Abstract: It is proposed to oversheath with an insulating envelope a connecting component formed by a first housing (1), wherein said electrical component there are disposed electrical components which are connected to coupling elements (10) acting outwards. For this purpose, the first housing (1) is surrounded by a second housing (16), where the coupling elements (10) are also guided through corresponding openings of the second housing (16) and the space between the two housings is overcasted with a polyurethane plastic compound. After curing, the thus formed sheath (20) of the housing has, with only one process step, a shape identically reproducing that of the second outer housing (16).

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board and a connecting method thereof. The connecting method of the circuit board assembly may include molding the printed circuit board assembly by applying a resin to the printed circuit board assembly, exposing ends of the electrode terminals of a connector mounted on a printed circuit board by partially removing the molded printed circuit board assembly, and connecting a connection member to the exposed ends of the electrode terminals of the connector. Therefore, even if the whole of the printed circuit board assembly is molded, the connection member may be freely connected to the connector of the printed circuit board assembly.

Abstract: Described is an electronic connector. The electronic connector has a substrate body for housing electronic pins and a cable. The substrate body is fabricated from a first material, such as hard plastic and has at least one passage from its exterior to its interior. The overmold is fabricated from a resilient material having a lower melting point than the first material. The resilient material is overmolded onto the substrate body and flows through the at least one passage in the substrate body and forms a gasket on the connecting surface of the substrate body.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is provided and includes an electrical conductor, an electrical connector having an electrical connector front and rear, wherein the electrical connector rear includes an electrical connector termination connected to the conductor, a pre-mold material having an over-mold groove and being securely associated with the electrical connector assembly to cover the electrical connector rear, the electrical connector termination, and a portion of the electrical conductor and the cable, an over-mold material securely associated with the electrical connector assembly to cover a portion of the pre-mold material and the cable, wherein a portion of the over-mold material is located in the over-mold groove and a spin ring having a spin ring front and rear, wherein the spin ring is movably associated with the electrical connector assembly such that the spin ring rear is located proximate the over-mold material and such that the spin ring covers the electrical.

Abstract: An electrical apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises a molded device having a molded portion and being formed via an overmolding process. The electrical apparatus includes a wire set at least partially overmolded within the device, the wire set having an outer sheath surrounding a plurality of wires. The molded portion surrounds a portion of the wire set. The electrical apparatus further includes polyurethane bonding material occurring between the outer sheath and the molded portion. The polyurethane bonding material bonds at least a portion of the wire set to the molded portion during the overmolding process.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly (200) includes a body portion (1) comprising a cylindrical first connector (11) and a cylindrical second connector (12), an insulative housing (2) connecting the first and second connectors (11, 12) together along a transverse direction thereof, a cable (5) connected with the body portion (1) and an insulative cover (4) over-molded on an electrical connection area between the body portion (1) and the cable (5). The first and second connectors (11, 12) each have a contact (3) located at a central axis thereof. The insulative housing (2) comprises an extending portion (23) extending along a back to front direction perpendicular to the transverse direction, the extending portion (23) locates between the first and second connectors (11, 12).

Abstract: An electric power plug comprises blades, a bridge and a plug body. The bridge includes sleeves for covering the roots of the blades and a core for holding the lower ends of the blades. The blades and the core are integrally molded. The plug body is molded so that the plug body embeds the bridge except the upper portions of the sleeves. The core may embed the lower portions of the blades, cords, a caulking portion for connecting the lower ends of blades and wire conductors of the cords. A cavity may be formed at the central portion of the core. The plug body may be molded so that the plug body embeds the bridge and the cords except the upper portions of the sleeves.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing an electrical contact module is provided. First, a lead-frame of electrical conductors is formed, wherein at least one supporting strip is formed in the lead-frame of electrical conductors in such a way as to maintain the electrical conductors in a predetermined position with respect to each other. Then, the lead-frame of electrical conductors is over-molded with a first dielectric material, thereby obtaining a first over-molded lead-frame. At least one aperture is formed in the first over-molded lead-frame so that the at least one supporting strip is accessible. The at least one supporting strip in the first over-molded lead-frame is removed after completion of the over-molding step. A second dielectric material is then over-molded with the first over-molded lead-frame in such manner as to fill the at least one aperture and a space left between the electrical conductors after removal of the at least one supporting strip.

