Having Push-pull-engaging Contacts Spaced Along Planar Side Wall Transverse To Longitudinal Engagement Axis (e.g., Telephone Jack Or Plug) Patents (Class 439/676)
  • Patent number: 12126119
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a plug head, a plug terminal module, a locking member and a retaining body installed on one side of the plug connector. The plug terminal module includes a number of first plug terminals and a number of second plug terminals. The first plug terminals and the second plug terminals have a same structure and number. The first plug terminals and the second plug terminals are symmetrically arranged on opposite sides of the plug connector head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DONGGUAN LEADER PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bo Wang, Jinqi Li, Jiamei Wan
  • Patent number: 12119578
    Abstract: The signal transmission paths are transmission path pairs 22, 24 located spaced apart in the arrangement direction of the signal transmission paths 22, 24, the transmission path pairs 22, 24 have two types of pairs, straight pairs 22 and cross pairs 24, the straight pairs 22 and the cross pairs 24 are alternately disposed in the arrangement direction, the signal transmission paths arranged in the arrangement direction form signal transmission path rows, a plurality of the signal transmission path rows are provided, and of two adjacent signal transmission path rows, at least a part of the transmission path pairs 22, 24 of one signal transmission path row in the height direction is offset in the arrangement direction with respect to the transmission path pairs 22, 24 of the other signal transmission path row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shota Yamada, Nobuhiro Tamai, Daiki Aimoto, Takafumi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 12092701
    Abstract: A connector seating detection system includes a device having a port that includes at least one port communication contact. A connector seating sensor is located adjacent the port. A connector seating detection subsystem is coupled to the connector seating sensor. When a connector is positioned in the port while not engaging at least one port communication contact by a threshold amount, the connector seating detection subsystem receives an unseated connector signal from the connector seating sensor and, in response, generates an unseated connector indication. When a connector is positioned in the port while engaging at least one port communication contact the threshold amount, the connector seating detection subsystem receives a seated connector signal from the connector seating sensor and, in response, generates a seated connector indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Kannan Karuppiah, Shree Rathinasamy, Arunkumar Poosaithurai
  • Patent number: 12068557
    Abstract: A modular plug system including a plug housing including a top surface, bottom surface and two opposing side surfaces, a front end and an opening opposite the front end, and a cavity extending from the front end to the opening in the back end, a load bar sized to engage the cavity in the modular plug, the load bar including two extensions on an upper surface of the load bar, the extensions sized to engage two openings in the top surface of the plug housing when the load bar is inserted into the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Sentinel Connector Systems, Inc
    Inventors: Robert Brennan, Randy Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11888263
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications jack including a housing having a port for receiving a plug. The jack also includes a plurality of contact springs adapted to make electrical contact with the plug when the plug is inserted into the port of the housing, and a plurality of wire termination contacts for terminating wires to the jack. The jack further includes a circuit board that electrically connects the contact springs to the wire termination contacts. The circuit board includes a multi-zone crosstalk compensation arrangement for reducing crosstalk at the jack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Harold Hammond, Jr., David Patrick Murray, Ian Robert George
  • Patent number: 11888265
    Abstract: A shield-type connector includes: an inner shell made of metal and provided in an inner housing; an outer shell made of metal and provided in an outer housing; and a cover shell made of metal and contacting with both of the inner shell and the outer shell, in which the inner shell, the outer shell and the cover shell include contact portions that contact with each other, and the contact portion of the cover shell is inserted between the contact portion of the inner shell and the contact portion of the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Kumaki, Hiroto Nishimori, Tomoyuki Hirano
  • Patent number: 11846816
    Abstract: An optical transceiver can include a transmitter and a receiver. The optical transceiver is configured to mate with an electrical connector in first and second orientations that are opposite each other. In certain examples, a thermally conductive surface of the transceiver is configured to be placed in thermal communication with a heat dissipation member in one or both of the first and second orientations. Further examples of optical transceivers can be mounted to a base and placed in electrical communication with an electrical connector. A lid provides a compressive force that simultaneously makes electrical contact between the transceiver and a host printed circuit board (PCB) and provides a low impedance heat transfer path to dissipate heat generated during transceiver operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMTEC, INC.
