Abstract: A retention member for securing a dual processor card retention module to a circuit board is provided. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the retention member includes a base portion. A first securement portion is disposed at a first end of the base portion and defines a first bore that extends therethrough. A second securement portion is disposed at a second end of the base portion and defines a second bore that extends therethrough.

Abstract: A printed circuit board, in particular for a display instrument in a motor vehicle, having a coupling element of a plug-in device and having one or more clearances and one or more terminal contacts of the coupling element which pass through the clearances, the coupling element having a base connected to the printed circuit board and the terminal contact or contacts on the side of the printed circuit board which is facing away from a coupling region of the coupling element being electrically connected to said printed circuit board.

Abstract: An electrical connector having a housing, a plurality of conductive terminals supported within the housing, and a flange extending outward from the housing. The flange has a plurality of selectively removable portions to permit the connector upon removal of one of the portions to be adapted for use in a particular angular mounting position.

Abstract: A flanged connector (20) has an insulating housing (21), a plurality of contacts (22) separated one from another within the housing, a metal shell (23) covering the housing so as to shield the contacts, and at least one flange (28) bent at and outwardly extending from at least one of edges of a front opening (24) formed in the metal shell. A female-threaded bore (30) is formed in each flange (28), which continues from a folded-back portion (27). This portion is formed by bending outwards and further bending rearwards an extension from the at least one edge so that the flange is or the flanges are retracted from the edges a predetermined distance. A pair of the flanges (28) may extend along the opposite side edges of the opening (24), or alternatively the single flange (28) may extend along an upper one of those edges.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle quick connect for appliances including a rectangular housing secured within a rear panel of an appliance. The housing has a peripheral flange disposed around an outer edge thereof. The peripheral flange has a pair of apertures through upper and lower portions thereof. The apertures receive threaded screws therethrough for securing the housing to the appliance. A three prong plug extends outwardly of the housing. The three prong plug is adapted for coupling with an appliance extension cord whereby the appliance extension cord couples with an electrical outlet. The three prong plug has wiring extending outwardly therefrom. The wiring includes a pair of wires for coupling with a motor winding of the appliance. The wiring includes a ground wire.

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 device for fixing an electric connector to a mother board is disclosed. The device includes a mounting flange integrally formed at a bottom corner of the electric connector, a nut having a hexagonal head portion and a neck portion, and a bolt. The mounting flange defines a nut receiving hole having a hexagonal hole portion and forms a locking tooth extending into the nut receiving hole. When the nut is pressed into the nut receiving hole to reach a position in which the hexagonal head portion fits the hexagonal hole portion, the nut is fixedly locked in position by the locking tooth engaging with the neck portion of the nut. The bolt extends from a bottom through the mother board to threadedly engage with the nut fixedly received in the nut receiving hole to firmly fix the connector to the mother board.

Abstract: A mount of an electrical connector serves to firmly mount the connector on an electrical appliance. One connector body of the electrical connector is to be fixed to a circuit board of the electrical appliance and has a housing as its outer casing whose mating connector socket is positioned in and spaced the connector opening formed in a panel plate of the electrical appliance. The mount is constructed as a clamp holder made of a resin including a fitting portion to be fitted on the outer circumference of the housing of the connector body fixed to the circuit board. The fitting portion of the clamp holder is also to be fixed to the panel plate in the state of the fitting portion being fitted on the outer circumference of the housing of the connector body so that the clamp holder made of the resin, the housing of the connector body and the panel plate are integrally fixed to one another.

Abstract: A support assembly is provided for mounting an electrical appliance on a printed circuit board. The assembly includes a supporting structure for mounting on top of the printed circuit board and a securing structure for mounting on the bottom of the printed circuit board. The structure extends through the board so that the structures sandwich the board therebetween. The securing structure is a one-piece plastic component including a body portion juxtaposed at the bottom of the board and a pair of spaced apart externally threaded stud portion projecting through appropriate holes in the board. The supporting structure includes a bracket for mounting the electrical appliance and a socket rotatably capturing a nut for threadably receiving the threaded stud portion of the securing structure. The socket has resiliently expandable side walls for snappingly receiving and capturing the nut therein.

