Terminal Or Connector Patents (Class 29/747)
  • Patent number: 7444744
    Abstract: A multi-use tool for assembly of electrical connectors includes a main tool body having an electrical connector assembly holder. The holder includes first and second cavities. The first cavity includes spaced anvils and removably retains an electrical connector end cap between the anvils. A cutting ram is opposed to the first cavity and includes two cutting blades that are translatable between disengaged and engaged positions to trim and sever excess wire lengths from the electrical connector end cap. The second cavity removably retains the electrical connector end cap and a jack housing. A termination ram is opposed to the second cavity and movably mounted between disengaged and engaged positions to terminate the jack housing with the end cap. A trigger mechanism is operably connected to both the cutting ram and the termination ram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Jack E. Caveney, Roger D Segroves, Lawrence A. Hillegonds
  • Patent number: 7441327
    Abstract: A terminal insertion apparatus includes a wire-holding unit, a housing-holding unit, and an terminal-inserting unit. The wire-holding unit holds electric wires connected to terminal fittings. The housing-holding unit holds a connector housing. The terminal-inserting unit inserts the terminal fittings connected to the electric wires held by the wire-holding unit into the connector housing. The terminal-inserting unit keeps holding the electric wire connected to the lastly inserted terminal fitting and moves the electric wire to the wire-holding unit. Then, the wire-holding unit holds the electric wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Furuya, Kazuhiko Sugimura
  • Publication number: 20080256792
    Abstract: A terminal insertion apparatus having a wire holding unit holding two wires, each wire having a terminal, a connector holding unit holding a connector housing having at least two holes for receiving terminals, and a terminal insertion head is disclosed. The terminal insertion head has a wire gripping unit having a first holder and a second holder. The first holder and second holder are movable in a vertical direction toward and away from the wire holding unit and are movable in a horizontal direction toward and away from the connector holding unit. The first holder has an outer grip and an inner grip that together hold one of the two wires while the second holder has an outer grip and an inner grip that together hold the remaining of the two wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Inventors: Koji Imai, Minoru Abe, Jun Funakawa, Koichi Nakajima, Daisuke Toma, Hirohide Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20080229573
    Abstract: A system for fabricating semiconductor components includes a semiconductor substrate, a thinning system for thinning the semiconductor substrate, an etching system for forming the substrate opening, and a bonding system for bonding the conductive interconnect to the substrate contact. The semiconductor component can be used to form module components, underfilled components, stacked components, and image sensor semiconductor components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventors: Alan G. Wood, William M. Hiatt, David R. Hembree
  • Patent number: 7424775
    Abstract: A method for wiring a test fixture comprised of two parallel fixture plates wherein the wires are wired randomly from locations on one plate to locations on a second plate using a system of software algorithms and positioning apparatus to control the motion of one plate relative to the other to allow the wires to be passed directly through the hole locations to be wired together, while previously woven locations are allowed to slide in the hole in the fixture plate to allow reaching subsequent hole pair locations. After the fixture is wired, a termination is added to the wire end emerging from the hole in the fixture plates. The resultant assembly consists of contacts on one outer surface electrically connected to contacts on a second outer surface with all of the wiring sandwiched between the two fixture plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: Delaware Capital Formation, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Miczek, Thomas Newhall, Gary St. Onge, David P. Rogers
  • Patent number: 7415760
    Abstract: A wiring block pre-forms a cable end having twisted wires for subsequent installation of a plug on the cable end. A back end of the block leading to a cavity within the block receives the cable end such that a cable portion adjacent to the cable end sits inside the cavity. A front end of the block has pass holes leading to troughs extending through the block between the cavity and the front end. The troughs receive the wires at the cable end with the wires protruding from the holes. When the cable end is inserted into the block the wires at the cable end have a length within the troughs corresponding to the plug trough lengths and a configuration within the troughs corresponding to the plug trough configuration with the cable portion adjacent to the cable end having a length within the cavity corresponding to the plug cavity length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2008
    Assignee: SBC Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
    Inventor: Mark Elias
  • Publication number: 20080189937
