Electrical connectors inventions 10/08

20080261414 - Connector: A connector includes a main body supporting a power cable, and a sound-proof member attached by a bolt to the top surface of the main body identified as the sound emitting surface to absorb sound emitted from the main body due to vibration. The main body includes a base provided... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080261415 - Electrical connection board and assembly of such a board and a semiconductor component comprising an integrated circuit chip: An electrical connection board includes electrical connection terminals on one face with a view toward connecting with a semiconductor component and electrical connection tracks connected respectively to these terminals. The terminals are arranged in a square matrix having two orthogonal directions. On its face, the board includes a multiplicity of... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080261416 - Stacked card connector: A stacked card connector (100) includes a first connector and a second connector stacked with the first connector. The first connector comprises a first shell (1) and an insulating housing (2) receiving a plurality of first terminals (3). The first shell is mounted on the insulating housing to define a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261417 - Low profile electrical connector: A right-angle electrical connector is disclosed. The right-angle electrical connector may include an electrically conductive contact and a connector housing that contains the electrically conductive contact. The electrically conductive contact may define a mounting end and a mating end. The connector housing may include a mating portion and a guide... Agent: Woodcock Washburn, LLP

20080261418 - Electrical card connector assembly: An electrical card connector assembly includes an electrical card connector (100) and a PCB (4) where the electrical card connector is assembled. The electrical card connector includes a metal shield (1), an insulating housing (2) and a terminal module (3) received in the insulating housing. The insulating housing associates with... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261419 - External ground connection for an electrical appliance: A grounding mechanism for an electrical appliance comprising a conducting plate capable of electrical contact with an electrical component of an electrical product. The grounding mechanism also comprises a non-conducting fastener capable of mounting the conducting plate to a chassis of the electrical product, and a grounding element capable of... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080261420 - Safety electric plug for preventing electric shock: Described is a safety power plug having electric plug prongs made of conductive material that exist having a insulated base portion housed inside the plug extending uniformly from and forming a nonconductive proximal portion, a conductive center portion and a distal nonconductive portion to allow the center conductive portion of... Agent: Charles Wayne Riddle, Jr. 7162 Nolensville Road

20080261421 - Card holding plug protector: A card holding plug protector, for example, configured to fit a 110 volt (V) or 220V outlet, has a frame configured to allow the insertion and display of at least one insert, for example, one or more business cards. The plug protector comprises at least one prong configured to fit... Agent: William Wiser

20080261422 - Flat circuit connector: An electrical connector is provided for mounting on a printed circuit board and for terminating a flat electrical circuit. The connector includes a dielectric housing for mounting on a printed circuit board and having an opening at a front portion thereof for receiving an end of the flat circuit. A... Agent: Molex Incorporated

20080261424 - Card connector: A card connector (1) includes a first insulating housing (30), a metal shell (21) associating with one side of the first insulating housing to define a first receiving space (140), a second insulating housing (22) cooperating with the first insulating housing to have the metal shell therebetween and assembled with... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261423 - Stacked card connector having ejecting mechanism: A stacked card connector (1) includes a first connector (10) and a second connector (20). The first connector includes a first insulating housing (30) having a base section (31) and a base seat (33) extending laterally from the base section, a first metal shell (11) covering the first insulating housing... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261425 - Shorting terminal, a connector and an assembling method therefor: A connector is provided with a plurality of terminal fittings (40), a shorting terminal (10) for shorting corresponding terminal fittings (40), and a housing (50) for accommodating the terminal fittings (40) and the shorting terminal (10). The shorting terminal (10) includes a contact piece (17) formed by bending and pushed... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080261426 - Terminal block with plug-in module: A connector arrangement includes a universal terminal block having a body containing a chamber in which is removably mounted one of a plurality of function control modules as used in commercial, industrial and residential installations, wherein a pair of module contacts on the module are brought into electrical engagement with... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20080261427 - One-way to three-way light bulb adaptor: A method and system is described of adapting a three way lamp socket to be able to utilize a plurality of “single-element” light bulbs.... Agent: Daniel S. Coolidge Coolidge & Graves PLLC

20080261428 - Adjustable connector for electrical cable: An adjustable connector for an electrical cable formed from a body, a hub and a coupling nut. The body has a flanged end with a scalloped edge and a face that is angularly disposed to the longitudinal axis and a cable connecting end. The hub includes an end with a... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080261429 - Waterproof and/or dustproof protection device for electrical connector in tubular radiation emitter and methods of using the same: A waterproof and/or dustproof protection device for an electrical connector in a tubular radiation emitter disposed in a housing comprising a protective cover, the protective cover comprising a passage and a plurality of gaskets, wherein the protective cover forms an airtight space within which the electrical connector is placed; the... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080261430 - Electrical connector and method of manufacturing same: An electrical connector (100) includes: (a) two or more conductors (120, 122, 124), each conductor of the two or more conductors has an inner radius (775) and an inner surface (721, 723, and 725) along the inner radius; (b) two or more electrical prongs (110, 112, 114), each prong of... Agent: Walter P. Opaska Bryan Cave LLP

20080261431 - Socket, socket base and method for operating and testing: A purpose of the invention is to provide a socket and a socket base, capable of holding the retainers outside the viewing field of the camera in spite of the size and/or shape of the retainers when measuring contact gaps, for example.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080261432 - Fan and plug thereof: A fan is disclosed. The fan includes a fan frame and a plug. The fan frame includes a circumference portion, an accommodating portion located in the circumference portion and having two sidewalls, and at least two fixed holes respectively disposed on two sidewalls of the accommodating portion. The plug disposed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261433 - Interconnect detection system: An interconnect detection system comprises a first connector member having a set of laterally spaced-apart contacts for communicatively engaging a corresponding set of contacts of a second connector member, at least two of the contacts of the first connector member offset a predetermined distance in a non-lateral direction away from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080261434 - Connector engaging structure: A connector engaging structure includes an electrical connection box including a first connector provided with a connecting terminal, a second connector to be engaged with the first connecter, and provided with a mating terminal to be connected to the connecting terminal, an outer housing which houses a whole of the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080261435 - Electrical connection guide assembly for break-apart personal mobility vehicle: A personal mobility vehicle includes a first vehicle unit and a second vehicle unit. A connection assembly, for electrically coupling a first electrical plug-in unit fixedly mounted to the first vehicle unit and a second electrical plug-in unit fixedly mounted to the second vehicle unit, includes a guide disposed on... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080261437 - Connector: A connector housing (20) is formed with a resiliently deformable lock arm (25) and ribs (36) are stand at opposite sides of the lock arm (25). The lock arm (25) resiliently locks a mating connector housing to lock the two connector housings in a connected state. Projections (35) project laterally... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080261436 - Plug connector: The invention relates to a plug connector (10), in particular, for telecommunications and data-systems-technology connections, comprising a housing in which a connector jack (20) is disposed around which a mating face is disposed, wherein the housing has a front section (44a, 44b, 44c, 44d, 44e) and a rear section (42),... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080261438 - connector: A wire holder (50), when correctly mounted in a housing (10), bites in insulation coatings (33b) of wires (33), whereby the wires (33) are so held as not to move. The wire holder (50) mounted in a direction intersecting the inserting direction of terminal fittings (30) and the extending direction... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080261439 - Fan and plug thereof: The present invention provides a fan having a frame and a plug. The frame includes an accommodating portion and at least two fixed holes. Each of the fixed holes is disposed on the two sides of the accommodating portion. The plug has a terminal seat with at least two linking... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080261440 - Power supply devices with illuminated receptacles: The present invention provides power supply devices having illuminated receptacles. Some or all of the receptacles are encircled or otherwise circumscribed by a lighting member. The lighting member may be a continuous strip of material, such as an electroluminescent laminate. The lighting member may illuminate the receptacles regardless of whether... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080261441 - Signal transmission wire with an audio interface and a usb interface: A signal transmission wire with audio interface and USB interface, the wire is a four-core connection wire, one end of which is connected to a USB interface, the other end of which is connected to a dual-track audio interface; the four-core signal connection wire is further provided with a winder,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080261442 - Stacked electrical card connector having stand off: An stacked electrical card connector comprises: a first connector comprising an insulative housing and a first shell covering the insulative housing, said first shell comprising a plurality of retention pieces extending outwardly; a second connector stacking with the first connector, comprising a bottom plate with a protrusion extending outwardly; at... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261443 - Through-panel connector: A through-panel connector, comprising a female connector (10) and a male connector disposed on one side and the other side of panel (50) and fitted to each other through a mounting hole (51) formed in the panel (50). The female connector (10) comprises a plurality of flexible holding ribs (11).... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080261446 - 7-16 coaxial flanged receptacles: A 7-16 flanged receptacle includes a tubular body including an outside thread and a fastener flange perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tubular body. A central contact is mounted in the tubular body with an insulator being interposed between the central contact and an outer contact. The receptacle further... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080261444 - Co-axial plug for a co-axial plug-in-connector: A housing coupler for a coaxial plug-in connector, particularly of the N-type, has a cylindrical housing (1) that forms an outer conductor and (2) has coaxial cable-side and plug-side ends. A groove on an inner wall of the housing (1) is next to the plug-side end, (2) extends in an... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080261445 - Coaxial cable connector with gripping ferrule: A coaxial cable connector includes a connector body having a rearward cable receiving end, a locking sleeve movably coupled within the rearward cable receiving end of the connector body for locking the cable in the connector and a gripping ferrule disposed between the connector body and the locking sleeve. The... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080261447 - Plug connector: A plug connector for use with coaxial cable having a central signal wire in which a base member has a bore defined by a side wall adapted to receive the end of a coaxial cable. A member having a pointed end extends into the bore and is adapted to extend... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20080261448 - Extension/expansion to universal serial bus connector: An extension to USB includes an insulative tongue portion and a number of contacts held in the insulative tongue portion. The contacts have four conductive contacts and two pairs of differential contacts for transferring differential signals. The four conductive contacts consist of a power contact, a ground contact, a −... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261450 - Portable and retractable flash drive with optional rotary deploying and retracting and fingerprint verification capability: In one embodiment of the present invention a portable and retractable flash drive with optional rotary deploying and retracting and fingerprint verification capability is disclosed to include a cylinder assembly. The cylinder assembly has a connector situated on one end, and a fingerprint sensor situated the surface. The portable and... Agent: Law Offices Of Imam

