Separate Mutually Insulated Contacts On Opposite Longitudinal Sides Of Slot Patents (Class 439/637)
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Patent number: 9306306Abstract: A terminal used in an electronic circuit unit with a circuit board including a plurality of connection conductors, a housing and a plurality of terminals respectively provided on ends of a plurality of wires includes a wire connecting portion to be connected to an end portion of the wire and a board connecting portion to be connected to the connection conductor. The board connecting portion includes a resiliently deformable first resilient contact piece having a first contact portion to be resiliently brought into contact with the connection conductor and a resiliently deformable second resilient contact piece having a second contact portion to be resiliently brought into contact with the connection conductor common to the connection conductor, with which the first contact portion is brought into contact. The first and second resilient contact pieces are resiliently deformable independently of each other and shaped to have mutually different natural vibration frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, LTD, Sumitomo wiring systems, LTD, Sumitomo Electric Industries, LTDInventors: Akihiro Nishio, Yasuo Omori
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Patent number: 9276343Abstract: A terminal is connectable to a connection object having a first mating connection portion and a second mating connection portion. The terminal comprises a first terminal, a second terminal and an insulator. The first terminal has a first contact portion electrically connectable with the first mating connection portion in a first direction. The second terminal has a second contact portion electrically connectable with the second mating connection portion in the first direction. The insulator fixes and integrates the first terminal and the second terminal in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. When the first contact portion and the second contact portion are connected to the first mating connection portion and the second mating connection portion, respectively, the first terminal is electrically unconnected with the second mating connection portion, and the second terminal is electrically unconnected with the first mating connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, LimitedInventor: Keisuke Nakamura
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Patent number: 9231324Abstract: A terminal includes an insertion groove for pressing a conductor thereinto disposed between a pair of conductive arm parts, and a slit disposed proximate to the insertion groove.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshinobu Hemmi, Hirotada Teranishi
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Patent number: 9209558Abstract: A magnetic electrical connector is provided which has particular application to use in vehicles or aircraft to prevent damage due to passenger movement. The connector includes a socket having a housing with a front face, a plurality of conductor contact regions provided on the front face, and a magnet provided in the housing to physically retain a plug in connection with the socket in use.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Phitek Systems LimitedInventors: Nigel Greig, William James Sim, Edward Scholten, Brendon David Midgley, Hamish Dublon, Roy Moody
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Patent number: 9178310Abstract: A duplex male electrical connector includes an insulating base, two rows of first connection contacts and a socket shell. The insulating base has a front section formed with a connection board. The connection board has opposite top and bottom surfaces. The two rows of first connection contacts are disposed on the top and bottom surfaces of the connection board, respectively. The socket shell is formed with a connection slot having a front end serving as an insert port. The connection board is disposed in the connection slot. The socket shell and the connection board can vertically float and move relative to each other, such that the connection board can vertically float and move relative to the socket shell or the socket shell can vertically float and move relative to the connection board.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Inventor: Chou Hsien Tsai
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Patent number: 9178326Abstract: The movable portion of the first terminal of the first connector is formed to be larger in the width direction than in the thickness direction, so as to be elastically deformed in the front-back direction of the connector, and the movable portion of the second terminal of the second connector is formed to be larger in the thickness direction than in the width direction, so as to be elastically deformed in the width direction of the connector. Therefore, the movable portions can be formed with an increased cross-sectional area, thereby enabling the allowable current of the terminals to be increased, unlike a configuration in which the movable portion is elastically deformable to a sufficient extent both in the front-back direction and in the width direction of the connector.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 3, 2015Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Daisuke Funayama, Shigeru Mitsuzuka, Tomisaburo Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9166317Abstract: A receptacle connector includes a housing having a socket configured to receive a plug connector. The housing includes a cavity having datum surfaces therein. The receptacle connector includes a contact assembly received in the cavity and located in a fixed location relative to the datum surfaces. The contact assembly has a dielectric base holding a plurality of contacts configured to mate with the plug connector received in the socket. The dielectric base has datum surfaces. At least one of the housing or the dielectric base comprising crush ribs forcing the datum surfaces of the dielectric base to engage corresponding datum surfaces of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2014Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Eric David Briant, Michael John Phillips