    Abstract: A method of making a connector by an injection-molding technique is provided, wherein terminals are molded by casting, raw material to be poured in is zinc alloy, and raw material of which is provided with low cost and high hardness, such that manufacturing cost can be saved, and the hardness of terminals can be increased, without easily causing the terminals to be bended, cracked, and fractured, upon being subjected to external force. Moreover, production capacity of the terminals can be increased by this technique of manufacturing process to mold the terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventor: Kuang-Hua Shiu
  • Publication number: 20080189936
    Abstract: A tool for installing compression connectors of various sizes and types on the end of a coaxial cable has a base mounting a pair of movable anvils for engaging two different lengths of connectors. The base further incorporates a fixed anvil for engaging a third length of connector. The movable anvils define an aperture which is shaped to permit easy entry and exit of a cable while still applying a suitable retention force to an inserted cable. A connector seating holder is formed in the front of the tool. A slidably mounted plunger cooperates with the anvils to compress a connector. The plunger has a push head and a slide rod. A lock nut is threaded on the push head and is engageable with the slide rod to prevent rotation of the push head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2007
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Inventors: Robert W. Sutter, Stephen J. Skeels
  • Publication number: 20080189938
    Abstract: Providing a terminal inserting tool set to be miniaturized, a terminal inserting apparatus to be miniaturized and a method for inserting terminals, the terminal inserting apparatus includes a terminal chain supply unit, a support unit and a terminal inserting tool set. The terminal chain supply unit supplies a terminal chain. The terminal chain has multiple terminals arranged with even intervals to each other and a joint connecting continuously the terminals to each other in a row. The support unit supports a terminal set jig. The terminal inserting tool set includes a guide tool, a positioning tool, cutting tools and an inserting tool. The guide tool and the positioning tool position the terminal chain. The cutting tools separate at least one terminal from the terminal chain. The inserting tool inserts the at least one terminal into a receiving section of the terminal set jig.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Publication date: August 14, 2008
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Mamoru Araki
  • Publication number: 20080186037
    Abstract: A probe card having a simple structure and an easy manufacturing process is disclosed. The probe card includes an upper structure having a probe circuit pattern, and a needle having an elastic bending portion, a tip portion extending from a lower end of the elastic bending portion, and a connection portion extending from an upper end of the elastic bending portion and connected electrically to the probe circuit pattern. Here, a portion of the elastic bending portion is received in the upper structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2008
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: WILLTECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ki Don Ko
  • Patent number: 7406764
    Abstract: A method of determining the acceptability of a press contact of a wire between press contact blades of a terminal. The method includes the steps of storing a reference data of a relationship between displacements of the press contact blades when the wire is brought into press contact with a normal press contact terminal and contact loads between the press contact blades and the core wire; inserting the wire between the press contact blades of the press contact terminal as an object to be inspected; measuring the displacement of the press contact blades caused by the insertion of the wire; and determining the acceptability of the press contact terminal as the object to be inspected by predicting the contact loads between the press contact blades of the press contact terminal as the object to be inspected based on the measured displacements and the reference data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Tsutomu Takayama, Kei Fujimoto, Nobuyuki Asakura, Shigeru Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20080172866
    Abstract: A crimping apparatus includes an anvil for supporting a metal terminal including a base plate portion for mounting an electric wire thereon and a pair of crimping piece portions extending upwardly respectively from opposite side edges of the base plate portion and a crimper which includes a groove portion being opposed to a supporting portion of the anvil. An inner surface of the groove portion of the anvil and a terminal support face of the supporting portion of the crimper cooperate to press the crimping piece portions for crimping the crimping piece portions to the electric wire mounted on the metal terminal. A width of the groove portion of the crimper is not more than 1.0 mm. The terminal support surface of the anvil is formed into a concavely curved surface in which a depth of the concavely curved surface is not smaller than 0.06 mm and is not larger than 0.17 mm in a cross-section of the anvil perpendicular to an axis direction of the electric wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2008
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi YAGI, Shigeharu SUZUKI, Tetsuro IDE, Hideto KUMAKURA, Kenji SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20080120831
