| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE39380 |
Electrical connector with protection for electrical contacts |
November 7, 2006 |
| An electrical connector (1) comprising, an insulative housing (2), conductive contacts (4, 5) within an interior of the housing (2), insulative wiping surfaces (61) on a mating end (12) of the housing (2), and conductive surface areas (60) on the contacts (4, 5) being rearward of the |
| RE37893 |
Cable assembly with equalizer board |
October 22, 2002 |
| An electrical cable assembly 1 comprising: a housing 2, electrical contacts 3 in the housing 2 connected to a circuit board 4, multiple conductors 5 of an electrical cable 6 connected to the circuit board 4, signal conditioning circuitry 7 on the circuit board 4, the circuitry 7 being |
| RE35873 |
Shielded printed circuit card holder |
August 18, 1998 |
| This invention is directed to a fully shielded printed circuit (PC) card holder, that may be readily "snapped" into the assembly, or disassembled, as the case may be. The holder is intended to receive a PC card, where at least one end of the card is adapted to be electrically connected t |
| RE35735 |
Connector with barbed boardlock |
February 17, 1998 |
| An electrical connector (20) for mounting to a printed circuit board (24) includes a boardlock (22) secured thereto by an interference fit. The boardlock (22) has a first portion (58) including means for securing the boardlock (22) to the connector housing (26) and a second portion (68). |
| D418484 |
Circuit card holder |
January 4, 2000 |
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| D408012 |
Hub |
April 13, 1999 |
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| D407626 |
Holder for an electrical connector |
April 6, 1999 |
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| D402628 |
Electrical connector housing |
December 15, 1998 |
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| D399829 |
Cable television wall outlet |
October 20, 1998 |
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| D392252 |
Fluorescent lamp ballast enclosure |
March 17, 1998 |
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| D392251 |
Fluorescent lamp ballast enclosure |
March 17, 1998 |
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| D376082 |
Tool for terminating an electrical connector |
December 3, 1996 |
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| D361313 |
Electrical connector |
August 15, 1995 |
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| D355407 |
Electrical connector module for telephone cable conductors |
February 14, 1995 |
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| D352699 |
Electrical connector module for telephone cable conductors |
November 22, 1994 |
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| D346386 |
Enclosure for telephone cable electrical connectors |
April 26, 1994 |
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| 7058359 |
LMDS system with equal power to subscriber locations |
June 6, 2006 |
| A local multipoint distribution service system having an antenna (1) for transmitting a signal of reused frequency within a specified range from the antenna (1), the antenna (1) having multiple radiating antenna elements, each of the antenna elements being adjusted in phase and in am |
| 7001079 |
Optical connector |
February 21, 2006 |
| An optical connector system comprising a connector for interconnection to a mating component, the first connector defining a non-mated state when not connected to the mating component, and a mated state when connected to the mating component, the connector having a front and rear ori |
| 6963687 |
Process for cutting an optical fiber |
November 8, 2005 |
| A process for cutting or splitting at least one optical fiber at a predetermined angle, wherein the fiber is introduced into a holding and positioning device and is cut by a pulsed laser beam. |
| 6802729 |
Contact for error resistant coupling of electrical signals |
October 12, 2004 |
| A signal connector assembly with a plug contact within a plug having a high resistive portion. When the plug of the assembly first makes contact with the electrical receptacles within a mating receptacle, the high resistive portion prevents a current surge. As the plug is further inserte |
| 6781065 |
Solder-coated articles useful for substrate attachment |
August 24, 2004 |
| A solder-coated article is described. The article comprises (1) a dielectric core having a largest dimension ranging from 1 to 1000 microns; (2) a solderable metal layer over the core; and (3) a solder layer over the metal layer. Preferably, the dielectric core is a spherical core of |
| 6759742 |
Interchangeable bond-wire interconnects |
July 6, 2004 |
| A method for making a bond-wire interconnect to pass signals between different substrates is described. According to this process, a first compensated bond wire interconnect is made to connect two substrates of a first type at an operating frequency, the first interconnect comprising a |
| 6647244 |
Wireless vehicular repeater system |
November 11, 2003 |
