Abstract: A waterproof connector includes a terminal, a housing, a seal member, an inclined guide portion and a slide contact portion. The housing includes an insertion opening provided for receiving the terminal, a terminal lock portion provided inside the housing and a fixing lock portion provided outside the housing, both used for locking the terminal. The inclined guide portion is provided on either the housing or the fixing portion of the seal member, and the slide contact portion is provided on the other of the housing and the fixing portion so as to be slidable relative to the inclined guide portion. The inclined guide portion and the slide contact portion guide the seal member so that it rotates into a proper position and so that the fixing engagement portion engages with the fixing lock portion when the seal member is inserted into the insertion opening of the housing.

Abstract: A circuit board assembly is disclosed comprising a pair of three-dimensional substrates having integral, metallized connectors. The connector of the first substrate protrudes therefrom, while the connector of the second substrate is recessed therein. The geometries of the protruding connector and the recessed connector are different such that they deform when assembled to provide an electrical connection and a detachable physical connection. In one embodiment, the recessed connector has a parabolic cross-section and the protruding connector has a circular cross-section. A flexible molded edge connector for the circuit board assembly is also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention concerns a connector of the shielded type comprising a socket (1) attached to a printed circuit board (CI) and a plug (7) designed to be mechanically and electrically coupled to socket (1). A first shielding component (2, 4) is extended by elastic locking projections (22) provided with hooks (24). Shielding (9a) of plug (7) comprises openings (90a) in which these hooks (24) engage. These projections (22) rub against shielding (9a) of plug (7) and establish a galvanic contact between shieldings (9a, 2, 4) of plug (7) and socket (1). They also assure a locking of the latter in the socket (1).

Abstract: An improved terminal apparatus is provided for electrical connections to a coin-shaped battery of a kind which may be employed in portable electronic equipment. The terminal apparatus includes a positive terminal plate for engaging a side surface (i.e., a positive electrode) of the coin-shaped battery and a negative terminal plate for engaging the bottom (i.e., a negative electrode) of the battery. The positive terminal plate is geometrically oriented so as to establish constant engagement with the side surface of the battery when placed in a battery holder. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the positive terminal plate is made of a spring member and is curved toward the battery holder to elastically urge the side surface of the battery for constant engagement therewith. Alternatively, the positive terminal plate includes a hook portion engaging the side surface of the battery when placed in the battery holder.

Abstract: A connector assembly having a male connector body engagable with a female connector body. At least one female terminal is mounted in one of the connector bodies and the terminal includes a contact portion having a generally cylindrical shape with opposing ends and a plurality of contact beams extending between the ends to define a reduced effective diameter located between the ends. The assembly also includes a preassembled terminal position assurance mechanism, which for providing an indicia of whether the terminal is fully seated within the connector body, and a preassembled connector position assurance mechanism, which provides an indicia of whether the connector bodies are fully engaged with one another.

Abstract: An apparatus for securing a conductor to a circuit board. The conductor is configured for being soldered to the circuit board through a first aperture in the board. The apparatus includes a conductor supporting portion having a second aperture therethrough. The conductor supporting portion is configured for coupling to the circuit board. The second aperture substantially aligns with the first aperture when the conductor supporting portion is coupled to the circuit board to permit the conductor to be inserted through both the first aperture and the second aperture. The apparatus includes a tab portion configured for coupling to the conductor supporting portion. A portion of the conductor is thus held substantially immobile between the conductor supporting portion and a first edge of the tab portion when the tab portion is coupled with the conductor supporting portion, thereby preventing the conductor from being broken at the portion of the conductor when the conductor is flexed.

Abstract: A flat, surface mounted, flexible, multi-purpose wire has a plurality of flat elongated conductors spaced apart in a generally parallel relationship. Each of the flat conductors includes a plurality of copper layers. An adhesive material separates the flat conductors and an insulation layer surrounds the flat conductors and the adhesive material, with the adhesive material bonding to the insulation layer. A cross-sectional height of the flat conductors and insulation layer is such that the multi-purpose wire will blend in with the surface when painted or after wallpaper is applied.