    Abstract: The present invention stacks integrated circuits into modules that conserve board surface area. In a precursor assembly devised as a component for a stacked circuit module in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, one or more stiffeners are disposed at least partially between a flex circuit and an integrated circuit. In a two-high stacked circuit module devised in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an integrated circuit is stacked above a precursor assembly. The two integrated circuits are connected with the flex circuit of the precursor assembly. The present invention may be employed to advantage in numerous configurations and combinations of integrated circuits in modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventor: James Douglas Wehrly
  • Patent number: 7370408
    Abstract: A terminal applicator (50) for attaching electrical terminals (52) to a wire includes a terminal hold down device (90) for limiting movement of the terminal during the crimping process. The hold down device (90) includes a hold down arm (92), a pair of guide rods (102), and a removable standoff (130). The guide rods (102) are carried by a reciprocating ram (68) and are arranged so that when the standoff abuts a travel limit block (148) the hold down arm remains in close proximity to the terminal while the ram (68) continues its motion to complete the crimping cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Neil Edward Deming, David Joseph Erb, Trevis Lee Benchoff
  • Publication number: 20080099236
    Abstract: Inspection windows are cut or formed into the tail section of the flexure circuit tail in a hard disk drive Head Gimbal Assembly (HGA), or CIS, to enable visual inspection of the alignment of the CIS to the head preamp circuit, or FPC. The holes are made in the steel backing and base polyimide, and are positioned between adjacent conductive pads. In addition to facilitating visual inspection, the windows also enable rework of solder. Additionally, solder wicking holes may also be provided in the conductive pads and/or the polyimide and steel backing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventors: Alex Enriquez Cayaban, Vladimir Aleksic, Shuichi Wakaki
  • Patent number: 7356914
    Abstract: A wire connector applicator is capable of holding a clip of interconnected twist-on wire connectors in a tube which can be rotated by an electric motor. The connectors rotate with the tube for installation on the ends of stripped electrical wires. The invention is also directed to an interlocking twist-on wire connector which prevents axial separation and relative rotation of similarly configured group or clip of interlocked connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: IDEAL Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Sushil Keswani, Gary Bethurum
  • Publication number: 20080070446
    Abstract: A connector system for use with electronics is provided. This system includes at least one electrical contact that further includes a wire retaining portion and an elongated body portion. The body portion of the contact further includes at least one outwardly biased latch that is adapted to engage both a contact cavity formed within a connector housing component and an extraction tool designed to remove the contact from the housing component, if necessary. The latch is formed from the same material as the body portion of the contact and further includes an internal biasing member and an external engagement member formed at the end of the biasing member for frictionally engaging the housing component and the extraction tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark E. Lauermann, Donald A. Diemer, Donald M. Baughn
  • Publication number: 20080034580
    Abstract: A terminal pressing unit collectively presses terminals of a plurality of suspensions constituting a head suspension assembly including the suspensions and an actuator block against terminals of the actuator block. A terminal connecting unit connects the terminals of the suspensions with the terminals of the actuator block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: Tetsuo Saito, Keisuke Fukuda, Yukio Kato
  • Patent number: 7318271
    Abstract: A process and device for assembling a connector is provided, by which the production efficiency can be improved by preventing the problem of insertion error from occurring in a step of terminal insertion into a connector housing in the manufacturing process of the wiring harness by using an automatic assembly machine or in a step of the operation by the human hands. The process includes the steps of: provisionally locking the spacer in the connector housing; inserting a jig rod into the connector housing before inserting the terminal into the connector housing, the jig rod being for releasing the locking of the spacer which is completely locked in the connector housing; pulling the jig rod out from the connector housing; and inserting the terminal into the connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yamanashi, Shogo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20070295528
    Abstract: A Pb-free Sn-based material part of a wiring conductor is provided at least at a part of a surface the wiring conductor, and the Sn-based material part includes a base metal doped with a transformation retardant element and an oxidation control element. The transformation retardant element is at least one element selected from a group consisted of Sb, Bi, Cd, In, Ag, Au, Ni, Ti, Zr, and Hf. The oxidation control element is at least one element selected from a group consisted of Ge, P, Zn, Kr, Cr, Mn, Na, V, Si, Al, Li, Mg and Ca. The wiring conductor is reflow processed, such that at least one of the Sn, the transformation retardant element and the oxidation control element is diffused to form an alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: HITACHI CABLE, LTD.