20080261449 - Universal serial bus (usb) flash drive housing a slim usb device and having swivel cap functionalities allowing for two locking positions: A Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive includes a slim USB device having an end used to couple the USB flash drive to a host and an opposite end and a swivel cap having a side slit that serves as an opening into which the slim USB device travels horizontally,... Agent: Law Offices Of Imam

20080261451 - Pre-distortion based impedence discontinuity remediation for via stubs and connectors in printed circuit board design: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to via structure utilization in a PCB design and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for impedance discontinuity remediation for via stubs and connectors in a PCB. In one embodiment a method for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080261452 - Shielded connector: A shielded connector is provided with a housing (14) for accommodating terminals (13) connected with ends of wires (11), a shield shell (20) for accommodating the housing (14) and connection for connecting an end portion of a shielding member (12) with the shield shell (20). The connection includes a tubular... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080261453 - Power strip device: A power strip device includes a power plug, a master power outlet, multiple slave power outlets and a control circuit. The control circuit includes an inductor, a reed switch and a switching circuit. Under the control of the control circuit, the power strip device allows the slave power outlets to... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080261454 - Card edge connector: A card edge connector comprises an insulator body and a pair of metal components. A central slot is provided along the longitudinal direction of the insulator body. The pair of metal components is disposed at distal ends of two opposite sides of the insulator body. Each metal component includes a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080261456 - Mountable power strips having handle grips: A mountable power strip includes first and second arm sections, at least one of which includes a plurality of electrical receptacles. The arm sections are coupled together for relative rotational movement between an open position for receipt of an object therebetween, and a closed position for clamping engagement with the... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080261455 - Mountable power strips with offset arm sections: A mountable power strip includes a first arm section having a plurality of electrical receptacles defining a “strip” of electrical receptacles. The mountable power strip further includes a coupling assembly that is configured to couple the first arm section to a second arm section such that the first and second... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080261457 - Socket for electronic devices: A socket (10) for electronic devices has a plurality of retainers (500). Each retainer (500) has a first member (501), a first shaft (507) for pivotably connecting a proximal portion of the first member with a lower frame (200) so the distal portion of the first member moves between an... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080261458 - Housing and electrical plug for transmitting electrical drive power: The invention relates to a plug housing for an electrical plug for transmitting electrical drive power for a motor vehicle between a plug receptacle and a cable with an inner conductor, a shield and insulation between an inner conductor and the shield. The plug housing comprises a plug-in area, in... Agent: Barley Snyder, LLC

20080261459 - Junction box having block type structure: A junction box having a block type structure is provided. The junction box having a block type structure includes: a lower cover of a quadrangular shape in which an inner groove having an opened upper part is formed and at one side of which a sliding groove is formed; a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080261460 - Electrical connector assembly: An electrical connector is provided comprising a female member and a male member configured such that the female member is inhibited from being electrically coupled to the male member if the electrical coupling would reverse the polarity of the electrical connector. The female member may comprise a first and second... Agent: Carr LLP

20080261461 - Electrical connector assembly: An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrical connector, a second electrical connector, and a connecting member. The first electrical connector includes an insulative main body with a receiving recess defined therein. The second electrical connector includes an insulative main body with a receiving recess defined therein. The connecting member... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080261462 - Board-to-board connector: A connector mountable to a printed circuit board is disclosed including a nonconductive housing with a plurality of slots, each slot having an opposed first and second end walls with grooves in each end wall and a plurality of terminals (41). Each terminal has a longitudinal axis, a retaining base... Agent: Molex Incorporated

20080261463 - Contact element: The invention relates to a contact element for printed circuit boards, comprising a terminal body that has an insertion opening for the insertion of a conductor and a screw for the fastening by clamping of the conductor within the terminal body. A seating element with a seating surface is detachably... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080261464 - Electrical connector for a roll-up heating: The roll-up heating (1) for a floor, or wall, comprises an insulating layer (10), a heating element (11) and a cladding (12). The insulating layer (10) is intended for laying on a floor (2) and the heating element (11) extends between the cladding (12) and the insulating layer (10). The... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080261465 - Separable insulated connector system: Separable insulated connector systems for power distribution systems wherein the interfaces of the mating connectors are modified to reduce mating and separation force.... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080261414 - Connector: A connector includes a main body supporting a power cable, and a sound-proof member attached by a bolt to the top surface of the main body identified as the sound emitting surface to absorb sound emitted from the main body due to vibration. The main body includes a base provided... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080261415 - Electrical connection board and assembly of such a board and a semiconductor component comprising an integrated circuit chip: An electrical connection board includes electrical connection terminals on one face with a view toward connecting with a semiconductor component and electrical connection tracks connected respectively to these terminals. The terminals are arranged in a square matrix having two orthogonal directions. On its face, the board includes a multiplicity of... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080261416 - Stacked card connector: A stacked card connector (100) includes a first connector and a second connector stacked with the first connector. The first connector comprises a first shell (1) and an insulating housing (2) receiving a plurality of first terminals (3). The first shell is mounted on the insulating housing to define a... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261417 - Low profile electrical connector: A right-angle electrical connector is disclosed. The right-angle electrical connector may include an electrically conductive contact and a connector housing that contains the electrically conductive contact. The electrically conductive contact may define a mounting end and a mating end. The connector housing may include a mating portion and a guide... Agent: Woodcock Washburn, LLP

20080261418 - Electrical card connector assembly: An electrical card connector assembly includes an electrical card connector (100) and a PCB (4) where the electrical card connector is assembled. The electrical card connector includes a metal shield (1), an insulating housing (2) and a terminal module (3) received in the insulating housing. The insulating housing associates with... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261419 - External ground connection for an electrical appliance: A grounding mechanism for an electrical appliance comprising a conducting plate capable of electrical contact with an electrical component of an electrical product. The grounding mechanism also comprises a non-conducting fastener capable of mounting the conducting plate to a chassis of the electrical product, and a grounding element capable of... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080261420 - Safety electric plug for preventing electric shock: Described is a safety power plug having electric plug prongs made of conductive material that exist having a insulated base portion housed inside the plug extending uniformly from and forming a nonconductive proximal portion, a conductive center portion and a distal nonconductive portion to allow the center conductive portion of... Agent: Charles Wayne Riddle, Jr. 7162 Nolensville Road