Abstract: A method, system and assembly for transferring electrical power adapted to provide power to a grounded aircraft is provided. The assembly comprises a first and second insulated electrical conductor and a plug body, attached to ends of these conductors. A first contact and a second contact is provided within the plug body, having electrically conductive connections with the first and second conductors. A non conductive support bar disposed at least partially within the plug body separating at least portions of the first contact and the first conductor from the second contact and the second conductor.

Abstract: An overmold for an electrical connector is disclosed. The connector includes a connector body that communicates with a device and an overmold that substantially covers the connector body. The overmold includes an outside surface that has a plurality of depressions for receiving a user's hand such that when an insertion force is applied to insert the connector into a receiver of the device, the insertion force is transferred from the depressions to an axis of the connector.

Abstract: Devices including strip connectors in measurement devices are provided. Also provided are systems, kits and methods.

Abstract: An electrical connector having no glass seals, while having a single electrical conductor embedded in a thermoplastic body, with a section of the electrical conductor also being enclosed within a insulating ceramic bushing, wherein the electrical conductor has an enlarged diameter portion sized to allow the enlarged portion to sealingly engage one end of the ceramic insulating bushing, wherein such engagement prevents the extrusion of the thermoplastic body along the electrical conductor through the interior of the insulating ceramic bushing. Alternative embodiments include electrical connectors having multiple pin electrical conductors and downhole sensors.

Abstract: Devices including strip connectors in measurement devices are provided. Also provided are systems, kits and methods.

Abstract: Devices including strip connectors in measurement devices are provided. Also provided are systems, kits and methods.

Abstract: A sealed connector system and components thereof is disclosed. The sealed connector system has a sealed cable assembly and a printed circuit board header assembly. The sealed cable assembly has a cable housing and a cable terminated thereto. A cover, as described above, is overmolded over a portion of the cable housing and a portion of the cable. The cover is one continuous member that acts as a seal to prevent contaminants from entering the cable housing. A printed circuit board header assembly is mated to the cable housing. The header assembly has recesses provided proximate a circuit board mounting surface, with the recesses being configured to provide additional space on a circuit board on which the header assembly is mounted. Legs or ribs may be provided proximate the ends of the circuit board contact area. The ribs provide stability to the printed circuit board connector and prevent the printed circuit board connector from being rotated relative to the printed circuit board.

Abstract: The roll-up heating (1) for a floor, or wall, comprises an insulating layer (10), a heating element (11) and a cladding (12). The insulating layer (10) is intended for laying on a floor (2) and the heating element (11) extends between the cladding (12) and the insulating layer (10). The cladding (12) is intended to support a floor covering and comprises a force distribution layer (13) for transmitting a force which is exerted on the cladding (12) in a distributed manner to the insulating layer (10). In as far as (a part of) the heating element (11) is at the location or in the vicinity of the exerted force, the load which will be exerted on it will be lower than the original load, due to the force being transmitted in a distributed manner. This lowers the risk of the heating element (11) being damaged.

Abstract: An electrical connector having no glass seals, while having a single electrical conductor embedded in a thermoplastic body, with a section of the electrical conductor also being enclosed within a insulating ceramic bushing, wherein the electrical conductor has an enlarged diameter portion sized to allow the enlarged portion to sealingly engage one end of the ceramic insulating bushing, wherein such engagement prevents the extrusion of the thermoplastic body along the electrical conductor through the interior of the insulating ceramic bushing. Alternative embodiments include electrical connectors having multiple pin electrical conductors and downhole sensors.

Abstract: A connector has a dielectric housing having a base. The base has a protruding platform at a front surface thereof. A peripheral dimension of the protruding platform is smaller than that of the base. At least one connecting unit is mounted to the dielectric housing with contacts thereof extending out from both a front surface of the protruding platform and a rear surface of the base. A plastic shield is integrally molded with the dielectric housing and encloses a periphery of the dielectric housing. The plastic shield has a basic body. The basic body has a first cavity at a front thereof for receiving the protruding platform and a second cavity disposed inside the basic body and communicating with the first cavity for accommodating the base.