Abstract: A fitting structure for a connector housing can maintain a stable vibration absorbing function. A flange (14) of a connector housing (10) is provided on the periphery with an outer annular retaining wall (15). A rubber sheet (20) is contained in an interior of the connector housing (10). The connector housing (10) is attached to a body (E) of an engine by means of bolts (B) and nuts (N). When fattening bolts (B) and nuts (N), the rubber sheet (20) is compressed. In a conventional fitting structure, the compressed rubber sheet (20) expands laterally to bulge out of the flange (14). Since the outer annular retaining wall (15), however, serves to limit the lateral expansion of the rubber sheet (20) so that the rubber sheet (20) does not bulge out from the flange (14), it is possible to prevent the rubber sheet (20) from changing its physical and/or chemical nature and to effectively maintain its vibration absorbing function.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing (30) adapted to be mounted on a PC board (60). The housing (32) includes a pair of kit receiving holes (34) for receiving a pair of corresponding screw mounting kits (36) therein. Each screw mounting kit (36) includes a head portion (38) at the top with internal threads, a tubular portion (40) in the middle and a truncated tubular conical portion (42) at the bottom wherein a plurality of slots (44) extend axially through the tubular portion (40) and the conical portion (42). Corresponding, the kit receiving hole (34) in the housing (32) includes a large section (46) at the top, a narrow section (48) in the middle and a medium section (50) at the bottom for receiving the head portion 38, the tubular portion (40) and the conical portion (42) of the kit (36), respectively.

Abstract: A personal computer includes a frame unit and a top cover mounted to pivot upward and outward to the rear of the system, or alternately, upward to the side. One or more DASD storage devices may be mounted to extend downward from the top cover. A planar board is attached atop the lower side of the frame unit, where flexible mounting hardware allows the attachment of one of several types of planar boards. A central support structure includes a riser card plugged into a connector of the planar board, and a number of card connectors into which option cards can be plugged for electrical connection with the planar board. The central support structure also includes a bracket extending along the rear of the computer, having slots through which port connectors of the option cards can extend. The central support structure is held in engagement with the connector of the planar board by the top cover when this cover is closed.

Abstract: An electrical connector for sealably mounting into a frame may be manufactured using known low cost, automated processes. Contact elements are sealingly encircled by and extend through an insulating body having a frame abutting surface. A separate shroud interfits with the body at an unsealed shroud junction. A continuous compressible sealing element disposed on a frame abutting surface circumscribes and sealingly isolates an area interior of the compressible sealing element from an area exterior of the compressible sealing element. The shroud junction is entirely within an area interior of the compressible sealing element.

Abstract: A connector is provided assembly for a north-south transaxle having a case and a solenoid assembly. The connector assembly includes a connector connected to a source of power and extending through an aperture in the case. The connector assembly also includes a structure for retaining the connector to the case to allow the solenoid assembly to be removed and installed without disturbing the connector.

Abstract: An improved electrical connector panel standoff fastener includes a panel-mounted stud with an affixed cap nut which is captive within the cable end connector shell. The stud includes a knurled head which is pressed into the chassis panel from the inside out. The stud includes a knurled head sized so that excessive bulging of the panel cutout does not occur upon pressing the stud into the panel. The desired standoff height is maintained by an end wall within the cap nut which acts as a screw stop. Also, the stud may be internally threaded to receive a screw from the opposite side of the panel to fasten the connector receptacle to the panel. The invention may further include a locking device such as a plug inserted into the threads of the stud.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly and method includes a connector body and at least one unitary fastening member that is deformed at a central region of the fastening member after insertion through a mounting hole in the connector body. Projecting integrally from the deformed region of the fastening member is an internally threaded post which may receive cable screws of a cable mated with the connector assembly. In a preferred embodiment, the fastening member secures a ground strap and a faceplate to the connector body, and the internally threaded post is inserted through a panel of a computer system component.

Abstract: Connector (1, 11, 24, 26, 36, 40) for mounting on a substrate (2, 14, 23, 25, 35, 46) comprising one or more contact elements (13, 28, 29, 37, 44) accommodated in a housing (3, 12, 41), having a mounting side (19, 32, 39), which, in the mounted state of the connector (1, 11, 24, 26, 36, 40) is situated opposite a face of the substrate (2, 14, 23, 25, 35, 46). The fixing means of the connector (1, 11, 24, 26, 36, 40) consist of at least one element, projecting outside the housing (3, 12, 41) beyond the mounting side (19, 32, 39) and connected thereto, preferably a pin-type element (7, 47) for engaging in an opening (8, 48) of the substrate (2, 14, 23, 25, 35, 46). The at least one element (7, 47) is disposed so as to be displaced outwards from a wall (9; 15, 16; 38; 42, 43) of the housing (3, 12, 41), which wall (9; 15, 16; 38; 42, 43 ) adjoins the mounting side (19, 32, 39). The at least one fixing element (7, 47) can also be used for positioning and polarising purposes.

