Abstract: A fiber optic ferrule and a guide pin clamp allows for changing guide pins in the field. The guide pin clamp has a forward clamp portion, a rearward clamp portion configured to engage the biasing spring and a guide pin retaining plate. The forward clamp portion and the rearward clamp portion move relative to one another to also move guide pin retaining plate from a first position to a second position to allow for the removal or insertion of guide pins.

Abstract: A terminal wire clamp including a body, an aperture defined by the body, and a first tab. The body has a front face, a back face opposite to the front face, and a side edge. The first tab extends from the side edge in a first direction outside of a plane defined by the body.

Abstract: A terminal wire clamp including a body, an aperture defined by the body, and a first tab. The body has a front face, a back face opposite to the front face, and a side edge. The first tab extends from the side edge in a first direction away from the front face.

Abstract: Provided is a conductive probe having a first end portion and a second end portion opposing the first end portion. The first end portion includes first to fourth linear ridges and first to fifth vertexes, and the first to fourth linear ridges are spaced from one another and arranged to form a cross. The first to fourth vertexes are located on an outer circumference of the first end portion and further arranged between the first linear ridge and the second linear ridge, between the second linear ridge and the third linear ridge, between the third linear ridge and the fourth linear ridge, and between the fourth linear ridge and the first linear ridge, respectively.

Abstract: A battery terminal connector for terminating to a battery post of a battery. The battery terminal connector includes a cable attachment portion, a flange portion having a tightening member provided thereon, and a post engaging portion. A guard member is mounted on the flange portion. The guard member is moveable between a first position and a second position. The guard member has a projection which extends over the tightening member when the guard member is in the first position. The projection is removed from the tightening member when the battery terminal connector is properly positioned relative to the battery post and the guard member is in the second position. The battery terminal connector can only be terminated to the battery post when the battery terminal connector is properly positioned relative to the battery post.

Abstract: Certain embodiments described herein are directed to couplers configured to provide an electrical connection between two or more separate electrical wires. In certain embodiments, the coupler is configured to provide the electrical connection without the two electrical wires physically contacting each other. In other instances, the coupler can be configured to provide an electrical connection between the wires without the use of an electrical box or wiring nuts.

Abstract: A field device is provided. The field device includes field device electronics configured to couple to a transducer. A plurality of terminals is coupled to the field device electronics and is configured to couple the field device to a process communication loop to allow the field device to communicate over the process communication loop. Each of the plurality of terminals is configured to support multiple conductor attachment types.

Abstract: A vertebral rod connector includes a first portion configured to engage a fastener construct and define a first longitudinal axis. A second portion is configured to engage a vertebral rod and define a second longitudinal axis disposed transverse to the first longitudinal axis. A flexible linking portion is disposed for connecting the first portion with the second portion. The linking portion has a bifurcated configuration oriented transverse to the first longitudinal axis. Methods of use are disclosed.

Abstract: An electrical connector and method for mounting to mating member with an arcuate cylindrical member. The electrical connector includes a housing and a mounting member extending from the housing. The mounting member has latching members and a mating member receiving section. The mating member receiving section has an arcuate configuration which cooperates with the arcuate cylindrical member to maintain the electrical connector on the arcuate cylindrical member. The latching members have latching arms, with each latching arm having an arcuate configuration which cooperates with a surface of the mating member to prevent unwanted rotation of the electrical connector relative to the mating member.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle includes a detent for holding a terminal clamp in an open position. A terminal assembly having a terminal clamp, a terminal plate, and a terminal fastener. The terminal fastener can move the terminal clamp toward the terminal plate. The terminal clamp includes a tab that fits in a tab pocket formed in a middle housing of the receptacle. The tab pocket includes a detent for retaining the tab adjacent to a first end of the tab pocket. With the tab in this position, the terminal assembly is in the open configuration so that a space is formed between the terminal clamp and the terminal plate. In the open configuration an electrical wire can be disposed between the clamp and plate. To clamp the wire, the fastener is rotated to move the clamp toward the plate, and the detent releases the tab under application of force.

