Distinct Contact Secured To Panel Circuit Patents (Class 439/78)
  • Patent number: 11927211
    Abstract: Disclosed are a fastening system and a method for fastening a fastening element made of a first material to a substrate made of a substrate material. A blind hole is made in the substrate, and a fastening element is anchored in the blind hole. A shaft of the fastening element defines a fastening direction and has a circumferential surface which is slanted or stepped in relation to the fastening direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Uwe Popp, Simon Stahel, Jens Schneider
  • Patent number: 11916332
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having an island and a receiving channel; plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving channel; and a pair of holding members secured to two opposite ends of the insulative housing and exposed to the receiving channel, each holding member having a first part and a second and third parts at two opposite ends of the first part, wherein the second part of each holding member has a bottom plate, a reinforcing tab extending upwardly from the bottom plate, and a resilient arm extending upwardly from the bottom plate and located proximal to associated third part than the reinforcing tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Ming-Ching Chen
  • Patent number: 11901655
    Abstract: A pin terminal includes a bar-like base material and a plating layer covering a predetermined region of the base material. A constituent material of the base material is pure copper or a copper alloy. The plating layer includes a tin-based layer made of metal containing tin. One end side of the base material includes a tip covering portion covering an entire region in a circumferential direction of the base material. The tin-based layer includes the tip covering portion. The tip covering portion includes a thin film portion and a thick film portion at positions different in the circumferential direction of the base material. The thin film portion is provided in contact with the base material. The number of whiskers present on a surface of the thin film portion is 15 or less in a square visual field having one side length of 0.35 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Mikio Sato, Akihiro Kato, Mitsuhiro Kumondai, Yoshifumi Saka
  • Patent number: 11861215
    Abstract: An electronics assembly including a plurality of midplanes positioned between and coupled to a plurality of electronic components at one side of the plurality of midplanes and at least one electronic component at an opposite side of the plurality of midplanes in a manner so that the midplanes are vertically oriented in parallel relative to each other so as to define spaces therebetween. The midplanes each include electrical traces configured to send signals among and between the plurality of electronic components at the one side of the midplanes and the at least one electronic component at the opposite side of the midplanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: JABIL INC.
    Inventor: Fengquan Zheng
  • Patent number: 11806632
    Abstract: An educational game includes a controller and a computer to operate software; a game board, having a first transparent layer with slots arranged in a grid; a second layer housing a plurality of LEDs; a third layer housing the controller and computer; and an activation button; blocks to engage with the slots, each of the blocks having an encoding on a bottom surface; the blocks represent circuit elements and the slots represent electrically active slots for the circuit elements, thereby forming a circuit; the blocks allow a user to create a user modeled circuit; and the computer creates the user modeled circuit and analyzes the user modeled circuit to create a visualization feedback associated with the user modeled circuit, the visual feedback providing one or more unique LED patterns and one or more LED brightness variables to symbolize current flow and power intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventor: Asim Gazi
  • Patent number: 11804667
    Abstract: A board-to-board connector assembly includes first and second connector assemblies and a connector interconnect between the first and second connector assemblies. Each connector assembly includes an outer shell and a connector received in a cavity of the outer shell. The connector has a connector body holding contacts in a card slot, which receives a circuit card edge of an add-in card. The outer shell has an outer board guide configured to engage the add-in card and guide mating of the outer shell with the add-in card. The outer shell has a latch configured to latchably engage the add-in card to secure the connector to the add-in card. The connector interposer electrically interconnects the contacts of the connector assemblies to electrically connect the add-in cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Randall Robert Henry, Michael John Phillips, Michael David Herring, Brandon Michael Matthews
  • Patent number: 11804674
