Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of electrical conductors held within the housing. The housing includes a mating shroud protruding forward from a front wall of the housing and defining a port that receives a mating circuit card therein. Each of the electrical conductors includes a mating contact disposed within the mating shroud and a mounting contact that projects beyond a bottom end of the housing to electrically connect to a circuit board. The mounting contacts are located within a termination area of the electrical connector.

Abstract: An electronic logging device exempt digital fleet management solution for short haul trucking fleets to comply with the short haul exception for fleets that are exempt from using Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) to track their drivers' activities. The solution includes a mobile application for drivers used while on duty to capture their time, location, status, documents, and inspection report data. The data is transmitted and stored in one or more databases accessed by a backend user accesses and compiles additional data collected from the mobile apps to provide fleet users with access and services related to the driver data. The application includes two way messaging between the driver and the backend website user as well as document scanning and upload for items required for bills of lading or the like.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus attachable to a vehicle having a flatbed support surface and a hitch receiver to assist with loading and unloading of wheeled items on and off the vehicle. The apparatus may be attached to a vehicle in a ramp configuration. The apparatus may also be attached to a vehicle in a non-ramp configuration such as a support surface configuration for carrying items thereon.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is provided and includes a carrier having an upper surface and a lower surface. The lower surface is configured to face a host circuit board. The upper surface is configured to face a component circuit board of an electrical component. The carrier includes a plurality of contact openings therethrough. The electrical connector assembly includes contacts coupled to the carrier and passing through the corresponding contact openings. Each contact has a conductive polymer column extending between an upper mating interface and a lower mating interface. The conductive polymer column is compressible between the upper mating interface and the lower mating interface. The conductive polymer column includes an inner core and an outer support body. The inner core is manufactured from a first material. The outer support body is manufactured from a second material. The second material has a lower compression set than the first material.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a carrier having an upper surface and a lower surface. The carrier includes a plurality of contact openings therethrough. The electrical connector assembly includes contacts coupled to the carrier and passing through the corresponding contact openings. Each contact has a conductive polymer column extending between an upper mating interface and a lower mating interface. The conductive polymer column includes an inner core manufactured from a first material and an outer shell manufactured from a second material. The second material has a higher electrical conductivity than the first material. The first material has a lower compression set than the second material.

Abstract: A contact module includes a frame assembly having a leadframe and a dielectric frame partially encasing the leadframe. The leadframe includes ground conductors each having a transition portion extending between a mating end configured to be mated to a mating connector and a terminating end configured to be terminated to one of a circuit board or a cable conductor. The dielectric frame includes dielectric material encasing at least a portion of each transition portion. Each mating end extends from the dielectric frame for connection with the mating connector. Each terminating end extends from the dielectric frame for connection with the circuit board or the cable conductor. The contact module includes resistive elements within the dielectric frame. Each resistive element is coupled in series with the transition portion of the corresponding ground conductor.

Abstract: A socket assembly includes an electrical interconnect having an insulator having apertures. The electrical interconnect includes primary contacts and secondary contacts received in corresponding apertures. The primary contacts include a primary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting first and second electronic packages. The secondary contacts include a secondary conductive polymer column having upper contact tips and lower contact tips for electrically interconnecting the first and second electronic packages. The contact tips of the secondary conductive polymer columns have a different shape from the shape of the contact tips of the primary conductive polymer columns.

Abstract: An electrical connector including a housing defining an interior cavity and extending from a mounting end to an engagement end, and at least one signal component disposed within the interior cavity of the housing. The housing is formed from a conductive composite material and engages the at least one signal component to shield the interior cavity.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of electrical conductors held within the housing. The housing includes a mating shroud protruding forward from a front wall of the housing and defining a port that receives a mating circuit card therein. Each of the electrical conductors includes a mating contact disposed within the mating shroud and a mounting contact that projects beyond a bottom end of the housing to electrically connect to a circuit board. The mounting contacts are located within a termination area of the electrical connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is provided and includes a carrier having an upper surface and a lower surface. The lower surface is configured to face a host circuit board. The upper surface is configured to face a component circuit board of an electrical component. The carrier includes a plurality of contact openings therethrough. The electrical connector assembly includes contacts coupled to the carrier and passing through the corresponding contact openings. Each contact has a conductive polymer column extending between an upper mating interface and a lower mating interface. The conductive polymer column is compressible between the upper mating interface and the lower mating interface. The conductive polymer column includes an inner core and an outer support body. The inner core is manufactured from a first material. The outer support body is manufactured from a second material. The second material has a lower compression set than the first material.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a carrier having an upper surface and a lower surface. The carrier includes a plurality of contact openings therethrough. The electrical connector assembly includes contacts coupled to the carrier and passing through the corresponding contact openings. Each contact has a conductive polymer column extending between an upper mating interface and a lower mating interface. The conductive polymer column includes an inner core manufactured from a first material and an outer shell manufactured from a second material. The second material has a higher electrical conductivity than the first material. The first material has a lower compression set than the second material.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of electrical conductors held within the housing. The housing includes a mating shroud protruding forward from a front wall of the housing and defining a port that receives a mating circuit card therein. Each of the electrical conductors includes a mating contact disposed within the mating shroud and a mounting contact that projects beyond a bottom end of the housing to electrically connect to a circuit board. The mounting contacts are located within a termination area of the electrical connector. The housing defines a nesting cavity extending rearward from the front wall along the bottom end. The nesting cavity is disposed between the mating shroud and the termination area along a longitudinal axis of the electrical connector. The nesting cavity is configured to accommodate a discrete, second connector that is mounted to the circuit board.

