Abstract: Cable seal systems used with connectors comprise a housing having an inside passage for placement of a cable therein, wherein the passage includes a recessed opening extending axially a distance from a housing open end. A seal member is disposed within the recessed opening and comprises an elastomeric seal element having an inside diameter extending around a cable outside surface and an outside diameter extending around an inside surface of the recessed opening. The inside and outside diameters may have a surface feature to provide a leak-tight seal the respective cable and recessed opening. The seal member includes rigid guide elements that are connected with opposed axial surfaces of the seal element. A cover is connected to the housing open axially fixing placement of the member between the cover and housing, wherein the cover includes an opening to accommodate passage of the cable into the housing.

Abstract: Provided are devices for electrical connectors to provide indication that the electrical connectors are not energized. Devices include a first indicator that includes a first indication technology that is configured to provide a first visual indication corresponding to a voltage of a primary conductor and a second indicator that includes a second indication technology that is different from the first indication technology and that is configured to provide a second visual indication corresponding to the voltage of the primary conductor.

Abstract: A splice terminal for connecting a magnet wire to a lead wire. The splice terminal includes a first closed section and a second open section. The first closed section has a first section bottom wall, first section side walls and a first section top wall. An opening is provided between the first section bottom wall, the first section side walls and the first section top wall. The opening is configured to receive the magnet wire therein. The opening has a height between the first section bottom wall and the first section top wall which is larger than the diameter of the magnet wire. The second open section has a second section bottom wall and second section side walls. The second section is configured to receive the magnet wire and the lead wire therein.

Abstract: A circular plug connector includes an outer coupling ring, a plug shell and a self-supporting compression element between the outer coupling ring and the plug shell. The plug shell houses plug contacts. The plug shell includes a mid-body having a rear facing support surface. The self-supporting compression element surrounds the plug shell and includes a spring element engaging the rear facing support surface. The self-supporting compression element includes a retaining shim support integral with the spring element as a unitary, monolithic body that is received in the retaining element to fix the self-supporting compression element relative to the outer coupling ring. The spring element is compressible relative to the retaining shim support to allow the plug shell to move axially within the cavity of the outer coupling ring.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing and a plurality of signal conductors held within the housing. The housing includes a mating shroud protruding forward from a front wall of the housing and defining a port that receives a mating circuit card therein. Each of the signal conductors includes a mating contact disposed within the mating shroud and a mounting contact that projects beyond a bottom end of the housing to electrically connect to a circuit board. The mounting contacts are located within a termination area of the electrical connector. The housing defines a nesting cavity extending rearward from the front wall along the bottom end. The nesting cavity is disposed between the mating shroud and the termination area along a longitudinal axis of the electrical connector. The nesting cavity is configured to accommodate a discrete, second connector that is mounted to the circuit board.

Abstract: A light sensor assembly includes a sensor connector having a housing including a top and a bottom with power contact channels in the bottom of the housing. The sensor connector includes a circuit board supported by the housing at the top having a sensor component electrically connected to the circuit board sensing an environmental characteristic exterior of the sensor connector. The sensor connector includes power contacts received in corresponding contact channels and extending from the bottom for electrical connection with receptacle power contacts of the receptacle connector. The power contacts include a neutral power contact, a line power contact and a load power contact, where the line power contact and the load power contact are integral as a unitary contact body forming a monolithic line-load power contact.

Abstract: A system and method of determining a fault in two or more series switches of an electrical system. The electrical system includes, at least one AC power source, at least one sensor, at least two series switches, and a fault analysis module including a processor and a memory. The method includes applying, by the at least one AC power source, at least one time varying signal to the electrical system. The method further includes receiving, by the fault analysis module, at least one measurement, from the at least one sensor, of the at least one time varying signal, at least one node of the electrical system. The method further includes receiving, by the fault analysis module, at least one predetermined signal parameter and determining, by the fault analysis module, the presence of a fault, based on the at least one measurement and the at least one predetermined signal parameter.

Abstract: An electrical cable splice includes a housing having a channel configured to hold a first signal conductor of a first electrical cable therein. The channel is configured to hold a second signal conductor of a second electrical cable therein in electrical engagement with the first signal conductor such that the first and second signal conductors are electrically interconnected. The second electrical cable has a greater diameter than the first electrical cable. A ground shield external to the housing such that the ground shield extends at least partially around the first and second signal conductors. The ground shield is electrically connected to electrical ground conductors of the first and second electrical cables.

Abstract: A control system is provided including a sensor element mounted to a light fixture having a photocontrol component for sensing an ambient light and a sensor element communication module for contactless communication of sensor data and identifying data relating to an identifying characteristic of the sensor element to a light fixture communication module of the light fixture. The light fixture communication module receives the sensor data and the identifying data. A verification module receives the identifying data to verify compatibility of the sensor element with a light fixture control circuit having a light control module receiving the sensor data for operable control of a lighting element of the light fixture based on the received sensor data.

Abstract: Electrical cable connectors comprise first member and second members. The first member has an internal cavity having electrical terminals therein. The second member is disposed within the internal cavity and the electrical terminals extend into an internal cavity of the second member for attachment with an electrical cable. A leak-tight junction is formed between the first and second members and the electrical terminals. The second member is removably connected with the first member by engagement of one or more second member surface features with one or more first member surface features. The surface features of the first member are disposed along an outside surface of the first member wall surface a distance away from the first member open end. The surface features are specifically designed to mechanically disengage from one another at a determined pulling force, to permit the second member to detach from the first member without damage.