    Abstract: A contact module, a female connector and a male connector, wherein the female contact unit of the female connector includes signal contacts arranged in pairs and ground contacts corresponding to the signal contacts, a side surface of each signal contact facing the corresponding ground contact includes a signal contact portion in conductive contact with the signal contact portion of an adapter connector, a side surface of each ground contact facing the corresponding signal contact includes a shielding contact portion in electrical contact with the ground contact of the adapter connector, and a plugging space for plugging the contact module of the adapter connector is between the signal contacts and the ground contacts. The female connector enables the adapted contact unit to be clamped between the corresponding signal contact and the corresponding ground contact to realize corresponding conduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignees: AVIC JONHON OPTRONIC TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., NOKIA SHANGHAI BELL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lufei Ma, Junfeng Yuan, Xianjun Pan, Jinhui Fu
  • Patent number: 11769969
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing; a cage surrounding the housing; first contacts that are located in the housing and that transmit high-speed signals; second contacts that are located in the housing, that transmit low-speed signals, and that each include a portion that extends from a top surface of the housing; first cables connected to the first contacts; and second cables connected to the second contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: SAMTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Jignesh H. Shah, Jean Karlo Williams Barnet
  • Patent number: 11637389
    Abstract: An electrical interconnect for passing high speed signals through an electronic system with a high density of signals and high signal integrity. The interconnect includes an electrical connector and a transition portion of a printed circuit board to which the connector is mounted. Signal conductors are connected to pads on the surface of the PCB using edge-to-pad mounting. The pads align with intermediate portions of the signal conductors such that transitions within the connector that could degrade signal integrity are avoided. The signal conductors may be positioned as individually shielded broadside coupled pairs extending in rows within the connector. Surface traces on the PCB connect the pads to signal vias aligned for vertical routing out of the connector footprint. Ground planes underlying the surface traces facilitate a transition from the signal paths in the connector to those in the PCB with low mode conversion avoiding resonances in the connector shields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: John Robert Dunham, Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Mark W. Gailus, David Levine, Allan Astbury, Vysakh Sivarajan, Daniel B. Provencher, Eric Leo
  • Patent number: 11581677
    Abstract: Provided is a connector protection member for protecting a connector. The connector includes a housing having a center raised portion including a raised portion end wall, a raised portion end side wall, and a raised portion end upper surface connecting the raised portion end wall, and the raised portion end side wall. A raised portion side surface protection portion of the connector protection member includes: a side portion covers part of the raised portion end wall and part of the raised portion end side wall, and a transition portion formed continuously to the side portion covers a three-surface connection portion formed by an end wall connection portion between the raised portion end wall and the raised portion end upper surface and a side wall connection portion between the raised portion end side wall and the raised portion end upper surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki Kobayashi, Junho Kim, Kouhei Oda
  • Patent number: 11546984
    Abstract: A PCB bridge for interconnection of two or more semiconductor chips for data communication between the semiconductor chips includes a plurality of metal strips; and a dielectric material disposed in between the plurality of metal strips. The PCB bridge is employed in a vertical direction in a semiconductor module for interconnection of two or more semiconductor chips, the vertical direction of the PCB bridge provides a flexible impedance matching by adjusting the dielectric material and a trace width of the PCB bridge, and the vertical direction of the PCB bridge avoids signal reflections by matching the impedance to a source, and a trace length of the PCB bridge is limited by spacing in between two semiconductor chips which further limited inductance of the trace of the PCB bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Cloud Light Technology Limited
    Inventor: Ka Kit Wong
  • Patent number: 11527841
    Abstract: An electrical connection device for connecting a plug, preferably a HV pin header, to a printed circuit board in a motor vehicle, having the following: at least one first electrical connection-device for contacting at least one assigned plug-connector contact; at least one second electrical connection-device contact for contacting at least one assigned printed-circuit-board contact wherein at least one first connection-device contact at least one second connection-device contact are connected to one another, wherein the electrical connection device is configured in such a manner that at least one printed-circuit-board contact is able to be selectively connected to assigned plug-connector contacts which differ in terms of the relative disposal thereof in relation to the printed-circuit-board contact and/or differ from one another in that said plug-connector contacts are a component part of plug connectors which differ from one another in terms of the configuration of the respective plug-connector contacts ther
