With Shield, Ground Conductor Or Ground Commoning Means Patents (Class 439/497)
  • Publication number: 20120045930
    Abstract: Provided is a technique for reducing the depth of a connector. A connector for connecting an FFC to a substrate includes a plurality of signal contacts, a ground contact, and a housing. The signal contacts are arranged to come into contact with signal terminals of the FFC. The ground contact comes into contact with the ground terminal of the FFC. The housing holds the plurality of signal contacts and the ground contact. Assuming that the back surface of the housing in a direction in which the FFC is inserted into or removed from the connector is set as a reference, a first distance to a contact point of the ground contact with respect to the signal terminals is set to be substantially equal to a second distance to a contact point of the ground contact with respect to the ground terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Inventors: Kouhei UEDA, Masao Higuchi, Yoshihiro Sugii
  • Patent number: 8083542
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided that has adequate shielding and does not compromise workability. The electrical connector includes a housing, an actuator, a shield plate, a plurality of signal contacts, a shield contact, a pair of pegs and a shield shell. An upper surface of the electrical connector is covered with the shield plate and the shield shell, both of which are made of a conductive material, and the shield plate and the shield shell are connected to a grounding pattern on a printed wiring board for grounding. In addition, shield paths are formed in an open space between the shield plate) and the shield shell to divide the open space into left and right non-shielded areas and a central non-shielded area. The connector can be shielded with reliability from an electromagnetic wave produced by the connector itself or an external electromagnetic wave with the open space remaining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Kodaira
  • Patent number: 8083541
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flat cable connection wire assembly including a flexible flat cable and a connector, and the flexible flat cable includes a plurality of core wires, and the connector includes a plastic body and a plurality of terminals for an electric connection. The plastic body includes a plurality of slots arranged with a specific interval apart from one another and disposed at an end of the flexible flat cable for positioning each terminal, such that a specific interval is formed between terminals and provided for soldering each core wire with each terminal in the slot, while coupling with the connector. The invention provides a more secured and reliable structure of the flat cable connection wire assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Tennrich International Corp.
    Inventor: Shih-Kun Yeh
  • Publication number: 20110294340
    Abstract: An object is to provide a connector with which a cable assembly with suppressed generation of a noise during high-speed signal transmission can be formed, and a cable assembly using the connector. The connector 10 of the present invention is characterized as follows. Specifically, the connector 10 includes: a substrate 11; multiple signal terminals 31, 32 provided parallel to each other on one surface of the substrate 11; and a ground layer 41 provided on another surface of the substrate 11. Each of the signal terminals 31, 32 and the ground layer 41 are disposed in such a manner that at least a portion of the ground layer 41 and at least a portion of each of the signal terminals 31, 32 are superposed on each other with the substrate 11 therebetween. Multiple holes 43 are formed in the portion of the ground layer 41 superposed on each of the signal terminals 31, 32. A largest diameter of each of the holes 43 is smaller than a distance L between the centers of the signal terminals adjacent to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: FUJIKURA LTD.
    Inventor: Shigeru Kojima
  • Patent number: 8062050
    Abstract: An cable assembly includes an insulative housing; a plurality of signal terminals and grounding terminals received in the insulative housing; a plurality of signals wires and grounding wires; a grounding member having a main portion located in a vertical plane and a plurality of fingers projecting forwardly therefrom, the main portion defining positioning cavities separated from each other; the signal wires held in the positioning cavities, with conductors of the signal wires electrically connected to the signal terminals, the grounding wires electrically connected to the grounding member and the fingers of the grounding member electrically connected to the grounding terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 8043114
    Abstract: A reduced height wire to board connector assembly includes mating plug and receptacle connectors. The receptacle connector has an internal recess which opens vertically and receives a plug connector therein. Wires are terminated to terminals of the plug connector and they extend out through a wire insertion portion in one of the sidewalls of the receptacle connector. The receptacle connector has a conductive member supported thereby and this fixing member provides a ground connection and a retaining function to the receptacle connector. The plug connector has insulation displacement type terminals and two wire clamps to retain the wires terminated thereto in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Tomonari Kaneko, Seigo Yoneyama
  • Patent number: 8011950
    Abstract: The cable assembly may include a plug connector, a cable, and a connector. The plug connector may include a housing and a board assembly. The board assembly may include a printed circuit board. The edge of the printed circuit board may be enclosed with a material. The material may be an overmolded plastic or a coating of a material. In order to reduce the crosstalk in the areas where the cable shield is removed, a shielding assembly may be used. The shielding assembly may provide 360 degrees of shielding for the wire pair at the location where the cable shield is removed. The printed circuit board may have a trace layer, a core layer, and a ground plane layer. The ground plane layer may have a portion which is a solid layer and another portion which is a non-solid layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Cinch Connectors, Inc.
