Electromagnetic Or Electrostatic Shield Patents (Class 439/607.01)
  • Patent number: 9865962
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector assembly comprising: an insulative housing; a plurality of terminals received into the insulative housing; metallic shell enclosing the insulative housing; and waterproof material sandwiched between the insulative housing and the metallic shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN EVERWIN PRECISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Huaguang Zhao
  • Patent number: 9859634
    Abstract: A connection assembly includes an optical electronic part and a socket. A conductive pad connected to a photoelectric conversion element of the optical electronic part is oriented with imaging field of view upward, and slidably contacts a contact of the socket. The optical electronic part includes an insulating case with a flange protruding along a horizontal plane, and a conductive pad that is exposed in an outer surface parallel to the horizontal plane. The socket includes a guide portion that slidably guides the flange portion along the horizontal plane, and a contact fixed to a housing opposed to the outer surface in which the conductive pad is exposed, with a contact portion located in a movement locus of the conductive pad sliding with the flange portion along the horizontal plane. As the insulating case is operated, the contact makes sliding contact with the conductive pad to provide a self-cleaning effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventors: Koichiro Ejiri, Haruhiko Kondo
  • Patent number: 9837769
    Abstract: A Universal Serial Bus connector includes a first contact module, a second contact module, a shielding shell enclosing the contact modules, and a grounding member. The contact modules each have a number of contacts and an insulator retaining the contacts. Each contact has a fastening portion assembled in the insulator, a contacting portion extending from the fastening portion, and a tail portion extending from the fastening portion opposite to the contacting portion. The contacts include grounding contacts. The shielding shell provides a front mating face. The grounding member connects with the grounding contacts and extends in different plane compared to the grounding contacts. The grounding member defines a front contact tab and the grounding contact defines a front edge end. The front contact tab is closer to the front mating face of the shielding shell than the front edge ends of the grounding contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: ALLTOP ELECTRONICS (SUZHOU) LTD.
    Inventors: Wang-I Yu, Ya-Juan Gou, Zhi-Qiang Rong, Mao-Jung Huang, Yun Zhu
  • Patent number: 9837734
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of terminals and a metallic shielding plate s retained in the insulative housing, and a shielding shell attached to the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion along an insertion direction. The terminals define a number of first contacts and second contacts. The first contacts and second contacts respectively define a pair of grounding contacts located at two sides thereof. Each grounding contact of the second contacts has a hook portion bent upwardly and extending inwardly from outmost edge thereof and located above the grounding contact of the first contacts located at the same side. A free end of the hook portion is contacted with the grounding contact of the first contacts at same side physically and electrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yong-Qi Wang, Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 9831615
    Abstract: A connector includes contacts arranged in a contact-arrangement plane and including a source contact and a signal contact, each of the contacts having a contact portion that comes into contact with a contact of a counter-connector, a ground plate made of metal disposed in parallel with the contact-arrangement plan, an insulator that holds the contacts and the ground plate, and a shell that covers an outer periphery of the insulator and is made of metal, the ground plate being disposed so as to face the contacts through a portion of the insulator with the contact portion of each contact being exposed, and having a cutout formed at an end of the ground plate adjacent to the contact portion of the source contact, and the insulator having a projection that fills the cutout of the ground plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited, Jae Europe Limited
    Inventors: Yuichi Saito, Yuzo Sato, Akihiro Matsunaga, Masaaki Takaku, Kouhei Ueda, Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9825410
    Abstract: Connector receptacles, examples of which comprise a housing having a first plurality of slots in a top side and a second plurality of slots in a bottom side, a top row of contacts positioned in the first plurality of slots in the housing, a bottom row of contacts positioned in the second plurality of slots in the housing, a top shell portion over the top of the housing, the top shell portion comprising first and second electromagnetic contacts extending from a front of the top shell and passing through openings in the top side of the housing, and a bottom shell portion under the bottom of the housing, the bottom shell portion comprising third and fourth electromagnetic contacts extending from a front of the bottom shell and passing through openings in the bottom side of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Scritzky, John Raff, Cuneyt Bakan, Eric T. SooHoo, Erik A. Uttermann, Patrick J. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9812833
