Abstract: An electrical connector includes a latch for retaining an IC card. A card adaptor body receives the IC card. The adaptor body has a connector end including a pin header. A pair of opposed card side edge guides extend from the connector end and terminate adjacent an open end of the adaptor body. The IC card is inserted into the adaptor body and has a connector edge engaged with the pin header, a pair of opposed sides engaged with the side edge guides and a rear edge at the open end of the adaptor body. A retainer includes a flexible arm and a hook extending from the connector end into the open end. The hook is automatically engaged with the card rear edge when the card is inserted for retaining the card engaged with the pin header, and is movable out of engagement with the card rear edge to permit the card to be removed from the adaptor body.

Abstract: A latch key mechanism 1 has a rotatable latch key 2, a holder 7 rotatably receiving the latch key 2, a spring 16 connected to the latch key 2 and to the holder 7, the spring 16 biasing the latch key 2 to rotate in a first direction to a desired position aligned with the profile of a keyhole 3 through which the latch key 2 is to be inserted, and the latch key 2 being rotatable against a resilient bias of the spring 16 to a latching position beyond the keyhole 3.

Abstract: An I/O port connector having an EMI shield comprising a dielectric housing defining a receiving chamber with a front entrance and a rear opening. The housing defines a plurality of slits forming a plurality of flexible flaps therebetween, and further includes a bridge portion having a pair of supporting posts. The bridge portion defines a plurality of terminal receiving passages therein for receiving a corresponding number of terminals. A cantilever tongue extends from the bridge portion toward the front entrance and forms a terminal seat at a free end thereof. The EMI shield includes a first portion received within the chamber of the housing from the front entrance, a front entrance and a rear opening. The first portion is provided with at least a retaining strip for releasably retaining a mating connector, engaging tab and an aperture adjacent to the rear opening.

Abstract: A digital verification system and method is described for verifying that the terminal connector assembly of an automobile's battery cable is properly connected to the connector assembly of a power distribution module (PDM). The terminal connector assembly is provided with an integrated CPA assembly having an engagement member, such as an elongated appendage. The PDM connector assembly is provided with a shorting bar that contacts a bus bar so as to cause a short circuit to occur when current is supplied to the PDM connector assembly through the battery's terminal connector assembly. A sense lead in contact with the shorting bar sends a response signal through a printed circuit board to a microprocessor indicating that electrical power is flowing though the short circuit. The CPA assembly can only be engaged when the terminal connector assembly is fully mated to the PDM connector assembly.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a forward mating end, a rear terminating end and a plurality of terminal-receiving passages extending between the ends. A conductive front shell is disposed about a substantial portion of at least the forward mating end of the housing. A pair of conductive rear backshells are disposed about a substantial portion of at least the rear terminating end of the housing. The backshells are swivelably mounted to the front shell on front-to-rear axes for movement between open and closed positions.

Abstract: An IC carrier includes a carrier base, a carrier cover and a wiring sheet, through which an IC and a socket contact each other, interposed between the carrier cover and the wiring sheet. The IC is retained by the carrier base such that the IC and the wiring sheet face each other. The IC carrier further includes a plurality of connecting pins projecting from an opposing surface of one of the carrier base and the carrier cover. The connecting pins are inserted into through-holes formed in the wiring sheet and then press fitted into connecting holes formed in the other of the carrier base and the cover, so that an area in the vicinity of a peripheral edge of the wiring sheet is sandwiched between the carrier base and the carrier cover.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector having a connected position and contacting devices in the electrical connector for electrically contacting terminals of devices external to the electrical connector. The assembly also includes devices for holding the electrical connector in the connected position while the contacting devices are electrically connected. Furthermore, the contacting devices and the devices for holding the electrical connector are spatially separate from one another. One embodiment of the electrical connector is for connecting first and second printed circuit boards.

Abstract: A clamp assembly for a battery booster cable for removable attachment to a battery terminal. The clamp assembly includes a pair of clamp members each having a jaw portion and a handle portion. One of the jaw portions is configured with an electrically conductive edge portion, and the other jaw portion is configured with a non-conductive edge portion. The electrically conductive edge portion and non-conductive edge cooperate to securely mount the clamp assembly to the battery terminal. A pivot member joins the clamp members together between the respective jaw and handle portions thereof to allow pivotal movement of the clamp members relative to one another about the pivot member. A biasing member is also disposed on the clamp members for normally urging the handle portions apart and the jaw portions together about the pivot member.

Abstract: A cylindrically shaped backplane contains conductors that provide circular buses that connect corresponding contacts of connectors mounted to the backplane. When circuit cards are inserted into the connectors, the circuit cards extend radially from the cylindrical backplane.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing having a mounting face adapted for surface mounting on a printed circuit board. A conductive terminal is mounted on the housing and includes a board contact portion for engagement with a circuit trace on the printed circuit board and a spring contact portion for engagement with a contact element of a mating connector component. The board contact portion is fixed at the mounting face of the housing and is adapted to engage the circuit trace on the printed circuit board when the contact portion is moved in a direction generally perpendicular to the board. The spring contact portion of the terminal projects from a side of the housing and is adapted to engage the contact element of the mating connector component when the contact element is moved in a direction generally parallel to the board.

