Grounding To Conductive Sheath Of Cable Patents (Class 439/98)
  • Patent number: 11991845
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for cable management for portable electronic medical devices. In one embodiment, a system comprises: a frame for a portable electronic medical device, the frame including a first wall and an opposing, second wall forming inner surfaces of a channel; and a cable coupler adapted to seat within the channel, including: counterpart outer surfaces shaped to engage the inner surfaces; and a passage shaped to enclose a portion of a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Ross Christopher Stalter, Brian Kufahl, Paul Vermey
  • Patent number: 11965915
    Abstract: Herein is provided a device for optimizing bandwidth during oscilloscope measurements. The device is connectable to a probe for electrically connecting a test point and an oscilloscope. The device may include at least two grounding connectors with different inductances for electrically connecting ground to the probe and a tuning network comprising circuitry configured to compensate for the different inductances of said at least two grounding connectors, the tuning network being switchable between different modes, each mode being configured to compensate for a specific inductance of said at least two grounding connectors. A method for optimizing bandwidth during oscilloscope measurements is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SensePeek AB
    Inventors: Johan Hellman, Magnus Birch, Magnus Sjöberg
  • Patent number: 11955751
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a connector enabling a size reduction by simplifying a configuration. A connector 11 includes a housing 21 in which a plurality of shielded cables 14 are held while being partially inserted, and cores of the plurality of shielded cables 14 are connected to a plurality of terminals 13a of a mating connector 13 by connecting the housing 21 to the mating connector 13. The connector 11 includes an electromagnetic shielding shell 22 for covering the outer surface of the housing 21 and a shield terminal 27 to be provided between the plurality of shielded cables 14 in the housing 21, connected to shield members of the plurality of shielded cables 14 and connected to a ground terminal 13b of the mating connector 13 by connecting the housing 21 to the mating connector 13.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Seido Nishijima
  • Patent number: 11777252
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for assembling a high voltage vertical disk ferrule, the ferrule being stamped and having a vertical disk-like structure, which is not necessarily round or does not necessarily have any roundness. The high voltage disk ferrule has an opening residing and traveling over the wire core and/or a wire braided shield, to which an end portion of the wire braided shield is affixed thereto the ferrule, or between two ferrules, such that a portion of the wire braided shield is flared and substantially perpendicular to the direction along which the wire core extends. The high voltage vertical disk ferrule slides over the core insulation, towards the outer insulation when the wire is pushed. The end portion/flared portion of the braided shield and the high voltage vertical disk ferrule, or the end portion/flared portion of the braided shield between at least two high voltage vertical disk ferrules are soldered, welded, or brazed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: J.S.T. CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Demaratos, Joshua Taylor
  • Patent number: 11758656
    Abstract: A printed circuit board includes a plurality of layers including conductive layers separated by dielectric layers; and at least one via configured for solder attachment to a connector lead of a surface mount connector, the at least one via including a conductive element that extends from an upper surface of the printed circuit board through one or more of the plurality of layers, the conductive element having a recess in a surface thereof. The recess is configured to receive a tip portion of the connector lead of the surface mount connector. The printed circuit board may have via patterns including signal vias and ground vias.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Amphenol Corporation
    Inventors: Marc B. Cartier, Jr., Mark W. Gailus, Tom Pitten, Donald A. Girard, Jr., Huilin Ren
  • Patent number: 11677166
    Abstract: An outer conductor contact element for a plug connector arrangement, having a fixing stop which engages behind a cable-side end face of a support sleeve and along a longitudinal axis (L) of the plug connector arrangement, and the cable-side end face is remote from a front, free end of the outer conductor contact element, and the fixing stop is formed in the outer conductor contact element by a male connector-side edge of a material cut-out in the outer conductor contact element that is proximate to a front, free end of the outer conductor contact element. Alternatively, or in addition, the fixing stop is formed by a separate stop element that is fastened to an inner wall of the outer conductor contact element. Alternatively, or in addition, the fixing stop is formed by a stamped shaping in the outer conductor contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Miedl, Walter Baldauf, Marcel Volkmar
  • Patent number: 11611176