Abstract: A method for using an in-message application. The method includes: receiving a broadcast message; identifying, in the broadcast message, a reference to an external data provider; obtaining an identifier of the in-message application from the external data provider; using the identifier to identify a set of components of the in-message application, where placement of the set of components is defined by a visual structure of the in-message application, and where each of the set of components is a user interface (UI) element; associating data obtained from the external data provider with a component of the set of components; and serving the broadcast message and the data to a consumer client, where the consumer client renders the in-message application based on the visual structure.

Abstract: An antenna mounting bracket assembly for coupling an antenna to a vehicle includes a first plate, a bar, and a coupler. A set of apertures positioned in the first plate is configured to be aligned with hinge holes positioned in an upper hinge. Hinge bolts are insertable through the apertures, the hinge holes, and holes positioned in a door frame of the vehicle so that the first plate is coupled to the vehicle. A spacer is coupled to and extends from a first face of the first plate. The bar is coupled to and extends from the spacer distal from the first plate so that the bar extends between the door frame and a door when the door is closed. The coupler is coupled to the bar distal from the spacer and is configured to couple to a mount of an antenna to couple the antenna to the vehicle.

Abstract: Electrical connector includes a housing, signal contacts, and ground shields. The signal contacts are coupled to the housing and positioned for mating with mating signal contacts of a mating connector. The ground shields are coupled to the housing and at least partially surround the signal contacts to shield the signal contacts. The ground shields are plated with a ground-material composition along one or more contact segments of the ground shields that come into compression engagement with one or more other conductive members. The ground-material composition includes a tin-nickel (Sn/Ni) alloy plating layer. The signal contacts are plated with a signal-material composition that is different than the ground-material composition.

Abstract: A removable module includes circuitry, a near field communication (NFC) coupler to provide a data signal to the circuitry, and a second NFC coupler to supply operating voltage to the circuitry.

Abstract: Electrical connector includes a housing and a mating array having a plurality of signal contacts and a plurality of ground contacts that are coupled to the housing. The signal contacts and the ground contacts are positioned for mating with signal conductors and ground conductors, respectively, of a mating connector. The ground contacts are plated with a ground-material composition and the signal contacts are plated with a signal-material composition. The ground-material composition is configured to cause a first low-level contact resistance (LLCR) while mated with the ground conductors during operation. The signal-material composition is configured to cause a second LLCR while mated with the signal conductors during operation. The second LLCR is less than the first LLCR during operation.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus attachable to a vehicle having a flatbed support surface and a hitch receiver to assist with loading and unloading of wheeled items on and off the vehicle. The apparatus may be attached to a vehicle in a ramp configuration. The apparatus may also be attached to a vehicle in a non-ramp configuration such as a support surface configuration for carrying items thereon.

Abstract: Various embodiments disclose an in-message application facilitating the use of third-party application programming interfaces (APIs). In particular, these in-message applications (referred to as “cards”) may be designed by a developer to access third-party API functionality. A user may then create a message referencing, e.g., a web address associated with the developer's card. The system may receive the user's message and recognize the reference. The system may then distribute an instantiation of the card to various recipients, the instantiation including elements generated using, or providing the user access to, the third party functionality.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a carrier having an upper surface and a lower surface and having a plurality of contact openings therethrough. The electrical connector assembly includes contacts received in corresponding contact openings forming a contact array. Each contact has a conductive polymer column extending between an upper mating interface and a lower mating interface. The contacts in the contact array have variable heights to vary relative positions of at least one of the upper mating interfaces or the lower mating interfaces of the contacts.