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Harald Bachmann, Marco Walther, Andreas Janker, Carsten Siebold, Rene Landmann, Hans Rechberger
  • Patent number: 11511268
    Abstract: A pillar-shaped honeycomb structure including an outer peripheral side wall, a plurality of first cells provided on an inner peripheral side of the outer peripheral side wall, the first cells extending from a first end surface to a second end surface, each opening on the first end surface and having a sealing portion with an average void ratio of 4% or less on the second end surface, and a plurality of second cells provided on the inner peripheral side of the outer peripheral side wall, the second cells extending from the first end surface to the second end surface, each having a sealing portion with an average void ratio of 4% or less on the first end surface and opening on the second end surface, the first cells and the second cells being alternately arranged adjacent to each other with a partition wall interposed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: NGK Insulators, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Ueda, Shungo Nagai, Hiroaki Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11485801
    Abstract: [Problems] An object of the present invention is to provide a crystalline radical polymerizable composition which is excellent in flowability and is easy to handle. [Solution Means] The crystalline radical polymerizable composition for sealing electrical and electronic component according to the present invention is characterized by comprising at least a crystalline radical polymerizable compound, an inorganic filler, a silane coupling agent, and a radical polymerization initiator. In addition, in a preferred embodiment of the crystalline radical polymerizable composition for sealing electrical and electronic component according to the present invention, the crystalline radical polymerizable compound is characterized by comprising one or more selected from unsaturated polyester, epoxy (meth) acrylate, urethane (meth) acrylate, polyester (meth) acrylate, -polyether (meth) acrylate, radical polymerizable monomer and radical polymerizable polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Japan U-Pica Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuichi Ozawa, Tomohito Oyama
  • Patent number: 11439035
    Abstract: A rack adapted for receiving one or more components is disclosed. The rack includes a backplane, a pair of side panels extending from the backplane and internal support members on each side to receive and mechanically guide an initial alignment of components upon their initial insertion in the rack. A pair of male connectors mounted to the backplane is configured to mate with a corresponding pair of female connectors of each component to mechanically guide a final alignment of each component when the component is further inserted in the rack. Mechanical guidance may also be provided by, or supplemented with, a connection capable of providing liquid cooling to the rack. A system including the rack and the component inserted in the rack is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: OVH
    Inventors: Christophe Maurice Thibaut, Etienne Zahm, Henryk Klaba, Jules Hermann Bonenfant
  • Patent number: 11424565
    Abstract: A connector assembly can be attached to a surface of a substrate and has high airtightness to improve reliability. The connector assembly includes: a connector including a connector body and a terminal attached to the body; and a protective member including a wall extending in a longitudinal direction or a width direction of the body and an accommodation unit in which at least a part of four sides of a periphery is defined by the wall, the protective member being attached to the surface of the substrate with the connector accommodated in the accommodation unit. The protective member includes a protective member body made of an insulating material and a protective metal fitting made of a conductive metal integrally formed with the protective member body, and the protective member is placed on the surface of the substrate while coupled to the connector with the connector accommodated in the accommodation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Someya, Daiki Tanaka, Satoru Teruki, Yuki Seki
  • Patent number: 11411333
    Abstract: A connector assembly can be easily and certainly attached to a surface of a substrate while having a simple configuration, and high airtightness or watertightness is certainly maintained to improve reliability. The connector assembly includes: a connector including a connector body, a terminal attached to the connector body, and a reinforcing metal fitting attached to the connector body, the connector being attached to a surface of a substrate; and a protective member including a pair of parallel first walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the connector body, a pair of parallel second walls extending in a width direction of the connector body, the pair of second walls being connected to both ends of each of the pair of first walls, and an opening in which four sides of periphery are defined by the first wall and the second wall, the protective member being attachable to the surface of the substrate with the connector accommodated in the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Toshiyuki Someya, Daiki Tanaka, Satoru Teruki, Yuki Seki