    Abstract: A structure for preventing a connector from being detached from an electronic component of a vehicle is provided. The structure includes a fixing clip member fixing the connector to a connector inserting groove. The fixing clip member includes a first stopper acting as a hanging jaw so that the fixing clip member is not detached from the connector inserting groove in a state which is mounted in a mounting groove formed in the connector inserting groove, in a process of inserting the fixing clip member to be inserted into the connector inserting groove and a second stopper mounted in a stopper hanging groove formed in a front end portion of the connector to act as a hanging jaw fixing the connector so that the connector is not detached from the connector inserting groove, in a process of inserting the connector into the connector inserting groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Myeong Nam Woo
  • Patent number: 11340408
    Abstract: An optical fiber connector is provided. The optical fiber connector comprises a plastic housing. The optical fiber connector comprises a metallic clip. The plastic housing is adapted to connect the optical fiber connector to an optical fiber adapter. The metallic clip is arranged at a side of the plastic housing. The metallic clip extends from the plastic housing. The metallic clip is adapted to press against a metallic part of the optical fiber adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Juntao Deng, Bolin Jiang, Qi Huang, Marcus Bloom-Pflug
  • Patent number: 11217921
    Abstract: A contact assembly for an electrical connector includes a contact positioner having contact support walls holding a contact array. The contact array includes signal contacts and ground contacts interspersed with the signal contacts. The signal contacts include mating ends configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector and mounting ends configured to be terminated to a host circuit board. The signal contacts include transition portions between the mating ends and the mounting ends. The ground contacts include mating ends, mounting ends, and transition portions between the mating ends and the mounting ends. The contract assembly includes a ground bus wire extending transversely across the contact array. The ground bus wire is electrically connected to each of the ground contacts. The ground bus wire is electrically isolated from each of the signal contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SERVICES GmbH
    Inventors: Michael John Phillips, Randall Robert Henry, Bruce Allen Champion
  • Patent number: 11108196
    Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes: an electrical connector including a plug, a metallic shell disposed outside the plug and the cable, and a middle shell; a cable electrically connected with the electrical connector, the cable including plural core wires, an inner shield layer covering the core wires, a metal braided layer covering outside the inner shield layer, and an outer cover layer covering outside the metal braided layer, the metal braided layer including a valgus portion; a case disposed outside the electrical connector and the cable; and a metal inner ring sleeved between the metal braid layer and the outer cover layer, the metal inner ring being electrically connected to the metallic shell through the valgus portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignees: New Ocean Precision Component (Jiangxi) Co., Ltd., FOXCONN INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Yang-Tsun Hsu, Xu-Xiang Qi, Jun-Cheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11088489
    Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal connected to an end terminal of an electrical wire, the terminal being inserted into an insertion hole of a housing of a device, the terminal being connected to a counterpart terminal of the counterpart device; an inner housing housing the terminal and the electrical wire; a shield shell having a sleeve body that houses the inner housing in the sleeve body and is inserted into the insertion hole, and an outer housing covering a rear side of the sleeve body in an advancing direction from an outside at the time of inserting the sleeve body into the insertion hole, wherein the outer housing has a fixing portion that fixes the outer housing to the housing, and the sleeve body has an electric contact that is brought into contact with an inner peripheral wall of the insertion hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akiyoshi Takagi, Hikaru Oi, Tomoharu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11056835
    Abstract: A “safe grounding apparatus” (SGA) for safely grounding or neutralizing the electrical conductors for permanent magnet motor (PMM) powered artificial lift systems and methods of practicing the same are disclosed. The SGA of the present invention ameliorates some of the dangers associated with PMM's. Methods of shorting, grounding, testing and monitoring the electrical conductors of a permanent magnet motor in order to safely manipulate the conductors are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Inventor: Michael Yuratich
  • Patent number: 11013916