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Patent number: 9160123Abstract: A communication connector includes an outer casing and a plurality of transmission wafers inserted into the outer casing. The transmission wafers are provided for receiving a mating connector along an inserting direction. Each communication wafer includes at least two terminals in coplanar arrangement, and each terminal has a straight segment. The straight segments of the terminals are respectively arranged in a first acute angle and a second acute angle with respective to the inserting direction, in which the first acute angle is smaller than the second acute angle. Two virtual lines, which are respectively defined by extending from the straight segments along the longitudinal directions thereof, are intersecting to form an angle. The angle is the difference of the first and second acute angles. Thus, the communication connector provided by the instant disclosure is produced easily.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: TOPCONN ELECTRONIC (KUNSHAN) CO., LTD.Inventors: Chung-Nan Pao, Wei Wang, Sun-Yu Chou
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Patent number: 9160105Abstract: A terminal of a connector includes two contact points, that is, a front contact point and a rear contact point. An angle formed by a line extending from an upper end of a rear terminal portion to the rear contact point and a direction in which the connector is inserted and removed is smaller than an angle formed by a line extending from an upper end of a front terminal portion to the front contact point and the direction in which the connector is inserted and removed. Thus, the insertion force used to insert the rear contact point can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: IRISO ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Masato Takaki
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Patent number: 9118136Abstract: A card edge connector is used for connecting an electronic card to a printed circuit board and includes an insulative housing and a plurality of conductive terminals retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a front face, a mounting surface and a receiving slot running through the front face and extending along a longitudinal direction with a key disposed therein. Each conductive terminals defines a contacting arm extending into the receiving slot along a mating direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and a soldering portion extending outside of the insulative housing. Each contacting arm defines a free end portion located in the receiving slot and with a contacting portion disposed thereon, the thickness of the free end portion in a vertical direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the mating direction is smaller than the thickness of other parts of the contacting arm.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2014Date of Patent: August 25, 2015Assignee: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.Inventors: Feng-Lan Liu, Jian-Kuang Zhu, Zhen-Hua Wang
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Patent number: 9077104Abstract: A magnetic electrical connector is provided which has particular application to use in vehicles or aircraft to prevent damage due to passenger movement. The connector includes a socket having a housing with a front face, a plurality of conductor contact regions provided on the front face, and a magnet provided in the housing to physically retain a plug in connection with the socket in use.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: Phitek Systems LimitedInventors: Nigel Greig, William James Sim, Edward Scholten, Brendon David Midgley, Hamish Dublon, Roy Moody
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Patent number: 9072191Abstract: A configurable rack for supporting components of an uninterruptible power supply includes a frame assembly having a front and a rear. At least one of the front and the rear is configured to receive electronic modules in stacked relation along a height of the frame assembly. The configurable rack further includes a busbar backplane disposed between the front and the rear. The busbar backplane extends vertically within the frame assembly and is configured to be electrically coupled to the at least one electronic module received within the front and/or the rear of the frame assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATIONInventors: Kristian Silberbauer, Carsten Nommensen Tingskov, Jacob Damgaard Schmidt, Torben Müller, Casper Juel Winther
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Patent number: 9065225Abstract: High-speed connectors having a high density of contacts may be provided. One example may provide a connector having a housing with a slot forming an opening in a top side. The slot and opening may be arranged to receive a card. This connector may provide a high density of contacts by arranging the contacts in multiple rows in the slot. Various contacts may include barbs to be inserted into the housing. The barbs may be angled and may have one or more teeth to help anchor the contacts in place. A conductive or nonconductive shield or shell may be placed over the housing. When a conductive shield is used, metal pins may be inserted into the housing for mechanical stability and secured to the shield, and various contacts may have contacting portions in contact with the shield to improve signal integrity.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2013Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Mahmoud Amini, William P. Cornelius, Zheng Gao, Aaron P. Miletich, George Marc Simmel
