact region, such as a printed circuit board or another flat cable. The housing is configured to align the first contact region with the second contact region. The connector also includes a force application device configured to apply a compressive contact force to the first and second substrates, thereby putting the first contact region in intimate compressive contact with the second contact region. The connector may also include an moveable actuating member that is configured to selectively increase the compressive contact force applied to the first and second substrates via interaction with the force application device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: Aptiv Technologies LimitedInventors: Jeffrey S. Campbell, Wesley W. Weber, Jr.
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Patent number: 10483668Abstract: A connector includes a first connector portion in which projections project from a surface of a base plate, and a second connector portion formed of a fitting plate in which fitting holes corresponding to the projections are formed, at least either the projections or the fitting holes having elasticity, when the projections of the first connector portion are fitted in the fitting holes of the second connector portion as catching the first contact portion and the second contact portion with the first and second contact portions facing and being overlapped on each other, the first contact portion and the second contact portion being elastically pressed against each other and contacted to each other to establish electrical connection therebetween in a space between a lateral surface of the projections and an inner surface of the fitting holes.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITEDInventor: Osamu Hashiguchi
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Patent number: 10348014Abstract: A connector has a plurality of terminals aligned in a left/right direction, and a housing that configures a space in which a flat cable can be inserted from a front side to a rear side and holds the terminals on an inside of the space. The housing has two locking convex portions positioned on the inside of the space and in the left/right direction of the terminals, protruding toward an upper side from a lower side, and that catch in notches or holes formed in the left and right sides of the cable. Finally, the housing has a biasing member that is positioned on the inside of the space, formed on an upper side of the space, arranged closer to a center in the left/right direction than the two locking convex portions, and that biases the cable inserted in the space toward a lower side of the space.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Akihiro Ishii, Kazuya Takahashi
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Patent number: 10295294Abstract: An electronic a device for a firearm having a grip. The electronic device comprises a firearm element housable in a housing specifically formed in the grip of the firearm. The firearm element comprises a power supply battery and comprises a firearm interface port for access to said power supply battery. The electronic device comprises a base element engageable to the grip, housable in a firearm base that comprises a base interface port suitable to be operatively connected with the firearm interface port. In the reciprocal engagement between the firearm element and the base element through the firearm interface port and base interface port, the base element is suitable to electrically recharge the power supply battery.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: FABBRICA D'ARMI PIETRO BERETTA S.P.A.Inventors: Eugenio Righi, Valentina Chiodi, Ettore Andreis, Andrea Candian
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Patent number: 10164387Abstract: An electrical device having a bus side and a load side is provided. The electrical device includes a plurality of conductive line terminals disposed on the bus side of said electrical device, and a plurality of electrical connectors. Each electrical connector of the plurality of electrical connectors includes a first end coupled to a respective line terminal of the plurality of line terminals, a second end distal from the first end, and a connector clip disposed at the second end. Each connector clip is configured to engage a bus bar to electrically couple the electrical device to the bus bar, and includes a first contact segment and a second contact segment spaced apart from the first contact segment. The first and second contact segments are configured to deflect towards one another from a relaxed position to a depressed position when inserted into a connector channel defined by the bus bar.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Jeremy Robert Baillargeon, Michael Richard Wood, Mariusz Duda, Jason William Newby, Matthew Hock, Gregory Mathias Probert, John Matthew Hutson, Seth David Kravetz, Nicholas Hayes Ferruolo
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Patent number: 9887503Abstract: A mating connector construction that achieves a slimmer and smaller profile when mating with a conventional USB connector. A slimmer and smaller profile provides substantial advantages and additional uses of a USB connection, for example, with transmitting signals between a watch casing and a watchstrap, as but one example thereof. In a preferred embodiment, the USB connector is a micro USB connector.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: Timex Group USA, Inc.Inventor: David Quinlan