    Abstract: An SFP socket connector is disclosed in this invention. In a socket housing of the SFP socket connector, one row of upper terminal-receiving grooves are located on an inner side of a top wall and extend to a mounting space, and some of the other row thereof are formed between upper support bars and extend to the mounting space. One row of lower terminal-receiving grooves are located on an inner side of a bottom wall and extend to the mounting space, and some of the other row thereof are formed between lower support bars. The shielding case has an upper port aligned with two rows of upper terminal-receiving grooves and a lower port aligned with two rows of lower terminal-receiving grooves. Multiple terminal assemblies are mounted in the socket housing and are arranged side by side in the order of ground-signal-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: OUPIN ELECTRONIC (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD
    Inventor: Hsin Chih Chen
  • Patent number: 9800005
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to communication connectors and internal components thereof. In one embodiment, the present invention is a communication jack comprising both front-rotated and back rotated plug interface contacts. In another embodiment, the present invention is a communication jack comprising a two-piece front sled. In yet another embodiment, the present invention is a communication jack that retains its functionality when mated with both eight-position and six-position plugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Robert E. Fransen, Satish I. Patel, Joshua A. Valenti, Tse-Yu Lin, Moulik Shah
  • Patent number: 9793656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shielded connector for a motor vehicle. The connector comprises at least one casing shielding element. The shielding element includes a cable outlet portion provided with a plurality of resilient tabs that are integral with the shielding element. The tabs include a contact zone in electrical contact with a ferrule crimped to a shielding braid of a cable. The contact zone is maintained pressed against the shielding braid by means of a removable clamping ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: DELPHI INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS LUXEMBOURG S.A.R.L.
    Inventors: Jean Fabre, Gilles Schmitt
  • Patent number: 9774115
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts. The insulative housing has a main portion defining a top wall, a bottom wall and a mating cavity formed between the top wall and the bottom wall, the bottom wall has a first segment, a second segment spaced apart from the first segment and a protrusion extending away from the mating cavity, the protrusion is located between the first segment and the second segment. Each contact has a retention portion, a contacting arm, an extension portion and a soldering tail, the contacts comprises a group of first contacts, a group of second contacts, a group of third contacts and a group of fourth contacts. A first insulator is molded on the extension portions of the first contacts, the first insulator defines a first positioning portion engaging with the main portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: ALLTOP ELECTRONICS (SUZHOU) LTD.
    Inventors: Li-Li Liang, Yong-Gang Zhang, Feng Zheng
  • Patent number: 9755336
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprising a first terminal assembly and a second terminal assembly which are formed on a same metal material. The first and the second terminal assemblies respectively comprise a plurality of first and second conductive terminals. The plurality of first and second conductive terminals respectively connect with each other by a first contact carrier and a second contact carrier which are connected by a third contact carrier formed on the metal material. Bending the third contact carrier at 180 degrees such that the first and the second terminal assemblies are arranged in parallel and up-and-down to each other. Providing an insulating material injecting molding on the first and the second terminal assemblies to form an insulating housing. Cutting and dislodging the first, the second and the third contact carriers to forming the electrical connector. The electrical connector is simple in manufacture and low in production cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chih-Pi Cheng, Ming-Lun Szu, Chao-Chieh Chen, Wen He, Quan Wang, Yue Zhou
  • Patent number: 9735511
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a metal shell, an insulation housing, upper-row plate terminals, and lower-row plate terminals. The metal shell defines a receptacle cavity to receive the insulation housing. The insulation housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending from one side of the base portion. The tongue portion includes an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper-row plate terminals are held on the base portion and tongue portion and include upper-row contact segments at the upper surface for transmitting first signals. The lower-row plate terminals are held on the base portion and tongue portion and include lower-row contact segments at the lower surface for transmitting second signals. The upper-row plate terminals and the lower-row plate terminals are point-symmetrical with a central point of the receptacle cavity as the symmetrical center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Wen-Yu Wang, Wen-Hsien Tsai
  • Patent number: 9728885
