Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electrical connector employed to make and break an electric motor main circuit between the control unit side and the side of the box-shaped frame of a control center. The electrical connector includes a male contact, a female contact having a pair of contact strips engaged with and disengaged from the male contact and a end section to which a connecting conductor is connected. A pair of conductive strips of the connecting conductor extends at the outside of the contact strips of the female contact in an opposite relation to the same. The conductive strips of the connecting conductor are coupled by a regulating rod which prevents the outward movement of the conductive strips. The female contact and the connecting conductor are integrated and enclosed in a cavity of an insulating case for oscillation.

Abstract: A miniature barrel female terminal and a terminal preform are disclosed comprising two c-shaped tapered width beams at each end of the terminal, the beams at one end of the terminal joined to a respective beam at the opposite end by integral contact strips and a maximum width spine. The formed terminal defines three pressure line contact points at the spine and the contact strips, respectively.

Abstract: A socket for the use of an electric part has contacts disposed in such a manner as to contact with contact pieces or leads of an electric part and a stage with the electric part supported thereon and able to move between a lower position where the contact pieces are brought into contact with the contacts and an upper position where the contact pieces are brought out of contact with the contacts. The socket further has a swingable crankshaft as means for restraining the stage in the upper or lower position. The crankshaft is provided with a crank bar portion disposed in such a manner as to vertically move upward and downward while supporting the stage and to push up the stage during a raising movement thereof and a crank arm portion which is swung about the crank bar portion and engaged with lock means thereby to restrain the stage in the upper and lower positions.

Abstract: A PTC adaptor for a pluggable data connector socket comprises an insulating housing (1) including a plug region (6) for insertion into the pluggable data connector socket, a socket region (16) including a plug receiving cavity (21) in which a pluggable data connector may be received, and a cord receiving region including a cavity (9) in which a plurality of insulated conductors may be received. The housing further includes a plurality of electrical contacts (24), each contact comprising a plug portion (26) extending into the plug region (6) for making an electrical connection with the pluggable data connector socket, a socket portion (28) extending into the plug receiving cavity (21), and a terminating portion (27) extending into the cord receiving cavity (9) for penetrating the insulating covering of the insulated conductors to make an electrical connection with the conductors therein.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for making an electrical device including a contact supported in a housing having a space within which at least part of such contact may move, wherein the contact is placed with respect to a mold core that resiliently deforms the moving part of the contact to a condition it ordinarily would be expected to take during use in connection with another contact and cooperates with at least such moving part of the contact to form a composite core that is placed in a mold cavity to mold a housing about part of the contact and to at least part of the contact while the composite core defines the space within which the moving part of the contact can deform during use. An electrical connecting device is made by the aforementioned process.

Abstract: An electrical contact plug which includes a ferrite through which an input or output cable passes and which utilizes a metal cover for holding the plug assembly together such that the metal housing also provides a grounding arrangement wherein the plug portion can be connected to ground through the cable shield of a shielded cable.

Abstract: A connector device for an electrical surge protector includes a base having at least one yoke defining a mounting aperture, at least one terminal having a mounting hole aligned with the mounting aperture of the yoke, and a pin extending through the hole of the terminal and the yoke aperture to hold the terminal in a predetermined position in assembly of the surge protector.

Abstract: A modular electrical jack unit 40 is described having a cast frame structure 42 for supporting and aligning a plurality of jack spring switch assemblies 70, 72 and 74. The cast frame structure 42 has a sleeve section 44 and a beam section 46. The sleeve section 44 has a plurality of sleeve members 52, 54 and 56. The beam member 46 has support beams 60 and 64 that extend rearward substantially perpendicular to the sleeve section 44 at spaced intervals with the support beam 60 extending rearward between sleeve member 52 and 54 and the support beam 64 extending rearward between sleeve member 54 and 56. The jack spring switch assemblies 70, 72 and 74 are mounted on the support beams 60 and 64 with the jack spring switch assembly 72 positioned intermediate the support beams 60 and 64. The jack spring switch assemblies 70, 72 and 74 are stacked vertically aligned with each other and are aligned with sleeve members 52, 54 and 56 respectively.

Abstract: A coaxial right-angle plug connector includes a "clean" right-angle inner contact member having a continuous insulative cover molded therearound including the bend to be self-retaining thereon and to have consistently concentric coaxial outer surfaces, with larger diameter cover portions around the portion within the conductive housing. The front horizontal contact portion and the outer contact therearound mate with contact means of conventional receptacle connectors, while the vertical portion of the inner contact descends from the housing near the front thereof reducing the length of the signal path and lessening reflection.

Abstract: A distribution frame having regions for mounting cross-connect connectors and multiple contact connectors. A cross-connect connector for mounting in the frame may be pre-assembled with conductor wires and a multiple contact connector.

Abstract: The present invention provides electrical apparatus by which to couple wires of a sheathed cable to the conductors of the apparatus and/or to the wires of another sheathed cable without separately cutting the cable(s), removing the sheathing and/or stripping insulation from the wires of the cable whereby to substantially reduce labor and material costs. The present invention further provides such apparatus which may be directly secured to a structural wall thereby eliminating the use of junction boxes.