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Patent number: 9812801Abstract: A cable holding member includes a stopper member and a housing. The stopper member has an attachment surface for supporting a flat cable in a folded state. The housing has a mounting surface which is provided at an opening edge of a housing space for housing the stopper member and on which the flat cable is to be placed, and recesses into which protrusions of the flat cable placed on the mounting surface are to be fitted. The flat cable is placed on the mounting surface, and then, the stopper member is inserted into the housing space of the housing. In this way, the stopper member is attached to the housing with the flat cable being supported on the attachment surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenji Okura, Chikara Ito, Mitsuru Iida
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Patent number: 9673546Abstract: The connector device of one embodiment of the present invention includes an electrical connection device and a receptacle connector. The cable holding member includes a supporting part and a wall part. The supporting part includes a supporting face for supporting a flat cable in a folded state. The wall part is provided to the supporting part so as to be on a side of the flat cable in a width direction of the flat cable supported on the supporting part. A groove for receiving a first protrusion of the flat cable is provided to an internal face of the wall part.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Okura, Chikara Ito, Mitsuru Iida
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Patent number: 9673581Abstract: An electrical connector comprising an insulating housing, a USB Type-C connector arranged in the insulating housing, a circuit board and a plurality of transferring terminals is disclosed. One side of the circuit board is connected with twenty-four connection terminals of the USB Type-C connector, other side of the circuit board is connected with the plurality of transferring terminals which are corresponding to USB Type-A standard. The circuit board is arranged with a connecting line, which is used to integrate signal transmitted through the twenty-four connection terminals of the USB Type-C connector into USB Type-A standard adopted outputting signal, and outputs the outputting signal through the plurality of transferring terminals.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignees: NICECONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yi-Fang Chuang, Nai-Chien Chang
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Elastomeric electrical connector structure joining two hardware planes at right angles to each other
Patent number: 9515401Abstract: Disclosed aspects relate to an elastomeric electrical connector structure. A first physical hardware plane has a first group of electrical contacts to establish a first portion of a set of electrical connections. A second physical hardware plane has a second group of electrical contacts to establish a second portion of the set of electrical connections. The elastomeric electrical connector structure is to join the first and second portions of the set of electrical connections. The elastomeric electrical connector structure includes a first state having a first distance between the first and second physical hardware planes, and a second state having a second distance between the first and second physical hardware planes. The first distance exceeds the second distance.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Gerald K. Bartley, Darryl J. Becker, Matthew S. Doyle, Mark J. Jeanson, Mark O. Maxson -
Patent number: 9362665Abstract: A joint connector (10) for electrically connecting a plurality of terminal fittings (20) mounted on ends of a plurality of ground wires (W) of a vehicle includes a pair of terminal holding portions (49A, 49A) for holding a pair of the terminal fittings (20, 20). A pair of locking lances (43, 43) deflectable with respect to each other and configured to suppress the withdrawal of the pair of terminal fittings (20, 20) by locking the pair of terminal fittings (20, 20) are arranged back to back with each other via a deflection permitting space (44) between the pair of terminal holding portions (49A, 49A).Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.Inventors: Yasuo Omori, Hidefumi Horiuchi, Takamaru Amano, Yuji Kitagawa, Takashi Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 9252529Abstract: A connector for a flat cable is provided that prevents damage to a conductor when a terminal is forcedly pressed to a flat cable. The connector for a flat cable includes a retainer that is coupled to flat cable while a portion of the flat cable covers an upper side of a plate-shaped body of the retainer. In addition, a housing is coupled to enclose the body of the retainer and the portion of the flat cable coupled to the body and has a plurality of exposure depressions for exposing exposed conductors at a portion of the flat cable coupled to opposite surfaces of the body to the exterior to connect the conductors to terminals. A position fixing unit is configured to fix a position of the flat cable coupled between the housing and the retainer.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Yura Corporation Co., Ltd., Hirose Korea Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ha Young Cho, Jun Seo Park, Young Jong Lee, Se Kwun Kim, Kyung June Kim
