Abstract: An electrical connector includes a split bolt, a fastener component, and a pressure bar. The split bolt includes a base, a first upright member, a second upright member, and a conductor receiving channel defined between the first and second upright members. The fastener component has a top surface, a bottom surface, and an opening receiving the first and second upright members. The pressure bar has a bottom section, a first leg, and a second leg. The pressure bar is movably received in the conductor receiving channel.

Abstract: An apparatus for electrically connecting electronic devices includes a first connector including an electromagnet. The apparatus also includes a second connector that includes a magnetic element and is detachably coupleable to the first connector. The electromagnet is energizeable to selectively couple and decouple the first and second connectors. The apparatus further includes a force transducer coupleable to the electromagnet to measure a coupling force between the first and second connector and transmit a signal based on the coupling force, and a controller coupleable to the force transducer to receive the signal from the force transducer. The controller is coupleable to a power source to control the electromagnet.

Abstract: A connector system includes a plug assembly that has a front connector mounted to a circuit board. The connector has two wafers that each support a row of terminals and uses shims and pegs to precisely control the spatial relationship of the two wafers to the circuit board. The wafers need not be directly contacting the circuit board and the terminals can have tails that can be positioned slightly above the circuit board and connector to pads on the circuit board via solder connections. The connector system is optimized so as to enable support of 25 Gbps data rates.

Abstract: A connector for connecting an electrical cable to an aperture in an electrical panel having a spring, a shell, and a insulator along a longitudinal axis. The spring has a base from which two insertion tabs extend coaxial with the axis and a pressure tab extending from the base perpendicular to the two insertion tables having a pressure prong to provide a radial grounding force for the connector. The insertion tabs of the spring have hook latches extending past the insulator that lock the connector in the panel and the base of the spring has a hole to receive the cable where first and second clamping tabs clampingly lock the cable in the connector.

Abstract: An electrical penetrator assembly is shown, configured to feed electrical voltage and current through a wall separating a first volume and a second volume, which may have different pressure and/or may be filled with different fluids. The connector comprises a wall or partition having a through opening. An electrical conductor surrounded by a tubular insulator body passes the opening through the wall. A conductive or semi-conductive coating is arranged on the exterior of the insulator body, the coating surrounding the insulator body for a portion of its length, the coating in electrical contact with the wall, wherein the coated portion of the insulator body is shaped to displace the electric field around the conductor away from the wall and reduce the electric field strength around the insulator body by increasing the electric field strength inside the insulator body.

Abstract: An electrical connector with a shielding plate in which signal terminals and ground terminals supported by insulating members are arranged in an intermixed order, signal terminals have at least a portion in the longitudinal direction thereof covered by a shielding plate, and respective contact portions formed in free end portions at the front ends of the signal terminals and ground terminals are subject to contact pressure applied by the corresponding counterpart terminals to one side of said contact portions, thereby resulting in resilient flexure, wherein in the shielding plate, at positions corresponding to the ground terminals in the direction of terminal array, there are provided grounding strips parallel to said ground terminals, said grounding strips extend forward and, at least in a state of contact between the ground terminals and counterpart terminals, the other side of the ground terminals is in contact with and supported by the grounding strips.

Abstract: Provided are a connector member and a connector that are easy to assemble and capable of adjusting of misalignment or inclination of a fitting axis. In the connector, a first connector member having a first housing is fitted with a second connector member having a second housing and a supporting member that supports the second housing. The first housing is formed with a guide pin, the second housing is formed with a guide-pin guiding part, and the guide-pin guiding part is formed with a guide hole that guides the guide pin. The second housing has a pair of elastic supporting members formed at opposed positions on the supporting member side. When the guide pin is inserted into the guide hole, the guide pin presses the guide hole, the elastic supporting members are elastically deformed, and the second housing is moved, enabling the fitting.

Abstract: An example port protector includes a plug housing including an exterior surface and an interior surface, the plug housing sized to mate with a data communication port of an electronic device. The port protector also includes an opening extending from the exterior surface to the interior surface. The port protector further includes a storage container disposed within the plug housing, the storage container to release an adhesive agent via the opening based on an interaction between the plug housing and the data communication port.

Abstract: An attachment structure for use with a standalone control unit. The control unit includes a threaded insert located in an enclosed cavity which allows screws to be used for grounding of an EMI/RFI board, along with creating a sealed, enclosed pocket. The attachment structure allows for grounding of the PCB to the sheet metal base plate without creating a leak path to the outside of the control unit. This ground approach encapsulates the screw to prevent the formation of a leak path.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a first housing. A second housing is moveable relative to the first housing and includes a travel peg. The electrical connector also includes a lever. The lever includes two lever arms that are joined by a handle. Each of the lever arms is attached to the first housing and allows relative rotational movement of the lever about a lever axis. The lever may be moved from a pre-stage position to a final position. The lever engages the travel peg to move the second housing linearly in an insertion direction from a pre-stage position to a seated position relative to the first housing. The travel peg moves along a peg path when the second housing is moved from the pre-stage position to the seated position. The peg path is located between the lever axis and the handle.