| A wireless communications system has a plurality of base stations 1, a plurality of mobile vehicular repeater units 2, and a plurality of portable units 3. In a public safety network context, each mobile vehicular repeater unit 2 is associated with a portable unit 3, and both are ass |
| 6642559 |
Structure and process for improving high frequency isolation in semiconductor substrates |
November 4, 2003 |
| An isolation structure for high frequency integrated circuits is a conductive material disposed over a region of active gallium arsenide substrate. The conductive material over the active region creates a lossy RF path to reduce undesired coupling between adjacent conductors. In one |
| 6638100 |
Ribbon cable connector with ground bus |
October 28, 2003 |
| An electrical connector for terminating flat cable of the type having a plurality of signal and ground conductors in parallel alignment comprises a housing which holds a plurality of signal contacts and a ground bus. Each of the signal contacts has a signal conductor termination slot |
| 6595796 |
Flexible film circuit connector |
July 22, 2003 |
| A backer plate (40) secured to leading end portion (20) of flexible film circuit (10), providing rigidity to facilitate manipulation of the circuit during mating with and unmating from a receptacle connector (26). Backer plate (40) may either be molded of insulative material or be conduc |
| 6585423 |
Connector system having interlocking inner housing |
July 1, 2003 |
| An optical connector system comprising first and second complementary connectors, which, when separated, define a non-plugged state and, when joined, define a plugged state, each connector has a front and rear oreintation and comprises: (a) an inner housing containing at least one fi |
| 6558195 |
Electrical connector for printed circuit boards |
May 6, 2003 |
| The object of the present invention is to provide an electrical connector which makes it possible for the contacts to electrically contact each other with a high contact pressure even when the contacts are made smaller and shorter. Contacts 40 and 80 which electrically contact each other |
| 6535147 |
Segmented gain controller |
March 18, 2003 |
| A touch screen includes a transmitter capable of delivering an acoustic signal to the touch screen and a receiver adapted to detect acoustic signals on the touch screen and deliver a first signal representative of the detected acoustic signals. An automatic gain control amplifier has an |
| 6519063 |
Planar wave length multiplexer/demultiplexer |
February 11, 2003 |
| The present invention relates to a planar wave guide structure having a grating element fabricated thereon as well as a focusing element therein. The lens element of the present disclosure is preferably a void, to include air, a vacuum or other material which has an index of refraction |
| 6491772 |
Solderable aluminum |
December 10, 2002 |
| The invention is directed to a solderable aluminum alloy having an aluminum alloy which is formable into a substrate. The aluminum alloy has 0.05-4.5% by weight of tin added to the aluminum alloy to be formed into the substrate. The invention is also directed to a process for preparing a |
| 6491445 |
Crimp plug for a connector |
December 10, 2002 |
| The invention is directed to a crimp plug having a front portion, a center portion, and a securing portion. A conductor receiving cavity extends from the front e into the center portion. A stop shoulder within the center portion provides transition from the conductor receiving cavity to |
| 6483806 |
Signal detect circuitry for a passive GBIC module |
November 19, 2002 |
| Transceiver circuitry (10, 200) for use in a GBIC module uses readily available off the shelf components to satisfy the specifications of the GBIC standard. In both passive and active modules, a voltage divider (98) and parallel transistors (94, 96, 100) are utilized to insure that the |
| 6480661 |
Optical ADD/DROP filter and method of making same |
November 12, 2002 |
| The invention is an optical ADD/DROP filter suitable for dense wavelength division multiplexing/de-multiplexing. It comprises an optical bench having a longitudinal V-groove into which the optical components of the ADD/DROP filter are passively aligned and bonded. The bench further i |
| 6471545 |
Coaxial connector for coaxial cable having a corrugated outer conductor |
October 29, 2002 |
| A coaxial connector (10) for a coaxial cable (100) having a corrugated outer conductor (108), including one which is helically corrugated. An adapter (40) of the connector can include a crimpable sleeve (44) within which is a bushing (70) initially having an axial slot (72) of selected |
| 6461053 |
Optical connector having multiple modular housings |
October 8, 2002 |
| The present invention provides an optical interconnection system capable of connecting a plurality of optical array connectors between assemblies. The optical array connectors are arranged to minimize the board real estate occupied by the assembly. Safety features are provided for preven |
| 6457878 |
