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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8105114 | Intermediate electrical connector An intermediate electrical connector for connecting two electrical connectors includes a blade assembly formed of a plurality of blades and a ground plate attached to the blades; a plurality of terminals disposed on each of the blades and extending in parallel to ea... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7833065 | Triple mating configurations of connector An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing defining a front mating cavity; a mating tongue extending into the front mating cavity and defining thereon first and second mating faces opposite to each other, said mating tongue dividing said mating cavity i... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7697278 | Fixing apparatus for hard disk drive An exemplary fixing apparatus is for mounting a hard disk drive (HDD) having a plurality of holes defined in sidewalls and includes a bracket, a pair of shock absorbing members, and a plurality of fixing pins. The bracket includes an end plate, and a pair of side pl... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7588469 | Safely separating electrical connecting system An apparatus for connecting two or more members is provided wherein the apparatus includes a first leg having an opening, a conductive portion and an insulated portion extending between the conductive portion and the opening. A connecting member can electrically con... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7503808 | Connector device for computers A connector device is provided for coupling to connectors associated with a laptop computer. The connector device includes a generally L-shaped housing having a pair of side walls, a rear wall, and a pair of front walls wherein one of the front walls is recessed fro... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7462073 | Docking module comprising a DC-DC charger In one embodiment, a cable connects a computing device to both an external power source and one or more peripheral devices. The cable may include a docking module including an AC adaptor for connecting to an external AC power source, and a DC-DC charger, coupled to ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7425157 | Memory card adapter A memory card adapter includes a cover, a base, a connecting apparatus and a flexible strip. An inserting groove is formed between the cover and the base. Two retaining walls are arranged in two sides of the base. An opening is opened in the retaining wall and conne... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7367846 | Multi-function power adaptor The power adaptor contains a body assembly having an indentation for receiving and charging a re-chargeable battery pack. The body assembly also provides a standard USB socket into which a device can be plugged and charged. The charging to the battery pack and throu... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7354278 | Recovery apparatus for BIOS chip in a computer system A BIOS recovery apparatus for recovering a primary BIOS chip of a motherboard in a computer system comprises a switch controller unit (100), a connecting socket (106), and a plurality of insulated flexible cords (101, 102, 103). The connecting s... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7338326 | Electronic card connector An electronic card connector includes a dielectric housing, a fixing device, a plurality of first electric terminals and second electric terminals. A first electronic card slot and a second electronic card slot are formed in the dielectric housing. A fixed concave i... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7318752 | Connector There is provided a connector which can downsize the peripheral device. A receptacle 1 is capable of receiving both a mini-A plug based on a USB OTG standard and a mini-B plug based on a USB 2.0 standard. Further, the receptacle 1 includes first posts ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7316499 | Methods for converting incandescent lighting products to fluorescent lighting products A method of converting an incandescent lighting product to a fluorescent lighting product is provided. Exemplary method steps include: providing an incandescent lighting product having a frame carrying at least one electrical lighting base, the at least one electric... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301494 | Combination cellular telephone and radar detector A system combining the features, elements, and operations of a cellular telephone and a radar detector into a unitary assembly. The present invention generally comprises a housing enclosing a power supply, an output speaker, an input microphone, an antenna, a displa... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7255582 | Foldable USB connection port A foldable USB connection port includes a body and a plurality of USB ports. The body includes a plurality of first connection parts and the USB ports respectively have a second connection part. The second connection parts of the USB ports are respectively and movab... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7238058 | Grounding plug A grounding plug for use with an accessory power outlet in a vehicle to ground an electrical test device such as a fuse tester, test light, multimeter, circuit tester, etc. The grounding plug is provided with a grounding member positioned therein with one end of the... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7201610 | Network device with power outputting socket A network device including a power receiving socket, a power supply, a network controller, plural connection ports and a power outputting socket is provided. The power receiving socket is for receiving an external power and outputting a supply power. The power suppl... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7168969 | Adjustable right angle electrical plug with an interchangeable plug assembly An adjustable right angle electrical plug with an interchangeable plug assembly has a casing, an interchangeable plug assembly and an electric cord. The casing is hollow and has a base, a cover and two resilient contacts. The cover is mounted on the base and has a p... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7134908 | Single-port to multi-port cable assembly A cable assembly (100) includes a first connector (1), a number of second connectors (2) each having a serial advanced technology attachment interface, and cable means (3) connecting the first and the second connectors. The first connecto... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136950 | Multifunction passive adaptor for flash media cards The present invention enables the use of a single passive adaptor (1500, 1800) for multiple types of flash media cards. The present invention provides this by implementing form factors with a detection scheme (1410, 1610) that notifies a host controlle... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7101229 | Adapter for mogul base open fixture lamps A lamp adapter for receiving a lamp having a conductive threaded portion and an extension with a conductive contact electrically insulated from the conductive threaded portion. The lamp adapter has a body with a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion has ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7090390 | Removable incandescent light bulb base permitting conversion to fluorescent lighting products A removable incandescent light bulb socket having: (a) a housing having at least first and second ends and an axis, having at least one opening at the first end, and the housing made at least in part of a heat-resistant material resistant to a temperature of about 9... