Abstract: An electrical connection system for first and second electrical conductor members of the kind in which the first member has an open setting for receiving or releasing the second member and a closed setting for retaining the second in the engaged condition and in which an operating member is provided to open or close the first member, additionally includes an interlock arrangement which prevents operation of the operating member to close the first connector member is only partially engaged and which also stops removal of the second conductor member until the first member has been opened.

Abstract: A floor-mounted bed locator is used to removably retain a hospital bed of the type which carries electrically powered equipment having an electric plug. The locator comprises an electrical socket for receiving the plug, and a disconnector for ejecting the plug from the socket when the bed is removed from the locator. The disconnector includes at least one ejector pin disposed beneath the plug when the latter is connected to the socket, and a movably mounted treadle engageable and moved by a castor of the bed as the latter is removed from the locator to lift said pin into pushing engagement with the plug.

Abstract: Disclosed is a zero insertion force connector for receiving and electrically connecting a staggered lead integrated circuit package to other conductors. The connector comprises parallel rows of staggered spring biased connector leads to receive the package leads, which are spring biased toward an open position for receiving the package leads, and which are moved into and held in engagement with the package leads against their bias by oppositely acting camming devices to provide a mechanical, positive, connection with the package leads, said spring biased connector leads also serving to open said connector leads against the camming force as the camming action is reversed.

Abstract: The terminal board and mounting frame are disclosed. Electrical terminals are arranged in rows and columns on the terminal board and are adapted for splicing or cross connecting high density communication wiring for communications, data processing, telemetry, signal control and broadcasting applications.

Abstract: A receptacle for stacked support of electronic packages provides ready address/selection of each package by disposing vertically spaced receptacle contact sets in offset relation longitudinally of an elongate package-receiving channel. Package stacking is facilitated by a fixed support for a lower package and a further support selectively movable into the package-receiving channel for supporting an upper package. Zero insertion force is provided by an actuator operable to displace receptacle contact sets from noninterfering disposition with respect to the channel into engagement with package contacts.

Abstract: A weatherproof electrical connector has an interface sealing arrangement comprising a plug connector body having towers which slide into terminal cavity enlargements in a mating socket connector body. An apertured seal pad is mounted on the towers and sealingly engages a projecting shroud of the socket connector body.

Abstract: For use in a low-voltage switchgear there is provided the combination of a busbar and at least one electrical coupling device for screw connection or plug-in connection to the busbar. The busbar is in the form of a hollow channel section bar, the cross-section of which comprises two outer branches projecting from the same side of a base. Each outer branch has a thickened edge portion along its edge remote from the base, which is provided with an open groove, the bottom of which constitutes a contact surface for said screw connection coupling devices. In its hollow interior, the busbar has contact surfaces for said plug-in coupling devices. Surfaces of the busbar other than said contact surfaces have an electrically insulating coating.

Abstract: A tiltable terminal clamp assembly including a screw having a circular protrusion on the underhead surface and a clamp plate of generally rectangular configuration having a central aperture dimensioned to loosely receive the shank of the screw and four angularly spaced raised embossments projecting above the upper surface of the clamp plate and extending outwardly from the central aperture toward the four corners of the clamp plate for engagement with the circular protrusion on the head of the screw. The raised embossments have a maximum height and width adjacent the aperture and decrease in height and width in a direction outwardly of the aperture in the clamp plate.

Abstract: An article clamp particularly useful as an electrode clip and formed of resilient plastic material is provided. The clamp includes an open bottomed box-like enclosure including opposed side walls, frontal and distal end connecting portions as spaced-apart front and rear partial top walls integral with opposed end walls and a pair of supporting flanges extending outwardly form an open bottom. A primary electrical contact plate of a channel-shape and having an access slot therein is disposed across a portion of the open bottom and has an upward extension to enable connection to an electrical lead wire. The clamp also includes an articulable cover which is integral with the box-like enclosure. The cover includes first, second and third swingable members interconnected by means of living hinges. The first and third swingable members are secured to the box-like enclosure by means of living hinges.

Abstract: A flat cable assembly embodiment (10) is disclosed, as are two terminated cable embodiments (12,12') and methods for terminating and connectorizing same, when the cable is of the type wherein two overlying/underlying arrays of laterally disposed conductors (13, 14, 13', 14') are respectively laminated between a common insulative center film (16, 16'), and an associated one of two opposite side outer insulative films (18, 19, 18', 19'), with a plurality of isolating strips (23, 24, 23', 24') interposed between, and adapted to adhere selectively to, the center film and an associated one of the two arrays of conductors. The isolating strips are positioned transversely across the center film in aligned pairs at each of a succession of predetermined terminating sites (e.g., at 5, 10 or 15 ft. intervals) along the cable, as fabricated.

Abstract: An electrial power distribution block is secured to the lower portion of the metal frame of each space-dividing panel. The distribution blocks in an assembly of panels are electrically connected together. Wherever access to electical power on either side of a panel is desired, a slide-in duplex receptacle is mounted on the distribution block on that side. The receptacles interlock with the blocks to provide built-in stress relief, without separate mechanical fasteners, against forces generated by plugging into or removing a plug from the receptacle. The terminals of the blocks are recessed and the receptacle terminals which connect with the block terminals are shielded in plastic sleeve portions of the receptacles. The conductors of both the blocks and the receptacles are molded in place.

