Stacked Right-angle Connector For Use On Printed Circuit Board (i.e., Pcb) Patents (Class 439/541.5)
  • Patent number: 7086906
    Abstract: A stacked electrical card connector assembly comprises a first connector (1) having a first insulating body (11) and a row of first terminals (12), and a second connector (2) stacked with the first connector (1) and having a second insulating body (21) and a row of second terminals (22). Each first terminal (12) has a first engaging portion (122) for electrically connecting with a card, and a first securing portion (123) extending backwardly from the first engaging portion (122) and out of the first insulating body (11), and each second terminal (22) has a second engaging portion (222) for electrically connecting with a different card and a second securing portion (223) extending backwardly from the second engaging portion (222) and out of the second insulating body (21). The second securing portions (223) have some under the first securing portions (123).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7083468
    Abstract: A stacked electrical connector assembly (100) mounted on a main printed circuit board includes an insulative housing (1), an array of USB and modular conductive terminals (24, 222) received in the housing, and a metal outer shell (5) substantially surrounding the insulative housing. The housing defines a USB plug-receiving cavity (101) and a modular plug-receiving cavity (102) stacked beneath the USB plug-receiving cavity. The USB conductive terminals (24) have USB contacting portions (242) exposed in the USB plug-receiving cavity adapted for mating with a USB type plug. The modular conductive terminals (222) have modular contacting portions (223) disposed in the modular plug-receiving cavity adapted for mating with an RJ type plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin E. Walker, James H. Hyland
  • Patent number: 7081011
    Abstract: Contacts are provided wherewith attachment to a board can be made with adequate attachment strength, without requiring soldering, which can be easily removed from the board without causing damage to occur. Parts of wiring rounds 37 positioned at the extreme diagonally lower right point on a printed circuit board 31 are clamped from above and below by the upper portion of a wiring round side contact part W, indicated by solid lines, facing on a slit 39 positioned at the extreme diagonally lower right point in a base 19, and by the lower portion of a wiring round side contact part W indicated by broken lines. The part of the wiring rounds 37 is clamped by the wiring round side contact part W, by spring forces that operate in directions to tighten that part, which spring forces develop in the upper portion and the lower portion of the wiring round side contact part W.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Nippon Dics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Eiji Kikuchi, Hiroji Yamakawa
  • Patent number: 7070446
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is shown having a stamped and formed shielded cage having a plurality of ports for receiving SFP modules. The cages have an opening extending through a lower face thereof for receiving a header connector having first and second extensions which are aligned with the first and second columnar ports in the cage. Thus, the SFP modules are pluggable into individual ports, whereby two modules are interconnected to a single header connector interconnected to a motherboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Randall R. Henry, Michael J. Phillips
  • Patent number: 7063539
    Abstract: A memory card connector is provided for mounting on a main printed circuit board having a header connector thereon. The connector includes an insulating housing having a rear terminal-mounting section and at least one longitudinal side wall section extending forwardly from one end of the rear section and combining therewith to define a card-receiving space. An array of first terminals are mounted on the rear section and have contact portions projecting into the space for engaging appropriate contacts on a memory card, along with tail portions exposed on the housing. An auxiliary printed circuit board is mounted on the housing and has an array of circuit traces electrically engaged with the tail portions of the terminals. The auxiliary printed circuit board has a mating portion for insertion into the header connector on the main printed circuit board. The mating portion has contact pads electrically coupled to the circuit traces on the auxiliary printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Tse Ho, Katsutoshi Tojo
  • Patent number: 7059910
    Abstract: A card connector comprises an insulating housing (1), at least a first set of contacts (2) and a second set of contacts (3) retained in the insulating housing (1) and a defend mechanism (6); the insulating housing (1) defines a card receiving space with a card inserting direction; the defend mechanism (6) disposes in the housing and comprising a step portion protruding into the card receiving space and a restorable portion extending from the step portion; the step portion divides the card receiving space into at least two card cavities according to external dimensions of the different cards and deflects between the two card cavities and protruding into one card cavity once a card inserted into the other card cavity; the restorable portion for urging the step portion to resume its original position once the card withdrew from the other cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., LTD
    Inventor: Eric (Wei-Cheng) Chang
  • Patent number: 7052315