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Patent number: 9054470Abstract: Electrical connector including a connector housing having a mating side that faces in a mating direction. The mating side configured to engage a mating connector. The electrical connector also includes an electrical contact held by the connector housing. The electrical contact includes a common body section and first, second, and third contact beams that are arranged along the mating side and have respective contact bases coupled to the body section. Each of the first, second, and third contact beams extend in the mating direction from the respective contact base to a respective distal end. Each of the first, second, and third contact beams has a beam length that is measured from the respective contact base to the respective distal end. The beam lengths of the first, second, and third contact beams being different from one another.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignees: Tyco Electronics Corporation, Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Zhao YuQiang, Robert Paul Nichols, Zhao Guangming, Michael Allen Blanchfield
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Publication number: 20150140866Abstract: An electrical connector including an insulative housing defining a mating port in a transverse direction, a top wall and a bottom wall horizontally extending in two sides of the mating port, and a number of terminal passageways; and a terminal module received in the insulative housing, the terminal module comprising an insulative plate extending along the transverse direction and a number of conductive terminals insert molded in the insulative plate, the conductive terminal having a fixed section in the insulative plate and a contact section extending from the fixed section and received in a corresponding terminal passageway, the conductive terminals comprising a number of pairs of differential signal terminals for transmitting differential signal; wherein the insulative plate has a number of slots, the slot having two opposite edges, the pair of signal terminals having closer inner edges, the inner edge being between two opposite edges of the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: KUEI-CHUNG TSAI, YUE-OU ZHANG
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Patent number: 9033743Abstract: When a second junction portion of a terminal is pressed in the opposite direction of the direction of contact with a mating terminal, a first junction portion attempts to be displaced relatively in the direction of contact with the mating terminal as compared to the second junction portion while in a of state contact with the mating terminal, and accordingly, contact pressure of the first junction portion as to the mating terminal increases. Thus, after the mating terminal comes into contact with the first junction portion, contact pressure of the first junction portion as to the mating terminal is not reduced even when the mating terminal comes into contact with the second junction portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Iriso Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Kobayashi, Takanori Abe
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Patent number: 9022811Abstract: A socket terminal includes front and rear terminals. The front terminal includes a front contact-point portion that wipes off foreign material adhered to a terminal surface of a plug terminal. The rear terminal includes a rear contact-point portion that contacts the terminal surface wiped by the front contact-point portion. The socket terminal also includes a movable portion between a circuit-board connection portion and circuit board. The movable portion cancels a reduction in impedance of at least the front terminal and rear terminal for a transmission signal flowing from the circuit-board connection portion connected to the circuit board. This can provide a socket terminal allowing the rear contact-point portion to contact the terminal surface from which foreign material has been wiped off, and allowing impedance mismatching at a terminal transmission path to be eliminated; and to provide an electric connector including the socket terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Iriso Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masato Takaki
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Patent number: 9022809Abstract: A card edge connector (100) for mounted on a PCB (200) includes a longitudinal insulative housing (1) and a plurality of contacts (2, 6) arranged two arrays opposite to each other in the width direction. Each of the contacts has a retaining portion (24, 64), a contacting portion extending from the retaining portion and a soldering tail (66) extending outwards for being soldered to the PCB (200). The retaining portion (24, 64) of each array contact are coplanar to each other and disposed at a vertical plane in the longitudinal direction, while the soldering tails (26, 66) of each array contact are arranged at least three tail lines (L1, L2, L3).Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Wen-Jun Tang, Xue-Wu Bu, Chi-Tung Mo
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Patent number: 9022810Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, and a number of conductive contacts. The conductive contacts include a first contact and a second contact. The first contact includes a first retaining portion, a first contacting portion extending from the first retaining portion, and a first termination portion extending from the first retaining portion. The second contact includes two second retaining portions, two second contacting portions extending from respective second retaining portions, and a second termination portion extending from the second retaining portions. The structure of the first contacting portion of the first contact is identical to that of one of the two second contacting portions of the second contact, and the structure of the first retaining potion of the first contact is identical to that of one of the two second retaining portions of the second contact.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Alltop Electronics (Suzhou) Ltd.Inventors: Yung-Chih Hung, Hung-Chi Tai