Abstract: A wiring-harness connection structure of a transmission shift-lever device including a shift knob with a switch, comprises a conducting line connected to a switch attached to the shift knob at an upper end thereof, the conducting line partially exposed inside of a lower opening end of the shift knob at a lower end thereof to provide a male plug, and a wiring-harness connector having a female receptacle fittable onto the plug, and a caulked portion through which the harness connector is connected to a harness end. A harness holder is detachably fitted to the lower opening end of the shift knob. The harness holder has a harness-end mounting hole, for preventing the harness end from disconnecting from the harness holder by abutment between the caulked portion and the harness holder.

Abstract: A multiple pin cable connector for mating with a receptacle is disclosed, in which the connector has housing defining a turning hollow, and a head, the lower body portion of which is inserted in the hollow of the housing. The head includes an engagement portion for mating with the receptacle. The attachment of the head to the housing enables pivoting of the head in first and second directions. Wires connected to a signal cable and contained in the housing are separated and threaded through openings formed along the central axis to contact the corresponding pins for enabling electrical continuity between the cable and the receptacle. The housing and head are coupled by means a pivotable coupling along a central axis, enabling the respective part to pivot in a limited angle.

Abstract: An electrical connector housing member includes a body with passages to receive a contact member and a locking key with protuberances which engage in slots opening into the passages. The width of the protuberances is equal to the dimension of the slots which extend the full width of the passages and the protuberances are extended by bosses.

Abstract: A connector for connecting a plurality of metal terminals (25) to a circuit board (95) includes a connector housing (27) formed with a plurality of metal terminal accommodate chambers (39), a terminal cover (31) engaged with both ends of the connector housing slidably between a terminal cover position and a terminal uncover position, and a terminal retainer (33, 96, 107) engaged with the connector housing between a temporal engage position and a full engage position; the metal retainer includes a plurality of flexible detect arms (87, 101, 103), and a plurality of detect projections (89, 103, 115) being not inserted into each of the terminal accommodate chambers due to contact with the imperfectly-inserted metal terminal at the full engage position, but inserted into each of the terminal accommodate chambers at the temporal engage position without contact with the perfectly-inserted metal terminal.

Abstract: A connector element and electronic component arrangement in which the connector element cooperates with receiving slots provided in first and second electronic components to electrically connect the components. The connector element includes ground traces and signal traces which are brought into electrical contact with signal leads and ground leads of the electronic components when the connector element is inserted into the receiving slots located in the first and second electronic components. Multiple electrical components may be electrically connected in a stack using multiple connector elements which cooperate to form a substantially continuous bus. The connector element and electronic component arrangement eliminates the signal delay, signal reflection, and interference associated with data cables.

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 plug cord connecting structure used for an automobile engine having a connecting cap provided at one end of the plug cord, said connecting cap having a double tubular structure of outer tube and inner tube made of a synthetic rubber which engage tightly with a tubular wall of a wiring terminal accompanying elastic deformation whereby displacement prevention performance and waterproofness are enhanced, and teeth-like grooves may be formed all around the inner wall of the outer tube of said connecting cap for the engagement of some of the grooves with engaging pieces in accordance with the lead-out direction of the cord, whereby a single connecting structure is applicable to a conventional wiring terminal.

Abstract: An electrical adapter plug insertable into cigarette lighter-type sockets of varying diameters. The plug features a flexible dimpled member integrally joined with the periphery of the plug to provide a variable outer plug diameter. An internal spring provides an outwardly biasing force to increase resistance against vibration and jarring and improve retention of the plug within the socket.

Abstract: A shielded and filtered electrical connector (2) includes surface mount capacitors (52) positioned in engagement with contact terminals (4) on the rear face (18) of a connector housing (10). A cylindrical electrically conductive member (36) having an elastomeric core (38) with a conductive laminate layer (42) on the exterior of a film (40) surrounding the elastomeric core (38) engages conductive ends (54) of each chip capacitor to urge it into contact with a corresponding contact terminal (4). The resilient electrically conductive member (36) is located in a central lateral channel (20) on the rear housing face (18) and the chip components (52) are located in pockets (24) between the channel (20) and corresponding terminals (4). The resilient electrically conductive member (36) and the chip components (52) are inserted using conventional pick and place techniques.

Abstract: A double-retaining connector in which a double-retaining operation can be effected easily and positively and a retaining portion will not be inadvertently influenced by an external force. A spacer 2 is inserted into terminal receiving chambers 4 from a rear end of a housing 1, and each spacer piece 16 at a front end of the spacer 2 moves past a retaining projection 5a of a retaining lance 5, and is held in a provisionally-retained position forwardly of the retaining lance 5. Then, a connection terminal 3 is inserted into the terminal receiving chamber 4 from the rear end of the housing 1, and moves past a retaining protuberance 6 to be retained against rearward withdrawal. At the same time, the retaining projection 5a of the retaining lance 5 fits in a retaining hole in an electrical contact portion of the connection terminal 3, thereby achieving a double retaining of the connection terminal.