    Inventors: James L. McGrath, David W. Mendenhall, Hecham K. Elkhatib, William J. MacKillop, Alan A. Raclawski
  • Patent number: 7950953
    Abstract: To provide a multicore cable connector in which alignment of signal lines of a cable and soldering of the signal lines to a wiring pattern of a substrate are facilitated, and impedance mismatch on the substrate is minimized. A multicore cable connector 1 includes a cable fixing member 2, an aggregate cable 3 accommodated in cable fixing member 2, an aligning plate 4 for aligning signal lines 312 included in aggregate cable 3, and a substrate 5 formed with a wiring pattern 53 conductively connected to signal lines 312 of aggregate cable 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kenji Kuwahara, Toshiroh Endoh, Hiroyuki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7946882
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a first and second connector (A, B) engaged with each other. The first connector includes a first housing (20) with a middle plate (205), a number of first contacts (50) arranged into the first housing, a shield shell (10) surrounding the first housing. The second connector includes a second housing (60) defining a receiving slot (603), in which the middle plate of the first housing is seated, a number of second contacts (80) electrically connected to the first contacts in the receiving slot, a grounding element (70) assembled into the second housing and engaged with the shield shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Kwan Wu
  • Patent number: 7931493
    Abstract: A cable assembly comprises an insulative housing defining an opening through two opposite top and bottom surfaces. A plurality of contacts are assembled in the insulative housing, each contact has a mating portion and a connecting portion. A plurality of wires are disposed on the top surface of the insulative housing, each wire defines a conductor electrically connected with the connecting portion and a metallic braiding layer surrounding the conductor. A conductive plate is assembled to the insulative housing and soldered with one side of the metallic braiding layers of the wires. A metallic shell encloses the insulative housing and defines a grounding tab extending into the corresponding opening of the insulative housing. The grounding tab is attached and soldered with another side of the metallic braiding layers of the wires facing to the opening of the insulative housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7914322
    Abstract: A cable connector includes an insulative housing defining a mounting chamber, a bottom surface positioned at the bottom of mounting chamber and a number of longitudinal ribs formed on the bottom surface while extending upwardly beyond the bottom surface. Multiple contacts are fixed in the insulative housing and include a number of soldering tails under an arrangement that each adjacent two soldering tails are separated by one of the ribs. A space between adjacent edges of the adjacent two soldering tails is much bigger than a width of the corresponding rib which is located between the adjacent two soldering tails for preventing short circuit of the soldering tails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Inventor: Pei-Yu Lin
  • Patent number: 7896689
    Abstract: An electrical cable connector assembly includes a printed circuit board, a wire organizer comprising a body portion defining a plurality of through holes and a retention slot recessed from an outer surface thereof, and a cable including a plurality of wires protruding through the through holes of the wire organizer for being soldered to the corresponding conductive pads of the printed circuit board, respectively. The printed circuit board has an outer side edge, and a plurality of conductive pads arranged at opposite front and rear ends thereof. The wires The outer side edge of the printed circuit board is retained into the retention slot of the wire organizer for preventing the printed circuit board from moving relative to the wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Sheng Su, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 7892021
    Abstract: A lumped resistance electrical cable has a multiple twisted pair ribbon cable having first and second conductive lines and twisted and untwisted portions. In the untwisted portions, one of the conductive lines on each of the twisted pairs is formed with an electrical open. Resistor blocks having resistive elements and electrical contacts is disposed on the untwisted portions with the electrical contacts electrically coupling the resistive elements across the electrical opens in the conductive lines. Other electrical contacts in the connector couple the other conductive lines of the twisted pairs to an ground plane formed on the resistor block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan D. Clem
  • Patent number: 7878843
    Abstract: Provided is a cable assembly comprises an insulative housing having a plurality of contact terminals disposed therein. A plurality of conductive wires each is terminated with the plurality of contact terminals. And a hold-down arrangement is securely attached to the housing, and includes a metallic base portion substantially covering interconnection between the contact terminals and the conductive wires. The arrangement includes a first anchors interlocked to the housing, and a second anchors extending beyond a mating interface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Han-Ming Zhang
  • Patent number: 7878850
