Abstract: Enclosed herein is a connector which comprises a connector housing having a rear portion thereof. A plurality of terminal accommodating compartments are formed in the connector housing and each terminal accommodating compartment has an aperture. A plurality of terminals connected to wires, respectively, are inserted into the terminal accommodating compartment through the apertures. A cover member removably attached to the rear portion of the connector housing is provided. The cover member includes a spacer section for securing the terminals in the terminal accommodating compartments when the spacer section is inserted into the apertures and a wire bundling section for bundling the wires therein. The spacing section and wire bundling section are formed on the cover member integrally.

Abstract: A cable connector for a flat cable is characterized by a base and a cover which, when conjoined, define a cable receiving volume therebetween. The cover is provided with a resilient flap which, when deformed by a cable received in the cable receiving volume, reacts to generate a clamping force serving to strain relieve the cable with respect to the connector.

Abstract: A modular connector for field termination of an electrical cable containing a plurality of individually insulated conductors and having a body, a contact carrier in snap-in assembly with the body and a cover assembly for snap-in assembly with the body in the field and including a cover and a cable strain relief member attached to the cover by a living hinge. The cable strain relief member is arranged for snap-in assembly with the body in the field. A stuffing member carried by the cover sets each conductor in an associated contact of IDC type mounted on the contact carrier as the cover is snapped into assembly with the body. A blade mounting on the contact carrier cooperates with a shearing member depending from the cover to trim the free ends of the conductor during cover assembly. Assembly of the cover with the body also applies strain relief to the cable and each of the conductors and also deflects the trimmed conductors away from the shearing blade.

Abstract: The electrode belt adapter assembly is for communicatively connecting the terminal end of a flexible electrode belt device to the cable end of an EGG apparatus having a plurality of leads at its terminal end. The electrode belt adapter assembly is comprised of a lightweight housing assembly having a lockable cover structure to provide access thereinto and having a first aperture and a set of second apertures to respectively provide communicative access of the electrode belt terminal end and the leads of the cable set end. A circuit board assembly having a plurality of connectors is integrally mounted within the housing assembly. An electrode belt connector assembly is mounted on the circuit board and is aligned with the first aperture. The circuit board assembly further has a connection network with a plurality of leads and post connectors at predetermined locations in electrical communication with the electrode belt connector assembly.

Abstract: An electrical connector is formed with a receptacle through which the cable entry passes. A clamping block may be slidably engaged in the receptacle to engage the cable. The clamping block has end portions interlocking with the receptacle, an axial central portion, and cable-engaging portions extending oppositely from the central portion. Clamping is achieved by screws passing through slots in wings formed on the clamping portions, the screws engaging in bosses formed in the receptacle.

Abstract: A socket adapter for converting a conventional bottom connected watthour meter housing to a socket-type watthour meter housing. The adapter includes a housing having a watthour meter receiving portion including a plurality of electrical contacts which removably receive the blade terminals of a watthour meter. The contacts are connected via electrical conductors to terminals mounted in an integral terminal portion of the housing. A cover member is removably mountable over the terminal portion of the housing to provide access to the terminals. The terminal portion and the cover cooperate to form guide surfaces which direct the building conductors into engagement with the terminals within the adapter. A surge protector in the form of a pair of wires embedded within the peripheral surface of the watthour meter receiving portion of the housing are connectable through a connector mounted on the back wall of the housing to earth ground.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises two mechanically couplable elements to cause electrical contacts positioned in these elements, to cooperate in pairs. At least one of the elements comprises an insulating body pierced with longitudinal housings shielding the contacts and itself retained and shielded, at least in part, in an outer casing. Clamping means for the element to a cable joined electrically to the contacts comprise: a collar engirdling the outer sheath of the cable and two diametrically opposite radial projections. Two half-clamps surround the rear end of the insulating body and the neighboring zone of the cable including the collar, each projection being engaged in two respective inner recesses of the two half-clamps. Axial connecting means and means for fastening in rotation are provided between the insulating body and the half-clamps as well as assembly means for the half-clamps.

Abstract: Two conductive mating halves of a connector hood include facing inserts of resilient conductive materials. A cable, having shielding conductive braid or foil exposed on a surface thereof is contacted in passing between the inserts. A low-resistance electrical path is provided between the shielding and the conductive connector hood by a resilient conductive material for resisting escape of radio-frequency interference from the connector hood. In one embodiment of the invention, a foam material with parallel embedded metallic wires is employed for the resilient conductive material. The wires are preferably oriented for conduction between the connector hood and the shield braid or foil on the cable with substantially no conductive paths parallel to the axis of the cable. Facing, metallic spring-type strain-relief devices in the connector hood provide strain relief as well as enhance the resistance to radiation of radio-frequency interference.

