Abstract: A method of positioning a component on a cable. The method includes: moving a collet into position on the component; engaging the component with the collet; moving the collet with the component positioned thereon into alignment with an end of the cable; securing the collet to the end of the cable; moving the component from the collet to the cable; and removing the collet from the end of the cable.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a housing assembly for an electrical connector that is intermateable with a mating connector, wherein the housing assembly comprises: a connector housing and a lever for assisting a mating process between the electrical connector and the mating connector, wherein the connector housing comprises a receptacle for at least sectionally receiving the mating connector, wherein the lever is arranged on the connector housing movable between an initial position and a pre-lock position and comprises at least one lever arm with a blocking section, wherein the blocking section is located within the receptacle when the lever is in the initial position and wherein the blocking section is located outside of the receptacle when the lever is in the prelock position. Due to the blocking section being located in the receptacle, an operator tasked with the intermating is prevented from trying to forcefully mate the connectors without actuating the lever.

Abstract: A busbar contact includes a contact ring and a fastening element. The contact ring has a contact surface at a distal end and a press-in flange projecting radially. The press-in flange has a cylindrical contact surface pointing radially outward.

Abstract: An adapter system for the electrical connection of a connector of a cabling to different contact arrangements of different charging sockets along a connection axis includes an adapter housing and a fastening element attaching the adapter housing to one of the charging sockets. The adapter housing has a contact surface extending perpendicularly to the connection axis and a plurality of contact openings extending along the connection axis. The contact surface is disposed at an end of the adapter housing on a socket side. An end of the adapter housing on a cable side has a cabling interface connecting to the connector. The end of the adapter housing on the socket side is attachable to each of the charging sockets by the fastening element with the contact surface in a predetermined rotational position relative to the connection axis.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a base body, a sealing mat arranged on a first surface of the base body, and a contact element. The contact element has a first contact region, a holding region, and a second contact region adjoining the holding region. The second contact region is inserted through the sealing mat into a receiving opening of the base body.

Abstract: A fiber optic connector test probe for testing a device under test (DUT) having at least one DUT terminus, said test probe comprising (a) a cable having first and second ends, (b) a connector to which said first end is terminated, said connector adapted for connection to a light transmitter or receiver, and (c) a test terminus to which said second end is terminated, said test terminus being one of a pin terminus or a socket terminus, said test terminus comprising an optical element to expand/focus said light such that said test terminus is an expanded beam connector, wherein said first or second termini are configured to mate with said DUT terminus.

Abstract: A connector includes a dielectric having a mating face, an inner contact disposed in the dielectric, and a conductive layer disposed on or within the mating face. The conductive layer is electrically isolated from the inner contact.

Abstract: A load cell includes a force transmitting element, a force sensing element converting a force acting on the force transmitting element into a measurement signal, a cover having an opening spaced apart from the force sensing element, and a gel element disposed in the opening. The force transmitting element extends into the opening and from the opening toward the force sensing element. The force transmitting element rests against the gel element in the opening.

Abstract: A contact device includes a contact housing and a contact element. The contact housing defines a contact receptacle and a latching receptacle opening into the contact receptacle. The contact element includes a contact body arranged within the contact receptacle and extending in a longitudinal direction and adapted to contact a mating contact of a mating contact device, and a latching spring connected to the contact body on a first end and extending along a spring axis into the latching receptacle. The latching spring has a stop inclining obliquely with respect to the spring axis and abutting a face of the latching receptacle and a recess formed through the latching spring at first distance from the stop face.

Abstract: A joint for attaching a printed circuit board to an electrical conductor includes an electrically conductive lining that lines an inner surface of a through-hole in the printed circuit board and a tenon pressed in the through-hole. The tenon is in frictional and electrical contact with the electrically conductive lining. The tenon is monolithically formed from a material of the electrical conductor.

Abstract: An arrangement for making a diffusion solder connection between an electrically conductive contact element and a workpiece includes a protective chamber and an acceleration device. The protective chamber has a workpiece position at which at least a portion of the workpiece is arranged. The acceleration device shoots the electrically conductive contact element into the workpiece arranged at the workpiece position.