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Patent number: 9153925Abstract: A dual orientation connector having a connector tab with first and second major opposing surfaces and a plurality of electrical contacts carried by the connector tab. A retainer is positioned at an entrance end of the tab and is overmolded on a portion of a carrier. The carrier has a first portion positioned within the tab, a second portion extending through the retainer and a third portion extending out of the retainer at an angle with respect to the longitudinal plane of the tab. The carrier has a plurality of conductors formed thereon and extending from the first portion to the third portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Albert J. Golko, Warren Z. Jones, Ibuki Kamei
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Patent number: 8956181Abstract: Disclosed herein is a connection structure between a substrate and a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) for a touch panel, including: a substrate; first sensing electrodes; second sensing electrodes; first electrode wirings; second electrode wirings; and a flexible printed circuit board connected to the substrate so as to be electrically connected to the first and second electrode wirings, wherein a first connection portion of the first electrode wiring and a second connection portion of the second electrode wiring to which the flexible printed circuit board is electrically connected are formed on the upper and lower surfaces of the substrate, respectively, so as to face each other in a vertical direction. Therefore, the flexible printed circuit substrate may be connected to the substrate by a single assembling process.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Min Lee, Young Jae Kim, Ha Yoon Song, Ho Joon Park
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Patent number: 8714998Abstract: Device for the external electrical connection of a photovoltaic panel (1), which comprises a male connector which is arranged on the edge of the photovoltaic panel (1) and which comprises a plurality of external connection strips (5, 5?, 5?) which are electrically connected to the electricity-generating cells, a bar for electrically interconnecting the external strips, comprising electrical junction runners with respect to the external connection strips and electrical circuits which are suitable for the interconnection of the electricity-generating cells, a first external connector which comprises an electrical junction plate with respect to a first external connection strip and a second external connector which comprises an electrical junction plate with respect to a second external connection strip and a sleeve for retaining the assembly of the male connector, the interconnection bar, the first and the second external connector.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2009Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignees: Arcelormittal-Stainless and Nickel Alloys, Multicontact FranceInventors: Yves Jautard, Christian Hengel, Jean-Pierre Reyal
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Patent number: 8308504Abstract: A connecting device for connection to an electrical connection system of a solar module comprises a connector housing for arranging on an outer face of the solar module and current-carrying components arranged in the connector housing, which components comprise at least one contact for connection to a conductor of the electrical connection system of the solar module, which conductor leads out from the solar module. A connection device, which may be arranged inside the connector housing, for positioning the conductor which leads out from the solar module is also provided, it being possible for the connection device and the contact to be arranged relative to one another in such a way that the contact is initially guided contactlessly along the conductor which leads out, so as to contact said conductor which leads out, and contacts the conductor which leads out in an end position. Reliable contact is thus possible without displacing the conductor which leads out.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Gerhard Ackermann, Manfred Schaarschmidt
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Patent number: 8052464Abstract: A connector is provided which includes a plug having a plurality of cables disposed on one side of the plug, and a socket mounted on a base substrate that is used to connect the plug. The plug includes a plate-like member and a flexible substrate fixed to the surroundings of the plate-like member. The plate-like member includes a planar portion approximately parallel to a substrate face of the base substrate, and a bent portion provided on the other side of the plug and extending in a direction approximately perpendicular to the base substrate. The socket includes a mating space which receives the bent portion from a direction approximately perpendicular to the base substrate when the plug and socket are connector-connected.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.Inventors: Masatoshi Maruishi, Takashi Matsukawa
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Patent number: 7874867Abstract: In an electrical connection member having elasticity and adapted to be interposed between connection objects for electrically connecting them together, an inner member has a plurality of spring pieces each extending from a base plate portion, an outer member including a flexible insulating film and a plurality of conductive paths formed at the flexible insulating film. Each conductive path has a first and a second contact portion for connection to the connection objects. Each spring piece includes a root portion formed adjacent to the base plate portion and faced to a portion, corresponding to the second contact portion, of an inner surface of an intermediate portion of the insulating film. Each spring piece further includes an inclined spring portion extending obliquely from the root portion and faced to a portion, corresponding to the first contact portion, of the inner surface of the intermediate portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventors: Takuya Takahashi, Ryuzo Shimeno
