Abstract: A plug and jack connector for multi-conductor cable is provided with shielding to attenuate EMI/RFI radiation passing into and out from the jack and/or plug and an arrangement for grounding electrostatic charge carried on the cable shield. The jack is designed for insertion into a printed circuit board and includes a front housing part formed of electrically conductive material, an insulative rear housing part and a plurality of contacts having leads which are totally enclosed within the housing. The front housing part is the shielding member of the jack and is adapted to be grounded, such as by mounting on a chassis. The plug is of modular construction. Shield apparatus surrounds the plug to provide interference attenuation and extends into a cable shield terminating portion of the plug cavity to electrically engage a conductive ferrule applied around the cable which engages the cable shield to provide a path for grounding the cable shield.

Abstract: A plug and jack connector for multi-conductor cable is provided with shielding to attenuate EMI/RFI radiation passing into and out from the jack and/or plug and an arrangement for grounding electrostatic charge carried on the cable shield. The jack is designed for insertion into a printed circuit board and includes a front housing part formed of electrically conductive material, an insulative rear housing part and a plurality of contacts having leads which are totally enclosed within the housing. The front housing part is the shielding member of the jack and is adapted to be grounded, such as by mounting on a chassis. The plug is of modular construction. Shield apparatus surrounds the plug to provide interference attenuation and extends into a cable shield terminating portion of the plug cavity to electrically engage a conductive ferrule applied around the cable which engages the cable shield to provide a path for grounding the cable shield.

Abstract: A plug and jack connector for multi-conductor cable is provided with shielding to attenuate EMI/RFI radiation passing into and out from the jack and/or plug and an arrangement for grounding electrostatic charge carried on the cable shield. The jack is designed for insertion into a printed circuit board and includes a front housing part formed of electrically conductive material, an insulative rear housing part and a plurality of contacts having leads which are totally enclosed within the housing. The front housing part is the shielding member of the jack and is adapted to be grounded, such as by mounting on a chassis. The plug is of modular construction. Shield apparatus surrounds the plug to provide interference attenuation and extends into a cable shield terminating portion of the plug cavity to electrically engage a conductive ferrule applied around the cable which engages the cable shield to provide a path for grounding the cable shield.

Abstract: A jack for modular plugs adapted for connection to printed circuit boards. The jack includes a plurality of jack contacts and a two-part housing, the contacts and housing parts being constructed so that the contacts are preferably completely enclosed within the housing with the jack at the same time having a low profile, i.e., a small height dimension.

Abstract: An insulation-piercing contact for terminating solid or stranded conductors in a modular plug connector, includes a flat body portion and first and second longitudinally spaced insulation-piercing tines, each of which has an inner surface adapted to electrically engage a respective conductor situated in a corresponding channel formed in the connector housing. The tines are transversely offset with respect to each other so that their inner surfaces are mutually spaced in a transverse plane through the contact a distance less than the maximum transverse dimension of the conductor. The distance between the inner surface of each tine end and an opposed partition wall of a respective channel in the modular plug connector housing in which the conductor is situated is preferably less than the sum of the diameter of the conductor and the thickness of the insulation surrounding the same.

Abstract: A jack for a modular plug connector which terminates an EMI/RFI shield surrounding the conductors of a cord, as well as the cord conductors themselves as is conventional, by which the electromagnetic and radio frequency signals radiated from the conductors and carried through the shield are grounded. The jack includes front and back parts connected to each other to define a rearwardly opening receptacle for a conventional multi-contact modular insert and a communicating forwardly opening receptacle for the modular plug connector. The jack is provided with a grounded contact which, upon insertion of the modular plug connector, electrically engages a shield terminating contact which forms a part of the modular plug connector to thereby electrically couple the grounded jack contact with the EMI/RFI shield surrounding the cord conductors.

Abstract: A modular plug connector is provided with a device for terminating the shielding of a cord to prevent or at least substantially reduce the radiation of electromagnetic and radio frequency interference from the region of the connector, such as when the cord is used in the transmission of high frequency digital-based data. The device also advantageously provides for the isolation and grounding of electrostatic discharge. The shield terminating device in one embodiment is constituted by a contact passing through the housing of the modular plug connector into the cord-receiving cavity of the connector housing so as to electrically engage the shield sheath of the cord.

Abstract: An improved modular plug connector is provided with a contact as a part of the connector itself for terminating the foil shield of a cord to prevent or control the radiation of interference-causing electromagnetic and radio frequency signals from the region of the connector, such as when the cord is used in the transmission of high frequency digital-based data. The connector incorporating the shield terminating contact also advantageously provides for the isolation and grounding of electrostatic charge. The shield terminating contact is constituted by a contact pin which passes through a side wall of the connector housing into the cord-receiving cavity to electrically engage the cord shield.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically stripping and terminating wires in a continuous manner includes a wheel on which a plurality of insulated wires are located which is mounted for intermittent rotation in a stepwise manner for feeding the wires successively to spaced operating stations, namely to a stripping station where the end region of insulation is stripped from the wires and then to a terminating station where the endmost one of a strip of interconnected terminal contacts is located over the bared end region of the wire, crimped thereto, the terminal contact then being severed from the strip. The stripping station includes a pair of insulation cutters mounted on a cutter holder member which itself is mounted for reciprocating movement in the direction of the axis of the wire located at the stripping location and apparatus for actuating the insulation cutters while gripping the wire.

Abstract: A unipartite housing for a modular connector for terminating flat cords having a plurality of conductors enclosed within a jacket. The housing has a cord receiving cavity formed therein defining a forward conductor receiving portion and a rearward jacket receiving portion, the conductor receiving portion having a plurality of parallel conductor receiving troughs provided therein. A corresponding plurality of slots are provided in aligned relationship with the troughs which receive flat contact terminals which electrically couple with respective conductors. Jacket and conductor anchoring members are provided in respective openings which communicate with the cord receiving cavity adapted to be pivotally moved into engaging relationship with the jacket and conductors respectively.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for assembling articles such as clips, comprising first and second components formed from metallic sheet stock, said apparatus including an outer annular member and second and third dial members mounted within the annular member, the annular and dial members being rotatably mounted in a synchronized manner associated with the cycling of a die press. Pairs of article components are continuously punched with each press cycle and pushed through an opening in a die block to be received and held at rotatably indexing receiving stations in a horizontal orientation in respective ones of a plurality of clamping assemblies formed in each of the outer annular member and second inner dial member, respectively.As the annular and second dial member rotatably index, the respective clamping assemblies pivot unit the first and second article components are held in a vertical orientation.

Abstract: A hair clip assembled from two pronged members with rearward out-turned handle portions, one member having struck from it along each of its two edges, front and rear arms converging upwardly toward one another and terminating in ends defining respective small gaps, the other member having struck from it respective ears captively disposed in the gaps. One of the members also has struck from it a leaf spring extending rearwardly along its longitudinal axis and engaging a torsion spring struck from the rearward center portion of the other member.