Abstract: A circuit board has a through hole extending from a front surface to a rear surface. A press-fit terminal is press-fitted from the front surface into the through hole and is connected to a land, which is formed on a wall surface of the through hole. A support member supports the rear surface of the circuit board when the press-fit terminal is press-fitted into the through hole. A housing has a bottom portion and an opening, which is on the opposite side of the bottom portion. The circuit board is affixed to the housing to cover both the opening and the support member. The support member is held and interposed between the rear surface and an inner surface of the bottom portion.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a connector terminal received in a terminal-receiving chamber, passing through a sealing member, and brought into close contact with the sealing member, and a connector, which are the method for manufacturing a connector terminal, and the connector, for improvement in close contact between the sealing member and the connector terminal. Provided is a method for manufacturing a connector terminal received in a terminal-receiving chamber of a housing, passing through a sealing member filled in the terminal-receiving chamber, and brought into close contact with the sealing member, and the method includes a first process of punching a non-plated metal plate to form an intermediate material and a second process of covering the intermediate material with plating.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications jack including a housing having a port for receiving a plug. The jack also includes a plurality of contact springs adapted to make electrical contact with the plug when the plug is inserted into the port of the housing, and a plurality of wire termination contacts for terminating wires to the jack. The jack further includes a circuit board that electrically connects the contact springs to the wire termination contacts. The circuit board includes a multi-zone crosstalk compensation arrangement for reducing crosstalk at the jack.

Abstract: An electronic device includes an accepting connection terminal to which a connection cable can be connected, and a rotation inhibiting member that inhibits the connection cable from rotating an amount equal to or greater than a predetermined amount around the accepting connection terminal in a state where the connection cable is connected to the accepting connection terminal.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a cavity and a wafer stack received in the cavity. The wafer stack includes a plurality of electrical wafers arranged parallel to each other within the cavity. Each wafer includes a dielectric body and a leadframe having plural conductors held in the dielectric body, the conductors having terminating contacts and mating contacts with leads therebetween. The terminating contacts are both horizontally staged and vertically staged and exposed in a pocket of the dielectric body for electrical termination. The mating contacts being exposed for electrical connection. The electrical connector includes a flex harness includes a plurality of FPCBs. The FPCBs are electrically connected to corresponding wafers. Each FPCB has a stepped mating interface with conductors along the stepped mating interface configured to be electrically connected to corresponding terminating contacts.

Abstract: An artificial lighted tree is presented with power routed through the trunk of the tree and three-wire safety grounding. The tree is divided into sections for easy assembly, disassembly, and storage. The base of the tree is grounded through a three-prong safety grounded electrical cord and each section of the tree makes a ground connection with the base section as it is assembled to the artificial lighted tree. Electrical connections to power the lights may be made outside the trunk of the tree or through electrical connections within the tree.

Abstract: A connector plug for insertion into a socket. The connector plug having a multipart housing comprising a front part and a rear part. The front part and the rear part are affixed to each other by means of being screwed together by a thread. The front part and the rear part a groove is formed respectively. The two grooves extend in axial direction at the outer circumference of the front part and the rear part and are aligned relative to each other when the front part and the rear part are screwed together completely. A slider can be housed by an adapter at the front part or the rear part whereby the slider has a crosspiece that engages with the groove and when the front part and the rear part are screwed together completely it can be displaced into a locked position.

Abstract: A screw block installation structure for a junction box in which a screw block is installed to a screw block attaching portion having a screw block housing space in a component attachment block in a junction box, the component attachment block is housed together with the screw block inside a frame, and a connecting member is screw-connected to a screw member of the screw block, the screw member having a vertical axis of the screw block, wherein a lateral side opening is disposed in the screw block attaching portion, and the screw block is laterally installed to the screw block housing space through the side opening is provided.

Abstract: A board edge connector to which a board is inserted along an oblique direction relative to its fixed posture includes a main body, a plurality of contacts arranged in juxtaposition on the main body along a direction perpendicular to an insertion direction of the board, and a cover member covering the main body. The main body includes a base portion on which the multiple contacts are juxtaposed and a pair of arm portions extending from the base portion along opposed lateral edges of the board which assumes a fixed posture. The cover member includes an attaching portion covering the base portion and a pair of arm members covering lateral faces of the pair of arm portions, the pair of arm members being formed integral with the attaching portion.

Abstract: A plug engagement pin provided on each side of the plug connector is inserted into an engagement section of a hook and locked there when the shaft is rotated. The hook is fixed to a rotatable shaft provided for the receptacle connector and includes a projection. If the plug connector is inserted in a slanted state, the projection of the hook prevents the pin from being rotated.

