Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for splicing flexible circuit boards, particularly those having one or more flexible strip extensions with conductor runs. The splice clamp of the present invention has two hinged plates that clamp over unconnected ends of two flexible circuit board segments. The splice clamp includes alignment guides for aligning the segments in the clamp so that one or more jumpers contact and provide an electrical bridge between the conductors of the segments when the plates are clamped together. The jumpers contact conductive pads of larger size than the conductor runs to ensure electrical coupling between the flexible circuit board segments. The jumpers may have pointed tips that cut through insulation. The clamp includes flexible clasps on one plate that engage with catch surfaces on the other plate to lock the flexible circuit board segments spliced together.

Abstract: A sleeve terminal which provides a continually assured level of normal force with respect to a received pin terminal, even as the sleeve member thereof may tend to relax over time. The sleeve terminal includes a sleeve member having a slot which allows the sleeve member to be resiliently expanded when a pin terminal is inserted therewithin. A pair of resilient arms characterized by an opposing V-shape are formed integrally with the sleeve member on opposing sides of the slot. The apex of the resilient arms provides a contact location with the inner surface of a barrel which is concentrically receives the sleeve terminal. A free end of each resilient arm is spaced a predetrmined distance from the sleeve member. A wire mount is connected to the sleeve member opposite the slot. In operation, a pin terminal is inserted into the sleeve member, causing the sleeve member to be resiliently expanded as the slot widens.

Abstract: A plug connector is provided for mating with a jack connector. The plug connector includes a base and a tubular member extending from the base. The tubular member includes a contact area, a terminal end composed of a conductive material and located distal to the base and a spring. The terminal end is insulated from the contact area and may have a circumferential groove located thereon. A core may be disposed within the tubular member and has an insulative material disposed about at least one signal conductor. A jack connector is also provided for receiving, for example, the foregoing plug connector and the jack connector includes a body which has a cavity and a first plurality of electrical contacts disposed within the cavity and configured to be engageable with the tubular member. A second plurality of electrical contacts may also be disposed within the cavity and are also configured to be engageable with the tubular member.

Abstract: A cable connector of the present invention comprises a rectangular dielectric housing (11), an angled cable (30) and a fastening member (20). A pair of mounting wings (12) is integrally extended from opposite side walls (113) of the housing. A receiving channel (115) is longitudinally defined in the housing for receiving the cable. A pair of slots (116) is defined in the housing beside the receiving channel, and a recessed section (117) laterally extends from an end of the each slot. The fastening member includes a pair of side beams (21) received in the slots of the housing and an intermediate beam (22) between the side beams for pressing against the cable. Each side beams has a distal end (212) pointing away from the intermediate beam for latching within the corresponding recessed sections of the housing.

Abstract: An interconnect, having some length, that reliably connects two conductors separated by the length of the interconnect when the connection is made but in which one length if unstressed would change relative to the other in operation. The interconnect comprises a base element an intermediate element and a top element. Each element is rectangular and formed of a conducting material and has opposed ends. The elements are arranged in a generally Z-shape with the base element having one end adapted to be connected to one conductor. The top element has one end adapted to be connected to another conductor and the intermediate element has its ends disposed against the other end of the base and the top element. Brazes mechanically and electrically interconnect the intermediate element to the base and the top elements proximate the corresponding ends of the elements.

Abstract: An electrical connector is adapted for mounting on a printed circuit board. The connector includes a dielectric housing having a forward mating end and a rear terminating end, with a plurality of terminal-receiving passages extending therebetween. A plurality of terminals are received in the passages and include tail portions projecting from the housing. At least one ground member is mounted on the housing and includes a ground contact arm projecting forwardly for engaging a complementary mating connector. An ESD clip projects downwardly from the ground member for insertion into an appropriate mounting hole in the printed circuit board. A tail aligner is mounted to the rear end of the housing and has a plurality of apertures through which the end portions of the terminals extend.

Abstract: A contact element, in particular for a welded join, having a contacting region and an attachment region for an electrical conductor, the attachment region having a reduced material thickness as compared to the contacting region and being configured integrally with the contacting region. The contacting region has two sheet-metal parts, lying against one another, of a folded sheet-metal blank; and at least one portion which is elongated and deformed in order to form the attachment region.

Abstract: A sheathed electric wire is fitted between a pair of opposed clamping plates. A press-contact blade is formed inside of the respective clamping plates for cutting a sheath of the sheathed electric wire to electrically connecting with a conductive wire thereof when the sheathed electric wire is fitted between the clamping plates. A pair of holding strips are bent to hold the sheathed electric wire fitted between the clamping plates. A pair of connecting plates integrally connect the clamping plate and the holding strip, respectively. A dimension of a portion where the connecting plate is connected to the clamping plate is shorter than a dimension of a portion where the connecting plate is connected to the holding strip.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector for connecting combination electronic apparatus, which comprise a plurality of internal electronic devices, to networks or other devices. The connector of the present invention comprises a novel switching mechanism which selects between the plurality of internal electronic devices based on the attributes of the mating connector received by the connector. Device selection may be controlled by the physical characteristics of the mating connector, the electrical characteristics of the device or network attached to the mating connector or some other distinct attribute.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a base, a conductor seat, a spring contact, and a circuit board. The wiring of that circuit board is that the board has the first and second conductors extended from aperture on the top surface through the board to the bottom. Also, the first and second conductor sections are unshielded on top of the board in contact with the third and sixth pins respectively when the spring contact is secured between the conductor seat and the board. Further, the first and second conductors are below the board extended along above the fourth and fifth pins of the contact spring through the third and fourth conductor sections on the board. Finally, the first and second conductors are in contact with the vertical portions of the third and sixth pin of the spring contact respectively.

