For Cable With Two Outer Shields Patents (Class 439/607.45)
  • Patent number: 11909147
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes a contact holder holding first and second contacts in contact channels terminated to ends of conductors of a cable. The contacts have mating ends forward of the front of the contact holder. The cable connector assembly includes a contact shield coupled to the contact holder having a base and a shroud. The base surrounds a base chamber that receives an end of the cable and the contact holder and provides electrical shielding at first and second interfaces. The shroud surrounds a shroud chamber that receives the mating ends of the first and second contacts to provide electrical shielding along the mating ends of the first and second contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli
  • Patent number: 11705674
    Abstract: Provided are a metal housing and a connector. The metal housing is configured to accommodate an insulation body and the metal housing includes a first half housing on which a first overlapping portion is disposed and a second half housing on which a second overlapping portion is disposed. The first overlapping portion is overlapped with and connected to the second overlapping portion when the metal housing accommodates the insulation body. With the above-mentioned structure, the metal housing is not easily deformed when being pressed and struck by external forces. The connector includes an electrical connection part and an insulation body which accommodates the electrical connection part. The connector further includes the above-mentioned metal housing which accommodates the insulation body. As the above-mentioned metal housing is used for accommodating the insulation body and the electrical connection part, the connector has better capabilities of anti-press and anti-strike.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: LUXSHARE PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yingbin Pu, Lei He
  • Patent number: 11244773
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes a plug receiver, a conductor interface, a metal shell encasing the conductor interface and a portion of a cable of the cable assembly, a metal foil that wraps conformably around an exterior of the metal shell, wherein the metal foil covers substantially all of the exterior of the metal shell and extends beyond the metal shell onto a cable shielding layer. The cable assembly further includes a solder layer disposed about the metal foil, wherein the solder layer bonds and electrically couples the first foil portion to itself, the second foil portion to cable shielding at the location on the plurality of conductors that is proximate to the conductor interface, and the third foil portion to the plug receiver. The cable assembly further includes an electrically insulating layer that encases the metal shell, the metal foil, and the solder layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jay Lee, H J Fong, Bruce Lin
  • Patent number: 10686260
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cable connector assembly with a wire spacing component, the cable connector assembly comprises a cable connector main body and a locking device sheathing on a periphery of the cable connector main body. The cable connector main body has: a shielding shell; an insulating body received in the shielding shell; a plurality of conductive terminals, the conductive terminals are fixed to the insulating body and have a plurality of soldering tails extending backwardly out from insulating body; a cable, naked ends of a plurality of conductive wires of the cable are correspondingly soldered to the soldering tails; and a wire spacing component, the wire spacing component is provided with a plurality of receiving grooves, the receiving grooves each receive the soldering tail and the naked end of the conductive wire soldered to the soldering tail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Meng-Biao Wang, Zhen-Liang Li
  • Patent number: 10297955
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a metallic shielding shell enclosing the housing. The housing forms a mating cavity. The metallic shell includes a first shell having a main part attached upon the exterior surface of the housing, and a folded forwardly extending from a rear edge of the main part with a plurality of spring tangs for engagement with the enclosure of an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jian-Kuang Zhu, Wei Zhong
  • Patent number: 10044147
    Abstract: A shield for an electrical connector is provided and includes a first member, a second member, a slot, and a bridge. The slot is positioned between the first member and the second member. The bridge extends transverse across the slot and connects the first member with the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Corporation, TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Listing, David James Rhein
  • Patent number: 10008810
    Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing; electrical contacts connected to the housing; and a shield cover connected to the housing. The shield cover includes a first cover member and a second cover member. The shield cover surrounds the housing. The first cover member includes a first cover member latching section having a first lateral side with inward projecting hooks and an opposite second lateral side with outward projecting hooks. The second cover member has a second cover member latching section with a first lateral side with inward projecting hooks and an opposite second lateral side with outward projecting hooks. The inward projecting hooks of the first cover member latching section is latched to the outward projecting hooks of the second cover member latching section, and the inward projecting hooks of the second cover member latching section is latched to the outward projecting hooks of the first cover member latching section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: FCI USA LLC
    Inventors: Aymeric Soudy, Gert Droesbeke
  • Patent number: 9326395