    Abstract: A stacked jack multi-port shielded and magnetically conditioned connector assembly is provided for assembly in three distinct configurations. One configuration is where power over ethernet is not required, but rather modular jack contacts are directly connected to a motherboard. A second configuration, the connector assembly can be configured to be enabled to receive conditioned and controlled electrical signals to the connector, whereby power over ethernet may be provided through designated ones of the modular jack contacts. Alternatively, the connector can be configured for an integrated power over ethernet card, where the device is provided as an integrated assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Keith M Murr, Nancy L Reeser, Michael E Shirk, Michael W Fogg, Michael F Cina
  • Patent number: 7052316
    Abstract: The present invention provides an inexpensive card connector assembly which is used for the connection with two cards having mutually different transmission speeds, which can maintain transmission characteristics, and which is therefore suitable for high-speed transmission. The card connector assembly comprises first and second card connectors that are stacked for the connection with two cards having mutually different transmission speeds, and transmission paths for connecting the first and second card connectors to a circuit board. The transmission paths comprise a plurality of first and second terminal parts that respectively extend from the first and second card connectors, and a rigid board to which the first and second terminal parts are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP K.K
    Inventors: Junichi Tanigawa, Doron Lapidot, Masayuki Aizawa, Tomoo Yamada
  • Patent number: 7044779
    Abstract: An electronic connector socket has an upper RJ-45 hole and a lower USB hole in which at least two USB sockets can be formed. When manufacturers mass-produce the electronic connector sockets, separately making USB socket modules is not necessary anymore. The time to manufacture the electronic connector sockets also can be reduced. The manufacturers are able to increase profit from making the electronic connector sockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Lankom Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lu-Ta Liu
  • Patent number: 7044790
    Abstract: An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10), a terminal subassembly (90) having a number of terminals (20, 30) received in the insulative housing, an inner shell (60) received in the insulative housing, an outer shell (71) enclosing the insulative housing and a shielding clip (80) assembled on the insulative housing. The clip includes an inner contacting portion (83) for electrically connecting with inner shell and an outer contacting portion (82) for electrically connecting with the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: ZiQiang Zhu, Jinkui Hu, Guohua Zhang
  • Patent number: 7044778
    Abstract: In a connector to be mounted on a circuit board having a ground pattern, a connecting member is assembled to a housing holding a contact. The connecting member has conductivity for electrically connecting with the ground pattern. A shell is coupled to the housing and is for electro-magnetically shielding the contact. The shell includes first and second shells. The first shell has conductivity and assembled to the housing in a fitting direction of the connector to surround a contact portion of the contact. The second shell has conductivity and assembled to the housing in a particular direction orthogonal to the fitting direction. The second shell covers a terminal portion of the contact and clamps the housing and the connecting member in the fitting direction. The first shell is in contact with the second shell and is fixed to the connecting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Yukitaka Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7040908
    Abstract: In a card connector having a base member defining a receiving portion for receiving a predetermined card in a first direction, an eject mechanism including two eject plates arranged on the base member. The eject plates are adjacent to each other in a second direction and independently movable in the first direction. Each of the eject plates is for transmitting a removing force to the predetermined card. A support plate is engaged with the eject plates in the first direction and movable in the second direction. A plate support point portion is connected to the base member and adapted to be engaged with a part of the support plate in the first direction to serve as a support point of the support plate when the support plate is located on one side in the first direction. In addition, a plurality of contacts are held by the base member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignees: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, JAE Hirosaki, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kazushi Kamata
  • Patent number: 7033084
    Abstract: A plug-in connector for connecting and transmitting signals from a circuit board to a back plane wherein the plug-in connector comprises an optical conductor for transmitting optical signals into the plug-in connector and at least one mirror coupled to the optical conductor for deflecting light at an approximately 90° angle in the plug-in connector. There is also a lens system disposed adjacent to the mirror and coupled to the optical conductor for coupling the light into the plug-in connector. This optical conductor can comprise a plurality of glass fiber lines for coupling in the optical signal. Alternatively, this optical conductor could be lines formed from plastic polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: ERNI Elektroapparate GmbH
    Inventor: Jürgen Lappöhn
  • Patent number: 7033210
