Abstract: A power source socket includes a casing fixed to a vehicle. The socket has a contact coupled to a power supply. The contact of the socket is electrically connected to a contact of a plug of an electrical device when the plug is inserted into the casing. The socket has a contact fixed to the casing. The socket also has a movable contact movably accommodated in the casing. The movable contact has a first contact portion and a second contact portion. The first contact portion contacts the fixed contact. The second contact portion contacts the plug contact. The first contact portion also contacts the fixed contact in accordance with the engagement of the plug contact and the second contact portion of the movable contact when the plug is inserted into the casing. The contact portion of the movable contact is separated from the fixed contact in accordance with the movement of the plug contact away from the movable contact when the plug is removed from the casing.

Abstract: A connector for connecting electrical signal transmitting cable to a corresponding jack of audio or video equipment has a jack engaging socket having spring loaded gripping means for a jack member. The spring loaded gripping means comprise a number of parallel segments bowed inwardly from an inner wall of the socket. These segments are biassed outwardly when the socket is force fitted over a corresponding jack member. There may be a large number of segments. Preferably the segments are angled to the axial direction of the connector.

Abstract: In this method a short pipe element (2) with a radially outwards directed bead (3) at its end rim (4) is inserted into a pipe, and a radially outwards directed bead (7, 8) is rolled in the other end (5) of the pipe element (2) and in the pipe (1), such that the pipe element is fixed inside the pipe. The pipe element (2) may before insertion into the pipe be provided with at least two radially outwards directed beads (9, 10), causing the pipe element after insertion to be tightly clamped and fixed inside the pipe, and the pipe element (2) may over a part of its outer surface be coated with a sealing material (13).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved socket structure used for Christmas decoration light bulbs, mainly comprising a bulb seat having an opening provided at both sides thereof and a socket shell having two corresponding protrusions disposed on the internal wall surface thereof. When the bulb seat together with a light bulb is inserted into the socket shell these two protrusions each extend into an opening to clamp the light bulb, reaching a reliably and securely united state.

Abstract: A connector with a cover used for connecting wires to a printed circuit board or the like, in which an incompletely-inserted condition of a terminal received in a housing can be perfectly detected. A cover-holding rib is formed on an upper surface of a housing body, and a cover, having an engagement groove in which the rib is fitted, is slidably mounted on an upper portion of the housing body. When the cover is opened to be received in a retainer fitted on the housing body, contact piece portions of terminals are exposed from the housing body.

Abstract: An insert for a modular jack assembly insert comprising an insulative member having top and bottom walls; a front end and a rear recess; a first wire extending from adjacent the bottom wall of the insulative member across the rear recess to the top wall and then through the front end of the insulative member; and a second wire extending from adjacent the bottom wall of the insulative member across the rear recess in non-contacting, overlapping relation with the first wire.

Abstract: An improved electrical connector assembly includes interengaging plug and receptacle connector components. One of the connector components is equipped with engagement screws, and the other connector component is equipped with screw-receiving cavities which engage the engagement screws. Each engagement screw has a guide portion in the form of a projecting guide pin fixed to its tip which projects past an endface of the one connector so as to provide a pair of alignment members which are received within the other connector cavities prior to mating of the plug and receptacle components together.With this arrangement, the exact alignment of the plug and receptacle connectors is permitted by inserting the engagement screws in the cavities prior to the mating of these connectors, thereby eliminating the possibility of interference between opposing male and female terminals of the two connector components which would cause damage to the terminals and the connector components.

Abstract: An electrical connector with a housing and electrical contacts. The contacts each have contact leaves with a general "M" shape. Front ends of the leaves are stationarily entrapped in a pocket of the housing. Rear ends of the leaves are stationarily connected to the housing by means of a middle section of each contact being fixed to the housing.

Abstract: An electrical receptacle terminal having forwardly extending and inwardly folded opposing cantilevered contact arms from a box-like structure which further includes at least one port for the receipt of a locking latch of a housing for receiving said receptacle terminal therein, characterized in that a tab extends inwardly from the body portion at the port for abutment by the free end of the contact arm. The tab enables the latching function and the electrical and mechanical function of the contact arms to be effectively isolated from one and other in a one piece receptacle terminal having a protective shell surrounding the contact arms.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a connector which, in use, is connected to a shore cable. The shore cable provides power to a vehicle. A connection in the apparatus to the vehicle's starting circuit actuates an ejector mechanism when the vehicle's engine is started. The ejector mechanism ejects the shore cable from the apparatus and a switch interrupts the current prior to the completion of the ejection action, thereby preventing arcing at the connector and assuring long contact life.