Abstract: A bulkhead connector includes an array of bus bars extending from a first face to a second face for interconnecting associated power cables on opposing sides of the bulkhead, and is also suited for bulkhead openings of the type having a cylindrical sleeve extending therearound outwardly from the bulkhead. Contained between a pair of metal plates and within a cylindrical sleeve is an elastomeric member through which the bus bars extend, the elastomeric member being compressed within the sleeve upon said first and second metal plates being tightly drawn toward each other by a stud assembly. The metal plates and elastomeric member provide fire resistant material extending transversely completely across the bulkhead opening, with apertures through which extend the bus bars. Exposed contact sections of the bus bars permit terminals to be fastened thereto, and the connector is adapted to prevent rotation of the fastened terminals during in-service use.

Abstract: A bulkhead connector (100,200) includes an array of bus bars (150,250) extending from a first face to a second face for interconnecting associated power cables (20,30) on opposing sides of the bulkhead (10). Embedded within the connector is a substrate (b 130,230) of fire resistant material extending transversely completely across the bulkhead opening (12), with apertures (144,244) through which extend the bus bars. Exposed contact sections (152,154;252,254) of the bus bars permit terminals (24,34) to be fastened thereto, and the connector is adapted to prevent rotation of the fastened terminals during in-service use.

Abstract: An alignment and blind mate assist shroud (22) for positioning on a first end (34) of a connector housing (24) has a body section securable to the first end of the connector housing (24). The shroud has a key (75) receivable in a keyway (35) proximate the first end of the connector housing and a keying protrusion (150) adapted to extend beyond the mounting face (48,50) of the connector housing (24) to key the connector assembly (62) to a particular one of several possible assembly receiving locations on the circuit board (154) on which the assembly (62) is mounted. The polarization protrusion (150) cooperates with an aperture (152) in the circuit board (154) on which the connector assembly (62) is adapted to be mounted to assure that the appropriate connector assembly (62) is mounted at the corresponding location on the circuit board. An alignment and blind mate assist shroud (23) without a key or keying protrusion may be secured to the second end (34) of the connector housing (24).

Abstract: An alignment and blind mate assist shroud (22) having a body section securable to a connector housing (24) has a protrusion (150) adapted to extend beyond the mounting face (48,50) of the connector housing (24) to key the connector assembly (62) to a particular one of several possible assembly receiving locations on the circuit board (154) on which the assembly (62) is mounted. The polarization protrusion (150) cooperates with an aperture (152) in the circuit board (154) on which the connector assembly (62) is adapted to be mounted to assure that the appropriate connector assembly (62) is mounted at the corresponding location on the circuit board. The polarization protrusion may be provided at any one of several locations to also provide a connector assembly to board keying function.

Abstract: A connector apparatus which assures sufficient fitting of a pair of connectors with each other. The connector apparatus comprises a pair of connectors and a fixing frame having a through-hole defined by a pair of side walls thereof along which the connectors are movable in a fitting direction and then in a slantwise or inclined direction. A guide mechanism is provided which guides the connectors as they are moved to a predetermined position in the inclined direction after the connectors are inserted into the through-hole of the fixing frame from the opposite ends toward each other until they are partially fitted with each other. The guide mechanism causes one of the connectors to gradually approach and fit with the other connector until a throughly fitted condition is reached. Only when the connectors are at the predetermined position, a flexible grommet for the one connector can be fixed by way of a fixing element to a panel or the like to which the fixing frame is secured.

Abstract: An adaptor for interconnecting two or more IEEE-488 cables, each cable terminating in a connector having a male fitting. The adaptor includes a housing defining first and second ports which are disposed on opposite sides of the housing, and a pair of first and second electrically connected female fittings. The first female fitting is disposed in the first port and the second female fitting is disposed in the second port to enable the two IEEE-488 cables to be interconnected using the male fittings while leaving exposed their corresponding female fittings.

Abstract: An electrical connector panel incorporates a self-clinching type standoff fastener which is installed through mounting holes in the panel from the inside out. The fasteners include a knurled head sized so that excessive bulging of the metal around the panel D-shaped cutout does not develop when pressed into the panel. The head of the fastener is preferably installed flush with the inside of the panel to which the receptacle portion of the cable connector is fastened. With this construction, changes in panel thickness from one application to another will not alter the prescribed distance between the flanges of the mating cable plug and receptacle. Hence, an individual standoff part may be used for many different applications without the need for additional loose hardware.