    Abstract: Implantable medical leads include a shield that is guarded at a termination by having a first portion and a second portion of the shield, where the first portion is between a termination of the shield at the second portion and an inner insulation layer that surrounds the filars. The first portion may reduce the coupling of RF energy from the termination of the shield at the second portion to the filars. The first and second portions may be part of a continuous shield, where the first and second portions are separated by an inversion of the shield. The first and second portions may instead be separate pieces. The first portion may be noninverted and reside between the termination at the second portion and the inner layers, or the first portion may be inverted to create first and second sub-portions. The shield termination at the second portion is between the first and second sub-portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Richard T. Stone, Mark J. Conroy, Wanzhan Liu, Gary W. Salminen
  • Patent number: 10955438
    Abstract: Disclosed are a hybrid-type contact and a socket device for testing a semiconductor device, in which the hybrid-type contact includes a first contact unit integrally configured by rolling a predetermined shaped strip pattern formed by blanking a metal plate into a cylindrical shape, a second contact unit with conductivity and elasticity configured to be inserted into the first contact unit, and a molding portion of insulating elastic material configured to integrally fix the first contact unit and the second contact unit together, so as to compensate the disadvantages of conventional pin-type and rubber-type test socket devices, whereby it is easy to optimize the mechanical and electrical properties according to the requirements of the test device, and it is suitable for testing a fine pitch device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Inventors: Dong Weon Hwang, Logan Jae Hwang, Jae Baek Hwang
  • Patent number: 10476175
    Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire includes: an electric wire including a core wire and an insulating coating; and a terminal connected to the core wire exposed from an end portion of the electric wire. The terminal includes: a flat-plate-shaped weld portion; a bottom plate portion; and a crimping piece. In a state where the crimping piece is crimped so as to be wound around an outer periphery of the insulating coating, a leading edge of the crimping piece is located on a bottom plate portion side with respect to a first virtual plane that passes through the center of the electric wire and is perpendicular to the bottom plate portion, and the leading edge of the crimping piece is in proximity to a side edge of the bottom plate portion on a side opposite to a side on which the crimping piece is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: AutoNetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoki Idota, Hitoshi Takeda, Hiroshi Shimizu
  • Patent number: 10468862
    Abstract: An exterior structure for a wire harness is provided with a pipe that has an electric wire insertion space that allows an electric wire to be inserted through the inside of the pipe. The pipe includes a diameter reduction portion that is defined by an inward deformation of the pipe in a diameter direction that narrows the electric wire insertion space. In the diameter reduction portion, the clearance between (i) the electric wire that is inserted through the electric wire insertion space of the pipe and (ii) the inner circumferential surface of the pipe can be reduced or eliminated, which suppresses rattling of the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventor: Hirokazu Nakai
  • Patent number: 10454219
    Abstract: A “safe grounding apparatus” (SGA) for safely grounding or neutralizing the electrical conductors for permanent magnet motor (PMM) powered artificial lift systems and methods of practicing the same are disclosed. The SGA of the present invention ameliorates some of the dangers associated with PMM's. Methods of shorting, grounding, testing and monitoring the electrical conductors of a permanent magnet motor in order to safely manipulate the conductors are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Yuratich
  • Patent number: 10411370
    Abstract: A high-voltage cable set, in particular for a vehicle electrical system, contains a plurality of cables, which are surrounded by a common shield, and a connector, which consists of a conducting material and is electrically connected to the shield. For this purpose, a contact sleeve is integrated into the connector, the shield being fastened to the contact sleeve. The risk of contact corrosion is thereby significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: LEONI Bordnetz-Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Albert, Wolfgang Hauschild, Alexander Kett, Felix Ursprung, Sascha Wolf
  • Patent number: 10355376
    Abstract: An example assembly includes an electrically conductive member, an electrically conductive mesh, and a crimp connector. The electrically conductive mesh includes a first area and a second area. The second area extends along a second longitudinal axis and is larger than the first area. The first area is twisted and extends from the second area along a first longitudinal axis that is transverse to the second longitudinal axis. One of the electrically conductive member and the twisted first area is twisted around the other of the electrically conductive member and the twisted first area to form a twisted connection. The crimp connector is crimped onto the twisted connection to form a crimped connection. The first area of the electrically conductive mesh, including the crimped connection, is folded onto the second area of the electrically conductive mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: GENTHERM, INC.