Abstract: A plug insert comprises a plug insert body including at least one contact member accessible from outside the plug insert, at least one insulation displacement contact electrically connected to the contact member, and a guiding assembly. At least one wire manager module includes at least one cable receptacle for receiving and holding a cable or wire. The guiding assembly guides the wire manager module relative to the plug insert body from a pre-assembly position, to an assembly position in which the insulation displacement contact extends into the cable receptacle.

Abstract: A material strip collection mechanism coiling fed material strip on a reel includes a vertically positioned reel bracket rotatable about a vertical axis between a first configuration and a second configuration. The mechanism further includes a first arm holding the reel and a second arm each rotatable to drive the reel and coil the material strip on the reel. With the reel bracket in the first configuration, the first arm is in a material strip collection position to allow the material strip to be coiled on each empty reel held by the first arm to form a full reel, while the second arm is in a standby position to allow the full reel held by the second arm to be replaced with a new empty reel.

Abstract: A sensor assembly includes a carrier having a base wall and a pair of side walls extending from the base wall, and a sensor mounted on the base wall between the side walls. Each of the side walls has a side step between a first side section and a second side section extending from the first side section along a longitudinal direction of the carrier. A sensor die of the sensor is spaced in a width direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction by a first lateral gap distance from the first side section and by a second lateral gap distance from the second side section. The second lateral gap distance is greater than the first lateral gap distance.

Abstract: Shown is a housing part for a hybrid connector for the transmission of electrical current and at least one fluid to a mating connector along a connection direction, comprising an electrical connection area and a fluid connection area which is separate from the electrical connection area and comprises an external connection located at a distal end with at least one fluid channel for connecting at least one fluid hose transversely to the connection direction.

Abstract: A shield of a connector system includes an outer contact and a diecast disposed around the outer contact. The diecast has a first diecast half and a second diecast half that are attached together around the outer contact in a terminated position of the diecast. The first diecast half and the second diecast half deform a beam of the outer contact between the first diecast half and the second diecast half in the terminated position. A first bottoming surface of the first diecast half abuts a second bottoming surface of the second diecast half in the terminated position.

Abstract: A shielding spring contact includes a flat base portion having a top side and a cutout, and a shielding portion having a wall connected to the flat base portion and encircling the cutout. The wall has an outer side, an inner side, an upper side, and a lower side. The lower side of the wall is arranged on the top side of the flat base portion with the lower side of the wall laterally surrounding the cutout. The top side of the flat base portion bears against a bottom side of an assembly housing portion of a first plug-in connector and the shielding portion projects through a first passage opening in the assembly housing portion. The shielding portion projects through a second passage opening in a shielding housing wall and into a shielding housing of a second plug-in connector, bearing against the shielding housing wall.

Abstract: A crimp ferrule includes an assembly portion assembled on a non-circular internal cross section of a multi-core cable and a diameter compensation portion forming a circular external cross section of the crimp ferrule on the multi-core cable. The assembly portion and the diameter compensation portion are arranged successively in an axial direction of the crimp ferrule.

Abstract: The invention relates to a contact assembly for electrical HV connections, having a housing with touch protection which has a through-opening extending from a first housing end of the housing to a second housing end of the housing which is spaced apart from the first housing end along an axial direction, wherein the housing has at least one radially inwardly protruding touch protection element at the second housing end and, has in the through opening, at least one latching surface extending in a circumferential direction around the axial direction which has a surface normal directed towards the second housing end, having a contact element which can be inserted from the first housing end into the through-opening towards the second housing end in any desired angular position around the axial direction, wherein at least one latching protrusion of the contact element latches with the at least one latching surface in each of the desired angular positions when the contact element is inserted into the through-openin

Abstract: The invention relates to a connector seal for sealing a gap between a first connector and a second connector of a plug connection in a state of being plugged together, wherein the connector seal extends in a self-contained manner along a circumferential direction around a central opening, wherein the connector seal has two face sides disposed opposite one another in an axial direction, wherein the connector seal has an inner side facing the central opening in the radial direction and an outer side facing away from the central opening in the radial direction, one of which is an abutment side for the abutment against the first connector and the 10 other is a contact side for the abutment, in particular in a sealing manner, against the second connector in the state of the plug connection being plugged together.