Abstract: An overmold for an electrical connector is disclosed. The connector includes a connector body that communicates with a device and an overmold that substantially covers the connector body. The overmold includes an outside surface that has a plurality of depressions for receiving a user's hand such that when an insertion force is applied to insert the connector into a receiver of the device, the insertion force is transferred from the depressions to an axis of the connector.

Abstract: A consumer device interface assembly is provided that utilizes a male over-mold adapter that is operable to engage a conventional USB female shroud. A locking clip is associated with the male over-mold so as to provide locking engagement between the over-mold and the female adapter. The over-mold is universal thus allowing a host of consumer device interfaces to be used with the assembly.

Abstract: A termination for a multi-conductor cable is made by providing a metal structure that includes a plurality of parallel but spaced apart fingers that are joined together by a connecting member adjacent at least one end of each finger. Each of the conductors in the cable is connected to a respective one of the fingers at a location that is spaced from the connecting member. The cable and the fingers are then over-molded with an insulating material where the conductors are connected to the fingers. This over-molding leaves a portion of the length of each finger exposed. The connecting member is then severed and removed.

Abstract: A power cord which prevents breakage of a plug or cord/conductors even when treated roughly, and thus has a longer life. The power cord includes a plurality of cores of a synthetic resin, each for covering a connection section of a single blade among a plurality of blades, and an outer skin of a synthetic resin, for covering the plurality of cores together such that the blades are held at a specified interval spacing so as to form a plug. The synthetic resin forming the outer skin is softer than the synthetic resin forming the cores. The outer skin includes a thicker part for covering a border part of each cord having an internal covering member between a part covered with the core and a part exposed from the core.

Abstract: A vacuum pump casing has an opening that is covered and sealed by a cover member. The cover member is formed of molded resin with connector pins molded therein. The connector pins project outwardly from opposite sides of the cover member and are connected outside the pump casing to cables leading to a control device and connected inside the pump casing to cables leading to components within the pump casing.

Abstract: In a waterproof connector and a method for the same, the waterproof connector includes a plurality of electrically conductive terminals, an electrically insulating base, an electrical wire, a hollow cylinder and a cladding. The electrically insulating base has a receiving section. The electrical wire has a plurality of cores. Each core is connected to one end of each electrically conductive terminal. The hollow cylinder is connected to the receiving section and located to one side of the electrical wire. The cladding is used to cover the receiving section, the hollow cylinder, the core and one end of electrically conductive terminal. Further, the present invention provides a method for manufacturing the waterproof connector so as to enhance the yield rate and prevent the penetration of moisture.

Abstract: The invention discloses a computer connector or adapter housing structure with a raised portion. When plastic is molded around the housing, the raised portion is left exposed. This exposed portion of the housing provides a place to incorporate designs, such as business logos, words or numbers, or a gripping surface.

Abstract: A plug connector, mated with a complementary connector, includes a housing, a printed circuit board received in the housing, a cable with a plurality of conductors electrically attached to corresponding electrical pads of the printed circuit board, and a fastening portion. The housing includes a front housing defining a mating interface and L-shape rear housing. The mating interface includes a pair of tongue sections and an opening defined between the tongue sections. The printed circuit board has a plurality of electrical pads formed thereon, and defines a mating portion accessible from the mating interface and parallel to the pair of tongue sections. The fastening portion includes a connecting portion received in the housing and at least one column post passing through the housing and the printed circuit board.

Abstract: An electrical connector (1) includes a contact case (2). A plurality of contacts (3) are retained in the contact case (2). The contacts (3) comprise a group of first contacts (311) and a group of second contacts (321). Each first and second contact (311, 321) has a body portion (313), a contact portion (314) and a soldering portion (315) extending from two ends of the body portion (313). The body portion (313) has a first bending portion (3131) joined with the contact portion (314), and a second bending portion (3132) joined with the soldering portion (315). A metal shield (4) encloses the contact case (2). Wherein the first bending portions (3131) of the first contacts (311) and the second contacts (321) are located at inside of the contact case (2). The distance between the first bending portion (3131) and the second bending portion (3132) of the second contact (321) is larger than that of the first contact (311).

