Patents Represented by Attorney Russell J. Egan

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  • Latching slotted beam terminal
    Patent number: 4448473
    Abstract: An improved latching slotted beam terminal is disclosed having two slotted plates connected by a bight and folded into overlying position. One plate has relatively short, stiff arms defining a narrow conductor engaging slot. The other plate has relatively long, flexible arms defining a slot wider than the conductor and outwardly directed shoulders on the free ends of the tines. The wire gripping will be by the first plate and latching of an associated cover member by the second plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Ronald G. Felix, Douglas R. Hoffman
  • Polarized locking latch cover for an electrical connector
    Patent number: 4448471
    Abstract: A cover assembly formed by a pair of mating cover members interengage with the housing of an electrical connector and with each other to provide polarization/keying and latching for the connector as well as strain relief for the conductors leading from the connector. The covers together define conductor exiting which can be normal to or parallel to the mating face of the connector or any combination of exiting. The strain relief is provided by a known cable or bundle tie encircling the conductors and passing through belt loop extensions on one of the covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Donald A. Berry, David J. Fabian
  • Method and apparatus for producing a premolded packaging
    Patent number: 4445736
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming a package for leadless integrated circuit substrates. Two identical webs of conductive material are formed into ladder like arrays of parallel terminals. One web has first housing portions formed on opposite ends of the terminals which are then formed on the housing portions. The second web is placed overlying the first web and between the first housing portions and second housing portions molded thereon integral with the first housing portions. The second terminals are then formed to finish the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: John R. Hopkins
  • Molding apparatus including insert feeding means
    Patent number: 4443173
    Abstract: Apparatus for dispensing individual inserts into proper position for subsequent molding operation includes a feed tube extending normal to the closing axis of the mold at the position of the insert and a feed track leading from a hopper to intersect the feed tube. A transfer pin associated with each feed tube, and secured to the molding mechanism, drives an insert from the feed track through the feed tube into position within the mold. A lever assembly in the mold, and actuated by the activation thereof, allows only a single insert to drop through the feed track for each closure of the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 17, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert L. Mansberger, II
  • Surface mount/daughter board connector
    Patent number: 4439000
    Abstract: A surface mount connector is disclosed for electrically and mechanically interconnecting a mother circuit board with a daughter circuit board. The connector has an elongated housing with an inverted T profile, the cross bar of which engages the mother circuit board and the leg of which has a slot to receive the daughter circuit board. A plurality of terminals are mounted in the connector, each terminal having a first portion lying exposed in the slot and a second portion exposed from the cross bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: John W. Kaufman, William J. Stape, Patrick F. Yeager
  • Hermaphroditic back shell cover
    Patent number: 4436361
    Abstract: A hermaphroditic assembly formed by a pair of cover members is disclosed for enclosing the back portion of an electrical connector so as to protect the junction of conductors and electrical terminals carried thereby. The cover members are assembled with a known connector by moving them transversely of the connector relative to each other until mating engagement is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Earl W. McCleerey
  • Mass terminatable single row connector assembly
    Patent number: 4435035
    Abstract: A connector assembly is disclosed for effecting mass insulation displacing termination of a plurality of conductors into a like plurality of terminals which are pre-loaded into a housing in a single aligned row. The subject connector assembly includes a housing having a plurality of terminal passages therein opening, in a forward direction, onto a mating face normal to the axes of the passages and, in a rearward direction, opening outwardly toward one side of the housing. A terminal is mounted in each passageway with a matable portion directed toward the mating face and an insulation displacing, conductor engaging portion lying in the outwardly open rear portion. The subject connector assembly also has a cover with one end edge engageable with the housing at the outward opening of the passageways and the other end enclosing the rear of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Donald A. Berry, David J. Fabian, John E. Lucius
  • Male/female cable connector
    Patent number: 4431249
    Abstract: A male/female or half tap connector is formed by a central lacing block and a pair of mating housing members. The lacing block has a plurality of conductor passages extending therethrough in a first direction and pairs of terminal passages extending therethrough in a second direction, each pair of terminal passages intersecting a respective conductor passage. The mating housing members together define a lacing block receiving cavity and oppositely directed mating profiles. Each housing member carries a plurality of terminals, each with an insulation piercing, conductor engaging portion directed toward the cavity and aligned to enter a respective terminal passage to engage a conductor and latch with the lacing block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert H. Frantz, Gary W. Hawk
  • One piece zif connector
    Patent number: 4428635