Abstract: A terminal block (10) is for connecting terminals (T) connected to enameled wires extending from a motor and busbars (B) extending from an inverter and includes a plurality of nuts (20) arranged in a width direction and configured to fasten the terminals (T) and the busbars (B) together with bolts (BT), guides (54) are provided between adjacent nuts (20) and configured to guide bolt fastening portions (T1) of the terminals (T) to the upper surfaces of the nuts by coming into contact with lateral edge parts of the terminals (T), and posture correcting portions (55) provided at positions where the terminals (T) are pulled out backward from the nuts and configured to correct postures of barrel portions (T2) of the terminals (T) in the width direction by contacting the barrels (T2) in the width direction.

Abstract: A connector for terminating to a terminal post. The connector has a connector body and a lever. The connector body has clamping arms, with the clamping arms having outwardly directed cam surfaces. The lever is connected to the connector body for pivotal movement thereabout between an unclamped position and a clamped position. The lever has activation members with inwardly directed cam surfaces. The rotation of the lever from the unclamped position to the clamped position causes the inwardly directed cam surface to progressively engage the outwardly directed cam surfaces, causing the clamping arms to be moved toward each other thereby clamping the connector to the terminal post without the need for tools.

Abstract: Appliance for connecting high-current electric apparatuses, primarily conductor bars, comprising an electrically conducting body (31) and at least one connection piece (22), where the connection piece (22) has a seat arranged to encircle the body (31) in a concentric manner. A preferably frustum-shaped retention portion having monotonic decreasing cross-sectional size is disposed on the body, the retention portion being retained in the seat by frictional connection. The retention portion has increased contact surface, and in specific cases the body (31) is adapted for receiving a cable end. The invention is essentially characterised by that the increased contact surface is constituted by indentations implemented as ribs arranged perpendicular to the axis of the body (31) and/or as grooves extending in the direction of the generator of the body (31), where the indentations undergo different amounts of local deformation along the axis of the body (31) as the appliance is pressed together.

Abstract: An electrical connector with a base and a lug rotationally coupled to the base with a bolt having an integral compression washer. The lug and the base have complementary gear faces. A set screw in the lug has a threaded shaft and a head with a projecting hexagonal configuration. The lug can be rotated so as to receive a relatively large gauge wire.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a first conductive member and a second conductive member. The first conductive member includes a first channel portion extending from a first wedge portion, with the first channel portion configured to receive a first conductor therein. The first conductive member includes a jaw movably coupled to the first channel portion and being positioned between the first channel portion and the first wedge portion. The second conductive member includes a second channel portion extending from a second wedge portion where the second channel portion configured to receive a second conductor. The first wedge portion and the second wedge portion are assembled such that the second wedge portion engages the jaw and moves the jaw to the closed position. The jaw engages the first conductor in the closed position. Optionally, the first channel portion may have a contoured shape.

Abstract: A connector assembly for connecting first and second elongate electrical conductors includes an electrically conductive first connector member, an electrically conductive second connector member, and a clamping mechanism. The first connector member includes: a first body having inner and outer opposed ends; a first hook portion on the outer end of the first body, the first hook portion defining a first channel to receive the first conductor; and a first abutment portion on the inner end of the first body. The second connector member includes: a second body having inner and outer opposed ends; a second hook portion on the outer end of the second body, the second hook portion defining a second channel to receive the second conductor; and a second abutment portion on the inner end of the second body.

Abstract: An improved clamp that can be inserted into a wiring device independent of a wiring termination assembly thereby reducing the complexity and cost of the manufacture of the wiring device. The clamp has a pair of legs spaced apart forming an opening to allow the wiring termination assembly to be inserted therebetween. The wiring device includes support members to support the clamp legs so to permit the clamp to pivot about the support member independently of the wiring termination assembly.