    Abstract: A stacked jack modular jack assembly is comprised of a multi-port housing, and a plurality of modular jack subassemblies. The jack subassemblies include upper and lower jack housings sandwiching therebetween, a cross-talk shield. The terminal subassembly is substantially Z-shaped, which allows for increased space there below for signal conditioning components. The terminal module also includes a center shield and a lower shield, and an outer shield, all of which are commoned together and grounded. An outer shield substantially surrounds the entire assembly, and is commoned to the other shield members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Eric C. Laurer, Victor E. Slack, Nathan J. Norris
  • Patent number: 7029329
    Abstract: A terminal box is mounted inside an electronic machine as a television and is used to connect to multiple terminals for transmission of electronic signals. The terminal box has a housing assembly, a socket assembly mounted inside the housing assembly and multiple prong contacts mounted inside the housing assembly. The socket assembly has multiple socket members interconnecting and each socket member has a socket adapted to be inserted a prong. The terminal box is easily to mount inside the electronic machine and the amount of the socket members of the terminal box is variable for different electronic machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Suyin Corporation
    Inventor: Huang-Chou Huang
  • Patent number: 7018234
    Abstract: The present invention provides a card connector assembly that is used for the connection with two cards having mutually different transmission speeds and that can maintain transmission characteristics while minimizing the amount of an expensive FPC used. The card connector assembly comprises stacked first and second card connectors for connection with two cards having mutually different transmission speeds, and transmission paths for connecting the first and second card connectors to a circuit board. The transmission path for the first card connector to which a card with a relatively high transmission speed is to be connected is constructed from an FPC to which the first card connector is connected. The transmission path for the second card connector to which a card with a relatively low transmission speed is to be connected comprises terminal parts that extend from the second card connector, and a rigid board to which the terminal parts are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP K.K.
    Inventors: Junichi Tanigawa, Doron Lapidot, Masayuki Aizawa
  • Patent number: 7014506
    Abstract: A memory card connector is provided for mounting on a printed circuit board which includes connecting terminals and at least one ground pad. The connector includes an insulative housing having a rear terminal-mounting section defining at least part of a receptacle for receiving a mating end of a memory card. The housing has a fixing base portion disposed over the ground pad on the printed circuit board when the connector is mounted thereon. A plurality of conductive terminals are mounted on the terminal-mounting section of the housing for electrical connection between the memory card and the connecting terminals on the printed circuit board. A grounding shield is mounted on the housing for shielding the conductive terminals. The shield includes a grounding portion disposed beneath the fixing base portion of the housing in engagement with the ground pad on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Tse Ho, Katsutoshi Tojo
  • Patent number: 7014503
    Abstract: A multiple pieces dual type BNC connector comprises an insulating rear section casing and a plurality of insulating front section casings, the rear section casing has a accepting room corresponding to an accepting room of each front section casing, the accepting room of the rear section casing and the accepting room of the front casing are respectively combined with a first engaging section and second engaging section with a metal shell. Each metal accepting room is connected with an insulator and the insulator is combined with a BNC terminal so as to form a structure with one set of dual type BNC connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Insert Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shung-Ping Wang
  • Patent number: 7008261
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (1) includes an insulating housing (11), a number of mating ports (17), a first terminal group (12), a second terminal group (13) and a third terminal group (14). The insulating housing defines a number of receiving spaces (111) alternately arranged. A number of first, second and third slots (112,114,113) are respectively defined in the housing and communicate with corresponding cavities. The first terminal group comprises a plurality of terminal units each comprising a pair of contacting portions (124) exposed into the receiving spaces and a number of tail portions respectively received in the third slots. The second terminal group is received in the second slots. The third terminal group is received in the third slots and electrically connects with the tail portions of the first terminal group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhenglan Xue, Jinkui Hu
  • Patent number: 7008262
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a first base, a second base and a positioning structure. The first base has a plurality of terminals, a connection portion, two extensions formed at two sides of the connection portion, and a chamber defined by the connection portion and the extensions, and each of the plurality of terminals has a horizontal pin to be connected to a printed circuit board. The second base has a plurality of terminals, the second base is positioned in the chamber of the first base, and each of the plurality of terminals has a horizontal pin to be connected to the printed circuit board. The positioning structure is formed on the first base and the second base to make the second base vertically movable and to horizontally restrict the second base in the chamber of the first base. The connection portion is higher than the second base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Inventor: Chou Hsuan Tsai