    Abstract: A method and connector are disclosed for making a zero insertion force connection between mating members while providing a contact wiping action. The connector has a housing, a plurality of terminals mounted in the housing, a cam mounted for longitudinal movement in the housing and a cam follower mounted between the cam and each row of terminals. Movement of the cam from a first to a second position causes the terminals to open to receive the mating member, return movement to the first position allows the terminals to engage the mating member, movement to a third position causes a first wiping action by the terminals and return to the first position causes a reverse wiping action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Wilbur A. Hamsher, Jr., Robert N. Weber
  • Cam actuated zero insertion connector assembly
    Patent number: 4426123
    Abstract: A connector assembly is disclosed for effecting zero insertion force mating of projecting blade portions of terminals carried by a plug member with conductive holes in a circuit board or the like and enclosed in a header. The plug member has a housing, a plurality of terminals carried in the housing each with a blade portion projecting from a mating face and a conductor engaging portion, and hermaphroditic cover members enclosing a portion of the housing. The housing also has a cam surface and polarizing lugs. The header has means to mount it on a circuit board or the like with walls of the header forming a shroud around an array of conductive holes in the circuit board. A cam member is rotatably mounted in one end of the header to act on the plug member driving it transversely to bring the blades of the terminals into contact with the walls of the respective conductive holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Leon T. Ritchie, Clair W. Snyder, Jr., John A. Woratyla
  • Snap-on cable clamp
    Patent number: 4421376
    Abstract: A cable clamp assembly in which a cable clamping member is easily and rapidly secured to a housing of an electrical connector so that the cable extends therefrom in either a 90.degree. or 180.degree. direction as selected. The assembly includes a pair of members which are snap fitted in an assembly on the rear of an existing electrical connector, and a cable clamping member which is selectively positioned between the cover members providing 90.degree. or 180.degree. exit for the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Pete Cosmos, Earl W. McCleerey
  • Method of mounting tilt latch zero insertion force connector to a substrate
    Patent number: 4420882
    Abstract: A connector assembly is disclosed having both the capability of being mass terminated and for effecting zero insertion force mating with conductive holes of a printed circuit board or the like. The subject connector system includes a pair of identical housing members, each of which receives a plurality of terminals therein, and a pair of hermaphroditic cover members. Each housing member is an elongated member of insulative material having a mating face and a plurality of terminal receiving passages opening onto the mating face. The terminals each have a first end lying within the housing and capable of effecting mass termination of individual conductors by insulation displacing means and a second end extending from the mating face of the housing in resilient cantilever beam fashion. Each of the hermaphroditic cover members encloses a respective one of the housing members to form a complete subassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1983
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Leon T. Ritchie, Clair W. Snyder, Jr., Thurston H. Toeppen, John A. Woratyla
  • Shielding assembly enclosing an electrical connector terminating shielded cable
    Patent number: 4420201
    Abstract: A shielding assembly is disclosed for enclosing an electrical connector terminating fully shielded cable, with the shielding assembly terminating the shielding of the cable. The subject shielding assembly completely encloses the connector and provides a ground path for the shielding of the cable to an equipment cabinet and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1983
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Brian D. Stephenson
  • High voltage rack and panel connector
    Patent number: 4417736
    Abstract: An improved sealing means is disclosed for use with high voltage rack and panel connectors. The subject sealing means is received in a cavity of a panel or ferrule member and forms a recess which closely receives a rigid portion of a mating rack or mate connector member. A further portion of the sealing means allows for some flow to compensate for misalignment of the rigid portions of the mating connector members due to inaccuracies resulting from practical molding processes and/or mounting configurations. The configuration of the seal assures that it will remain in the panel when the connector is unmated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1983
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: Henry O. Herrmann, Jr.
  • Interlocking crimp sleeve and method of securing to connector
    Patent number: 4415223
    Abstract: An interlocking crimp sleeve is disclosed for application to a terminated connector so as to apply an annular crimp securing the cable and particularly the cable shielding thereto. The subject sleeve is formed as an initially flat strip of metal stock having pre-formed opposite ends of an interlocking configuration. The strip is applied to the connector by bending around the electrical cable, engaging the interlocking end configurations and crimping the thus formed substantially cylindrical sleeve to provide the desired clamping and compression of the cable and engagement between the cable shield and connector shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1983
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventor: John C. Asick
  • Multi-contact electrical connector plug
    Patent number: D271685
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Albert Casciotti, Robert D. Hollyday
  • Mixed terminal electrical connector plug
    Patent number: D271686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Albert Casciotti, Robert D. Hollyday
  • Multi-contact electrical connector receptacle
    Patent number: D272145
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Albert Casciotti, Robert D. Hollyday
  • 180.degree. Cable strain relief and cover for an electrical connector
    Patent number: D272733
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Pete Cosmos, Earl W. McCleerey
  • 90.degree. Cable strain relief and electrical connector cover
    Patent number: D272820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: AMP Incorporated
    Inventors: Pete Cosmos, Earl W. McCleerey