Having Cantilevered Spring Contact Finger Patents (Class 439/862)
  • Patent number: 11936126
    Abstract: A terminal and a receptacle connector are provided. The terminal comprises a soldering segment, an upright arm and a bending arm. The soldering segment has a first end portion and the upright arm extends upwardly from the first end portion. The bending arm bends back and obliquely extends upwardly close to the upright arm and includes an upper bending segment and a contact segment extends upwardly from the upper bending segment. A shoulder portion is formed at each of at least one side edge of two side edges of each of at least one of the upright arm and the bending arm, the two side edges are connected with the soldering segment, the shoulder portion protrudes relative to a corresponding side edge of the soldering segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hien-Hwee Tan, Yueh-Ting Chiang, Yao-Ting Wang
  • Patent number: 11765852
    Abstract: A mounting base is provided. The mounting base is adapted to be selectively affixed to different supporting structures. The mounting base includes a mounting base body, a first hook, a second hook and a rotatable member. The first hook is formed on the mounting base body. The second hook is formed on the mounting base body. The rotatable member is pivoted on the mounting base body. The rotatable member is adapted to be rotated between a first orientation and the second orientation relative to the mounting base body. When the rotatable member is in the first orientation, the rotatable member is restricted by the mounting base body. When the rotatable member is in the second orientation, the rotatable member is restricted by the mounting base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: WISTRON NEWEB CORP.
    Inventors: Chun-Yu Lee, Sheng-Yuan Chen
  • Patent number: 11664619
    Abstract: An interposer includes a housing having a plurality of through-holes penetrating a first surface and a second surface and a signal contact pair composed of a pair of signal contacts. Each of the signal contacts includes a base portion press-fitted in one of the through-holes, a first contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the first surface, and a second contact beam extending from the base portion beyond the second surface. The pair of signal contacts are positioned adjacently to each other widthwise and are each asymmetrical with respect to a width direction. The signal contact pair has a plane-symmetrical shape with respect to the width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Japan G.K.
    Inventors: Shinichi Hashimoto, Hiroshi Shirai, Masayuki Aizawa
  • Patent number: 11549965
    Abstract: It is herein described a contact probe of a testing head of an apparatus for testing electronic devices comprising a probe body being essentially extended in a longitudinal direction between respective end portions adapted to realize a contact with respective contact pads, at least one end portion having transverse dimensions greater than the probe body and comprising an enlarged portion, projecting only in correspondence of a first side wall of the contact probe. Suitably, the at least one end portion further comprises at least one protrusion projecting from a second side wall, opposite to the first side wall and substantially extending toward the second and opposite wall along a longitudinal axis of the contact probe starting from the enlarged portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: TECHNOPROBE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Daniele Perego
  • Patent number: 11515680
    Abstract: A contact system comprises a ground cylinder, a shielding cylinder press-fit with the ground cylinder, and a contact ring disposed between the ground cylinder and the shielding cylinder. The contact ring includes a strip of electrically conductive material defining a plurality of projections on at least one longitudinal side. The projections electrically contact the ground cylinder and the shielding cylinder for establishing an electrically conductive connection therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Ivan Ivanov, Michael Burghard, Helge Schmidt, Hubert Pollok, Sönke Sachs, Marco Wolf, Christoph Kosmalski, Martin Listing, Uemit Bulduk, Jochen Fertig, Willi Dietrich
  • Patent number: 11424633
    Abstract: A portable charging adapter system for charging a vaporizer device is described. In some embodiments, the system includes a charging adapter including a charging adapter housing. The charging adapter can include a charging dock positioned along a first surface of the charging adapter housing and a power coupling feature positioned along a second surface of the charging adapter housing. The portable charging adapter system can include a cap that includes a cap housing having an inner chamber. The cap can include a securing element coupled to the inner chamber having at least one cantilevered spring configured to engage the power adapter for securing a coupling of the cap to the charging adapter. Related device, systems, and methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: JUUL Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Cheung, Kevin Lomeli, Claire O' Malley
  • Patent number: 11411335