    Inventor: Eric Zbinden
  • Patent number: 11811176
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a terminal module having a circuit board having first through eighth conductive traces sequentially arranged in a transverse direction and corresponding first through eighth terminals, the third terminal and the sixth terminal being configured for transmitting a pair of differential signals, the fourth terminal and the fifth terminal being configured for transmitting another pair of differential signals, the first through eighth conductive traces being respectively electrically connected to corresponding first through eighth terminals, each of the third conductive trace and the fifth conductive trace including a coupling portion, a size of the coupling portion in the transverse direction is larger than a size of the other part of the corresponding conductive trace in the transverse direction, wherein the coupling portion of the third conductive trace and the coupling portion of the fifth conductive trace overlap in an up and down direction to increase mutual coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yong-Chun Xu, Hung-Chi Yu, Chih-Ching Hsu, Xiao-Qin Zheng, Chin-Jung Wu
  • Patent number: 11710910
    Abstract: A communication connector has an outer housing with an opening, a shielding wrap at least partially enclosing the outer housing, and a contact carrier assembly configured to be interested into the opening of the outer housing. The contact carrier assembly at least partially encloses at least two contacts each with an insulation displacement contact (IDC). The contact carrier assembly also has an integrated wire cap that utilizes a hinge feature to press cable conductors of a cable into their respective IDCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Benjamin S. Novak, Satish I. Patel, Sean W. Lenz
  • Patent number: 11670891
    Abstract: A connector and a connector device that are small and have a drainage function are provided. A connector includes: a contact; a first insulator; a first shield member; a second shield member having a tubular portion; and a second insulator. A first communicating portion that is in communication with the outside is formed in a lower wall of the tubular portion of the second shield member, the lower wall facing the second insulator. A second communicating portion that is in communication with the outside and the first communicating portion is formed in the second insulator. The first shield member has a facing wall that faces the first communicating portion, and a bent wall that is bent toward the second insulator from an end portion of the facing wall on an opposite side to the opening side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: HOSIDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takao Asano, Shuya Yokobori, Yutaka Sanda, Koji Minami, Tatsuya Morishita
  • Patent number: 11631945
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a wire end connector for electrically connecting to a board end connector. The wire end connector includes a main body portion and an insertion portion. The insertion portion is connected to the main body portion, and the insertion portion is configured to couple to the board end connector. The main body portion is provided with a plurality of elastic claws extending outward from the main body portion to press on the board end connector when the insertion portion is coupled to the board end connector so as to stably connect the wire end connector to the board end connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: BIZLINK INTERNATIONAL CORP.