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Patent number: 8936488Abstract: A memory module socket and a terminating resistor assembly. The terminating resistor assembly provides an elongate conductive bus bar and a plurality of conductive branches, wherein each conductive branch is in electronic communication with the elongate conductive bus bar through a resistor, wherein each conductive branch has a distal end disposed for contacting a signal pin within a memory module socket installed on a printed circuit board. A distal end of each conductive branch is inserted into a window on the connector shoulder adjacent to the slot of an empty memory module socket and engages a plurality of signal pins within the socket in response to the absence of a memory module in the slot. The plurality of signal pins engage contact pads on the memory module and are pushed out of contact with the conductive branch in response to the presence of a memory module in the slot.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Sumanta K. Bahali, Tony C. Sass, Kevin S. D. Vernon, Paul A. Wormsbecher
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Publication number: 20140378002Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, and a number of conductive contacts. The conductive contacts include a first contact and a second contact. The first contact includes a first retaining portion, a first contacting portion extending from the first retaining portion, and a first termination portion extending from the first retaining portion. The second contact includes two second retaining portions, two second contacting portions extending from respective second retaining portions, and a second termination portion extending from the second retaining portions. The structure of the first contacting portion of the first contact is identical to that of one of the two second contacting portions of the second contact, and the structure of the first retaining potion of the first contact is identical to that of one of the two second retaining portions of the second contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: ALLTOP ELECTRONICS (SUZHOU) LTD.Inventors: Yung-Chih HUNG, Hung-Chi TAI
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Patent number: 8870600Abstract: A connector includes at least one first contact and at least one second contact. Each of the at least one first contact and the at least one second contact includes a tail with a leg extending therefrom and an arm with a contact section arranged to electrically couple with a corresponding contact when the connector is mated to an electrical device or another connector. The leg of each of the at least one first contact is offset with respect to the leg of each of the at least one second contact.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Samtec, Inc.Inventors: Feng-Nan Wu, Chia-Chi Cheng
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Patent number: 8858237Abstract: A receptacle connector (100) includes a housing (10), a front contact module (30) and a rear contact module (20) assembled in the housing. The housing has a cavity (12) opening along a horizontal direction. The cavity has a top wall (121) and a bottom wall (122) opposing to each other, the bottom wall having a tongue portion (120) at a front side of the housing. The rear contact module has a first contacts (22) and a second contacts (23) positioned on the top wall and the bottom wall respectively. The front contact module includes a one-piece insulator (31) assembled to a bottom side (13) of the housing, and a number of third contacts (32) insert-molded with the insulator.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun-Hsiung Hsu, Ji-Feng Qiu
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Publication number: 20140235107Abstract: A memory socket with a special contact mechanism comprising a plurality of socket pins arranged in two opposite rows leaning respectively against two inner projecting portions in a socket frame, and an interacting member movably installed between the two rows of the socket pins having a cam portion to pushes the socket pin at both sides away from the interacting member during the insertion of a memory module, so that the socket pin may be bended to contact he inserted memory module.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: NANYA TECHNOLOGY CORP.Inventor: Chih-Cheng Liang
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Patent number: 8800137Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method of manufacturing a printed circuit board, including: mounting a strip substrate on a fixing member; separating the strip substrate into unit substrates by performing a singulation process; attaching solder balls onto the unit substrates using a jig; and fixing the solder balls on the unit substrates by performing a reflow process. The method of manufacturing a printed circuit board is advantageous in that the solder balls can be accurately formed at the predetermined positions of the strip substrate because they are attached to the unit substrates after the warpage of the strip substrate was reduced by a singulation process.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2010Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin Su Kim, Seog Moon Choi
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Publication number: 20140187064Abstract: A low-profile electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts and a pair of mounting pieces positioned at opposite sides of the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a half-opened plug-receiving space. Each contact includes a fixing portion, a deformable contacting portion extending into the plug-receiving space and a soldering portion for being mounted to a circuit board. Each mounting piece includes a retaining portion, a bending portion extending sidewardly from the retaining portion and a mounting portion parallel to the retaining portion. The mounting portions are adapted for being fixed to the circuit board in order that when a plug is inserted into the plug-receiving space, the mounting portions replace the soldering portions to bear a great deal of impact force.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: ALLTOP ELECTRONICS (SUZHOU) CO., LTD.Inventors: Wang-I YU, Hung-Chi TAI, Chun-Hsien WU, Siu-Mien YANG