Abstract: A rectangular electrical connector comprises a receptacle having two side walls that define two parallel passages extending in the longer direction of the receptacle and a plug displaceable with respect to the receptacle in an insertion direction. A U-shaped slide for forced insertion and extraction of the plug slides along the passages orthogonally to the insertion direction. It is formed with open-ended grooves for receiving studs projecting from the plug orthogonally to the insertion direction, having a shape such that displacement of the slide in a first direction causes the studs to move along the grooves from the open ends thereof, and displacement in the opposite direction forces the studs out of the grooves. The slide has resilient retaining lugs that project outwardly from the slide when at rest. Cut-outs are formed in the side wall of the receptacle to receive the lugs and are of a length enabling to fully insert the slide but preventing full extraction of the slide.

Abstract: A connecting device is provided having a connector housing having a male connecting portion and a female connecting portion formed therewith a plurality of integrally formed male/female terminals mounted in the connector housing, each of the male/female terminals having a male connecting end and a female connecting end, and at least an outlet opening provided on said connector housing for branch-out wires to pass therethrough and to connect to the male/female terminals. This connecting device allows the shunt connection of at least a pair of branch-out wires from a +12V DC cable that is used to supply power to main devices to an electric fan.

Abstract: A connector assembly for non-permanently interconnecting wires from respective cables comprises a box-like structure including a rear wall, side walls and a front wall formed from a plurality of replaceable front wall modules. Connectors at an end of cables extending into the box are removably mounted within respective ones of a plurality of side-by-side slots in the rear wall with the connector terminals facing towards the box front wall. Each front wall module comprises a front wall plate, a printed circuit board including forwardly projecting terminals extending entirely through the front wall plate for being accessible at the front of the box, and a mating connector mounted on the circuit board and having terminals connected, via conductive paths on the circuit board, to the forwardly extending terminals.

Abstract: The electrical connector assembly includes a female connector portion which is mountable to a first printed circuit board, such as a motherboard, and a male connector portion which is mechanically and electrically connected to a second printed circuit board, such as a daughterboard. The female connector portion includes a plurality of signal contacts arranged in two rows having a ground terminal, or conductive elastomer, positioned between the rows of signal contacts. The male connector portion preferably includes a flexible circuit having a solid groundplane separated by an dielectric insulator from an electrical trace thereon. The distance separating the groundplane from the trace and the width of the trace controls a characteristic impedance of the flexible circuit for matching to specific circuit requirements of the daughterboard and motherboard.

Abstract: A system is provided for straddle mounting an electrical connector having an elongated housing with opposite ends to a printed circuit board. A generally U-shaped mounting clip is provided having a pair of legs joined by a bight portion, the mounting clip having teeth thereon for relatively fixing the mounting clip to the housing. The legs are juxtaposed against the opposite surfaces of the printed circuit board for connection to appropriate mounting pads thereon, and the bight portion embraces a portion of the housing. The printed circuit board has an edge and opposite surfaces, with circuit traces on the opposite surfaces of the board near the edge. The electrical connector is adapted for straddle mounting to the printed circuit board at the edge thereof, with terminals on the housing and including tail portions for connection to the circuit traces on the opposite surfaces of the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A novel press-fit electrically-conductive contact member, as, for example, an electrically-conductive metal pin, characterized by a conforming section which has an elastically-deformable region which acts as a spring and which is adapted to engage a substrate hole in a press-fitting relationship. The conforming section comprises opposed beam members configured to accommodate a considerably larger hole tolerance yet still provide sufficient retention force to stabilize the pin during a soldering process that such substrates may typically undergo. The beam cross-sections are configured to allow them to occupy a side-by-side position. Contact members with the conforming section can be manufactured by a wire-forming process in which end-to-end connected pins are formed as a continuous strip needing no excess material for carrying the pins, nor are any air gaps formed between the pins, and thus the finished continuous strip of pins can be wound up on a reel.