    Abstract: An electrical connection component includes a connecting part that is electrically conductive, and an electrical contact on at least a part of a surface of the connecting part, the electrical contact including a graphene oxide film. The graphene oxide film is graphene oxide or a stack of graphene oxide, and a thickness of the graphene oxide film is 1 nm or more and 50 nm or less. The electrical connection component may be either a male terminal or a female terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nan Ye, Toshitaka Kubo, Tetsuo Shimizu
  • Patent number: 11152731
    Abstract: The present invention provides a contact capable of suppressing an increase in a DC resistance value for a long period and a method of manufacturing the same. The contact includes a base portion and an elastic contact portion. The elastic contact portion includes a planar portion configured in a planar shape; and a projection portion that is disposed on one surface of the planar portion and protrudes from the one surface. The elastic contact portion is configured to come into pressed contact with the second surface at the projection portion. The projection portion is configured such that a dimensional ratio H/L of the height H to the length L satisfies 0.25?H/L?0.44, where H is a height in a direction perpendicular to the one surface and L is a length in a direction parallel to the one surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tatsuya Nakamura, Hiroyoshi Ishiguro
  • Patent number: 11088484
    Abstract: A contact member for which downsizing beyond conventional products is feasible is provided. The contact member includes a base portion, a contact portion, and a spring portion. The spring portion includes a first extension portion, a second extension portion, a third extension portion, and a fourth extension portion. The first extension portion is bent from a rear end of the base portion and extends upward. The second extension portion is bent from an upper end of the first extension portion and extends forward, and its upper surface is made to be a sucked surface that is capable of being attracted to a suction nozzle of an automatic mounting machine. The third extension portion is bent from a front end of the second extension portion and extends forward obliquely downward. The fourth extension portion is bent from a front end of the third extension portion, extends upward obliquely rearward, and is provided with the contact portion on a distal end side in its extension direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: KITAGAWA INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tomohisa Kurita
  • Patent number: 10944196
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body and multiple conductive terminals. Each conductive terminal has: a main body portion; an elastic arm bending and extending upward from the main body portion; a through slot running through the elastic arm, forming a first elastic arm and a second elastic arm at two opposite sides thereof; and a contact portion bending and extending upward from the elastic arm. A width of the first elastic arm is greater than a width of the second elastic arm. The contact portion defines a virtual center line along an extending direction thereof. A gap between an inner side wall of the first elastic arm on a side thereof adjacent to the through slot and the center line is smaller than a gap between an inner side wall of the second elastic arm on a side thereof adjacent to the through slot and the center line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventor: Zi Sheng Ou
  • Patent number: 10833442
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained in the housing. Each of the contacts includes a vertical main body with retaining structure thereon, a mounting section split from the bottom portion of the main body with a horizontal pad at the end, a first transverse section extending from the top portion of the main body in a first transverse direction, an upward section extending upward from one end of the transverse direction, a second transverse section extending from an upper end of the upward section in a second transverse direction opposite to the first transverse direction, a curved contacting section extending from the end of the second transverse section, and a downward tip section formed at a free end of the contact section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignees: FUDING PRECISION COMPONENTS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Chih-Pi Cheng
  • Patent number: 10826255
    Abstract: A receptacle connector assembly includes an outer housing and a terminal module. The terminals module includes an insulator having a base and a mating tongue extending from the base and equipped with a plurality of contacts. The contacts include front contacting sections exposed upon the mating tongue and tail sections extending out of the base. The outer housing is of an insulative molding part or a metallic die cast, the terminal module is assembled in the outer housing, and thus a mating cavity is directly defined between the mating tongue and the outer housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Terrance F Little, Chih-Pi Cheng, Wei-Hao Su, Cheng-Chi Yeh, Yuan Zhang, Stephen Sedio, Hendrikus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 10804636
