Patents Examined by Neil Abrams
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Patent number: 12288953Abstract: A connection assembly, a connector and a connector assembly are disclosed. The connection assembly is used to connect a high-voltage cable and comprises: a threaded fastener for fixedly connecting the high-voltage cable to a mating connection part, the threaded fastener comprising an insulation member; and a conductive plug connected with the insulation member to allow the threaded fastener to be tightened or loosened by rotating the conductive plug. In the present invention, the conductive plug arranged in the mounting hole of the conductive housing can realize the electromagnetic shielding function, and the elastic sealing sleeve sleeved on the conductive plug seals the gap between the conductive plug and the inner wall of the mounting hole and can realize the waterproof function. The insulation member serves to electrically isolate the threaded connecting member from the high voltage cable.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuchen Yang, Xiao (Nichee) Zhou
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Patent number: 12288945Abstract: The clamping connector includes first and second shell members, each including a tab and a protrusion extending from a first side, and a hinge aperture on a second side. The protrusion of the first shell member extends into a tab aperture of the tab of the second shell member and when the first shell member is secured to the second shell member the protrusion of the second shell member extends into a tab aperture of the tab of the first shell member. The clamping connector includes a hinge pin received by the hinge apertures of the first and second shell members to rotatably couple the first and second shell members. The clamping connector also includes a seal and a plurality of seal apertures extending from an interior of the clamping connector, the at least one seal extending partially through the plurality of seal apertures.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LPInventors: Kyle Koseck, Brian L. Counts
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Patent number: 12280682Abstract: An ejector for electric vehicle charging connectors is provided. An ejector can be configured to be secured on the inside of the charging port of an EV and to automatically eject or push the charging connector from the charging port. The ejector may include a pusher assembly that can be selectively retracted to allow a charging connector to be plugged into the charging port and can be selectively released to eject the charging connector from the charging port. The ejector can include a retracting assembly for selectively retracting the pusher assembly and a locking assembly for retaining the pusher assembly in the retracted position until it is desired to eject the charging connector.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: EVject, Inc.Inventors: Erick Vega, Preston Ruff, Kreg Peeler
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Patent number: 12278440Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating body, a number of first conductive terminals and a number of second conductive terminals. Each first conductive terminal includes a first mating arm. Each second conductive terminal includes a second mating arm and a second press-fit portion for being mounted to a circuit board. Among the second conductive terminals, the second press-fit portions corresponding to any two adjacent second mating arms are arranged in a staggered manner with each other along a second arrangement direction of the second mating arms. Therefore, it effectively avoids the mutual influence between the second press-fit portions, and facilitates the realization of the installation with the circuit board. The present disclosure also discloses an electrical connector assembly having the electrical connector.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: DONGGUAN LUXSHARE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTDInventors: Bin Huang, Rongzhe Guo, Hongji Chen, Huanhuan Shen
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Patent number: 12272894Abstract: A connector 10 is provided with an inner conductor 13 to be connected to a wire 18, a dielectric 14 for accommodating the inner conductor 13, and an electrically conductive impedance adjusting member 12 to be mounted on the wire. The inner conductor 13 includes a base portion 33 and an insulation barrel piece 35 rising from the base portion 33 and to be crimped to a coating 23 of the wire 18. The insulation barrel piece 35 includes an inclined portion 39 inclined toward the impedance adjusting member 12 with distance from the base portion 33 on an end edge on a side facing the impedance adjusting member 12.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignees: AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Hidekazu Matsuda, Kazuki Hiramatsu, Taiga Kadoyama, Maika Ido, Masanao Yamashita
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Patent number: 12268243Abstract: An aerosol generation device has a heating chamber for receiving a substrate carrier containing an aerosol substrate. The heating chamber includes an open first end, a chamber side wall, and a base at a second end of the chamber side wall opposite the open first end. The base includes a platform extending from a portion of the base towards the open first end from an interior surface of the base. The platform is formed of a series of protrusions positioned at an edge of the base.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: JT International S.A.Inventor: Tony Reevell
