Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited

Prenosis, Inc.

Chun-Yi Chang

Terrance F Little

Stephen Sedio

Jia-Hau Liu

Fang-Jwu Liao

Chih-Pi Cheng

Fang-Chu Liao

Nan-Hung Lin

Ming-Lun Szu

Ke-Hao Chen

Yen-Chih Chang

Fang-Jun Liao

Shuo-Hsiu Hsu

Chun-Hung Liu

Rashid Bashir

Jim Xin Zhao

Paul Chen

Igor Polnyi

Yuan-Chieh Lin

Pei Tsao

Chien-Ping Kao

Wei-Hao Su

Wei-Hung Hsu

Been-Yang Liaw

Tsai-Shih Tung

Jun-Bin Huang

Bobby Reddy, Jr

Nan-Hong (Nick) Lin

Lauren Penrose

Samuel Wachspress

A stacked testing assembly () includes a microfluidic cartridge () for analyzing a fluid sample and a testing setup, said microfluidic cartridge includes a number of layers () stacked in a height direction with many different kinds of combinations, said testing setup () is capable of assembling and testing all kinds of said layers combinations with no change to the setup.

Microfluidic cartridge and stacked testing assembly with microfluidic cartridge thereof

A connector assembly includes a first connector and a second connector mating with the first connector. The first connector defines a first mating face, a first cleaning device disposed in the first mating face and a stiff first mating portion exposed upon the first mating face. The second connector defines a second mating face, a second cleaning device disposed in the second mating face and a stiff second mating portion exposed upon the second mating face. During mating the first connector to the second connector along the mating direction, the first cleaning device wipes the second mating face for wiping away the dirty attached to the second mating portion while the second cleaning device wipes the first mating face for wiping away the dirty attached to the first mating portion until the first and second mating portions mated with each other.

Connector assembly with cleaning devices

An electrical connector includes an insulator adapted to be downwardly assembled into the housing of the cradle, and a set of contacts upwardly assembled into the insulator. Each contact includes a vertical retention section received in the corresponding retention slot in the insulator via an upward insertion process, and an upper spring arm extending from an upper edge of the retention section for mechanically and electrically connecting to the machine case, and a lower spring arm extending from a lower edge of the retention section for mechanically and electrically connecting to the cable. The free end of the upper spring arm is downwardly abutted against by the insulator while that of the lower spring arm is not.

Electrical connector for use with cradle

A machine case includes a sink-like main portion and opposite deck stations by two ends of said main portion, and a terminal module. Said terminal module includes an insulator defining opposite top and bottom surfaces and a set of contacts retained to the insulator via a first insert molding process and arranged along a transverse direction. Each of said contacts is stamped and bent from sheet metal and unitarily formed with an upper contacting section and a lower contacting section. One of said upper contacting section and said lower contacting section defines an exposed end for originally linking to a contact carrier. The insulator forms a set of recesses originally formed between the contacting sections of neighboring contacts during the first insert molding while successively filled with material by the corresponding deck station in which said terminal module is embedded.

Machine case with improved terminal module

An electrical connector for use within a machine case includes an insulator and a plurality of contacts. The insulator defines opposite top and bottom surfaces thereon in a vertical direction. The contacts are retained to the insulator via an insert molding process. Each of said contacts is stamped and bent from sheet metal and unitarily formed with an upper contacting section exposed upon the top surface, and a lower contacting sections exposed upon the bottom surface. Each of said upper contacting section and said lower contacting section extends along a longitudinal direction perpendicular to both said vertical direction and said transverse direction. Each of the upper contacting section and the lower contacting section is planar and stationary. One of said upper contacting section and said lower contacting section has an outer end exposed to an exterior for originally linking to a contact carrier.

Machine case with improved electrical connector

An optical connector () for transferring light sent by fibers () and comprises a resin body () and a plurality of lenses (), the resin body () includes a bottom surface (), a top surface () opposite to the bottom surface (), a front surface () connecting the top surface () and the bottom surface (), and a slant surface () forms an angle with the front surface () and the top surface (), the lenses () are set on the slant surface (), the resin body () further includes a first recess () recessed from the top surface () to the inner of the resin body (), when the fibers () was assembled to the optical connector (), the fibers () locate in the first recess () and the optical connector () further includes optical cement () filled in the first recess ().

