Abstract: An electrical connector assembly for a wiring harness and connectable to a control module includes a vent tube for venting the interior of the control module. The connector assembly includes an end cap retainer that assures that both electrical terminals of the connector assembly and the vent tube are properly seated in the connector body of the connector assembly.

Abstract: A fastener comprising a T-shaped plastic planar member has a base which can be taped to a wiring assembly or harness and a normally extending trunk which has a pressure sensitive adhesive pad secured to a portion thereon adjacent the base and which has a releasable cover overlying the adhesive pad to protect the same during handling, but which can be unfolded to expose the adhesive pad to enable the pad to be fastened to a panel of the vehicle by merely pressing it onto the panel.

Abstract: A battery terminal connector has a hollow cylindrical gripping portion which is axially slit and which has raised radially inwardly extending pads which are knurled for biting into a top battery post when the gripping portion is tightened around the battery post.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly comprising a connector housing made from an electrically insulating material and containing a plurality of metal terminals having a forward portion and an abutment extending transversely thereof between their ends, and a low profile metal bus plate comprising a base having a plurality of laterally spaced upstruck tangs which cooperably engage the terminals to both electrically connect the terminals to the bus plate and provide a lock to prevent reverse movement of the terminals from the housing.

Abstract: An electrical switch assembly has a resilient dual detent dome carrying concentric electrically conducting pellets which sequentially contact conductive ends of traces on a printed circuit board in response to partial and full depression of the dome. The dome is designed to provide a first tactile feel when the first pellet contacts the circuit board and then a snap action tactile feel when the second pellet engages the circuit board.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly has a pair of mating connector housings carrying mating metal terminals, a double ended shorting clip carried by one of the housings and having both ends thereof in spring biased engagement with its associated metal terminals in that housing and a connector position assurance member. The shorting clip first has one end automatically disengaged from its associated metal terminals by a first cam when the connector housings are mated together and then its other end automatically disengaged from its associated terminals by a second cam on the connector position assurance member when connected to the mated housings so that a shorting path across the associated metal terminals is only fully disconnected if proper mating of the connector housings is assured.

Abstract: An illuminated elastomeric keypad switch assembly has an optical conductor on which a printed circuit is printed via electrically conductive ink and a keypad provided with translucent areas for passage of light. The optical conductor has recesses located adjacent the key caps whose width and depth progressively increases proceeding from the closest to the farthest key cap from a light source so that a uniform amount of light is transmitted through the key caps.

Abstract: A filtered header assembly for connection to a printed circuit board having a plurality of circuit traces thereon comprises a connector housing carrying a plurality of spaced pin terminals whose ends remote from the connector housing are adapted to be electrically connected to the circuit traces on the printed circuit board and a filter means including capacitors operatively connected with the pins and a ground for filtering electrical noise passing through the pins. The filter means comprises a filter pack subassembly which is simultaneously slidably connected to each of the plurality of pins and with the filter pack subassembly including a housing means having a plurality of openings therethrough through which the pins extend, an array of spaced capacitors in the housing and located adjacent said pins and biasing means for biasing the array of capacitors into engagement with the pins.

Abstract: A low profile electrical bussing plate for electrically connecting a plurality of spaced pin terminals carried by an insulated housing of an electrical connector assembly, the housing having a planar face from which the terminals project and which is matable with an insulated housing or member for connection with the housing having an end face for engaging and holding the bussing plate against the planar end face of the housing when connected thereto. The bussing plate includes an elongated planar base plate having a plurality of spaced apart, generally rectangularly shaped openings, a plurality of spaced pairs of first and second arms integral with the base plate along its opposite elongated sides and located transversely of the openings and with the arms each being folded across the base plate toward each other and bent to provide arcuate portions which face one another.

Abstract: A compact header assembly for connection to a printed circuit board comprises a header housing 20 having a central through opening 22, a pin terminal and carrier strip assembly 24 having a carrier strip 26 which is slidably connected to the header housing 20 via a rail and groove connection and which carries a plurality of pin terminals 28 which are connected to the circuit traces 14, 15 of the printed circuit board 12 and a preassembled wiring harness connector subassembly 30 having a retainer housing 32, a connector body 34 which is connected to the retainer housing 32 and which carries a plurality of female socket terminals 36. The connector body 34 after the terminals 36 are positioned therein is slidably connected to the retainer housing 32 and the retainer housing 32 in turn is then slidably connected into the central opening 22 of the header housing 20 and with the socket terminals 36 matingly engaging the pin terminals 28 when the connector subassembly 30 is connected to the header housing 20.