Abstract: A casing (10) is formed by insert molding using an inner portion (30) holding busbars (20) as an insert. The inner portion 30 includes an interlocking portion (33) to be hooked in a mold for molding the casing (10), and is so positioned and supported in the mold by the presence of the interlocking portion (33) as to project from the inner wall surface of the mold. The interlocking portion (33) is formed to project toward the inside of the casing (10) from the inner surface of the casing (10). The casing (10) is formed by covering the inner portion (30) excluding the interlocking portion (33) by a resin portion (13).

Abstract: An electronic connector includes a housing provided in a front surface thereof with an opening for receiving a mating connector, an inside of the opening being provided with a plurality of contacts in a mutually insulated manner, and a lead-connection assisting member provided on a rear side of the housing. The lead-connection assisting member includes a supporting table for supporting to solder rear-end wire connecting portions of the contacts projected from a rear surface of the housing and corresponding core wires taken from tip portions of leads for electrical connection, and a plurality of lead receiving grooves formed at the same pitch distance as that of the contacts, the grooves being adapted to receive and temporarily hold the tip portions of the leads.

Abstract: A resin sealing type circuit device is disclosed having a circuit case, made of resin, which has a recessed portion, a plurality of circuit elements accommodated in the recessed portion and having lead terminals, respectively, wiring metal segments fixedly supported with the circuit case and having lead terminal connecting portions protruding into the recessed portion, and a sealing resin filled in the recessed portion and covering the plurality of circuit elements and the lead terminal connecting portions of the wiring metal segments, wherein placements of the plurality of circuit elements are determined in consideration for a temperature distribution of the sealing resin.

Abstract: A consumer device interface assembly is provided that utilizes a male over-mold adapter that is operable to engage a conventional USB female shroud. A locking clip is associated with the male over-mold so as to provide locking engagement between the over-mold and the female adapter. The over-mold is universal thus allowing a host of consumer device interfaces to be used with the assembly.

Abstract: A partially overmolded component having a precisely defined overmolding edge includes a component having a protruding elongate rib and the overmolding having a terminal edge abutting the protruding elongate rib. The rib defines surfaces that provide a greater area of contact between the component and an overmolding tool and a more tortuous flow path to bleed-through.

Abstract: An improved overmolded electronic assembly includes a backplate, a circuit substrate on the backplate, at least one electronic component mounted on the circuit substrate, conductive traces on the circuit substrate which together with the electronic component(s) defines a circuit device, an electrical connector, a metal ring on an outer side of a thermoplastic wall member of the electrical connector, and an overmold body. The metal ring circumscribes external connector pins of the electrical connector, and the overmold body together with the backplate and thermoplastic wall member of the electrical connector sealingly encase the circuit substrate and the circuit device defined on the substrate, with the overmold body having a peripheral edge in adhesive contact with the metal ring. The invention avoids delamination problems associate with similar arrangements which do not incorporate a metal ring.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) includes an insulative housing (2) defining a number of passageways (2251, 2261) along a mating direction, a number of contacts (3) received in the passageways of the insulative housing with tail portions (34) thereof exposed beyond the insulative housing, a spacer (4) assembled to the insulative housing and the contacts, and defining a number of receiving channels (403, 404) to receive the tail portions of the contacts, and a cable (5) including a number of conductors (510, 520, 522) respectively electrically connecting with the contacts. At least a pair of tail portions of the contacts is received in the same receiving channel of the spacer with other tail portions of the contacts received in the receiving channels of the spacer in one-to-one manner. The spacer further defines at least one slit communicating with said receiving channel receiving said pair of tail portions.

