Abstract: An electrical connector is shown which is useable with coaxial or twinaxial shielded cables where an inner housing module has a pair of electrical terminals positioned therein for electrical connection with a signal conductor of the coaxial or twinaxial cable. The housing is insertable within a shield member to form a shielded subassembly. A grounding spring clip is positioned intermediate the two shielded sub assemblies, thereby commoning the adjacent shields, and at the same time provides contact portions for receiving pins of a mating pin field.

Abstract: An insert and rotate edge card connector has a latching mechanism which includes a body portion held in a preloaded state within an end of an elongated connector housing. The latching mechanism includes a latch member having a rounded portion which engages the lateral ends of a circuit card. The latch member also includes a pair of retention arms which extend over the rounded portion to engage the circuit card in a plane different than that of the rounded portion.

Abstract: A self-terminating connector has a movable conductor for automatically terminating a connector that carries an RF signal when the connector is disconnected from a corresponding connector. The connector terminates through a 75 ohm resistance that is mounted in the housing.

Abstract: A radial compression type coaxial cable end connector has a connector body comprising a tubular inner post extending from a front end to a rear end, and an outer collar surrounding and fixed relative to the inner post at a location disposed rearwardly of the front post end. The outer collar cooperates in a radially spaced relationship with the inner post to define an annular chamber with a rear opening. A fastener at the front end of the inner post serves to attach the end connector to a system component. A tubular locking member protrudes axially into the annular chamber through its rear opening. The tubular locking member is integrally coupled to the connector body and is displaceable axially between an open position accommodating insertion of the tubular inner post into a prepared cable end, with an annular outer portion of the cable being received in the annular chamber, and a clamped position fixing the annular cable portion within the chamber.

Abstract: Disclosed is a header which may be used on a disc drive base or on another such plate between a higher pressure space and a lower pressure space and which will effectively prevent or retard pressure loss from the higher pressure space. A molded plastic wafer member is positioned in an aperture in the plate. A fiberglass reinforced polymer board member is superimposed over the wafer. There are axially aligned transverse apertures in the board member and the wafer member and conductive pins pass through these aligned apertures. Adjacent the apertures in the board member are metallized surfaces and the pins are soldered to board member at this point to effect the pressurized seal.

Abstract: A light bulb socket has a main body comprising inner threads, a longitudinal recess, a bottom plate, a through hole formed on the bottom plate, and a flange which is on top of the bottom plate surrounding the top edge of the through hole. The first conductor is inserted in the longitudinal recess. The second conductor is inserted in the through hole. Two grooves are formed in the periphery of the through hole. The second conductor has a round top, a neck, two slant fins, a transverse bar, and an end tip. A gap is defined by the round top. The second conductor is inserted in the through hole beneath the flange.

Abstract: A right angle electrical connector is provided for surface mounting to a printed circuit board. The connector includes a dielectric housing having a mounting face. A conductive boardlock is secured to the housing and includes a first substantially planar portion having a leg projecting beyond the mounting face for locking reception in a boardlock-receiving aperture in the printed circuit board. A second substantially planar portion of the boardlock has a foot for connection to a ground trace on the printed circuit board. The first and second portions are substantially perpendicular to each other and to the foot for resisting movement of the connector relative to the printed circuit board in different perpendicular directions.

Abstract: A female terminal metal fixture which can prevent a resilient contact tongue from being deflected over a wide range. A box-like body is provided on its right and left side walls with an inwardly bulged restrictive portion formed by a bulging process. Each restrictive portion extends longitudinally below a resilient contact tongue from the distal end of the tongue to the front end of the contact. When a tab is inserted into the insertion space slantwise, the tongue is deflected down by a distance greater than lo that in the case of a normal insertion. The first contact section of the tongue contacts the front corner of the restrictive portion, while the second contact section contacts the rear upper face of the portion. Thus, the tongue is prevented from being deflected beyond its elastic limit. Alternatively, the box-like body is provided on its side walls with an inwardly bulged restrictive portion extending longitudinally from an opening in the body to about the midpoint of the resilient tongue.

Abstract: This invention relates to a junction connector for permanently connecting electric cables, wherein its sleeve comprises a bore passing longitudinally therethrough, a part of the wall of this bore, extending over an angle at the center greater than 180.degree., being provided with longitudinal ribs projecting radially towards the center; aligned tapped holes, made from the outside, open out in the bore opposite the central generatrix of its ribbed part; and locking bolts whose end is in the form of a spherical cap and incorporating a cleavable head, are screwed in the tapped holes to assemble the cables sleeve.

Abstract: A modular plug and multi-pair cable assembly provides reduced near-end crosstalk between two signal pairs of the cable. A modular plug has a plurality of wire-receiving passages disposed in first and second planar arrays spaced one above the other, with the passages of one planar array being staggered in position with respect to the passages of the other planar array. An end of a first wire of each of two signal pairs is received in respective wire-receiving passages of the first planar array and an end of a second wire of the two signal pairs is received in respective wire-receiving passages of the second planar array. A first pair plane in which the wire ends of the first signal pair are situated intersects a second pair plane in which the wire ends of the second signal pair are situated. In this manner crosstalk between the two signal pairs resulting from magnetic and electric field coupling is reduced.