  • Patent number: 7004765
    Abstract: A network connector module is described. The network connector module keeps a safe distance between signal pins and power pins to improve a signal transmission quality thereof. The network connector module includes a plurality of phone jacks, a plurality of pins and a second connector. The pins electrically couple to a circuit board to transmit signals. The second connector is fixed on an upper shell of the network connector module and utilizes a power cord to couple to the circuit board for transmitting power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Delta Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Han-Cheng Hsu, Chih-Tse Chen, Ching-Man Kao, Yeou-Jen Shieh
  • Patent number: 6997754
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (100) is mounted on a motherboard and includes an insulative housing (1) having at least two receiving cavities (110, 111) and an insert module (200) secured to the housing. The insert module includes an insulator (2), a first and a second terminal modules (4, 5) received in the insulator and a ground plate (3) secured between the first and the second terminal modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qing Wan, Qisheng Zheng, Wen Feng Deng
  • Patent number: 6997742
    Abstract: A multi-layer connector assembly for computer audio signal transmissions includes a plastic housing, two terminal sets and a metal outer housing. The plastic housing is consisted of a plastic body and a terminal stand. The invention is characterized that, the plastic body has an obverse side thereof for installing signal connecting caps having distinct colors serving for identification purposes, and the terminal stand is provided with two symmetrical terminal sets that are bent and arranged in certain manners, thereby reducing a height of the connector assembly by 3 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Inventor: Meng Tung
  • Patent number: 6991492
    Abstract: A memory card connector is provided for mounting on a printed circuit board. The connector includes an insulating housing having a rear terminal-mounting section and at least one longitudinal side wall section extending forwardly from one end of the rear section and combining therewith to define a card-receiving space for receiving a memory card. An array of terminals are mounted on the rear section and have contact portions projecting into the space for engaging appropriate contacts on the memory card. The terminals have tail portions projecting downwardly for engaging appropriate circuit traces on the printed circuit board. A tail guiding plate is mounted to the bottom of the rear section and has channels for receiving the tails portions of the terminals and aligning the tail portions with the circuit traces on the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventors: Yi-Tse Ho, Katsutoshi Tojo
  • Patent number: 6986679
    Abstract: A cage system capable of accommodating pluggable modules having different form factors is disclosed. The interior dimensions of a receptacle portion of the cage can be modified by selective orientation of a divider, or septum, device. Embodiments of the cage include EMI containment structures so as to minimize EMI emission. Other embodiments include heat sink structures that are disposed so as to absorb heat from modules received within the cage receptacles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: Lewis B. Aronson, Don Ice
  • Patent number: 6976870
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a frame having at least two installing sections, each installing section having a connector, a shelter panel disposed around each connector, at least one embedding latch disposed on both sides of an end of the shielded panel facing the frame and at least one embedding hook disposed on both sides of another end, an embedding groove disposed on the installing section at the position corresponding to the embedded latches, and another embedding groove disposed at the position corresponding to the embedded hook, such that when the connectors are installed to the installing sections, the embedding latch are embedded into the embedding grooves and the embedding hooks are embedded into another embedding grooves respectively so as to secure the connectors onto the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Inventor: Chun-De Li
  • Patent number: 6974350
    Abstract: A card reception device includes an insulating housing, a plurality of contact sets, a connection module and a transiting mechanism. The insulating housing includes a printed circuit board disposed in a bottom thereof and a soldering portion arranged on the printed circuit board. The contact sets electronically connect to the printed circuit board. The connection module includes a base orientated to the insulating housing and a plurality of touching contacts and leading contacts arranged to opposite sides of the base. The transiting mechanism used to electrically connect the soldering portion of the printed circuit board includes a transiting contact set, a compression member orientated to the insulating housing in order to suppress against the transiting contact set, and a transiting member orientated to the insulating housing and electrically connecting the connection module and a plurality of first approaching contacts that are arranged on the transiting contact set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: Jess-Link Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yen-Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 6962499