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing retaining a plurality of contacts therein. The contact includes a mating part with a first body and a spring arm extending therefrom for mating a conductive pad of a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and a soldering part with a second body and a solder tail extending therefrom for mounting a solder ball thereon. The spring arm is downwardly pressed by the CPU to contact the soldering part when the CPU is mounted upon the electrical connector The mating part and the soldering part are spaced from each other either without any connection, or alternately linked with each other via a bridge transversely connected therebetween wherein the latter may optionally omit the barbed structure from one of the mating part and the soldering part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignees: FUDING PRECISION COMPONENTS (SHENZHEN) CO., LTD., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuo-Hsiu Hsu
  • Patent number: 10756472
    Abstract: Provided are a functional contactor and a portable electronic device comprising same. A functional contactor, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: an elastic conductor which electrically comes in contact with a conductor of an electronic device; a functional element which is connected to the elastic conductor and has a first electrode and a second electrode on at least one part of the lower side and the upper side, respectively; a first testing electrode which is connected to the first electrode and is provided on the upper side of the functional element and a fixed distance away from the second electrode; and a second testing electrode which is connected to the second electrode and is provided on the upper side of the functional element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: AMOTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Byung Guk Lim, Seong Ha Lee, Dong Hun Kong
  • Patent number: 10615533
    Abstract: An electrical connector for electrically connecting a chip module to a circuit board includes a body, having a plurality of accommodating slots penetrating the body, where a slot wall of at least one of the accommodating slots protrudes inward to form a boss, and the boss has a stopping corner; and a plurality of conductive terminals, correspondingly accommodated in the accommodating slots. At least one of the conductive terminals has an inclined portion, formed by tapering one side of the conductive terminal, wherein the inclined portion is adjacent to the stopping corner, the inclined portion is not parallel to a top surface of the boss, and the inclined portion is at least partially located above the stopping corner and configured to limit the conductive terminal from moving downward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yong Quan Wu, Tung Ming Ho
  • Patent number: 10424858
    Abstract: A terminal and a manufacturing method thereof includes: S1: providing a metal plate sheet, and punching the metal plate sheet to form a through slot thereon, such that the metal plate sheet forms two branches on two opposite sides of the through slot; S2: cutting one end of each of the two branches, such that the ends of the two branches are separated from each other to form two contact portions respectively, and a first distance is initially provided between the two contact portions; and S3: extruding at least one of the two branches, such that the extruded branch plastically deform to increase the first distance between the two contact portions to become a second distance, preventing the two contact portions of the terminal from contacting each other and moving altogether in the process where the terminal is pressed by the chip module and elastically deforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LOTES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ted Ju, Zuo Feng Jin
  • Patent number: 10312618
    Abstract: A connector terminal (10) is provided with a housing (14) for slidably guiding the connector terminal (10) over a conductive surface (92) of a board side terminal (90), and a spring piece (34) supported by the housing (14) so as to resiliently contact the conductive surface (92), and the spring piece (34) is configured in such a manner that a contact portion (48) of the spring piece (34) moves into a path of movement of the conductive surface (92) to serve as a contact portion (48) for electric contact with the board side terminal (90) as a pressing portion (46) of the spring piece is pressed by the conductive surface (92) owing to a sliding movement of the connector terminal (10) relative to the board side terminal (90).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TANSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinya Enomoto, Osamu Nishimura
  • Patent number: 9685745
    Abstract: A connector terminal includes a terminal body operable to be inserted into a terminal space formed in a housing, and an elastic contact piece arranged in the terminal body. The connector terminal contacts an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical terminal while being inserted into the terminal space. The elastic contact piece includes a contact portion constituted of an arc surface, and also includes at least one projection formed on the contact portion, the at least one projection contacting an inner arc surface of the cylindrical terminal. The at least one projection extends in a length-wise direction of the cylindrical terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takayoshi Endo, Shuji Touno
  • Patent number: 9627784
