Abstract: Disclosed are a waterproof connector and a method of assembling the same. The waterproof connector is equipped with an inner housing having formed therein a plurality of the terminal accommodation compartments, a seal housing connected to the inner housing in such a way as to be freely movable relative to the inner housing in a direction intersecting the axial direction of an electric wire substantially at right angles thereto, and an outer housing into which the inner housing and the seal housing are freely detachably fitted. In one wall portion of the seal housing opposing the terminal accommodation compartments, electric wire insertion-through-holes are formed. On an inner side of the one wall portion that oppose the electric wire insertion-through-holes, rubber plug accommodation recessed portions are formed.

Abstract: A power port terminal formed by stamping from a blank of conductive material comprises a contact receiving socket portion (12) and an integral mounting portion (14). The socket includes a web with a plurality of beams (20) thereon. The inner surface of the beams on the bends thereof define a substantially continuous cylindrical contact surface at a predetermined point along the reference axis of the terminal. The contact surface has a predetermined constricted dimension (36) measured in a plane perpendicular to the reference axis, this dimension being the most constricted dimension along the reference axis of the terminal. The terminal is thereby able to accommodate a pin of any desired axial length. The trailing mounting legs (46) thereon, that in the preferred instance, extend generally perpendicular to the reference axis of the terminal. Latch tabs (38) may be provided on one or more of the beams.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for providing simple and effective attachment of a lamp holder base to a mounting plate includes providing in the mounting plate an opening having a wide opening portion and a relatively narrower opening portion, which together define at least one mounting tab of the mounting plate, the mounting plate further having an outer surface and a latch edge portion; providing on the lamp holder base an elongated body and a latch member, the elongated body including at least one mounting channel having a base surface and an inclined surface which define a first channel opening and a second channel opening, the inclined surface terminating at the first channel opening to define a pivot edge, the latch member including a latch surface region; inserting the elongated body in the wide opening portion until a cross section of the mounting plate is generally aligned with one of the first channel opening and the second channel opening; moving the mounting plate in a direction such that the at least one m

Abstract: A female electrical contact member has a body extended by a bush open at its free end for insertion of a male member and a male-member-receiving member comprises a ring extended by elastic tongues which grip the male member. The ring is mounted to slide and float in the bush and is connected to the body by a flexible electrical connection. Sliding of the ring in the bush is restricted. The flexible electrical connection forms a loop at a point part way along its length.

Abstract: A mounting opening 26 is formed. A first connector 30 comprises a first connector body 31 and an engaging lever 32 which is pivotally supported by a pivot 33 such that the engaging lever 32 project from a rear end surface of the first connector body 31. Projecting from one end of the engaging lever 32 are an engaging projection 43 engaging with a back surface side of a mounting plate 21 around the mounting opening 26, and a cam lever 42 engaging with a front surface side of the mounting plate 21 nearer to the pivot 33 than to the engaging projection 43. A connecting projection 40D projects from the other end of the engaging lever 32.

Abstract: A ground electrode is disposed between a card-side connector and an upper panel, movably forward or backward in the card insertion direction, the ground electrode including protuberances projecting through the protuberance receiving holes of the upper panel. The ground electrode is energized to move forward in the card insertion direction by means of a torsion spring such that, when the PC card is inserted into a 16-bit card slot corresponding to a predetermined high driving voltage, the protuberances in the protuberance receiving holes are moved backward in the card insertion direction against the spring force of the torsion spring.

Abstract: A watertight connector is provided with an inertial locking mechanism, housings of which can be connected while making an operator feel and notice the completion of a connecting operation. The inertial locking mechanism 17 has resistance arms 22 and contact ribs 15 and is provided between male and female housings 11 and 20. A front annular projection 28A of a waterproof ring 27 mounted on the female housing 11 is brought into contact with the leading end of a receptacle 12 of a male housing 20 at a timing when the resistance arms 22 and the contact ribs 15 are brought into contact with each other during a connecting operation of the housings 11, 20. Thus, a peak P3 of a connection resistance value of the waterproof ring 27 and a peak P4 of a connection resistance value of the inertial locking mechanism 17 are synchronized to generate a large connection resistance, and a large inertial force can be obtained when this large connection resistance disappears.