  • Patent number: 11404807
    Abstract: A receptacle connector having a stable contact point structure and a rigid structure, and a connector assembly including the same, is provided. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing, a plurality of receptacle terminals which are retained and supported in the receptacle housing in a first direction, and one pair of receptacle metal members which are provided on both ends of the receptacle housing in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Sang Yong Ko, Jin Hyup Chang, Kwang Sik Kim
  • Patent number: 11286916
    Abstract: An SMA actuator arrangement is assembled using a strut element shaped to comprise a sacrificial strut body and crimp tabs held apart by the sacrificial strut body. A SMA wire is laid across the crimp tabs which are folded and pressed to form crimps holding the SMA wire. The crimps are then attached to static and moving parts, after which the sacrificial strut body is removed. The method allows the crimping to be performed without hindrance from the static and moving parts, the sacrificial strut body holding the relative locations of the crimps prior to attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Cambridge Mechatronics Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Matthew Bunting, James Howarth, Andrew Benjamin David Brown
  • Patent number: 11194539
    Abstract: A communication device includes USB Type-C (USB-C) port to receive a media data presented at a user computing device, a signal converter circuit to convert the media data into a formatted media data, a hardware processor, communicatively coupled to the signal converter and the USB-C port, to compress, according to an encoding scheme, the formatted media data into a compressed media data stream, and a wireless transmission interface to transmit, using a wireless network, the compressed media data stream to a large-format display device for presentation of the media data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignees: GUANGZHOU SHIYUAN ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., GUANGZHOU SHIRUI ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
    Inventor: Yanxiong Mu
  • Patent number: 11166401
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a dye and pry process for removing a surface mount technology (SMT) dual in-line memory module (DIMM) from card assemblies. Aspects of the invention include immersing a semiconductor package assembly in a solution comprising dye and placing the immersed semiconductor package assembly under vacuum pressure. Vacuum conditions ensure that the dye solution is pulled into any cracks in the solder formed between the semiconductor package assembly and the SMT DIMM. The package assembly is dried, and a dummy card stock is installed in the SMT DIMM using an epoxy. The SMT DIMM is then removed by applying a force to an exposed cavity between the dummy card stock and the semiconductor package assembly. The semiconductor package assembly and the SMT DIMM can then be inspected for the dye to locate cracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Theron Lee Lewis, David Braun
  • Patent number: 11156639
    Abstract: A probe card module including a probe card assembly and a strengthening structure is provided. The probe card assembly includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a plurality of probes protruding from the first surface. The second surface includes a central zone and a peripheral zone surrounding the central zone. Projections of the probes on the second surface are located at the central zone. The strengthening structure is disposed on the second surface and includes two support bases which protrude from the peripheral zone and are away from each other, and the strengthening structure also includes an arc-shaped reinforcement assembly connected to the two support bases, where the arc-shaped reinforcement assembly protrudes toward and leans against the central zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignees: Global Unichip Corporation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Chieh Liao, Yu-Min Sun, Chih-Feng Cheng
  • Patent number: 11146001
    Abstract: A press-fit terminal includes: a cylindrical pin having a narrow portion; and a contact section. The pin has a large diameter portion that has a diameter larger than a diameter of the narrow portion. The contact section includes an elastic contact piece to come into contact with a through hole of a circuit board that is a press-fit attachment object. The contact section is fitted to the narrow portion in a way that enables the contact section to move between a first position and a second position, the first position being a position at which the elastic contact piece does not come into contact with the large diameter portion during attachment to the circuit board, the second position being a position at which the elastic contact piece comes into contact with the large diameter portion during a withdrawal from the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Endo, Takuya Takeda
  • Patent number: 11113224