    Abstract: A connector is mateable with a mating connector along a front-rear direction. The connector includes a contact member and a ground member. The contact member includes a plurality of contacts and an arrangement member. The arrangement member holds and arranges the contacts in a pitch direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction. The arrangement member is provided with two press-fit protrusions and an island-like protrusion. Each of the press-fit protrusions protrudes in a protruding direction perpendicular to both the front-rear direction and the pitch direction. The island-like protrusion protrudes in the protruding direction while extending long in a predetermined direction perpendicular to the protruding direction. The ground member has a plate-like main portion. The main portion of the ground member is formed with two holes and a protrusion accommodation portion. The press-fit protrusions are press-fit into the holes, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yohei Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 9728919
    Abstract: Receptacle assembly includes a receptacle cage having an interior cavity forming first and second module passages. The first and second module passages are configured to receive respective pluggable modules through first and second port openings, respectively, in a loading direction that is parallel to a Z-axis. The receptacle assembly also includes a cage cover positioned at the front end between the first and second port openings. The cage cover includes first and second module fingers. The cage cover also including a ground tab that engages an inner surface of the receptacle cage. The first and second module fingers extend lengthwise in the loading direction. The ground tab extends lengthwise along a Y-axis that is perpendicular to the Z-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steven David Dunwoody, Alex Michael Sharf, Richard James Long
  • Patent number: 9722362
    Abstract: An electrical connector with improved shielding shell includes an insulating body having a base and a tongue plate; a terminal set comprising multiple terminals provided on two surfaces of the tongue plate; a shielding shell joined with the base, comprising an opening portion and a chamber in mutual communication, and furthermore, a top surface and a bottom surface of the shielding shell are provided with corresponding engagement units, respectively, two ends of each engagement unit are connected integrally with the shielding shell, and a buckling portion and a grounding portion extending into the chamber are provided on each engagement unit, respectively; and a rear cover joining the base and the shielding shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: T-CONN PRECISION CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jen-Hao Chang
  • Patent number: 9698527
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes: an insulative housing defining a receiving room; an arrangement module assembled on a rear end of the insulative housing and defining a riveting slot on a rear end thereof; a number of contacts retained in the receiving room and exposing to a rear end of the arrangement; a metal case enclosing the insulative housing and the arrangement module and having a riveting arm riveted into the riveting slot to fix the metal case on the insulative housing; and a reinforcing member assembled in the arrangement module and disposed near the riveting slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Ding-Cherng Chen
  • Patent number: 9685739
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a mount member received in a metallic shell. A tongue portion is integrally formed to a front portion of the mount member. A plurality of first receptacle terminals, a plurality of second receptacle terminals, and a grounding plate are held in the mount member and the tongue portion. The front ends of the first and second receptacle terminals are respectively inserted into two opposite surfaces of the tongue portion. Therefore, the first receptacle terminals, the second receptacle terminals, and the grounding plate are positioned with each other securely. Accordingly, when the connector is impacted by an external force, the components of the connector would not be detached from each other easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Ching-Tien Chen, Shu-Lin Duan, Wei Wan, Xiao-Juan Qi
  • Patent number: 9666997
    Abstract: A connector module assembly includes a plurality of communication connectors arranged side-by-side and secured together as a communication module. Each communication connector has a contact array arranged within a shroud at a mating interface mated with a corresponding pluggable module. The connector module assembly includes a gasket plate coupled to the communication module having at least one sheet positioned between the communication module and the pluggable modules and spanning across and between each of the communication modules. The gasket plate has a plurality of openings receiving corresponding shrouds. The gasket plate has pluggable module interfaces around each of the openings for interfacing with mating ends of the pluggable modules. The gasket plate is conductive to provide EMI shielding at the pluggable module interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Randall Robert Henry, Michael John Phillips, Brandon Michael Matthews
  • Patent number: 9660373
    Abstract: A waterproof electrical receptacle connector includes a plastic shell, a metallic shell, an insulated housing, and a buckling member. The plastic shell includes a shell body, a through hole defined in the shell body, and an assembling hole defined on the shell body. The metallic shell is received in the through hole and defines a receiving cavity. The insulated housing is received in the receiving cavity and includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending from the base portion. The buckling member is positioned with the assembling hole and includes a buckling body and a hook extending from the bottom of the buckling body and protruded out of the assembling hole. Accordingly, the hook is protruded out of the assembling hole and engaged with a buckling hole of a circuit board, so that the front of waterproof electrical receptacle connector can be firmly positioned with the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced-Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Ya-Fen Kao, Rui Su, Long-Fei Chen