    Abstract: An electrical connection box is provided in which a printed circuit board provided with a lateral connection-type connector is housed in a case, and a cover is attached to the case, and this electrical connection box has a novel structure in which a reduction in size and manufacturing cost can be achieved while still reliably protecting the connector. A surface mount-type connector is provided on a printed circuit board as the lateral connection-type connector, and the case and the cover are provided with incorrect-connection-prevention projection portions that, in the case where the cover is brought close to the case upside down relative to the proper orientation, prevent incorrect attachment of the cover by abutting against each other before the cover abuts against the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takehiro Kanou, Satoru Chaen, Shuka Chen
  • Patent number: 9136649
    Abstract: The present invention provides a HDMI type-D connector with a shield; a housing having a tongue with first terminal slots disposed on a first side and second terminal slots disposed on an opposing second side; a shield component; a first conductive set of pins disposed in the first terminal slots; and a second conductive set of pins disposed in the second terminal slots, wherein each of the conductive terminals of the first conductive set of pins and the second conductive set of pins has a contact portion, a bend portion, and a soldering portion, where contact portions of the first conductive set of pins are disposed in the first terminal slots and the second conductive set of pins are disposed in the second terminal slots wherein the bend portions extend from the contact portions, bend multiple times, and end at coplanar soldering portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Holdings (Bermuda) No. 7 Ltd.
    Inventor: Yi Liang Shih
  • Publication number: 20150056860
    Abstract: An electrical connecting structure having an electrical connector having an insulating connector housing that can be electroconductively connected to an electrical mating connector, which is permanently connected to an electrical unit, to permit the transmission of high currents. The connecting structure has a first and a second electrical line; these being adapted for transmitting a first phase angle and a second current at a first phase angle and at a second phase angle that is temporally offset therefrom. The first and second line have a corresponding first and second shield for protecting against electromagnetic interference. The first and second shield are detachably and electroconductively connectable to a corresponding third and fourth shield configured in the mating connector. The first and the second shield differ from one another and are electroconductively interconnected within the electrical connecting structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Werner Hofmeister, Martin Saur, Markus Bahr, Markus Lux
  • Patent number: 8858240
    Abstract: A cable assembly comprises: a metallic housing; a PCB received into the metallic housing. The PCB defines a plurality of grounding conductive pads and a plurality of pairs of signal conductive pads formed on a rear end thereof. Each pair of signal conductive pads are intervened between two grounding conductive pads. And a cable having a plurality of wires are electrically connected with the PCB. Wherein at least one wire of the plurality of wires comprises a pair of differential signal conductors electrically connected to a corresponding pair of signal conductive pads, and a grounding conductor electrically connected to two grounding conductive pads located at two sides of the pair of signal conductive pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Patent number: 8851906
    Abstract: A cable assembly comprises a housing; a PCB received into the housing and defining a front mating portion and a rear terminating portion. The rear terminating portion defines a plurality of pairs of signal conductive pads and grounding conductive pads. At least one grounding conductive located at one lateral side of each pair of signal conductive pads. And a cable has at least one first set of first wires and a plurality of sets of second wires. Each set of first wire has two grounding conductors and a pair of differential signal conductors respectively electrically connected to a pair of signal conductive pads and two grounding pads. Each set of second wire has a grounding conductor and a pair of differential signal conductors respectively electrically connected to a pair of signal conductive pads and a grounding pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Fan-Bo Meng
  • Publication number: 20140179161
    Abstract: A wire harness includes an electric wire, a conductive metal shield shell housing a portion of the electric wire, a braided shield covering at least a portion of an outer peripheral surface of the shield shell and extending from an end portion of the shield shell in a lead-out direction of the electric wire to cover the electric wire, and an annular member provided on the outer periphery of the braided shield so as to sandwich the braided shield between itself and the shield shell. The annular member includes an extended portion that extends from the end portion of the shield shell along the lead-out direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaaki IMAHORI
  • Patent number: 8647139
    Abstract: Disclosed is a connector for a digital band, which is attached to the digital band and is quickly and easily attachable to an external circuit. The connector for a digital band includes a body portion having one end attached to the digital band, and at least one conductive portion connected to the digital yarn, and an insertion portion attached to the other end of the body portion and having at least one land connected to the conductive portion and exposed to the outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Industrial Technology
    Inventors: Gi Soo Chung, Hyun Sub Park
  • Patent number: 8500489
    Abstract: The invention provides a system of components, methods for assembly, and a hand tool, for adding a male connector to a standard and modified ribbon high definition multimedia (HDMI) cable for field termination or factory installation. The invention also provides a locking plug which can mate with female HDMI connectors with great retaining force. Features of the connector system including the locking top shell, bottom shell, wire holders and the connector core make possible and efficient the addition of a solderless male connector. Features of the modified ribbon type HDMI cable facilitate threading of the wire holders significantly improving the time it takes to assemble a male connector on the cable. The hand tool disclosed is designed to accomplish all steps of assembly for field termination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Luxi Electronics Corp.