    Abstract: An electronic unit includes a casing, printed circuit board, connector-receiving part, connecting member, and fixing member. The connector-receiving part is formed integrally with a first casing member of the casing. The connecting member includes a terminal and a body of the connecting member attached to the casing. The terminal includes first and second connecting parts. The center of the terminal is attached to the body of the connecting member. A mating connector is inserted into the connector-receiving part along the longitudinal direction of the first connecting part. The first casing member and the connecting member are provided with respective holes, which communicate to each other. The fixing member includes a boss part. The boss part is press-fitted in the holes along the longitudinal direction of the second connecting part so as to fix the connecting member to the first casing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Masaya Yamamoto, Takatoshi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6951479
    Abstract: A stacked connector assembly (100) includes a pair of sub-connectors (1, 2), a numeral of contacts (3) received in the housing (10, 20) of the sub-connectors, a cable (4) terminated to the contacts, a cover (7) over-molded with the housing and the cable and defining a pair of receiving spaces (71, 72) therein, and a pair of latch arms (6) in a mirror-imaged arrangement. The latch arm includes a retaining portion (61) secured with the insulative housing of corresponding sub-connector, a supporting portion (64) engaged with the cover, a pressing portion (63) between the retaining portion and the supporting portion, and a pair of latch tabs (620) located close to the retaining portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 6939168
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprising electrical signal contacts and power contacts; and a housing. The housing has the electrical contacts connected thereto. The housing includes at least two vertically offset electrical plug receiving areas. The signal contacts extend into the receiving areas in a universal serial bus (USB) electrical conductor location configuration. The power contacts also extend into the receiving areas, but in an opposite direction from the signal contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary J. Oleynick, Robert E. MacMullin
  • Patent number: 6935896
    Abstract: The present invention provides a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) connector comprising an insulated housing assembly, a metallic housing assembly, a plastic outer shell and a front cover, wherein the insulated housing assembly consists of an insertion portion and a wiring block, and said metallic housing assembly consists of a metallic front shell and a metallic rear shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 6926564
    Abstract: A stackable board-to-board module connector is mainly composed of a main module unit, at least one accessory module unit, several first terminals and second terminals. The main module unit combines with the accessory module unit to form a connector. The main module unit can be a standard device, while the accessory module unit can be an independent device that serves as a stackable accessory to adjust the height according to the total height requirement of board-to-board module connector. Through such a main module unit or a stack of several accessory module units, various height specifications can be achieved for a board-to-board module connector. In other words, it only needs to change the number of the accessory module units embedded in the bottom of the main module unit, the height requirement for a board-to-board module connector can be met. By this means, it is not necessary to prepare molds repeatedly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Aces Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Wen-Hsyung Chen
  • Patent number: 6921291
    Abstract: A triplicate earphone socket includes an L-shaped base comprising a plastic core having three sound sockets. Each of the sound sockets is provided with a plastic housing at a front end thereof, and first, second, third, fourth and fifth sockets at an interior thereof. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth sockets are placed with a first terminal assembly, a second assembly, a ground terminal assembly, a fourth terminal assembly and a fifth terminal assembly in a downward direction, respectively. The L-shaped base and the plastic core are also enveloped by a metal housing. According to the aforesaid structure, for that the plastic housing and the three sound sockets are a formed integral, structure thereof is simplified for lowering production expenses and elevating market competitiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Inventor: Helen Shih
  • Patent number: 6913471
    Abstract: A stackable pass-through signal connector comprises an array of first connection elements and an array of second connection elements. The second connection elements are physically aligned with the array of first connection elements, and the second connection elements are, operable to electrically couple with first connection elements of another stackable non-shared signal connector. Interconnections between the first connection elements and the second connection elements connect first connection elements that are electrically offset from the second connection elements of the stackable non-shared signal connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Gateway Inc.
    Inventor: Michael G. Smith
  • Patent number: 6910917
    Abstract: An electric connector combination, the combination comprises an insulation main body, a first electric connector, a second electric connector, two signal displays, a rear lid and an obscuring housing; wherein the upper portion of the insulation main body can be used as a pin seat of the first electric connector, and the lower portion of the insulation main body can be used as a fixing seat of the second electric connector. In this mode, composing elements can be reduced and further lower the cost of mould making.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Egbon Electronics Ltd.