  • Patent number: 9660399
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulating housing, several first and second conductive terminals, an inner grounding unit, and an outer grounding unit, which are disposed on the insulating housing. The insulating housing has a first surface, an opposite second surface, and two side surfaces arranged between the first and second surfaces. The inner grounding unit has a plate embedded in the insulating housing and two protruding sheets extended from the plate and respectively protruding from the side surfaces of the insulating housing. The plate is arranged to separate the first conductive terminals from the second conductive terminals. The outer grounding unit clips the insulating housing and engages the protruding sheets. A portion of the outer grounding unit engaged with one of the protruding sheets includes two stacked engaging portions, and at least one of the two stacked engaging portions has a thru-hole for engaging with the corresponding protruding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: CHIEF LAND ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hsin-Hung Hsu, Chien-Chen Lin, Chung-Nan Pao
  • Patent number: 9647366
    Abstract: Connector shielding devices are described herein. One connector shielding device includes a circuit board having a connector that is connectable with a connector of an additional circuit board. The shielding device further includes a plurality of spring fingers connected to and extending from a first surface of the circuit board or a base support adjacent to the first surface of the circuit board. The plurality of spring fingers provides a perimeter around the connector of the circuit board. Additionally, each spring finger of the plurality of spring fingers is configured to deflect toward the first surface of the circuit board when the connector of the circuit board connects with the connector of the additional circuit board. Further, a Faraday cage is provided by the circuit board, the additional circuit board, and the plurality of spring fingers when the connector and the additional connector are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Joseph Turowski
  • Patent number: 9640923
    Abstract: An electrical receptacle connector includes a receptacle shell, an insulation housing bracket, a receptacle grounding contact, and a grounding member. The insulation housing bracket is disposed inside the receptacle shell. The receptacle grounding contact is held inside the housing base. The grounding member is disposed on a first side of the insulation housing bracket and located between the insulation housing bracket and the receptacle shell. A connecting structure is selectively disposed on the grounding member or on the receptacle grounding contact. The connecting structure penetrates through the insulation housing bracket and mechanically or physically connects the grounding member and the receptacle grounding contact such that the grounding member is electrically connected to the receptacle grounding contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Mao-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9608737
    Abstract: Disclosed is a circuit for realizing passivation of an intelligent optical distribution interface disc in a machine disc enable manner, which relates to the field of optical communications. In the present invention, a distribution port is separated from distribution management, all management circuits on a distribution interface disc are moved out, and all control and management functions are achieved on a distribution management disc, to enable passivation of a distribution interface disc circuit, i.e. any active electronic devices such as integrated circuits, triodes, etc. which are easily damaged by static electricity and affected by fouling are not placed on the distribution interface disc any longer, and power lines are not introduced in the distribution interface disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: FIBERHOME TELECOMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Lei, Qiufu Chen, Yang Wang, Man Yi, Feng Wang, Yun Rong, Xiongbao Luo
  • Patent number: 9590364
    Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulating body, multiple terminals received in the insulating body, and a contact member. The insulating body includes a base and a tongue extending forward from the base. The tongue has a rear segment and a front segment, and the rear segment is higher than the front segment. Each terminal has a mating portion exposed from the front segment. The front segment has an isolation portion close to the rear segment, and the isolation portion is higher than the mating portion and lower than the rear segment. The contact member is disposed at the rear segment, and used for buckling a grounding elastic sheet of a mating connector during mating. The isolation portion is at least partially located on an insertion path of the grounding elastic sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Wen Chang Chang, Jin Ke Hu
  • Patent number: 9577387