    Abstract: An interconnect structure that includes a component circuit board containing a plurality of electrical components, and a wafer connector assembly. The wafer connector assembly includes a plurality of interconnect circuit boards that are in electrical connection with the components circuit board through a plurality of rows of solder joints, the plurality of interconnect circuit boards having a connection end including at least one contact. An adhesive is present structurally reinforcing at least a row of the solder joints that is proximate to the connection end of the plurality of interconnect circuit boards of the wafer assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael A. Gaynes, Jeffrey D. Gelorme, Robert P. Kuder, II, Daniel J. Littrell, Thomas E. Lombardi, Marie-Claude Paquet, Frank L. Pompeo, David L. Questad, James Speidell, Sri M. Sri-Jayantha, Son K. Tran
  • Patent number: 9614312
    Abstract: A terminal and an electrical connector are provided. The terminal has a tail, an elastic arm, a contact and a front guiding member. The elastic arm is connected to the tail. The contact is positioned at a distal end of the elastic arm. The contact has a front guiding surface extending forwards and downwards. The front guiding member extends forwards from the elastic arm. The front guiding member has a front guiding portion that extends forwards and downwards. An extending direction of the elastic arm and an extending direction of the front guiding member intersected at an angle. The front guiding portion is positioned in front of the front guiding surface of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hong-Liang Wang, Shang-Xiu Zeng, Kian-Heng Lim
  • Patent number: 9590221
    Abstract: A battery cell connector includes a plurality of segments. Each segment defines a respective plane and has a respective longitudinal axis. The battery cell connector further includes a plurality of bends coupling the plurality of segments together into a 3-D object, each bend located between a unique pair of adjacent segments of the plurality of segments, where the unique pair of adjacent segments define two distinct respective planes. A first segment of the plurality of segments includes one or more first connecting elements for a battery pole of a first battery cell and a second segment of the plurality of segments includes one or more second connecting elements for a battery pole of a second battery cell. The one or more first connecting elements are electrically coupled with the one or more second connecting elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: BYD COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhonglin Zhang, Xiumei Xie, Yanfei Zhou
  • Patent number: 9531130
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a mating housing and a contact organizer. The mating housing has a mating slot configured to receive a mating connector having contact pads. The contact organizer has signal and ground contact channels separated by separating walls with inner ends between the separating walls. The contact organizer has lossy fillers at the inner ends of the ground contact channels. The lossy fillers are manufactured from lossy material capable of absorbing electrical resonance propagating through the housing. The electrical connector includes a contact assembly disposed in the housing with ground contacts and signal contacts interspersed between corresponding ground contacts in corresponding ground and signal contact channels of the contact organizer. The ground contacts are positioned adjacent the lossy fillers at the inner ends of the corresponding ground contact channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael John Phillips, Thomas Taake de Boer, Bruce Allen Champion, John Joseph Consoli, Sandeep Patel, Linda Ellen Shields
  • Patent number: 9532458
    Abstract: An electrical assembly configured to be fixed in a housing of an electrical connector includes an electrical package disposed on a substrate and electrically connected to the substrate. The electrical assembly also includes a conductor terminated to the substrate at a spaced apart location from the electrical package to provide at least one of power or control signals to the substrate. A terminating segment of the conductor is thermally coupled to the electrical package to receive heat generated at the electrical package and dissipate the heat through the conductor away from the electrical package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Abraham L. Shocket, Lyle S. Bryan, John S. Cowan, Kevin J. Peterson
  • Patent number: 9502803
    Abstract: A terminal and an electrical connector are shown and the terminal has a tail, an elastic arm, a contact and a front guiding member. The elastic arm is connected to the tail. The contact is positioned at a distal end of the elastic arm. The contact has a front guiding surface extending forwards and downwards. The front guiding member extends forwards from the elastic arm. The front guiding member has a front guiding portion that extends forwards and downwards. An extending direction of the elastic arm and an extending direction of the front guiding member intersected at an angle. The front guiding portion is positioned in front of the front guiding surface of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Molex, LLC
    Inventors: Hong-Liang Wang, Shang-Xiu Zeng, Kian-Heng Lim
  • Patent number: 9502797