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Patent number: 12262752Abstract: A power supply unit of an aerosol generation device that supplies electric power to a load that generates aerosol including a sensor that is in an operating state among a normal state and a plurality of abnormal states, and detects an aerosol generation request while the power supply unit is in an active state, a control unit that detects a state of the sensor, and generates an error signal capable of distinguishing between a first and second abnormal states when the sensor is in at least one of the first and second abnormal states included in the plurality of abnormal states, and a notification unit that makes a notification in a different mode for each type of the error signal, wherein the control unit causes the power supply unit to undergo a transition from the active state to a sleep state after generating the error signal, and the plurality of abnormal states include a state in which supply of electric power to the load is unnecessary for detection by the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2024Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: JAPAN TOBACCO INC.Inventors: Takeshi Akao, Manabu Yamada, Hiroshi Tezuka
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Patent number: 12257384Abstract: A cartridge of an electronic vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction. The housing includes a sidewall, a transverse wall at the first end of the sidewall, and an inner tube integrally formed with the housing. The sidewall is generally cylindrical and a first end and a second end. The transverse wall includes at least one outlet therein. The inner tube extends in the longitudinal direction. The inner tube is concentrically positioned with respect to the sidewall. The inner tube communicates with the at least one outlet. The cartridge also includes a reservoir between the sidewall and the inner tube. The reservoir is configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2024Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Travis Martin Garthaffner, Peter J. Lipowicz
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Patent number: 12249781Abstract: An axially resilient press-in contact pin includes a metal body and an electrically conductive, elastic element. The metal body includes a pin-shaped section and a press-in spring. The press-in spring is on a first end of the pin-shaped section. The elastic element surrounds at least portions of the pin-shaped section and extends beyond a second end (i.e., free end region) of the pin-shaped section.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: KOSTAL Automobil Elektrik GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Norbert Andresen, Ralf Ostermann, Heike Skutta, Frank Kunert, Matthias Seifert, Edward Ziebko
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Patent number: 12244102Abstract: A detachable outer shell, which is comprised of a header connector with a shield member, for a shielded device connector. The header connector with a shield member is detachably assembled, attached, or mounted onto a housing of a shielded device connector, while the shielded device preferably remains connected to an electrical device. A method for detaching the outer shell for the shielded device connector includes the steps of detaching the header connector with the shield member of the outer shell, which may require service, repair or replacement, from the housing of the shielded device; and disassembling or removing the header connector with the shield member of the outer shell from the housing of the shielded device connector, while maintaining connection of the shielded device to the electrical device.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: J.S.T. CORPORATIONInventor: Franklin A. Holub
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Patent number: 12244086Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing. The housing defines a terminal cavity that extends along a connector axis. The terminal cavity has a height that is perpendicular to the connector axis. The terminal cavity has a width that is perpendicular to the connector axis and also perpendicular to the height. The width is greater than the height. The terminal cavity adapted to accommodate a flat cable inserted in an insertion direction parallel to the connector axis. The electrical connector also includes a polarizer that extends parallel to the height. The polarizer is located within the width. The polarizer is adapted to prevent insertion into at least part of the terminal cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Albert M. CabaƱero, Lewis Galligan
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Patent number: 12244092Abstract: A connector C is provided with a housing 30 formed with a through hole 39, a rubber plug 60 to be arranged inside the housing 30 and formed with a sealing hole 61, and a dummy plug 10 to be arranged from the through hole 39 to the sealing hole 61. The housing 30 includes recesses 43 open in an inner surface of the through hole 39. The dummy plug 10 includes a plug body 11 to be arranged in the sealing hole 61, an extending portion 12 continuously extending from the plug body 11 and to be arranged in the through hole 39, and protrusions 16 projecting from an outer peripheral surface of the extending portion 12 and arranged to be press-fit into the recesses 43.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventor: Takuma Yonezu
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Patent number: 12239162Abstract: Aerosol delivery component with a tank, and a wall separating the tank from a vaporizer, with a vent channel extending through the wall from a first opening at the chamber to a second opening at the tank and positioned such that any leakage of liquid through the channel is discharged on the vaporizer, or wherein the first opening has a greater cross-sectional area than the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: Imperial Tobacco LimitedInventors: Molly Mcguinness, Joe Pemberton, Chris Lord, Pete Lomas