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a shielding sheet disposed in the insulating body, and a ground terminal received in the insulating body for mating with a mating connector. The ground terminal is fixed between a plate surface of the shielding sheet and the insulating body. The ground terminal includes a front end, a middle section, and a rear end having a soldering portion. A first contacting portion is disposed at the front end, a second contacting portion is disposed at the middle section, and the first contacting portion and the second contacting portion respectively electrically contact with the shielding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Ke Hu, Wen Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 9564716
    Abstract: A receptacle connector includes an insulation housing bracket, a first flat grounding contact and a shielding member. The housing base has a first outer surface, and the first flat grounding contact is combined with the insulation housing bracket. The shielding member includes a shielding body and a first connecting portion. The shielding body is installed inside the insulation housing bracket, and the first flat grounding contact is located between the first outer surface and the shielding member. The first connecting portion protrudes from the shielding body and is securely fixed on the first grounding contact in a laser welding manner, such that the shielding body is electrically connected to the first grounding contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Mao-Sheng Chen
  • Patent number: 9553412
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a main connector including a shield housing, an insulated body, a plurality of metal terminals, and a shielding plate. The shield housing has an opening for a butt joint connector to insert. The insulated body is encapsulated inside the shield housing. Each of the metal terminals has a contact portion and a fixing portion. The contact portion is arranged in two rows inside the opening of the shield housing, and the fixing portion is fixed to the insulated body. The shielding plate has at least one elastic arm with bending formation and is disposed between two rows of the metal terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: SPEED TECH CORP.
    Inventors: Chien-Yu Hsu, Hua-Chun Chang
  • Patent number: 9537261
    Abstract: A port connector includes a port shell disposed inside the port shell, a housing base and a port contact set. The housing base includes a main base and a tongue structure. The tongue structure extends from the main base and has a first face and a second face opposite to the first face. The port contact set is mounted with the housing base. At least one port contact of the port contact set includes a main body installed inside the main base, a foot portion, a first end portion and a second end portion. The foot portion extends from the main body and stretches out of the main base. The first end portion protrudes from the main body and is exposed from the first face. The second end portion corresponding to the first end portion protrudes from the main body and is exposed from the second face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ching-Tien Chen, Shu-Lin Duan, Wei Wan, Fu-Yi Xu
  • Patent number: 9520670
    Abstract: A tamper resistant receptacle having hot and neutral shutters and hot and neutral doors disposed in a housing. Simultaneous insertion of hot and neutral blades of an electrical plug allow the shutters to be actuated and the doors moved a distance sufficient to allow the plug blades to access the electrical contacts of the device. If only one plug blade opening in accessed, the blocking face of the shutter prevents further movement of the blade and denies access to the electrical contact disposed beneath the shutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventor: Edward Robert Bazayev
  • Patent number: 9520686
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive terminals, a detecting contact and a metallic shell. The insulating housing has a base portion extending along a longitudinal direction and a mating tongue extending forwardly from the base portion. The mating tongue has a receiving slot recessed therefrom in which the detecting contact received. The metallic shell surrounds the insulating housing to form a receiving room. The detecting contact defines a detecting section extending out of the receiving slot for protruding into the receiving room. The insulating housing defines a supporting block formed in the receiving slot for supporting the detecting contact to prevent the detecting contact from over-skewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jian-Long Hu, Li Dong, Shu-Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 9520677
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a connector body defining a front mating cavity with a first inner side and a second inner side opposite to the first inner side, and a rear cable supporting platform with a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first inner side and a plurality of terminals. The terminals include two rows of contacting sections arranged along the first and second inner sides of the mating cavity and soldering legs extending to the platform to be welded to a cable. The soldering legs are arranged in one row and exposing to the first surface of the platform while the second surface of the platform has no soldering legs to be welded to the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Chih-Pi Cheng, Wen He, Quan Wang, Feng Zeng
  • Patent number: 9515436