    Inventors: Hsin-Tuan Hsiao, Jui-Hung Chien
  • Patent number: 11575229
    Abstract: A compensating receptacle connector and for terminating a cable assembly of a cabling category and comprising a plug mating zone, a cable mating zone and an intermediate zone. Each of the zones is such that Near End Cross Talk (NEXT) resulting from transmission of the high frequency signal across each zone is below a specified amount chosen such that NEXT introduced by a high frequency signal transmission between via all the zones is below a level as specified for the cabling category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: BELDEN CANADA ULC
    Inventors: Virak Siev, François Beauregard, Michael Bodzay, Luc Milette, Vincent Pilon, Jean-Sebastien Plamondon
  • Patent number: 11532916
    Abstract: A Rj45 plug (34) comprising: a housing (42,50) with an opening; a sled assembly (60,100,152,180) contained within the housing wherein the sled assembly (10,100,152,180) has a plurality of contacts (68,158,184) accessible via the opening; and a plug interface contact (PIC) cover (62,112,158,182) at least partially surrounding a first contact of the plurality of contacts wherein the PIC cover (62,112,158,182) is electrically insulated from the first plug interface contact of the plurality of contacts and electrically connected to a second plug interface contact of the plurality of contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Satish I. Patel, Paul W. Wachtel
  • Patent number: 11469558
    Abstract: A connector is mateable with a mating connector along a front-rear direction. The connector comprises a first sub connector and a second sub connector. The first sub connector and the second sub connector are mateable with each other in a direction intersecting with the front-rear direction. The first sub connector comprises a first holding member and a plurality of first terminals. The second sub connector comprises a second holding member and a plurality of second terminals. The second terminals are arranged in two rows. Each of the second terminals has a second contact point and an SMT portion. The SMT portion is configured to be fixed on a circuit board. The SMT portion of the second terminal of one of the two rows extends in an orientation opposite to an orientation in which the SMT portion of the second terminal of a remaining one of the two rows extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignees: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Tada, Kazutaka Okuzako, Motoo Gohda, Hideto Ohhori
  • Patent number: 11450999
    Abstract: Connector inserts and connector receptacles that have a small form factor and where when a connector insert and connector receptacle are mated, the connector insert can rotate and articulate relative to an electronic device housing the connector receptacle. The connector receptacle can be connected to components in the electronic device through a flexible circuit board having an amount of slack or excess length to allow the connector receptacle and the connector insert to rotate relative to the connected components. A bearing supporting the connector receptacle can articulate about an axis to allow the connector receptacle and connector insert to articulate relative to the connected components. The bearing can further support a locking mechanism to lock the connector insert in place in the connector receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Eric T. SooHoo, Mahmoud R. Amini, Daniel R. Bloom, Sean T. McIntosh, Tian Shi Li, Jared M. Kole, Jason Joseph LeBlanc, Colin M. Ely, Peter J. Cameron, Michael A. Kinney, Eric S. Jol, Edward Siahaan, Robert D. Zupke, Rohan Gupta, Jordan J. Francis
  • Patent number: 11346734
    Abstract: A drive device includes a motor having two sets of winding wires, a controller coaxially disposed with the motor for controlling the motor, and a connector for connecting the controller to an external connector. The controller has a first system control unit for controlling power supplied to one set of winding wires and a second system control unit for controlling power supplied to the other set of winding wires. The connector has a first positive electrode terminal and a first negative electrode terminal for power supplied to the first system control unit, and a second positive electrode terminal and a second negative electrode terminal for power supplied to the second system control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yukio Horiba, Masashi Yamasaki
  • Patent number: 11320602
    Abstract: A push-pull connection includes a push-pull boot connector and an adapter, which are connected together and retained with a latching mechanism. The push-pull boot connector includes a connector housing and a remote release push-pull strain relief boot. The connector housing, when pulled away from the mating face of the adapter, via the strain relief boot, will detach the latching mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AFL IG LLC
    Inventors: Aran James Russell Davidson, Asher Leong Raven
  • Patent number: 11309472
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method for an LED substrate and the LED substrate, the manufacturing method for the LED substrate includes following steps: S1: preparing a carrier substrate, disposing riveting points on preset positions of the carrier substrate; S2: sintering conductive lines on the carrier substrate, and covering an outer periphery of each riveting point with connecting ends of the conductive lines; and S3: riveting terminal pins to the riveting points, combining the terminal pins with the carrier substrate, and forming a conductive connection between the terminal pins and the connecting ends of the conductive lines. Compared with a traditional manufacturing method of the LED substrate, in a manufacturing process, steps of silver paste spot coating, silver paste high-temperature sintering and the like are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SANGSHEN E-COMMERCE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chenghao Li
  • Patent number: 11303068