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Patent number: 8747164Abstract: A card edge connector is provided for mating with a printed circuit board (PCB) having a card edge. The connector includes a housing having a card slot. The card slot is configured to receive the card edge of the PCB therein. The card slot includes opposing first and second sides. Signal contacts are held by the housing. The signal contacts include signal mating segments arranged in opposing first and second rows that extend along the opposing first and second sides, respectively, of the card slot. The signal mating segments are arranged in differential signal pairs, wherein the signal mating segments within a differential pair are arranged within the same row of the first and second rows. A ground contact is held by the housing. The ground contact includes a base and first and second ground mating segments that extend outwardly from the base.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: John Eugene Westman, Brian Keith McMaster, Jr., Michael Frank Cina
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Patent number: 8715009Abstract: An edge connector for transmitting signals at a high frequency, for example in a system environment with a frequency higher than 2.0 GHz or 3.0 GHz, is provided. The connector includes a housing and at least a first and a second conductors disposed in the housing. Each conductor has a contact portion and a terminal portion, and each contact portion form a contact surface. The at least first and second conductors are disposed in the housing in such a manner that, both the contact surfaces face a first direction, the terminal portion of the first conductor is offset from the contact portion of the first conductor along the first direction, and the terminal portion of the second conductor is offset from the contact portion of the second conductor along a second direction which is opposite to the first direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2007Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: FCIInventors: Leon Wu, Richard Chiu
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Patent number: 8702451Abstract: sa An electrical connector includes an insulating housing defining an uninterrupted tongue portion with opposite first surface and second surface and a plurality of contacts loaded in the tongue portion. The contacts includes a first group of contacts with first contacting portions loaded in the first surface, a second group of contacts with second contacting portions loaded in the second surface. Each of the first and second group of contacts is composed of signal contacts and grounding contacts and a connecting bar is assembled to electrically connect at least one first grounding contact and one second grounding contact.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yu Luo, Xing-Liang Liu
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Patent number: 8696389Abstract: A card edge connector for mating to a flex circuit includes a housing having a front, a top and a bottom. The housing has a slot between the top and the bottom. The slot is open at the front. The slot is configured to receive a flex circuit therein. Upper contacts are held by the housing between the slot and the top. The upper contacts are exposed in the slot for mating with an upper surface of the flex circuit. Lower contacts are held by the housing between the slot and the bottom. The lower contacts are exposed in the slot for mating with a lower surface of the flex circuit.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter Mason, William Brian Murphy, Wayne Stewart Allen, III
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Patent number: 8651880Abstract: An electrical power connector includes an electrically insulative housing defining multiple front mating portions, multiple rear partition plates, an accommodation chamber between each two adjacent partition plates corresponding to one respective mating portion, stepped stop portions in top and bottom sides in each mating portion and springy hooks suspending in top and bottom sides in each accommodation chamber, and pairs of conducting terminals mounted in the mounting chambers and having respective front mating end portions suspending in the mating portions with respective openings and positioning rods thereof the respectively kept in engagement with the springy hooks and stepped stop portions of the electrically insulative housing. The structural design enables the conducting terminals to have the advantages of low impedance, low power loss and high power transmission efficiency during application.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2012Date of Patent: February 18, 2014Assignee: Aces Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kun-Shen Wu, Hao-Jan Tuan
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Patent number: 8641453Abstract: A memory module may include a module substrate having a side portion. The side portion may be adapted or configured to be inserted into a socket of a main board. A plurality of connection pads may be arranged along the side portion. The connection pads may have a step portion of a first height from a surface of the side portion and a contact portion of a second height that is greater than the first height from the surface of the side portion. At least one semiconductor package may be mounted on the module substrate and electrically connected to the connection pads.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jin-San Jung, Jung-Chan Cho, Hyun-Seok Choi