    Inventors: Gerardo Edel de la Garza Fernandez, Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Reyes
  • Patent number: 10317526
    Abstract: A sensor for outputting a first measurement signal that is dependent on a measurement variable to be detected in a vehicle, including: a sensor circuit having a measuring sensor for generating the first measurement signal on the basis of the measurement variable, and a magnetic field probe for outputting a second measurement signal that is dependent on a magnetic field to be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventor: Klaus Rink
  • Patent number: 10158192
    Abstract: A connector 1 configured to be attached to a device 2 is provided with: an annular housing 11 configured to be attached to the device 2 in such a position as to annularly rise from the device 2; an annular seal member 22 that seals a space between an end surface of the housing 11 facing the device 2 and the device 2 in a watertight manner; and a water-preventing wall 25 that extends from the housing 11 toward the device 2 outside the seal member 22, and that protects the seal member 22 from high-pressure water externally sprayed toward the housing 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignees: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Yokotani, Yusuke Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10116077
    Abstract: A kit for use with an above ground portion of a tracer wire includes a tube and a conductive end cap. The tube has an interior cavity extending from a first end to a second end, and the internal cavity has a diameter configured to be positioned about the tracer wire. The conductive end cap is configured to electrically engage the tracer wire, and is further configured to mechanically engage a surface of the tube such that the tracer wire is protected from corrosion and external elements while allowing a signal to be sent along the tracer wire through the conductive end cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Engineered Energy Products, LLC
    Inventor: Scott Richard Gleisner
  • Patent number: 10079457
    Abstract: A “safe grounding apparatus” (SGA) for safely grounding or neutralizing the electrical conductors for permanent magnet motor (PMM) powered artificial lift systems and methods of practicing the same are disclosed. The SGA of the present invention ameliorates some of the dangers associated with PMM's. Methods of shorting, grounding, testing and monitoring the electrical conductors of a permanent magnet motor in order to safely manipulate the conductors are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Magnetic Pumping Solutions
    Inventor: Michael Yuratich
  • Patent number: 10076659
    Abstract: Implantable medical leads include a shield that is guarded at a termination by having a first portion and a second portion of the shield, where the first portion is between a termination of the shield at the second portion and an inner insulation layer that surrounds the filars. The first portion may reduce the coupling of RF energy from the termination of the shield at the second portion to the filars. The first and second portions may be part of a continuous shield, where the first and second portions are separated by an inversion of the shield. The first and second portions may instead be separate pieces. The first portion may be noninverted and reside between the termination at the second portion and the inner layers, or the first portion may be inverted to create first and second sub-portions. The shield termination at the second portion is between the first and second sub-portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: MEDTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Richard T. Stone, Mark J. Conroy, Wanzhan Liu, Gary W. Salminen
  • Patent number: 10056702
    Abstract: An example assembly includes an electrically conductive member, an electrically conductive mesh, and a crimp connector. The electrically conductive mesh includes a first area and a second area. The first area is twisted and extends from the second area. One of the electrically conductive member and the twisted first area is twisted around the other of the electrically conductive member and the twisted first area to form a twisted connection. The crimp connector is crimped onto the twisted connection to form a crimped connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: GENTHERM, INC.
    Inventors: Gerardo Edel de la Garza Fernandez, Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Reyes
  • Patent number: 10002691
    Abstract: An improved Ethernet cable with an undulating and folding jacket housing external spatial channels. The undulating housing provides for multiple connection configurations from a flat cable to rectangular block configurations. The cable has a plurality of internal electronic signal channels, each channel having a pair of conductors. Each channel is also further isolated by a multi-layer protective shield, the protective shield encasing the pair of conductors. This unique design meets the new requirements of CAT8 cables, and substantially enhances video and audio streaming and transmission speeds, while eliminating deleterious effects of prior cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: WIREWORLD BY DAVID SALZ, INC
    Inventor: David Salz
  • Patent number: 9625314
    Abstract: A spectrometer comprises a package having a stem and a cap, an optical unit arranged on the stem, and a lead pin penetrating through the stem. The optical unit has a dispersive part for dispersing and reflecting light entering from a light entrance part of the cap, a light detection element for detecting the light dispersed and reflected by the dispersive part, a support for supporting the light detection element such as to form a space between the dispersive part and the light detection element, a projection projecting from the support, and a wiring electrically connected to the light detection element. The projection is arranged at such a position as to be in contact with the stem. The lead pin is electrically connected to a second terminal part of the wiring arranged in the projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
    Inventors: Katsumi Shibayama, Takafumi Yokino
  • Patent number: 9595775
    Abstract: A grounding block includes a conductive grounding surface configured to electrically ground a wire to a grounded structure, a retention member rotationally fixed about an axis orthogonal to the grounding surface and slidable toward and away from the conductive grounding surface in a direction parallel to the axis, and a biasing element configured to apply a first force to the retention member in the direction toward the conductive grounding surface to electrically ground the wire to the housing to satisfy a first regulatory requirement. A fastener is operative to apply a second force to the retention member in the direction toward the grounding surface to apply a mechanical load to satisfy a second regulatory requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: PPC Broadband, Inc.