    Abstract: Communications connectors include a housing and a plurality of substantially rigid conductive pins that are mounted in the housing. The conductive pins are arranged as a plurality of differential pairs of conductive pins that each include a tip conductive pin and a ring conductive pin. Each conductive pin has a first end that is configured to be received within a respective socket of a mating connector and a second end. The tip conductive pin of each differential pair of conductive pins crosses over its associated ring conductive pin to form a plurality of tip-ring crossover locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA
    Inventors: Amid I. Hashim, Richard Y. Mei, Golam M. Choudhury
  • Patent number: 11303077
    Abstract: Provided is an electrical connector. The electrical connector includes an insulation body, a terminal group and an isolation plate, where the terminal group and the isolation plate are received in the insulation body. The terminal group includes upper-row terminals and lower-row terminals. The isolation plate is between the upper-row terminals and the lower-row terminals. The isolation plate has a pair of upper grounding arms and a pair of lower grounding arms which are integrally connected with the isolation plate. The pair of upper grounding arms is in a same plane as the upper-row terminals and is on two sides of the upper-row terminals respectively. The pair of lower grounding arms is in a same plane as the lower-row terminals and is on two sides of the lower-row terminals respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Drapho Electronics Technology., Ltd
    Inventors: Yuhua Mao, Hongjiang Yao, Zhihong Fang
  • Patent number: 11297712
    Abstract: A circuit board for use in a modular electrical connector. Signal pathways is provided on a first surface. First ground pathways is provided on the first surface adjacent at least one of the signal pathways. Second ground pathways are provided on a second surface in line with the signal pathways. Vias extend from the first ground pathways through the circuit board to the second ground pathways, thereby placing the first ground pathways in electrical engagement with the second ground pathways. The first ground pathways, the vias and the second ground pathways extend along multiple pairs of the signal pathways and form cavities around the multiple pairs of the signal pathways to provide electrical shielding for the multiple pairs of the signal pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH
    Inventors: Keith Edwin Miller, Albert Tsang
  • Patent number: 11271350
    Abstract: A family of connectors to accommodate a single twisted pair of conductors is disclosed herein. The family of connectors includes a free connector, a fixed connector, and an adapter; the free and/or fixed connectors can be modified to accommodate various patch cord and mounting configurations. In certain embodiments, the one or more of the family of connectors adopts an RJ 45 style connector or RJ 45 style jack/receptacle configuration in a reduced footprint, e.g. one-half, one-third or one-quarter the size of a standard RJ 45 connector or jack/receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Scott Moffitt, Scott Martin Keith
  • Patent number: 11264764
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications jack including a housing having a port for receiving a plug. The jack also includes a plurality of contact springs adapted to make electrical contact with the plug when the plug is inserted into the port of the housing, and a plurality of wire termination contacts for terminating wires to the jack. The jack further includes a circuit board that electrically connects the contact springs to the wire termination contacts. The circuit board includes a multi-zone crosstalk compensation arrangement for reducing crosstalk at the jack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Bernard Harold Hammond, Jr., David Patrick Murray, Ian Robert George
  • Patent number: 11255869
    Abstract: Provided are a lead frame that allows changing of arrangement of contact electrodes, and a sensor device using the same. The lead frame is configured such that, when conductive wires having contact electrodes are developed on a plane, the conductive wires extend from the contact electrodes so as not to cross each other and are turned at first turned portions. The inner two wires are defined as a first group, and the remaining wires are defined as a second group. Each first group conductive wire has a second and a third turned portion turned in the opposite direction, the first group conductive wires are bent in opposite to the second group conductive wires, using, as an axis of a bending portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Koki Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11169333
    Abstract: A push-pull connection includes a push-pull boot connector and an adapter, which are connected together and retained with a latching mechanism. The push-pull boot connector includes a connector housing and a remote release push-pull strain relief boot. The connector housing, when pulled away from the mating face of the adapter, via the strain relief boot, will detach the latching mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: AFL IG LLC
    Inventors: Aran James Russell Davidson, Asher Leong Raven
  • Patent number: 11158980
    Abstract: A modular plug is disclosed as having a housing, a wire manager, a load bar, and a rear component each configured to snap-fit together to assemble the modular plug. The wire manager has a plurality of channels axially positioned about a central axis, each channel being configured to receive a twisted pair of wires from a telecommunications cable, and each channel having a first width and a gate having a second width smaller than the first width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Timothy W. Anderson, Jeffrey Allan Oberski, Brian J. Fitzpatrick, Shawn Phillip Tobey
  • Patent number: 11139597
    Abstract: A connector assembly includes a wire end connector for electrically connecting to a board end connector. The wire end connector includes a main body portion and an insertion portion. The insertion portion is connected to the main body portion, and the insertion portion is configured to couple to the board end connector. The main body portion is provided with a plurality of elastic claws extending outward from the main body portion to press on the board end connector when the insertion portion is coupled to the board end connector so as to stably connect the wire end connector to the board end connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: BizLink International Corp.