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes an insulated housing, a plurality of upper-row plug terminals, a plurality of lower-row plug terminals, and a rear terminal organizer. The insulated housing includes a rear assembling portion defined at the rear of the insulated housing. The rear terminal organizer is assembled to the rear of the insulated housing. The rear terminal organizer includes a plurality of through holes and a buckling portion. The through holes are defined through the rear terminal organizer from the front to the rear. The rear of the upper-row plug terminals and the rear of the lower-row plug terminals respectively pass through the through holes. The buckling portion is defined at the front of the rear terminal organizer. The buckling portion is adapted to be mated and engaged with the rear assembling portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Ya-Fen Kao, Yu-Lun Tsai, Pin-Yuan Hou, Chung-Fu Liao, Yang-Yang Zhou
  • Patent number: 9502841
    Abstract: A plug for provision of power includes a housing forming a receiving cavity with two opposite sites in a vertical direction which is compatible with a standard plug connector with twelve contacts on each site and a first and second rows of contacts on the sides while in diagonally symmetrical manner. Each contact includes a contacting section, and a connecting section for directly connecting to a corresponding wire. Each row of contacts is categorized with a pair of power contacts, a pair of grounding contacts and a specific contact without any high speed differential pair. Two pair of power contacts of both two rows are electrically connected together either via direct mechanical connection via vertical extensions or via indirect electrical connection via the latch which has a pair of side arms extending into the receiving cavity at two opposite transverse ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F. Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Yuan Zhang, Chun-Chieh Yang, Tzu-Yao Hwang
  • Patent number: 9484685
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an electrical connector and a cable electrically connected with the electrical connector. The electrical connector defines a plug portion, a printed circuit board electrically connected to the plug portion, a pair of LED lamps mounted on the printed circuit board, an optical element transmitting the light emitted by the LED lamps and an insulative housing covering the printed circuit board. The optical element defines a pair of transition portions transmitting the light emitted by the LED lamps and a photic zone, the photic zone of the optical element is exposed to the insulative shell and has a closed circumference so that the light emitted by the LED lamps passes through the photic zone to form a continuous aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhi-Yong Zhou, Xiao Fan, Jun Chen, Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 9466918
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a signal connector which includes an insulating body having a plurality of through grooves cut through top and bottom surfaces thereof adjacent to a front end thereof; an insulating terminal seat mounted inside the insulating body and having a plurality of metal terminals fastened thereon and separated from each other; two metal grounding members having rear ends respectively assembled with the top and bottom surfaces of the insulating body, having pressing parts respectively formed adjacent to front ends thereof and corresponding in position to the through grooves and having insulating layers respectively covered on side surfaces thereof facing the through grooves; such that the pressing part is able to apply a restoring force on the metal terminal when the signal connector is plugged with other signal connector and the metal terminal is moved away from the insulating terminal seat through the corresponding through groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: SIMULA TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Shih-Jui Chen
  • Patent number: 9455511
    Abstract: A circuit board connecting device comprising a first connector mounted on a first circuit board and having a first housing with an engaging recess, first signal contacts each having a first contacting portion and a first board connecting portion and a conductive shell for covering an outer peripheral surface of the first housing surrounding the engaging recess, and a second connector mounted on a second circuit board and having a second housing operative to be put in the engaging recess and second signal contacts each having a second contacting portion and a second board connecting portion, wherein when the second housing is put in the engaging recess, the second contacting portion of each of the second signal contacts is in contact with the first contacting portion of a corresponding one of the first signal contacts and the first and second signal contacts are surrounded by the conductive shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoru Taguchi
  • Patent number: 9450355
    Abstract: A USB plug connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1) having a main portion (11) and a tongue portion (12), a number of contacts (2), and a metal shell (3). The tongue portion has an upper surface (16), a lower surface (17), a pair of lateral surfaces (18), and a frontal vertical surface (121). A pair of recesses (122) is defined on both sides of the upper surface and the lower surface. An interspace (181) is defined between each lateral surface of the tongue portion and the main portion. The metal shell includes a front wall (31), a pair of horizontal walls (32), and a pair of vertical walls (34). Each vertical wall includes a rigid beam (342) inserted in the interspace and a pair of wing portions (343) received in the recesses. A method for manufacturing the USB plug connector is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Wei-De Zhang
  • Patent number: 9437976