Abstract: A stacked electrical connector assembly (2) is disclosed of surface mounting on a circuit board (CB). The assembly comprises a sheet metal supporting bracket (4) having superposed upper and lower connector mounting lugs (20 and 24). An upper standard electrical connector (38) is mounted to the upper mounting lugs (20), a lower standard pin header connector N) being mounted to the lower mounting lugs (24). The pins (54) of the pin header connector (10) are connected to contact tails (46) of the upper connector (38) by means of a flat flexible cable (12). A lower standard multi-contact electrical connector (8) is mounted to the lower lugs (24) in front of the pin header connector (10) and has contact tails (76) projecting below the bracket (4).

Abstract: A self-aligning connector that is used with electrical plug-in-module connectors. The self-aligning connector has an elongated connector body with a cutout portion extending from its top surface to its bottom surface to form a walled structure that would surround an electrical contact area. A foot portion extends from each end of the connector body. Each foot portion has an inclined front surface that mates with the inclined bottom wedge surface of a wedge block. Elongated slots in the respective wedge blocks algin with vertically oriented bore holes in the foot portions and mounting screws are passed downwardly through the respective openings. As the mounting screws are tightened the wedge blocks and foot portions have relative translation along their inclined surfaces, thus aligning the connector in the cutout portion.

Abstract: A bracket for an electrical connector is disclosed wherein the bracket has a body defining an opening to accommodate a portion of the electrical connector and to which is fixedly attached a plurality of stud members. The stud members each have a head portion extending from one side of the bracket body, the head portion defining an internally threaded hole to accept a mounting or a holddown screw to attach the electrical connector portion to the bracket. Each stud member also has a threaded stud portion extending from an opposite side of the bracket body. These studs may be attached to a panel or to another connector by placing nuts or the like over the threaded stud portions.

Abstract: An electrical contact unit is provided for a first main member, which has a mainly planar first mounting surface, and for a second main member, which has a mainly planar second mounting surface and is mountable on the first main member. The first mounting surface and the second mounting surface lie against each other when the second main member is mounted on the first main member. The first main member comprises a male contact member, which has an outer surface and carries electrically conductive male contacts, and a maneuvering pin, which extends out from the outer surface. By means of guide elements, the male contact member is mounted in the first main member for motion generally perpendicular to the first mounting surface between an outer position and an inner position.

Abstract: A one-piece, cast metal insert (40) has a base (42) from an edge of which upstands a flange (54). The base has a bore (48) therethrough for receiving a resilient locking metal clip (86) for securing the bracket (40) to a circuit board (CB) and for making contact with a ground conductor (GC) on the circuit board (CB). An internally screw threaded shank (60) projecting from the flange (54) has external retention ribs (68 and 70) for securing it in an opening (26) in a mounting ear (34) of a shielded electrical connector housing (2). The housing (2) with the bracket (40) assembled thereto can be mounted on the circuit board (CB) by means of a robot. The connector can then be secured to a panel (P) for example in a computer, by passing a screw (S) through the panel (P) to mesh with the screw thread (66) of the shank (60).

Abstract: A tapped hole produced in a metallic material by threading a preselected standard threaded fastener into an untapped hole formed in the material. The diameter of the hole to be formed is determined by using a formula that takes into account the hardness and thickness of the material to be tapped and the basic major diameter and pitch of the preselected threaded fastener to be used to tap the hole. This formula can only be used with threaded fasteners having threads of the Unified Thread Standard type. This formula is particularly useful in tapping a hole formed in a mounting strap of an electrical wiring device.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electrical connector employed to make and break an electric motor main circuit between the control unit side and the side of the box-shaped frame of a control center. The electrical connector includes a male contact, a female contact having a pair of contact strips engaged with and disengaged from the male contact and a end section to which a connecting conductor is connected. A pair of conductive strips of the connecting conductor extends at the outside of the contact strips of the female contact in an opposite relation to the same. The conductive strips of the connecting conductor are coupled by a regulating rod which prevents the outward movement of the conductive strips. The female contact and the connecting conductor are integrated and enclosed in a cavity of an insulating case for oscillation.

Abstract: A bushing, having an elongated conductor substantially encased in insulating material, which extends in sealing relationship through an aperture in a sealed enclosure encasing an electrical apparatus, comprising a conductor having two parts, a first generally cylindrical rod part which is permanently fixed at its proximal end to the electrical apparatus and which extends therefrom toward the aperture, and a second sleeve part having a generally annular passage disposed to circumferentially engage substantially all of the first rod part and thereby provide a conductive path therebetween; a one-piece insulator permanently attached to and substantially encasing the sleeve part of the conductor; means for threadably connecting the two parts of the conductor such that connection and disconnection can be accomplished from outside the enclosure, thereby enabling disconnection of the sleeve part and the insulator from the electrical apparatus without opening the enclosure; and means for sealing the junction of the tw