    Inventor: Brian K. Hanson
  • Patent number: 9559507
    Abstract: A mounting bracket assembly for an electrical cable having a Faraday shield configured to allow at least one conductor passing through the assembly to a fire detector wherein the Faraday shield electrically terminates into the receiving end of the assembly without the need for additional electrical connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: Ricky Neil Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 9472901
    Abstract: A shield connector includes: a housing fixed to an outer surface of the metallic case; a shield member connecting a shield portion of a shield wire to the metallic case: a shield pipe as a pressure-bonding-member for swaging and connecting the shield portion and the shield member. The shield pipe includes: a tubular portion through which the shield wire and the shield member are inserted; a flange portion extended radially from the other side edge of the tubular portion; and a swage portion where the tubular portion is deformed to press the shield portion and the shield member 12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Feng Wang
  • Patent number: 9461414
    Abstract: A shielding unit is formed by attaching a shell internal cylinder and shell external cylinder of a shielding shell onto each other such that a cylindrical portion of a shielding member is sandwiched by an external cylindrical portion and an internal cylindrical portion press-fit therein while a flange portion of the shielding member is sandwiched by an internal cylinder flange portion and an external cylinder flange portion. By turning the shell internal cylinder in a counterclockwise direction with respect to the shell external cylinder, a positioning pin of the shell internal cylinder is moved to a counterclockwise direction end portion of a positioning guide hole of the shell external cylinder. This slides the cylindrical portion against at least one among the internal cylindrical portion and the external cylindrical portion, and slides the flange portion against at least one among the internal cylinder flange portion and the external cylinder flange portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Yanagihara, Takashi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 9462730
    Abstract: A shield member (1) includes a flexible main body part (11) surrounding electrical wire connected to a device in a shield case; and a flange part (12) provided at a shield-case-side terminal part of the main body part (11) so as to be integral with the main body part (11), facing a wall surface of the shield case. The stiffness of the flange part (12) is higher than that of the main body part (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hayato Iizuka
  • Patent number: 9356362
    Abstract: A component unit is provided that achieves both downsizing of a bracket and prevention of deformation of the bracket that occurs when tightening the bolt. A noise filter, which is the component unit, includes a housing made of a synthetic resin and a bracket made of a metal and attached to a vehicle panel with a bolt. The bracket is attached to the housing by insert forming. The portion of the bracket projecting outside the housing is provided with a bolt through hole. The portion of the bracket embedded in the housing is provide with a resin introducing hole through which a resin of the housing flows during insert forming. With this configuration, the bracket, the resin around the bracket, and the rein in the resin introducing hole together receive an external force generated by tightening the bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Miyawaki, Kunihiko Yamada
  • Patent number: 9241419
    Abstract: A bracket fixing hole that is configured to insert a screw part of a bracket fixing screw that is configured to mount the bracket to a bracket mounting part, a clamp hole that is configured to mount a cable clamp, and at least two notches that are configured to position the bracket to the at least two convex parts of the bracket mounting part are formed to a bracket. The bracket fixing hole and the clamp hole are faced on the opposed sides in such a manner that a first line segment that connects parts of the two notches is disposed between the holes. A second line segment that connects a center of the bracket fixing hole and a center of the clamp hole and the first line segment generally bisect each other at right angles. A gravity center is disposed on the side of the bracket fixing hole to the first line segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Akira Ikezawa
  • Patent number: 9227443
    Abstract: A recording head is configured to selectively eject ink droplets from nozzles. A head board is configured to control the recording head to operate based on a high-frequency signal outputted from a control board. A carriage is configured to move in a reciprocating manner, with the recording head and the head board mounted thereon. A belt-like cable connects the control board and the head board so that the high-frequency signal can be transmitted therebetween. The cable has such flexibility that the cable can change a posture following reciprocating movement of the carriage. The cable has a first surface facing in a thickness direction of the cable. The cable has a reflective layer at a part of each of both end portions of the first surface with respect to a longitudinal direction of the first surface. The reflective layer is configured to reflect an electromagnetic wave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Keiichi Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 9203166
