Abstract: An interconnector for installation in an opening in a wall to provide at least one electrical connection through said wall, and a method for making same. The interconnector comprises a one piece tubular metal shell, at least one conductor within said shell, and two spaced apart glass sealing members supporting said conductors within said shell. The shell includes at least one port allowing access to the space interior of said shell and between said sealing members. The method for making the interconnector includes the steps of supporting one of the sealing members with a layer of inert flowable material, and subsequently removing the material through the port.

Abstract: An electrical contact is disclosed which is formed from a single, integral piece of sheet metal and includes an active contact element, a terminal element and a hood. The hood covers at least the active contact element to protect the pin-engaging tines formed integrally therewith from inadvertant distortion or breakage.

Abstract: A mounting device for electrical connectors is molded in one piece to provide functions of supporting longitudinally elongated electrical connectors of a first type, for supporting electrical connector units of a second type having contact members arranged for gang connection, and for housing electrical wiring therebetween. The one-piece device includes a raised rectangular mounting platform. The mounting platform includes integral formed upper and lower sections. The upper section includes means for supporting the connectors of the first type and means for defining a protective housing for wiring to the first type connectors and for protecting the wiring from abrasion from and contact with a building wall. The lower transverse side is open to permit the wiring to extend toward the lower section. An indented pocket, contains a key hole aperture to facilitate engagement with a mounting bolt on the building wall.

Abstract: An improved electrical connector is disclosed for mounting and electrically coupling an integrated circuit device to a circuit board. A resilient cover applies pressure at several points on a substrate on which the integrated circuit device is mounted to press the substrate against support surfaces in the connector base. Each of a plurality of flexible electrical contact elements extending from the support surfaces engages a corresponding conductive pad on the substrate with sufficient force to insure good electrical contact between the contact and the pad which is electrically coupled to the integrated circuit device by a conductive path on the substrate.

Abstract: An electrical connector for a flat circuit-bearing element, such as a calculator display element, is constructed to hold the element at an angle with respect to a supporting surface. The element is initially inserted into the connector at an angle and rotated into a mating position so that insertion force is low and contact force is high in the mating position. In one embodiment the connector is constructed to hold the element at a fixed angle with respect to a supporting surface, while in another embodiment the connector includes a rotatable element holding member which permits selective angular disposition of the element within certain limits of angular position of the rotatable member. Each embodiment includes camming ramps directed toward an element retaining recess for positive location of the element in the mating position.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly including a tubular electrical interference filter mounted coaxially about an electrical conductor in a dielectric insert having means for flexibly engaging and mounting the filter in the dielectric insert. In particular, the dielectric insert includes a plurality of longitudinally extending ribs protruding into the passageway of the dielectric insert to flexibly engage and support the tubular filter therein and thereby isolate the filter from radial stress commonly occurring during the telescopic engagement of the electrical connector assembly by a complementary connector assembly.

Abstract: An outer conductor attachment apparatus for use with a coaxial cable connector. The apparatus comprises a truncated cone shaped member having a longitudinal passage extending therethrough for insertion of the inner conductors of a coaxial cable. Adjacent the larger end of the cone shaped member, there is an annular groove. An annular locking ring sized to fit into the groove, is expandable so that it can be slid over the cone shaped member and into the groove. A clamping member is securable over the cone shaped member and the ring to clamp the outer conductor between the outer surface of the cone shaped member and the inner surfaces of the clamping member and locking ring.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprising two dielectric contact mounts, one a plug and the other a receptacle, fitting together to engage a plurality of conductive contact members carried by one contact mount with similar contact members mounted in the other. Each contact member is formed from a single piece of thin, conductive sheet metal, with a contact element at one end and a terminal element at the other; the terminal element is channel-shaped with two terminal flanges each struck from a channel wall and bent across the channel, preferably into interlocking relation with another channel wall. Each terminal flange has a notch with thin coverging walls affording a cutting section to cut the insulation on a conductor inserted into the notch, a transition section with tapered walls to spread the insulation, and a terminal section with thick, smooth walls to engage the conductor in wiping electrical contact.

Abstract: A simply installable, economical, room of a motel or hotel unit is provided in each room and an electrical device to be protected is connected to the room unit without the need for any modification of the device. The room unit is of sufficient sensitivity to sense various conditions indicative of an attempted theft, including the difficult to sense condition of cutting the power cord of the electrical device when the device is off. Each room unit is responsive to the detection of a condition indicating an attempted theft to produce a unique alarm signal which is coupled back to the AC power lines. The power supply lines of a plural phase AC power system customarily provided in the hotel or motel are used to transmit the alarm signals from the room units to receiving means for detection, and spare telephone lines which are customarily also available are used to transmit the detected alarm signals from the receivers to a central monitoring location.

Abstract: A contact member is disclosed having a novel insulation-piercing terminal which penetrates and strips insulation from a conductor to provide an optimal mechanical and electrical solderless connection with the conductor. The terminal includes means for radially penetrating the insulation, means for stripping the insulation from a longitudinal portion of the conductor and means for contacting the thus exposed conductor in wiping engagement.