Abstract: A wiring device common in household circuits includes a flexible brush that is a separate piece from a screw plate that receives electrical power. A terminal screw can thread into the screw plate. The brush may be positioned between the screw plate and the head of the terminal screw and can have a clearance hole through which the threads if the terminal screw can pass. Good electrical and thermal conductivity is assured between the screw plate and the brush by tightening the screw. A ground strap can be employed to hold a cover to a base of the electrical device. The strap can include openings which engage snap tabs on the cover to lock all components into a complete assembly. The strap also can have hooks which engage the cover to prevent the cover from being pulled out of the strap. The wiring device can be an electrical switch, a receptacle, or any similar type of device.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle, which includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion coupled to the first housing portion. An electrical device is positioned between the first and second housing portions. The terminal has a base and a first protrusion and a second protrusion extending transverse to the base. The first and second protrusions are on opposite sides of the terminal. A clamp is located adjacent to the terminal and positioned between the first and second protrusions and is adapted to couple an electrical wire to the terminal. A fastening device extends through the clamp and is adapted to rotate relative to the terminal. When rotated, the clamp engages at least one of the first and second protrusions on the terminal to limit rotation of the clamp relative to the terminal, thereby preventing separation of the housing.

Abstract: A grounding connector with an improved ground terminal that facilitates easy ground wire attachment. The grounding connector includes a base that locates the ground terminal so that the ground terminal can operate between a wire receiving position and a wire engaging position without interference from the structure to which the connector is attached. The ground terminal includes a bracket having at least one guide and an actuator to move the bracket between the wire receiving and wire engaging positions. The guide of the bracket is received by a guide aperture in the base to guide the movement of the bracket. The bracket also defines relatively large ground wire receiving apertures that are exposed for receiving a ground wire when the bracket is in the wire receiving position. Once a grounding wire is inserted into the apertures, the bracket is actuated to its wire engaging position, and the wire is clamped against the connector.

Abstract: A screw terminal assembly for a wiring device includes a terminal base with a bore having an internal thread. A screw having a shank with an internal thread and a head at one end is threadedly engaged in the bore. A portion of the external thread is deformed adjacent the end remote from the head to limit removal of the screw from the bore.

Abstract: A line connector, such as a socket outlet or plug, includes at least one contact member such as a receptacle or pin and at least one connecting terminal which is electrically connected to the contact member and to which an electrical conductor can be connected. The connecting terminal has a tail which can be forcibly fitted into a tubular member for connecting a connecting terminal electrically to the contact member. Applications include demountable plugs and sockets.

Abstract: A pressure plate for an electrical device includes at least one internal standoff, at least one outboard standoff, and an anti-rotation leg. The internal and outboard standoffs prevent overtightening of the terminal screw. The anti-rotation leg preserves the orientation of the pressure plate and prevents a speed wire arm from being deformed when removing a speed wired wire from the device.

Abstract: A battery pack is constructed with a plurality of battery modules. Each battery module comprises a plurality of prismatic cell cases having short lateral walls and long lateral walls and respectively accommodating elements for electromotive force, these cells being mutually coupled sharing their short lateral walls as partition walls, thereby constituting an integral battery case. Electrode terminals of positive and negative polarities are arranged at longitudinal opposite ends of the integral battery case. Projections and indentations for positioning the plurality of battery modules when coupling them together with their long side faces abutted each other to constitute the battery pack are formed substantially in the center of given cell cases positioned symmetrical with respect to the centerline in the lengthwise direction of the battery module.

