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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8162671 | Receptacle structure, printed wiring board structure, and electronic device A receptacle structure includes a housing structure, a terminal insulating board, a first terminal and a second terminal. The housing structure is configured to be mounted on a printed wiring board and to accommodate a plug. The terminal insulating board includes a ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8083526 | Socket connector with ground shields between adjacent signal contacts A socket connector is provided for mating with a mating connector having a printed circuit. The socket connector includes a housing having a socket. The socket is configured to receive a mating edge of the printed circuit of the mating connector therein. Signal cont... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8047853 | Printed circuit board with an adaptable connector module A printed circuit board including a P1 connector, a P2 connector, and a first common connector configured to connect an application-specific connector to the printed circuit board. ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7967610 | Connector assembly Methods and apparatus are provided for manufacturing a portable electronic device that does not cause yield loss or premature failure due a connector shell contacting the housing or its attached components during assembly. One example provides a connector shell that... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7911778 | Vibration isolation within disk drive testing systems A disk drive test slot includes a housing that defines a test compartment for receiving and supporting a disk drive transporter carrying a disk drive for testing. The housing also defines an open end that provides access to the test compartment for insertion and rem... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7909611 | Method for preventing damage to a memory card A memory card connector, within a slot of a host device, for receiving a first memory card having a first row of contact fingers and a second row of contact fingers and a second memory card having only a single row of contact fingers. The memory card connector inclu... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7862342 | Electrical interfaces including a nano-particle layer An electrical interface includes a nano-particle layer. The electrical interface also includes a first conductor and a second conductor. The nano-particle layer and the first and second conductors are electrically coupled together. ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7771205 | Wiring board and optical disk drive using the same A wiring board of the present invention has a terminal section and a wiring section connected to the terminal section. The terminal section is configured so as to have a plurality of long connection terminals placed at predetermined intervals along a direction ortho... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7748988 | Card edge connector and method of manufacturing the same A card edge connector includes a housing, a first conductive part, a second conductive part, a connecting element, a first harness, and a second harness. The housing has an insertion hole for receiving an electronic substrate therein. The first conductive part and t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7744376 | Socket connector with power blade A power blade is provided for a socket connector that connects a module card to a circuit board. The power blade includes a bus extending along a longitudinal axis, and a plurality of individual electrical contacts extending from the bus such that the electrical con... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7553163 | Coplanar angle mate straddle mount connector A straddle mount connector for connecting a daughter card to a circuit board includes a dielectric housing extending along a longitudinal axis. The housing has a daughter card side and an opposite straddle mount side. A longitudinally extending mating slot at the da... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7547213 | Memory modules and methods for manufacturing memory modules Memory modules and methods for manufacturing memory modules are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory module includes a substrate, a microelectronic device carried by the substrate, and a plurality of external contact pads operably coupled to the microelectr... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7534110 | Power card connection structure Electrically conductive L-shaped blades are disposed in an insulative body as a mechanism for mechanically and electrically connecting circuit cards to circuit boards. In particular, the interconnection device herein provides a mechanism for providing greater therma... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7517223 | Controlled impedance bus with a buffer device A controlled impedance bus includes a pair of bus traces that carry a transmission minimized differential signal (TMDS). Two or more buffer output terminals. Each output terminal includes a pair of pads connected to the pair of bus traces such that unused pads creat... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7402047 | IC card A multifunction IC card (MFC) has compatibility with a multimedia card, an SD card, etc. in that connector terminals (#1 through #13) are disposed on a card substrate (1) in two rows in a zigzag fashion, and realizes multifunction facilities in ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7364083 | IC card with built-in coprocessor for auxiliary arithmetic, and control method thereof An IC card according to the present invention comprises, a built-in coprocessor for an auxiliary arithmetic in addition to a main arithmetic processing unit, an interval timer for outputting an interrupt request signal upon lapse of a set time shorter than the frame... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362589 | Circuit board adapted to couple to different types of add-in cards A circuit board comprising at least one slot provided on a surface of the circuit board. An add-in card can be mated to the slot. The slot comprises a first electrical connection adapted to couple to an add-in card of a first type and a second electrical connection ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7351112 | Electrical connector defining a contact curvature An electrical connector apparatus comprising a housing supporting a plurality of contacts in a row, each of the contacts having an initial engagement surface, the plurality of initial engagement surfaces defining a contact curvature across the row that is configured... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347719 | Electrical connector with strain relief features A preferred embodiment of a connector system includes a first electrical connector for mounting on a first substrate. The first electrical connector has a housing, and a contact mounted on the housing. The connector system also includes a second electrical connector... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349226 | Functional module with card guide engagement feature A functional module is provided for use in conjunction with an electronic equipment enclosure that includes a card cage having two end card guides and one or more middle card guides interposed between the end card guides. The functional module includes a double-wide... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341194 | Adapter card An adapter card for receiving a mini MMC memory card to form a SD memory card is disclosed to include a housing formed of a top cover shell and a bottom cover shell, and a terminal holder set, which includes an electrically insulative holder block, and a plurality o... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7338290 | Printed wiring board with a plurality of pads and a plurality of conductive layers offset from the pads A design rule for a printed wiring board is provided. A conductive layer and a pad are separate from each other in a distance defined by the design rule, which sufficiently prevents the capacitance coupling between the conductive layer and the pad. ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331800 | Shieldless, high-speed electrical connectors An electrical connector that includes first and second linear arrays of electrical contacts is disclosed. The first linear array includes a first differential signal pair, a first ground contact lead adjacent to the first differential signal pair, and a second groun... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7325746 | Memory card and semiconductor device An antenna connection function for a noncontact interface is provided by suppressing a modification in a pin arrangement and a pin shape of a memory card that does not correspond to the noncontact interface. Two antenna connecting pins having the memory card are div... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7323846 | Battery having an extended terminal A battery, a battery charger, an electrical system, and a method of charging a battery. In one aspect, the battery includes a housing, a battery cell supported by the housing, a first terminal electrically connected to the battery cell and having a first terminal en... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316570 | High performance edge connector In some embodiments, an electronic circuit card includes an edge connector positioned along an edge of the electronic circuit card, wherein the edge connector includes a conductive finger on an outer layer of the electronic circuit card, and a via positioned within ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7311527 | Connector structure A connector structure includes a connector structured from a cover casing, an insulating body, signal terminals and staggered terminals. The insulating body is disposed within the cover casing, and connecting portions and soldering portions extend from the cover cas... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309239 | High-density, low-noise, high-speed mezzanine connector A mezzanine style electrical connector is disclosed. The connector includes first and second arrays of electrical contacts extending through a connector housing. Each contact array may include single ended signal conductors or differential signal pairs or a combinat... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7303136 | Storage device A storage device to store data includes an external interface, a controller, a nonvolatile memory, and an IC card. In response to a first indication from the external device, the controller receives a program to be executed in the IC card from the nonvolatile memory... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303138 | Integrated circuit card having staggered sequences of connector terminals An IC card has a card substrate having semiconductor integrated circuit chips mounted thereon and a plurality of connector terminals formed thereon. The connector terminals are exposed from a casing. The connector terminals are laid out in plural sequences in stagge... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7296166 | Disk array system for starting destaging process of unwritten cache memory data to disk drive upon detecting DC voltage level falling below predetermined value A disk array system including at least one channel control portion, at least one disk control portion, a cache memory, a cache switch, a shared memory, a power unit, and a casing for storing the channel control portion, the disk control portion, the cache memory, th... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291019 | IC card A multifunction IC card (MFC) has compatibility with a multimedia card, an SD card, etc. in that connector terminals (#1 through #13) are disposed on a card substrate (1) in two rows in a zigzag fashion, and realizes multifunction facilities in ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7291018 | IC card A multifunction IC card (MFC) has compatibility with a multimedia card, an SD card, etc. in that connector terminals (#1 through #13) are disposed on a card substrate (1) in two rows in a zigzag fashion, and realizes multifunction facilities in ... | 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 |
| 7286372 | Transceiver module with PCB having embedded traces for EMI control A PCB is provided that is suitable for use in applications where EMI control is of interest. The PCB includes circuitry that communicates with an edge connector having edge traces located on its surface. Additionally, embedded traces are disposed within the dielectr... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282649 | Printed circuit board On the surface of a back board outermost-layer signal lines have different lengths. A difference in lengths of connector lines connected to the outermost-layer signal lines makes the total signal line lengths substantially equal. A digital signal generated in the ci... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278859 | Extended package substrate An apparatus may include an integrated circuit package comprising a plurality of conductive pads and having a face, and a socket coupled to the integrated circuit package and to the conductive pads, the socket having a footprint. In some aspects, the footprint is sm... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7278853 | Power card connection structure Electrically conductive L-shaped blades are disposed in an insulative body as a mechanism for mechanically and electrically connecting circuit cards to circuit boards. In particular, the interconnection device herein provides a mechanism for providing greater therma... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7267287 | IC card An IC card capable of reinforcing the prevention of the electrostatic damage without causing a rise in the cost of a semiconductor integrated circuit chip. The semiconductor integrated circuit chip (2) is mounted on a card substrate (1), and plural con... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7268579 | Semiconductor integrated circuit having on-chip termination A semiconductor integrated circuit includes at least one pad coupled to at least one bus line, the at least one pad having a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side; a transmitter for transmitting a signal from an internal circuit externally via t... | 09/11/2007 |