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes: an insulative housing (10) defining a number of receiving spaces (120); a number of contacts (20) mounted to the insulative housing for transmitting high speed signal, each of the contacts including a mating portion (21), a mounting portion (22) received in one of the receiving spaces, and a connecting portion (23) connecting the mating portion and the mounting portion, a gap formed between each mounting portion and corresponding one of the receiving spaces; and a number of insulative members (52) inserted into the receiving spaces respectively to fill the gaps to adjust the impedance of the contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Feng-Jun Qi, Jun Chen, Jerry Wu
  • Patent number: 9437956
    Abstract: A waterproof connector has: at least one conductive contact; a metal shell interior of which the contact is disposed; and a housing made of an insulating resin material such that the housing fixes the contact and the shell to form an integral structure, the shell has an insertion port into which a counterpart connector is inserted on one side, and the housing is formed such that the shell is exposed at the outer circumference of and at the vicinity of the insertion port over a predetermined width in the length direction of the shell to form an outer circumferential exposure portion, and the outer circumferential exposure portion of the shell is disposed with a waterproof portion made of an elastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Fukami, Yoichi Nakazawa, Takahito Nasu
  • Patent number: 9437945
    Abstract: An electrical connector and terminal for use therewith are disclosed. The terminal includes a securing portion extending along the vertical direction and provided with a plurality of bumps for fixing the terminal; a soldering portion bending and extending from the upper end of the securing portion to a first side of the securing portion. The terminal includes an arc bending portion, the arc bending portion extends from the lower end of the securing portion to the first side, and then extends through a bend to a second side opposite to the first side, the arc bending portion being hook shaped. The terminal includes a contact portion that extends obliquely and upwards from the arc bending portion toward the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventor: Wei-Jie Huo
  • Patent number: 9419380
    Abstract: A pluggable module includes a pluggable body extending between a mating end and a cable end. The pluggable body has first and second ends with sides extending therebetween along a length of the pluggable body. The first end, second end and sides define a cavity. The pluggable body includes a plurality of fins extending outward from at least one of the first end, the second end and the sides. Channels are defined between the fins. The pluggable body has grid fins extending across the channels between adjacent fins. The pluggable module includes an internal circuit board held in the cavity. The internal circuit board is provided at an end of a cable communicatively coupled to the internal circuit board. The pluggable body is configured to be plugged into a receptacle assembly such that the internal circuit board is communicatively coupled to a communication connector of the receptacle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Alex Michael Sharf, Steven David Dunwoody, Richard James Long
  • Patent number: 9397449
    Abstract: A receptacle connector (100) includes an insluative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing; a metal shield (4) covering the insulative housing for defining a space for receiving a plug connector along an insertion direction, and a cable (3) having a first end soldered to a mother board of an electronic appliance and a second end directly soldered with the soldering portions of the contacts in a first embodiment and indirectly connected with the contacts via a printed circuit board in a second embodiment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing-Jie Guo, Wen-Zhang Lin
  • Patent number: 9362682
    Abstract: A micro electronic plug connector includes an insulation housing, a first terminals, a second terminals, a metal shell and a connecting portion. The insulation housing includes a base member, a first tongue plate and a second tongue plate. The first and second tongue plates are extended from one side of the base member. The first and second terminals are disposed at the first and second tongue plates, respectively. The metal shell encloses the insulation housing and includes top and bottom lateral walls arranged with each other to form first and second frame windows. The bottom lateral wall includes a protruding portion, which includes a top plane adjacent to the top lateral wall, disposed between the first and second frame windows. An interval is defined between the top lateral wall and the top plane for disposing the connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: ADVANCED-CONNECTEK INC.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Ming-Yung Chang
  • Patent number: 9343859
    Abstract: Disclosed is a micro universal serial bus (USB) connector. The micro USB connector according to the present disclosure may include a receptacle contact including a plurality of pins, a receptacle insulator coupled to one surface of the receptacle contact, a support plate disposed on an opposite side to the receptacle contact across the receptacle insulator, and being clear of a part opposite to a pin as a power terminal of the receptacle contact, and a receptacle shell covering an exterior of the receptacle insulator where the receptacle contact and the support plate are supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: LS MTRON LTD.
