Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a number of terminals and a lossy member. The terminals include a number of ground terminals and a number of signal terminals. The ground terminals and the signal terminals are set adjacently to each other but do not contact each other. The ground terminals do not directly contact the lossy member. As a result, installation consistency of the ground terminals can be achieved, thereby improving the electrical performance of the electrical connector.

Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a connector and a mating connector mateable with each other. The mating connector comprises a mating lock member having a mating lock portion. The connector comprises a holding member and a lock member. The holding member has a holding portion and a stop portion. The lock member has a held portion and a lock portion. The held portion is held by the holding portion. The lock portion is located below the mating lock portion and faces the mating lock portion in the upper-lower direction under the mated state. The coupling portion has an abutment portion. When the lock portion is moved toward the held portion in the first horizontal direction in accordance with removal of the connector from the mating connector, the abutment portion is brought into abutment with the stop portion so that a movement of the lock portion is restricted.

Abstract: A work machine powered electrically by a conductor rod includes a pneumatic control system for moving the conductor rod axially to contact power rails along a haul route. The conductor rod has a central passageway pneumatically coupling a head to a tip. A barrel extending from the head and an arm extending from the tip have concentric tubular conductors radially offset from each other and slidably mated together. Arrangements of pneumatic control valves provide pressurized air to selected cavities formed at ends or sides of the tubular conductors, causing axial forces that are balanced to effect retraction and extension of the arm within the barrel. In an open-loop mode, the pneumatic control system enables attachment of the arm to the power rails. In a closed-loop mode, mechanical feedback of relative position between the arm and power rails leads to axial adjustment pneumatically so that contact with electrical power is maintained despite lateral movements caused by steering or road conditions.

Abstract: A cartridge for a vapor provision system including the cartridge and a control unit, wherein the cartridge includes a housing part having a mouthpiece end and an interface end, wherein the mouthpiece end includes a vapor outlet for the cartridge and the interface end includes an interface for coupling the cartridge to a control unit; an air channel extending from an air inlet in the housing part to the vapor outlet; a reservoir within the housing part containing liquid for vaporization, wherein an end of the reservoir at the interface end of the housing part is sealed by a resilient plug, wherein the reservoir includes a dividing wall between a first reservoir region on a side of the dividing wall facing the mouth piece end of the housing part and a second reservoir region on a side of the dividing wall facing the interface end of the housing part, wherein the dividing wall includes at least one fluid communication opening to provide fluid communication between the first reservoir region and the second reserv

Abstract: A pluggable network interface device is provided comprising a split-shell housing having a shielded side portion that protects a side of a circuit substrate disposed in the split-shell housing. The split-shell housing comprises a first shell portion that covers a first side of the circuit substrate and a second shell portion that covers a second side of the circuit substrate that is arranged opposite the first side. The shielded side portion is inset from a width of the split-shell housing and offset a distance from an electrical interconnection end of the circuit substrate. The shielded side portion is arranged at least partially in a notch of the circuit substrate disposed at the electrical interconnection end of the circuit substrate.

Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a connector including an insulating housing formed with a slot extending in a longitudinal direction and having at least one open end. A first circuit board is inserted into the slot and includes an electrical contact pad for electrically contacting a conductive terminal arranged within the slot, the electrical contact pad of the first circuit board extends in the longitudinal direction outside of the insulating housing of the connector via the open end of the slot.

Abstract: A cartridge for an electrically heatable aerosol-generating system is provided, the system including an aerosol-generating device, the cartridge configured to be used with the device, the device including a device housing defining a cavity to receive the cartridge, an inductor coil around or adjacent to the cavity, and a power supply connected to the coil and to provide a high-frequency oscillating current; the cartridge including: a cartridge housing to engage the device housing and containing an aerosol-forming substrate, the cartridge housing having an external surface, at least part of which is formed by a fluid permeable susceptor element that is electrically isolated from any other electrically conductive components; a first capillary material in the cartridge housing in contact with the susceptor element; and a second capillary material in the cartridge housing in contact with the first material, the first material having a higher thermal decomposition temperature than the second material.

Abstract: A work machine, such as a hauler at a mining site, includes a conductor rod housing concentric metal tubes for receiving electrical power from a contactor sliding on a power rail. A head-end interface of the conductor rod proximate the work machine includes multiple tiers to which terminal connectors are affixed. The tiers are at different heights above the base of the head-end interface, providing a distance or spacing between adjacent terminal connectors, thus reducing the need to increase a diameter of head-end interface to accommodate adjacent terminal connectors.