20080261421 - Card holding plug protector: A card holding plug protector, for example, configured to fit a 110 volt (V) or 220V outlet, has a frame configured to allow the insertion and display of at least one insert, for example, one or more business cards. The plug protector comprises at least one prong configured to fit... Agent: William Wiser

20080261422 - Flat circuit connector: An electrical connector is provided for mounting on a printed circuit board and for terminating a flat electrical circuit. The connector includes a dielectric housing for mounting on a printed circuit board and having an opening at a front portion thereof for receiving an end of the flat circuit. A... Agent: Molex Incorporated

20080261424 - Card connector: A card connector (1) includes a first insulating housing (30), a metal shell (21) associating with one side of the first insulating housing to define a first receiving space (140), a second insulating housing (22) cooperating with the first insulating housing to have the metal shell therebetween and assembled with... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261423 - Stacked card connector having ejecting mechanism: A stacked card connector (1) includes a first connector (10) and a second connector (20). The first connector includes a first insulating housing (30) having a base section (31) and a base seat (33) extending laterally from the base section, a first metal shell (11) covering the first insulating housing... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261425 - Shorting terminal, a connector and an assembling method therefor: A connector is provided with a plurality of terminal fittings (40), a shorting terminal (10) for shorting corresponding terminal fittings (40), and a housing (50) for accommodating the terminal fittings (40) and the shorting terminal (10). The shorting terminal (10) includes a contact piece (17) formed by bending and pushed... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080261426 - Terminal block with plug-in module: A connector arrangement includes a universal terminal block having a body containing a chamber in which is removably mounted one of a plurality of function control modules as used in commercial, industrial and residential installations, wherein a pair of module contacts on the module are brought into electrical engagement with... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20080261427 - One-way to three-way light bulb adaptor: A method and system is described of adapting a three way lamp socket to be able to utilize a plurality of “single-element” light bulbs.... Agent: Daniel S. Coolidge Coolidge & Graves PLLC

20080261428 - Adjustable connector for electrical cable: An adjustable connector for an electrical cable formed from a body, a hub and a coupling nut. The body has a flanged end with a scalloped edge and a face that is angularly disposed to the longitudinal axis and a cable connecting end. The hub includes an end with a... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080261429 - Waterproof and/or dustproof protection device for electrical connector in tubular radiation emitter and methods of using the same: A waterproof and/or dustproof protection device for an electrical connector in a tubular radiation emitter disposed in a housing comprising a protective cover, the protective cover comprising a passage and a plurality of gaskets, wherein the protective cover forms an airtight space within which the electrical connector is placed; the... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20080261430 - Electrical connector and method of manufacturing same: An electrical connector (100) includes: (a) two or more conductors (120, 122, 124), each conductor of the two or more conductors has an inner radius (775) and an inner surface (721, 723, and 725) along the inner radius; (b) two or more electrical prongs (110, 112, 114), each prong of... Agent: Walter P. Opaska Bryan Cave LLP

20080261431 - Socket, socket base and method for operating and testing: A purpose of the invention is to provide a socket and a socket base, capable of holding the retainers outside the viewing field of the camera in spite of the size and/or shape of the retainers when measuring contact gaps, for example.... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080261432 - Fan and plug thereof: A fan is disclosed. The fan includes a fan frame and a plug. The fan frame includes a circumference portion, an accommodating portion located in the circumference portion and having two sidewalls, and at least two fixed holes respectively disposed on two sidewalls of the accommodating portion. The plug disposed... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080261433 - Interconnect detection system: An interconnect detection system comprises a first connector member having a set of laterally spaced-apart contacts for communicatively engaging a corresponding set of contacts of a second connector member, at least two of the contacts of the first connector member offset a predetermined distance in a non-lateral direction away from... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080261434 - Connector engaging structure: A connector engaging structure includes an electrical connection box including a first connector provided with a connecting terminal, a second connector to be engaged with the first connecter, and provided with a mating terminal to be connected to the connecting terminal, an outer housing which houses a whole of the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080261435 - Electrical connection guide assembly for break-apart personal mobility vehicle: A personal mobility vehicle includes a first vehicle unit and a second vehicle unit. A connection assembly, for electrically coupling a first electrical plug-in unit fixedly mounted to the first vehicle unit and a second electrical plug-in unit fixedly mounted to the second vehicle unit, includes a guide disposed on... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080261437 - Connector: A connector housing (20) is formed with a resiliently deformable lock arm (25) and ribs (36) are stand at opposite sides of the lock arm (25). The lock arm (25) resiliently locks a mating connector housing to lock the two connector housings in a connected state. Projections (35) project laterally... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080261436 - Plug connector: The invention relates to a plug connector (10), in particular, for telecommunications and data-systems-technology connections, comprising a housing in which a connector jack (20) is disposed around which a mating face is disposed, wherein the housing has a front section (44a, 44b, 44c, 44d, 44e) and a rear section (42),... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080261438 - connector: A wire holder (50), when correctly mounted in a housing (10), bites in insulation coatings (33b) of wires (33), whereby the wires (33) are so held as not to move. The wire holder (50) mounted in a direction intersecting the inserting direction of terminal fittings (30) and the extending direction... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080261439 - Fan and plug thereof: The present invention provides a fan having a frame and a plug. The frame includes an accommodating portion and at least two fixed holes. Each of the fixed holes is disposed on the two sides of the accommodating portion. The plug has a terminal seat with at least two linking... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080261440 - Power supply devices with illuminated receptacles: The present invention provides power supply devices having illuminated receptacles. Some or all of the receptacles are encircled or otherwise circumscribed by a lighting member. The lighting member may be a continuous strip of material, such as an electroluminescent laminate. The lighting member may illuminate the receptacles regardless of whether... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080261441 - Signal transmission wire with an audio interface and a usb interface: A signal transmission wire with audio interface and USB interface, the wire is a four-core connection wire, one end of which is connected to a USB interface, the other end of which is connected to a dual-track audio interface; the four-core signal connection wire is further provided with a winder,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080261442 - Stacked electrical card connector having stand off: An stacked electrical card connector comprises: a first connector comprising an insulative housing and a first shell covering the insulative housing, said first shell comprising a plurality of retention pieces extending outwardly; a second connector stacking with the first connector, comprising a bottom plate with a protrusion extending outwardly; at... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261443 - Through-panel connector: A through-panel connector, comprising a female connector (10) and a male connector disposed on one side and the other side of panel (50) and fitted to each other through a mounting hole (51) formed in the panel (50). The female connector (10) comprises a plurality of flexible holding ribs (11).... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080261446 - 7-16 coaxial flanged receptacles: A 7-16 flanged receptacle includes a tubular body including an outside thread and a fastener flange perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tubular body. A central contact is mounted in the tubular body with an insulator being interposed between the central contact and an outer contact. The receptacle further... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080261444 - Co-axial plug for a co-axial plug-in-connector: A housing coupler for a coaxial plug-in connector, particularly of the N-type, has a cylindrical housing (1) that forms an outer conductor and (2) has coaxial cable-side and plug-side ends. A groove on an inner wall of the housing (1) is next to the plug-side end, (2) extends in an... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080261445 - Coaxial cable connector with gripping ferrule: A coaxial cable connector includes a connector body having a rearward cable receiving end, a locking sleeve movably coupled within the rearward cable receiving end of the connector body for locking the cable in the connector and a gripping ferrule disposed between the connector body and the locking sleeve. The... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080261447 - Plug connector: A plug connector for use with coaxial cable having a central signal wire in which a base member has a bore defined by a side wall adapted to receive the end of a coaxial cable. A member having a pointed end extends into the bore and is adapted to extend... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP

20080261448 - Extension/expansion to universal serial bus connector: An extension to USB includes an insulative tongue portion and a number of contacts held in the insulative tongue portion. The contacts have four conductive contacts and two pairs of differential contacts for transferring differential signals. The four conductive contacts consist of a power contact, a ground contact, a −... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080261450 - Portable and retractable flash drive with optional rotary deploying and retracting and fingerprint verification capability: In one embodiment of the present invention a portable and retractable flash drive with optional rotary deploying and retracting and fingerprint verification capability is disclosed to include a cylinder assembly. The cylinder assembly has a connector situated on one end, and a fingerprint sensor situated the surface. The portable and... Agent: Law Offices Of Imam