    Inventors: Hsin-Tuan Hsiao, Jui-Hung Chien
  • Patent number: 11122677
    Abstract: A printed circuit board (PCB) for coupling to an automotive Ethernet connection includes first and second board conduction traces, a first off-board conductor coupled to the first trace at a first contact point spaced from an edge of the PCB, and extending over the PCB from the first contact point to the edge for connection a first off-board conduction path, a second off-board conductor coupled, adjacent to the first off-board conduction path, to the second trace at a second contact point spaced from the edge of the PCB, and extending over the PCB from the second contact point to the edge for connection the second off-board conduction path. The off-board paths are a power path and a signal path. A loop in one of board conduction traces inductively couples that one the board conduction traces to a respective one of off-board conduction paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shaowu Huang, Dance Wu
  • Patent number: 11101606
    Abstract: A charging inlet includes an accommodation box and an inlet body to which the accommodation box is attached from a rear side. The accommodation box includes multiple terminals, an accommodation box body separately accommodating the terminals, multiple fuses, a fuse box integrated with the accommodation box body and separately accommodating the fuses, and multiple bus bars respectively electrically connecting the terminals to the fuses. The accommodation box body has a circular columnar shape and extends in a front-rear direction. The accommodation box includes multiple body receptacles that are open in a front end surface of the accommodation box to separately accommodate the terminals. The terminals accommodated in the body receptacles project from a front end surface of the accommodation box body. The bus bars are embedded into the accommodation box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kurita
  • Patent number: 11056811
    Abstract: A module for connecting a cable to an electrical connector. The module comprises connecting pins that are able to establish, as such, a contact between conductive wires of the cable and the tracks of a printed circuit board of the connector. A data-transferring device comprising such a module also is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS
    Inventors: Dominique Masse, Brian Gallay, Sébastien Vitrant, Cédric Chauvin
  • Patent number: 10938133
    Abstract: A high frequency optimized connector including a circuit board having a top surface and a bottom surface is disclosed. A first golden finger set is placed on the top surface. A second golden finger set is placed on the bottom surface. The first golden finger set includes multiple data golden fingers and multiple auxiliary golden fingers. One end of each data golden finger is placed on a front section of the top surface, while the other end is connected from the front section of the top surface to the bottom surface through multiple middle through holes. One end of each auxiliary golden finger is placed on the front section, while the other end is extended to a rear section of the top surface through multiple first extension lines and is connected from the rear section to the bottom surface through multiple terminal through holes on the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: NICECONN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yi-Fang Chuang, Nai-Chien Chang
  • Patent number: 10923859
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a connector to connect a printed circuit board (PCB) with a memory device, where the connector includes a housing couplable with the PCB; a first signal pin coupled with the housing, where the first signal pin includes a first portion that includes a first curve, and a second portion that extends from the first portion and includes a second curve; and a second signal pin coupled with the housing, where the second signal pin includes a third portion that includes a third curve, and a fourth portion that extends from the third portion and includes a fourth curve, where the first curve is curved in a first opposite direction relative to the third curve, and where the second curve is curved in a second opposite direction relative to the fourth curve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jaejin Lee, Jun Liao, Xiang Li, George Vergis, Christopher E. Cox
  • Patent number: 10910736
    Abstract: A charging inlet includes a first terminal including a first terminal body and a bus bar. An inlet body accommodates the first terminal body. A retaining member is attached to the inlet body from a rear side. The first terminal body includes a circular rod shaped first terminal connector. The bus bar includes a bus bar body, a bus bar-side fastening portion, and a first wire fastening portion. The bus bar body electrically connects the bus bar-side fastening portion and the first wire fastening portion. The retaining member includes a retaining body and a protruding portion. The first terminal connector is inserted through a first terminal insertion hole of the retaining body. The protruding portion is disposed along the bus bar body to retain the bus bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsushi Kurita