    Abstract: A cable connector (100) includes an insulative housing (30), a number of terminals (70) received in the insulative housing, a metal cover (10) shielding the insulative housing, a number of cables (50) and a grounding plate (90). The terminals include a number of signal pins (70B, 70D) and a number of grounding pins (70A, 70C, 70E). The cables correspondingly connect with the terminals. Each cable includes a central conductor (507) and a braiding layer (503). The grounding plate mechanically and electrically connecting with the braiding layers of the cables, the grounding pins and the metal cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chun-Kwan Wu
  • Publication number: 20110014811
    Abstract: A shielded insertion and connection structure is provided for a flat cable connector, including a receiving housing and a hold-down member. The receiving housing forms a receiving compartment and two side walls formed at opposite ends of the receiving compartment. The hold-down member has opposite ends that respectively form pivot structures for pivotally coupling the hold-down member to the side walls and rotating between an open position and a holding position. The hold-down member is made of metal and the receiving housing is at least partly made of metal to form a conduction section, which is connected to a grounding terminal. When the hold-down member is at the open position and a circuit flat cable is inserted into the receiving compartment, the hold-down member is operated to depress down and hold the circuit flat cable and the hold-down member is put in electrical connection with the grounding terminal through the conduction section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Inventors: Chih-Heng Chuo, Gwun-Jin Lin, Kuo-Fu Su
  • Patent number: 7856713
    Abstract: A combined terminal is made by combination of first and second terminals. The first terminal has a first plate portion. The second terminal has a second plate portion and a window portion formed in the second plate portion. The first and second terminals are combined so that the first and second plate portions are superposed while the first terminal remains to be linked to a frame by a link portion therebetween. The combined first and second terminals are removed from the frame by cutting the link portion through the window portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shinobu Suzuki, Kouichi Ohyama
  • Patent number: 7857657
    Abstract: To provide a multicore cable connector in which alignment of signal lines of a cable and soldering of the signal lines to a wiring pattern of a substrate are facilitated, and impedance mismatch on the substrate is minimized. A multicore cable connector 1 includes a cable fixing member 2, an aggregate cable 3 accommodated in cable fixing member 2, an aligning plate 4 for aligning signal lines 312 included in aggregate cable 3, and a substrate 5 formed with a wiring pattern 53 conductively connected to signal lines 312 of aggregate cable 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Kenji Kuwahara, Toshiroh Endoh, Hiroyuki Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 7854626
    Abstract: A shielded cable connection structure includes a plurality of shielded cables. Each of the shielded cables has a center conductor, a shielding conductor, and an insulative jacket. A metal grounding member has at least two rows of mutually parallel substantially comb shaped teeth. The comb shaped teeth in each of the rows have a wire receiving portion formed there between that receives at least one of the shielded cables. A holding member mates with the metal grounding member to clamp the shielded cables between the metal grounding member and the holding member. The center conductor is directly clamped by the comb shaped teeth in one of the rows, and the shielding conductor is clamped through the insulative jacket by the comb shaped teeth in the other row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2010
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP K.K.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Ishida, Junichi Tanigawa
  • Patent number: 7833049
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a circuit board and a first housing, wherein the circuit board has a butt portion and a lap portion, the butt portion is formed thereon with a plurality of first contacts, the lap portion is formed thereon with a plurality of second contacts, the first contacts and the second contacts are connected with each other, the second spacing between the adjacent second contacts is larger than the first spacing between the adjacent first contacts, and the first contacts are arranged to couple to a butt connector. The first housing is assembled on the circuit board and positioned above the lap portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: P-Two Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Chien-Chun Wang, Shao-Kai Chen, Chi-Fan Wu
  • Patent number: 7828589
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes an electrical connector and a cable. The electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a first wall and a second wall, and a plurality of contacts received in the housing and at least a shell attached on the first wall of the housing. The cable includes at least a grounding wire and a plurality of signal wires connected to their corresponding contacts received in the housing. The shell includes at least a grounding portion extending from the shell and located between the shell and the second wall of the housing. The grounding portion includes a strain relief and a crimping portion. The grounding wire includes an inner contact crimped by the crimping portion and an insulative jacket crimped by the strain relief.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7824198
    Abstract: A connector configured to be connected with a cable including a drain line, comprises a plurality of ground contacts, a housing holding the ground contacts, and a ground plate connected with the ground contacts. The ground plate has a first surface and a second surface and provided with a drain connection portion. The first surface is configured so that the cable is mounted on the first surface. The second surface is a back of the first surface. The drain connection portion is configured to be connected with the drain line and being formed on the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Yukitaka Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7803010