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Patent number: 7871289Abstract: A printed circuit cable assembly for top down installation in a disc drive or the like in which a printed circuit cable supporting electrical conductor paths has a body portion, a flex portion and an insertion tab connecting the body portion and flex portion. A PCC support member having a support ramp extending into a slotted gap supports the printed circuit cable with the insertion tab extending into the slotted gap so that the flex portion is extended for attachment to a moveable article, such as the head stack assembly of a disc drive. Preferably, the PCC support member has an indexing bore, and the PCC support member with the supported printed circuit cable is mounted to a support member having an indexing post, the PCC support member positioned so that indexing bore is positioned over the indexing post.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Cheng Siong Chin, Wai Onn Chee
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Patent number: 7815465Abstract: The present invention discloses an electric connector assembly including an insulator body, a fixed part, multiple terminals, a flexible flat cable (FFC) and a metal case. The insulator body has a rectangular base, multiple accommodating tanks are located one side of the base, and an inserting part passing through the inner place of the base is located at the edge of the other side of the base. The fixed part is assembled at the inserting part of the insulating body and can accommodating multiple terminals. Each terminal has an upper contact arm and a lower contact arm, which can simultaneously contact with the FFC and maintain the steadiness of the FFC. At least one side surface of the FFC has multiple contact points, which are clipped between the terminals for electrically connection. The metal case covering one side of the insulator body seizes the FFC to achieve the grounding function.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2009Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: P-Two Industries Inc.Inventors: Chien Chun Wang, Wen Lun Wang
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Patent number: 7796399Abstract: A multichip module comprises a multilayer substrate circuit having conductive patterns on its surface(s) to which microelectronic device(s) are attached. The conductive patterns include a series of electrical contacts adjacent to one edge of the substrate. The substrate is bonded to two rigid frames, one on each opposite surface. Each substrate has a series of castellations on one edge that are aligned and electrically connected to the respective contacts on the substrate, preferably by soldering. The castellations can serve as a self-aligning mechanism when the module is brought into contact with a low-profile pin array, and the module may be held in place on a motherboard by guide rails in a socket that engages the edges perpendicular to the castellated edge of the module. The module may further be provided with protective heat spreading covers.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2008Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Microelectronics Assembly Technologies, Inc.Inventors: James E. Clayton, Zakaryae Fathi
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Patent number: 7674134Abstract: In a connector including a conductive contact, an insulating housing holding the contact, and a conductive shell covering the housing, the housing includes a protruding portion of a flat-plate shape having first and second principal surfaces faced to each other. The contact includes a first contacting portion disposed on the first principal surface of the protruding portion and a second contacting portion extending from the first contacting portion to the second principal surface of the protruding portion. The shell includes a shell contacting portion disposed on the second principal surface of the protruding portion. The second contacting portion and the shell contacting portion have confronting end faces faced to each other.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2008Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventors: Takahiro Yamaji, Kazukuni Hisatomi, Koji Hayashi, Masakazu Kuroiwa
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Patent number: 7658640Abstract: A cable connector 1 includes a cover insulator adapted to clamp a cable. The cable has an end portion bent by a bending angle ?. The cover insulator is coupled to a base insulator. The base insulator holds a terminal having an end portion bent by a bending angle ?. Herein, the angles ? and ? satisfy the relationship given by ?<??? (rad) so that the end portion of the cable is pressed by the end portion of the terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2008Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignees: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, NEC CorporationInventors: Katsuhiko Nakazawa, Masahiro Yamauchi