20080261449 - Universal serial bus (usb) flash drive housing a slim usb device and having swivel cap functionalities allowing for two locking positions: A Universal Serial Bus (USB) flash drive includes a slim USB device having an end used to couple the USB flash drive to a host and an opposite end and a swivel cap having a side slit that serves as an opening into which the slim USB device travels horizontally,... Agent: Law Offices Of Imam

20080261451 - Pre-distortion based impedence discontinuity remediation for via stubs and connectors in printed circuit board design: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to via structure utilization in a PCB design and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for impedance discontinuity remediation for via stubs and connectors in a PCB. In one embodiment a method for... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080261452 - Shielded connector: A shielded connector is provided with a housing (14) for accommodating terminals (13) connected with ends of wires (11), a shield shell (20) for accommodating the housing (14) and connection for connecting an end portion of a shielding member (12) with the shield shell (20). The connection includes a tubular... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080261453 - Power strip device: A power strip device includes a power plug, a master power outlet, multiple slave power outlets and a control circuit. The control circuit includes an inductor, a reed switch and a switching circuit. Under the control of the control circuit, the power strip device allows the slave power outlets to... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080261454 - Card edge connector: A card edge connector comprises an insulator body and a pair of metal components. A central slot is provided along the longitudinal direction of the insulator body. The pair of metal components is disposed at distal ends of two opposite sides of the insulator body. Each metal component includes a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080261456 - Mountable power strips having handle grips: A mountable power strip includes first and second arm sections, at least one of which includes a plurality of electrical receptacles. The arm sections are coupled together for relative rotational movement between an open position for receipt of an object therebetween, and a closed position for clamping engagement with the... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080261455 - Mountable power strips with offset arm sections: A mountable power strip includes a first arm section having a plurality of electrical receptacles defining a “strip” of electrical receptacles. The mountable power strip further includes a coupling assembly that is configured to couple the first arm section to a second arm section such that the first and second... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080261457 - Socket for electronic devices: A socket (10) for electronic devices has a plurality of retainers (500). Each retainer (500) has a first member (501), a first shaft (507) for pivotably connecting a proximal portion of the first member with a lower frame (200) so the distal portion of the first member moves between an... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080261458 - Housing and electrical plug for transmitting electrical drive power: The invention relates to a plug housing for an electrical plug for transmitting electrical drive power for a motor vehicle between a plug receptacle and a cable with an inner conductor, a shield and insulation between an inner conductor and the shield. The plug housing comprises a plug-in area, in... Agent: Barley Snyder, LLC

20080261459 - Junction box having block type structure: A junction box having a block type structure is provided. The junction box having a block type structure includes: a lower cover of a quadrangular shape in which an inner groove having an opened upper part is formed and at one side of which a sliding groove is formed; a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080261460 - Electrical connector assembly: An electrical connector is provided comprising a female member and a male member configured such that the female member is inhibited from being electrically coupled to the male member if the electrical coupling would reverse the polarity of the electrical connector. The female member may comprise a first and second... Agent: Carr LLP

20080261461 - Electrical connector assembly: An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrical connector, a second electrical connector, and a connecting member. The first electrical connector includes an insulative main body with a receiving recess defined therein. The second electrical connector includes an insulative main body with a receiving recess defined therein. The connecting member... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080261462 - Board-to-board connector: A connector mountable to a printed circuit board is disclosed including a nonconductive housing with a plurality of slots, each slot having an opposed first and second end walls with grooves in each end wall and a plurality of terminals (41). Each terminal has a longitudinal axis, a retaining base... Agent: Molex Incorporated

20080261463 - Contact element: The invention relates to a contact element for printed circuit boards, comprising a terminal body that has an insertion opening for the insertion of a conductor and a screw for the fastening by clamping of the conductor within the terminal body. A seating element with a seating surface is detachably... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080261464 - Electrical connector for a roll-up heating: The roll-up heating (1) for a floor, or wall, comprises an insulating layer (10), a heating element (11) and a cladding (12). The insulating layer (10) is intended for laying on a floor (2) and the heating element (11) extends between the cladding (12) and the insulating layer (10). The... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080261465 - Separable insulated connector system: Separable insulated connector systems for power distribution systems wherein the interfaces of the mating connectors are modified to reduce mating and separation force.... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080254646 - Electrical connecting device: An electrical connecting device, in particular for arrangement between steering wheel and steering column switch module of a motor vehicle, comprises a stationary housing portion and a housing portion rotatable relative thereto, which in each case carry a terminal unit and surround at least one spirally wound flexible electrical wire... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080254647 - Flex-x module with board mounted baluns: The disclosure relates to a jack assembly including a jack mount for slidably receiving a jack that includes a plurality of conductive tip and ring springs. When plugs are received, the tip springs make electrical contact with tip contacts of the plugs and the ring springs make electrical contact with... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080254648 - System for detachably connecting a large number of signal lines of two components: A system for detachably connecting a first electronic component with a second electronic component (6), whereby a large number of signal lines of the first component are connected with corresponding signal lines of the second component (6). A sheet-like part (2) of the first component is provided with a number... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080254650 - Light-emitting diode and method for producing it: An LED includes a printed circuit board, at least one LED element including a junction and mounted on the printed circuit board, a first sealing member disposed to cover side surfaces of the LED element, and a second sealing member disposed to cover side surfaces of the LED element. The... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080254649 - Thermal management of leds on a printed circuit board and associated methods: A light emitting diode (LED) lighting assembly includes a printed circuit board that includes a dielectric layer sandwiched between first conductive layers. The printed circuit board includes vias extending there through, with thermally conductive plugs in the vias. A second conductive layer is on each first conductive layer and on... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20080254651 - Spring interconnect structures: An interconnection element of a spring (body) including a first resilient element with a first contact region and a second contact region and a first securing region and a second resilient element, with a third contact region and a second securing region. The second resilient element is coupled to the... Agent: N. Kenneth Burraston Kirton & Mcconkie

20080254653 - Connection for flex circuit and rigid circuit board: Conductive pads of a flex circuit may be electrically connected to conductive pads of a rigid circuit board. The conductive pads of the flex circuit may be sized, configured and alignable to the conductive pads of the rigid circuit board. A spacer with a plurality of apertures may be sized,... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080254652 - Electrical connector assembly with a protecting section over a flexible printed circuit baord connected thereto: A shielded connector assembly for interconnecting a camera module (50) to a printed circuit board (not shown) via a flexible printed circuit board (70) comprises a shielded shell (10) having a receiving space (100), a spring plate (30) assembled in the shielded shell, a flexible printed circuit board secured in... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080254654 - Electrical junction box for motor vehicle: An electrical junction box includes a printed board, a broad bus bar for a power source circuit, a plurality of output side connecting terminal members, and a casing for containing the printed board, broad bus bar, and terminal members. A plurality of fuses are mounted on fuse-containing sections in parallel... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080254655 - Plug-in combination of appliances for protecting against overvoltages: The invention relates to a plug-in combination of appliances for protecting against overvoltages, said combination of appliances comprising: a socket-type lower part and at least one plug-in module, which can both receive overvoltage protection elements; contact elements and contact counter elements that are respectively arranged in the lower part and... Agent: Bodner & O'rourke, LLP

20080254656 - Connector module and electronic device using the same: A connector module is coupled to a ground terminal to discharge accumulated charges. The connector module includes a connector and a metallic housing. The connector has a connecting port. The metallic housing is covered over the connector. The metallic housing has a contact surface as the ground terminal and a... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080254657 - Electrical card connector: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1) and a plurality of signal contacts (3) retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a pair of side walls (14), a connecting plate (17) extending laterally to connect the side walls, and a pair of supporting rails (172)... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080254659 - Card connector: A card connector (100) includes a connector housing (90, 90′) having a card receiving room (9, 9′) for receiving a card and defining a card inserting/ejecting direction, a shell (4), a terminal module (70) assembled with shell and receiving a plurality of terminals (32) retained in the housing and protruding... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080254658 - Memory card connector: A memory card connector includes a housing, a plurality of terminals and a cover. The housing consists of a bottom wall, a front wall, a back wall and a pair of side walls and defines a plurality of slots therein. A receptacle is formed among the walls. The terminals are... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080254660 - High current switch and method of operation: An electrical switch which includes an insulative housing having a wall defining an axial bore therein, a first electrical contact disposed in the housing bore and a second electrical contact movably disposed in the housing bore between an open position and a closed position. When the contacts are in their... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080254661 - Center connect single-sided junction block: A junction block assembly (300) includes at least one junction block (302) receiving receptacle blocks (308, 310). Center connection of electrical power is provided through cable assemblies (304, 306) connected to the junction blocks (302).... Agent: Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett LLP