Abstract: A contact member or bridge for an electrical connector includes a bridge strap with a base plate and an abutment member coupled to and extending from the bridge strap. The base plate extends substantially perpendicular to the bridge strap and has an internally threaded bore. An abutment member extends adjacent a side edge of the base plate, and has planar surface extending perpendicularly to and facing the base plate. A clamping plate overlies the base plate, has a substantially straight side edge adjacent the planar surface and has a through bore. A screw extends through the bore in the clamping plate and threadedly engages the threaded bore in the base plate.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electric terminal device as featured by providing at one side of a washer for supporting a terminal screw a washer guide section which is bent toward a terminal fixture as mated with the terminal screw and extends in a direction parallel with the axis of such terminal screw while providing a recovery spring between a housing and a midway portion in back of the washer guide section (at the opposite side to the terminal screw), wherein where no lead wires are implemented therein, it is possible to let the device be in the recovered state due to presence of the recovery-spring force thus enabling a lead wire to be directly inserted into a gap above the terminal fixture; conversely, where the wire is to be taken out of it, unlocking the terminal screw may permit automatic recovery at the recovered state due to application of the recovery spring force.

Abstract: An electrical terminal clamping assembly of the character that will simultaneously accommodate and securely grip one or more conductor wires of substantially different diameters. The assembly includes a threaded terminal screw and a uniquely configured generally circular shaped clamping plate or tilt washer which is adapted to freely tilt relative to the undersurface of the head of the terminal screw in a manner to move gripping projections provided on the undersurface of the washer into secure clamping engagement with a wire of large diameter disposed on one side of the axial center line of the terminal screw and into secure clamping engagement with a wire of much smaller diameter disposed on the opposite side of the axial center line.

Abstract: A multiple cable connector and method for electrically connecting and mechanically securing a first cable to a second cable. The connector includes a C-shaped member having a flange disposed therein, a first channel, and a second channel parallel to the first channel and spaced apart therefrom. The first and second channels are inwardly facing and connected by a web extending therebetween. An F-shaped member is also included in the cable connector that has a first arm for retaining the first cable within the first channel, a second arm for retaining the second cable within the second channel, and a projection for engaging the flange when the F-shaped member is press fit into the C-shaped member.

Abstract: An electrical terminal clamping assembly of the character that will simultaneously accommodate and securely grip one or more conductor wires of substantially different diameters. The assembly includes a threaded terminal screw and a uniquely configured generally circular shaped clamping plate or tilt washer which is adapted to freely tilt relative to the undersurface of the head of the terminal screw in a manner to move gripping projections provided on the undersurface of the washer into secure clamping engagement with a wire of large diameter disposed on one side of the axial center line of the terminal screw and into secure clamping engagement with a wire of much smaller diameter disposed on the opposite side of the axial center line.

Abstract: A tilting terminal clamp having a clamping plate with a central, raised, frusto-conical annulus is provided with an aperture wall having a straight line portion to engage a retaining ring of a screw. This straight wall portion is preferably coined into the annulus aperture which has an upper, inclined wall portion of a greater diameter than the diameter of the straight portion in order to receive a fillet joining the head of the screw to the screw shank. To avoid cutting strands of wire from a clamped, stranded terminal wire, the lower peripheral edge is formed without a sharp burr edge, and a burr edge is formed on the upwardly facing side of the clamping plate. Increased holding power for gripping the terminal wire is provided by extending the serrations from the frusto-conical annulus to the outer peripheral edge of the clamping plate, and by making the serrations increasingly wider and deeper as they flare outwardly from the annulus to the outer, peripheral edge of the clamping plate.

Abstract: The invention comprises an electrical connector with a clamp member having two opposing channels for receiving conductors therein. The channels extend longitudinally along a length of the clamp member. The opposing channels are connected together by an intermediate portion. The intermediate portion has a web and an inner loop to provide inherent resiliency in the clamp member. The connector also has a wedge member to be received within the clamp member between the opposed channels. The wedge member is driven within the clamp member in a lateral direction by a bolt. The bolt connects the clamp member to the wedge member.