    Inventor: Wan-Tien Chen
  • Patent number: 6905364
    Abstract: A high frequency, right angle socket (10) comprising a body (12) including a longitudinal bore (14) extending completely through the body (12) and a transverse bore (16) intersecting the longitudinal bore (14). The bores (14) and (16) are seem most clearly in FIG. 5. A first dielectric (18) is formed to frictionally engage the longitudinal bore (14). The dielectric (18) has a proximal end (26) and a distal end (22) and includes a longitudinal electric contact-receiving chamber (24). A right angle electrical contact (26) has a longitudinal portion (28) and a transverse portion (30). The longitudinal portion (28) includes a first contact retainer (32). The transverse portion (30) includes a contact retainer (33). The longitudinal portion (28) is fitted into the longitudinal electrical contact-receiving chamber (24) of the first dielectric (18) with the contact retainer (32) on the longitudinal portion (28) engaging the interior wall of the longitudinal contact-receiving chamber (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Osram Sylvania, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Swantner, Shane Brown, John Sherry
  • Patent number: 6902430
    Abstract: A retainer for retaining a connector to a board is provided. The retainer is positioned between a first carrier board and a second carrier board that is mounted to a circuit board. The retainer body has a middle retainer portion having a hole therethrough. The first retainer side extends from the middle portion. A second retainer side also extends from the middle portion. A first snap is disposed on the first retainer side and a second snap is disposed on the second retainer side. The first snap engages the first carrier board and the second snap engages the second carrier board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Kappel, Joseph J. Lacey
  • Patent number: 6896548
    Abstract: A multiple card holding apparatus (10) includes a first bracket (12), a second bracket (22) oriented in opposition to the first bracket (12); and a separation member (30), disposed between the first bracket (12) and the second bracket (22), forming a first holding region (31) and a second holding region (32) with the first bracket (12) and the second bracket (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilario Scuteri, Luciano Di Maio, Federica Forneris, Michele Santoro
  • Patent number: 6887099
    Abstract: A multi-layer connector includes a plastic housing, terminals and a metal housing. The plastic housing is consisted of a plastic body and a terminal support, wherein the plastic body is provided with five integrated analog signal connecting openings at a front side thereof. To assemble the structure, the terminal main bodies are inserted into the terminal support, and the terminal front ends are placed into the sliding channels of the plastic body and are positioned by positioning pins at a lower portion of the plastic body and the terminal support. The aforesaid assembled structure is then covered by the metal housing, thereby offering a facilitated assembly as well as economized part and manufacturing costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Inventor: Meng Tung
  • Patent number: 6875056
    Abstract: A package for a fiber optic transceiver that integrates the intermediate rear gasket into the lower body of the transceiver package. As such, the EMI fingers are much thicker than current art EMI fingers, 0.010? thick as compared to current art 0.002? thick. In current art devices, providing such robust EMI fingers is not possible. The connecting pins that secure the transceiver cage to the PCB are self-centering press-fit pins formed from a plurality of legs. At least one of the legs provides an electrical connection point for the transceiver on which the pins are used. The connecting pin is formed so that the legs act as leaf springs to securely hold the connector in place in the proper installation hole in the board on which the transceiver is installed. The pins are stamped from sheet metal with a progressive die process. By changing the amount of flexion in the legs of the pin, the pressure required to insert the pin into a connection hole, and hence the retaining pressure, can be varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Fourte Design & Development, LLC
    Inventors: Gioni Bianchini, Iggoni Fajardo
  • Patent number: 6866543
    Abstract: A module type mini BNC connector includes a metal outer casing, a front insulator, a terminal and a rear insulator. The metal outer casing is provided with a locating cylinder and a joining chamber with an opening communicates with the inner side of the locating cylinder. The front insulator is fitted in the locating cylinder with a piercing hole. The terminal has a front section and a rear section with the front section being joined to the piercing hole with a tail end extending to the joining chamber and the rear section being joined to the tail end. The rear insulator with a piercing hole is joined to the rear section of the terminal and is fitted to an inner side of the joining chamber at the opening thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Insert Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Wen Chen, Tung-Liang Huang
  • Patent number: 6840801
    Abstract: A carrier and docking assembly in combination for removeably interconnecting a PC card device with a computer. The docking assembly is configured in size to be fixed in a memory storage device bay of a computer housing, or a memory storage device housing. The docking assembly includes a plug for the carrier, a power connector and an interface connector. The interface connector is adapted for connection with an IDE ribbon cable. The carrier includes a PC card device for receiving PC cards and a plug for interconnection with the docking assembly. The carrier plug removeably couples with the plug of the docking assembly. The card device (62) includes slot (68) and slot (70) for receiving plural PC type cards, the slots (68) and (70) are offset to receive cards of different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Steinbeck Cannery, LLC
    Inventor: Sunny Behl
  • Patent number: 6837742