Abstract: A miniature relay with four connector pins arranged in a row and which, along with a solenoid coil, an armature, and contacts, are supported in a housing consisting of two portions. The housing is of such a size that the base area is approximately one-eighth that of a 16-contact "DIL" socket, and the four connector pins are spaced to mate with four of the "DIL" contacts, thereby to allow a plurality of relays to be accommodated in a single "DIL" socket.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of automatically assembling and mounting contacts in plug-type connectors. The plug-type connector consists of a housing and a strip made of insulating material, which can be joined with the housing and which supports the contacts. In addition, the present invention relates to connectors produced according to the method.

Abstract: A connector assembly for printed circuit boards and the like includes a housing having a cavity and an elongated slot communicating with the cavity through which a male connector or printed circuit board may be inserted. Disposed within the cavity are a plurality of electrical contacts each of which is adapted to engage and electrically contact a conductive strip located on the printed circuit board. Each electrical contact is adapted to maintain its electrical continuity independent of the printed circuit board until the circuit board is in electrical engagement therewith.

Abstract: A support structure is disclosed for mounting a mobile antenna to a support plate and for connecting the antenna to a coaxial cable. The structure includes an electrically conductive nut adapted for mounting on the support plate, a dielectric cap to receive and house the nut and clamping means disposed between the nut and cap. The nut, cap and clamping means each has a central bore or passage to accommodate the cable. The clamping means is also constructed such that its frictional engagement with the cap is less than its frictional engagement with the nut, such that as the cap is threaded over the clamping means and nut, the clamping means remains generally stationary relative to the nut.

Abstract: Modular connectors and associated adapter assemblies are disclosed for interconnecting telephones and telephone signal equipment. The modular connector and a mounting plate are structured so that the connector sidewalls with integral bosses and/or the apertured mounting plate are resiliently deformable to permit simple insertion and snap-locking of the connector and mounting plate.Various adapter configurations utilizing one or more modular connectors in unique system arrays for interconnection to non-mating signal equipment are also disclosed.

Abstract: A module for a modular termination interchange system has a one-piece panel supporting an array of contacts. Patch cord connectors engage selected ones of these contacts from the front side of the panel as a means of selectively programming line selection and/or function. A plurality of projections extend from the rear of the panel to support electrical connector units each having a plurality of contacts which are electrically connected to the contacts supported by the panel, the contacts of a connector unit connected to respective contacts of at least one row of panel-mounted contacts so as to associate that row or rows with a particular electrical connector unit. Complementary mating connector units are interengageable with the connector units supported by the panel projections and extend the electrical connections, via respective cables, to telephones at the distal ends of the cables.

Abstract: A strain relief adapter for providing strain relief for insulated conductors which are electrically connected to respective insulation-piercing contact portions supported in respective spaced parallel channels on opposite sides of an electrical connector comprises a pair of one-piece molded structures each of which includes a plurality of pressure members spaced to be received in the respective channels to engage and press against the electrically connected portions of the conductors, conductor clamping means in the form of a comb-shaped edge having a plurality of constricted openings for receiving respective conductors, and a force diversion member extending parallel to, but directed away from, the pressure members and the comb-shaped conductor clamp, also in the form of a comb, to receive the conductors between the teeth thereof for preventing dislocation of the conductors from the insulation-piercing contact portions in response to the application of pulling forces on the conductors.

Abstract: A two-contact power connector made up of identical halves, each half having a base member and a pair of tubes, a large tube and a small tube, extending forwardly therefrom, with the small tube on each half telescoped in the large tube on the other half when the halves are connected. The contacts in the two halves are enshrouded by the telescoped tubes when the connector halves are connected, preventing accidental grounding. The contacts are releasably held by collet type retention members. Integral latching hooks are provided between the tubes, for releasably latching the connector halves together. One of the halves can be releasably mounted on a panel, thereby supporting the entire connector when the halves are connected.

Abstract: A field termination tool for electrical connectors includes laterally floating combs having edges which engage respective longitudinal slots on each side of an electrical connector to define a reference plane, the connector being urged toward the reference plane by a wave or blade spring carried on the connector support. The insertion tool is constructed to force insulated conductors into respective insulation piercing portions of connector contacts equally well for different connector widths by apparatus for positioning one of a pair of oppositely directed rotatable insertion arms with respect to the other and to the connector support and by providing a floating support structure to equalize forces across a connector. The comb slots each have a cutting edge which is cooperable in a scissor action with the cutting edges of the insertion blades carried on the insertion arms to cut the conductors immediately prior to insertion.

Abstract: A soldering iron for soldering a plurality of wires to metal liners in respective channels of a connector. The soldering iron can be used with a known wire positioning device. The iron is made from a plate of heat conducting material. A plurality of projections extend fron an end face of the plate. The projections are spaced to correspond to the spacing of the metal liners in the channels of the connector which is being joined to the plurality of conductors. The sides of the projections converge toward the extremities of the projections. These converging sides are plated with a material to prevent oxidation and to cause the solder to wet the sides. The projections are dimensioned so that their extremities can be positioned within the channels while the converging sides contact respective edges of the metal liners in the channels. In such position, heat is conducted by the iron in order to solder the wires placed within the channels to the metal liners.