Abstract: A connector including a cavity for stowing a pre-installed sealing member. The sealing cavity is defined by a first or coupler seal cavity formed on the inside surface of a coupler and a second or insert seal cavity formed on the outer periphery of an insert. Relative motion of the coupler and the insert during assembly causes the sealing member to be displaced from a stowed or inactive seal position to an assembled or active seal position.

Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed. A connector plug housing member is provided. A movable member is mounted inside the connector plug housing member. A contact member is provided inside the movable member. The movable member is configured to move between a first position and a second position. The movable member is configured to be connected to ground when the movable member is moved from the first position to the second position.

Abstract: A semiconductor socket including a substrate with a plurality of through holes extending from a first surface to a second surface. A conductive structure is disposed within the through holes A plurality of discrete contact members are located in the plurality of the through holes, within the conductive structure. The plurality of contact members each include a proximal end accessible from the second surface, and a distal end extending above the first surface. The conductive structure can be electrically coupled to circuit geometry. At least one dielectric layer is bonded to the second surface of the substrate with recesses corresponding to desired circuit geometry. A conductive material deposited in at least a portion of the recesses to form conductive traces redistributing terminal pitch of the proximal ends of the contact members.

Abstract: A connector includes a metal terminal part on which conductive wires exposed outside at an end of an electric cable are pressure-contacted; and a housing for accommodating a pressure-contact part A of the end of the electric cable and the metal terminal part. The housing 10 has an electric cable insertion hole, a wall of which is contactable with an outer circumferential surface of an insulating cover of the electric cable. The housing also has a filling space in communication with the electric cable insertion hole. The filling space is located in positional correspondence with the pressure-contact part A; and the filling space is filled with a filler such that the filler covers the pressure-contact part A.

Abstract: A plug connector assembly (1) includes: a mating member (10) for receiving a mating connector; a printed circuit board (20) electrically connected with the mating member; an outer shell (60) enclosing the printed circuit board; a light member mounted on the printed circuit board; and a light pipe (50) mounted on the printed circuit board to transmit light emitted from the light member to an outer side of the outer shell; wherein the outer shell comprises at least one supporting member (624) extending inwardly to support the printed circuit board in order to prevent the printed circuit board from movement during mounting the light pipe to the printed circuit board.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a housing having a terminating side and a front side that is configured to mate with a mating connector. The electrical connector also includes signal and ground conductors extending through the housing. The signal and ground conductors are configured to engage the mating connector. The signal conductors form a plurality of signal pairs configured to carry differential signals. The ground conductors are interleaved between the signal pairs. The electrical connector further has at least one resonance-control ground bus that includes a ground frame and a support body. The support body at least partially covers the ground frame. The support body comprises a lossy material. The ground frame includes multiple arms that each engage and electrically connect to a respective one of the ground conductors in order to electrically common the ground conductors that are engaged by the arms.

Abstract: A connector includes: a terminal to be connected to a mating terminal by a relative movement between the terminal and the mating terminal; a connector housing supporting the terminal; and a terminal displacement portion displaceably supporting the terminal in a direction orthogonal to a direction of the relative movement between the terminal and the mating terminal.

Abstract: A connector device includes: a wire harness side connector including a first housing part disposing a female terminal; and a sensor side connector including a second housing part disposing a male terminal. The female and male terminals are connected together at the position where the fitting together of the first and second housing parts is complete. The wire harness side connector includes a third connector rotatably attached to the first housing part. The third connector includes a third housing part in which the orientation of a connector fitting part is varied by the rotating direction of the first housing part. The third housing part includes a rotation preventing rib. The first housing part includes a rotation enabling ring groove, rotation preventing walls provided at intervals farther in the direction of fitting than the rotation enabling ring groove, and rib fitting grooves formed in the gaps between adjacent rotation preventing walls.

Abstract: A receptacle connector includes an insulative housing with a mating tongue, a plurality of contacts having front contacting sections exposed upon two opposite surfaces of the mating tongue and rear tail sections extending downwardly outside of the housing for mounting to a printed circuit board. A metallic shield encloses said housing and forms a capsular mating cavity with said mating tongue extending forwardly therein. A metallic shielding plate includes a front horizontal section embedded with the mating tongue to isolate the contacting sections of the contacts which are located on two different opposite surfaces, and a rear vertical section extending downwardly from a rear edge of the front horizontal section to isolate the tail sections of the contacts which are arranged in two rows with said rear vertical section therebewteen.

Abstract: A plug connector mateable with the receptacle connector, includes an insulative housing enclosed in a metallic shell, defining a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue, and equipped with a plurality of contacts on opposite sides in the vertical direction. A latch forms a pair of locking heads extending into two opposite lateral sides of the receiving cavity to lock with a shielding plate embedded within a mating tongue of the complementary receptacle connector during mating.