20080254662 - Electrical connector for flat flexible cable: An electric connector, wherein when a flat flexible cable is inserted thereinto with an actuator kept open, the actuator is automatically closed. The opening/closing type actuator includes an actuator operation part rotatable together with an actuator body part and actuator projected piece parts projected at both end parts of the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080254663 - Electrical connector: A weather-resistant electrical connector having an environmental seal and including an insulating post supporting the male contact. The mating connector has a sleeve that is correspondingly shaped and dimensioned to receive the post. The post is of sufficient length to seal and contain any arcs from live connections.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080254664 - Tracer wire connector kits: A ready to use tracer wire connector kit comprising a pod and cover that can be mated together around a tracer wire connector that can be retained in the pod or removed from the pod as the tracer wires are joined therein with the pod and cover encapsulating and protecting... Agent: Carl L. Johnson Jacobson And Johnson

20080254665 - Modular interconnect system and apparatus: Systems and apparatuses are provided for placing interconnects or connector modules into stacked arrangements, wherein individual interconnects or connector modules can be readily accessed and repaired without disrupting the stacked arrangement. In one embodiment, the electrical connector system has a plurality of interconnects mounted together in a stacked arrangement. Each... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080254666 - Electrical connector and associated methods: In one embodiment, an electrical connector comprises a terminal and a connector body. The electrical connector may have a base and at least one resilient terminal beam, the terminal beam including an electrical contact surface and a locking tab at its free end. The connector body may have a cavity... Agent: Intellectual Property

20080254667 - Electrical connector: An electrical connector comprising a connector body defining a socket for receiving an electrical conductor, a fastener mounted within the socket and engaged with a thread of an internal surface of the connector body so that rotation of the fastener relative to the connector body along a longitudinal axis of... Agent: Barley Snyder, LLC

20080254668 - Coaxial connector: The invention relates to a coaxial bushing connector (10) comprising an outer conductor part (12), an inner conductor part (14), a first end (18) for attaching a coaxial plug connector, a second end (20) lying opposite the first end, in particular for connecting to a coaxial cable or to a... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20080254669 - Connector and connector assembling system: A connector is described, the connector including a housing with a bottom wall and two upstanding opposite side walls determining a receiving space for receiving an insertion side of a second connector. The housing is provided with a flexible latch for locking the second connector in the receiving space of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080254670 - Electrical connectors with improved electrical contact performance: Electrical connectors are generally discussed herein having a housing having a bore and a groove having a canted coil spring positioned therein. A pin is inserted through the bore and is electrically connected with the canted coil spring. The canted coil spring may be coated with a noble metal and... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080254671 - Cable management system and method: A cable management system comprises an electronic device having a display member movably coupled to a base member, and a printed circuit board (PCB) interconnect configured to electrically couple at least one cable received by the interconnect from a device in the display member with at least one cable received... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080254672 - Plug-in connector for a connector-ended cable: An electrical connector (10) having a contact element (50) retained in a hollow body (12.) The body (12) has an internal socket structure (44) for receiving an end of the contact element (50) so that insulation displacement contacts (54) of this engage and make electrical connection to wires (70) of... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080254673 - Terminal fitting: A terminal fitting has a base (11) for receiving a cylindrical sealing plug (70) mounted on an end of a wire (60) and crimping pieces (14F, 14R) projecting from opposite lateral edges of the base (11). The crimping pieces (14F, 14R) are crimped into connection at different positions of the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080254674 - Plug assembly: A plug assembly electronically connects with a cable and includes an insulating housing, a plurality of electric terminals, and a connector. The insulating housing defines a plurality of terminal grooves. The electric terminals are disposed in terminal grooves of the insulating housing. Each electric terminal includes a contacting end and... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080254675 - Coaxial cable: A coaxial cable (10) includes at least one conducting wire (110), at least one insulating layer (120) coating a respective conducting wire (110), at least one shielding layer (130) surrounding the at least one insulating layer (120), and a single sheath (140) wrapping the at least one shielding layer (130).... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080254676 - Coaxial connector: A coaxial connector has a hollow shell, an insulative housing, a contact terminal and a stopper. The hollow shell has at least one engaging hole. The insulative housing is mounted in the hollow shell and has at least one hook protruding through the engaging hole to securely connect the insulative... Agent: Patenttm.us

20080254677 - Tightening indicator for coaxial cable connector: A coaxial cable connector includes an outer body having a first end and an opposing second end, an inner body having a first inner end and a second inner end, and a post interconnected with the inner body. A fastener portion is at the first end of the outer body.... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20080254678 - Tightening indicator for coaxial cable connector: A coaxial cable connector includes an outer body, an inner body, a post interconnected with the inner body, a plurality of threads inside a first end of the outer body, and a compression sleeve disposed to fit between a second end of the outer body and an end of the... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20080254679 - Electrical device comprising a connecting cable and method for producing said device: The invention relates to an electrical device (1), especially for a motor vehicle. Said device comprises an electrical component (2) and a connecting cable (5) which is connected to the component (2) and is surrounded by a sheathing (8), the end (9) of said sheathing being at a distance from... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080254682 - Protective housing for electrical connectors: A shielding device for an electrical connector for joining a contact with an electrical line or cable includes a cylindrical shield member formed of brass arranged within the connector. The shield member contains an opening in a central region which defines cylindrical sleeves at each end of the member and... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20080254681 - Usb cable for use in industrial environments: The present invention is directed to an electronic data transfer cable comprising (a) a first end; (b) a second end; (c) a plurality of data transmission wires running the length of the data transmission cable; (d) an insulating sheath disposed at one of said data transfer cable first or second... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20080254680 - Usb connector: A USB plug comprises a shell, a stationary port, upper and lower sliders and a levering device. The shell has an opening formed at a front end thereof and two pairs of terminal pins connected at a rear end thereof. The stationary port extending horizontally is fixed at a middle... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Patent Operations--thomson Licensing Inc.

20080254683 - Electrical connector: A miniature electrical connector includes an insulating housing (10) comprising a first wall (121) and a second wall (122) parallel to the first wall (121) without end walls and defining a mating groove (13) between the first and second walls. A plurality of terminals (30, 40) is mounted in the... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080254684 - Flexible i/o connection system and method: A flexible input/output (I/O) connection system comprises an electronic device having a housing with at least one I/O window for receiving a connection to an external device, and a hub disposed in the housing and having a plurality of I/O connectors, the hub movable within the housing to position a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080254685 - Receptacle connector assembly for reducing emi and/or crosstalk: A contact sub-assembly is provided for a receptacle connector assembly. The contact sub-assembly includes a housing that includes a body fabricated at least partially from a dielectric material. A plurality of electrical contacts are held by the housing. Each of the electrical contacts has a mating end portion, a tail... Agent: Robert J. Kapalka Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080254686 - Cable connector device for a battery: This invention relates to a cable connector device for use on a battery terminal post, the cable connector including a conductive mounting cap having an internal mounting wall with a surface area corresponding with the surface area of a said battery mounting post to enable, in use, the cap to... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr, LLP

20080254687 - Electric connector: An electric connector (1) has an attachment portion (2) for attachment to an electric conductor, a connecting portion (3) for connection to a mating electric connector, and a damping portion (4) which joins the attachment portion (2) to the connecting portion (3) and comprises a bottom wall (5) connected to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080254688 - Electronic component socket and methods for making and using the same: A socket or clip adapted to provide an interconnect between an electronic component, such as an automotive blade fuse, and a printed circuit board or other device. The clip comprises a substantially unitary structure for attaching the electronic component to the printed circuit board substrate. In one embodiment, the clip... Agent: Robert F. Gazdzinski Suite 375