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a display driver board with multiple TYPE-C full-function interfaces, including a first TYPE-C interface and a second TYPE-C interface, where the two TYPE-C interfaces are connected to a first connection device, a second connection device, a PD power control circuit, a protocol chip, a display signal processing circuit, and a USB HUB chip, respectively; the PD power control circuit is connected to a system power supply and the protocol chip; and the protocol chip is connected to forward/reverse insertion control signal ends of the first and second SWITCH chips, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN PARAMOUNT TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Jie Li
  • Patent number: 11096300
    Abstract: A bus bar includes: a fixing portion fixed to a fixing member; extending portions individually extending from the fixing portion; terminal portions extending from tips of the extending portions respectively and fixed and electrically connected to a substrate with the terminal portions inserted in terminal insertion holes of the substrate; and curved portions provided in the extending portions respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiaki Chida, Akinori Maruyama
  • Patent number: 11056823
    Abstract: In an electric connector, a waterproof member having an internal waterproof portion and an external waterproof portion is provided in a main body portion. The internal waterproof portion and the external waterproof portion are integrated. Accordingly, the internal waterproof portion covers exposed portions of an upper contact and a lower contact and prevents water intrusion along the upper contact and the lower contact. In addition, the external waterproof portion prevents water intrusion between the electric connector and an inner wall of an accommodating space of an electronic device by surrounding the entire circumference of the main body portion. Since the internal waterproof portion and the external waterproof portion are integrated in this manner, both internal waterproofing and external waterproofing can be realized with the simple configuration of the single waterproof member in the electric connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventors: Sho Suzuki, Atsushi Nara, Takashi Sasaki
  • Patent number: 10990560
    Abstract: A USB-C controller, disposed on an integrated circuit (IC), comprises a first pair of terminals to communicate with a first communication protocol that is other than USB, a second pair of terminals to communicate with a second communication protocol that is other than USB, and a third pair of terminals, each of which is to be coupled to a corresponding SBU1 terminal or SBU2 terminal of a Type-C receptacle. The USB-C controller further includes: a multiplexer to selectively couple the first pair of terminals to the third pair of terminals and the second pair of terminals to the third pair of terminals: and logic to control the multiplexer according to a mode enabled within a configuration channel (CC) signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Arun Khamesra, Anup Nayak, Partha Mondal, Hemant Prakash Vispute, Ravi Konduru
  • Patent number: 10978821
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a rear base and a front tongue with two opposite surfaces, plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to the two opposite surfaces of the tongue, and a deep drawn sleeve having a front part of a first transverse dimension and a rear part of a second transverse dimension less than the first transverse dimension, wherein the rear part of the sleeve is mounted to the base of the insulative housing and has a notch, and the base of the insulative housing has a restraining rib engaging the notch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignees: FUYU ELECTRONICAL TECHNOLOGY (HUAIAN) CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jun Zhao, Cai-Yun Zhang
  • Patent number: 10784613
    Abstract: An electrical connector, used for electrically connecting a chip module to a circuit board, includes: an insulating body, provided with multiple accommodating grooves penetrating through the insulating body; and multiple conductive terminals, correspondingly accommodated in the accommodating grooves. Each conductive terminal includes a first terminal and a second terminal independently provided. The first terminal has a first connecting portion and an elastic arm, and the elastic arm has a contact portion to be in contact with the chip module. The second terminal has a second connecting portion and a conducting portion to be electrically connected with the circuit board. At least one fixing groove is provided on at least one of the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion, and the first terminal and the second terminal are mated and fixed along a vertical direction by the at least one fixing groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ted Ju, Chien Chih Ho
  • Patent number: 10729021
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing, a connector, a circuit board and a cap. The housing may have a first opening, a second opening and a third opening. The connector (i) may be configured to seal the first opening of the housing and (ii) may have one or more pins. The circuit board (i) may be disposed inside the housing and (ii) may have one or more vias configured to receive the pins. The second opening may be configured to transfer the circuit board into the housing. The third opening may be configured to receive a comb tool that presses the pins into the vias. The comb tool may be removed from the third opening after the pins are disposed in the vias. The cap may be configured to seal the third opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: VEONEER US INC.