    Abstract: Electrical connection system, in particular of an underground cable, with a first connecting piece which can be connected to an end of a first cable, wherein a longitudinal axis of the first cable determines a first longitudinal axis, and a second connecting piece which can be connected to an end of a second cable, wherein a longitudinal axis of the second cable determines a second longitudinal axis, wherein the first connecting piece has a seat formed for a protrusion of the second connecting piece, and the second connecting piece has a protrusion corresponding to the seat, and wherein the protrusion can be arranged in the seat to form an electrically conductive connection between the connecting pieces. A particularly simple installation in the region of the underground cables is possible because the seat extends parallel to the first longitudinal axis, the protrusion extends parallel to the second longitudinal axis, and the protrusion can be pushed into the seat parallel to the first longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Auto-Kabel Management GmbH
    Inventor: Jens Schumacher
  • Patent number: 9192537
    Abstract: A plug connector has a housing body, and a retaining cage is locked in place inside the housing body. At one end the retaining cage encloses a contacting element for electrically contacting a conductor of a cable to be attached, and at the other end the retaining cage encloses the cable sheath of the cable to be attached. Coupling elements for reversible connection of a further plug connector having an identical housing body are provided externally on the housing body on both sides thereof. Fixing elements for fixing the plug connector onto a mounting rail are provided externally on the housing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Bernard Schlegel
  • Patent number: 9161482
    Abstract: Provide is a shield terminal connection structure and method, which are easy and simple, for connecting a terminal part of a tubular shielding member to a shield structure. A holding part is formed by a terminal part itself of a shielding member, and then, a fixing member held by the holding part is connected to one side wall of a shield casing. When the fixing member is fixed to the one side wall of the shield casing, electrical connection to the shield member is also completed at the same time of the fixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideomi Adachi, Hidehiko Kuboshima
  • Patent number: 9112300
    Abstract: An electrical connector suitable, for example, for connecting high voltage carrying cables in a low pressure environment comprises a housing having a conducting surface and a plurality of cable insertion parts, each cable insertion part comprising an electrical conductor configured to connect to an electrical cable and an insulating sleeve surrounding the electrical conductor, wherein the housing surrounds the plurality of cable insertion parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Wilhelmus Damen, Jeroen Van Duivenbode, Henricus Hubertus Adrianus Van Hout
  • Patent number: 9093782
    Abstract: Disclosed is a shield connector structure preventing improper connection of a shield electric wire. The shield connector includes a housing fixed to an outer face of a metal case and a shield member connecting a shield part of the shield electric wire and the metal case, on one of the outer face of the metal case and an opposite face of the housing is formed a pin (projection) projecting toward the other, on the other are formed a positioning hole receiving the pin and a recess, the recess includes a slant face slanted in a peripheral direction about a center axis of an insertion hole, and abutting of the pin of the improper combination onto the slant face rotates a bolt hole of the metal case and a through hole of the housing about the center axis, making it impossible for a bolt to thread into.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Feng Wang, Yuki Hiruta
  • Patent number: 9022792
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shield contact spring having a contact spring for the purpose of contacting a shield of a cable being connected, and having a fixing spring for the purpose of fixing the shield contact spring in a position in which the contact spring abuts the shield of the cable being connected, wherein the contact spring has a first end and a second end, and wherein the fixing spring has a first end and a second end, wherein the contact spring and the fixing spring are connected to each other by their first ends via a U-shaped connection region, wherein the shield contact spring has a support spring for the purpose of pressing out the contact spring from the insertion region of the cable being connected, upon the insertion of the shield contact spring into a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: MCQ Tech GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Sticker, Werner Rösch
  • Publication number: 20150111402
    Abstract: Electrical device including a circuit board having signal contacts and at least one ground contact along a surface of the circuit board. The electrical device also includes a communication cable having a differential pair of signal conductors, a shield layer that surrounds the signal conductors, and a cable jacket that surrounds the shield layer. Each of the signal conductors has a wire-terminating end that is engaged to a corresponding signal contact of the circuit board. The cable jacket has an access opening therethrough that exposes a portion of the shield layer. The electrical device also includes a ground-terminating component that is electrically coupled to the shield layer through the access opening and electrically coupled to the at least one ground contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: John Allen Hackman, Troy Lyndon Blazek
  • Patent number: 8986045
    Abstract: A connecting structure of a shield braided part includes a shield shell that accommodates a connector housing which accommodates a terminal fitting connected to an end portion of an electric wire, and the shield shell including a tubular part which covers an outer periphery of the end portion of the electric wire, and a shield ring that is attached to an outer periphery of the tubular part of the shield shell and sandwiches an end portion of a tubular shield braided part covering the outer periphery of the electric wire between an outer peripheral face of the tubular part and the shield ring. A protruding part which protrudes toward the shield braided part is formed in the shield ring. A braided part insert hole is formed in the protruding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Okamoto, Tomoharu Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8956167