20080248658 - Electrical connector lead frame: An electrical interconnection system with high speed, differential electrical connectors. The connector is assembled from wafers containing columns of conductive elements, some of which form differential pairs. Each column may include ground conductors adjacent pairs of signal conductors. The ground conductors may be wider than the signal conductors, with ground... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080248659 - Electrical connector with complementary conductive elements: An electrical interconnection system with high speed, differential electrical connectors. The connectors are formed with columns of conductive elements, some of which carry signals some of which act as ground conductors. The conductive elements may contain projections to secure the conductive elements in a housing or to facilitate desirable current... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080248660 - High speed, high density electrical connector with selective positioning of lossy regions: An electrical interconnection system with high speed, high density electrical connectors. The connectors incorporate electrically lossy material, selectively positioned to reduce crosstalk without undesirably attenuating signals. The lossy material may be molded through ground conductors that separate adjacent differential pairs within columns of conductive elements in the connector. However, regions... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080248661 - Circuit board assembly with light emitting element: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board having opposing first and second surfaces each extending between at least one edge surface that intersects the first and second surfaces. A light emitting element is mounted directly over the edge surface of the circuit board.... Agent: Robert J. Kapalka Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080248662 - Tamper resistant interrupter receptacle having a detachable metal skin: A tamper-resistant device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface; and one or more covers positioned on the first surface of the housing, wherein the first surface includes at least two angled surfaces for receiving the one or more covers to create a securedly fixed connection,... Agent: Leviton Manufacturing Company Incorporated (cdfs) C/o Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080248663 - Methods and apparatus for flexible extension of electrical conductors beyond the edges of a substrate: A flexible extension wafer translator includes a wafer translator portion, one or more flexible connectors extending outwardly therefrom, and a connector tab coupled to the distal end of each outwardly extending flexible connector. The flexible connectors may take any suitable form, including but not limited to, draped and pleated.... Agent: Raymond J. Werner

20080248665 - Connector and connector assembly: A connector has a first housing (1) and a second housing (2) with a receptacle (4) for receiving the first housing (1). A slider (3) having a cam groove (24) is mounted in the first housing (1) for movement normal to connecting directions of the housings (1, 2). A cam... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080248664 - Lever-type connector and connector assembly: A lever (60) of a connector can be rotated towards a connection side, and a moving plate (80) is pressed by cam pins (35) of the female connector housing (30) to reach an advanced position. As the lever (60) is rotated toward a separation side, first and second engaging portions... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080248666 - Connector storing apparatus and electronic device: A main frame supports a receiving-side connector to which a connecting-side connector is connected in movable manner toward inside. A holding unit holds the receiving-side connector that is moved to the inside. A connector biasing unit applies a biasing force toward outside to the receiving-side connector. A hold releasing unit... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080248668 - Plug: A plug for a socket of an airbag is disclosed. The plug has a position assurance member having a movable member and a static member and the position assurance member is movable between a transport position and an end position by moving the movable member in relation to the static... Agent: Barley Snyder, LLC

20080248667 - Power strip for computer and related computer peripherals: A power strip includes a plug having a hot line terminal and a neutral line terminal, at least one outlet having a hot line terminal and a neutral line terminal, and a power control apparatus having a connector and an electrical switch. The neutral line terminal of the at least... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080248669 - High voltage electrical connectors: The present invention is directed to a connector housing for high voltage wires, either single ended or double ended with an integrated connector. Other features of the present invention include integration of a deep recessed high voltage connector contact for an arc and leakage resistant high voltage connection point, use... Agent: Richard D. Clarke Law Office Of Richard D. Clarke

20080248670 - Electrical power contacts and connectors comprising same: Electrical connectors and contacts for transmitting power are provided. One power contact embodiment includes a first plate that defines a first non-deflecting beam and a first deflectable beam, and a second plate that defines a second non-deflecting beam and a second deflectable beam. The first and second plates are positioned... Agent: Woodcock Washburn, LLP

20080248671 - Locking high defination multimedia interface plug: A locking plug comprises a plug body having an opening and an actuator that moves between a first position where a locking tab is biased to protrude from the opening and a second position where the locking tab is positioned within the opening.... Agent: John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc.

20080248672 - Dongle for accessing data storage cartridges: A dongle is provided for coupling a data storage cartridge with a host computing device. The data storage cartridge includes a data storage medium and an electrical connection providing access to the data storage medium. The dongle includes a first plug and a second plug. The first plug includes a... Agent: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20080248673 - Detachable coupling for a remote inspection device: A remote inspection device is provided for inspecting visually obscured locations. The device is generally comprised of a imager housing and a display housing disposed on opposite ends of a modular, flexible cable. An imaging device and one or more light sources are embedded in the end of the cylindrical... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080248674 - Electrical plug connector part: An electrical plug connector part with a locking nut that is rotatable relative to the plug body and can be screwed onto an associated matching plug part and that is secured against unintentional rotation relative to the plug body by matched latch elements, wherein first latch elements are rigid and... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080248675 - Shielded surface mount connector: A shielded surface mount connector mounted to a PCB includes a housing, a plurality of terminals and a shelter enclosing the housing. The housing provides a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion. The first and second protruding portions extend downwards respectively to form a first pillar and a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080248676 - Network plug: The present invention relates to a technical field of high-speed network plug, and more particularly to an improved network plug. The network plug includes a short body, a one-piece holder, a core holder, a clip and a U-like metal housing. The core holder and the one-piece holder are disposed inside... Agent: John Chen

20080248679 - Circuit board fixing structure: The base has a plurality of elastic claws (32) and the elastic claws vertically extend from the base. Each elastic claw includes a fastening portion (34), which forms a fastening surface (36) facing to a top surface of the base. The circuit board is encircled by the elastic claws and... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080248678 - Connector fastening arrangement for printed circuit boards: A connector fastening arrangement locks a connector housing to a printed circuit board, thereby to effect engagement between a resilient contact on the housing and a corresponding electrical element on the adjacent top surface of the printed circuit board. A rotary locking member carried by the connector housing extends within... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20080248677 - Electrical contact holder assembly: An electrical contact assembly holder includes a body having a cable interface. A contact holder is attached to the body on a side opposite from the cable interface and is provided with a plurality of contacts arranged in rows. Each of the contacts has a base that secures the contact... Agent: Barley Snyder, LLC

20080248680 - Power cable connector: This invention relates to an improved power connector that has a housing comprising a plurality of slots that are each for receiving a receptacle contact. Preferably, the housing has a plurality of quick-disconnect contacts each disposed in one of the housing slots. Further, a cover, may be coupled to the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn, LLP

20080248681 - Electrical connector arrangement for knife contacts: An electrical connecting arrangement includes a locator device mounted on a photovoltaic panel for relatively positioning a connector housing such that a resilient contact on the connector housing is arranged for electrical connection with a stationary rigid contact on the photovoltaic panel that extends in space relation within a chamber... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20080248682 - Snagless plug and boot connection: A boot with a flexible actuator can be used to provide improved protection and ease of use for an electrical connector plug. The plug, such as an RJ45 plug connected to a data or communications cable, can have an extended latch member adapted to releasably engage a connection mechanism of... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080248683 - Optoelectronic module retention mechanism: A retention mechanism for an electronic or optoelectronic module. In one example embodiment, an optoelectronic module retention clip includes a base, a pair of arms extending from the base, and a protrusion extending from each arm. Each protrusion is configured to engage a complementary structure defined in a de-latch slide... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080248684 - Jack connector assembly having circuity components integrated for providing poe-functionality: The invention relates two a jack connector assembly having a circuitry components integrated providing power over LAN, functionality, in particular for use with regard to Ethernet-networks. An object of the present invention is to provide a jack connector assembly providing integrated power over LAN-functionality and especially avoiding any undesirable and... Agent: Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080248685 - Connector systems for electrosurgical generator: A connector system for coupling electrosurgical instruments to electrosurgical generators is provided. The connector system includes a plug portion connectable to an electrosurgical instrument, the plug portion of the electrosurgical instrument having a shape specific to a particular manufacturer; and a plug receptacle portion supported on the electrosurgical generator; the... Agent: Tyco Healthcare Group Lp

20080248686 - Connector structure: A connector structure is constituted by a body, an illumination element, and a locking seat, wherein the body is extended with a cover, and an interior of the body is provided with a first tunnel having a contact terminal and conduction terminal, as well as a second tunnel having the... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080248687 - Internally overlapped conditioners: The application discloses novel internal structures of energy conditioners, assemblies of external structures of energy conditioners and mounting structure, and novel circuits including energy conditioners having A, B, and G master electrodes.... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw, PC

20080248688 - Sure-grip rca-type connector and method of use thereof: A sure-grip RCA-type coaxial cable connector is provided, wherein the connector comprises a connector body having an external surface upon which at least two gripping rings are securely located. Friction-enhancing surface features are positioned upon at least a portion of the external surface of the connector body between at least... Agent: John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc.