Abstract: An illuminated elastomeric keypad switch assembly has a keypad and key caps which are illuminated by light passing through thin webs connecting the key caps to the keypad to create a halo lighting effect surrounding the key caps.

Abstract: Wire is routed onto a bus plate by a wire routing device that comprises a wire feed mechanism and a non-rotatable wire routing head. The wire routing head has a horn that includes an inverted funnel shaped orifice. The wire feed mechanism pushes wire into the inverted funnel shaped orifice which routes the wire in wire receiving channels and passages of the bus plate in linear and non-linear patterns without any need for rotating the horn with respect to the bus plate.

Abstract: A fastening system for fixedly connecting a lamp assembly to a support panel provided with a pair of retainer openings and in which the lamp assembly is provided with a pair of tiltable mounting studs which are insertable into the retainer openings, and the retainer openings are designed so that a portion of the support panel adjacent each of the openings is engaged by and cause tilting of the mounting studs before the latter can gain access into the associated retainer opening for locking the lamp assembly to the support panel.

Abstract: An optical fiber connector assembly having a metal alignment sleeve for slidably receiving pin bushings of optical fiber termini to axially align the same in abutting engagement with each other to provide for good light transmission. The alignment sleeve is triangular in shape and slidably receives the pin bushings with a slight interference fit so that the sides of the sleeve are bowed slightly outwardly so that they exert a radially inwardly directed force against the bushings at three equidistant circumferential locations.

Abstract: A two-way dual action electric switch assembly has an actuator that slides in housing from a neutral position to a first position to a second position and back to the neutral position in each direction. Travelling circuit boards are slideably disposed in the housing on either side of the actuator and a single elastomeric dome switch is disposed between the actuator and each travelling circuit board. A fixed circuit board is outboard of each travelling circuit board and a pair of second elastomeric dome switches are disposed between each travelling circuit board and its associated fixed outboard circuit board. The single elastomeric dome switches close electric circuitry of the travelling circuit boards in the first positions and the pairs of second elastomeric dome switches close electric circuitry of the fixed outboard circuit boards in the second positions.

Abstract: A cross member assembly that forms a structural part of a vehicle frame for supporting vehicle components and which consists of an elongated box-like cross bar adapted to have a nut retainer inserted within the crossbar and includes detent members for maintaining the nut retainer in a fixed position relative to the cross bar while at the same time serving to position the nuts on the nut retainer in alignment with bolt openings formed in the cross bar.

Abstract: An ignition cable assembly includes a cable terminal attached to an end of an ignition cable. The cable terminal is plugged into the end of a boot and terminal subassembly that comprises three parts. These are a base terminal, a snap ring insert and an elastomeric boot. The elastomeric boot houses a replaceable plug seal that engages a ceramic insulator of a spark plug when the ignition cable assembly is plugged onto the spark plug. The ignition cable assembly can be straight, bent or right angled.

Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a connector body having a plurality of cavities extending from a rearward conductor end to an intermediate location and an enlarged common opening along its forward end from the intermediate location to a forward end and with the intermediate location defining a transverse shoulder. It further comprises cylindrically shaped metal terminals having lands and each connected to a conductor. The terminals are inserted through the connector body and attach to a deflectable collar whose cross-sectional shape is like that of the common opening. The terminals are snap fittingly attached to the collar and then simultaneously pulled to seat via the lands on the collar engaging a shoulder on the collar and sliding the collar through the common opening of the connector body until the collar engages the transverse shoulder therein.

Abstract: A fiber optic star and transmission assembly for transmitting optical signals from a plurality of input optic fibers to a plurality of output optic fibers. The assembly comprising a female connector body retaining and positioning a plurality of input and output optic fibers, a convergence connector body having a pair of central cavities with a semi-circular grooves, and wedge means having semi-circular recesses which is inserted in to the cavities to define passageways. The optic fibers are inserted through the passageways which guide the jacketed and stripped ends of the optic fibers into a linear slot at the forward end of the convergence connector. The female connector is slidably connected to the convergence connector. A ribbon retainer housing and a hollow cover means complete the star assembly.

Abstract: A two piece male terminal having a contact member and an attachment member. The contact member has a round solid pin at its forward end portion, an integral collar defining a radially extending abutment at its midportion and a round clamping portion behind the collar and a flattened rearward end portion. The attachment member has an attachment portion at its forward end portion that is tightly clamped around the clamping portion of the contact member and a cable attachment means at the rearward end portion which receives the flattened rearward end portion of the contact member so that the flattened end portion engages the cable at its core when the two piece terminal is attached to the cable. In addition, the clamping portion of the contact member is swedged to define a post extending radially outwardly of the outer surface of the clamping portion and the attachment member has a slot which receives the post when it is rolled onto the clamping portion.