Multiple fiber splice element and connector |
October 1, 2002 |
| A duplex fiber optic splice has a fiber-receiving element, two clamping elements covering opposite faces of the fiber-receiving element, and a spring element. A bearing key may be inserted into a bearing channel in the fiber-receiving element and rotated resulting in resilient diseng |
| 6435730 |
Optical fiber connector with improved ferrule float feature |
August 20, 2002 |
| A fiber optic connector utilizing a fiber array ferrule 20 has a housing 1 with an internal geometry that provides transverse alignment of the ferrule relative to the housing 1 when the connector is in an unmated condition and permits transverse displacement of the ferrule relative to |
| 6431898 |
Card connector |
August 13, 2002 |
| The present invention improves the durability of a card connector by providing a card-holding structure which does not have resilient parts.Ribs (30) and grooves (32) are formed at corresponding positions in opposite inside surfaces (6a, 6b) of a rear end portion of a card-receiving slot |
| 6427067 |
Detector driven bias circuit for power transistors |
July 30, 2002 |
| A power transistor (2) circuit for increasing the gain of an amplified RF signal has a power transistor (2), a voltage bias circuit biasing the power transistor 2, the voltage bias circuit having a peak detector (12) and a source of voltage (9) supplying respective outputs to a summer (1 |
| 6422885 |
Connector assembly adapted for axial realignment |
July 23, 2002 |
| An electrical connector assembly (1) for establishing a mated electrical connection with a plug-in unit (2), has an electrical connector (5) mounted on rails (16), and a resilient spring mechanism (19) urged in compression in response to movement of the connector (5) rearwardly to re |
| 6418121 |
Transceiver circuitry for a GBIC module |
July 9, 2002 |
| Transceiver circuitry (10) for use in a GBIC module uses readily available off the shelf components to satisfy the specifications of the GBIC standard. A diode cross over quad (84) is utilized to extend the input range of a low input differential receiver (78). A voltage divider (98) |
| 6414545 |
Predistortion to improve linearity of an amplifier |
July 2, 2002 |
| An amplifier (1) of improved linearity has a predistortion, bipolar junction device (4), and a transistor (2) on an input side of the amplifier (1), the bipolar junction device (4) being smaller in size than the transistor (2), and having its bipolar junction of opposite polarity wit |
| 6413109 |
Card edge connector having a ground contact |
July 2, 2002 |
| The present invention provides a card edge electrical connector which makes it possible to achieve reliable grounding of a daughter board to a mother board via latch members thereof. Card edge connector (1) is equipped with an insulating housing (10), which is to be attached to a mother |
| 6405928 |
PC card connector |
June 18, 2002 |
| The present invention provides a PC card connector which has a small number of parts, and which makes it possible to obtain good operating characteristics and a low-operating force by means of a relatively simple structure. A guide plate assembly (70) of the PC card connector has a g |
| 6394840 |
Contact securing sleeve for use with a coaxial cable |
May 28, 2002 |
| An electrical connector for coaxial cable having at least one contact with a contact region for connection to a mating contact and a connection region for connection to a coaxial cable, wherein the contact includes a peripheral groove; a contact-securing sleeve can be pushed onto the |
| 6394831 |
Retention member for card edge connector |
May 28, 2002 |
| A retention member (40) for a card edge connector (4) is provided for securing a printed circuit card (6) in the connector. The retention member is formed as a spring clip having free ends (42) secured to releasably attached to ends of the electrical connector. Tabs (44) are received in |
| 6394819 |
Dielectric member for absorbing thermal expansion and contraction at electrical interfaces |
May 28, 2002 |
| The invention is directed to a dielectric member interposed between two electrical components which have different coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs). The dielectric member has conductive traces for electrically connecting the electrical components. The traces may be joined by |
| 6392502 |
Balun assembly with reliable coaxial connection |
May 21, 2002 |
| A Balun assembly has a signal conductor (2) on the balanced side of a Balun, the signal conductor (2) being joined to a microstrip RF launch area 7 on a circuit board 6, the signal conductor (2) having a bend of axial orientation for lower cost, reliability, avoiding contact with a g |
| 6390850 |
Card connector having an improved grounding member |
May 21, 2002 |
| A card connector provides for reliable grounding and, at the same time, makes it possible to simplify the mounting, maintenance and servicing operations. Card connector (10) comprises a main body (11) including a dielectric housing (13) accommodating multiple electrical contacts (12) |