Abstract: Control circuit includes a current sensor that is configured to detect alternating current transmitted through a power line. The alternating current includes an alternating current (AC) component and a direct current DC offset component. The control circuit also includes a filter sub-circuit that is configured to receive a sensor output from the current sensor that is representative of the AC component and the DC component. The AC component has a frequency higher than a frequency of the DC component. The filter sub-circuit is configured generate a DC output that is based on the DC component. The control circuit also includes an analysis sub-circuit that is configured to receive the DC output and determine that the DC output has passed a designated threshold. The analysis sub-circuit is configured to trip a relay or output a signal when the DC output passes the designated threshold.

Abstract: A power switch device has a housing, a movable shuttle and at least one shape memory alloy actuator. The housing has a cavity and stationary current carrying contacts which extend through the housing to the cavity. The movable shuttle with a bridge contact provided in the cavity. The at least one shape memory alloy actuator is attached to a first end of the shuttle and to a first end of the housing. The at least one shape memory alloy actuator is configured to respond to a first activation signal. The at least one shape memory alloy actuator contracts from an initial shape in response to the first actuation signal to move the shuttle and the bridge contact toward the stationary current carrying contacts to a closed position in which the bridge contact is positioned in electrical engagement with the stationary current carrying contacts.

Abstract: An electrical cable includes a conductor assembly having a first conductor, a second conductor, and an insulator structure surrounding the first conductor and the second conductor. The first and second conductors carry differential signals. The insulator structure has an outer surface. A cable shield is wrapped around the conductor assembly and engages the outer surface of the insulator structure. The cable shield has an inner edge and a flap covering the inner edge. The cable shield forms a void at the inner edge being located closer to the first conductor than the second conductor. The air void compromising the first conductor by reducing an effective dielectric constant surrounding the first conductor. The first conductor is shifted closer to the cable shield a shift distance compared to the second conductor to increase capacitance of the first conductor compared to the second conductor.

Abstract: An electrical cable includes a conductor assembly having a first conductor, a second conductor, a first insulator surrounding the first conductor and a second insulator surrounding the second conductor. The first insulator has a first thickness between the first conductor and an outer surface. The second insulator has a second thickness between the second conductor and an outer surface. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness. A cable shield is wrapped around the conductor assembly and engages the outer surface of the first insulator along a first segment and engaging the outer surface of the second insulator along a second segment. The cable shield has an inner edge and a flap covering the inner edge. The cable shield forms a void at the inner edge located closer to the first conductor than the second conductor.

Abstract: A cover assembly for covering an elongate substrate includes a resilient, elastically expandable sleeve member and a holdout device. The sleeve member defines an axially extending inner sleeve passage. The holdout device includes a generally tubular, flexible bladder sleeve mounted in the inner sleeve passage. The bladder sleeve defines a cavity and a holdout passage to receive the elongate substrate. The cavity is inflated or inflatable with an inflation gas.

Abstract: A circuit card assembly includes an electrical connector having a housing mounted to a PCB. The housing has a mounting end and a mating end extending between a front and a rear. The housing has a cavity at the mating end configured to receive a second electrical connector. The housing holds deflectable contacts having spring beams at the mating end having mating interfaces. The circuit card assembly includes a contact actuator in the cavity engaging the spring beams and moving the spring beams between compressed positions and released positions. The mating interfaces of the spring beams are spaced apart from the second electrical connector in the compressed positions and are configured to engage and electrically connect with the second electrical connector in the released positions.

Abstract: A contact includes a main body having a top, a bottom, a first side and a second side. The contact includes a terminating end extending from the main body and a mating beam extending from the main body opposite the terminating end. The mating beam has a root at the main body and a tip opposite the root. The mating beam has an elongated coupling base between the root and the tip. The elongated coupling base has a bottom surface configured to face a mating contact being generally parallel to the mating contact between the root and the tip.

Abstract: A receptacle assembly includes a receptacle cage having walls defining a cavity extending between a front and a rear and having a module channel receiving a pluggable module. The walls include a top wall, a bottom wall and first and second sidewalls extending from the top wall to the bottom wall. The cavity is open at the rear to receive a cabled receptacle connector in the module channel and the cavity is open at the front to receive the pluggable module therein. A mounting panel extends from the bottom wall and has a mounting surface below the bottom wall for supporting the bottom wall of the receptacle cage at an elevated position above the mounting surface.

Abstract: A heat sink assembly for a pluggable module having a housing includes a plurality of discrete heat sink members in thermal communication with more than one wall of the housing. The heat sink members transfer heat from the pluggable module to the surrounding environment. The heat sink assembly also includes a spring member configured to exert a force on the plurality of discrete heat sink members for forcing the heat sink members into thermal engagement with the housing.

Abstract: A lead frame module includes a lead frame including ground conductors and signal conductors interleaved with the ground conductors side-by-side. The ground and signal conductors have transition portions extending between mating ends and terminating ends. A dielectric holder supports the lead frame and at least partially surrounds the transition portions of the ground and signal conductors. The dielectric holder has a first side and a second side with wells in the first side open to the transition portions of the ground conductors. A printed metal layer is formed in situ on the first side of the dielectric holder and at least partially fills the wells and engages the ground conductors in the wells to electrically connect to the ground conductors. The printed metal layer electrically connect a plurality of the ground conductors.