    Inventor: Luis Fernando Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10714859
    Abstract: A receptacle electrical connector includes a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, a main insulator, a secondary insulator, a shielding plate and a shielding shell. The main insulator has a plurality of first terminal grooves and a plurality of second terminal grooves. Each first terminal accommodated in the corresponding first terminal groove is fitted with the corresponding first terminal groove in interference and in face-to-face contact. Each second terminal accommodated in the corresponding second terminal groove is fitted with the corresponding second terminal groove in interference and in face-to-face contact. The secondary insulator is engaged with the main insulator to limit each first terminal in the corresponding first terminal groove and to limit each second terminal in the corresponding second terminal groove. The shielding plate is located between the first terminals and the second terminals. The shielding shell surrounds the main insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Fan-Cheng Huang, Ying-Te Lin
  • Patent number: 10680387
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a terminal module including a base, a mating tongue, a row of first terminals, a row of second terminals and a shielding plate. Terminals comprise contacting portions, middle portions and leg portions. Each row of terminals comprises three pairs of differential signal terminals, and grounding terminals and power terminals. The shielding plate defines a first row of openings corresponding to the contacting portions, a second row of openings and third row of openings both corresponding to the middle portion. The first row of openings are aligned with the contacting portions of the first and second terminals in a vertical direction and the second row of openings are at least aligned with gaps between every two adjacent terminals while the shielding plate defines no opening corresponding to the middle portions of the three pair of differential signal terminals so as improve shielding performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignees: FOXCONN (KUNSHAN) COMPUTER CONNECTOR CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shan-Yong Cheng, Feng Bao, Quan Wang, Wen He
  • Patent number: 10648459
    Abstract: An SMA actuator arrangement is assembled using a strut element shaped to comprise a sacrificial strut body and crimp tabs held apart by the sacrificial strut body. A SMA wire is laid across the crimp tabs which are folded and pressed to form crimps holding the SMA wire. The crimps are then attached to static and moving parts, after which the sacrificial strut body is removed. The method allows the crimping to be performed without hindrance from the static and moving parts, the sacrificial strut body holding the relative locations of the crimps prior to attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Stephen Matthew Bunting, James Howarth, Andrew Benjamin David Brown
  • Patent number: 10601186
    Abstract: A plug electrical connector including an insulator, a plurality of elastic terminals, at least one shielding spring, and an outer shell is provided. The elastic terminals are disposed in the insulator and arranged along an axial direction. The elastic terminals includes at least one grounding terminal arranged at a first position or a last position of the elastic terminals. The shielding spring is assembled to an exterior surface of the insulator. A portion of the shielding spring on the axial direction is disposed on a deformable path of the grounding terminal. The insulator, the elastic terminals, and the shielding spring are accommodated in the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Advanced Connectek Inc.
    Inventors: Min-Lung Chien, Ming-Yung Chang, Cheng-Che Tsai, Ling-Tai Liu
  • Patent number: 10541485
    Abstract: An on-board diagnostic connector terminal is provided, including a plurality of first pins, a plurality of second pins and a substrate. Each first pin includes a first section and a second section. The first section connects to the second section. The first section includes a first connection end, and the second section includes a first soldering end. Each second pin includes a second connection end and a second soldering end. The first pins and the second pins are disposed on the substrate. The first soldering ends and the second soldering ends are arranged on a first straight line. At least one first connection end and the second connection end corresponding thereto are arranged linearly in a first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to the first straight line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.