Abstract: A latching foot assembly for latching electrical components on a support rail includes first and second latching feet or members each including first and second resilient clamping portions between which the support rail is latched or grasped. A latching finger is integral with the first clamping portion of each latching foot. The first clamping portions of the latching feet are connected in interlocking fashion. The latching finger of the first clamping portion of the first latching foot has a support surface for supporting the support rail in a latched state. The support surface extends farther in the direction of the second clamping portion than a support surface for supporting the support rail in the latched state of the latching finger of the first clamping portion of the at least one second latching foot.

Abstract: An electrical continuity apparatus for a coaxial cable interface port including an interface port, a cable connector, and a resilient member. The interface port includes a first end having a threaded outer surface, and the cable connector includes a coupler having a threaded inner surface. The coupler is configured to rotatably couple the threaded inner surface with the threaded outer surface of the first end of the interface port. The resilient member is arranged between the interface port and the cable connector and urges threads of the threaded inner surface of the coupler into engagement with threads of the threaded outer surface of the interface port to provide electrical continuity between the coupler and the threaded outer surface of interface port even when coupler is loosely tightened to the interface port.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, upper and lower contacts disposed in the housing, a metallic shielding plate, and a metallic shield enclosing the housing. The insulative housing includes a first insulator with a first mating tongue thereof, and a second insulator with a second mating tongue thereof wherein the shielding plate is sandwiched between the first insulator and the second insulator. The shielding plate forms a cutout with side edges in two opposite lateral sides. The second insulator forms a pair of pressing parts extending toward the shielding plate with a hook at the end. When the shielding plate is assembled to the second insulator, the hook engages the side edge of the cutout so as to secure the shielding plate to the second insulator in the vertical direction.

Abstract: A connector assembly is provided with a first connector and a second connector. The first connector includes a housing and a lock spring arranged at an end portion of the housing. The lock spring includes a pair of arms extending parallel to a planar side of the housing. The second connector includes a catch to engage the lock spring by flexing the pair of arms away each other.

Abstract: A foldable plug device includes a pin module having at least one fixed pin. A first articulating shaft is disposed in a bottom of the pin module, and a first casing and a second casing are disposed at two sides of the pin module. A slot is disposed in a middle portion of the first casing. A movable pin corresponding to the fixed pin is disposed at the second casing, and the movable pin is configured such that the movable pin is located in the slot when the two casings are folded, and the movable pin is turned out of the slot when the two casings are unfolded, to form a plug cooperating with the fixed pins.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a base portion and a tongue portion; plural contacts affixed to the insulative housing and exposed to the tongue portion; a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing and having a front end; an outer cover enclosing the shielding shell and having a front protrusion, the front protrusion having a pair of side slots; and a sealer having a main body and a pair of side securing portions; wherein an annular groove is defined between the front end of the shielding shell and the front protrusion of the outer cover, the front protrusion of the outer cover having a first inclined face bordering the groove; and the sealer main body is disposed in the groove and the side securing portions engage the side slots, the sealer main body having a second inclined face opposing the first inclined face.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications connector having cross-talk compensations, and a method of managing alien crosstalk in such a connector. In one example, the telecommunications connector includes electrical conductors arranged in differential pairs and a circuit board with conductive layers that provide a cross-talk compensation arrangement for applying capacitance between the electrical conductors. The circuit board includes conductive paths that provide capacitive coupling and a conductive plate that intensifies capacitive coupling of the electrical conductors. In another example, the telecommunications connector is used with a twisted pair system.

Abstract: A waterproof connector includes a dielectric body, a plurality of terminals integrally molded to the dielectric body, a shielding assembly, a metal shell surrounding outside the dielectric body, and a waterproof housing integrally molded outside the metal shell. The dielectric body has a tongue board. A periphery of a rear of the tongue board is recessed inward to form a limiting groove. A plurality of the blocking boards are protruded from the tongue board and located in front of the limiting groove. The shielding assembly is limited in the limiting groove. Outer surfaces of rear ends of contact portions of the plurality of the terminals adjacent to a front end of the shielding assembly are recessed inward to form a plurality of avoiding areas, each of the plurality of the avoiding areas is matched with one of the plurality of the blocking boards.

Abstract: A high density electrical connector system is disclosed which may make use of first and second connector components. The first connector component has a first substrate with a first plurality of electrical feedthroughs and at least a first plurality of electrically conductive bond pads in communication with the first plurality of electrical feedthroughs. The second connector component has a second substrate with a second plurality of electrical feedthroughs and at least a second plurality of electrically conductive bond pads in communication with the second plurality of electrical feedthroughs. An electrical coupling subsystem is disposed between the first and second connector components and makes electrical contact between associated pairs of the first and second pluralities of electrically conductive bond pads. A plurality of fasteners may be used for clamping the first and second connector components in facing relationship.

Abstract: A cable connector assembly including: a first electrical connector comprising a frontal first mating member for inputting a first voltage, a first voltage point for outputting the first voltage, and a second voltage point for outputting a second voltage different from the first voltage; a second electrical connector comprising a frontal second mating member and a second printed circuit board, the second mating member comprising a power contact; and a cable connecting the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector electrically, the cable comprising a first wire and a second wire, the first wire connecting the first voltage point and the power contact electrically, the second wire connecting the second voltage point and the second printed circuit board electrically.