Abstract: A contact sleeve (3) comprising a first end (6) for electrical communication with a conductor means (7), a fastening portion (9) at a central part (11) of said contact sleeve (3) and a second end (12) comprising a plurality of contact beams (13) with inner contact surfaces (14) projecting longitudinally from said central part (11) arranged generally cylindrically around a longitudinal axis (A—A) of said contact sleeve (3) adapted for electrical communication with a corresponding mating pin (15) provided with a rounded top (17).

Abstract: A waterproof rubber plug has a through hole through which an electric wire is inserted. A terminal to which the electric wire is connected has a clamping member for clamping one end portion of the rubber plug. An inner housing has a terminal chamber for accommodating the terminal. An outer housing having sidewalls for defining a chamber provided with a bottom wall, into which the inner housing is fitted. A through hole, through which the electric wire is inserted, is formed on the bottom wall so as to face the terminal chamber when the inner housing is inserted into the chamber of the outer housing. A recess is formed on the bottom wall so as to communicate with the through hole in order to accommodate the rubber plug when the inner housing is completely fitted into the chamber of the outer housing, thereby sealing the electric wire and the terminal chamber.

Abstract: A high voltage connector for connecting a lead wire to a high voltage device. The connector includes: an inner sleeve having a bore for receiving and fixing the lead wire and a protrusion formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof; and an outer sleeve disposed on the high voltage device, having a bore for receiving the inner sleeve and a hole formed on the outer peripheral surface thereof for engaging with the protrusion of the inner sleeve. The hole of the outer sleeve is not a cut from the top end surface thereof and thus the end surface is not discontinuous. The outer sleeve also includes a guiding member for guiding the protrusion of the inner sleeve.

Abstract: A swivel device for a wind cone tower assembly comprises a rotating housing, provided with channels for drainage of condensation from its interior, and a fixed axle on which this housing is mounted. Two split bushings of insulated material are offset placed on each other between the surface of the fixed axle and a pair of slip rings. Brushes with enhanced content of copper are used and an insulating coating is applied around the brush holders to prevent electrical leakage. A conductor bushing also of insulating material for protecting the electrical conductors extending perpendicularly from the interior of the fixed axle to the pair of slip rings mounted on this axle.

Abstract: A modular connector comprises an insulating housing (100) having a plugging portion for plugging with a mating connector, a plurality of contact elements (201-208) supported by the insulating housing, the contact elements each having a contact section (201a-208a) arranged in the plugging portion, an intermediate section (201B-208B) secured to the insulating housing, and a connection section (201C-208C) extending from the intermediate section, a pair of the contact elements (201, 208) on opposite ends being twisted to intersect each other in the intermediate sections, the other pairs of the contact elements (202-207) being arranged such that the distance between adjacent contact elements decreases in the intermediate sections and increases in the connection sections.

Abstract: A lamp socket with a pull string switch includes a socket body, a screw base, and a pull string switch combined in the socket body. The improved feature is two power lead protectors formed on an upper end surface of the socket body for separating two power leads so that the power lead protectors may hamper accidental force of pulline the power leads from directly transmitted to connect points of the power leads. Thus the connect points may not disconnected from the terminals or become badly connected with the terminals, keeping good quality of the power leads in transmitting electricity and safety of using electricity.

Abstract: An adapter for interfacing, electrically and structurally, a flex-terminal receptacle to a barrel-terminal receptacle. The adapter has a first end configured as an inlaid pin terminal receptacle, and has a second end configured as a projecting pin terminal receptacle. The inlaid pin terminal receptacle includes a base plane having a plurality of pin slots having an inlaid pin forming thereat an inlaid pin terminal. Each pin slot is positioned so that the exposed contact surface thereof is interfaceable with the apex of a respective flex-terminal of a flex-terminal receptacle, and the dimension of the base plane is such as to interfit generally snugly within the flex-terminal receptacle. The projecting pin receptacle includes a shroud which is dimensioned to snugly receive therein a barrel-terminal receptacle, inclusive of the indexing tabs thereof. Each pin of each pin slot passes through a dividing wall of the adapter and therefrom projects as a projecting pin terminal within the shroud.