    Abstract: A contact that electrically connects a first board and a second board includes a bottom part to be joined to the first board, a first spring that is bent and extends from the bottom part, a second spring configured to be displaced in a first direction toward the bottom part and in a second direction opposite to the first direction by the bending of the first spring, multiple side guides rising from the bottom part, and a stopper provided at an end of each of the side guides in the second direction and configured to come into contact with the second board. The side guides include respective extension parts configured to protect an area in which the second spring is displaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Koichi Kiryu, Mitsuru Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9431743
    Abstract: A connector comprises a contact and a holding member. The contact has a held portion, a pressed portion and a protected portion. The holding member has a holding portion holding the held portion. Moreover, the holding member has a protection portion and a receiving portion arranged in a front-rear direction. The protection portion is located above the protected portion. When seen along an upper-lower direction, the protection portion covers the protected portion. The protected portion has an edge which is located at an edge of the protection portion in the front-rear direction or is apart from the protection portion in the front-rear direction. The pressed portion is pressed to be moved downward in accompany with a connection of the connector with a card. When the pressed portion is moved downward, the edge of the protected portion is located within the receiving portion without contact with the protection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazuya Mikawa
  • Patent number: 9331411
    Abstract: A connector terminal to be inserted into a connector and to electrically connect with a terminal portion formed at a marginal area of a surface of a board inserted into the connector, includes an inclined portion inclining relative to the board inserted into the connector, the inclined portion being resiliently deformable when compressed by the board, a contact portion formed on the inclined portion and making contact with the terminal portion, and a projecting portion formed on the inclined portion and making contact with the board prior to the contact portion when the board is inserted into the connector, the projecting portion, when the board is inserted into the connector, making contact with an edge of the board, then riding onto the terminal portion, and then, rising away from the terminal portion when the contact portion makes contact with the terminal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: DAI-ICHI SEIKO CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takayoshi Endo
  • Patent number: 9281584
    Abstract: A connector reduced in height without reducing contact reliability. A contact of the connector includes a first spring portion that supports a contact portion, a second spring portion that supports a connection portion, and an integral connection portion that integrally connects the first spring portion and the second spring portion. The first spring portion and the second spring portion are arranged on an imaginary straight line that extends through the contact portion and is parallel to a connection direction, and the integral connection portion is made away from the imaginary straight line in a direction orthogonal to the connection direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Osamu Hashiguchi
  • Patent number: 9236676
    Abstract: A connector includes a connector terminal electrically connected with a terminal (a counterpart terminal) of a counterpart component and a connector housing holding therein the connector terminal. The connector terminal includes a cylindrical terminal insertion section into which the counterpart terminal is to be inserted, a spring section which is brought into contact with the counterpart terminal in a cylinder of the terminal insertion section, and a displacement restriction section restricting excessive displacement of the spring section in the cylinder of the terminal insertion section when the spring section is brought into contact with the counterpart terminal, and the displacement restriction section includes a stabilizer which extends outward from the terminal insertion section while being supported continuously to a restriction part for the spring section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Takumi Nakagishi
  • Patent number: 9184529
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric contact spring having a resilient section, an assembly portion, and a transition portion. The resilient section includes a first resilient portion, a second resilient portion extending from the first resilient portion, and a third resilient portion extending from the second resilient portion. The assembly portion extends from the first resilient portion and includes a catch device. The transition portion extends downward from the assembly portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Ulrich, Volker Seipel
  • Patent number: 9164273
    Abstract: An electrowetting display device comprising a first support plate, a second support plate and a picture element having a space defined by the first support plate, the second support plate and walls of the first support plate. The space comprises a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with each other, the second fluid being electroconductive or polar and the walls confining the first fluid to the space. The picture element is electrically switchable between a first state without an electric field applied and a second state with an electric field applied, in which in the first state the first fluid is spread out in the picture element and in the second state the first fluid is contracted near one of the walls. Two of the walls have a side facing the space, the sides having different angles with a plane of the first support plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel Figura
