RAUL MEDINA, M.D.
Marriage and Family Therapists at California Ave, Chicago, IL

6499890, Dec 31, 2002

Aug 23, 2001

09/938080

Patrick B. Gilliland - Chicago IL
Robert M. Dwarkin - Chicago IL
Carlos Jines - Forest Park IL
Raul Medina - Chicago IL

Stratos Lightwave, Inc. - Chicago IL

G02B 636

385 88, 439 761, 439607

A device which is surface mountable to a printed circuit board. The device includes a housing, an optical sub-assembly, and an electrical connector. The housing includes a fiber optic connector receptacle and a bottom side. The housing is made of an electrically conductive material. The optical sub-assembly is associated with the fiber optic connector receptacle. The electrical connector has contacts, where some portions of the contacts extend into the housing and some portions of the contacts extend from the housing. A portion of the contacts being in a same plane with the bottom side of the housing.

6386919, May 14, 2002

Aug 25, 2001

09/939064

Raul Medina - Chicago IL
John J. Daly - Chicago IL

Stratos Lightwave, Inc. - Chicago IL

H01R 903

439610

A device including two modules is provided for transferring data signals from a first transmission medium to a second transmission medium. One module includes a conductive housing having a first end and a second end. An electrical connector is mounted at the first end of the housing and is configured to mate to a corresponding connector associated with the first transmission medium. The housing includes a flexible metallic shielded cable extending from the second end. The remote end of the shielded cable is connected to the second module which is configured to mate to a corresponding connector associated with the second transmission medium. The device is pluggable into two system hosts, simultaneously. The modules are each hot pluggable. The device acts as a serial patch cord between the two system hosts, with a standard form factor module plugged into the system hosts at either end.

6358066, Mar 19, 2002

Feb 28, 2001

09/796029

Patrick B. Gilliland - Chicago IL
Robert M. Dwarkin - Chicago IL
Carlos Jines - Forest Park IL
Raul Medina - Chicago IL

Stratos Lightwave, Inc. - Chicago IL

H01R 428

439 761, 439607, 385 92

The transceiver includes a housing, a transmitting optical sub-assembly mounted in the housing, a receiving optical sub-assembly mounted in the housing, a first electrical connector associated with the transmitting optical sub-assembly, a second electrical connector associated with the receiving optical sub-assembly, and an electro-magnetic shield mounted on the housing. The housing includes a first fiber optic connector receptacle, a second fiber optic connector receptacle, and a first side, and the housing is made of an electrically conductive material.

6430053, Aug 6, 2002

Dec 13, 2001

10/022704

Bruce A. Peterson - Schaumburg IL
Raul Medina - Chicago IL
Frank J. Peterson - Oak Forest IL

Stratos Lightwave - Chicago IL

H05K 700

361728, 361754, 361759, 361732, 361740, 439352, 439357, 439483, 439609

A pluggable transceiver module having a housing with a first side and a face perpendicular to the first side, and a tab extending beyond the surface of the first side, and the tab sized to mate with a slot in a receptacle of a host device for receiving the pluggable transceiver module housing, an elongated member slidably mounted to the first side of the housing and having an internal end and an external end, a wedge on the internal end of the elongated member, wherein sliding the elongated member inward causes the wedge to slide between the tab and the slot on the receptacle and remove the tab from within the slot, thereby releasing the pluggable transceiver module from the receptacle, and a lever rotatably mounted via an axle proximate the face of the pluggable transceiver module, said axle being connected to the external end of the elongated member such that rotating the lever away from the face of the pluggable transceiver cause the rotating axle to push the elongated member inward and drive the wedge between the tab and the slot in order to release the pluggable transceiver module from the receptacle.

6556445, Apr 29, 2003

Nov 30, 2000

09/727943

Raul Medina - Chicago IL 60623

H05K 700

361728, 361732, 349676, 349160

A transceiver module having a housing with a first side and a face perpendicular to the first side, and a tab extending above the surface of the first side sized to mate with a slot in a receptacle for the housing, a wedge slidably mounted on the first side proximate the tab, and a release lever attached to the wedge extending beyond the face of the housing, wherein pressing the release lever causes the wedge to slide between the tab and the slot on the receptacle and remove the tab from within the slot, thereby releasing the transceiver module from the receptacle.