Abstract: A wire-wrap connector block having a base that includes an articulable wall section that facilitates both automated wire-wrapping and potting procedures. During the wire-wrap procedure, the articulable wall section is latched in a position that permits the wire-wrap equipment to access the wire-wrap terminals without undesirable vertical movement of the wire-wrap equipment and wire. During the potting procedure, the articulable wall section is latched in a position in which the articulable wall section, together with another, non-articulable wall section, creates a substantially continuous wall about the bottom surface of the wire-wrap connector block base, defining a potting well or cavity within which potting material may be deposited.

Abstract: A socket for a ball grid array integrated circuit package (BGA) with an array of electrical contacts that extend through holes in a slidable plate. The arrangement of spacing the holes and the electrical contacts therein provides entry openings that allow the ball contacts of a BGA package to enter the openings. The contacts are cupped or angled to mate with the side and top of the ball contacts of the ball grid array package. The contact surface of the ball grid array package is inserted into the socket without any interfering structure, and there may be guide surfaces to align the ball contacts with the openings. A manually rotatable cam actuated in one direction by an arm drives the plate parallel to the plane of the ball contacts to widen the openings to allow easy entry of the balls into the holes. Rotating the arm in the other directions drives the plate in the opposite direction reducing the openings.

Abstract: In a terminal, an resilient locking piece (24) is protruded from an upper surface of a terminal (17). The resilient locking piece (24) includes an engaging portion (25) formed at a central portion thereof, and a pair of abutting portions (26) formed on opposite sides of the engaging portion (25). The engaging portion (25) is engaged with a locking hole formed in a connector housing, while the abutting portions (26) are abutted against a surface of the connector housing which is located at a periphery of the locking-hole. Therefore, even if the terminal is pulled outwardly from the connector housing, the resilient locking piece (24) is prevented from being bent backwardly because of the presence of the abutting portions (26). That is, the terminal (17) is securely held in the connector housing without play.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a female connector (1) for electrical connectors having a sheet-metal frame (2) which is in the form of a box and has contact spring elements (3) and a connecting part (4) for a cable end, and having a reinforcing cage (5) which is attached via the sheet-metal frame, is in the form of a box and has a coding rib (6). The reinforcing cage (5) is folded from sheet steel such that the coding rib is formed by bending the metal sheet to form a profile having rounded edges, while avoiding outward-pointing sharp edges.

Abstract: A protective conductor clamp having a mounting leg for mounting the clamp on a support rail and a contact rail that is connected electrically conducting to the mounting base and is provided with at least one conductor connection. The mounting base has shaped sections for holding a spring element for bracing the mounting base in the support rail. The shaped sections are formed by recesses in two parallel-arranged side walls of the mounting base, between which the spring element is inserted.

Abstract: A lever 22 is pivotally supported on a male connector 21 by bosses 27, and provisionally-retaining abutment piece portions 38 are formed respectively at lower portions of side walls 28 of the lever 22 at a rear end portion thereof. Provisionally-retaining blocks 37 are formed at a lower portion of the male connector 21 at a rear end portion thereof, and the provisionally-retaining abutment piece portions 38 are abutted respectively against the provisionally-retaining blocks 37 in an initially-fitted condition. Cancellation plates 39 for canceling the abutting engagement of the provisionally-retaining abutment piece portions 38 with the provisionally-retaining blocks 37 are formed within a hood portion 32 of a female connector 23. With this construction, when the male connector 21 is to be fitted into the hood portion 32, engagement projections 30 can be easily inserted into guide grooves 34, respectively.