Abstract: A connector for demountably attaching an integrated circuit package to a backpanel and forming an electrically conductive pressure coupling between the contacts of the integrated circuit package and the terminal pads of the backpanel. In the preferred embodiment, the connector includes a carrier member upon which the integrated circuit package is mounted and the carrier member has at least one boss extending normally therefrom into a hole formed through the backpanel. The boss of the carrier member has a headed stud extending coaxially therefrom so as to protrude through the hole in the backpanel. A mounting plate is located in contiguous engagement with the opposite surface of the backpanel with the headed stud of the carrier member extending into a special aperture formed through the mounting plate.

Abstract: A jumper plug (11) for making an electrical connection between two terminal pins (15) has a housing (12) containing two holes (13-14) for accepting the pins. Mounted in the housing is a horseshoe-shaped spring clip (30), made of an electrically conductive material, having each of its legs (31) extending down into a hole such that as the pins (15) are inserted into the holes they come into contact with the legs. Additionally, the walls (17, 18, 19, 20) of the holes are tapered to insure a better contact between the inserted pins (15) and the legs (31).

Abstract: The invention provides a one-piece protective cap, discretely formed of semi-rigid material, which encloses the major area of a CRT base. The cap, which maintains alignment of the connector pins of the tube, completely shields the vulnerable areas of the base from possible contamination, and thereby prevents the possible development of resultant leakage and arcing thereacross. The cap is retained on the base by the utilization of a plurality of spatially-related nubbins in the cap interacting with the sidewall of the base to provide a plurality of pressured retention areas.

Abstract: A drive train includes a hydrostatic transmission unit and a multiple speed range transmission unit arranged in series between a prime mover and a primary output shaft, variable displacement and torque transmitting capacity of the hydrostatic transmission unit being adjusted by hydraulic controls including a speed control valve for developing a differential pressure signal proportional to a desired rate of operation, a modulating valve for regulating the differential pressure signal corresponding to accelerating and decelerating operation of the transmission, a directional control valve for determining the direction of operation of the hydrostatic transmission unit, and a range selector valve for shifting the operating speed range of the multiple speed range transmission as the hydrostatic transmission approaches a limit of displacement, the displacement of the hydrostatic transmission being automatically reset in response to shifting of the multiple speed range transmission.

Abstract: An overdrive attachment of the type employing an epicyclic gear train features an improved arrangement for selectively providing direct drive and overdrive connections between the input and output drive shafts of the attachment.

Abstract: Rotary speed changer including a 2-element internal gear set. The eccentric of a crankshaft is journalled in the inner element on its axis. Fixed to a driveshaft is a plate which has cycloid pins mating with cycloid holes in the inner element so that the driveshaft rotates at a fraction of the speed of rotation of the crankshaft. Instead of being attached to the driveshaft, the plate may be fixed to the housing so that the outer element of the gear set rotates at a fraction of the speed of the crankshaft.

Abstract: A single-axis coarse and fine adjustment device for driving a carriage comprises a pinion shaft rotatably supported by stationary support means and having a pinion meshing with a rack provided on the carriage, a connecting shaft rotatably supported with the pinion shaft and having a first and a second toothed portion, first decelerating gear means meshing with the first toothed portion to decelerate the rotation of the connecting shaft and transmit it to the pinion shaft, a fine adjustment shaft rotatably supported within the connecting shaft and having a toothed portion, a fine adjustment operating member for rotating the fine adjustment shaft, second decelerating gear means meshing with the second toothed portion of the connecting shaft and the toothed portion of the fine adjustment shaft to decelerate the rotation of the fine adjustment shaft and transmit it to the connecting shaft, a medium adjustment operating member rotatably supporting the second decelerating gear means and rotatably supported by the s

Abstract: An axle assembly comprising a differential having a housing, an input drive pinion rotatably mounted in the housing and in driving meshing engagement with a drive gear rotatably mounted in the housing, the drive gear carrying a differential spider having rotatably thereon four differential pinions, a differential casing attached to the drive gear enclosing the differential spider and the differential pinions, a differential side gear also enclosed within the differential casing and in meshing engagement with the differential pinions, the internal bore of which is splined to accept an axle shaft through an opening in the differential casing, a cylindrical piston surrounding the axle shaft and splined thereto, the differential casing having a splined extension thereon to receive a comparably splined portion on the piston, biasing means biasing the piston along the longitudinal axis of the axle shaft to disengage the piston from the differential casing at their mating splined areas, a cylindrical cylinder surrou

Abstract: A control system for use in controlling the operation of an overdrive transmission of a vehicle. The system includes a circuit containing a relay coil and a limit switch in series relationship with the governor switch of the transmission. The relay has two sets of double acting contacts, one set being provided to control current flow to the coil of a solenoid used to actuate the overdrive and the other set providing a grounding effect for the distributor side of the ignition coil of the vehicle. The limit switch is mounted so that it is actuated and deactuated by merely moving the gear shift lever of the vehicle. To this end, the gear shift lever has a bracket which engages a switch arm of the limit switch to move the switch arm as a function of the movement of the gear shift lever.