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7086909 | High performance, high capacitance gain, jack connector for data transmission or the like A high performance, high capacitance gain, electric connector for data transfer applications. At least eight sequentially positioned elongate contact members are connected in a series of signal pairs. A first signal pair includes a fourth contact member and a fifth ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7083465 | Serial ATA interface connector with low profiled cable connector A cable assembly (1) includes a first connector (100), a second connector (200) and a cable set (300) connected with the first and second connectors. The first connector includes a first housing (11) and a plurality of signal and p... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7066767 | Rotatable adapter device with multiple connectors A rotatable adapter device with multiple connectors includes a main body, a first electrical connector, a plurality of second electrical connectors and a conducting unit. The first electrical connector is disposed rotatably on the main body, the plurality of second ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062585 | Memory card for integrating the USB interface and an adaptor for the memory card A memory card integrating functions of the USB interface includes a memory chip inside a main body. A SD or MS control interface, a USB control interface, a controller, and a storage memory are built in the memory chip. Conductive bars are electrically connected to ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057108 | Dual input plug apparatus A cord for use with duplex receptacles that have first and second receptacles. The cord includes first and second sets of prongs insertable into the duplex receptacles to receive independent low-voltage electrical signals, and first and second receptacles connected ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7011550 | Compound electrical connector The present invention provides a compound electrical connector comprising a plug connector, an audio jack, a power jack and a radio frequency jack, together with a printed circuit board assembled in an insulation cover. The insulation cover has three cavities formed... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7003608 | Method and system for automatic configuration of IDE bus devices A system and method are disclosed for automatically and correctly configuring IDE bus devices to be either master or slave devices regardless of the devices' location on an IDE cable. A modified IDE cable is described for causing an IDE device set to cable select mo... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6981892 | Combination telephony and cable jack interface A combination phone and cable jack interface includes a base member, a faceplate, and a mechanism for selectively toggling a telephony jack connection between a telephony service provider and a cable service provider. The toggling mechanism includes a first port ele... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6972384 | Internet scale The invention disclosed consists of an Internet scale, which is comprised of a weighing platform with an integrated Internet connection/browser means. This scale will allow the connectivity and communication with the Internet or Intranet without the use of a separat... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6953371 | Apparatus for electrically coupling a linear conductor to a surface conductor and related method An apparatus is provided for electrically coupling an end of a linear conductor to a surface conductor. The apparatus includes a housing for receiving the linear conductor end. The housing includes a channel having a channel axis that is non-collinear with respect t... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6945821 | Connector The present invention relates to an adapter, wherein the adapter has a housing with a rear face, a front face, an outside perimeter face. A first connector is located on the rear face. A second connector and a third connector are located on the front face. A mountin... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6939177 | Connector for plural mating connectors having different shapes of interfaces A partition mechanism is arranged in a shell of a receptacle connector so that a connector interface defined by the shell is partitioned into two interface portions, one of which has a shape different from the other. Therefore a mating connector for the connector ca... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6916208 | Memory card reader for electronic devices A compact card reader is described. The compact card reader has a charging circuit and a cellular phone-connecting slot to enable the compact card reader to save/retrieve data to/from a memory card or a cellular phone, at the same time charge the cellular phone and ... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6799981 | Adapter structure for computer connector An adapter structure for computer connector, which is connectable between a connecting port of a computer and a burglarproof lock. The adapter structure includes a main body. A front adaptation end is disposed on an end face of the main body. The front adaptation en... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6775905 | Method for forming an improved adaptor A method provides an improved adaptor. The method involves connecting a set of conductors to (i) a set of circuit board connector contacts of a circuit board connector and (ii) a set of switchbox connector contacts of a switchbox connector. The method further involv... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6749438 | Towing connector An electrical interface device (210) is provided for disengageable or removable coupling with an existing master connector substantially non-removably mounted on a towing vehicle in order to allow for the connection of the electrical systems of differently co... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6568946 | Receptacle assembly with a mobile receptacle A receptacle assembly with a mobile receptacle comprises a receptacle assembly and a mobile receptacle. The receptacle assembly provides an electricity input end and upper outlet units at the upper face thereof with each upper outlet unit being composed o... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6554650 | Device and method for synchronous data communications via 4-pair unshielded twisted pair cable A connector adaptor, alone or paired with a second connector adaptor and joined by a 4-pair CAT-5 type unshielded twisted pair cable, capable of transmitting synchronous data in RS232 type format between data transmissions equipment and data communication... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6459590 | Central unit for grouping electronic components of refrigerators, freezers and similar appliances A central unit for grouping electronic and electrical components of refrigerators, freezers and similar appliances, comprising a housing containing at least one electronic card provided with electrical connection means and socket means for connecting the ... | 10/01/2002 |