    Inventors: Jung-Hoon Choi, Dong-Hee Kim, Hyun-Ho Chang
  • Patent number: 9332680
    Abstract: An electrical gasket provides an electrical seal between first and second components in an electrical module. The electrical gasket includes an attachment portion for fixedly attaching the electrical gasket to one of the first and second components and a plurality of spring members for engaging the other of the first and second components to make mechanical and electrical contact between the first and second components such that the electrical seal is provided between the first and second electrical components. One of the components of the module can be an EMI shield or printed circuit board of the module, and another of the components can be the module housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Autoliv ASP, Inc.
    Inventor: Xueru Ding
  • Patent number: 9323962
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing and a metal shell enclosing the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a inserting slot. The contacts include a plurality of grounding contacts and signal contacts, the contacts each comprise a retaining portion retained in the insulative housing, a contacting portion extending forwardly from a side of the retaining potion and extending into the inserting slot and a soldering portion extending from the other side of the retaining portion. The shield shell has a top wall covering a top of the insulative housing and the shield shell comprising at least a pair of resisting arms, the pair of resisting arms resisting the two sides of the grounding contact along a left-to-right direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming-Qiu Han, Jian-Fei Yu, Fang-Yue Zhu, Jin-Kui Hu
  • Patent number: 9325091
    Abstract: An electrical connector, for receiving an electrical card, includes an insulative housing, a plurality of conductive contacts retained in the insulative housing and a metallic shell covering the insulative housing. The metallic cover and the insulative housing define a receiving cavity. The shell has a top plate, the top plate is formed with a plurality of openings, a plurality of resisting pieces bent downwardly from front edges of the openings, and a plurality of gaps defined between each two adjacent resisting pieces. Each contact has a conductive portion extending into the receiving cavity, and the conductive portions and the gaps of the top plate are alternatively disposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Ding-Bing Fan, Jian-Fei Yu, Ji-Chao Wang, Guo-Hua Zhang, Qi-Sheng Zheng
  • Patent number: 9313934
    Abstract: An electronic module and method of making an electronic module include a printed circuit board (PCB) having a surface, at least one conductive trace being formed on the surface. A housing element for mechanically mating with the PCB includes at least one mating surface aligned with the conductive trace on the PCB when the PCB and the housing element are mechanically mated, the mating surface comprising a plurality of alternating protrusions and spaces between the protrusions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Autoliv ASP, Inc.
    Inventors: Xueru Ding, Richard Leung
  • Patent number: 9312626
    Abstract: A shield connector (10) to be connected to a device-side connector (110) provided on a device includes female terminals (42) to be connected to device-side terminals (112) provided in the device-side connector (110), a housing main body (20) including a wire pull-out hole (25) from which outer wires (50) connected to the female terminals (42) are pulled out, a shield shell (60) to be connected to a shield case (100) of the device while covering the housing main body (20), and a resin molded body (80) held in close contact with the outer peripheral surfaces of the outer wires (50). The resin molded body (80) is vertically sandwiched by an opening edge portion (25A) of the wire pull-out hole (25) in the housing main body (20) and a shell-side holding portion (67) provided on the shield shell (60).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Itsuki, Hiroyuki Matsuoka, Tomokazu Kashiwada
  • Patent number: 9281604
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a shell retained on the insulating housing, a plurality of terminals retained on the mating portion of the insulating housing, and a spacer engaging with the insulating housing. The insulating housing includes a base portion and a mating portion protruding from the base portion, the base portion has a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of sidewalls connecting with the top wall and bottom wall, a front wall connecting with the mating portion and a rear wall. The front wall of the base portion has a pair of slanted portions formed on two sides of the mating portion, the rear wall of the base portion has a plurality of barriers for retaining the terminals and a pair of flange portions on two sides of the barriers, each flange portion has a groove on an inner side surface to engage with the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: DRAPHO ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Zhang, Zhihong Fang, Zhuping Wu