20080248689 - Flexible rf seal for coaxial cable connector: The present invention incorporates a flexible seal into a typical coaxial cable connector. The seal comprises a flexible brim, a transition band, and a tubular insert with an insert chamber defined within the seal. In a first embodiment the flexible brim is angled away from the insert chamber, and in... Agent: Ppc, A Divisionof John Mezzalingua Assc., Inc.

20080248690 - Connector and contact assemblies for medical devices: A contact assembly of a medical device includes a sidewall surrounding a bore that receives axial insertion of a medical electrical lead connector; the bore extends along a longitudinal axis of the contact assembly, and first and second contact clips are mounted on, or attached to the sidewall such that... Agent: Intellectual Property Group Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.

20080248692 - Extended memory card and manufacturing method: The extended memory controller circuitry is further operable to control interface of the extended memory card through either the first format connection fingers or the second format connection fingers with a host device to transfer data files from the host device to be stored on the memory circuitry, and to... Agent: Law Offices Of Imam

20080248691 - Releasably engaging hdmi plug: A releasably engaging plug comprises a plug body having an extension, the outer surface of the extension having at least one projection thereon. The projection is configured to releasably engage at least one spring biased tab of a mating receptacle upon insertion of the extension into the receptacle. Engagement of... Agent: Ppc, A Divisionof John Mezzalingua Assc., Inc.

20080248693 - Shieldless, high-speed electrical connectors: A shieldless, high-speed electrical connector is disclosed. Such a connector may include a first column of electrical contacts comprising a first arrangement of differential signal pairs separated from one another by first ground contacts, and a second column of electrical contacts adjacent to the first column, the second column of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn, LLP

20080248694 - Transceiver connector with integrated magnetics: In one example embodiment, a connector structure includes a housing that defines a chamber, a plurality of magnetic cores positioned within the chamber, and a means for positioning the plurality of magnetic cores so that a first magnetic core of the plurality of magnetic cores is not in physical contact... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080248695 - Modular jack with improved grounding member: A modular jack (100) adapted for receiving a pair of mating connectors includes an insulative housing (1) having a pair of cavities (10) for receiving the corresponding mating connectors, a number of terminal modules (3) received in the cavities for electrically connecting with the mating connector, and a conductive outer... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080248696 - Medical electrical lead connection systems and methods: An electrical connection assembly of a medical device includes at least one conductive sidewall mounted in a fixed position to a module base; the sidewall may be electrically coupled to a feedthrough wire. The assembly further includes at least one resilient member to apply a spring force against a connector... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.

20080248697 - Slide lock panel-mount connector: An electrical connector for mounting to a panel includes a housing configured to be mounted to the panel, and a deflectable latch including a latch arm having a length extending in a longitudinal direction between a fixed end secured to the housing and a free end movable with respect to... Agent: Robert J. Kapalka Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080248698 - Terminal block with jaw part for engagement with the flat pin of movable electric contacts: A terminal block for connecting electric wires using a removable contact, such as a fuse, with flat pins, includes an insulating body and two conducting elements housed inside the body. Associated with respective terminals for retaining the free end of a respective electric wire, the conducting elements including, at an... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080248699 - Electric terminal for printed circuit boards: The invention relates to physical connections of a plurality of mutually insulated connecting elements, especially configured for printed circuit boards, the physical connection being a component of an electric connection between two or more conducting elements with direct contact using a spring. The electric terminal represents such a connection, and... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20080248700 - Contact arrangement: The invention relates to a contact arrangement in which an electrical contact of U-shaped construction is fixed in common by two contact holders, which surround it at the top and bottom, and selectably also upper and lower screening caps, by means of two pins which go through corresponding bores not... Agent: K.f. Ross P.C.

20080242119 - Bus connector with at least two cable connections for bus lines: There is described a bus connector with at least two cable connections for bus lines, with the cable connections being provided in each case for electrical connection to a bus signal line and a bus screen line of a cable, with a screen connector of the cable connection being provided... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080242120 - Right-angle coaxial connector: An electrical connector and connection system are disclosed having an array of conductive coaxial pairs. Each pair consists of a cylindrical electrical conductor surrounded by a tubular electrically conductive shield with a dielectric insulator disposed there-between. A rigid connector housing contains the coaxial pairs in a fixed spaced parallel relationship.... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080242121 - Reduced socket size with pin locations arranged into groups with compressed pin pitch: In some embodiments a socket and/or a package includes a plurality of groups of pin locations including at least a first group of pin locations and a second group of pin locations. Each group of pin locations includes a standard pin pitch in a direction between pin locations of the... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080242122 - Electrical connector: An electrical connector (1) comprises an insulative housing (2), a plurality terminals received in the housing (2), a stiffener (3) engaged with the housing (2), a clip (5) and a lever (4) pivotably mounted on two opposite sides of the stiffener (3). The lever (4) comprises a pair of locating... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080242123 - Socket for land grid array package: A land grid array socket and a microelectronic assembly including the socket. The socket comprises: a housing; an array of through-contacts on the housing; a solder ball standoff element on a PCB side of the housing; and a seating plane standoff element on a package side of the housing, the... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080242124 - Busbar unit: A busbar unit includes a busbar holder and a plurality of busbars. The busbar holder has a first surface and a second surface on both sides in an axial direction, respectively. The first surface is provided with grooves in which one or more busbars are accommodated. The busbar in the... Agent: Nidec Corporation C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20080242126 - Circuit board assembly: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board, at least a conductive contact and a metal shielding device. The conductive contact is extended from a lateral edge of the circuit board and is electrically connected to the circuit board. The circuit board and the conductive contact are received in the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080242125 - Large lga socket and method of manufacture: An LGA interconnect device, method of making, and device for making.... Agent: Robert K. Kapalka

20080242127 - Transceiver receptacle assembly: A receptacle assembly for a transceiver module includes a transceiver cage that is configured to receive the transceiver module. The transceiver cage is configured to be mounted proximate a cutout in a circuit board such that a portion of the transceiver cage extends through the cutout. A connector is configured... Agent: Robert J. Kapalka Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080242128 - Elastomeric electrical contact: An electrical contact is provided that includes an elastomeric body extending between a base portion and a mating end portion. The elastomeric body includes a ledge extending from the mating end portion to the base portion of the elastomeric body. The ledge is defined by a portion of the elastomeric... Agent: Robert J. Kapalka Tyco Electronics Corporation

20080242129 - Universal two-hole electrical bond washer: The INVENTION is a single, two-hole, electrical bond washer which replaces individual single-hole flat washers that are used in the process of bonding electrical wire lugs to ground bars for protection against lightning.... Agent: James Gordon Crummett

20080242130 - Methods and apparatus for battery contact assembly: Methods and apparatus for a batter contact assembly having a compact profile for efficient use of space and reliable battery connections. In one embodiment, the assembly is of unitary construction with hinges and engagement mechanism to facilitate installation of the assembly into a device requiring battery power.... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080242131 - Cable connector: A cable connector includes a housing and a first contact provided in the housing. The first contact includes a first engaging and pivoting unit opposed to a back surface of the cable. The cable connector also includes a second contact which is provided in the housing and which includes a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080242132 - Electrical connection for high humidity and low temperature environments: A plug and socket electrical connection for environments with high humidity and low temperatures has a socket with female connections (holes with an electrical terminals), a circular recess for receiving a mating part and tabs and a plug with a male connection (electrodes), the mating part and hooks. The electrical... Agent: Roy L. Anderson, Esq. Wagner, Anderson & Bright, LLP