    Inventors: Tien-Chun Hung, Guo-Cheng Tsai, Cheng-Huang Chen
  • Patent number: 10490910
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulating body, provided with multiple accommodating holes; multiple terminals, respectively accommodated in the accommodating holes, where each of the terminals is provided with a clamping portion; and multiple solder posts, each being clamped by the clamping portion of one of the terminals. A height of each solder post is greater than a maximum width of each solder post. Each solder post is formed by a first base and a second base connected with each other. The clamping portion clamps the first base. The second base is located outside the clamping portion. A height of the first base and a height of the second base are both greater than one half of the maximum width of each solder post. The height of the second base is greater than 0.15 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ted Ju, Zuo Feng Jin
  • Patent number: 10446959
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method including a cable apparatus that is configured to be physically coupled to a printed circuit board. The cable apparatus includes a cable connector including at least one prong configured to be coupled within an aperture of the printed circuit board and an opening configured to receive an additional connector. The cable apparatus also includes a plurality of flexible cables coupled to the cable connector. Connecting portions of each of the plurality of flexible cables positioned within the opening of the receiving housing and configured to be operably coupled to the additional connector. The at least one prong does not transmit a signal into the printed circuit board and is configured to be press-fit within the aperture of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Groom, David Michael Davis
  • Patent number: 10418756
    Abstract: To avoid the disadvantages of additionally required space, unwanted crosstalk and deterioration in transmission properties that are concomitant with a separate transformer, a plug connector is proposed, comprising: a plug base with terminal contacts for external contacting of the plug connector, base-side connection contacts, and a transformer unit for galvanic separation in a conductive path between the terminal contacts and the base-side connection contacts and a plug body with plug contacts, the plug base and the plug body enclosing a contact element for connecting the base-side connection contacts to the plug contacts and the contact element being planar in a plane perpendicular to a plug-in direction of the plug body. A shielding element for the plug connector is also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: HARTING (Zhuhai) Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lars Fennen, Junmin Guo, Yingtao Wang
  • Patent number: 10411409
    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: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE, INC. OF NORTH CAROLINA
    Inventors: Amid I. Hashim, Richard Y. Mei, Golam M. Choudhury
  • Patent number: 10340614
    Abstract: An electronic device includes: a substrate; a housing which covers the substrate; a conductive pin mounted on one edge portion of the substrate. The conductive pin projects from the substrate along a plane of the substrate, the conductive pin includes a projection portion and a soldered portion which is soldered to the substrate, and the soldered portion includes a conducting portion which is electrically conduction with a circuit wiring of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hirotaka Fukui
  • Patent number: 10314193
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic control device. The present invention provides an electronic control device including: a housing which includes sidewalls that are disposed in a polygonal shape, and a bottom plate that closes one side of the sidewalls; and a PCB-connector assembly which includes multiple PCB-connector modules each including a printed circuit board and a connector connected to one side of the printed circuit board, in which the adjacent PCB-connector modules are connected through a flexible connecting portion, in which the PCB-connector assembly is coupled to the housing in a state in which the multiple PCB-connector modules are folded at the flexible connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: HYUNDAI AUTRON CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Chang Ju Kim
  • Patent number: 10312635
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a terminal module enclosed within a metallic shell. The terminal module including two contact module commonly sandwich a shielding plate therebetween. In each contact module, before forming the complete terminal module, the bridges between the contacting sections of the neighboring contacts are removed by punching in a direction from the inner hidden surface to the outer exposed surface of the contacting section of the contact. Such an outward punching results in the barbs extending away from the shielding plate after the whole terminal module is formed so as to avoid the defect due to the unexpected relatively tiny distance between the contacting sections of the contacts and the shielding plate in the mating tongue along the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Jun Zhao
  • Patent number: 10305204
    Abstract: A cable bypass assembly is disclosed for use in providing a high frequency transmission line that connect a chip package on a circuit board to connector spaced apart from the chip package. The bypass cable assembly has a structure that allows for low loss between the chip package and the connector. Multiple cables can be used to provide a number of differentially coupled channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher D. Wanha, Brian Keith Lloyd, Ebrahim Abunasrah, Rehan Khan, Javier Resendez, Michael Rost
  • Patent number: 10290983