    Inventors: Xiaozheng Lu, Senhua Hu
  • Patent number: 8062054
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) includes a top cover (11) defining at least one first positioning post (118) extending downwardly, a bottom cover (12) being assembled to the top cover (11) in an upper-to-lower direction thereof, an electrical connector (4) including an insulative housing (40) having a plurality of terminals (41) received therein; and at least one insulator (3) cooperates with the top cover (11) and the bottom cover (12) to define a retaining space (10) to retain the electrical connector (4) therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ping-Sheng Su, Xue-Chao Wang, Zhuang-Zhi Wu
  • Patent number: 7955122
    Abstract: A conductive contact unit includes a conductive contact holder, a conductive contact, and an aligning unit. The conductive contact holder includes a first guiding grooves and a second guiding groove opposite to the first guiding groove, each slidably engaging one edge of the conductive contact. The conductive contact has a plate-like shape, and includes a first contacting element and a second contacting element that are brought into contact with different circuitries, a resilient element that is expandable and contractible in a longitudinal direction between the first contacting element and the second contacting element, a first connecting element that connects the resilient element and the first contacting element, and a second connecting element that connects the resilient element and the second contacting element. The aligning unit aligns the conductive contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Tominaga, Koji Ishikawa, Taiichi Rikimaru
  • Patent number: 7955137
    Abstract: A cable assembly includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing and a metal shell covering the housing to form a receiving space with the tongue portion for receiving an electrical plug. The housing has a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The contacts consist of two pairs of differential signal contacts and a pair of grounding contacts between the two pairs of differential signal contacts. Each contact has a contact portion. All contact portions are arranged in a row on one side of the tongue portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Ko, Chang-Mao Li
  • Patent number: 7922536
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) includes an insulative housing (22) having a plurality of contacts received therein, a cable assembly (3) connected with the contacts by a printed circuit board (5), an upper shielding member (11) and a lower shielding member (12) together with the upper shielding member to form a receiving space (10). Each of the upper shielding member and the lower shielding member have a base portion (111, 121) and a plurality of vertical walls (113, 114, 115, 123, 124, 125) extending from the base portion. The lower shielding member (12) defines a stopping portion (126) to prevent the upper shielding member (11) from moving along a transverse direction. The stopping portion (126) is of U-shaped and comprises a first restricting flake (1261) and a second restricting flake (1262), and a corresponding vertical wall (113) of the upper shielding member is located between the first restricting flake (1261) and the second restricting flake (1262).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiao-Kang Zhang, Hou-Yu Shi, David Ko
  • Patent number: 7918685
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a mobile media device cable assembly for connecting a mobile media device with an accessory device, e.g., a docking station, audio system (stereo) or video system (television). The cable assembly provides multi-pin connections while the device is in a case or cover. The assembly comprises a flexible cable having a plurality of wires for transmitting audio, video, data, and power signals. The plurality of wires are in communication with respective pins of multi-pin female and male connectors on either terminus of the flexible cable. A first ground return comprising a flexible wire shield encapsulates the plurality of wires, and a second ground return comprising a flexible wire shield is surrounded by the first ground return. The second ground return encapsulates and electrically isolates the wires a subset of the plurality of wires, i.e., the wires that transmit audio and video signals, to prevent electric signal crossover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: CableJive LLC
    Inventor: Michael Kruckenberg
  • Patent number: 7878855