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Patent number: 7618282Abstract: A cable connector assembly in accordance with the present invention comprises an insulative housing defining a base portion having a front surface and a rear surface, a mating portion extending from the front surface, and a receiving space recessed into the rear surface, a plurality of passageways formed in the mating portion and communicated with the receiving space. And a plurality of terminals assembled in the insulative housing have a mating section arranged in the passageways and a contacting section extending into the receiving space. A supporting member assembled to the insulative housing comprises a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion and received in the receiving space.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2008Date of Patent: November 17, 2009Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Lin Wu, Wei-Ya Cheng, David Tso-Chin Ko, Hai-Wei Wang
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Publication number: 20090246981Abstract: An electrical connector includes a flex circuit, and a spring-and-pressurized-gas mechanism for selectively pushing electrical contacts of the flex circuit against contacts of an interposer used to make electrical contact with a part to be electrically tested, a device under test (DUT). The mechanism includes a pair of pawls that are rotated to hook onto posts of the board to pull the electrical connector toward and into contact with the contacts of the interposer. The mechanism has a chamber for receiving pressurized gas, to push against a piston, to compress a spring that is mechanically coupled to and rotates the pawls. The mechanism is biased such that the electrical connector engages the interposer when gas pressure is removed, allowing the connector to remain engaged with interposer using only the forces from the spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2009Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Chris A. Shmatovich, Gordon G. Masor
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Patent number: 7544066Abstract: An electrical connector that utilizes a flexible substrate for providing electrical contact surfaces within the electrical connector is disclosed. Advantageously, the electrical contact surfaces can be precisely formed on the flexible substrate such that manual assembly of individual contacts (e.g., pins) for a connector can be avoided. In one embodiment, the flexible substrate also facilitates connection of the electrical connector to other electrical components, such as other substrates, integrated circuits, etc., without having to solder leads or pins of a connector to a printed circuit board. In one implementation, the flexible substrate can be integrally formed with a system substrate.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2008Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen Brian Lynch, Jason Sloey, Cameron Frazier, Mathias Schmidt
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Publication number: 20090130888Abstract: A cable connector includes an insulative housing, some terminals, an insert and a shield. The insulative housing includes a main body, a pair of side arms respectively rearward extending from the middle of the two sides of the main body to form a receiving space between the two side arms. The forward section of said main body is a mating portion with some evenly disposed grooves. The rearward section of said main body is a connecting portion with some troughs corresponding to the grooves. Each side arm includes two pair of separated receiving slots on the tail thereof to be connected to the receiving space. Each of terminals includes a mating piece on the forward part thereof to be received in the mating portion and a connecting piece on the rearward part thereof to be received in the connecting portion. The insert includes a main body with a grid to form some passages corresponding to the troughs of the housing and two pair of fastening portions respectively extending from two sides of the main body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2008Publication date: May 21, 2009Inventor: David Tso-Chin Ko
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Patent number: 7530839Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, an inner flexible plug, two metal housings and a flexible cable. The insulating body includes a base, two side portions set on two opposite sides of said base respectively and a top board connected between the side portions. A plurality of terminal grooves is defined in the base. The inner flexible plug is combined in the insulating body. The metal housings cover the insulating body. The flexible cable is set between the insulating body and the inner flexible plug. The inner flexible plug defines a plurality of receiving slots corresponding to the terminal grooves. The receiving slots extend from top side of the inner flexible plug to its bottom side in a bent way thus the flexible cable can be electrically connected with electrical connecting terminals set in the terminal grooves. Therefore, the electrical connector is easily assembled and has a stable structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Jess-Link Products Co., Ltd.Inventor: Wen-Lung Lee
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Patent number: 7509508Abstract: A signal transmission apparatus for external electronic devices is located on and coupled with a power supply. One end of the signal transmission apparatus that is coupled with the power supply is connected to a control signal input and output unit through a signal transmission line. The opposite end has a plug to connect to an external electronic device. Through the line integration of the signal transmission apparatus, an electric and signal transmission line can be directly connected to the external electronic device to provide required electricity and control signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: Topower Computer Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Michael Chen