    Inventors: Hajime Nishi, Takayuki Tsuji, Hiroshi Yamanobe, Hiroshi Okikawa
  • Publication number: 20070277371
    Abstract: Methods and tools to mount a cable connector to a coaxial cable are disclosed. An illustrated example tool includes an opening to enable viewing into a cable connector mounted on the tool to determine the position of an inner dielectric insulator of the coaxial cable relative to the connector without removing the connector from the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2006
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Inventors: Steven M. Wollmershauser, Yolius Diroo, Edward Walter
  • Publication number: 20070277372
    Abstract: The present invention is to provide a wire harness assembly assist device, a wire harness assembly assist unit, and a method of assisting assembly of a wire harness with a reduced time for acquiring a necessary information and a reduced operation error. The assembly assist device for assisting assembly of a wire harness on a wiring board includes: a layout information acquiring program to display a layout screen showing a wiring layout of the wire harness; a component information acquiring program corresponding to a component to be attached; an attachment position information acquiring program to indicate an attachment position of the component; a guide screen information generating program to display the acquired component information superposed on the acquired attachment position of the layout screen based on the acquired layout information and the acquired attachment position information; and a display control program to display the generated guide screen information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Publication date: December 6, 2007
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tetsuo Aida, Akinori Keira
  • Patent number: 7299541
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a contact press-fitting apparatus which can perform the press-fitting of all of the contacts with high reliability, without leading to problems such as buckling of the contacts, even in cases where the array pitch of the contacts is uneven. The contact press-fitting apparatus comprises a supporting member which is inserted into the press-fitting head from a direction perpendicular to the press-fitting direction of the press-fitting head, and which supports the side surfaces of the contacts on the sides that the abutting part does not abut against.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP K.K
    Inventors: Yuji Ikeda, Kiyomi Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20070251085
    Abstract: A compression tool for connecting a cable fitting to the end of a cable includes a plunger having a chuck at one end together with an extension member releasably connected to the end of the chuck and aligned with enlarged recesses in spaced guideways, dies on the tool can be expanded to permit insertion of the connector fitting and cable into engagement with the end of the chuck or the extension member and contracted to apply a uniform crimpina force to the fitting in response to axial force applied to the chuck, and the spaced guideways have angled guide slots to correlate the advancement of the dies with the effective length of the chuck to cause the cable fitting to be contracted into crimping engagement with the end of the cable; and a special cable fitting is provided for smaller cables to compensate for the difference in diameter between standard cables and the smaller cables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Inventors: Randall A. Holliday, Robert M. Parker
  • Publication number: 20070234558
    Abstract: To provide a reliable terminal crimping apparatus and a terminal crimping method, which crimps an electric wire to a terminal having crimping pieces, ends of which curve in a direction of approaching each other, the terminal crimping apparatus includes a first die for placing the terminal on a surface thereof, a second die arranged correspondingly to the first die and freely approaching and parting the first die to crimp the crimp pieces by approaching the first die, and a third die arranged correspondingly to the first die and freely approaching and leaving from the first die to approach the first die before the second die crimps the crimping piece so as to push the electric wire toward the bottom plate and insert the electric wire between the pair of crimp pieces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuhiko Takada
