Patents Represented by Attorney F. W. Raring
  • Patent number: 4447681
    Abstract: Switch key comprises a frame having a frame column and a plunger guided by the column. A return spring biases the plunger to its extended position. When the plunger is depressed, a switch actuator is moved against switch contacts adjacent to the frame to close the switch. The switch actuator comprises a bell crank pivoted to the frame and having a contact arm which closes the switch and a cam arm. The cam arm is cammed by the plunger to close the switch when the plunger is depressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Mark R. Desmarais
  • Patent number: 4444451
    Abstract: A modular plug-dual modular jack adaptor is disclosed. The adaptor is comprised of a two piece molded housing having a plurality of one piece uninsulated conductor members therein, which can engage directly with the contacts in other modular jacks and plugs. The conductor members are made from stamped and formed sheet metal or wire. The adaptor is intended to provide multiple jack access at a single jack location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Ronald W. Myers
  • Patent number: 4441251
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for manufacturing harness assemblies comprising two connectors having wires extending between the connectors. The two connectors are positioned adjacent to each other in an insertion zone with the wire receiving portions of terminals in the connectors in alignment. The wires are located in two spaced-apart planes in alignment with the terminals and the wires are moved towards the connectors and into the wire receiving portions of the terminals. Thereafter, the one connector with the wires attached is removed and the other connector is moved through and beyond the insertion zone and wires are pulled from reels and located in the insertion zone in the spaced-apart planes. The cycle is then repeated in placing two additional connectors in the insertion zone between the two planes of wires. A specific apparatus for carrying out the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1982
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Daniel B. Grubb
  • Patent number: 4440992
    Abstract: Low profile switch actuating assembly comprises a frame, a plunger slidably mounted in the frame, and a key top on the force-receiving end of the plunger. The underside of the key top has a frame-receiving recess therein which receives the upper end of the frame when the plunger is depressed. The force-receiving end of the plunger has radially extending arms which are also received in the frame-receiving recess and which have their outer ends received in arm-receiving recesses in the underside of the key top. The upper end of the frame has arm-receiving slots which receive portions of the arms that are adjacent the plunger axis. The plunger can be assembled to the key top and to the frame in any one of four angular orientations, if required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Mark R. Desmarais
  • Patent number: 4436358
    Abstract: Tab-type terminal intended for circuit board mounting comprises a tab having a base portion which extends laterally beyond the side edges of the tab. A mounting leg extends from the base portion and has convergent side edges. A slot is provided in the leg extending toward the base portion and divides the mounting leg into two sections. A pair of stabilizing arms extended in opposite directions from the base portion normally of the planes of the major surfaces of the tab.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel R. Coldren, Dennis P. Schwenk
  • Patent number: 4428636
    Abstract: Preloaded electrical connector receptacle has contact receiving cavities extending into one of its sidewalls. A recess extends from each cavity to the mating face and an opening is provided in the hood which communicates with the recesses. Flat stamped terminals are partially inserted into the cavities and have insulation piercing tangs which engage conductors inserted into a conductor receiving opening that extends inwardly from the rearward face of the housing. The terminals are connected to the conductors by fully inserting the terminals into their cavities. The terminals have cantilever spring arms extending through the recesses and into the openings in the hood. The ends of the arms engage terminals in a complementary plug when the plug is coupled to the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Lit-Yam Kam, Billy E. Olsson
  • Patent number: 4255004
    Abstract: A junction box comprising a stack of terminal boards sandwiched between opposite faces of a rigid insulating housing, each terminal board comprising a series of metal strips spaced apart on an insulating sheet to define discrete current paths, substantially rigid end portions of at least some of the strips extending from each layer perpendicularly of the planes of the layers and being located in channels formed in insulating ribs in the housing to provide contact portions for connection of external circuitry to current paths in respective layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1981
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Friedrich J. A. Kourimsky, Lothar H. W. Nix
  • Patent number: 4210376