Abstract: A collapsible plug device includes a casing, an electrical plug rotatably mounted in the casing and movable between a collapsed and an extended position, and a releasable locking mechanism connected to the casing and designed to engage the electrical plug to maintain the plug in an extended position. The locking mechanism can be released by a user to allow the plug to be moved to the collapsed position. A preferred form of locking mechanism is a slidable lock bar which is designed to engage a detent in a rotatable shaft which is connected to or integral with an electrical plug body.A cradle or attachment can be integrated into the casing, with an electrical connection and a mechanical connection so that a rechargeable battery or a device containing such a battery can be electrically and mechanically attached to the cradle. Alternatively, a cable can be fitted with a power adapter plug and electrically connected to the basic device.

Abstract: An electrical connector with a first housing part receiving socket contacts, and a second housing part receiving knife contacts, where the two parts of the housing can be locked together and released by means of pins or the like, firmly attached to the housing parts. A single U-shaped clamp is mounted on one part of the housing and has legs with linking grooves in the region of board-shaped expansions. The grooves can be swung onto pins of the other housing part. The legs are provided with springy chamfers which, in the release position, are braced as stop elements again that housing part which carries the clamp. A locking hook mounted resiliently on a housing part reaches releaseably into a recess or hole in the cross piece of the clamp when the latter is in the locking position.

Abstract: A modular jack type connector includes a dielectric housing defining a plug-receiving cavity. A plurality of terminals are mounted on the housing. Each terminal includes a spring beam contact portion extending in cantilever fashion in a single row within the plug-receiving cavity, with the contact portions extending from curved base portions located in the housing, and tail portions projecting from the housing in two rows generally parallel to the single row such that each pair of adjacent terminals includes a tail portion in each row thereof. Intermediate portions extend between the curved base portions and the tail portions, with the intermediate portions of at least one of the pair of adjacent terminals being separated from each other in a direction generally parallel to the rows. Bowed portions join the intermediate portions and the tail portions of the one pair of adjacent terminals, with the bowed portions overlapping each in a plane transverse to the rows.

Abstract: A zero insertion/extraction force printed circuit board card connection system comprises a cam-operated locking mechanism disposed along an edge portion of the printed circuit board. The extrusions along the circuit board mate with an extrusion fixed to the card cage having a plurality of electrical connectors. The card connection system allows the connectors to be held away from the circuit board during insertion/extraction and provides a constant mating force once the circuit board is positioned. The card connection system provides a simple solution to the need for a greater number of electrical signal connections.

Abstract: Invention relates to an improved strain relief member for use in a communication network outlet utilizing a card-edge type connector. The connector typically may comprise a housing having a through cavity containing a plurality of axially arranged terminal contacts, where each contact is composed of a pair of blades having a slot therebetween for receiving a conductor normal to the slot. The contacts are exposed to the rear of the housing, and a card-receiving opening communicates with the through cavity from the front of the housing. The rear portion of the housing is generally of a rectangular cross section having a uniform predetermined height. The improved strain relief member, constructed to be press fit onto the rear portion, comprises a dielectric housing having a top wall, a bottom wall and a rear wall extending therebetween.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to presenting a connector which has conductor patterns in very narrow pitch. A frame 50, in which plural beams 52, which have the same cross-section as a connector 1, are aligned in parallel, is molded from a suitable resin which is good in heat resistance and accepts plating. After electroless plating over the surface of each beam 52, resist is coated uniformly thereon. The beam 52 is exposed three-dimensionally using mirrors and masks. After removing resist and unnecessary plated copper, it is gold-plated or solder plated, as needed. The beams 52, on which the conductor patterns are formed, are separated from the frame 50, and by cutting each beam into a designed number, connectors of narrow pitch are obtained.

Abstract: An electrical connector having a hollow electrically insulating body having opposed ends. A set of male electrical contact members is on one end of the body. First and second body part together define the body. One of the body parts defines the one end of the body and its hollow interior. The other of the body parts defines the other end of the body. A recess in the one body part communicates with the hollow interior of the body, and receives the other body part. Means extending from the other body part into the hollow interior serves in trapping thus locating electrical conductor means associated with the male electrical contact members and as part of members frictionally interengaging to resist disassembly of the body.

Abstract: A geophone connector assembly includes a body having a socket that includes a tubular mandrel, a female contact assembly positioned in the mandrel and having resilient fingers surrounded by a sleeve member and arranged to receive the pin of a mating connector, and a threaded bore in the mandrel arranged to receive a threaded shank on the inner end of the female contact assembly to enable removal and replacement of the contact assembly as a unit in the field in the event of damage thereto.

Abstract: An electrical contact terminal for mounting on a printed circuit board has a point of primary electrical contact with the circuit board physically separated from a pair of load-bearing connections to the circuit board. Physical loads caused by relative movement between the printed circuit board and an electrical component attached to the terminal are borne by the load-bearing points while the point of primary electrical contact is isolated from those loads and therefore will not be subjected to stresses which cause degradation of the electrical connection.

Abstract: An electric-power connector consists of a plug (1) and a female element, i.e. a socket (2), said socket (2) bearing the grounding pin if any and comprising a mask (3) moved by a return means into its closed position in front of said socket's orifices (40, 20) in order to render said socket inoperative by sealing its orifices, the socket's orifices becoming operative again when the mask shall be moved by an actuating means mounted on the plug (1), said mask (3) being kept in its closed position by a lock (6). Said lock (6) consists of elements which are distinct from the mask (3), and where called for the plug (1) is fitted with an inserted unlocking control means (7) which, when mounted on said plug, drives the lock (6) of the mask (3), the driving of the mask (3) being determined by the means mounted on the plug.