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Patent number: 12206202Abstract: A holding frame for a plug connector, for receiving contact inserts, includes: a main frame, which has a first side wall, a second side wall opposite the first side wall, a first end wall, and a second end wall opposite the first end wall, the first side wall, the second side wall, the first end wall, and the second end wall enclosing an interior of the main frame into which the contact inserts are insertable in an insertion direction; and a plurality of wall segments, each of which has a fastening region via which the contact inserts which are inserted into the interior of the main frame are holdable on the main frame. In a mounted position, each wall segment of the plurality of wall segments is arranged on a receiving section formed on the first side wall or on the second side wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co.KGInventors: Hartmut Schwettmann, Lukas Brillo, Manuel Tuenker, Thorsten Diessel
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Patent number: 12193499Abstract: A porous element for a vapor provision system includes an elongate rod of porous ceramic material having a first end face, a second end face, and one or more side faces extending between the first end face and the second end face and defining a length of the rod; and a coating of metal applied to at least one side face over at least part of the length of the rod.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: NICOVENTURES TRADING LIMITEDInventors: Patrick Moloney, Catalin Mihai Balan
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Patent number: 12199370Abstract: A connector (10) according to the present disclosure includes an insulator (20) including an insertion space portion (21) into and from which a cable (70) including a to-be-locked portion (74) can be inserted and removed, an actuator (50) including a locking portion (51) and supported by the insulator (20) rotatably about a rotation axis (C) between a lock position at which the to-be-locked portion (74) and the locking portion (51) engage with each other when the cable (70) is in an inserted state and an insertion/removal position at which the cable (70) can be inserted into and removed from the insertion space portion (21), and a biasing member (60) supported by the insulator (20) and including an abutting portion (64) that abuts on the actuator (50), the biasing member (60) applying a force to bias the actuator (50) toward the lock position through the abutting portion (64), wherein the locking portion (51), the abutting portion (64), and the rotation axis (C) are positioned apart from one another in an insType: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATIONInventor: Nobuyuki Nakajima
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Patent number: 12199377Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrical connector is provided. The method includes: providing a terminal and a strip, where the strip is connected to the terminal, and the terminal is formed with an elastic arm, a floating contact portion and a conducting portion; then, insert-molding an insulating block, such that the insulating block connects the elastic arm and the floating contact portion; separating the elastic arm and the floating contact portion; further cutting the strip to separate the terminal from the strip; and providing an insulating body, where the insulating body is formed with at least one accommodating slot running vertically therethrough, and inserting the terminal into the accommodating slot. When the electrical connector is mated, the elastic arm provides an elastic force such that the floating contact portion moves downward, and the floating contact portion and the conducting portion are directly electrically connected.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: LOTES CO., LTDInventors: Zuo Feng Jin, Chang Wei Huang, Chien Chih Ho
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Patent number: 12191596Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a male connector comprising a wire connection portion configured to be connected to a wire, and a pin connection portion configured to contact a conductor pin in an electrically conductive manner; a collar comprising a collar cylindrical body portion and a collar outer flange having a first surface and a second surface; a nut comprising a nut cylindrical body portion and a nut inner flange having a first surface that faces the second surface of the collar outer flange; a first seal that surrounds the collar cylindrical body portion and is positioned between the second surface of the collar outer flange and the first surface of the nut inner flange; and a second seal that surrounds the pin connection portion of the male connector and is positioned between an end surface of the nut cylindrical body portion and a first surface of the wire connection portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.Inventors: Ryan M. Johnson, Colin L. Norris
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Patent number: 12191603Abstract: A first electrical connector, a second electrical connector and an electrical connector assembly are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Molex, LLCInventors: Hua Pan, You-Xiang Zheng
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Patent number: 12176647Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first connector housing, a second connector housing, and a connector position assurance (CPA) locking mechanism. The connector housings are connected via a detent connection. The CPA locking mechanism secures the detent connection against unintentional disconnection. The CPA locking mechanism forms a cable holder for fastening adjacent connecting lines.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: KOSTAL Kontakt Systeme Gmbh & Co. KGInventors: Bernhard Wrede, Alexander Nocker