    Abstract: A modular connector assembly includes at least a lower body, an upper body fastenable to the lower body, a plurality of terminal sockets mountable in housing chambers formed on the upper body, a connection circuit board to receive and connect terminal legs and contact terminals located on the upper body and the lower body, and a shell to encase all of these elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Wieson Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: De-Zhao Chou, Hai-Dong Wu, Jian-Gang Zhou
  • Patent number: 6835091
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprising electrical signal contacts and power contacts; and a housing. The housing has the electrical contacts connected thereto. The housing includes at least two vertically offset electrical plug receiving areas. The signal contacts extend into the receiving areas in a universal serial bus (USB) electrical conductor location configuration. The power contacts also extend into the receiving areas, but in an opposite direction from the signal contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: FCI Americas Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary J. Oleynick, Robert E. MacMullin
  • Patent number: 6835092
    Abstract: A stacked electrical connector assembly (100) mounted on a main printed circuit board (PCB not shown) includes an insulative housing (1) defining at least two cavities (101, 111), a first and second array of conductive contacts (42, 2) received in the housing, a ground plate (3) disposed between the first and the second contacts, an internal PCB (41) arranged in a rear portion of the housing and an outer shell (5) substantially surrounding the insulative housing. The internal PCB includes a ground trace and a number of signal traces in a galvanic connection with the first array contacts. The ground plate includes a grounding claw (32) electrical connection with the outer shell and a grounding leg (31) coupling to the ground trace of the internal PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qing Wan, Qisheng Zheng, DaKun Zhang
  • Publication number: 20040259414
    Abstract: A triplicate earphone socket includes an L-shaped base comprising a plastic core having three sound sockets. Each of the sound sockets is provided with a plastic housing at a front end thereof, and first, second, third, fourth and fifth sockets at an interior thereof. The first, second, third, fourth and fifth sockets are placed with a first terminal assembly, a second assembly, a ground terminal assembly, a fourth terminal assembly and a fifth terminal assembly in a downward direction, respectively. The L-shaped base and the plastic core are also enveloped by a metal housing. According to the aforesaid structure, for that the plastic housing and the three sound sockets are a formed integral, structure thereof is simplified for lowering production expenses and elevating market competitiveness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventor: Helen Shih
  • Publication number: 20040259413
    Abstract: A modular connector assembly includes at least a lower body, an upper body fastenable to the lower body, a plurality of terminal sockets mountable in housing chambers formed on the upper body, a connection circuit board to receive and connect terminal legs and contact terminals located on the upper body and the lower body, and a shell to encase all of these elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: De-Zhao Chou, Hai-Dong Wu, Jian-Gang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20040248464
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (1) includes an insulating housing (11), a number of mating ports (17), a first terminal group (12), a second terminal group (13) and a third terminal group (14). The insulating housing defines a number of receiving spaces (111) alternately arranged. A number of first, second and third slots (112, 114, 113) are respectively defined in the housing and communicate with corresponding cavities. The first terminal group comprises a plurality of terminal units each comprising a pair of contacting portions (124) exposed into the receiving spaces and a number of tail portions respectively received in the third slots. The second terminal group is received in the second slots. The third terminal group is received in the third slots and electrically connects with the tail portions of the first terminal group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Zhenglan Xue, Jinkui Hu
  • Patent number: 6827605
    Abstract: An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10), a number of terminals (20) received in the housing, a spacer (30), and a pair of board locks (40) secured to the housing. The housing includes a pair of side walls (11), a partition wall (12) horizontally extending between the two side walls, and a middle wall (13) extending perpendicularly to the partition wall. The housing defines a first cavity (103), a second cavity (104) and a mating face (101), and includes a first mating tongue (14) extending in the first cavity and a second mating tongue (15) extending in the second cavity. Each side wall includes a flange (110) projecting from a top edge thereof and the two flanges extend toward each other above the first mating tongue. The terminals are respectively disposed in the first and the second mating tongues to electrically engage complementary mating connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 6827590
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is provided including contacts with front portions, intermediate portions, and rear portions. The intermediate portions are bent so that the front portions are aligned at an angle to the rear portions. The electrical connector assembly includes a first housing having a rear wall, through which the front portions of the contacts extend. The electrical connector assembly includes a second housing having a base that receives the rear portions of the contacts. At least one of the first and second housings form a pocket containing the intermediate portions of the contacts. The electrical connector assembly includes an encapsulate liquid placed into the pocket that hardens to hermetically seal the intermediate portions of the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: John Phillip Huss, Jr., John Mark Myer, John Raymond Shuey