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a substrate, a male connector, and conductive members. The substrate includes conductors on a surface of the substrate. The male connector is mounted on the substrate and insertable into a female connector complying with a USB Type-C standard. The conductive members are mounted in the male connector, each of the conductive members electrically connecting one of twenty-four terminals complying with the USB Type-C standard mounted in the female connector with one of the conductors when the male connector is inserted into the female connector, and a number of the conductive members being less than twenty-four.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: TOSHIBA MEMORY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shiro Harashima, Masayuki Dohi
  • Patent number: 10249991
    Abstract: High-speed data connectors having a variety of different implementations to address unwanted electromagnetic radiation and interference are described. In some instances, resonant unit structures are added within the existing connector cavity that absorb and dampen unwanted electromagnetic radiation. In other instances, resonant unit structures are added to the exterior of the connector to reduce and eliminate surface currents that can occur on the solid metal shield of the connector. In these and other instances, the resonant unit structure can be formed from a stacked structure having a resonant structure arranged in close proximity to some of the connector pins to absorb unwanted radiation from those pins. The absorbed energy is transferred to ground through other components in the stack. In still other instances, various different materials are provided to replace the conventional plastic material that is used to keep the connector pins in place and in alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Akshay Mohan, Jagan Vaidyanathan Rajagopalan, Deepak Pai Hosadurga
  • Patent number: 10218088
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes an insulating body, a first terminal group and a second terminal group received in the insulating body and arranged into an upper row and a lower row, a shielding sheet fixed in the insulating body and located between the first terminal group and the second terminal group, and a cable having a ground core wire. The first terminal group includes a first ground terminal, and the first ground terminal has a first soldering portion. The second terminal group includes a second ground terminal, and the second ground terminal has a second soldering portion. The ground core wire is located between the first soldering portion and the second soldering portion and is in electrical contact with the first soldering portion, the second soldering portion and the shielding sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Wen Chang Chang
  • Patent number: 10205263
    Abstract: A connector (10) disclosed by this specification includes a potting material (50), a housing (20) having a recess (21), the potting material (50) being accommodated in the housing (20), a plurality of terminals (40), and a plurality of separation walls (26, 27). The separation walls (26, 27) each located between a pair of adjacent ones of the terminals (40) include passing portions (21B, 21C, 21D) allowing the passage of the potting material (50) at positions deviated from straight lines each connecting a pair of adjacent ones of the terminals (40) when viewed from a projecting direction of the terminals (40), and the passing portions (21B, 21C, 21D) are located closer to the bottom surface (22) of the recess (21) than projecting ends of the separation walls (26, 27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tsutomu Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 10116107
    Abstract: A connector production method includes the steps of holding a flat plate conductor with a first insulator, joining central portions of one or more contacts to the first insulator such that front end portions of the one or more contacts are exposed at a front part of the first insulator and rear end portions of the one or more contacts project from a rear part of the first insulator, placing a shell made of metal over the first insulator such that the shell covers outer peripheral portions of the one or more contacts, fixing and electrically connecting the shell to the flat plate conductor, and forming a second insulator such that the second insulator covers the rear part of the first insulator and a rear part of the shell while the rear end portions of the one or more contacts project from the second insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Tada, Katsumi Arai, Toshiyuki Shimoda
  • Patent number: 10096924
    Abstract: A header connector includes a header housing and a contact array of header contacts coupled to the header housing. The header contact has a mating pin at a mating end. The mating pin has a first side and a second side. The mating pin has a tip at a front of the mating pin. The mating pin has a top mating interface remote from and rearward of the tip configured to engage a first flexible contact finger of a receptacle contact. The mating pin has a bottom mating interface remote from and rearward of the tip configured to engage a second flexible contact finger of the receptacle contact. The header contact has an edge mating interface at the first side proximate to the tip configured to engage the receptacle contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Allison Trout, Justin Dennis Pickel
  • Patent number: 10084259
    Abstract: A waterproof component includes a housing body, a mat seal, and a mat seal cover. The housing body includes an attachment-hole-insertion portion having a mat-seal-accommodating chamber, an abutting portion configured to abut a first peripheral surface of the attachment hole, a locking claw provided on an insertion tip side of the attachment hole insertion portion, the locking claw to be locked to a second peripheral surface of the attachment hole, and a cover locking portion provided on an insertion tip side of the attachment-hole-insertion portion. The mat seal has an electric wire press-fitting hole. The mat-seal-accommodating chamber accommodates the mat seal. The mat seal cover locks to the cover-locking portion, the mat seal cover interposes the mat seal between the mat seal cover and a bottom wall of the mat-seal-accommodating chamber. The cover locking portion protrudes from the locking claw in an insertion direction toward the attachment hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isanori Shimizu