  • Patent number: 9130294
    Abstract: A contact is provided for latching in a contact chamber of a plug connection element. The contact has a contact box having an upper wall, a lower wall, and two opposing side walls. A primary locking lance protrudes resiliently diagonally outward from the upper wall. To protect the primary locking lance against harmful plastic deformations due to externally attacking forces, at least one of the side walls, in an area laterally adjoining the primary locking lance, is configured to protrude outward beyond a plane of the upper wall. An outside edge is bent toward the primary locking lance, so that it overlaps a side edge of the primary locking lance so that it counteracts outward bending of the primary locking lance in a form-locked manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Schmatz, Rolf Wittmann
  • Publication number: 20150147922
    Abstract: A multiport zero insertion force (ZIF) connector can include a multiport connector housing defining an opening and an interior space for receiving a multi-path circuit device having multiple types of electrical connection paths therethrough and multiple LIGA springs positioned within the interior space to apply pressure to the multi-path circuit device while in a first position. A locking component can be configured to cause the LIGA springs to move to a second position responsive to a user pressing the locking component, wherein the LIGA springs do not apply pressure to the multi-path circuit device while in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: James H. McGrath, JR., Ira Pollock, David W. Simmen
  • Patent number: 9033750
    Abstract: An electrical contact is provided for mating with a mating contact. The electrical contact includes a base extending a length along a central longitudinal axis, and an arm extending a length outward from the base along the central longitudinal of the base. The arm includes a first mating bump and a second mating bump. The first and second mating bumps have respective first and second mating surfaces. The arm is configured to engage the mating contact at each of the first and second mating surfaces to establish an electrical connection with the mating contact. The first mating surface of the first mating bump is spaced apart along the length of the arm from the second mating surface of the second mating bump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignees: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, MERCURY SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Keith Edwin Miller, Chong Hun Yi, Matthew Richard McAlonis, Kevin Thackston, Dustin Carson Belack, Albert Tsang, Nicholas Paul Ruffini, Darryl J. McKenney, Erica L. Ouellette
  • Patent number: 9017116
    Abstract: An electrical connector for a male terminal to be inserted includes an elastic contact member provided in at least one of surfaces of the electrical connector extending in an insertion direction of the male terminal. The elastic contact member is configured to get into contact with the male terminal. The elastic contact member includes: first elastic contact pieces formed with a space in between in a widthwise direction orthogonal to the insertion direction, cantilevered at one end side of the at least one surface in the insertion direction, and configured to get into contact with the male terminal inserted in the electrical connector; and a second elastic contact piece disposed in the space and configured to get into contact with the male terminal inserted in the electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Shuhei Ando, Terumichi Matsumoto, Hajime Kato
  • Patent number: 9017115
    Abstract: A demountable electrical panel comprises a spring under tension that is easily assembled by being laid to rest in a recess in a mounting plate put under tension to make electrical contact with a circuit board when the device is assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Control Techniques Ltd
    Inventor: Hugh A Connell
  • Patent number: 9011187
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body defining a mating face, and a plurality of terminals each having a base strip which is embedded in the insulating body. A front end of the base strip is bent towards the mating face to form a bend. A free end of the bend extends in a direction substantially parallel to the mating face to form a connecting arm. The connecting arm perpendicularly protrudes towards the mating face to form a contact arm. The bend, the connecting arm and the contact arm are embedded in the insulating body. A face of the contact arm opposite to the connecting arm is defined as a contact face exposed outside the mating face. It is smooth at the connection of the bend and the connecting arm, and there is a step between the contact face of the contact arm and the bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chih Lin Yang
  • Publication number: 20150104689