  • Patent number: 10868395
    Abstract: An Ethernet transmission line includes two RJ45 connectors and a thin connection line. Each RJ45 connector has a connection terminal group, and the connection terminal group includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, a fourth terminal, a fifth terminal, a sixth terminal, a seventh terminal, and an eighth terminal that are sequentially arranged. The thin connection line is connected between the two RJ45 connectors and the thin connection line includes a first flexible printed circuit board layer, a second flexible printed circuit board layer, and a spacing layer. The first flexible printed circuit board layer is provided with two first transmission lines respectively electrically connected to the third terminal and the sixth terminal. The second flexible printed circuit board layer is provided with two second transmission lines respectively electrically connected to the fourth terminal and the fifth terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: ASKEY COMPUTER CORP.
    Inventor: Chung-Min Wei
  • Patent number: 10804656
    Abstract: A connector has first group terminals and second group terminals. Each of the first group terminals is provided with one first contact portion and at least one first wire connection portion. The first contact portion is located forward of the first wire connection portion. Each of the second group terminals is provided with one second contact portion and one second wire connection portion. The second contact portion is located forward of the second wire connection portion. The first contact portion and the second contact portion are arranged in a pitch direction. In the pitch direction, between adjacent two of the first contact portions, at least two of the second contact portions are located. The first wire connection portion is located at a position different from a position of the second wire connection portion in the front-rear direction and in the up-down direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, JAE TAIWAN, LTD.
    Inventors: Junji Oosaka, Masayuki Katayanagi
  • Patent number: 10798819
    Abstract: Flexible fingers for flexible printed circuits improve the crack resistance of prior art designs. The crack resistance can be improved by encapsulating the trace inside additional layers such that the outer two layers include only the lands of the through-hole, and all other copper is etched away. The crack resistance can also be improved with strategically adding copper on layers other than the trace layer including attaching is to the land of the through-hole as a stub. These two designs can be combined to include a stub trace into a four-layered design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA
    Inventors: Brian J. Fitzpatrick, Jeffrey Cook, Jitendra Hansalia, Amid Ihsan Hashim
  • Patent number: 10734765
    Abstract: A telecommunications connector includes a housing defining a port for receiving a plug. A circuit board has a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, with a dielectric layer situated between the first and second conductive layers. A plurality of conductive vias extend through the circuit board, and receive a plurality of electrical connection members and a plurality of wire termination contacts. A plurality of conductive tracks electrically interconnect selected ones of the plurality of conductive vias so as to electrically connect the plurality of electrical connection members and the plurality of wire termination contacts. A crosstalk compensation arrangement provides crosstalk compensation between selected conductive tracks of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Bernard Harold Hammond, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10721841
    Abstract: A heat dissipator structure includes a heat-dissipation base and a conductive metal block. The heat-dissipation base includes a substrate and a plurality of heat-dissipating fins disposed on the substrate. A receiving portion and a limit sliding block are disposed on the substrate, with the limit sliding block disposed on the receiving portion and movable within a restrictive interval. The conductive metal block includes a body portion, an assembling portion disposed beside the body portion, and a heat dissipation plane disposed on the body portion to face away from the assembling portion and be in contact with an electronic component, with the assembling portion disposed on the receiving portion, a positioning slot disposed on the assembling portion to hold the limit sliding block laterally and keep the heat dissipation plane flat, and at least one resilient unit disposed between the assembling portion plane and the receiving portion plane to provide resilient support to the conductive metal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: YU QIN TECHNOLOGY, LTD.