  • Patent number: 7275313
    Abstract: An unlocking jig (40) is fit on a female housing (10) from below. As a result, a guide groove (43A) on a bottom portion (43) of the unlocking jig (40) engages a convexity (22C) on a lower surface of the female housing (10) and a guide groove (43B) on an arm (45) engages a convexity (22B) on a side surface of the female housing (10). The unlocking jig (40) has unlocking claws (a1, a2) that engage short locking pieces (38B, 38C) when the unlocking jig (40) is moved and unlock the short locking pieces (38B, 38C) from locks (22B, 22C) on the housing (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyofumi Ichida, Nobuyoshi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7275317
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a wiring harness job-order production method and a wiring harness job-order production system, wherein a space for producing a wiring harness is reduced and the production efficiency of the wiring harness is improved. The wiring harness job-order production system 1 has a wiring harness assembling portion 15, an electric wire stock portion 13, and a parts stock portion 14. The wiring harness assembling portion 15 outputs wire amount data DT1 to the electric wire stock portion 13 when the wiring harness assembling portion 15 receives an order from a wiring harness ordering side 38. The wiring harness assembling portion 15 outputs parts amount data DT2 to the parts stock portion 14 when the wiring harness assembling portion 15 receives an order from the wiring harness ordering side 38. The electric wire stock portion 13 conveys a non-colored electric wire toward the wiring harness assembling portion 15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2007
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Kamata, Makoto Katsumata, Hitoshi Ushijima, Shigeharu Suzuki, Keigo Sugimura, Kiyoshi Yagi
  • Patent number: 7251879
    Abstract: An installation, insulation displacement, and terminating power tool, for inserting electrical wires into, and for electrically connecting the electrical wires to electrical contact members disposed within, an electrical connector, comprises a piston-cylinder driving assembly for inserting the electrical wires into the electrical connector. More particularly, the piston-cylinder driving assembly comprises a three-chamber pneumatic piston-cylinder driving assembly for developing an enhanced level of driving force necessary for inserting the electrical wires into the electrical connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc
    Inventors: Anatoly Gosis, James A. Turek
  • Patent number: 7243415
    Abstract: An equipping installation introduces fitted-out cable ends into plug housings and is arranged downstream from a fitting-out installation. A contact for the first plug housing is arranged at the leading cable end and a contact for the second plug housing is arranged at the trailing cable end. A feeder unit takes over the cable loop fitted-out to a finished state from a second transfer unit and transfers the leading cable end to a positioning unit and the trailing cable end either to a rotatable store or, after the positioning unit is again free of cable, to the positioning unit in accordance with a cable plan. An equipping unit takes over the cable ends in succession at the positioning unit and introduces the cable ends into the corresponding plug housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Komax Holding AG
    Inventors: Jean Revel, Claudio Meisser
  • Patent number: 7243422
    Abstract: An apparatus for positioning and press-fitting press-fit portions of roughly L-shaped legs of contacts arranged in multiple rows in a connector into a substrate includes a press-fitting head and an alignment plate. The press-fitting head is rotatable between a rest position and a press-fitting position and has vertical grooves for receiving the contacts in the press-fitting position. The alignment plate is arranged proximate the press-fitting head when the press-fitting head is in the press-fitting position and aligns the press-fit portions of the contacts with press-fitting apertures in the substrate. The alignment plate is retracted from the press-fitting head when the press-fitting head press-fits the press-fit portions into the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2007
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP K.K.