    Abstract: A signal line connector structure of a computer system includes a casing, a first connecting module and a second connecting module. The casing consists of an upper casing and a lower casing. The upper casing includes a first positioning block having a first stop side, and the lower casing includes a second positioning block having a second stop side. The first connecting module and the second connecting module are installed in the casing and abutted and fixed by the first positioning block and the second positioning block respectively to enhance the stability and convenience of the connection. In addition, two connecting modules are used for improving the applicability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Inventor: Mao-Lin Hwang
  • Patent number: 7794271
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulator (1), a plurality of conductive terminals (2) held in the insulator, a plurality of wires (4), a spacer (3) and a metal shell (6, 7). Each wire comprises an inner conductor (41) conductively connecting with the terminals, and at least one of the wires is a coaxial cable (4a) which has a shielding braid layer (43) enclosing the corresponding inner conductor. The spacer is mounted on the insulator and used for supporting the wires. The spacer comprises an inner surface with thereof a plurality of slots (31) for receiving the responding wires and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, and a through-hole (32) is formed through the inner and outer surfaces. The metal shell is mounted on and covers the insulator. The spring finger (75) is formed integrate with the metal shell and extends inwards, and the spring finger passes through the through-hole to electrically connect with the shielding braid of the coaxial cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin Wu, David Tso-Chin Ko, Wei-Ya Cheng, Hai-Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 7794273
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) comprises an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) received in the housing (1), a plurality of wires (3) electrically connecting to the contacts (2) and a fastening device (7). The housing (1) defines at least a through hole (107) in a lateral side thereof. The fastening device (7) comprises a bolt (71) matching with a nut (72) received in the through hole (107), the nut (72) has an engaging portion (723) split into at least two deformable pieces (7230), and the bolt (71) is slidably received in the nut (72) to urge the deformable pieces (7230) splaying when the bolt is pushed in; a stopper is arranged between the bolt and the nut to prevent the bolt from sliding out of the nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bin Xu, Su-Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 7758375
    Abstract: A balanced transmission cable connector includes a balanced transmission cable including a plurality of pair electric wires, each of the pair electric wires including a first signal wire, a second signal wire, and a drain wire; a contact assembly body having an insulative block body where first and second signal contacts and a ground contact are alternately arranged in a row direction, the first and second signal contacts facing each other in a line direction, the block body having a rear surface side where first and second signal wire connecting parts being parts of the first and second signal contacts and a drain wire connecting part and a plate-shaped part being a part of the ground contact project; a first groove part where the first signal wire connecting part is provided; a second groove part where the second signal wire connecting part is provided; a slit and an insulative spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Component Limited
    Inventors: Satoshi Moriyama, Takeshi Okuyama
  • Patent number: 7749000
    Abstract: An electrical connector adapted to be mounted to a PCB for electrically connecting with a butting component includes an insulating housing and a plurality of terminals received in the insulating housing. The insulating housing defines a soldering surface and a mating surface contiguous to the soldering surface. The mating surface has a receiving recess for receiving the butting component. The receiving recess has a bottom protruding outwards to form a receiving plate substantially perpendicular to the soldering surface, with a plurality of terminal grooves extending substantially perpendicular to the mating surface formed thereon. Each of the terminals has a contacting portion received in the terminal groove and a soldering portion substantially perpendicular to the contacting portion. The soldering portions are arranged in plural rows and extend outside the soldering surface for being soldered on the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ming-Chun Lai
  • Patent number: 7722387
    Abstract: A board connector has a plurality of contacts, an insulator holding the plurality of contacts, and a shell covering at least a part of the insulator. Each contact has an SMT terminal to be connected to a wiring pattern on a board. The insulator has a first insulator portion extending in an X-direction and two second insulator portions each extending in a Y-direction perpendicular to the X-direction. The first insulator portion has a bottom surface and first ends in the X-direction. Each second insulator portion has second ends. Each second insulator portion extends from the first ends to the second ends, respectively. The second ends are positioned on an imaginary straight line. The first insulator portion, the second insulator portions, and the imaginary straight line define a predetermined area. The SMT terminals are held by the insulator so that the SMT terminals are positioned within the predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamaji, Keizo Kai, Shingo Nanao
