Galen Frederic Fromm

Address:

N1667 950 St, Eau Claire, WI 54701

Phone:

4148078976

VIN:

1C6RD7NTXCS293364

Make:

RAM

Model:

RAM PICKUP 1500

Year:

2012

US Patent:

6692305, Feb 17, 2004

Filed:

Nov 29, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/307025

Inventors:

Richard A. Nelson - Geneva IL
Kathleen A. Sweeney - Naperville IL
Hazelton P. Avery - Batavia IL
Daniel B. McGowan - Naperville IL
Galen F. Fromm - North Aurora IL

Assignee:

Molex Incorporated - Lisle IL

International Classification:

H01R 13648

US Classification:

439608, 439701

Abstract:

Connector assemblies having cantilevered contact beams arranged in one or more arrays of terminals have their terminals fixed in place at a first point within insulative connector body portions. The terminals are fixed together by one or more support members within a hollow shroud, at a second point spaced apart from the first point. The present invention pertains to means for fixing the terminals and their support member to the outer shroud. In one embodiment, the shroud is square and has a series of slots formed in two opposing sidewalls. A key member has a plurality of biasing arms, or fingers that extend into the slots and into contact with the terminal support members. In a second embodiment of the inventions, the shroud is provided with a plurality of channels formed on the inner surfaces of two opposing sidewalls thereof. A retainer key is provided with a plurality of hook ends for engaging the shroud and spring arms that extend through openings into the shroud channels up against the ends of the support bar.

US Patent:

6746278, Jun 8, 2004

Filed:

Nov 29, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/307087

Inventors:

Richard A. Nelson - Geneva IL
Gary Humbert - Geneva IL
Kathleen A. Sweeney - Naperville IL
Hazelton P. Avery - Batavia IL
Daniel B. McGowan - Naperville IL
Galen F. Fromm - North Aurora IL

Assignee:

Molex Incorporated - Lisle IL

International Classification:

H01R 13648

US Classification:

439608

Abstract:

A high-density connector utilizes a plurality of terminal assemblies that are assembled together into a block, or single unit, to form a connector. Each terminal assembly of the connector utilizes a plurality of conductive terminals having contact portions for mating with an opposing connector, and body portions held within an insulative body portion of the assembly. The terminal assemblies support arrays of terminals arranged in a specific order of signal-ground-signal arrays. The terminal assemblies have at least two insulative housing portions that support the signal terminal arrays and an intervening ground terminal array, which may or may not be supported by an associated insulative housing. The ground members have a series of grounding tabs formed therewith with extend out from the plane of the ground members, on opposite sides thereof into contact with ground reference terminals of the signal terminal arrays. In this manner, a ground path is enabled between the signal terminal and ground terminal arrays.

US Patent:

6851980, Feb 8, 2005

Filed:

Nov 29, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/307055

Inventors:

Richard A. Nelson - Geneva IL, US
Kathleen A. Sweeney - Naperville IL, US
Hazelton P. Avery - Batavia IL, US
Galen F. Fromm - North Aurora IL, US
Daniel B. McGowan - Naperville IL, US

Assignee:

Molex Incorporated - Lisle IL

International Classification:

H01R013/64
H01R013/648

US Classification:

439608, 439246, 439439, 439625

Abstract:

A connector assembly is suitable for connecting circuit boards together. The connector assembly includes a series of ground and signal terminal sets assembled in composite wafers that may be held within a housing. The ground terminals include pairs of flat contact blades that are aligned together in abutting contact to form a column of ground contacts blades of double width, and the signal terminals are arranged in sets on opposite sides of the ground terminal blades and the signal terminals have general L-shapes that are arranged in sets of two pairs of contacts to form a cruciform pattern. One of the two connectors has solid L-shaped contacts, while the other of the two connectors has a pair of split contact arms that lie and extend in two different planes project from an associated terminal body in a manner so as to mate with the contact portions of the solid L-shaped contacts. The use of L-shaped contacts provides a redundant contact mating arrangement.

US Patent:

6953351, Oct 11, 2005

Filed:

Jun 23, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/601483

Inventors:

Galen F. Fromm - North Aurora IL, US
Jay H. Neer - Boca Raton FL, US

Assignee:

Molex Incorporated - Lisle IL

International Classification:

H01R004/66

US Classification:

439101, 439607

Abstract:

A termination structure for mating a cable connector to a circuit board includes a plurality of associated sets of terminals, each terminal set including a pair of differential signal terminals and a ground reference terminal. Each associated set of terminals is arranged in triangular pattern through the connector in order to reduce the impedance through the connector, and the sets are fixed within modules or blocks that are engageable together to form a connector housing. The housing modules permit adjacent associated terminal sets to be easily inverted so that the ground reference terminals of alternating associated terminal sets are located along one row of the connector along with signal terminals of intervening terminal sets, while the ground reference terminals of intervening terminal sets are located along a second row of the connector, along with the signal terminals of alternating associated terminal sets.