    Inventors: Yuji Ikeda, Kiyomi Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7231710
    Abstract: An apparatus for securing wire connectors includes a rotatable cylindrical member defining at least one chamber configured to store at least one wire connector. A frame supporting the rotatable cylindrical member is detachably mountable on a drill. A dispensing housing mounted on the frame receives the wire connector from the chamber and dispenses the wire connector though an outlet after a rotator twistably engages and secures the wires onto the wire connector. The rotator is selectively rotatable by actuating the drill when the end of a wire is inserted into the wire connector, the wire connector thereby engaging the rotator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Inventors: Neil Edward Boa, Robbie Lee Snowden
  • Patent number: 7222415
    Abstract: A manual machine for attaching an insulation displacement connector (10) has housing stoppers (34A,34B) for positioning it on a rest (33), a housing holder (35) for holding the connector on the rest, and a set block (36) disposed near the rest in order to position electric wires (11) at their ends or middle portions. The machine further has a wire holder (37) near the housing holder (35) so as to guide and hold the wires at a given pitch, and a wire stopper (38) pivoted to the set block (36) so as to swivel between an active position close to this block and an idle position remote from it. The wire stopper (38) has a collision portion (61) on which the wire ends (11) will impinge to be aligned one with another, and a biasing portion (63) that will urge the wires' middle portions towards the set block (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: J.S.T. MFG. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiichi Kinoshita, Kazuyuki Yamanaka
  • Patent number: 7191518
    Abstract: A hyperboloid contact socket is provided which comprises a tubular body of conductive material and preferably having at one end a lip defining an entrance aperture for receiving a mating pin terminal and having on the opposite end a termination of an intended configuration for attachment to a circuit board or other device or item. The tubular body contains a plurality of conductive wires conductively and permanently affixed at their respective ends torespective inner surfaces at or near the outer and inner ends of the body and disposed in an angular disposition to the longitudinal axis to form the shape of a single sheet hyperboloid. In one aspect of the invention a mandrel employed to orient the wires within the tubular body during fabrication of the contact socket remains attached to the tubular body after assembly of the contact wires and serves as a connecting pin to which various terminations can be attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: QA Technology Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Beloritsky, Thomas D. Coe, Robert P. Lascelles, W. William Podszus
  • Patent number: 7192508
    Abstract: Device (1) to conduct current to or from the electrodes of an electrolysis cell, which device in the direction towards the electrolysis cell comprises three types of segments; at least one outer segment (2) joined with at least one intermediate segment (3) which again is joined with at least one inner segment (4); where the outer segment (2) has at least one end (5) which is to/shall extend out from an electrode body (6) towards an outer current circuit, and the outer segment is coupled to at least one intermediate segment (3) which again is coupled to at least one inner segment with at least one section (4) or end (7) in the electrode body; where the inner segment (4) is manufactured from steel, the intermediate segment is manufactured with a steel lining (8) over an inner core of a material (9) with better electrical and thermal conductivity than steel, and the outer segment is manufactured from a material (9) with better electrical and thermal conductivity than steel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Servico A.S.
    Inventor: Johnny Torvund
  • Patent number: 7174324
    Abstract: Estimation sections which have beforehand learned a relationship between known connection data pertaining to connection design and unknown connection data pertaining to connection design for the known connection data estimate the unknown connection data for the known connection data in accordance wit an input of the known connection data, on the basis of the result of learning. The respective estimation sections are formed from a multilayer feedforward neural network in which layers constituted of a plurality of neurons are coupled together in a direction in which the layer runs from an input layer to an output layer by way of an intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2007
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuhiro Kakuhari, Naoki Ito
  • Patent number: 7165313
    Abstract: An electric motor, in particular a stepper motor, comprises a first rigid component having a recess and a second rigid component having a protrusion. The protrusion is at least partially oversized relative to the recess before assembling the first and second component. For the assembly the protrusion is pressed into the recess with a predetermined pressure for forming a rigid connection between the first component and the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Saia-Burgess Murten AG
    Inventor: Frédéric Haenni
  • Patent number: 7134190
    Abstract: The present invention is an automated wire harness machine (40) capable of manufacturing a wire harness (42) unique in-part due to the automation process. The novel wire harness is generally a plurality of bundled, preferably un-stripped, insulated wires (46). Each un-stripped end portion (180, 182) of each wire is preferably terminated to one of a series of electrical connectors (44) of the wire harness. Each connector has at least one wafer (52) which houses a plurality of terminals (54) preferably crimped and electrically terminated to the ends of the wires. The wire harness machine preferably utilizes a pallet (56) which holds all of the wafers of one wire harness. A conveyor (58) transports the pallet and wafers through a series of stations which perform automated manufacturing steps. The first station is a terminal inserter (64) which inserts and locks the terminals within pre-assigned cavities (114) of the wafers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Delphi Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward M. Bungo, James A. Gourash, Shao Chung Hsieh, John Thomas Kightlinger, Nick M. Loprire, Robert Alan McFall, John C. McLane, Andrew F. Rodondi, Mark J. Vanden Wymelenberg