Abstract: An electrical terminal clamping assembly of the character that will simultaneously accommodate and securely grip one or more conductor wires of substantially different diameters. The assembly includes a threaded terminal screw and a uniquely configured clamping plate or tilt washer which is adapted to freely tilt relative to the undersurface of the head of the terminal screw in a manner to move gripping projections provided on the undersurface of the washer into secure clamping engagement with a wire of large diameter disposed on one side of the axial center line of the terminal screw and into secure clamping engagement with a wire of much smaller diameter disposed on the opposite side of the axial center line. The undersurface of the tilt washer is provided with uniquely configured, generally circularly shaped gripping protuberances that provide multiple contact points for firmly gripping the different diameter conductor wires which are disposed on opposite sides of the terminal screw.

Abstract: A tilting terminal clamp having a clamping plate with a central, raised, frusto-conical annulus is provided with an aperture wall having a straight line portion to engage a retaining ring of a screw. This straight wall portion is preferably coined into the annulus aperture which has an upper, inclined wall portion of a greater diameter than the diameter of the straight portion in order to receive a fillet joining the head of the screw to the screw shank. To avoid cutting strands of wire from a clamped, stranded terminal wire, the lower peripheral edge is formed without a sharp burr edge, and a burr edge is formed on the upwardly facing side of the clamping plate. Increased holding power for gripping the terminal wire is provided by extending the serrations from the frusto-conical annulus to the outer peripheral edge of the clamping plate, and by making the serrations increasingly wider and deeper as they flare outwardly from the annulus to the outer, peripheral edge of the clamping plate.

Abstract: An electrical terminal clamping assembly of the character that will simultaneously accommodate and securely grip one or more conductor wires of substantially different diameters. The assembly includes a threaded terminal screw and a uniquely configured clamping plate or tilt washer which is adapted to freely tilt relative to the undersurface of the head of the terminal screw in a manner to move gripping projections provided on the undersurface of the washer into secure clamping engagement with a wire of large diameter disposed on one side of the axial center line of the terminal screw and into secure clamping engagement with a wire of much smaller diameter disposed on the opposite side of the axial center line. The undersurface of the tilt washer is provided with uniquely configured, generally circularly shaped gripping protuberances that provide multiple contact points for firmly gripping the different diameter conductor wires which are disposed on opposite sides of the terminal screw.

Abstract: An electrical connector block is provided having a housing with a pair of generally parallel sidewalls extending from a base member and separated by a trough open on the side opposite the base member, a groove on each sidewall opposite the trough and spaced from the open side of the trough, a cap member having depending arms adapted to slide along the sides of the parallel sidewalls over the open trough, said arms having inturned flanges engaged in the grooves of the sidewall, at least one screw member threadingly engaged in said cap member and carrying a clamp member pivoted on the end thereof between the sidewalls for clamping a wire between the clamp member and base member.

Abstract: The subject invention is a device for joining and separating first and second printed circuit boards connectable by a socket on one of the boards and a plurality of pins projecting from the other of the boards. The device comprises a screw held captive to the first board but rotatable therein, and a spacer fastened to the second board and having a threaded hole for receiving the screw. The pins are inserted into and withdrawn from the socket by the engagement and disengagement, respectively, of the threaded hole by the screw.

Abstract: A screw connection device for electric conductors, is provided having at least one screw-clamping piece assembly. A structure integral with the insulating body of the terminal, partially surrounds the screw head and has at least one heel. This heel is applicable against an inclined face of the clamp and is adapted so as to hold the screw-clamp assembly in position against removal along the axis of the screw and against tipping towards the conductor insertion side.

Abstract: An electrical connector for electrically connecting two conductors. More particularly the connector includes a C-shaped body member having parallel, inwardly facing channels along each side for receiving conductors therein and a pair of toggle blocks pivotally hinged together and each having outwardly facing channels along one side. The toggle blocks, having a combined width greater than the space between conductors positioned in the inwardly facing channels, compress the conductors therein when drawn into the body member.