Abstract: Stimulation and recording electrode assemblies that are particularly useful for Automatic Period Stimulation (APS). Such embodiments are compatible with nerve monitoring systems to provide continuous stimulation of a nerve during surgery. Certain embodiments include an electrode assembly having cuff including a body and two ears extending from the body. Within the body, at least one electrode is supported and connected to a lead wire assembly. The ears can be brought together to enlarge a gap in the body so that the electrode assembly can be fixated around a nerve. Other embodiments include an electrode assembly including first and second needle electrodes that each have a tip. A body is provided to interconnect the needle electrodes and can be manipulated to move the tips either toward or away from one another. Disclosed embodiments provide nerve monitoring and stimulation in cases where the nerve is only partially dissected.

Abstract: Stimulation and recording electrode assemblies that are particularly useful for Automatic Period Stimulation (APS). Such embodiments are compatible with nerve monitoring systems to provide continuous stimulation of a nerve during surgery. Certain embodiments include an electrode assembly having cuff including a body and two ears extending from the body. Within the body, at least one electrode is supported and connected to a lead wire assembly. The ears can be brought together to enlarge a gap in the body so that the electrode assembly can be fixated around a nerve. Other embodiments include an electrode assembly including first and second needle electrodes that each have a tip. A body is provided to interconnect the needle electrodes and can be manipulated to move the tips either toward or away from one another. Disclosed embodiments provide nerve monitoring and stimulation in cases where the nerve is only partially dissected.

Abstract: A housing for an electrical machine includes a cover with an electrical plug connection. The plug connection includes at least one electrically conductive contact or a plurality of electrically conductive contacts configured to electrically connect the housing to a plug. The contact is routed through an aperture in the cover and forms an electrical plug contact via an end section that projects out of the cover. The plug connection has a securing element that extends in a flat manner. A lateral dimension of the aperture in the cover is formed such that the contact is routed through the aperture via the end section and engages behind a projection in an interlocking manner by virtue of moving transverse to the longitudinal extent in the aperture. The securing element has at least one aperture that is configured to fix the contact in the aperture transverse to a longitudinal extent of the contact.

Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes a housing (11), a number of contacts (12), and an audio plug (22). The housing has a number of passageways (113) and a receiving cavity (117) therein, and a first limiting member (118) and a second limiting member (119) formed in the receiving cavity. The contacts are received in the passageways. The audio plug is removably received in the receiving cavity. The audio plug has a mating portion (221), a first retaining member (222) extending from the mating portion and engaging with the first limiting member (118) for preventing the audio plug from moving along the axis thereof, a rear portion (223) opposite to the mating portion, and a second retaining member or rib (224) formed in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the audio plug and engaging with the second limiting member (119) for preventing the audio plug from turning around on the axis thereof.

Abstract: A cable connector (2) includes a number of signal and power cables (26, 28), a dielectric housing (20) defining a number of passageways (204), a number of signal contacts (22) received in the housing and electrically connecting with the signal cables, and a number of power contacts (24) received in the passageways. Each passageway has a guiding channel (2041) and a receiving space (2043). Each power contact includes a contact portion (242) for mating with a complementary contact, a tail portion (244) electrically connecting with a corresponding power cable and a middle portion (240) connected between the contact portion and the tail portion. The contact portion has a projection (246) formed adjacent the middle portion. Each power contact is assembled to a corresponding passageway by moving the projection into the guiding channel and then rotating the projection into the receiving space.

Abstract: A memory module connector for horizontal insertion is disclosed. The device is formed by a long and narrow connector body, which has a horizontally directed connector slot on the lengthwise section, and the connector body has multiple terminal posts having a right-angle bent in the middle section to form an inverted “L” shape structure. One end of each terminal post is lined on the inner wall of the connector slot with a matching pair on opposing slot walls, and the other end of each terminal sticks out from the bottom of the connector body and penetrates the corresponding position on the motherboard. According to the connector design of the present invention, memory module can be inserted into the motherboard in horizontal direction, allowing for close fitting in enclosure with height or thickness limitations.