US Patent:

6979215, Dec 27, 2005

Filed:

Nov 27, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/306094

Inventors:

Hazelton P. Avery - Batavia IL, US
Kathleen A. Sweeney - Naperville IL, US
Daniel B. McGowen - Naperville IL, US
Richard A. Nelson - Geneva IL, US
Galen F. Fromm - North Aurora IL, US
Gary Humbert - Geneva IL, US

Assignee:

Molex Incorporated - Lisle IL

International Classification:

H01R013/64

US Classification:

439248

Abstract:

A connector uses a plurality of individual terminal assemblies to form a high-density connector. The terminal assemblies all have insulative body portions that support arrays of signal terminals and ground terminals or ground members. The terminals all have their own associated body portions which are supported by the insulative body portions and contact portions that extend out from a front, or mating face, of the assemblies. The terminal contact portions and include flexing portions formed therewith which are disposed between the terminal body and contact portions. The terminals further include insulative support members that are applied to the terminals and which serve to define the contact and flexing portions of the terminals. The support members are fixed within a carrier, such as a shroud member, which is not attached to any one portion of the connector. The support members permit the terminals and shroud to move as a single unit and flex in different directions, relative to the insulative body portions that support the terminals.

US Patent:

7156672, Jan 2, 2007

Filed:

Oct 7, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/246350

Inventors:

Galen F. Fromm - North Aurora IL, US
Jay H. Neer - Boca Raton FL, US

Assignee:

Molex Incororporated - Lisle IL

International Classification:

H01R 13/648

US Classification:

439101

Abstract:

A termination structure for mating a cable connector to a circuit board includes a plurality of associated sets of terminals, each terminal set including a pair of differential signal terminals and a ground reference terminal. Each associated set of terminals is arranged in triangular pattern through the connector in order to reduce the impedance through the connector, and the sets are fixed within modules or blocks that are engageable together to form a connector housing. The housing modules permit adjacent associated terminal sets to be easily inverted so that the ground reference terminals of alternating associated terminal sets are located along one row of the connector along with signal terminals of intervening terminal sets, while the ground reference terminals of intervening terminal sets are located along a second row of the connector, along with the signal terminals of alternating associated terminal sets.

US Patent:

8506332, Aug 13, 2013

Filed:

Feb 26, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/919259

Inventors:

Scott D. Sommers - Naperville IL, US
Kent E. Regnier - Lombard IL, US
Michael R. Kamarauskas - Bartlett IL, US
Emanuel G. Banakis - Naperville IL, US
Galen F. Fromm - North Aurora IL, US

Assignee:

Molex Incorporated - Lisle IL

International Classification:

H01R 13/648

US Classification:

43960734, 43960732, 4396074

Abstract:

A board-mountable connector is provided. The connector includes a shield and an insulative housing with a tongue. Terminals are supported by the housing in two rows and the rows extend from a mating interface to a board mounting interface. The terminals may be mounted to the board via surface mount technology in two rows that are at about 0. 4 mm pitch. The two rows of terminals are configured in a signal, signal, ground triangular configuration so as to provide a triangular terminal arrangement that extends from the mating interface to the mounting interface.

US Patent:

20030119379, Jun 26, 2003

Filed:

Nov 29, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/307086

Inventors:

Hazelton Avery - Batavia IL, US
Galen Fromm - North Aurora IL, US

International Classification:

H01R013/502

US Classification:

439/701000

Abstract:

A high-density connector utilizes a plurality of terminal assemblies that are assembled together into a block, or single unit, to form a connector. Each terminal assembly of the connector utilizes a plurality of conductive terminals having contact portions for mating with an opposing connector, and body portions held within an insulative body portion of the assembly. The assemblies have groups of terminals, or arrays of terminals arranged in a signal-ground-signal order. Flexing portions formed with the terminals are disposed between the contact and body portions. Dielectric spacer elements are disposed between adjacent signal and ground terminal arrays to increase the electrical affinity that the terminals have for each other in their flexing portions. The spacers in one embodiment, engage the signal terminals in their flexing portions, and in another embodiment, they engage individual terminal support bars.