Optical connector having optical cement within the resin body

An optoelectronic assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB) defining opposite upper and lower surfaces, and equipped, on the upper surface, with an active component and an Integrated Circuit (IC) linked to each other via the flip chip technology, a lens module located on the side of the lower surface and communicating with the active component through via holes in the PCB, and a fiber assembly located in the lens module to be optically coupled to the active component via said lens module.

Optical module assembly with improved printed circuit board

A plug connector includes a mating tongue defining top and bottom surfaces thereon. Each surface is provided with a plurality of conductors in one row wherein the characters/categories of the conductors on the top surface are sequentially arranged to be same with those on the bottom surface with a pair of power conductors in two notches at two lateral side edges. The corresponding receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board, defines a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue therein. Opposite top and bottom rows of contacts are respectively located by upper and bottom sides of the receiving cavity and categorized essentially in a same sequence with the conductors of the plug connector for respectively connecting to the corresponding conductive pads, respectively. A pair of power contacts are located by two lateral sides of the receiving cavity to couple to the corresponding power conductor portions in the notches.

Flippable electrical connector

A flappable plug connector and a complementary receptacle connector are provided wherein the plug connector defining a mating tongue, is made with a pair of insert molding housings which are associated with the contacts thereof, commonly sandwiching a paddle card therebetween with a pair of power contacts exposed on two opposite lateral sides to form a sub-assembly. The corresponding receptacle connector defines a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue of the plug connector. The plug connector defines a V-Bus clip surrounding the mating tongue for power transfer and the receptacle connector includes a pair of deflectable power contacts by two sides of the receiving cavity.

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with a base and a mating tongue extending forwardly in a front-to-rear direction from the base, the mating tongue defining a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. A plurality of contact strips is disposed around the outer surface of the mating tongue of the insulative housing, each contact strip is stamped from a metal sheet and defines a first contacting section exposed upon the first surface and arranged along a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-rear direction, and a second contacting section exposed upon the second surface and arranged along the transverse direction.

Dual orientation connector and assembly of the same

An optical connector () for transferring light sent by fibers () and comprises a resin body () and a plurality of first lenses () and second lenses (), the resin body () includes a bottom surface (), a top surface () opposite to the bottom surface (), a front surface () connecting the top surface () and the bottom surface (), a first slant surface () and a second slant surface () form an angle with the bottom surface (), the first lenses () are set on the first slant surface (), the second lenses () are set on the second slant surface (), the projections of the first lenses () and second lenses () that projected on the bottom surface () are not aligned with each other.

Optical connector

An optical module () set on a substrate for assembling with a fiber () and comprises a light signal gathering device (), a plurality of electrical contacts () set on the light signal gathering device () and an optoelectronic device () soldered to the electrical contacts () for receiving the light signals refocused by the light signal gathering device () and transferring the light signals to electrical signals, the light signal gathering device () includes a resin body () and a light signal gathering portion set on the resin body () for refocusing light signals.

Light signal gathering device and optical module used thereof

An electrical connector for use with an electronic package, includes an insulative housing with contacts, a cover assembled on the housing and including a main body with a mating portion, the mating portion formed with an entrance, and a loading component engaging with the mating portion of the cover and passing through the entrance of the cover to directly press the electronic package.

Electrical connector with loading component

A plug connector includes a connector tab connected to and extending longitudinally away from a rear body, the tab includes opposite first and second major surfaces. A first plurality of contacts is carried by the tab on the first major surface and a second plurality of contacts is carried by the tab on the second major surface. The contacts include differential signal pairs. Each pair of the differential signal pairs is consisting of two individual contacts and said two contacts are located adjacent to each other but at the first and second main surface respectively.

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Tu-Cheng, Taiwan

Chun-Yi Chang