Abstract: Provided herein is a snap-in outlet box holder to allow for the quick, easy installation of an outlet box in a wallboard, paneling or other similarly finished wall covering without the necessity of securing the outlet box to an existing stud. The invention provided is a generally C-shaped, structure with a flexible back and two flexible arms, wherein each arm is grooved to provide a grooved opening which will fit around the wall to hold the outlet box holder securely in place.In addition, there is also provided spacer blocks which will fit over the inside lip of the groove of the outlet box and which provide a method to secure the outlet box holder to various thicknesses of wallboard, paneling and other similarly finished walls. This product will make installation of an outlet box to an existing wall quite simple and quick.

Abstract: A package for housing fabricated semiconductor chips is disclosed. The package has ceramic base with a raised outer shelf extending around its periphery. The outer shelf defines a space in the package where the chip is seated. A lead frame with a number of individual conductive leads is disposed over the outer shelf. A section of tape automated bonding tape is used to provide electrical connections between bonding points on the chip and the lead frame leads; the tape automated bonding tape carries a number of conductive leads each of said leads having an inner lead portion attached to a chip bonding point, and an outer lead portion attached to a lead frame lead. A frame is secured over the base outer shelf so the lead frame is embedded therebetween. A lid is secured over the frame to completely enclose the chip within the package.

Abstract: An electrical outlet box with attached threaded coupling having a bore entering the box, the bore accomodating either thin wall conduit or cable. A removable gate in an interior wall slot in the box covers the coupling bore and a hole in the gate, smaller than the diameter of the bore, acts as a stop to prevent intrusion of conduit which is secured by a nut threaded on the coupling. When the gate is removed, a cable connector with hex end that snugly fits into the gate slot and is also secured by a threaded nut. Outlets for the box have U-shaped yokes at each end which are pressed into shallow grooves in each interior end wall to secure the outlet in the box, and the box covers have blocks near the sides of the inside surface for engaging the box interior side walls to prevent flexing and breaking.

Abstract: A method for electroforming a metal grid capable of conforming to a curved substrate is disclosed, as well as use of such a grid in an aircraft transparency.

Abstract: An integrated circuit chip mounting and packaging assembly is described. The assembly comprises a spreader having one or more chips centrally mounted thereon. A plurality of leads are disposed outward of the integrated circuit chip on the same side of the spreader as the chip. When fully assembled, the spreader is positioned, chip side down, over a cavity in a printed circuit board-like substrate. The cavity is ringed with connectors which contact the spreader leads and appropriately connect the integrated circuit chip to other electronic components mounted on the substrate.

Abstract: A molded electrical box is provided with attachment housings at opposite ends thereof. The attachment housing include a fixed arcuate surface and a movable partially threaded cam member to engage a screw inserted therein. A guide tab extends partially across the open front of the attachment housing and has an arcuate end surface to guide the screw between the engaging surfaces and prevent the screw from abutting a forwardly facing end of the cam member.

Abstract: An assembly includes a face plate and an electrical component that are mounted as a unit within an electrical box by a mounting component that threadably engages the mounting screws of the electrical component and is securable within the electrical box by an adhesive.

Abstract: A strain relief electrical cable fitting includes an externally threaded tubular body member divided by an inside inclined shoulder and outside flange into an upper compression chamber and a lower coupling section, a gland cap with a central top opening engaging the body member top thread. Housed in the compression chamber is an assembly of a rubber packing member and a nylon grip member, the packing member including an upper axially bored cylindrical section and peripherally spaced longitudinal fingers and the grip member including an upper ring encircling the packing fingers and abutting the cylindrical section underface and longitudinal fingers interdigitating the packing fingers and terminating in follower sections engaging the shoulder so that tightening of the cap compresses the packing member by way of a washer to advance and contract the grip fingers to clamp a fitting engaged cable and to contract the packing section bore and effect a hermetic seal of the cable.

Abstract: A two piece face plate for wall mounted devices having a rectangular escutcheon is disclosed. An adapter plate having the length and width of the wall box opening is connected to the yoke of a wall box mounted device at the screw openings in the yoke plate reserved for the connection of the wall plate. Snap receiving openings are contained in the adapter plate. A decorative wall plate, which is free of mounting screw openings, has projecting snaps which project into the snap openings in the adapter plate. An internal flange extending from the wall plate produces a shadow around the periphery of the wall plate relative to the wall in which the switch is mounted. A plural gang wall box is disclosed which receives respective devices and respective adaptor plates. A common wall plate is snapped into position relative to all adapter plates.

Abstract: In a shield structure of an electronic equipment including a printed circuit board on which electronic parts are mounted, a box having an upper opening for receiving the printed circuit board, and a shielding planar cover for shieldably covering the upper opening of the box, the cover being soldered at its peripheral edge to a side wall of the box; the improvement is characterized in that the peripheral edge of the cover is arcuately downwardly bent.

Abstract: Shielding means for electromagnetic radiation, particularly that of radio frequency, comprises a enclosure fabricated from non-conductive material and having on at least one of the interior or exterior walls a layer of copper metal. The latter has been applied by coating the surface of the wall with a suspension of particles of cuprous oxide (or like non-conductive metal derivatives capable of being reduced to conductive free metal) in a curable resinous material, at least partially curing the coating, reducing to free metal the cuprous oxide or like particles in the surface of the coating and then electrolessly plating the coating with copper.