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Patent number: 8636548Abstract: A card edge connector includes an elongated housing extending along an elongated direction thereof, and having a first housing half, a second housing half being discrete from the first housing half, and a central slot formed between the first and the second housing halves. A plurality of contacts are retained in the housing, and each has a contact portion protruding into the central slot. A width of the central slot could be adjusted before mounting the card edge connector to a mother board for receiving different daughter boards with different thicknesses.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: January 28, 2014Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Xiao-Zhi Fu, Ze-Lin Yao, Zhuang-Xing Li
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Patent number: 8631567Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rigid-flexible printed circuit board, including providing a base substrate in which coverlays are respectively formed on two sides of a flexible copper foil laminate on both sides of which inner circuit patterns are respectively formed; layering insulation layers and copper foil layers on portions of coverlays which are to be a rigid region of the flexible copper foil laminate; forming a via hole in the rigid region, and, simultaneously, forming first windows in the coverlays in a flexible region; forming outer circuit patterns including areas adjacent to the first windows; and applying solder resist in the rigid region to expose portions of the external circuit patterns, where the outer circuit patterns formed in the areas adjacent to the first windows include additional plating portions for covering portions of the coverlays.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yang Je Lee, Il Woon Shin, Going Sik Kim, Doo Pyo Hong, Ha Il Kim, Dong Gi An
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Patent number: 8632366Abstract: This invention provides a socket for a circuit board that adds function of electrical resistive element to a contact. A socket includes a socket body extending at a longitudinal direction; and a plurality of contacts disposed in two lines along the longitudinal direction of the socket body. When a memory module is connected to the socket body, terminals formed on opposite surfaces of the memory module are electrically and elastically connected by the contacts. The contact includes a contact portion which contacts the terminal, a bent portion for generating an elastic force, and a base portion. The contact is made of a conductive metal having elastic properties, and the contact used for carrying signal is provided with a resistor of an electrical resistive material that is different from the conductive metal. The resistor is connected in a current path between the base portion and the terminal of the memory module.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Sensata Technologies Massachusetts, Inc.Inventors: Hideki Sano, Hiroyuki Abe, Yasushi Ishikawa, Toyokazu Ezura, Yasuhisa Tsukada
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Publication number: 20130337694Abstract: A card edge connector assembly is disclosed. The card edge connector assembly includes an insulating housing, a first circuit board, a line transmission device, and a covering body. A plurality of first terminals and second terminals are inserted into the insulating housing. The first terminals and the second terminals are electrically connected to the line transmission device via the first circuit board. The first terminals are above the second terminals and mating portions of the first terminals and the second terminals stretch into a plug space of the insulating housing. In this way, the plug space can be used for the second circuit board to plug in such that the first terminals and the second terminals are electrically connected to the second circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventor: Chih-jung Chen
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Publication number: 20130309906Abstract: A connector for connection between a circuit board and a further electronic component is disclosed. The connector includes an insulating housing having a board slot open towards a mating direction for accommodating the circuit board, and a plurality of terminals. The terminals have a rear portion, an intermediate portion and a tip portion, the intermediate portion including a contact portion for contacting a surface portion of the circuit board when accommodated in the board slot. The housing includes a window such that for a number of adjacent terminals housing material is absent between the intermediate portions. A shield member may be arranged in between the rear portions of the terminals. Improved circuit boards are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: FCIInventor: Jan De Geest
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Patent number: 8585441Abstract: An electrical connector adapted to be straddle mounted to a PCB and a method for mounting such an electrical connector. The electrical connector includes a housing defining a datum to abut the bottom side of the PCB and an upper row of contacts fastened in the housing. Each upper contact has a flexible mounting portion extending from the housing to abut the top side of the PCB. The mounting portions of the top contacts and the datum of the housing is adapted to clip the PCB thereby positioning the electrical connector related to the PCB.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2012Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chun-Hsiung Hsu, Yue-Ou Zhang