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulative housing (1) having a number of contacts (2) received therein, a shielding member (4) enclosing the insulative housing, a printed circuit board (3) connected with tail portions of the contacts, a cable (5) connected with the printed circuit board, a metallic shell (6) enclosing the printed circuit board and a front shell (7) located in front of the shielding member (4). The front shell is of metallic laminar configuration and comprises a frame-shaped opening (71) in center thereof for the shielding member to be inserted into.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chang-Mao Li
  • Patent number: 7819698
    Abstract: A coaxial cable connector inner contact with an interface end and a cable end for coupling with the inner conductor of a coaxial cable, the inner conductor having an outer diameter surface. The inner contact provided with an inner conductor interface at the interface end, an inner conductor socket open to the cable end, a first inner diameter groove in a first sidewall section of the socket, a second inner diameter groove in the first sidewall section proximate the cable end, a first spring contact, dimensioned to engage the outer diameter surface, seated in the first inner diameter groove; and a first inward projecting seal, dimensioned to seal against the outer diameter surface, seated in the second inner diameter groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Andrew LLC
    Inventor: Nahid Islam
  • Patent number: 7789707
    Abstract: A conductive contact unit establishes an electrical connection between different circuitries, and includes a plurality of conductive contacts that receive and output an electrical signal from and to the circuitries, respectively. The conductive contact unit includes a conductive contact holder that accommodates and holds the conductive contacts, and a vibration applying unit that applies vibration to the conductive contact holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: NHK Spring Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Tominaga, Koji Ishikawa, Taiichi Rikimaru
  • Publication number: 20100151732
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes an inner shielding member (3) having a first shielding part (31) and a second shielding part (32), both first shielding part and the second shielding part having a similar main portion; a printed circuit board (4) with side portions thereof being sandwiched between the first shielding part and the second shielding part; a plug port (5) disposed in front of the printed circuit board; and an external cover (2) mounted to the inner shielding member, with the plug port extending into an opening defined in the external cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: BIN XU, SU-FENG LIU, CHIN-TE LAI
  • Publication number: 20100093218
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) includes an insulative housing (22) having a plurality of contacts received therein, a cable assembly (3) connected with the contacts by a printed circuit board (5), an upper shielding member (11) and a lower shielding member (12) together with the upper shielding member to form a receiving space (10). Each of the upper shielding member and the lower shielding member have a base portion (111, 121) and a plurality of vertical walls (113, 114, 115, 123, 124, 125) extending from the base portion. The lower shielding member (12) defines a stopping portion (126) to prevent the upper shielding member (11) from moving along a transverse direction. The stopping portion (126) is of U-shaped and comprises a first restricting flake (1261) and a second restricting flake (1262), and a corresponding vertical wall (113) of the upper shielding member is located between the first restricting flake (1261) and the second restricting flake (1262).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiao-Kang ZHANG, Hou-Yu SHI, David Tso-Chin KO
  • Patent number: 7654856
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) in accordance with the present invention includes a metal housing (1), a terminal assembly (2) and a metal sleeve (5). The metal housing includes a mating port (11), a soldering port (12) with an opening in the center thereof and a passage formed through the mating and soldering ports. The terminal assembly is received in the passage of the metal housing and includes mating and soldering portions (21, 22) which are electrically insulated from the metal housing, the soldering portion exposed in the mating port of the metal housing, the soldering portion extending through the opening of the soldering port to be exposed by the metal housing and adapted to be soldered to a cable (3). The metal sleeve encloses a solder joint (8) between the cable and the soldering portion of the terminal assembly, a front portion (6) of the metal sleeve extends into and is soldered to the opening of the metal housing, and a rear portion of the metal sleeve engages with the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Jerry Wu