    Abstract: A battery cell connector for a battery module includes a pair of cantilevered arms and base portions that are linked at the base portion by a bridge. An interconnect board for connecting a plurality of battery cells includes a circuit board and a plurality of battery cell connectors. A battery block system includes a battery block that has a tray and a plurality of battery cells, and an interconnect board in mating relationships with the tray. A battery system includes first and second bus bars, a first and second pluralities of battery cells, and an interconnect board having a plurality of battery cell connectors linking the first and second plurality of battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Boston-Power, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Frias, Kenneth W. Sghia-Hughes, Jamison Pezdek, W. Dale Robertson, Eric J. Carlson, Phillip E. Partin
  • Patent number: 8974246
    Abstract: A mobile terminal is provided. The mobile terminal includes a case having a battery loading part to load a battery thereon, a printed circuit board mounted in the case, a terminal connection accommodating space formed in a predetermined portion of the battery loading part and extending in a first direction, a connection terminal comprising a fixing part configured to be connected to the printed circuit board, a connecting part extending toward the battery loading part via the terminal connection accommodating space, and a flexible part having a plurality of curved portions arranged between the fixing part and the connecting part and a stopper extending in the terminal connection accommodating space to restrict contraction of the flexible part in the first direction by coming into contact with one of the curved portions when the flexible part is contracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngchul Son, Jeongho Kim
  • Patent number: 8974257
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing and a plurality of electrical terminals. A top face of the insulating housing is concaved downward to define a plurality of terminal grooves alternately arranged into two rows along two longitudinal sides of the insulating housing. Each terminal groove extends transversely to have the outer end thereof penetrate through a corresponding side face of the insulating housing. The inner ends of the two rows of terminal grooves are alternate with one another along a substantial longitudinal middle of the insulating housing. The electrical terminals are firstly assembled downward and then pushed transversely inward to be assembled in the terminal grooves respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bao-Geng Xie, Wei-Hong Liao, Yin-Lung Wu
  • Patent number: 8968032
    Abstract: An interface section 200 of a structure 100 includes a plurality of contacts 120, each of the contacts having a contact portion 122 and a spring portion 126 which supports the contact portion 122 so that the contact portion 122 is displaceable in an up-down direction. The contact portions 122 of the contacts 120 are arranged in a pitch direction (X direction), and reinforcement portions 166 are positioned between the contact portions 122, respectively. The structure reinforces a side portion of the contact portion 122. Therefore, even if the contact portion 122 receives a force along the pitch direction (X direction), damage of the contact 120 can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventors: Toru Nomiyama, Keisuke Nakamura, Masafumi Kodera
  • Patent number: 8956194
    Abstract: A battery connector includes an insulating body and a plurality of electrical terminals. The insulating body defines a plurality of terminal grooves for receiving the electrical terminals therein. The electrical terminals each has a substantially U-shaped supporting portion which has a fastening portion levelly extending in the bottom and an elastic portion curved upward and then extending frontward from a rear end of the fastening portion. A front end of the fastening portion is bent downward and then extends frontward to form a soldering tail. A front end of the elastic portion is bent downward and extends frontward to form a pre-pressing portion extending frontward beyond a front end of the soldering tail in vertical direction. A front end of the pre-pressing portion slantwise extends upward and then is curved downward to form a contact portion projecting in front of the soldering tail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bao-Geng Xie, Wei-Hong Liao, Yin-Lung Wu
  • Publication number: 20150044919
    Abstract: A connector is mateable with a mating connector comprising a mating contact. The connector comprises a contact which is brought into contact with the mating contact at two points under a mated state. The contact has a first spring portion, a protruding portion protruding from the first spring portion, a slide portion extending flat and a second spring portion. The protruding portion has a first contact portion while the slide portion has a second contact portion. The first contact portion is movable by first resilient deformation of the first spring portion while the second contact portion is movable by second resilient deformation of the second spring portion. One of the first contact portion and the second contact portion is moved because of both the first resilient deformation and the second resilient deformation when the connector is transited from a mating start state to the mated state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventor: Kousuke KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20150038024