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Patent number: 8550855Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting with an electrical card comprises a plurality of signal terminal modules and at least one ground terminal. Each of the plurality of signal terminal modules having a pair of signal terminal and an insulation body. Each of the pair of signal terminals include a first contact portion, a first securing portion, and a first connection portion positioned between the first contact portion and the first securing portion. The insulation body is overmolded to each first connection portion of the pair of signal terminals. The ground terminal includes a pair of second contact portions, a second securing portion, and a second connection portion positioned between the pair of second contact portions and the second securing portion. The insulation body includes openings positioned to correspond to each of the pair of signal terminals, with a portion of each of the pair of signal terminals is exposed.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignees: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., Tyco Electronics Corporation, Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.Inventors: Shuqiang Zhang, Clarence Leon Yu, Doron Lapidot, Jinlong Gong, Suxiang Xu
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Patent number: 8545272Abstract: An anti-electromagnetic interference electrical connector having a terminal assembly is provided. The anti-EMI electrical connector includes an electrical insulation case, plural first terminals, and plural second terminals. The electrical insulation case includes a slot. Each first terminal is disposed in the electrical insulation case and includes a contact end located in the slot. Each second terminal is disposed in the electrical insulation case and in a staggered manner with the first terminals. Each second terminal includes a body and a first extended portion. The body is located in the electrical insulation case and includes a connection end located in the slot. The first extended portion extends from the body and an included angle is defined between the first extended portion and the body. The first extended portion isolates the first terminals adjacent to each of the second terminals by increasing a lateral projected area of the second terminal.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Concraft Holding Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kuo-Chi Lee, Chin-Huang Lin
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Patent number: 8480434Abstract: An electrical connection terminal arranged such that when the amount of displacement of one of a first contact portion and a second contact portion increases, a decrease in the contact pressure of the other contact portion is effectively suppressed, and a connector in which the electrical connection terminal is used. Between first and second elastic pieces and a fixed piece, a third elastic piece is provided such that when one of a first contact portion and a second contact portion is displaced in the direction of contact with a mating terminal, the amount of displacement of the other contact portion in the direction of contact with the mating terminal becomes smaller than the amount of displacement of the other contact portion in the insertion and removal direction of the mating terminal. Connection reliability by two-point contact may be improved.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2010Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Iriso Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Daisuke Funayama, Tomisaburo Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 8465327Abstract: Structures, methods, and apparatus that provide sockets or connectors that are capable of operating at high data rates. One example provides a connector that uses a flex board to form a connection between pins of a socket or connector and a printed circuit board. In another example, one or more flex boards are used to provide a signal path between a memory device, such as an SODIMM, and a printed circuit board. Another example provides a stack of wafers, each formed of an insulated material and supporting one or more conductive pins for making an electrical connection between a memory device and a flex board.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2010Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Greg Springer, Vince Duperron, Marc Simmel, Peter Mitchell, Joshua Funamura
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Patent number: 8449335Abstract: An electrical connector including a connector housing having opposite mating and loading faces and a mating axis extending therebetween. The connector housing has interior walls that oppose each other with a contact cavity therebetween. The electrical connector also includes a retention insert that is sized and shaped to be advanced through the loading face and positioned within the contact cavity. The retention insert has an outer engagement surface. The electrical connector also includes first and second rows of mating contacts that are separated by the retention insert. The contact cavity has a component-receiving region that exists between the first and second rows of mating contacts and is accessible through the mating face. The mating contacts of the first and second rows are oriented to extend lengthwise along the mating axis and are held between the engagement surface of the retention insert and respective interior walls.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2011Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Eric David Briant, James Charles Shiffler, Melissa Anne Harden, Bryon Todd Eppley, Craig William Clewell
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Patent number: 8449322Abstract: An electrical connector includes: (a) an electrical connection base, in which a notch is opened forwards at a rear side of the electrical connection base, at least one protruding block, at least one first receiving hole, and at least two second receiving holes are opened forwards from the notch, (b) at least one first terminal, having a vertical first connecting portion correspondingly, and (c) at least two second terminals, each having a vertical second connecting portion correspondingly disposed in the notch. The protruding block has an increased thickness, thus effectively ensuring functions of the protruding block of protecting terminals, isolating the first connecting portion from the second connecting portion and avoiding short circuit between the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Lotes Co., LtdInventor: You Hua Cai