  • Patent number: 7134189
    Abstract: A connector for coaxial cable, and a tool and method for connecting coaxial cable. The connector may have a projection configured to extend into a channel defined by an inner conductor of the coaxial cable and to engage an inner surface of the inner conductor; and a lip configured to engage an outer surface of the inner conductor when the projection extends into the channel. The lip and the projection configured to limit the movement of the inner conductor relative to the outer conductor. The tool and method may be used to displace insulation adjacent the lead end of the inner conductor or outer conductor to facilitate connection of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Andrew Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Buenz, Tom McNamara, Tim Crawford
  • Patent number: 7134191
    Abstract: A press-fitting device in which a terminal of a connector having a staggered arrangement section of the terminal of the connector is press-fitted into an insertion hole is provided. In the press-fitting device, a first terminal restricting member on which a guide section for restricting a vertical displacement of the terminals between the terminals along the lateral direction of the connector housing and a second terminal restricting member on which a guide section for restricting the lateral displacement of the terminals between the terminals along the vertical direction of the connector housing in an upper or lower part of the first terminal restricting member are provided. A guide groove to which terminals on an interior side of the connector housing are introduced is provided at a tip end portion of the guide portion positioned at the staggered arrangement section of the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries
    Inventor: Ryousuke Shioda
  • Patent number: 7114247
    Abstract: A method of making an electrical connector comprises the steps of: forming an electrically conductive member having a body including an interface, the body having a longitudinal chamber therein; forming an electrically conductive pin; overmolding the interface with a first electrically insulating material; overmolding at least a part of the electrically conductive pin with a second electrically insulating material to form an overmolded electrically conductive pin; and inserting the overmolded electrically conductive pin into the longitudinal chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: OSRAM Sylvania Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Swantner, Douglas G. Seymour, Shane Brown
  • Patent number: 7103968
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are shown for holding a plurality of wires of a cable in fixed positions relative to each other for assisting in the termination of the cable with a connector having plurality of contacts possibly of the insulation displacement type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Christopher J. Karrasch
  • Patent number: 7076862
    Abstract: A tool for installing and removing flexible flat cable with respect to a protective sleeve has a groove for receiving the cable. The cable slides into and is formed into an arc by the groove and is supported evenly on both sides of the cable. With the full width of the cable in the groove, the tool slides down the length of the cable into the sleeve for the cable to be removed. As the tool slides into the sleeve, there is a smooth transition of the cable from flat to curved, and the cable and sleeve separate. The tool is slid through the sleeve as far as necessary for the needed action. After alternations to the sleeve or cable are complete, the tool is used to replace the cable back into the sleeve by reversing these steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Shawn Michael Nave, George G. Zamora
  • Patent number: 7076863
    Abstract: A connector holder holds a connector of a flat cable. Cable-folding members are provided on an arrangement path for the flat cable having the connector. The cable-folding member is provided at each of the folding positions of the flat cable that are specified on the arrangement path. The cable-folding member includes a positioning section for disposing the flat cable on the arrangement path and a direction-defining section for specifying a folding angle of the flat cable F in association with the positioning section. A successive folding apparatus and a successive folding method can enhance accuracies in dimension and operation in a successive folding process of a flat cable F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Isao Mori, Masanori Kato, Hiroshi Adachi, Kunihiro Mizui, Takashi Ueno
  • Patent number: 7040007
    Abstract: A crimping tool is provided for connecting a modular plug connector with a telephone/data cable, and an axial connector with a coaxial cable, including a pair of operating arms pivotally connected intermediate their ends to define on opposite sides of the pivot axis a pair of operating end portions and a pair of crimping end portions, respectively, a pair of crimping dies being connected between the crimping end portions and containing first recesses for defining a first crimping chamber adjacent the end extremities of the crimping end portions, the adjacent surfaces of the crimping dies containing opposed second recesses cooperating to define a second crimping chamber arranged between the first crimping chamber and the pivot axis of the operating arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Connectool Inc.