Abstract: A swivel fitting for an electrical conduit and the like including a first fitting part including a generally cylindrical tubular section extending axially with respect to a central longitudinal axis of said first fitting part; a second fitting part having a head portion and a generally cylindrical section extending axially from said head portion and in sleeved relationship within said tubular section of said first fitting part; cooperable means on said first fitting part and said second fitting part for retaining said fitting parts in assembled relationship to each other while permitting rotation of one fitting part relative to the other fitting part about said axis, said cooperable means including a generally circumferential groove formed in said cylindrical section of said second fitting part and radially inwardly extending projection means on said tubular section of said first fitting part extending into said groove to prevent axial separation of said fitting parts; and means for exerting an axial tensioni

Abstract: In a package comprising a chip mounting base and a cap to be fitted on the base, the base comprises a metal substrate, an electrically insulating ceramic layer formed on the metal substrate, a patterned metal layer formed on the ceramic layer in a selected area thereof, a first mixed layer formed in an area near the interface between the metal substrate and the ceramic layer, and a second mixed layer formed in an area near the interface between the ceramic layer and the metal layer, and the cap comprises a metal substrate, an electrically insulating ceramic layer formed in at least the marginal portion of the side of the metal substrate which faces the base, and a mixed layer that is formed in an area near the interface between the metal substrate and the cermaic layer.

Abstract: The conduit system includes a connector fitting joining adjacent ends of a pair of the corrugated plastic conduits in end-to-end relationship, a junction box inlet connector joining one end portion of the corrugated plastic conduit in an opening in one wall of a junction box, and a switch box inlet fitting joining one end portion of the corrugated plastic conduit in an inlet opening in one wall of a switch box. Both the connector fitting and the switch box inlet fitting include a pair of hingedly connected semicircular clamping elements each including integrally molded rib members and including locking means on the opposite side from the hinge member with both the locking means and the hinge member being embedded in opposite sides of the clamping elements so that they do not extend outwardly from opposite sides thereof. Both ends of the connector fitting are identical while one end of the switch box inlet fitting has concentric interior and exterior surfaces for adhesively securing the same in the switch box.

Abstract: A multiple service fitting for enabling through-floor passage of a plurality of different types of conductors, from a multi-cell underfloor raceway source thereof to an in-floor or above-floor outlet therefor.A mechanism operable from the accessible end of such fitting enables secure engagement thereof with the top walls of the multi-cell underfloor raceway without moving the fitting body portion, to compensate for floor slab deflection.A grommet and conduit extending tube, seated in and projecting from the opening in the top wall of the underfloor raceway cell, isolate and protect conductors passing therethrough.

Abstract: A ceramic package includes a high thermal conductive ceramic substrate (AlN or SiC sintered substrate) on which a semiconductor element is mounted, and a mullite sintered frame having metal conductive paths therein and joined to the substrate.

Abstract: An electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding gasket for use with removable and hinged panels of enclosures of electronic equipment, where it is necessary to limit the escape or entrance of electromagnetic radiation through a gap between the panel and enclosure. The gasket includes an elongated metal strip having a clip for easy attachment to the panel or enclosure. The strip carries flexible, electrically conductive sheet material that provides the shield. The sheet material is attached to the strip in a manner to provide a cavity therebetween along their length. A free floating elongated magnet is positioned within the cavity so that it urges the conductive sheet material against an edge of a mating piece of the enclosure by magnetic attraction. The structure conforms to surfaces with significant variations, thereby providing an effective shield, and also assists in maintaining the panel closed against the enclosure.

Abstract: A brazed leaded package is provided having buried brazed areas thereby eliminating the need of subsequent protective plating of the brazed areas. The package has a heat conductive support which supports a plurality of leads. The distal end of the leads terminate on the top of the heat conductive support in a braze pad to which are brazed formed leads for providing interface connection to a semiconductor integrated circuit contained within the package. The package can be sealed by using a solid ceramic cover having a glazed glass on its bottom side which is heated up to reflow and provide the seal.

Abstract: A junction box readily adapted for installation to an electric power cable made up of a pair of identical interlocking sections which are joined together over the cable at any appropriate point on the cable. In one embodiment the box is employed as a "stringer" box where a series of the boxes are installed on a single power cable. In such embodiment, hollow projections are provided at each end of the box for entry and exit of the power cable, the projections being formed by the pairing of clamping members in the end walls of the interlocking sections. Through the use of special reinforcing, the junction box is light in weight but can withstand heavy abuse.

Abstract: A shield case for an antenna terminal having a substrate housed therewithin. The substrate contains signal-transmitting condensers and ground-balancing condensers which are spaced from one another and, gaps which are provided between each of the signal-transmitting condensers and between each of the ground-balancing condensers which serve to exhibit excellent insulation and resist pressure. The substrate further has holes for receiving leads of the condensers wherein the condensers are connected in series to a central conductor and shields the wire of the coaxial cable.