    Abstract: A cable end connector includes an insulating housing defining a rear cable-location portion thereof, a plurality of conductive terminals including contacting portions and terminal portions located in the rear cable-location portion, a plurality of cables each having wires and a connecting bar defining a first touching end and a second touching end. The wires of the cable overlap the terminal portions one by one except one wire and one terminal portion. The first touching end overlaps one terminal portion and the second touch end overlaps said one wire so as to establish an electrical connection through the connecting bar between said one terminal portion and one wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jerry Wu, Jun Chen, Feng-Jun Qi
  • Patent number: 8931936
    Abstract: A height-adjustable pendant lamp canopy assembly with an overhead-mounted junction box; a base-plate mounted transformer therein; an apertured insulating spacer plate below the base plate; a releasable cord grip with a threaded lower end protruding through the aperture; and, a clamping nut securing, releasably, the canopy cover on the end of the cord grip. A cord braid connector has a metal body with a cord-receiving, through-socket, a terminating portion for a fixture ground wire, and, a transverse screw hole. A braid-clamping, metal collar is clamped around braid of cord extending through the through-socket with the collar stuffed axially into the through-socket; and a clamping screw in the screw hole anchoring the metal collar and braid in the through-socket in a permanent electrical connection of the braid and the connector body, irrespective of limited lamp raising or lowering movement of the lamp power cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: W.A.C. Lightning Company Ltd
    Inventors: Sean Tham, Molly McGee, JunQuan Rao
  • Patent number: 8870597
    Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of first contacts and a plurality of second contacts. Each first contact includes a first movable contact portion and a wire connecting portion having a greater width than the width of the first movable portion and connected to a wire. Each second contact is shorter than the first contact and includes a second movable contact portion and a ground contact portion which is not in direct contact with the wire. A contact accommodating member accommodates the first contacts and the second contacts in juxtaposition with each other in such a manner that the wire-side ends of the second contacts are positioned closer to an inserted portion than the wire connecting portions of the first contacts. A guide member includes a ground terminal which comes into contact with the ground contact portion of the second contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
    Inventor: Yuta Kawakami
  • Patent number: 8864503
    Abstract: A biasing connector for biasing a shielding element of a power cable in connection with a cable joint, wherein an external sheath extends over a length of a cable sheath, may include an end portion configured to contact the shielding element and a conductive tape having a first end, connected to the end portion of the biasing connector, and a second end, configured to connect to a terminal providing a biasing voltage. At least one portion of the conductive tape may include at least one layer of a solid flat element having a width substantially equal to a transversal width of the conductive tape. The at least one portion of the conductive tape may be at least partly covered by the external sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Prysmian S.p.A.
    Inventors: Didier Charpentier, Thierry Charpentier, Stephane Tognali
  • Patent number: 8858261
    Abstract: A device (11) for electrically connecting a cable, in particular a plug-in connector part (2), has a housing (148) in which a shielding element (159) is arranged for electrically contacting a cable shield (157) and for electrically connecting the cable shield (157) to the housing (148). The shielding element (159) is multipart. A first part (131) of the shielding element (159) is in electrically connecting abutment against the housing (148), and can be electroconductively connected to the cable shield (157) by at least one further part (135, 137) of the shielding element (159).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Pfisterer Kontaktsysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Gottfried Bäuerle
  • Patent number: 8845342
    Abstract: The invention relates to a connection device for powering electrical equipment, said connection device comprising: a first electrical conductor (3) configured such that it is electrically connected to an electrical power source, and a second electrical conductor (5) connected mechanically and electrically to the electrical equipment to be powered. According to the invention, said connection device comprises an electrically insulating overmolding (7) held mechanically, covering the first (3) and second (5) electrical conductors at the connection thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventor: Stephane De Souza
  • Publication number: 20140273560
    Abstract: A hybrid grounding connector is provided which combines the positive attributes of currently used connections. A recess is pre-milled, formed or extruded into the body of a compression connector and the recess is pre-filled with solder. After conductors are installed in the connector, an external heat source is applied to heat the solder until it flows into strands of the conductors and forms a solidified joint of the compression connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: THOMAS & BETTS INTERNATIONAL LLC
    Inventor: Matthew D. Cawood