    Abstract: Electrical connector receptacle of the type used in the telecommunications industry comprises a one-piece molded housing having a plug-receiving end and a plug-receiving opening extending into the plug-receiving end. A plurality of side-by-side conductors mounted in the housing have contact spring portions which extend from an internal sidewall of the plug-receiving opening adjacent to the plug-receiving end. These conductors extend over an external sidewall to the rearward end of the housing and across the rearward end past the other external sidewall, the ends of the conductors being intended to be inserted into holes in a circuit board and soldered to circuit board conductors. The housing has a frame portion which extends completely around the plug-receiving opening and has means at the rearward end for preventing insertion of a human finger into the plug-receiving end in a manner which could cause injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Donald W. K. Hughes, Ronald W. Myers
  • Patent number: 4169641
    Abstract: A one piece stamped and formed connector clip for connecting cable conductors to conductors on a circuit board comprises parallel spaced-apart co-planar support strips and a clip bar which extends between the support strips in a plane offset from the plane of the support strips. A plurality of cantilever springs extend from the clip bar obliquely towards and past the plane of the support strips. When the connector clip is mounted on a circuit board in straddling relationship to the circuit board conductors, and with the support strips against the circuit board, the springs will be pre-loaded against the circuit board conductors. The end of the cable is passed beneath the clip bar and pushed under the spring fingers so that the spring fingers urge the conductors of the cable against the circuit board conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 2, 1979
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Billy E. Olsson
  • Patent number: 4099316
    Abstract: A machine for inserting displation type terminals in strip form into cavities in a coil bobbin or the like comprises first and second slide assemblies in parallel side-by-side relationship. The strip of terminals is fed towards the insertion zone of the apparatus by a feeding means which is actuated during movement of the first slide member along its working stroke. A shearing means for shearing terminals from the strip is also actuated by the first slide member and this shearing means serves to place the sheared terminals in front of insertion members carried by the second slide member. Finally, during the working stroke of the first slide member, the insertion punches move relative to the second slide towards the insertion zone to advance the sheared terminals in a guide tube on the second slide member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Joe Pierce Morgan, Howard Charles Phillips, Richard Vernon Spong
  • Patent number: 3995358
    Abstract: A semiautomatic apparatus for attaching the ends of insulated electrical wires to a multi-contact electrical connector is disclosed. The connector has two parallel rows of slotted terminals with wire receiving portions facing in opposite directions. The apparatus has two reciprocal inserters for simultaneously inserting a pair of wires into oppositely facing terminals. The apparatus also has rotatable flipper members which are actuated by the inserters and which precisely position the wires in alignment with the inserters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Alvin Long, William Roderick Over, Willard Allen Smith
  • Patent number: 3988707
    Abstract: A load coil assembly housing for use with multiconductor cable containing a plurality of associated pairs of electrical conductors has connector terminals located along the periphery of the region in which load coils are located. That makes the otherwise conventional housing suitable for use with mass application tooling. Cable wires and load coil or component leads may be respectively attached by solderless and solder techniques to one terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Jesse Lee Moser, Robert Philmore Reavis, Melvin Andrew Soderstrom
  • Patent number: 3988102
    Abstract: A crimpable bundle tie is disclosed and claimed together with an applicator tool for attaching the bundle tie to a bundle containing a plurality of electrical wires. The bundle tie is generally U-shaped and its legs are inwardly deformed to envelop the wires. The applicator tool has a reciprocal anvil which moves towards a relatively stationary crimping means. The tool also has a number of reciprocal slides and levers for exerting a discontinuous force on the anvil during its travel. The anvil is spring-loaded so that the degree of deformation of the bundle tie is dependent upon the volume of wires enclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Johannes Cornelis Wilhelmus Bakermans, Ronald Bruce Barnes, Richard Anthony Sywulka
  • Patent number: 3987531