6179627, Jan 30, 2001

Sep 25, 1998

9/160816

John J. Daly - Chicago IL
Raul Medina - Chicago IL

Stratos Lightwave, Inc. - Chicago IL

H01R 13648

439 761

An interface converter module is provided for converting data signals from a first transmission medium to a second transmission medium. The module is housed within a metallized housing having a first end and a second end. A shielded electrical connector is mounted at the first end of the housing and is configured to mate to a corresponding connector associated with a first transmission medium. The second end of the housing comprises a media interface which includes an interface connector configured to connect to the second transmission medium. In another embodiment a printed circuit board is mounted within the housing and has mounted thereon electronic circuitry configured to convert data signals from a host device transmission medium to the second transmission medium. The printed circuit board includes contact fingers adhered at each end in order to form a host connector at the first end of the module and a media connector at the second end of the module. The contact fingers at one end form a male ribbon style connector and the contact fingers at the other end may be used for direct connection to the mating media connector or alternatively the contact fingers may be attached to a separate electrical connector or to optical connectors.

6296514, Oct 2, 2001

Sep 25, 2000

9/669416

Raul Medina - Chicago IL
John J. Daly - Chicago IL

Stratos Lightwave, Inc. - Chicago IL

H01R 424

439404

A module is provided for attaching to a flexible shielded cable including individual conductors. The module includes a die cast housing, a printed circuit board mounted within the die cast metal housing, a metal D-shell ribbon style host connector associated with the die cast metal housing, first and second apertures formed in the die cast metal housing, first and second guide tabs formed on the printed circuit board and arranged to protrude through the first and second apertures, and insulation displacement contact (IDC) connector header mounted within the die cast metal housing, and an insulation displacement contact (IDC) cover insert affixed to the die cast metal housing so as to engage individual conductors and forces the conductors onto the knife contacts of the IDC connector header when the two are brought together. The die cast metal housing having a base member and a cover. The module is hot pluggable.

6000954, Dec 14, 1999

Apr 15, 1998

9/060628

Raul Medina - Chicago IL
John J. Daly - Chicago IL

Methode Electronics, Inc. - Chicago IL

H01R 909

439 79

The invention provides for an apparatus comprising a pin connector, and a method for assembling the pin connector, where the pin connector comprises a unitary insulator and housing, and a plurality of contact holes that extend between a front and back face of the insulator to receive contacts known in the art. The insulator may also contains an intermediate PCB slot that opens from the back face of the insulator and receives a PCB inserted therein. The unitary housing has a front and back end, where the back end receives the insulator from the front face, and the front end contains an open area that accesses the insulator to another connector mated therein. The invention may also incorporate a key element in the intermediate PCB slot that engages a matching notch on an edge of the PCB. The housing and insulator may include aligning fastener holes that receive fasteners shared by the components of the connector. The connector may also include one or more alignment ribs that extend from the back end forward along an interior side of the top segment of the housing.

6299362, Oct 9, 2001

Jun 16, 1999

9/334200

Patrick B. Gilliland - Chicago IL
Leonid G. Shatskin - Wheaton IL
Raul Medina - Chicago IL

Stratos Lightwave, Inc. - Chicago IL

G02B 636

385 92

A device which retains a polymer mounting block between a metallic cover and a metallic base. The mounting block includes two mounting halves. The mounting halves being hermaphroditic such that a pair of the mounting halves of the mounting block being substantially identical can be assembled in opposite transverse relation to form the mounting block. The mounting half of the mounting block includes a member and two latch arms attached to the member. The member includes a transmitter mounting provision and a receiver mounting provision. The transmitter mounting provision receives a transmitter sub-assembly, and the receiver mounting provision receives a receiver sub-assembly. The transmitter mounting provision and the receiver mounting provision straddle the second latch arm, and the first latch arm and the second latch arm straddle one of the transmitter mounting provision and the receiver mounting provision.

7090509, Aug 15, 2006

Jun 11, 1999

09/330290

Patrick B. Gilliland - Chicago IL, US
Carlos Jines - Forest Park IL, US
Raul Medina - Chicago IL, US
James W. McGinley - Barrington IL, US

Stratos International, Inc. - Chicago IL

G02B 6/42

439 761, 385 92

An interface converter module includes a metallized housing having a first end and a second end. A printed circuit board is mounted within the housing and has mounted thereon electronic circuitry configured to convert data signals from a host device transmission medium to the second transmission medium. The printed circuit board has not more than twenty contact fingers adhered at one end in order to form a host connector, a media connector is at the other end of the module. The media end having a dual LC duplex optical receptacle, where each duplex portion of the dual LC duplex optical receptacle houses a ROSA and a TOSA. The module and receiver may include interengaging rails and slots and/or keys and keyways to ensure correct matching of modules and receptacles.