Abstract: A printed circuit board mountable connecting block of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,964,812 is provided with electrical contacts which include an insulation displacement slot at one end and a circuit mountable tail at the other end. This tail may comprise a conventional solder tail, or in a preferred embodiment, may comprise a "solderless" press-fit tail. The connecting block of this invention may be mounted directly onto (e.g., through) a printed circuit board (or other electronic component). It will be appreciated that this circuit mountable feature is required and advantageous for many applications. In addition, the use of a solderless connector means (preferably a press-fit tail) is particularly advantageous for providing ease of assembly as well as lower cost (relative to conventional solderable tails).

Abstract: An electrical connector with a frame and an electrical contact mounted to the frame. The frame has a general clamshell design adapted to surround a portion of a cable to mechanically connect the frame to the cable. The frame has an elongate C-shaped member with an outer section and an inner section. The contact is sandwiched between the two sections. The contact has a curved busing strip with contact terminals extending in opposite directions from the busing strip.

Abstract: The invention comprises an electrical connector having a connector housing with contact receiving passages to receive contacts therein and a guide member. A lock housing has a pivot member wherein the pivot member and the guide member cooperate to secure the lock housing to the connector housing and to allow the lock housing to rotate and move longitudinally with respect to the connector housing. The lock housing having a first position with respect to the connector housing wherein the contacts can be loaded into the housing. The lock housing having a second position wherein the contacts are secured within the housing for electrical connection with a matable connector.

Abstract: A safety plug which includes a first metal contact plate and a second metal contact plate respectively connected to the two conductors of an electric wire, and a first metal blade and a second metal blade for connection to an electric power outlet. A cartridge fuse is connected between the second metal contact plate and the second metal blade. A switch is controlled to force the first metal contact plate into contact with the first metal blade to close the circuit. A base is mounted within a housing to hold the above members therein which has a rear panel and two plug holes on the rear panel for the insertion of an external electric plug for connection the first metal blade and the second metal blade, and a slide controlled to close/open the plug holes of the rear panel.

Abstract: A metal piercing staple for piercing, securing and making electrical contact between a pair of wires in the form of a substantially U-shaped piece of metal having sharp ends and a plurality of metal piercing teeth depending from the U-shaped piece of metal between the sharp ends.

Abstract: To provide a female terminal used in an electric circuit, as well as a method of producing such a terminal, a resilient contact piece, mounted within a receptive portion for receiving a male terminal, is positively retained, thereby providing the female terminal with a high reliability. In the female terminal, a resilient contact piece is mounted within a receptive portion formed by bending an electrically-conductive metal sheet. A retaining projection and a retaining hole are provided at each of side walls of the receptive portion. With this construction, retaining ends of the resilient contact piece are engaged respectively in the retaining holes, and even if the side walls are curved by pressing forces applied during a bending operation, the retaining projections positively retain the retaining ends of the resilient contact piece.

Abstract: A lamp socket including a socket body to hold a lamp bulb, a socket cap fastened to the socket body to hold down the electric wire, a central metal contact plate and side metal contact plate fastened to the socket body to connect the tip contact and ring contact of the lamp bulb to a respective conductor in the electric wire. The side metal contact plate has a longitudinal projecting spring strip raised from one side and then turned longitudinally downward toward the orifice of the socket body, which projecting spring strip is disposed in contact with the ring contact of the lamp bulb to give it an inward pressure when the lamp bulb is threaded into the socket body.

Abstract: An electrical connector that includes an electrical contact, a first housing adapted to receive the contact, and a second housing adapted to receive a cable. The configuration of the first and second housings and the contact are such that, during assembly of the connector, the second housing guides the cable to abut the contact in such a manner that the contact displaces an insulating layer of the cable and forms an electrical connection with a wire core of the cable. The first housing has a first gripping surface and the second housing has a second gripping surface, the gripping surfaces being arranged to face away from each other and to face perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the cable prior to assembly, such that the surfaces can be gripped by a thumb and forefinger and squeezed together to effect assembly.

Abstract: The set position of at least the fulcrum axis pins of an operation cam lever pivotally supported on a female connector or the projecting engagement pins of a male connector is biased by a predetermined bias quantity to the connecting operation initiating end side of the operation cam lever with respect to the connection-direction center line of the connection opening end portions of the respective connectors.

Abstract: An electric plug blade made of a conductive material has two sections of recesses formed in the rear part of the blade. An insulation material houses the rear part of the blade to define an insulation part, and the front part of the blade remains unhoused by the insulation material for connecting to a wall outlet.