Did You Know...
...that Kleenex tissue was originally designed to be a gas mask filter? It was developed at the beginning of World War I to replace cotton, which was then in short supply as a surgical dressing.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182293 | Apparatus and methods for connecting two electrical devices together Methods and apparatus are provided for connecting together two audio components that have different size connectors and/or a different configuration of electrical contacts between them. In one embodiment of the present invention, an audio adaptor is designed having ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8123567 | Connector assemblies and contacts for implantable medical electrical systems A connector assembly of a medical electrical device includes a plurality of electrical contacts, wherein at least one contact of the plurality of electrical contacts includes an electrical coupling receptacle. The electrical coupling receptacle of the at least one c... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123568 | Biomedical electrode connectors A biomedical electrode connector for coupling with a biomedical electrode of the type including an electrode base and a male terminal projecting from the electrode base is provided. ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118617 | Jack assemblies with cylindrical contacts Jack assemblies having cylindrical contacts are provided. For example, an enclosure may provide a cavity with a longitudinal axis for receiving an electrical plug. The jack assembly may also include at least one jack contact positioned in the cavity. The jack contac... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8105115 | Jack with modular mounting sleeve A housing for a coaxial jack including an opening for receiving the jack, the opening including a guide for preventing rotation of the jack within the opening. The housing also includes a stop to limit sliding of the jack within the opening and a flange extending fr... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8079880 | Connector assembly featured head-to-head mating interconnection and quick-disconnection therefrom An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (10) and a plurality of contacts received to the housing. The housing defines a mating face (10), a supporting face (A) facing to the mating face and a mating cavity (101) reces... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8075346 | Implantable medical device headers that facilitate device and lead configuration variants Implantable medical devices include headers having various features such as a modular design whereby the header is constructed from a series of stacked contact modules. Additional features include a feedthrough where pins exiting a housing of the implantable medical... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8070528 | Electrical connector having improved terminals An electrical connector (100) for insertion of an electrical plug, includes an insulative housing (1) having a receiving cavity (13) to receive the electrical plug in a front-to-rear direction and a plurality of receiving slots (14) commu... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8066533 | Electric devices An electric device according to the present invention includes a main body portion of the electric device that is designed to be connected to a battery park. A connecting portion for connecting the battery pack is formed to the main body portion of the electric devi... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8047878 | Hybrid connector jack for an electronic device A hybrid connector jack assembly for use in association with an electronic device comprising an audio jack component and a coaxial connector jack component. The audio jack component is coupled to an electronic circuit and has a proximal end and a distal end, an elon... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8025535 | Audio socket connector and switch module A socket connector includes an insulating housing, at least one terminal set and a switch module. The insulating housing defines an inserting hole. The terminal set and the switch module are respectively received in the insulating housing. The switch module includes... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8011970 | Systems and methods for providing a trimless electronic device port This invention is directed to systems and methods for providing a port in an electronic device housing that is electrically isolated from a conductive portion of a connector inserted in the port. In some embodiments, the connector may include a non-conductive flange... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7976347 | Multifunctional electrical connector An electrical receptacle is provided and includes an insulative housing defining a first receiving space and a second space in communication with the first receiving space and a plurality of contacts comprising audio contacts, power contacts and at least one groundi... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7963807 | Audio jack connector Provided is an audio jack connector, including an insulating housing and a plurality of contacts. The insulating housing disposes a plurality of contact-receiving grooves including a third contact-receiving groove and a switching contact-receiving groove. The third ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7959472 | Audio jack connector An audio jack connector adapted for receiving an audio plug connector with a tip end includes an insulating housing and a contact terminal. The insulating housing defines a plug insertion hole from a front end to a rear end thereof and a recess communicating with th... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7950966 | Audio jack connector An audio jack connector for mating with an audio plug connector has an insulating housing. The insulating housing defines an inserting hole extended from the front to the rear for receiving the audio plug connector and a recess communicating with the inserting hole ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7942705 | Audio jack with pogo pins for conductive contacts An audio jack can allow electrical connections between an audio plug and an electronic device. The audio jack can include a series of pogo pins operative to extend into an audio jack cavity to provide conductive contacts for an audio plug placed within the audio jac... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7934960 | Power jack connector A power jack connector for receiving a power plug connector has an insulating housing, a middle pin, a first shell surrounding a rear end of the insulating housing and a second shell having a supporting plate for covering the rear surface of the insulating housing a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7922542 | Audio jack connector An audio jack connector includes a dielectric housing, a signal terminal and a detection terminal. The dielectric housing defines a receiving trough at a top surface thereof. An opening is defined in the receiving trough with a notch communicated with a rear end the... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7922543 | Audio jack connector An audio jack connector includes a dielectric housing defining an inserting hole, a movable member, a rotation member, two first switch terminals and two-second switch terminals. The movable member is movably received in the dielectric housing. The rotation member i... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7914339 | Audio signal switcher An audio signal switcher includes a jack switcher and a plug switcher. The jack switcher includes at least two audio jacks and a first USB port. The first USB port includes a first data pin, a second data pin, a power pin, and a ground pin. Each of the audio jacks i... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914341 | Audio signal switcher An audio signal switcher includes a jack switcher and a plug switcher. The jack switcher includes an audio jack and a first USB port. The audio jack includes a left track segment and a right track segment which are coupled to a first data pin and a second data pin o... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7914340 | Audio signal switcher An audio signal switcher includes a jack switcher and a plug switcher. The jack switcher includes an audio jack and a first USB port. The first USB port includes a first data pin, a second data pin, a power pin, and a ground pin. The audio jack includes a left track... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7901251 | Audio connector An audio connector has a base. The base has a socket passing through a front end thereof. A rear end of the base has a rectangular ring holding trough communicating with the socket, surrounding a rectangular center block, each side of which has a notch passing throu... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7901252 | Horizontally aligned jack mounts with vertically staggered jack bores The present disclosure relates to a jack assembly including a jack mount having a front side and a rear side. A jack of the assembly is adapted to be slidably mounted in a jack receiving region of the jack mount. The jack assembly also includes a plurality of cross-... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7896707 | Audio signal switcher An audio signal switcher includes a jack switcher and a plug switcher. The jack switcher includes an audio jack and a first USB port. The audio jack includes a left track segment and a right track segment which are coupled to a first data pin and a second data pin o... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7896706 | Audio jack connector An audio jack connector has an insulating housing. The insulating housing has a passageway extended from a front surface towards a rear surface thereof for receiving an audio plug connector, a first groove communicated with the passageway and a second groove communi... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7887375 | Audio jack having improved contact An audio jack adapted for receiving a mating audio plug includes an insulating housing and a contact. The insulating housing has an insertion hole for receiving the mating audio plug. A recess is formed at a front of a bottom surface of the insulating housing and co... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7887376 | Audio jack connector An audio jack connector includes an insulating housing having a rectangular base, and a plurality of contacts received in the insulating housing. A front end of the base is protruded forwards to form an insertion portion. A passageway is formed at a front of the ins... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7878863 | Connector system with data communication system using induction and method An electrical connector provides both electrically conductive connection and inductive connection, and includes at least one electrically conductive member adapted to provide electrically conductive connection to another electrically conductive member, an inductive ... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7878864 | Audio jack having a contact with two sections separated with each other An audio jack (1) includes an insulative housing (2) defining an insertion opening (213), and a plurality of contacts (3) retained in the insulative housing (2); each contact (3) has a contact portion (313, 3212) exte... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7874876 | Audio jack connector An audio jack connector includes an insulating housing and a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulating housing. The insulating housing defines a plug insertion hole from a front end to a rear end thereof for receiving an audio plug connector and a recess com... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7867037 | Electrical connector with terminals retained on external faces of the housing An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1) and a plurality of contacts exposed and retained to external faces of the housing. The housing defines a front face (11), a receiving cavity (10) opening through the front f... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7833066 | Earphone jack device and portable electronic device employing the same A portable electronic device includes an earphone jack device for connecting a plug of an earphone and a main circuit board. The main circuit board includes an audio signal processor module connected to the earphone jack device, an MSM module connected to the audio ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7828602 | Electrical connector with improved contact facilitating low insertion force An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1) having a receiving cavity (110) and a passageway (1130) in communication with the receiving cavity therein, and an electric contact (3) received in the passageway and... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7824228 | Audio plug connector An audio plug connector for mating with an audio jack connector includes a main member of cylindrical shape with a plurality of contacts exposed along an axis direction thereof. A subsidiary member is extended from a portion of an outer peripheral surface of the mai... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7815472 | Jack mount with jacks with normal contacts and vertically staggered jack bores The present disclosure relates to a jack assembly including a jack mount having a front side and a rear side. A jack of the assembly is adapted to be slidably mounted in a jack receiving region of the jack mount. The jack assembly also includes a plurality of cross-... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7806734 | Audio jack connector An audio jack connector includes an insulating housing, a movable terminal, a fixed terminal, and a conductive ring. The insulating housing has a main body and a cylindrical sleeve, and defines an insertion hole therein for receiving an audio plug. A bottom of the i... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7803021 | Implantable electrical stimulation systems with leaf spring connective contacts and methods of making and using An implantable control module of an electrical stimulation system includes a housing, an electronic subassembly disposed in the housing, and a plurality of conductors. The housing defines a connector receptacle configured and arranged to receive a proximal end of a ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7798864 | Low-profile connector for a neurostimulation lead An implantable connector, implantable lead assemblies, and implantable lead assembly kits are provided. The connector comprises an electrically insulative receptacle having a port configured for receiving an electrical lead body portion that carries an electrical te... | 09/21/2010 |
