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Mouthguard made at least partially from an edible candy
A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182272 | Electrical connector An electrical connector includes a housing to be disposed on a circuit board, a receiving recess portion formed in the housing for receiving a mating connector, and a terminal arranged in the housing. The terminal includes a U-shape portion, an extending portion ext... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8162674 | Backlight assembly and display device having the same A backlight assembly includes a first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, and a connector. The connector is disposed on the second substrate and includes a second electrode connec... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8147254 | Electrical connector mating guide An electrical connector with at least two connector portions. A first connector portion and a second connector portion may each be mountable on a respective surface, such as a printed circuit board. The first and second connector portions may each include a housing.... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142203 | Electrical connector with grooves receiving crumbs An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts. The insulative housing defines a mating face, a mounting face opposite to the mating face and a plurality of receiving passageways running through the mating face and the mounting fa... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137114 | Board-to-board electrical connector A board-to-board electrical connector includes a male plug having a first insulating body and a plurality of male terminals arranged in rows therein, each male terminal has a protrusion which includes a front guide section and a lower bottom supporting section protr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8123531 | Card holder and broadcast receiving apparatus having card holder According to one embodiment, a card holder includes a first printed wiring board, a second printed wiring board disposed to face the first printed wiring board, a third printed wiring board disposed to face second printed wiring board, a first stacking connector dis... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8109770 | High speed, high density interconnection device An intercoupling component for receiving an array of contacts within a digital or analog transmission system having an electrical ground circuit and chassis ground circuit, the intercoupling component may include a segment formed of electrically insulative material ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8109771 | Electrical connector with improved contacts An electrical connector includes an insulative housing defining a receiving room having a bottom wall and a mating portion extending upward from an inner face of the bottom wall of the receiving room and a plurality of contacts received in the housing. The mating po... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8092233 | Stacked multilayer connector A stacked multilayer connector includes two seat bodies oppositely disposed on a circuit board and two connection seats. Multiple electronic card units can be previously held between the connection seats as stacked layers and then the connection seats with the elect... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092232 | Board-to-board connector A board-to-board connector is disclosed. The connector has first and second connectors. The first connector has concave insertion portions in which first terminals are arranged. The second connector is configured to be engaged, by fitting, with the first connector. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8087942 | Board-to-board connector assembly A board-to-board connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector. The receptacle connector has a receptacle housing, a plurality of first terminals disposed in the receptacle housing, and at least one first fixing member mounted to the recept... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8062040 | Apparatus and method for electrical connection clamping An apparatus and method for electrical connection clamping are provided. The apparatus includes a connection arrangement having a top clamp section and a bottom clamp section. The connection arrangement further includes a stacked connector between the top clamp sect... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8002558 | Electrical connector defining plurality of discrete interconnecting sectors for respectively receiving individual IC package thereon An electrical connector for receiving more than one IC packages (3) includes an insulative housing (1) having a planar interface with a plurality of passageways (10) defined therein; and a plurality of contacts (2) retained in the passage... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7993146 | Electrical connector An electrical connector (a connector) includes a housing and a terminal disposed in the housing. The terminal includes a contact portion. When the connector is fitted to a mating connector in a fitting direction, the contact portion pushes a mating terminal of the m... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7985079 | Connector assembly having a mating adapter A connector assembly includes an electrical connector having an outer end and a plurality of pins at the outer end. The connector assembly also includes a mating adapter having a mating interface and a mounting interface. The mating interface engages the outer end a... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7976316 | Electrical connector An electrical connector for connecting a circuit board includes a plurality of blades; a plurality of terminals disposed on each of the blades and extending in parallel to each other; and a holding member for holding the blades next to each other to be situated on a... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7967638 | Mezzanine connector with contact wafers having opposite mounting tails A mezzanine connector for connecting first and second circuit boards includes a number of wafers side-by-side arranged with each other and an organizer for unifying the wafers. Each wafer includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts fixed in the insulative h... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7955093 | Connector assembly having electronic components mounted thereto A connector assembly configured to be mounted to a device substrate is provided. She connector assembly includes a connector substrate, an electronic component. contacts, and conductive wires. The connector substrate has a mounting side and an opposite supporting si... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7950929 | Electrical terminal and board-to-board connector with the electrical terminal An electrical terminal is adapted for being mounted in a connector. The electrical terminal includes an elastic portion of a substantially U-shape which includes a fastening arm and a contact arm spaced from the fastening arm, and a soldering tail connected with a f... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7931477 | Low profile board-to-board connector mating pair with solder barrier An electrical connector comprises a generally rectangular dielectric housing with a mating face and a mounting face. A plurality of terminal support posts extend in a direction from the mounting face towards the mating face and each support post has oppositely facin... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7922499 | Electrical terminal An electrical terminal (20) used with board-mounted connector (2) having a housing comprising (21): a fixing portion, a contacting portion (204) and a soldering portion (202). The fixing portion defines barbs formed along opposite ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7909618 | Board to board connector with an offset mounting profile A board to board connector (1) includes an insulating housing (2) and a plurality of terminals (3) formed on said insulating housing (2), the connector (1) forms two mating faces (251,252) relatively offset from each other i... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7901218 | Receptacle and a plug with fixtures to attach to substrates and engaging each other to form a power supply contact An electrical connector includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector. A first fixture and a second fixture are each arranged on at least one end in the longitudinal direction of the receptacle and plug connectors, respectively. The first and second fixtures ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7889490 | Server with trays for electronic components A sever including a chassis, at least one first tray, at least one second tray, a power supply module, multiple input/output interface circuit boards, and multiple mother boards is provided. The first and second trays are slidably disposed in the chassis, and the fi... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7862345 | Electrical connector An electrical connector consists of a plug connector and a receptacle connector to be fitted. An insulator is supported only by plug contacts each provided between second and third fixed portions with an elastic portion having at least one snaked portion so as to be... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7845958 | Connector A connector has a plug mounted on a lower surface of a printed circuit board, and a socket mounted on an upper surface of another printed circuit board. The plug is fitted in and electrically connected to the socket. A second support fitting is attached to both ends... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7837479 | Mezzanine connector assembly having coated contacts A mezzanine connector assembly is configured to electrically interconnect first and second circuit boards. The connector assembly includes a mounting body, a mating body, contacts and dielectric layers. The mounting body is configured to be mounted to the first circ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7833024 | Board-to-board connector for mounting on a circuit board A board-to-board connector for mating with another connector has a housing and a plurality of terminals. The terminals and housing interact at a reference surface to accurately locate the terminals relative to the housing. The housing includes an elongated recess th... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828559 | Board-to board connector assembly A board-to-board connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector mated with each other. The receptacle connector has a receptacle housing, a plurality of first terminals disposed in the receptacle housing, and at least one first fixing member... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7819673 | Stacking connector and electronic device According to one embodiment, a stacking connector includes a first connector and a second connector plugged into the first connector. The first connector includes a first terminal expandable/compatible in a plug-in direction in which the second connector is plugged,... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7798819 | Connector Provided is a connector capable of facilitating a work of connecting first and second connection targets. A first receiving part to be coupled to a first plug connector and a second receiving part to be coupled to a second plug connector are formed at the housing of... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7794238 | Electrical connector and electrical connector assembly having terminals with elasticity An electrical connector includes an insulative housing (21) defining a longitudinal direction, a plurality of terminals (22) arranged along the longitudinal direction. Each of the terminals defines a retaining portion (221) with barbs interferin... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7789673 | Signal terminal and plug connector with signal terminals A plug connector has an insulative housing and a plurality of signal terminals. The insulative housing has a plurality mounting channels and each mounting channel has an interfering portion. The signal terminals are mounted respectively in the mounting channels and ... | 09/07/2010 |
| RE41473 | Board-to-board electrical connector assembly A board-to board electrical connector assembly is provided for effecting a connection between two circuit boards. The assembly includes a first connector having a dielectric housing for mounting on a first circuit board. A plurality of first terminals are 5 mounted ... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7766671 | Electronic component and method of forming the same An electronic component includes a substrate, an interconnection element, and a connector. The interconnection element has conductivity. The interconnection element is present over the substrate. The connector is present on the interconnection element. The connector... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7758352 | Electrical connector In some embodiments, an electrical connector comprises a male body and a female body. The male body comprises a first insulating base and a plurality of male terminals. Each male terminal includes a male contact. The female body comprises a second insulating base an... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7748992 | Methods and systems stackable circuit boards The present invention is directed toward methods and systems for providing a stackable connector system comprising a switching device configured to select a signal based on a location of a first circuit board above or below a second circuit board. A sense line may b... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7748993 | Electrical connector with regulating portion for regulating elastic deformation of terminal A connector to be connected to a mating connector includes a housing having a receptacle recess portion for receiving the mating connector, and a terminal retained in the housing. The housing includes a containing groove extending in a connecting direction for conta... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7748994 | Board-to-board connector assembly A board-to-board connector assembly includes a receptacle connector and a plug connector. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing, a plurality of first terminals and at least one fixing member disposed in the receptacle housing respectively. Each of t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7744377 | Electrical connector with low profile contacts An electrical connector includes: an insulating housing having a plurality of passageways; a plurality of contacts retained in the passageways of the insulating housing, the contact having a retaining beam engaged with the insulating housing, a first contacting beam... | 06/29/2010 |