Abstract: The connector comprises a plastic holder which carries two wire leads and serves as a cap for the free end of a drop wire inserted thereunto. Two metal contacts received in slots in the holder are driven in by pliers action to pierce the insulation of the leads and drop wire and to each engage both the conductor of a respective lead and a respective conductor of the drop wire to thereby electrically connect these two conductors. Next, plastic covers for the contacts, hinged to and integral with the holder, are closed to become locked thereto. The connection is then adapted to serve as a plug for an aperture in a terminal box, and to be attached thereto by snap action, and to have its leads connected to terminals in the box.

Abstract: A test socket for testing chips and chips on tape wherein the test socket is formed on a heat resistant dielectric film having contact pads and connector pads joined by metallic circuit traces and which film is wrapped on a compliant pad. The connector end of the tape is joined to a circuit board by a conductive tape and maintained in contact by the compliant pad. A frame registers the chip with the contact area of the tape.

Abstract: A pin plug connector is comprised of a pin, a body which will be connected with the pin by insertion, a cover which will attach over circumferential side of the body, a covered shield line which comprises a core line, a shield line and a cover portion, a terminal which will connect the shield line to the cover, a cap which will fit over asembled components noted above, and wherein improvement is introduced in that the terminal is provided with a press fitter to press-fit the shield line and a clamping end to clamp the cover portion of the line, and an engaging end to engage with the cover, thereby external forces which attempt to pull the shield line will be resonably divided to the connections mounted on the terminal and then a break of connection will be avoided.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for creating a stack assembly of print circuit boards and for providing electrical interconnection between the individual through-plated hole pads of the circuit boards is described. The preferred embodiment of the present invention is a device comprised of two parts: a slotted disk and a wire. The slotted disk is attached to the surface of the printed circuit board so as to cover a hole pad and form an electrical connection therewith. The covered holes of the printed circuit board are axially aligned between circuit boards and an electrically conducting wire is inserted through the slotted disks on the circuit boards to form an electrical connection therewith.

Abstract: Relief against torque for a terminal terminated to an end portion of a flat conductor cable is provided by a low height rearward section of a metal member having opposed sections forwardly of a cable-receiving end having a transverse cable-receiving slot. The cable end is inserted through the slot for termination forwardly of the cable-receiving end and disposed between the opposed sections. The opposed sections are joined together by a pair of integral spaced bight straps or hinge sections beside the cable at the ends of the slot. The straps or hinges enable the metal member to resist torque applied to the termination by the cable. The metal member can be the terminal itself, a transition adapter for termination to flat electrical cable of the type having opposed plate sections applied to the major cable surfaces which include means for mechanical and electrical connections therewith.

Abstract: A transition adapter for terminating flat power cable includes a stamped and formed member having opposed plate sections between which an end or an edge portion of the cable is receivable to be terminated where the plate sections have opposing cooperating terminating regions comprised of a plurality of alternating wave shapes and relief recesses, with each wave shape aligned with a recess of the opposing terminating region so that when the plate sections are urged together under sufficient force, the wave crests deflect integral strips of conductor out of the plane of the cable, exposing sheared conductor edges for electrical connection therewith. Softer metal insert members are secured to and along outer surfaces of the plate sections and are then staked to deform the metal against the shared conductor edges to engage and form gas-tight electrical connections of substantial surface area therewith.

Abstract: An electrical connector backshell and a molded environmental seal for use therewith are provided. The backshell includes an internal array of threads for mating with a frontshell. An internal cylindrical surface is provided rearwardly of the threads and terminates at an inwardly directed annular shoulder. The seal is molded from a unitary piece of elastomeric material and is dimensioned to be engaged within the internal cylindrical surface of the backshell. The seal is provided with a mating end for mounting against the shoulder of the backshell. The mating end of the seal is provided with an annular mounting flange for engaging the groove in the backshell. The forward mating end of the seal defines a radially outer annular locking ridge and a radially inner annular sealing ridge. The locking and sealing ridges are constructed for secure environmental sealing engagement with a plurality of different frontshell configurations.

Abstract: A right-angle connector having an array of angulate contact elements supported by a locking support member in frictional engagement with said connector. The array of angulate contact elements consists of at least two rows varying in extension and height. The locking support member is received into the open-ended rear surface of the connector and indents within the member are disposed to individually receive a contact element. The indents are volumetrically staggered to coincide with the array of contact elements.

Abstract: In order to connect small electric apparatus having for example a two-pin configuration or a European flat plug into any of the international standard plugging systems according to need, a handy pentaprism-shaped connector has on its sides plug pin arrangements (2) for five different plugging systems and contains a revolving body (4, 7) which has in the area of the top and/or bottom surface of the connector sockets for two more plugging systems. These can be manually snapped (8, 9) into contact (3, 5, 6) with the plug pin arrangement (2) of the connector needed at any time, the remaining plug pins being then absolutely deprived of any voltage.