    Inventor: Chia-Sheng Wu
  • Patent number: 10680385
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and systems for minimizing alien crosstalk between connectors. Specifically, the methods and systems relate to isolation and compensation techniques for minimizing alien crosstalk between connectors for use with high-speed data cabling. A frame can be configured to receive a number of connectors. Shield structures may be positioned to isolate at least a subset of the connectors from one another. The connectors can be positioned to move at least a subset of the connectors away from alignment with a common plane. A signal compensator may be configured to adjust a data signal to compensate for alien crosstalk. The connectors are configured to efficiently and accurately propagate high-speed data signals by, among other functions, minimizing alien crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Bernard Harold Hammond, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10673195
    Abstract: Various implementations of lead frame style communications connectors are disclosed. In some implementations, a lead frame style communications connector may include a plurality of conductors each including a plug contact region and an opposing cable conductor termination region. Each of the plurality of conductors may be arranged in one of a first subset of conductors and a second subset of conductors. The lead frame style communications connector a mandrel separating the first subset of conductors from the second subset of conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Robert E. Fransen, Louann M. Devine, Frank M. Straka
  • Patent number: 10651606
    Abstract: A QSFP-DD receptacle connector received within a cage includes an insulative housing and a contact module assembly received within the housing. The contact module includes a plurality of horizontal wafers stacked with one another, and each wafer includes an insulator and a plurality of contacts integrally formed therein wherein each contact has a front contact sections extending forwardly into a mating cavity formed in the housing, and a rear connecting section connected to a cable rather than to the printed circuit board. The receptacle connector associated with a cable is attached to a chassis. The cage optionally forms therein two mating spaces respectively receiving two receptacle connectors with the associated cables extending rearwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Terrance F. Little
  • Patent number: 10637196
    Abstract: A modular jack connector compensates for plug characteristics via a controlled primary compensation in the immediate vicinity of the connector interface. A jack contact assembly is positioned within a jack housing and includes first and second sets of elongate contacts each having a plug contact portion and a signal output portion. Each elongate contact is configured such that their respective plug contact portions are coplanar and a signal path is defined between their plug contact portions and their signal output portions. A flexible circuit board is coupled proximate to the plug contact portions, and configured to provide capacitance compensation between respective contacts engaged thereby, wherein the capacitance compensation is offset from a signal path defined between the plug contact portions and the corresponding signal output portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Bel Fuse (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited
    Inventors: Andrew David Baum, Yakov Belopolsky, David Henry Gutter, Derek Imschwseiler, Richard D. Marowsky, Mark Ellis
  • Patent number: 10637199
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the field of telecommunication, and more particularly, to the field of connectors such as plugs and/or jacks used to interconnect electronic equipment. In an embodiment, the present invention is a shielded RJ45 network jack with an inter-jack connection method that has an electrical disengagement point outside of any electrical mating points, while still allowing for a relatively short distance to compensation from the plug/jack mating interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Joshua A. Valenti, Satish I. Patel, Robert E. Fransen, Michael B. Verbeek
  • Patent number: 10637993
    Abstract: An Ethernet networking system is disclosed. The system includes a first network device having an interface to receive Ethernet data from a first Ethernet source. An Ethernet media converter couples the network device to telephone wires. The Ethernet media converter includes a first Ethernet transceiver PHY integrated circuit (IC) having a first system-side interface for coupling to a first transmission media including multiple pairs of wires and a first line-side interface. The Ethernet media converter further includes a second Ethernet transceiver PHY IC having a second line-side interface connected to the first line-side interface, and a second system-side interface for coupling to the telephone wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Aquantia Corp.