Abstract: An electrical connecting device includes a housing having a receiving channel that receives an electrical conductor. A contact element is seated in the housing. The contact element has a piercing element extending into the receiving channel that electrically contacts the electrical conductor. At least a portion of the housing and at least a portion of the electrical conductor in electrical contact with the piercing element are substantially surrounded by a common sheath made of a non-conductive material that forms a uniform bond with the housing and the electrical conductor.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly (100) includes an insulative housing (1), a plurality of contacts (2) received in the insulative housing, a cable (6) electrically connecting with the contacts, a retention member (4), a pull tape (7) and a cover (5). The contacts have rear portions and the cable consists of a number of wires (61, 62) electrically connecting with the rear portions of the contacts to form connection area. The retention member is molded over the connection area. The cover shrouds the rear portion of the insulative housing, the retention member and part of the cable adjacent to the retention member. The pull tape has a fixing part and a pull part connecting with the fixing part. The fixing pull part of the pull tape is embedded in the cover. The pull part of the pull tape is exposed out of the cover for being pull to separate the cable connector assembly from a complementary connector.

Abstract: Electrical wiring has at least one electrical cable, which can be fixed on a round plug-type connector, and a holding apparatus for the cable. The cable ends in the interior of a tubular connecting stub, onto which, at one end, a union nut can be screwed, which nut leaves free a central opening for the cable. A hollow-cylindrical molding is capable of being pressed against the tubular connecting stub in the axial direction by the union nut. The sheath of the cable is capable of being fixed directly or indirectly on the hollow-cylindrical molding. A slotted sleeve is provided in the axial direction between the tubular connecting stub and the hollow-cylindrical molding. This slotted sleeve and the molding are capable of being pushed partially one inside the other. A stop is provided on the molding such that, in the case of rotational twisting of the slotted sleeve, the sleeve can be placed with one of its two free longitudinal edges on the stop.

Abstract: An electrical connector has a hard base part forming at least one rearwardly and forwardly open seat and formed with a transverse passage extending across the seat generally at the rear seat end, a respective contact in the seat having a front end and a rear end, a respective wire projecting into the rear end of the seat and connected there to the rear contact end, and a soft jacket encapsulating a rear end of the base part and front ends of the wires and extending at least partially into the rear seat ends. This connector is made by fitting a flow-blocking bar through the passage into a position blocking forward flow in the seat to the front contact end. The rear end of the part and the bar are then enclosed in a cavity of a mold to be filled with hardenable resin.

Abstract: An electrical connector may include a connector body having a passageway therethrough. The connector body may include a first layer adjacent the passageway, a second layer surrounding the first layer and comprising an insulative silicone elastomeric material, and a third layer surrounding the second layer. The third layer preferably has a relatively low resistivity, and may also include a semiconductive silicone elastomeric material. In some embodiments, the first layer may also include a semiconductive silicone elastomeric material. The silicone elastomeric material layers may be overmolded.

Abstract: An accessory connector (102) and a method (200) for providing a robust submersible seal is provided. The method can include over molding (202) a high-temperature plastic (122) around a plurality of interconnect pins (112) to produce a header (120), over molding (204) a low-temperature plastic (132) to the header to produce an insert (130), over molding (206) a side connector assembly (142) along a periphery of the insert to produce an interface (140), and ultrasonically welding (212) the insert to a housing (151) to blend (153) the low-temperature plastic with the housing.

Abstract: A hermaphroditic connector for a multiple conduit cable assembly comprises a cylindrical protective collar surrounding an inner cylindrical core. The collar is axially secured to the inner core but partially rotatable about the core. The distal end of the collar is formed to rotatively mesh with another collar of the same shape to mechanically secure a joint of two collars. Cable conduits enter the assembly through one axial end for electrical junction to terminals imbedded within the inner core. The terminals are functionally aligned with one of four parallel chord sections on the distal end-face of the inner core. The cross-sectional area of the inner core end-face is divided into two half-area sections; two parallel chord sections in each half-area section. The distal end-faces of the several chord sections are profiled to three, axially spaced, cross-sectional planes to axially mesh respective connector pins and sockets.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an insulative housing (1), and a reinforcing frame (4) removably disposed on the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a base (10) having a top side, and side walls (11) upwardly extending from the top side of the base, with a datum protrusion (111) formed on each of the side walls. The reinforcing frame includes a plurality of reinforcing pieces (41) located laterally on outer faces of the datum protrusions. The providence of the reinforcing pieces adjacent the datum protrusions can prevent the damage of the datum protrusions or portions of the side walls around the datum protrusions during the not-properly loading or removable process of an IC package onto the insulative housing.