    Abstract: An electrical terminal assembly includes a base having a body including a first end and a second end. First and second opposed base beams extend from the first end of the body in a first direction. A spring clamp has a clamp base and first and second opposed spring beams extending from the clamp base in the first direction and disposed over the first and second base beams biasing the first and second base beams toward one another. The body of the base is configured to permit the spring clamp to be inserted onto the base in a second direction normal the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Glick, Slobodan Pavlovic, Tulasi Sadras-Ravindra
  • Publication number: 20150017844
    Abstract: A connector includes a connector terminal electrically connected with a terminal (a counterpart terminal) of a counterpart component and a connector housing holding therein the connector terminal. The connector terminal includes a cylindrical terminal insertion section into which the counterpart terminal is to be inserted, a spring section which is brought into contact with the counterpart terminal in a cylinder of the terminal insertion section, and a displacement restriction section restricting excessive displacement of the spring section in the cylinder of the terminal insertion section when the spring section is brought into contact with the counterpart terminal, and the displacement restriction section includes a stabilizer which extends outward from the terminal insertion section while being supported continuously to a restriction part for the spring section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takumi NAKAGISHI
  • Patent number: 8920201
    Abstract: A wire terminal is provided for conductively engaging a conductive wire having a generally round cross section. The wire terminal includes an electrical receptacle portion with first and second forwardly-projecting portions that conductively contact opposite sides of the conductive wire. The forwardly-projecting portions each include a respective wire-engaging contact portion, each of which is configured to contact the conductive wire at a respective elongated contact location along opposite sides of the conductive wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventor: Norman R. Byrne
  • Patent number: 8915759
    Abstract: A terminal connector with an electric wire includes a bottom portion, a wall, a plurality of connection pieces, and an auxiliary wall. An end portion of the electric wire is placed on and connected to the bottom portion. The electric wire includes a core wire exposed at the end portion. The wall is provided continuously from the bottom portion and integrally rises from one side of the bottom portion extending to another side. One of the connection pieces extends from one end of the bottom portion and another one of the connection pieces extends from one end of the wall and the connection pieces are contacted and connected to an opposing terminal connector. The auxiliary wall is provided continuously from another end of the wall that is opposite from the one end from which the connection piece extends. The auxiliary wall extends downwardly to the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20140335705
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a base an elastic terminal and an elastic terminal. The base has a recess. The elastic terminal is connected to the base and extends to the recess. When the contact moves towards the recess, the contact is capable of pushing the contact protrusion to bend towards the bottom of the recess. In addition, the electrical connector may further include a contact protrusion connected to the elastic terminal. When the contact moves towards the recess, the contact is capable of pushing the contact protrusion to make the elastic terminal bend towards the bottom portion of the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Chih-Peng Fan, Yin-Hwa Cheng, Ching-Ho Hsieh, Ling-Kai Su, Yung-Hao Hsueh
  • Publication number: 20140322992
    Abstract: An electrical connector connecting a male connector and a female connector in a freely engageable and detachable manner includes, a male tab is provided at the male connector; a housing part where the male tab is inserted is provided at the female connector; a contact piece and a beat piece to hold and press the male tab to enable electrical connection are provided at the housing part; and a protrusion is provided at least at one of the contact piece and the beat piece, and a recessed part capable of accepting the protrusion is provided at the male tab, wherein the contact piece, the beat piece, and the protrusion are constituted to be one component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakamura, Akifumi Onodera, Akira Sugawara, Hiroto Narieda, Tatsunori Murata
  • Publication number: 20140322991
    Abstract: An electrical connector connecting a male connector and a female connector in a freely engageable and detachable manner, in which: a male tab is provided at the male connector; a housing part where the male tab is inserted is provided at the female connector; a spring state contact piece and a beat piece to sandwich the male tab are provided at the housing part; and a protrusion protruding toward the male tab inserted into the housing part is provided at least one of the contact piece and the beat piece, wherein the protrusion includes a contact part which is in contact with the male tab inserted into the housing part and a sidewall part which is provided at a periphery of the contact part, and the contact part has so-called a star-shape in a plan view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventors: Masatoshi Nakamura, Akifumi Onodera, Akira Sugawara, Hiroto Narieda