Abstract: A method for fabricating a connector for coupling with a counter connector having an array of pairs of contacts therein includes providing an insulated housing having an array of openings receiving a plurality of first contact modules each having first and second isolated contacts and a second contact module having isolated first and second conducting members respectively having first and second contacts and a terminal, and a third contact and a second terminal, selectively inserted into corresponding openings of the insulating housing such that each of the respective first and second contacts of the first contact modules are connected with the corresponding contact of the counter connector while maintaining the first and second contacts electrically isolated from each other.

Abstract: An internal shelled connector, mounted on electric equipment having a grounded chassis panel, for mating with an external cable connector. The connector is encapsulated by a conducting shell for electrostatic shield, except at an opening for receiving the external connector through a corresponding window of the panel. A contact, formed on the shell maintains pressure on a back surface of the panel to ground the shell. The contact may be a flange formed at a tip of a blade spring formed integrally continuous with the conducting shell. The flange maintains a persistent electric contact with the panel, even if the panel and the mounted shelled connector are partially separated due to mechanical stress, when plugging in or pulling out the external cable connector.

Abstract: An electrical contact element for a connector, including a first contact end, a second contact end opposed to the first contact end, and an intermediate section integrally joining the first and second contact ends with each other. The intermediate section is provided integrally with a first projection tightly press-fitted into an electro-insulating body of the connector, and with a second projection abutted onto a surface of the connector body to permit the contact element to be fixedly supported in the connector body against an angular displacement of the contact element about the first projection. The electro-insulating body of the connector includes a base for supporting the plural electrical contact elements in a mutually isolated mariner, and a pair of columns extending in the same direction from longitudinally opposed ends of the base.

Abstract: A connector assembly for receiving a cable with a plurality of wires includes a body including a plurality of contacts provided on the front face of the body; a plurality of leads for connecting the contacts to a plurality of contact points provided on a circuit board to which the connector assembly is attached; a pair of brackets provided on the either ends of the body; and a pair of board locks, provided on the brackets, for fastening the connector assembly to the circuit board.

Abstract: An shelled connector secured to a circuit board of an electric equipment for receiving a counter connector is capable of shielding an array of connector contacts from an external electromagnetic noise by encapsulating an insulating connector body with a metal shell which is directly connected to a ground terminal pad on the circuit board. For one embodiment according to the resent invention, the metal shell has an extended portion connecting the metal shell directly to a ground terminal pad on the front surface of the circuit board by soldering.

Abstract: A connector is moveable between a coupled state and an uncoupled state with respect to a counter connector. Plural contact members of the connector individually contact respective, plural contacts of the counter connector when coupled together. A contact module of the connector has a pair of contacts individually contacting and short circuiting a corresponding pair of respective contacts of the counter connector, in a selected one of the coupled and uncoupled states thereof. The contact module may include a pair of output terminals corresponding to the pair of contacts and a switch, actuated between first and second states in accordance with the coupled and uncoupled states of the connector, a selected one of the coupled and uncoupled states producing short circuiting of the pair of output terminals.

Abstract: An electrical contact element for a connector, including a first contact end, a second contact end opposed to the first contact end, and an intermediate section integrally joining the first and second contact ends with each other. The intermediate section is provided integrally with a first projection tightly press-fitted into an electro-insulating body of the connector, and with a second projection abutted onto a surface of the connector body to permit the contact element to be fixedly supported in the connector body against an angular displacement of the contact element about the first projection. The electro-insulating body of the connector includes a base for supporting the plural electrical contact elements in a mutually isolated manner, and a pair of columns extending in the same direction from longitudinally opposed ends of the base.

Abstract: An electric connector for interconnecting printed circuit boards including a plug and a jack. Each of the plug and the jack includes an insulating housing including an insulating base and a pair of parallel external walls standing on the front surface of the insulating base. The jack further includes an insulating internal wall standing on the front surface of the insulating base which is parallel to, and in the middle of, a pair of the parallel walls. One embodiment of the present invention is a row of parallel blade signal contacts and a leaf spring ground contact arranged on the outer and the inner surfaces of each parallel wall of the plug, respectively, and a row of parallel leaf spring signal contacts and a blade ground contact arranged on the inner surface of each parallel wall and on each surface of the internal insulating wall of the jack, respectively.