Abstract: A flat flexible cable assembly includes a flat flexible cable having one or more substantially rectangular conductors encompassed within an insulating sheath. An overmold encapsulates and is secured to a portion of the flat flexible cable in an area in which the insulating sheath has been stripped. One or more sealing members are integrally-formed with the overmold and encapsulates and is secured to each stripped conductor to form a seal. The overmold and the sealing member(s) may be made of the same material by using a one-step process. Alternatively, the overmold and sealing member(s) may be made of different material by using a two-shot process. A method of manufacturing the flat flexible cable assembly is disclosed.

Abstract: A connector has a longitudinally rearwardly open housing having a forwardly open contact chamber. A flat multiconductor cable projects longitudinally forward in the housing into the contact chamber and is connected there to respective contacts. A spacer extends longitudinally forward into the housing adjacent the ribbon cable and projects longitudinally rearward from the housing. This spacer is formed with at least one transversely extending recess open inside the housing toward the ribbon cable. A molded synthetic-resin mass engaged around the cable immediately rearward of the housing fills the recess and bears transversely outward against the cable.

Abstract: A terminal-movable connector includes first support members which are disposed within an inner housing, and are fixed respectively to terminals in such a manner that each first support member is interposed between the inner housing and the corresponding terminal, and are slidable respectively in directions of axes of distal end portions of wires within the inner housing, and a second support member which is disposed in the inner housing, and supports the terminals in a manner to allow these terminals to be moved respectively in the axial directions of the distal end portions of the wires, and has nuts which are aligned respectively with bolt insertion holes formed respectively in electrical connection portions of the terminals.

Abstract: A connector for electrically connecting to a mating connector has a circuit board, a cable, and a support member. The circuit board has a front portion, a mid portion, and a rear portion. The front portion has a plurality of conductive pads for electrically contacting electrical portions of the mating connector. The rear portion has a plurality of soldering pads. The cable has a plurality of wires. The wires are soldered onto the soldering pads. The mid portion and the rear portion of the circuit board are embedded into the support member via a manner of insert-molding. As a result, the circuit board will not loosen from the support member, and the connection between the soldering pads of the circuit board and the wires of the cable is reliable.

Abstract: An electrical connector has a hard base part forming a plurality of rearwardly and forwardly open seat, respective contacts in the seats each having a front end and a rear end, and respective wires projecting forwardly into the seats and connected in the seats to the rear contact ends. A guide spaced rearward from the base part is engaged at least partially around the wires and aligns the wires with the respective seats. A connector element carries the guide on the base part. A soft jacket encapsulates a rear end of the base part, the guide, the element, and front ends of the wires and extends at least partially into the rear seat ends.

Abstract: The present invention provides a high voltage connector arrangement comprising an elongate electrically insulated module, which may be an insulated and screened surge arrester module, and an insulated connector for connecting the module to electrical equipment, which may be switchgear. The arrangement may be such that components of the module are protected from excess current flow therethrough, or the electrical field at the connector end of the conductive layer screen of the module is reduced. In an embodiment, the arrangement can achieve both of these results. The protection of the module is achieved by placing an electrode of the module within an insulated, and advantageously screened, arm of the connector adjacent the end of the conductive layer screen of the module. The electrode may comprise the electrode at one end of the module or may be spaced therefrom, for example by a component of the module.

Abstract: A connection system is provided for facilitating a downhole electrical reservoir monitoring and/or control system operated by a surface system. The connector system includes a set of fuses and a fuse blowing circuit for isolating a short circuit event and restoring functionality to the remaining components of the downhole system.

Abstract: In a method for forming an electrical cable connector having a voltage detection test point, an insulative shield is first molded from a thermoplastic and a conductive voltage detection test point terminal is inserted within the plastic insulative shield. After the pre-assembled insulative plastic shield and test point terminal are positioned adjacent the opening of the conductive outer shield, and after the conductive outer shield and an internal conductor are positioned within a mold cavity, an inner insulative housing is molded within the conductive outer shield and around the internal conductor.