Abstract: An electrical contact includes an electrical contact portion which has a square tubular shape, and into which a mating contact is insertable. The electrical contact portion includes a bottom wall (6), a pair of opposite side walls (7, 8) extending upright from the bottom wall (6), a top wall (9) extending from one of the opposite side walls (7) and disposed in opposed relation to the bottom wall (6), and a reinforcing wall (12) formed integrally with the other one of the opposite side walls (8) and partially covering the top wall (9). A pair of lower and upper resilient contact pieces (18, 17) are formed integrally with the top wall (9) of the electrical contact portion, and located in the electrical contact portion. The lower resilient contact piece (18) extends from the top wall (9), and the upper resilient contact piece (17) opposes to the lower resilient contact piece.

Abstract: An electric apparatus (10) according to the present invention comprises electrically separated first and second terminals (14, 13), a first contact (16) that is connected electrically to the first terminal (14) within a casing (11), a second contact (15) that is connected electrically to the second terminal (13) within the casing and an operating member (20) for moving the first and second contacts relative to one another. In the present invention, at least the first contact (16) comprises a first conductive layer (41) with a given thickness including a face that is engageable with the second contact, a second conductive layer (42) that is connected to the first terminal (14), and insulating fiber (43) that is interposed between the first and second layers so that the above-mentioned second contact is engaged in the closing contacts movement by the insulating fiber when it is exposed by wear of the first layer (41) due to opening and closing movements of above mentioned contacts.

Abstract: A one-piece electrical connector for connecting an insulated conductor to a generally cylindrical conductive terminal post includes a first connector portion formed as an open-ended cylindrical shell segment of about the same axial length as the terminal post and having an inner circumference to snugly completely encircle the terminal post. The shell has a sidewall deformation intermediate the segment ends for retaining the connector on the post. A second connector portion grips the insulated conductor piercing the insulation and making electrical contact with the conductor.

Abstract: An adapter frame assembly is provided for receiving at least a pair of connectors in a stacked array with one connector above another connector at different spacings therebetween. The assembly includes at least a pair of frame structures including at least a top frame structure and a bottom frame structure each including a receptacle for receiving a respective one of the stacked connectors. The top frame structure may be mounted directly on top of the bottom frame structure and, thereby, space the receptacles and the respective connectors at a first spacing therebetween. A spacer is selectively mountable between the frame structures to thereby space the receptacles and the respective connectors at a second, increased spacing therebetween.

Abstract: The present invention provides an electrical connector having an integrated bus to provide a signal path having a properly matched impedance. The electrical connector includes a housing formed with a number of slots adapted to receive a module. Electrical contacts are placed between adjacent slots in the electrical connector, such that the combination of electrical contacts and inserted modules forms the integrated bus. Since inter-slot connections are not made through the motherboard, the noted impedance discontinuities do not arise. The electrical contacts generally include electrical signal contacts and ground contacts generally formed within the housing of the electrical connector but include metal contacts which extend into adjacent slots to form a portion of the integrated bus. The plurality of modules thus connected may include a termination module, and/or a dummy module.

Abstract: A resilient electrical terminal includes a pair of beveled centering surfaces that cooperate to center a conductor relative to the side walls of the clamping opening through which a bus bar and the conductor extend in clamped side-by-side conductive relation. A groove contained in the adjacent surface of the bus bar centers the conductor relative to the bus bar.

Abstract: Test and/or burn-in sockets for high frequency electronic device packages are formed using contact pins having parallel ends joined by a support beam supported so that one end of the pin extends through a guide into a cavity in the socket and the other end extends through a second guide displaced from the first guide. The outer ends of the contact pins are arranged to contact input/output lands of a external circuitry such as a burn-in board or the like and the inner ends arranged to contact input/output leads or lands on an electronic LGA package. The end portions of the contact pins are constrained in parallel guides which are arranged to precisely align the ends of the pins with the terminal lands and the length and size of the contact pins are minimized to minimize signal distortion.

Abstract: A lamp bulb device includes a non-capped lamp bulb (9) having lead wires (12) and a base portion supporting a cylindrical bottomed holder (29) and having lead-wire outlet holes (5). The lead wires (12) drawn out through the lead-wire outlet holes (5) are extended through lead-wire guide grooves (25) which are formed on a lower surface of the base portion, lead wires are extended from the lead-wire guide grooves (25) to lead-wire winding portions (32), and lead wire portions wound around the lead-wire winding portions (32) are connected electrically to lands (14) of a circuit board by soldering. The electrical connection is secured.

Abstract: A method of clipping and a clip configured to retain a cover onto a circuit board. The clip comprises a base plate having right and left sides. The base plate is configured to be fixed to the circuit board. The clip further comprises at least two right walls connected to and extending upwardly away from the base plate. Each of the right walls has a right upper portion. The clip further comprises at least two left walls connected to and extending upwardly away from the base. Each of the left walls has a left upper The right and left walls are spring biased inwardly so that at least a portion of the right and left upper portions overlap. In another embodiment, the right wall includes at least one opening and the left wall includes a middle segment extending towards the opening of the right wall.

Abstract: A socket for an electronic assembly. In one embodiment, the socket includes a first finger that is coupled to a second finger. The socket further includes a plurality of contacts that are located within contact openings of the first and second fingers. The fingers are separated by spaces that reduce the effective coefficient of thermal expansion.