Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Connectors with movable magnetic components and method of connecting devices
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Application No.: US15520072Application Date: 2015-10-20
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Publication No.: US10446948B2Publication Date: 2019-10-15
- Inventor: Timothy Jing Yin Szeto , Jeremy Zhi-Qiao Chan
- Applicant: NANOPORT TECHNOLOGY INC.
- Applicant Address: CA Markham
- Assignee: NANOPORT TECHNOLOGY INC.
- Current Assignee: NANOPORT TECHNOLOGY INC.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Markham
- Agency: Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
- Agent Reno Lessard
- International Application: PCT/CA2015/000545 WO 20151020
- International Announcement: WO2016/061662 WO 20160428
- Main IPC: H01R27/00
- IPC: H01R27/00 ; H01R9/05 ; H01R13/62 ; H01R43/16 ; G06F1/16 ; H01R11/30 ; H04M1/02

Abstract:
A connector for an electronic device has a housing with a peripheral surface and guides defining first and second paths. The second path extends from a first location proximate the peripheral surface to a second location farther from the peripheral surface and closer to the first path. A magnetic contact assembly in the housing is magnetically movable along the first path between a first position for joining the connector in data communication with an adjacent connector, and a second position withdrawn from the peripheral surface. A magnet in the housing and is movable by attraction to an adjacent connector along the second path, to magnetically hold the connector to an adjacent connector. The guides are configured so that the magnet and the magnetic contact assembly magnetically bias one another inwardly along the first and second paths.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180337467A1 CONNECTORS WITH MOVABLE MAGNETIC COMPONENTS AND METHOD OF CONNECTING DEVICES Public/Granted day:2018-11-22
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