Abstract: A floating electrical connector includes a housing with a tubular portion. An axis is defined in a center of the tubular portion. Several floating terminals are arranged around the axis and are partially connected. Each floating terminal has an inner terminal sheet on an inner side and a spring structure on an outer side. Each spring structure is connected to one of the inner terminal sheets. A portion of the inner terminal sheet is inserted into the tubular portion and arranged along an inner peripheral surface of the tubular portion. The portion of each inner terminal sheet located in the tubular portion has an electronic contact bulging inward. Several external pins are electrically connected around the floating terminals. When a conductive pin is inserted into the tubular portion, the spring structures could elastically deform, allowing the tubular portion to adapt to a horizontal deviation or a skew deviation of the conductive pin, providing a greater tolerance for alignment deviations.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprising a terminal module, which comprises a ground terminal and a signal terminal disposed side by side with the ground terminal. The ground terminal comprises a first contacting part. The signal terminal comprises a second contacting part. An outer diameter of the first contacting part is greater than an outer diameter of the second contacting part. The contacting end of the ground terminal is wider than the contacting end of the signal terminal. By increasing the width of the contacting end of the ground terminal, the distance between the contacting end of the signal terminal and the contacting end of the adjacent ground terminal can be shortened. In this way, the return path for the signal terminal can be shorter, and more energy can be bound between the signal terminal and the ground terminal to avoid excessive interference from the surrounding magnetic field.

Abstract: A header power connector includes a header housing assembly including an inner housing received in a cavity of an outer housing. The inner housing has upper and lower openings open to a terminal channel configured to receive busbars. The inner housing is movable relative to the outer housing to accommodate misalignment of the busbars in the terminal channel. A terminal is received in the terminal channel having a terminal base, an upper mating end and a lower mating end. The upper mating end includes an upper socket flanked by upper spring beams that receives the first busbar and the lower mating end includes a lower socket flanked by lower spring beams that receives the second busbar. The terminal is movable in the terminal channel to accommodate misalignment of the first busbar and the second busbar in the terminal channel.

Abstract: A connector includes a connector position assurance element having a contact receptacle for receiving an electrical contact element, and a connector housing having a contact receptacle for receiving another electrical contact element and a receptacle for receiving the connector position assurance element.

Abstract: A grounding electrical connector assembly may have a connector subassembly and a terminal subassembly. The connector subassembly may include a connector housing having a body defining a terminal cavity therein and a ground bar, secured to the connector housing, having electrical contacts extending into the terminal cavity and a portion that secures to grounding structure. The terminal subassembly may include a terminal housing having a main body defining terminal cavities extending therethrough that each receive one of a plurality of terminals, the main body telescopically slidable into and releasably secured to the terminal cavity.

Abstract: A self-aligning connector assembly includes a connector frame, a connector, and an alignment adapter. The connector frame includes an end plate. The connector extends from the connector frame and is configured to engage with a mating connector. The alignment adapter is coupled to the connector. The alignment adapter is movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the alignment adapter is spaced apart from the end plate and permits the connector to move relative to the connector frame. In the second position, the alignment adapter is engaged against the end plate and prevents movement of the connector relative to the connector frame.

Abstract: The connector includes a terminal and a resin housing that houses and retains the terminal. One or a plurality of grooves extend in a part of a region of a surface of the terminal. An inclination surface is formed near an opening of the groove. The groove is formed to have a part with a minimum width parallel to the surface of the terminal and a part with a maximum width parallel to the surface of the terminal. An angle formed by the inclination surface with respect to the surface of the terminal is between 100 degrees and 150 degrees. Moreover, a ratio of the minimum width of the groove with respect to the maximum width of the groove is equal to or greater than 0.58 and less than 1.0. The terminal is embedded and fixed in the resin forming the housing.

Abstract: Backplane employing floating backplane network interconnects for electrical coupling with blade computer systems and related methods. To provide a displacement tolerant interconnection system between the backplane interconnects and respective blade backplane interconnects of blade computer systems to establish electrical connections therebetween, the backplane interconnects are provided as floating backplane interconnections. The floating backplane interconnects are configured to move and be displaced relative to the backplane while still retaining an electrical connection to the backplane. The backplane interconnects each include one or more flex circuits connected to electrical interconnects on the backplane on a first end, and electrical interconnects on a backplane connector on a second end.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a substrate, a frame, and a socket. The frame defines a slot. The frame is coupled to the substrate such that the slot is aligned with an attachment location on the substrate. The socket receives a first device. The socket aligns with the attachment location on the substrate when the socket is inserted in the slot.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes wafer assemblies coupled to a housing. Each wafer assembly includes a leadframe, a wafer body holding the leadframe, and a ground frame coupled to the wafer body to provide electrical shielding for the leadframe. Each leadframe has signal contacts with mating ends extending from the wafer body for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating electrical connector. The mating ends are twisted 45° to define twisted mating interfaces. Each ground frame has ground shields extending from a ground plate along the mating ends of the signal contacts. The ground shields are twisted 45° relative to the ground plate to define twisted shield zones along the mating ends of the signal contacts.

Abstract: A modular electrical connector facilitates low loss connections to components on a printed circuit board. A portion is of the connector is formed of one or more first type units with conductive elements designed to be attached to a printed circuit board. Signals passing through those units may be routed to components on the printed circuit board through traces in the board. One or more second type units may be integrated with the connector. Those units may be designed for attachment to a cable, which may provide signal paths to a location on the printed circuit board near relatively distant components.

Abstract: An electrical connector including a front housing member, signal and ground terminals disposed in a row in the front housing member, a cover member mounted to a rear of the front housing member, and a lossy member disposed in the cover member and contacting the ground terminals. Such a configuration improves signal integrity of the electronical connector while simplifying the manufacture and assembly of the electrical connector and reducing the cost thereof.