    Inventors: Leslie B. Shutts, Yin Ho Cheng, Huang De Sei
  • Patent number: 7032297
    Abstract: An apparatus for safe and easy installation of wall-mounted electrical switches utilizing a multi-function tool. The tool is provided, in the form of an insulated handle that is detachably engaged with a wall switch. The wall switch device is temporarily attached to a switch fixture using one or more magnets. The tool further includes built-in electrical wire measuring, stripping and bending structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Inventors: Bryan Cahill, Deborah Unser
  • Patent number: 7028395
    Abstract: A connector for coaxial cable, and a tool and method for connecting coaxial cable. The connector may have a projection configured to extend into a channel defined by an inner conductor of the coaxial cable and to engage an inner surface of the inner conductor; and a lip configured to engage an outer surface of the inner conductor when the projection extends into the channel. The lip and the projection configured to limit the movement of the inner conductor relative to the outer conductor. The tool and method may be used to displace insulation adjacent the lead end of the inner conductor or outer conductor to facilitate connection of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Andrew Corporation
    Inventors: Larry Buenz, Tom McNamara, Tim Crawford
  • Patent number: 7028384
    Abstract: A device is suggested for processing cable-shaped conductors, particularly multicore cables, having at least one transport means (126) having a drive means (132) for transport supply and/or for lengthwise transport of cable-shaped conductor material (200), a cutting means (170) for cutting through cable-shaped conductor material, at least one first means (170) for processing the cut, cable-shaped conductor material, at least one guide means (130) for lengthwise guiding of the cable-shaped conductor material, the guide means (130) being implemented so that the free end of the cable-shaped conductor material may be pivoted out of its lengthwise direction, and at least one plate (110), implemented essentially perpendicularly to the cable direction, on which at least some of the means (126, 128, 130) of the device are positioned on one side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Komax Holding AG
    Inventors: Urs Mehri, Alois Lustenberger
  • Patent number: 7024760
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for equipping plug housings with fitted-out cables includes an equipping installation downstream of a fitting-out installation and introduces each fitted-out cable end into a first or second plug housing according to an installation sequence. A feeder unit takes a cable loop from a transfer unit moved from the fitting-out installation and transfers the leading cable end to a transfer station and the trailing cable end either to a rotatable store unit or, to the transfer station when it is free. An equipping unit takes over the cable ends in succession at the second transfer station and introduces the cable ends into designed cells of the corresponding plug housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Komax Holding AG
    Inventor: Louis Soriano
  • Patent number: 7017259
    Abstract: A housing-remover tool for a press-fit connector. The tool including shoulder part pressers for pressing the shoulder parts of pin-shaped terminals, each shoulder part presser having a hollow part for receiving a pin part of the pin-shaped terminal and a cut-away part at a leading end for engaging with the shoulder part; a first sub-assembly for insertion inside a housing of the connector and provided with through-holes for receiving the shoulder part pressers; and a second sub-assembly having a pair of engagement members having engaging protrusions which can engage with stepped parts of the housing and a lifting portion for lifting the engagement members along the side surfaces of the first sub-assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Fumio Aoki
  • Patent number: 7014496
    Abstract: The electrical connector assembly includes a first pair of contact members, each comprising a first termination end and a first connection end. A second pair of contact members, each comprising a second termination end and a second connection end, wherein the first connection end and the second connection end are in contact. A connector having a pair of wire receiving passages movable between a first position in which a pair of wires are held apart from the second termination end and a second position in which the pair of wires are inserted into the second termination end. The connector is capable of removing the pair of wires from the second termination end and reinserting the pair of wires into the second termination end. A surge arrestor can be provided to protect the connector from over-voltage or over-current to the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Channell Commercial Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald L. Shimirak