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Patent number: 7503769Abstract: A connector includes contact conductors each having two contact portions and a conductor connecting the two contact portions arranged on a flexible printed circuit board folded back so that the contact portions arranged its front and rear faces can be connected to contacts of connecting objects, pushing device provided on the circuit board, and an elastic member arranged between the contact portions on the front and rear faces. Another connector includes a flexible printed circuit board not being folded back, an elastic member held on the side of the circuit board opposite from the contact portions, and at least one pushing member for pushing the circuit board and the connecting objects. A pushing jig includes pushing portions provided on a base material to be pushed against connecting objects, an elastic member held on the base material opposite side of the pushing portions, and at least one pushing member for pushing the base material and the connecting objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: DDK Ltd.Inventors: Tomonari Ohtsuki, Yasue Yamazaki
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Patent number: 7481669Abstract: The present invention relates to a plug-in wiring structure of the photovoltaic device, which is applicable to thin-strap connection in electric or electronic apparatuses, such as the output connection of copper-made thin bus straps in a package of solar cell plates. The present invention is characterized in a specialized design that includes a U-shaped clip spring with multiple turnings and a U-shaped terminal so as to have a fixed connection of a thin-strap object. According to the inventive connection, the work procedure of packaging solar cell plates can be simplified and high reliability can be achieved in that it is free from tool for disassembly and can be performed with zero drawing force. The present invention is especially applicable to the package of large-scaled photovoltaic generation cell plates having output through multiple bus straps.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2007Date of Patent: January 27, 2009Assignee: TEATEC Fine Ceramics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Fang-Yi Lee
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Patent number: 7467970Abstract: A pair of flat-type flexible cable connectors of the present invention comprise a first connector and a second connector. The first connector is provided with a plate-like cable holder, which has flat end faces on both sides in a thickness direction and an end protruding in the depth direction, and is structured to make an end of a flat-type flexible cable, the end having its insulating coating removed except a leading end part to expose conductors and being inverted, extend and contact both the end faces of the cable holder with the bent part of the exposed conductors serving as a boundary, and hold the leading end part and the root end part of the end. The second connector is provided with a plurality of terminals to contact the exposed conductors respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2007Date of Patent: December 23, 2008Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiichiro Ikuta, Masato Naganawa
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Patent number: 7445496Abstract: A method for connecting a flexible printed circuit (FPC) with a flexible circuitry component containing conducting wires is disclosed. The flexible circuitry component has an uncovered conducting portion. The proposed method includes providing a tenon and a holder with a groove corresponding to the tenon; and utilizing the tenon to wedge the uncovered conducting portion of the flexible circuitry component and a connecting region of the FPC in the groove of the holder to cause that the uncovered conducting portion contacts the connecting region.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Lite-On Technology Corp.Inventor: Shen-Hong Kao
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Patent number: 7387535Abstract: An electrical connector is disclosed with a connector housing and a leadframe assembly received in the connector housing. The leadframe assembly may include a dielectric leadframe housing and first and second electrically-conductive contacts extending through the leadframe housing. Each of the contacts may define a respective broadside and a respective mating end. The leadframe housing may define a hinge between the mating ends of the first and second contacts. The leadframe housing may be folded along the hinge such that the broadside of the first contact is positioned along the broadside of the second contact.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2006Date of Patent: June 17, 2008Assignee: FCI Americas Technology, Inc.Inventor: Steven E. Minich
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Patent number: 7385142Abstract: A manufacturing method of an electronic part, comprises: sectioning a wiring substrate along a line intersecting a through hole, the wiring substrate having; a base substrate, a wiring pattern provided on a first surface of the base substrate, a reinforcement member provided on a second surface of the base substrate, and the through hole which is positioned so as to overlap partially an end of the reinforcement member and which extends through the base substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2005Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Munehide Saimen