Abstract: Electrical connector comprises a housing member having a series of passages each of which receives a female electrical contact member having a profiled part which cooperates with a locking key mobile in a slot perpendicular to the passages and having a series of slots aligned with the passages, each female electrical contact member including a boss which cooperates with a guide slot of each passage and a retaining tongue cut out from a lateral wall and the free end of which is at the same end as the profiled part. The part of each passage between the insertion end and the slot includes a recess the depth of which increases in the direction towards the slot and wherein the retaining tongue is housed.

Abstract: A connector system is described wherein the most vulnerable parts of the front mating ends of a pair of connectors can be easily replaced in the field. The first connector (12, FIG. 2) includes a shell (20), a main insulator (22) within the shell, and main contacts (24) lying in the main insulator and having socket front ends (30). A first insert module (32) has an insert insulator (36) and insert contacts (38) with pin type rear ends. The first module is inserted into the shell of the first connector to mate with the main contacts. If the front ends (40) of the insert contacts are damaged, the connector can be repaired in the field by merely removing the first module and replacing it with another module. The second connector (14) is similarly constructed, with the modules (36, 36A) of the two connectors being identical so a single spare module can replace either one. The first module that lies in the first connector, has contact front ends forming sockets (40, FIG.

Abstract: Opposed inner surfaces of lower and upper casings making up a connection box are flat, and wire arrangement grooves are formed in the inner surfaces. Insertion holes communicate with the wire arrangement grooves in specified positions and are open to the outer surfaces of the casings. A wire is laid into the wire arrangement grooves and is pressed into the slots of the cramping terminals mounted in the insertion holes. The tabs on the cramping terminals project from the outer surfaces of the casings. The casings are held together by nuts and bolts or other devices after the flat inner surfaces are in contact with each other.

Abstract: A pin plug includes a hollow conductive pin having an opening at one end, an insulation member secured around the pin, a conductive member attached to the insulation member so as not to be contacted with the pin, and a conductor lead of the coaxial cable type and having a core wire which is inserted into the pin through the opening and is electrically and mechanically connected to the pin and shield lines which are electrically connected to the conductive member. A hollow conductive insert is inserted into the pin, and the core wire is inserted into the insert. The insert is crimped and deformed by crimping a predetermined portion of the pin, thereby integrally securing the core wire, insert and pin together and providing an electrical and mechanical connection therebetween.

Abstract: An electric connector including a housing (14) and a rear holder (13). The rear holder (13) retains connecting terminals (12) therein and is fitted into the housing (14) from the rear of the housing. The rear holder (13) includes a front retaining portion (36a, 36b) for restricting forward movement of the connecting terminals (12), and a rear retaining portion (37) for restricting backward movement of the connecting terminals (12). The housing (14) has an inclined guide surface (34b, 43c) for receiving and guiding a respective connecting terminal (12) at an inclined angle into the housing.

Abstract: An electrical contact portion having a box portion about a central axis and joined together along a seam by a mechanical interlocking portion, the contact being characterized in that a port is formed in a wall of the box to provide access by a support member to the interior of the box in order to support the seam at the interlocking portion during forming. An electrical contact having a contact portion with a contact arm between forwardly extending walls for receiving and engaging a mating terminal (not shown), where the contact portion includes a retention shoulder disposed over a contact arm that is engageable to retain the contact within a connector housing, characterized in that the retention shoulder is a rear edge of a tab formed integrally and folded over from one of the sides, a portion of which is partially separated therefrom along a slit and pressed inward so that the tab is moved closer to the opposing wall.

Abstract: A PC card frame kit includes an insulating frame holder (4, 5) for supporting a board assembly; a pair of metal panels (10, 11) able to be joined together for completely covering upper and lower sides of the board assembly; engaging members (12A, 13A, 10A; 14A, 15A, 16A) for preventing separation of the metal panels; and resilient members (6E, 8E) for biasing the metal panels in opposite directions to minimize play of the metal panels.