Abstract: An electrical connector is used in a pumping oil well to deliver electrical power to a submersible pump. The connector includes a rigid housing having two bearing assemblies allowing relative rotational movement between parts of the housing to allow the upper housing end to threadably connect to a feed through socket and to allow the lower housing end to be rotated to axially compress a resilient dielectric conductor seal body between a pair of rigid dielectric alignment bodies.

Abstract: A cover assembly for a connector for flat shielded multi-conductor cable comprising two shell halves and two compressible inserts such that the connected embodiment provides shielding integrity, strain relief and grounding for the arrangement, while neither distorting nor squashing the multi-conductor cable. This connector facilitates easy attachment, and is designed to accommodate the varying cable sizes and diameters manufactured by a variety of firms.

Abstract: A modular connector includes a housing (18, 181, 191, 518) having an interior surface adapted to engage a mating external surface of one or more contact-receiving and -carrying modules (20, 210, 520, 521) supported within the housing. The wire contacts (64, 65, 66, 600) are removably supported within the module to permit one or more contacts to be removed and replaced without destruction of the entire module. Mating structures of the housing and the module and the contacts repeatably position the housing portions with respect to one another and precisely position the module within the housing laterally, longitudinally, and vertically and precisely position the contacts within the module. The invention also includes a module (520, 521) having an integral sealing boot (578) formed thereon to provide strain relief and effective sealing around the conductor wires (536, 537) entering into the module and between the module and the housing portions.

Abstract: A plastic housing comprised of a pair of identical half sections joined along peripheral edges thereof so as to form a generally hollow shell structure having an elongated linear aperture and a circular aperture in facing end portions thereof encloses a printed circuit (PC) board. A flat ribbon cable extends through the elongated linear aperture, while a round cable extends through the circular aperture, with both cables coupled to the PC board. Elongated projections having a half-cylinder cross section are disposed immediately above and below each of the apertures on the facing end portions of the housing so as to restrict the bending of and limit the strain upon the cables extending from the apertures in the housing.

Abstract: What is disclosed is a housing for a D-shell connector that comprises two housing parts that snap and lock securely together and can later be separated without the use of tools. In addition, the housing has an integral strain relief cable clamp. Internal or external latching arms capable of latching to more than one connector configuration are easily and quickly combined or charged with the basic connector housing, and one latching arm can simultaneously latch a holding to a mating connector housing and to a cutout in a chassis or panel.

Abstract: An electrical connector for flat transmission cable comprises a body member having terminal-receiving passageways and conductor-receiving passageways with a continuous recess between the terminal-receiving passageways and the conductor-receiving passageways. Electrical terminals are disposed in the terminal-receiving passageways for terminating electrical conductors of a flat transmission cable which are disposed in respective conductor-receiving passageways. Cover members are secured onto the body member and they include projection members engaging the respective electrical conductors in the continuous recess to provide strain relief for the conductors. According to another aspect of the present invention, the cover members include projections that are disposed on each side of the conductor-receiving sections of the electrical terminals to prevent the electrical conductors from disconnecting from the conductor-receiving sections.

Abstract: A shielding kit for providing 360.degree. shielding of a connector terminating multi-conductor flat 360.degree. shielded cable includes a plug shield of at least two interfitting metal members which enclose the plug and secure the shielding grids of the cable and an at least one part shielding adapter which is fitted on a standard receptacle serving to ground the shielded plug when mated therein. The kit also includes a cable strain relief cover formed by a pair of hermaphroditic insulative members. The kit further includes an embodiment for use with daisy chain arrangement which is a three piece assembly to include both sides of the mating face of the cover as well as the back face of the plug. This embodiment can be used with or without the above mentioned strain relief cables. The receptacle portion of the mated plug can be enclosed by any of a variety of various shielding members.

Abstract: An electric plug has registering housing shells which interlock when pressed together by way of flexible legs with locking feet on one of the shells which pass through passages in the other shell. These legs deflect while the feet pass through the passages whereupon the legs spring back causing the feet to snap into locking position. The housing shells present a wireway into which contact barbs and a cord piercing and spreading prong project to respectively make electrical contact with the wire leads in an insulated cord in the wireway and to pass through and clamp the cord against outwardly curved side wall portions of the wireway while the housing shells are being pressed together.

Abstract: An electrical interconnection assembly is disclosed for use with high voltage devices such as traveling-wave tubes. The assembly includes an electrically insulating housing having a plurality of recesses formed in its outer and inner surfaces. Leads from the high voltage device can be connected directly to respective conductive pins mounted in recesses in the housing inner surface, and electrical conductors from a power supply can be connected directly to respective conductive pins mounted in recesses in the outer surface of the housing and which are electrically connected to respective conductive pins on the inner surface. Protruding staggered gripping elements on the housing outer surface and on a removable cover plate for the housing minimize the possibility of separation of electrical conductors from the conductive pins.