    Inventor: Kamal Dalmia
  • Patent number: 10588551
    Abstract: A sensor cable support device is described. The sensor cable support device can be used to implemented in wearable monitoring device to support a proximal portion of a sensor cable and electrically connect the proximal portion with a sensing circuitry. A distal portion of the sensor cable is insertable into a person's skin. The sensor cable support device may include a rigid body defining a pair of openings, a set legs attached to the rigid body, and a pair of electrical traces extending between the pair of openings and distal ends of a pair of legs of the set of legs. The pair of openings may be sized and configured to receive a pair of pucks that mechanically retain a sensor cable to the body and electrically connect the sensor cable with the electrical traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Pey-Jiun Ko, Arthur Lin, Timothy Stowe
  • Patent number: 10559928
    Abstract: A shell member that is ground-connected to a connected object is constituted by a first shell that faces the connected object and entirely covers a contact member and a second shell that faces the first shell in a part between a connecting object and the connected object. Each of the first and second shells is provided with ground contact points with a ground conducting path of the connecting object and a ground conducting path of the connected object, with a signal transmission path sandwiched between ground paths by the first and second shells and configured to achieve satisfactory electromagnetic shielding of the signal transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masataka Muro
  • Patent number: 10511129
    Abstract: A power connector may include a plurality of fuses; a first terminal connected to a first wire connected to a power source and the first terminal including a plurality of first terminal portions for supplying power; an intermediate terminal connected to a second wire connected to the power source and the first terminal including a plurality of first clips each connected to first end portions of the plurality of fuses; and a plurality of second terminals each including a second clip connected to each of the second end portions of the plurality of fuses and a second terminal portion for supplying power, distributing the power to a plurality of devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Yun Jae Jung, Han Joon Jeon
  • Patent number: 10498080
    Abstract: A electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a mating face and a loading face opposite to each other. A plurality of partitions are formed in the housing with corresponding passageways in which a plurality of contacts are received. The partition includes a main body and a protrusion extending on the loading face. The protrusion includes a pair of chamfers with a recess in one side to receive the possible burrs due to the injection molding so as to allow the sealing plate intimately cover the loading face with superior waterproofing effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR Co., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Guo-Hua Zhang, Ling-Jie Meng, Xiao-Bo Du, Chun-Ming Yu, Er-Dong Ma
  • Patent number: 10490945
    Abstract: A contact assembly comprises a first pair of contact elements connected to a first pair of signal lines in a first connector, a second pair of contact elements connected to a second pair of signal lines in a second connector, and a first electrical arrangement connecting a first contact element of the first pair of contact elements and the first contact element of the second pair of contact elements. A second contact element of the first pair of contact elements and a first contact element of the second pair of contact elements are positioned adjacent one another. A capacitance of the first electrical arrangement corresponds to a capacitance between the second contact element of the first pair of contact elements and the first contact element of the second pair of contact elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Bert Bergner, Carlos Almeida
  • Patent number: 10439329
    Abstract: A modular connector plug includes controlled capacitances to compensate for near end cross talk at the connector interface created by interaction of signals having signal frequencies in a data transmission bandwidth. A printed circuit board (PCB) is configured to receive cable pairs, and a connector assembly includes first and fourth plug contacts corresponding to the first cable pair and second and third plug contacts corresponding to the second cable pair. First ends of each contact are connected to the PCB, and second ends extend in parallel with each other and transversely to the PCB length, collectively defining a contact interface proximate the contact end. Each contact has a maximum width at the contact interface, with at least one plug contact having a maximum width greater than the maximum width of another plug contact. Each contact accordingly defines an electrode of a compensating capacitance formed between adjacent pairs of plug contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Bel Fuse (Macao Commercial Offshore) Limited
    Inventors: Richard D. Marowsky, Yakov Belopolsky, David H. Gutter