US Patent Issued to LOTES on Feb. 3 for "Electrical terminal and electrical connector in vertical compression contact with chip module" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. RE50,783, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to LOTES Co. LTD (Keelung, Taiwan).

"Electrical terminal and electrical connector in vertical compression contact with chip module" was invented by Chien Chih Ho (Keelung, Taiwan), Zuo Feng Jin (Keelung, Taiwan), Yong Jun Dai (Keelung, Taiwan) and Chih Kun Chen (Keelung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical terminal includes a base, a first elastic arm and a second elastic arm formed side by side by extending upwardly from an upper end of the base, and a protruding portion. The first elastic arm has a mating portion, and the second elastic arm has a contact portion. The protruding porti...