  • Publication number: 20100081317
    Abstract: A conductive band for an electrical connector that includes an elastic metal strap with first and second ends and an array of flexible members extending between the first and second ends. Each of the first and second ends has a terminal lead. A clip is coupled to the terminal leads of the first and second ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventor: Jon A. FISHER
  • Publication number: 20100048059
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) comprises the following: (a) a first element (102) having an opening (114) for receiving an electrical cable (116), (b) a second element (104, 106) coupled to an electrical connector element (108), wherein the first element is coupled to the second element in order to define a cavity between the first and the second elements, wherein the connector element is in electrical contact with the cable in the cavity, and (c) an adjustable insulating shield (110) that is movable between a first position and a second position relative to the second element, such that a conductive contact section of the connector element is exposed for direct contact when the shield is moved to the first position, and that the shield covers the section in order to restrict direct access to the section when the shield is moved to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: ADC GmbH
    Inventor: Scott David Lee
  • Patent number: 7651379
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes an insulated housing defining a cavity portion along a longitudinal direction; a first contact module including a first insulator combined with a plurality of first contacts, each of the first contacts having a mating portion extending beyond a front surface of the first insulator and a tail portion disposed outside a back surface of the first insulator; a second contact module including a second insulator combined with a plurality of second contacts, each of the second contacts having a mating portion extending beyond a front surface of the second insulator and a tail portion disposed outside a back surface of the second insulator; the first insulator overlapped with the second insulator, with each of the mating portions of the first contacts disposed into a corresponding gap between two adjacent mating portions of the second contacts, and the tail portions of first contacts spaced apart the tail portions of second contacts; and the first and second contact module inserted into the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 7641507
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Inc. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: David Tso-Chin Ko
  • Publication number: 20090325418
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a cable connector having a cable therein and a jumper device retained on the cable. The jumper device includes an insulative base having a body portion mounted a jumper contact therein and a retaining portion engaging with the cable so as to keep the jumper device retaining on the cable. The jumper device is keeping retaining on the cable no matter whether the jumper device is in a work status, which is benefit for an operator to use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei Yuan
  • Patent number: 7637779
    Abstract: A connector includes an elongated body having a plurality of contacts arranged in spaced relation along a length thereof and a shield member for shielding the body. The shield member includes a first shield portion for shielding first thicknesswise end of the body and a second shield portion for shielding a second thicknesswise end of the body. At least one of the first and second shield portions is partly or entirely embedded in the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Nagata, Hayato Kondo
  • Patent number: 7632155
    Abstract: A connector for connecting to at least a cable (5), includes an insulated housing (2); a plurality of contacts (31, 32) supported by the insulated housing (2), said contacts including at least two pairs of signal contacts (31) and at least a grounding contact (32); said signal contacts (31) divided into two juxtaposed differential contact pairs (310); each of the differential contact pairs (310) including a first signal contact (310A) and a second signal contact (310B) juxtaposed closely to each other; each of the first and second signal contacts (310A, 310B) having a retention portion, a mating portion extending forward from the retention portion and a tail portion extending rearward from the retention portion, and a first side (3101) and a second side (3103) which are divergent from a front segment of the retention portion to an free end of the mating portion such that a first distance (30?) between the retention portions of two adjacent differential contact pairs of signal contacts is smaller than a second
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Jerry Wu
  • Publication number: 20090305551
    Abstract: A differential transmission connector in which degradation of signal characteristics is improved. The connector being mated to a mating connector and making electrical connection of two or more differential transmission cables each having a pair of signal lines and at least one drain line, includes a contact for a pair of adjacent signal lines being connected with the pair of signal lines of the cable, a contact for the earth line being connected with the at least one drain line of the cable, a carrier having the contact for a pair of signal lines and the contact for the earth line arranged alternately in one row on an identical plane in the width direction intersecting the axial direction of the cable perpendicularly, and a shell covering the contact for signal lines, the contact for the earth line and the carrier, wherein a drain line located at least one end of the arrangement is connected with the shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2005