20080242133 - Adapter: An adapter for the coupling of two different electrical plugs, in particular for vehicles, comprises an electrically conductive cage open at two ends, in particular pin-like electrical contacts insertable into the cage with differing contact ends matched to the respective plug and in particular two differing insulation parts insertable into... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080242134 - High-voltage connector: A high-voltage connector is described, having a plug (10) with a rubber cone (131; 132, 133) for insertion in a socket (20). A connector of this kind is also referred to as a rubber-cone plug system and is used in particular for connecting X-ray generators to highvoltage generators. The connector... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080242135 - Connector receptacle: In a connector receptacle (1) which is mounted on a printed circuit board (30), a pair of protection protrusions (21) is formed to protrude outward in an insertion direction (X) of a plug from a rear end (13a) of a bottom board (13) of a metal shell (11). A plurality... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080242136 - Airtight electrical socket: A water and/or airtight electrical socket for portable electronic devices includes sealing elements that are shaped like an arc, and arranged to seal only a portion of the perimeter of the socket-plug interface. When this arc element experiences pressure, it will mechanically relay the force caused by the pressure only... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080242137 - Single step operation connector assembly: A connector assembly is presented. The assembly includes a first connector including a pilot terminal and a plurality of first terminals. Further, the assembly includes a second connector including a plurality of second terminals, where the second connector is configured to be releasably coupled with the first connector. In addition,... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080242138 - Socket connector assembly with pick-up cap: A socket connector assembly (10) comprises an insulative housing (10) comprising a bottom conductive section (201) defining a plurality of contact-receiving slots and four sidewalls (202) extending upwardly from edges of the conductive section, and a pick-up cap (30) assembled to the insulative housing and comprising a smooth top surface... Agent: Wei Te Chung Foxconn International, Inc.

20080242139 - Connector and line connecting method thereof: To reduce as much as possible an outer size of a connector having an insulation-displacement type wire connection structure without deteriorating stability and reliability of connection between terminal elements and conductors. A connector (20) includes a plurality of terminal elements each having insulation-displacement type conductor-connecting sections (14) to be connected... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080242140 - Male connector and matched female connector thereof: A male connector includes a main body, a plug extending from an end of the main body, and two elastic members attached to opposite sides of the main body. An end of each of the elastic members is secured to the main body near the end thereof, and the remaining... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080242141 - Wire containment cap: A wire containment cap has twisted pair slots for routing twisted wire pairs through the wire containment cap. The twisted pair slots are provided with funnel-shaped entrances to assist in routing the twisted wire pairs from a rear end of the wire containment cap toward wire slots of the wire... Agent: Panduit Corp.

20080242142 - Connector: A connector includes a shell, a housing, and a plurality of terminals. The shell with a tubular shape has a first opening and a second opening. The housing includes a housing body portion, a holding portion, and a protruding portion. The housing body portion covers the second opening. The holding... Agent: Kubotera & Associates, LLC

20080242143 - Cable connector: A cable connector includes a housing, a first contact having a first contact unit opposed to a front surface of a cable and an engaging and pivoting unit opposed to a back surface of the cable, a second contact which is provided in the housing and which has a second... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080242144 - Device for holding at least two connecting cables: The invention also relates to a process for replacing apparatus (50) to which at least two connecting cables (40) are attached by means of a detachable connection, preferably a plug connection, such that each connecting cable (40) is first introduced into the holding area (26, 26′, 26″) of a recess... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080242145 - Connector socket module and electronic device using the same: A connector socket module having a reduced height used in a server is disclosed, the connector socket module including plural connector sockets, a relay board having a pattern of wiring electrically connected to the connector sockets provided on a front side of the relay board, a relay connector provided on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080242146 - Connector substrate and speaker input terminal connection structure: In a connector substrate to which are soldered input terminals of a speaker and lead wires connected to an output terminal of a printed circuit board, the connector substrate is flat and approximately rectangular, and snap-off portions for, by being snapped off in a predetermined size, moving extreme positions of... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080242148 - Connector device: A disclosed plug connector is configured to be plugged into and connected to a receiving connector. The plug connector includes plural signal contact members arranged along a circumferential direction, and a cylindrical ground unit surrounding an outer peripheral side of the signal contact members.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080242147 - Headset with data connector: This application is directed to a headset having an integrated data connector (e.g., a USB female connector). The headset may include an electronic device interfacing portion that may include a USB male connector and a 3.5 mm jack for engaging an electronic device. The headset may also include an acoustic... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080242149 - Receptacle, plug, and connector apparatus: A receptacle is provided that transmits another signal separate from a USB module compatible signal, without the occurrence of a fault, when a USB connection is made. This receptacle (200) has a USB terminal section (210) that connects to a USB terminal section (310) and an other terminal section (220)... Agent: Nath & Associates, PLLC Sixth Floor

20080242150 - Fuse and power circuit breaker including the same: A power circuit breaker having a simple structure with a small number of components is provided. The power circuit breaker includes: a circuit receiver which receives a pair of circuit terminals connected to an end of an opened power circuit; and a plug body having a fuse to be mounted... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080242151 - Female connector terminal for electric power connector: A female connector terminal includes a connector terminal body, which has a positioning portion on the middle for positioning in an electrically insulative member, a bonding portion at the rear side for bonding to a circuit board, and a tubular contact portion at the front side that has a receiving... Agent: Alltop Technology Co., Ltd.

20080242152 - Pci express interface card: A PCI Express interface card includes at least two different sized PCI Express connecting interfaces (40), at least two PCI Express buses (50) corresponding to the at least two PCI Express connecting interfaces, a controlling module (10), a switching module (20), and an indicating module (30). The at least two... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080242153 - Base connector, socket connector and complex type connector: A base connector includes an insulating base housing and a plurality of base contacts retained by the base housing. An anterior wall of the base housing includes a central convex portion which is formed at the center portion in a left-and-right direction of the anterior face of the anterior wall... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080242155 - Electrical connector having insulative housing and flexible bus: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing receiving a plurality of terminals therein, an upper cover mounted on the insulative housing, a flexible bus, and a casing shielding the upper cover and fixed to the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a mating portion for mating with a mating connector.... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080242154 - Powered, mobile electronics mount: A powered, mobile electronics mount system has a male plug, a support arm, a connector housing, and an interconnecting wire. The male plug includes an electrical connector, wherein the plug is adapted to be inserted into an automobile electrical socket. The support arm is connected on one end to the... Agent: Thomas & Raring, P.C.

20080242156 - Electrical connector with improved crosstalk compensation: An electrical connector with improved crosstalk compensation is disclosed. By including at least one coupling with a different frequency dependency than other couplings in the connector, crosstalk compensation performance is improved over a greater frequency range. The different frequency dependency may, for example, be used to compensate for phase shifts... Agent: Panduit Corp.

20080242157 - Non-conductive coating for lighting devices: A device and method are disclosed that facilitate removal of an electric lamp, such as a light bulb, from a socket. A thin layer of electrically non-conductive material is applied to the contact surface of the lamp and/or the socket prior to the lamp being inserted into the socket.... Agent: Renner Otto Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080242158 - Connector: A connector (A) has an auxiliary housing (30) and tabs (91C) project from the front surface of the auxiliary housing (30). A frame (10) has a chamber (13) for the auxiliary housing (30) and a receptacle (12) for surrounding the tabs (91C). A moving plate (60) is mounted into the... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20080242159 - Battery terminal for a vehicle: A battery cable terminal fitting is provided for a battery having a terminal post. The battery cable terminal fitting comprises an attachment flange and a conductor attachment portion extending from the attachment flange. The attachment flange has an interface area extending between the attachment flange and the terminal post when... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080242160 - Insert designed to mounted in an element, for fixing and electrically contacting an electrically connecting socket: The invention concerns an insert designed to be mounted in a calibrated hole (2) of an element (1) for fixing and electrically contacting an electrically connecting socket, consisting of an electrically conductive ring (3) having a sleeve (3a) which is secured to a saddle (3b) and of a screw (4)... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080242161 - Electrical connector assembly: An electrical connector assembly has a fixed connector, a middle connector, and a plug connector. The fixed connector is attached to a circuit member of an electrical device. The middle connector is connected and pulled out to and from the fixed connector in a direction same as that of the... Agent: Takeuchi & Kubotera, LLP