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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7963776 | Electrical connector assembly having direct connection terminals An electrical connector assembly includes a circuit board having vias extending at least partially through the circuit board along via axes. The circuit board has traces and mounting pads that are electrically connected to corresponding traces, and that are exposed ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7905731 | Electrical connector with stress-distribution features A connector capable of being mounted onto a substrate is disclosed. Such a connector may include a housing, and a contact mounted within the housing. The contact may include a body, terminal pins extending from a first edge of the body, contact beams extending from ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7896659 | Modular connector system A connector assembly includes a subsidiary circuit board, connectors, and an interposer assembly. The subsidiary circuit board includes opposite sides. The connectors are mounted to the opposite sides of the subsidiary circuit board and are electrically coupled with... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7740489 | Connector assembly having a compressive coupling member A connector assembly includes a housing, a contact and a compressive coupling member. The housing has a mating interface and a mounting interface on opposing sides of the housing. The mounting interface is configured to engage a first substrate when the housing is m... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7690928 | Plug-in connector The invention relates to a plug-in connector (10a, 10b) comprising at least one contact element (12a, 12b), extending in a longitudinal direction (14a, 14b) of the plug-in connector,... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7575442 | Multilayer wiring substrate A first wiring pattern formed on a first layer of a multilayer wiring substrate, a second wiring pattern formed on a layer different from the first layer on which the first wiring pattern is formed, a penetration hole penetrating the front surface and the back surfa... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7467955 | Impedance control in electrical connectors The invention provides a high speed connector wherein differential signal pairs are arranged so as to limit the level of cross talk between adjacent differential signal pairs. The connector comprises lead frame assembly having a pair of overmolded lead frame housing... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7365986 | Semiconductor cooling device and stack of semiconductor cooling devices To prevent occurrence of distortion in a semiconductor cooling device and to prevent a semiconductor chip from being separated away from the semiconductor cooling device in case the semiconductor chip and the semiconductor cooling device are thermally expanded, a se... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7361983 | Semiconductor device and semiconductor assembly module with a gap-controlling lead structure In a semiconductor device (1), semiconductor elements (2) and (3) are mounted on a lead frame (5) having leads (4). The semiconductor elements (2) and (3) are connected with the leads (4) by metallic wires (... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354167 | Beam focusing and scanning system using micromirror array lens A beam focusing and scanning system using a micromirror array lens (optical system) includes a light source configured to emit light and a micromirror array lens, including at least one micromirror, optically coupled to the light source, configured to reflect the li... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7348492 | Flexible wiring board and electrical device using the same A flexible wiring board is obtained as follows. A copper foil pattern is formed on the both surfaces of a base polymer film made of polyimide, etc. The copper foil pattern of the both sides, except for an end portion of the copper foil pattern of one surface, is cov... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347750 | Solder-bearing contacts and method of manufacture thereof and use in connectors In one aspect, a surface mount contact is provided for attachment to a circuit board or the like. The contact includes an elongated electrically conductive pin that has a first end and an opposing second end. A pre-formed heat re-flowable material is attached to one... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7335057 | High density planar electrical interface An apparatus including a substrate having a plurality of through holes and a plurality of cables, including wires and/or coaxial cables, extending through respective ones of the plurality of through holes of the substrate. Each of the cables comprises a conductor an... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7326067 | Method and apparatus for minimizing the installation height of electrical components A circuit board configuration for reducing the installation height of an over-sized electrical component on a primary circuit board subject to maximum height restrictions. The invention exploits the allocated tolerance both above and below the printed circuit board.... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7326086 | Card adapter structure The present invention provides an improved card adapter structure that includes an upper cover, a lower cover, a converter terminal set and a positioning elastic strip set. The upper cover has a structure designed to conform to short memory card (MS) specifications,... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7308754 | Methods for trimming electrical parameters in an electrical circuit Power supply switching regulator electrical circuit trimming methods. A trimming method includes assembling one or more components of a power supply switching regulator electrical circuit onto a printed circuit board having one or more electrical connections coupled... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7310239 | IC packaging interposer having controlled impedance or optical interconnections and an integral heat spreader Disclosed are embodiments of an integrated circuit die interconnection interposer suited to controlled high performance transmission of electronic or optical signals or combinations thereof. The various embodiments are designed to provide direct path interconnection... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7303662 | Contacts for electrochemical processing Systems and methods for electrochemically processing. A contact element defines a substrate contact surface positionable in contact a substrate during processing. In one embodiment, the contact element comprises a wire element. In another embodiment the contact elem... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303941 | Methods and apparatus for providing a power signal to an area array package An area array device has a grid array of primary electrical contacts coupled to a coupling surface of the device and configured to carry data signals between the area array package and a circuit board. The area array device also has an additional series of secondary... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292458 | Circuit board assembly having a set of edge clips for connecting multiple boards together A circuit board assembly includes a motherboard defining a motherboard plane, and a daughter board defining a daughter board plane which is substantially parallel to the motherboard plane. The motherboard and the daughter board electrically connect to each other thr... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285018 | Electrical connector incorporating passive circuit elements An electrical connector that electrically connects a first printed circuit board and a second printed circuit board is disclosed, where the electrical connector in the preferred embodiment includes: (a) an insulative housing; (b) a plurality of signal conductors, wi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7269891 | High density, zero-height, free floating interconnect system A system provides a zero interconnection height in a board-to-board interconnect while maintaining efficient space allocation for multiple axis connections by providing a floating connection in one plane thereby enabling a connection in another plane. A first circui... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267556 | Electrical junction box An electrical junction box includes at least three printed boards that constitute an internal circuit. Conductors on the printed boards can be easily connected to one another through a relay connector. The printed boards are contained in a casing assembly so that th... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7264482 | Anisotropic conductive sheet An anisotropic conductive sheet capable of transmitting high-speed digital signals reliably is provided. The anisotropic conductive sheet has a conductive property in a thickness direction thereof under a predetermined condition, and includes: insulative matrix memb... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261600 | Digital video recorder with slot type mainboard A digital video recorder is described. The digital video recorder may include a plurality of male slots, an image compression substrate connected to a first one of the plurality of male slots, and a function expansion substrate connected to a second one of the plura... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7249981 | Press-fit pin A press-fit pin is press-fitted into a conductive through-hole disposed on a substrate such as a printed circuit board. The press-fit pin includes a contact portion, a shoulder portion, a press-fit portion, and a tip portion. The contact portion along with the shoul... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7247031 | Electric junction box and its assembling process Printed boards are arranged vertically such that the outer circumferential part of an upper printed board projects outward beyond the outer circumferential part of a lower printed board, and the projected outer circumferential part is contained in a printed board ho... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7241149 | Interposed electrical connector which is intended to connect two stacked electronic circuits and to the method of mounting same The invention relates to an interposed electrical connector which is intended to connect two stacked electronic circuits and to the method of mounting same. The inventive connector (1) comprising plugs (4) which are borne by a base (4), a guide ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7235742 | Circuit board connector A circuit board connector includes a main body portion, a first connecting portion for connection to a first circuit board, and a second connecting portion for connection to a second circuit board. The circuit board connector is obtained by cutting a conductive plat... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7224043 | Semiconductor element with improved adhesion characteristics of the non-metallic surfaces The invention relates to a semiconductor element with metallic and non-metallic surfaces, with the non-metallic surfaces of the semiconductor being provided with a layer which has irregularities, so that adhesion between the non-metallic surface and the molding comp... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7220135 | Printed circuit board stacking connector with separable interface A board to board interconnection is provided for interconnection of parallel stacked printed circuit boards, with a like array of plated through holes on each of the boards. One connector assembly is insertable from the outside of one of the stacked printed circuit ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7220152 | Contact for a portable electronic device An apparatus is disclosed for a contact for a portable electronic device. The contact comprises a first contact for maintaining elastic connectivity with the mating contact, a second contact for providing an elastic force to push the first contact toward the mating ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7217141 | Connection carrier and method for joining the connection carrier to an injection-molded part A connection carrier, e.g., a connection carrier for the bobbins of solenoids, includes a positioning section for positioning the connection carrier in a recess of an injection-molded part surrounding the connection carrier and includes a locking section projecting ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7191518 | Method of making a hyperboloid electrical contact A hyperboloid contact socket is provided which comprises a tubular body of conductive material and preferably having at one end a lip defining an entrance aperture for receiving a mating pin terminal and having on the opposite end a termination of an intended config... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190803 | Acoustic transducer having reduced thickness A transducer for a hearing aid includes a housing, a relatively thin membrane having a free end suspended in the housing for vibration in response to a motor. The motor has a coil and a magnet assembly, the coil being mounted in the housing beneath the membrane; the... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7189081 | Method of mounting terminal and terminal mounting structure The terminal mounting structure includes a board (21). The structure includes a terminal (26) mounted on the board. The terminal includes a first end (26a) removably connected to a connection component (16, 17, 18). The terminal in... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187679 | Internet switch router An internet router is implemented as a network fabric of fabric routers and links. The internet router receives data packets from trunk lines or other internet links and analyzes header information in the data packets to route the data packets to output internet lin... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7186144 | Connector including media converter A triaxial connector assembly including a media converter that is used to terminate a fiber optic/electrical hybrid cable is disclosed. The triaxial connector assembly includes a connector with a housing defining a first end and a second end, the first end of the ho... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7172432 | Stacked multiple connection module A stacked multiple connection module that provides multiple times the input/output (I/O) signal capacity of a single connection module. In one embodiment, a stacked dual connection module includes first and second circuit boards with respective edge connectors maint... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7155821 | Techniques for manufacturing a circuit board having a countersunk via A technique for manufacturing a circuit board involves obtaining a plane-shaped structure having layers of circuit board material integrated together, and carving a hole within the plane-shaped structure (e.g., using a single countersinking drill bit). The carved ho... | 01/02/2007 |