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventor: Yasutoshi Kameda
  • Patent number: 7601029
    Abstract: The electric connector assembly kit is structured that the inner wire of the end of the shielded cable is fitted and held in the wire holding part of the wire holder and the outer conductor is crimped by the barrel, the connector body is set on the lower side of the wire holder, the inner conductor of the inner wire is connected to the contact and the barrel is press-fitted in the U-shaped slot, the plug cover shell is set on the higher side of the wire holder and made to contact the barrel, and the top end of the coupling piece extending toward the lower side between the U-shaped slots is bent toward the back side in the depth direction and hooked on the plug shell from the lower side to assemble onto the end of the shielded cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Horiuchi, Ryo Moriwake
  • Publication number: 20090239395
    Abstract: An electrical interconnection system with high speed, high density electrical connectors. The connector is assembled from wafers containing columns of conductive elements, held in an insulative housing. The conductive elements may each have a plurality of beams of different lengths such that the mating contact surfaces of the first beam are offset, in a direction perpendicular with the columns, from the mating contact surfaces of the second beam. The mating contact surface of the shorter beam of each conductive element may be behind the mating contact of the longer beam such that the width of the conductive element is reduced while still protecting the shorter beam from stubbing upon connector mating. The multi-beam conductive elements may be used as signal or ground conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas S. Cohen, Brian Kirk, Trent K. Do
  • Publication number: 20090233480
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an organizer plate having a plurality of apertures for receiving termination devices. Each termination device includes a shield box, an insulator, and a socket contact. The shield box has at least one outwardly extending ground contact element and a latch member. When the termination device is inserted into an aperture of the organizer plate, the latch member on the shield box engage a surface of the organizer plate to prevent withdrawal of the termination device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Steven Feldman, Kevin R. Meredith, Rudy L. Densmore, Joseph N. Castiglione, Alexander R. Mathews, Alexander W. Barr, Richard J. Scherer
  • Publication number: 20090221178
    Abstract: An electrical connector for a flat sheet-like cable includes an insulative housing with a plurality of terminals and an actuator. The actuator is moveable between a first insertion position and a second operational position with the first position permitting insertion of the cable into the connector and the second position being configured such that the contact pads of the cable engage the contact portions of the terminals. The actuator has an abutting part formed on opposite ends thereof. A pair of generally planar securing members is provided at opposite ends of the housing. Each securing member includes a stop surface to define a depth to which the cable may be inserted, a restraining member that interacts with said abutting part of said actuator upon positioning said actuator in the second position to define a restraining surface to prevent removal of said cable and a recess portion defined between the stop surface and said restraining surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Hideyuki Hirata, Hiroshi Shimoyama
  • Patent number: 7578697
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) according to the present invention includes an insulative housing (1) and a pair of conductive terminals (2). The housing includes a wire connecting portion (11) for connecting a wire and a mating port (10) with a receiving space (101) at the center thereof adapted for receiving a complementary connector, and the wire connecting portion defines a plurality of surfaces. The pair of conductive terminals include mating portions (22) received in the receiving space and soldering portions (21) surface mounted on different surfaces of the wire connecting portion of the housing so that the soldering portion of the terminals is separated by the wire connecting portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Yin Wang, Wei-Ya Cheng
  • Publication number: 20090197459
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) includes two rows of conductive terminals (2) held in an insulative housing (1), a plurality of wires (60) electrically connecting with the corresponding conductive terminals, and upper and lower spacers (41, 42) behind the insulative housing to arrange the wires in order. A plurality of first partitions (411) protrude upwards from top surface of the upper spacer to form a plurality of first slots (410) for receiving a group of the wires, and a plurality of second partitions (421) protrude downwards from bottom surface of the lower spacer to form a plurality of second slots (420) for receiving another group of the wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Publication date: August 6, 2009
    Inventors: Ya-Fei Yu, Xian-Kui Shi, Chung-Yen Yang
  • Patent number: 7559776