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Patent number: 8435077Abstract: A card edge connector comprises an insulation housing and a plurality of terminals. The insulation housing includes a receiving slot for receiving a card module, a plurality of partitions arrayed on opposite sides of the receiving slot and defining a plurality of cavities, each partition including a bottom surface configured to be disposed on a printed circuit board. Each terminal comprises a body portion having a fixing portion configured to secure the terminal in the respective cavity and an inversely bent section, a solder tail extending from the fixing portion, and a contact portion extending from the inversely bent section and having a distal end at least partially protruding beyond the bottom surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Molex IncorporatedInventor: Yong Teck Yang
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Patent number: 8425252Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector. The electrical connector includes an insulating body having a plurality of card slots recessed at a front end. The insulating body has adjacent a plurality of first and second receiving slots disposed at a rear end of the card slots. Each of a plurality of first terminals has a first connecting portion received in the first receiving slot. Each of a plurality of second terminals has a second connecting portion received in the first receiving slot. The second terminal has an extending portion extending laterally, entering the first receiving slot, and disposing in a front-rear manner relative to a corresponding part of the first terminal. The insulating body has a gap defined between the extending portion and an adjacent extending portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: April 23, 2013Assignee: Lotes Co., Ltd.Inventor: You Hua Cai
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Publication number: 20130084754Abstract: A card edge connector for mating to a flex circuit includes a housing having a front, a top and a bottom. The housing has a slot between the top and the bottom. The slot is open at the front. The slot is configured to receive a flex circuit therein. Upper contacts are held by the housing between the slot and the top. The upper contacts are exposed in the slot for mating with an upper surface of the flex circuit. Lower contacts are held by the housing between the slot and the bottom. The lower contacts are exposed in the slot for mating with a lower surface of the flex circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: April 4, 2013Applicant: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Jeffery Walter MASON, William Brian MURPHY, Wayne Stewart ALDEN, III
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Patent number: 8388389Abstract: Electrical connector that includes a pair of electrical contacts. Each of the electrical contacts has a mounting portion and a flexible mating portion that is configured to electrically engage a conductive component. The mating portions of the electrical contacts are separated by a component-receiving space and oppose each other across the component-receiving space. The electrical connector also includes a spring clip that is configured to mechanically engage the mating portions and is movable with respect to the mounting portions. The spring clip has a pair of opposing clip arms and a bridge member that joins the clip arms. The clip arms are separated by a gap with the mating portions positioned therebetween. The clip arms are biased against the corresponding mating portions. The spring clip has a dielectric member that is positioned to electrically isolate at least one of the electrical contacts.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2011Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Brian Patrick Costello, David Patrick Orris
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Publication number: 20130045637Abstract: A card connector includes a body, a first contact, and a second contact. The body includes an electrical card receiving groove with an upper sidewall and a lower sidewall. The upper sidewall includes a first contact slot, while the lower sidewall includes a second contact slot. The first contact is positioned in the first contact slot and includes a first securing portion secured to the body, a first elastic portion extending from the first securing portion, and a first contact portion positioned at an end of the first elastic portion. The second contact is positioned in the second contact slot and includes a second securing portion secured in the second contact slot, a second elastic portion extending from the second securing portion, and a second contact portion positioned at an end of the second elastic portion and extending away from the second securing portion and the second elastic portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: February 21, 2013Inventors: Lei Yen, Yunhe Wang, Jianxin Wang, Yi Wei Chang
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Patent number: 8353728Abstract: A receptacle connector (100) and a plug connector having a paddle board (800) mate with each other along a mating direction. The receptacle connector includes a housing (1) defining a slot (224), and a pair of first groups of terminals secured in the housing and a second group of terminals. The first group of terminals includes a first terminal (221) having a first contact portion (2211) disposed at a first side of the slot (224), a second terminal (222) having a second contact portion (2221) and a third terminal (223) having a third contact portion (2231) disposed at a second side of the slot. The first contact portion is positioned between the second contact portion and the third contact portion along the mating direction. The second group of terminals include a fourth terminal (211) and a fifth terminal (212).Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., LtdInventors: Chien-Chiung Wang, Xue-Liang Zhang, Jiang-Hong Wu, Qing-Man Zhu