    Abstract: Fixture for use in locating wires in wire-receiving jigs comprises a fixture block having an upper surface upon which locating bosses are provided for locating two wire jigs in parallel spaced-apart relationship. A slot extends into one end of the block and has an inner end which is between the locating bosses. A cable containing a plurality of wires is positioned in the slot with the cable axis extending normally of the upper surface. The wire jigs are positioned on the bosses and the wires can thereafter be positioned in the wire jigs. The cable can be located at different relative positions in the slot for different wiring configurations in the connector to which the wires are later attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: John James Tucci
  • Patent number: 3986256
    Abstract: A wire positioning adapter for dressing wires from a multi-conductor cable to transverse terminal locations is disclosed. The adapter is used with a standard semi-automatic insertion apparatus which simultaneously attaches a pair of conductors to oppositely facing terminals. The adapter moves along a linear path with respect to the connector. Wires are laced across a wire positioning surface between the cable end and the terminals. The wires are allowed to longitudinally slip across this surface during movement of the adapter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Jerry Blanton Kilpatrick, John James Tucci
  • Patent number: 3985413
    Abstract: Miniature electrical connector for forming connections between conductors on parallel spaced apart substrates comprises a generally cylindrical elastomeric body having a thin non-yielding flexible circuit wrapped therearound. The circuit has parallel spaced apart conductors on its surface so that when the connector is positioned between the two parallel substrates and compressed between the substrates, the corresponding conductors on the substrates will be electrically connected by the conductors on the flexible circuit. The flexible circuit is not firmly bonded to the elastomeric body and the body is not significantly deformed when compressed between the substrates. The flexible circuit, being non-yielding is not deformed laterally so that alignment of conductors on the circuit with conductors on the substrate is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: William Robert Evans
  • Patent number: 3985416
    Abstract: An electrical connector for commoning a plurality of conductors, such as insulated wires, employs two similar mating insulating housings and a terminal plate formed from a resilient conductive metal. Conductor contact means such as parallel edge slots extend inwardly from two opposed edges of the terminal plate. The terminal plate is mounted in recesses formed in the housings and wire supporting passages traverse the recesses so that the electrical connection can be established between the various conductors and the terminal plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Frank Peter Dola, Frederick William Rossler, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3975812
    Abstract: Apparatus for connecting pairs of wires to each other has an operating zone through which a continuous strip of connecting devices is fed from an entrance side to an exit side thereof. The connecting devices have wire-receiving ends which face laterally of the strip and have separate metallic connecting means in each of the ends. A pair of wires are located in the operating zone with one wire in alignment with each of the wire-receiving ends. Insertion punches on each side of the strip insert each wire into a metallic connecting means. The process is then repeated for the second pair of wires to connect the pairs to each other. The connectors are fed to the exit side of the operating zone, and removed from the strip. The apparatus can also be used for making tap connections to the conductors in a cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: James Earl Fleischhacker, Vincent Nicholas, Henry George Wasserlein, Jr.
  • Patent number: 3972101
    Abstract: Apparatus for simultaneously inserting a plurality of wires in the wire receiving portions of terminals in a stackable module type electrical connector has a base portion and a removable inserting tool. The base portion has a module supporting surface and wire positioning means on each side of a module positioned on the base so that wires can be positioned with their axes extending across the module and in alignment with the terminals. The removable insertion tool is then assembled to the base and actuated to cut the wires and insert them into the terminals. The wire positioning means on the base can be selectively located at different levels above the module supporting surface so that wires can be inserted into all of the modules in the connector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Casey, William Roderick Over
  • Patent number: 3950065
    Abstract: Stamped and formed connecting device comprises a pair of plate-like members which are connected to each other by integral straps which extend between corresponding ends of the plate-like members conductor-receiving slots extend inwardly from the corresponding ends of the plate-like members so that a conductor can be moved laterally of its axis between the straps and into the slots. Integral retaining fingers extend from the opposed edges of the straps and between the plate-like members transversely of an inserted conductor to prevent movement of the conductor from the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1976
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert Maurice Renn