    Abstract: A shielding device for connection strips in telecommunications and data engineering has a number of shielding plates and at least one base rail allocated to the shielding plates. To simplify the process of fitting the shielding device inside a connection strip, the shielding plates and the base rail are integrally formed from a metal sheet, and each shielding plate is connected to the base rail via a narrow web and is arranged rotated through approximately 90° with respect to the base rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: ADC GmbH
    Inventors: Hans-Dieter Bippus, Bryce Lindsay Nicholls
  • Patent number: 7553191
    Abstract: A plug connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1) including a base portion (10) and a mating portion (12) extending from the base portion in a first direction, a number of contacts (2) received in the insulative housing; and a number of wires (3) comprising a number of signal wires (31) and a number of power wires (32) respectively electrically connecting with the contacts. The signal wires and the power wires are both arranged to extend along second opposite directions perpendicular to the first direction of the mating portion to locate at opposite sides of the mating portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Sheng Su, Jie Cheng, Hong-Lei Fan
  • Patent number: 7553167
    Abstract: A cable connector includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector comprises a first housing defining a receiving space for receiving the second connector, and a plurality of contacts assembled to the first housing, each having a contacting arm exposed in the receiving space and an engaging arm disposed on a top surface of the first housing for being soldered with cables easily. The second connector comprises a second housing received in the receiving space of the first housing and a plurality of terminal received in the second housing for electrically contacting with the contacting arms of the contacts of the first connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming Zhang, Biao-Bing Lv
  • Publication number: 20090130878
    Abstract: A cable assembly (100) comprises an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) received in the housing (1) and a plurality of wires (3) electrically connecting to the contacts (2) and a fastening device (7). The housing (1) defines a base portion (10) and a mating portion (12) extending forwardly from the base portion, said base portion having at least a through hole (107) in a lateral side thereof. The fastening device (7) is incorporated in the through holes (107) and comprises a bolt (71) matching with a nut (72) received in the through hole (107), said nut (72) has an engaging portion (723) split into at least two deformable pieces (7230), and the bolt (71) is slidably received in the nut (72) to urge the deformable piece (7230) splaying when the bolt is pushed in; wherein blocking means are arranged between the bolt and the nut to prevent the bolt sliding out of the nut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2008
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Bin Xu, Su-Feng Liu
  • Patent number: 7534143
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (2) extending in a front-to-back direction, a conductive shell (7) enclosing the insulative housing and cooperating with the insulative housing to define a receiving cavity (101) adapted for receiving a complementary connector, a first set of contacts (3) held in the insulative housing for transmitting a first kind of signals, a second set of contacts (4) held in the insulative housing and comprising two pairs of differential contacts (41) respectively for transmitting and receiving a second kind of signals and a grounding contact (42), a first set of wires (51) and a second set of wires (52). Each first contact includes a contacting section (36) exposed in the receiving cavity and a tail section (35) extending rearward from the contacting section. Each of the second set of contacts includes a contacting section (43) exposed in the receiving cavity and a tail section (45) extending rearward form the contacting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Pei Tsao, Chong Yi, Kuan-Yu Chen, Gary E. Biddle
  • Patent number: 7530839
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: Jess-Link Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen-Lung Lee
  • Patent number: 7520774
    Abstract: An micro coaxial cable connector assembly, comprising: an elongate insulative housing having a base portion, a tongue portion extending from the base portion, and a plurality of passageways defined through the base portion and the tongue portion; a plurality of contacts received in the passageways of the insulative housing; a FPC received in the tongue portion; a plurality of wires soldered on the FPC received in the tongue portion; a conductive grounding shield covered onto the insulating housing and the tongue portion; a insulative film adhibited under the conductive grounding shield so that the assembly of the electrical connector is convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsuneki Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20090088012
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a connector device includes a flexible cable, a housing, a containing portion, a wall portion, and a leaf spring. The containing portion is formed inside the housing, and a terminal of a counter connector device is inserted to the containing portion. The wall portion is opposed to the flexible cable, and forms one surface of the containing portion. The leaf spring is provided inside the containing portion, and adhered to a surface of the flexible cable reverse to a surface in which a conductor portion of the flexible cable is exposed. The leaf spring urges the flexible cable toward the wall portion to hold the terminal with the wall portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Toshiki Oooka