Abstract: A connecting structure in a switch device with AC inlets is disclosed wherein, when terminals of the switch device are connected together using a thin metallic connecting strip, there is no fear of an external force being imposed on the terminals and causing damage to the connection between the terminals and the connecting strip, nor is there any fear of unstable contact, and which can keep a terminal holding position of the bracket stable and is superior in assemblability and reliability of connection. The switch device comprises AC inlets having a connecting pin for AC input and an inlet terminal for connection, an AC switch having a connecting-side terminal and an output-side terminal, a metallic connecting strip for electrically connecting the inlet terminal of the AC inlets and the connecting-side terminal of the AC switch with each other, and a bracket with the AC inlets and the AC switch attached thereto.

Abstract: A plurality of terminals are assembled into a housing of an electrical connector. The terminals initially are joined by a carrier strip. The housing has a plurality of terminal-receiving passages along with an insertion slot communicating with and spanning a plurality of the passages. The terminals are inserted into the insertion slot in an insertion direction. The terminals and carrier strip are moved transversely of the insertion direction. The terminals and carrier strip may be moved again generally parallel to the insertion direction until the terminals are positioned in the terminal-receiving passages. The carrier strip is removed from the terminals after the terminals are seated into their passages.

Abstract: The invention relates to a high-density, high-voltage-proof, multi-contact connector assembly. In order to overcome the problem of surface leakage currents or electrical discharges due to high voltage, the structure of terminals of the connector assembly has been changed in such a way as to provide male terminals with insulating ferrules, so that there will no longer be any gap for electric surface currents where two thermoplastic parts of the insulating body of a connector are pressed one part against the other. According to another embodiment, this problem is solved by forming an insulating body of the connector in one piece and inserting the terminals into openings being smaller than the diameter of the terminals, so that the undersized part of the opening is located in the depth of the opening and the creep distances are enlarged.

Abstract: A connector is described which uses a prior art standard housing but which uses a modified socket contact to enable reception of a long pin contact. The standard housing (7, FIG. 8) has a horizontal passage (28) with a rear end portion that has four ribs (9). The socket contact (4, FIG. 5) is a substantially cylindrical tube having a plurality of projections (13) on its outside that can pass between the housing ribs, with the socket contact then turned so the projections lie forward of the ribs to lock the socket contact in place. The projections permit the inside of the tube to be of substantially constant diameter to receive a long pin contact.

Abstract: A lamp socket for a vehicle includes a central electrode having a substantially rectangular button-shaped terminal disposed at the central part of a circular disc-shaped insulator and a coil spring for normally biasing the insulator. The button-shaped terminal is fixedly connected to a cord via a caulking portion and has the same sectional contour as that of a through hole formed through the insulator at the central part of the latter so as to allow the button-shaped terminal to be inserted therethrough, and a fitting groove is formed on said insulator at the position located angularly offset from the through hole by an angle of about 90.degree. so as to enable the button-shaped terminal to be fitted into the fitting groove. A clip portion is disposed on the rear surface side of the insulator so as to firmly hold the button-shaped terminal by engaging the caulking portion with the clip portion when the button-shaped terminal is inserted through the through hole and then turned by an angle of 90.degree..

Abstract: An electrical connector has an insulating body 30 with longitudinal chambers 45, 46 and 47 running through it. Electrical contact elements 81, 82 and 83 are received one each in the chambers. Each chamber has projections .alpha. and .beta. and each contact element has a rebate 86. Rotation of the contact element in the chamber relative to the body from an initial orientation to a second orientation engages the rebate 86 with the projections .alpha. and .beta. to restrain the elements from longitudinal displacement relative to the body. Projections 50 on the external face of the body 30 can engage an external portion of the contact element when that element is rotated to its second orientation to retain the element from rotating relative to the body. The connector can be a plug or a socket. A corresponding method of assembling an electrical connector is described.

Abstract: Insulator for an electric terminal attached to an electric wire includes a cylindrical member having a hole, and a flange having a hole aligned with the hole of the cylinder member, a cutout provided at a peripheral portion or a large diameter hole provided adjacent to the hole to pass the wire, and a passage provided between the cutout or the later hole and the former hole to move the wire to the former hole by pressing the same. The wire attached the terminal is inserted into the cutout or the latter hole and is moved to the former hole through the passage and the terminal is fitted in the aligned hole of the flange by pulling the wire.