Abstract: An electronic connector includes a base and a tapered extension. The tapered extension includes a platform and a plurality of electrical contacts. An alignment tolerant joint couples the tapered extension to the base, such that the tapered extension is movable relative to the base in three orthogonal dimensions responsive to an external force applied to the tapered extension. One or more biasing components bias the tapered extension away from the base.

Abstract: A terminal includes a body portion formed in a major arc cylindrical shape in which a gap is formed between two edges in the circumferential direction or an overlapping cylindrical shape in which the two edges in the circumferential direction overlap each other, such that a cylindrical space is formed inside the body portion, and locking portions disposed on at least one side out of the back side and the front side in the insertion direction of the body portion and having base pieces that extend from the body portion toward the back side in the insertion direction or the front side in the insertion direction and locking pieces that are provided on the base pieces. The body portion has at least one projecting portion projecting toward the outside. A connection structure includes the terminal, a connected object and a mounting member.

Abstract: An electrical connector having terminals at different heights includes: a housing having a vertical wall provided with a first hole and a second hole on the counter mating side thereof; a first terminal press-fitted into the first hole; and a second terminal press-fitted into the second hole. A recessed portion is provided between the first hole and the second hole in the vertical wall. A first press-fitting portion is press-fitted into the vertical wall by coming into pressure contact with, among the wall surfaces constituting the first hole in the vertical wall, the wall surfaces on the two width direction sides, and a second press-fitting portion is press-fitted into the vertical wall by coming into pressure contact with, among the wall surfaces constituting the second hole in the vertical wall, the wall surfaces on the two width direction sides and the wall surfaces on the two height direction sides.

Abstract: Active packaging for supplying power, data, or both power and data to an electronic media device while the device is housed within the active packaging is provided. The active packaging may include one or more electrical traces in-molded or printed onto the packaging that couple to a suitable connector on the device. Power may also be provided via one or more wireless power techniques. Multiple active packages may be conductively stacked to transmit power, data, or both power and data to a row or stack or devices. POM sensors integrated with or attached to the device (or the active packaging itself) may detect various movement events. Coordinated and synchronized display effects may be presented while the devices are housed within the active packaging.

Abstract: An apparatus for generating electricity from mains water is comprises a shaft and a rotor supported on the shaft. The rotor is rotatable in the apparatus as mains water flows through the apparatus. The apparatus also comprises spaced bearings for supporting the shaft. A stator is electromagnetically coupled to the rotor such that, as the rotor is rotated by the mains water flowing through the apparatus, it causes the stator to generate electricity.

Abstract: A stacked electrical connector (100) has a mounting face to be mounted on a printed circuit board (80). The stacked electrical connector (100) comprises an insulating housing (20) defining a mating port (220) for mating with a mating plug and a cavity (222) below the mating port (220) in a front face (22), and a stacked USB 3.0 connector (40) received in the cavity (222) of the insulating housing (20). The stacked USB 3.0 connector (40) has two stacked mating ports (425, 427) aligned with the mating port (220) of the insulating housing (20) along the front face (22). The cavity (222) extends rearwardly from the front face (22) a front-to-back length (L) equaling a corresponding length of a stacked USB 2.0 connector.

Abstract: The inventions relate to measurements of a hydrostatic and/or fast-changing pressure by optical means, and are suitable for aerodynamic investigations of aircraft and small spacecraft, in robotics, including small force micro-clamps, in remote pressure monitoring (in wells, vessels, cylinders), in medicine and medical and biological investigations, hydroacoustics, security systems. The object is to improve the sensitivity and enhance the temperature and vibration stability of a pressure sensor. The pressure sensor is a low Q-factor Fabry-Perot cavity/interferometer 6 at the end of a single-mode optical fiber 1 with the 4% Fresnel reflection from the silica glass/air interface. Another movable mirror of the cavity is formed by an end face 10 of a short (1-3 mm) optical fiber length 9 having a small inertial mass and inserted into the center of a flexible membrane 9 of 500-700 &mgr;m in diameter, tightly sealing a small air volume of about 1-3 mm3 inside a second capillary 3 with the external diameter of 0.

Abstract: A terminal has a base, a pair of caulking pieces integrally extending from the base, and a pair of bent pieces for regulating the movement of the electric wire. The caulking pieces are bent and retain the electric wire from over an insulating cladding thereof. The bent pieces integrally extend from the base and has an inclined surface contacting with the insulating cladding. The electric wire on the base is retained by the inclined surfaces and the caulking pieces at least from three directions. Accordingly, the lateral movement of the electric wire relative to the base when the terminal or the electric wire has been subjected to vibrations is regulated by bent pieces, whereby the impairment of the electric wire is prevented.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device for functional protection of connectors where a heat-emitting means heats contact pins while certain selected parts of the pins are preferably covered with heat-insulating material (12) which furthermore can be contamination- and gas-tight. In this way contamination of the contact pins and condensation of moisture is counteracted which leads to a longer life because of less corrosion and leakage currents being prevented. These problems are specially common in connectors for electronic constructions which are cooled with exterior air and/or are used outdoors.