Abstract: A power strip that is resistant to the tampering of children is provided. The power strip includes a non-conductive housing and multiple electrical sockets. In front of each socket is a non-conductive plate with holes corresponding to the holes of the outlet. The plate is spring-biased into a first position so that the holes in the plate are out of alignment with the holes in the socket to prevent a child from inserting anything into the socket. A non-conductive barrier is disposed between the spring that biases the plate and the conductors that connect the sockets together to prevent inadvertent contact between the spring and the conductors. A depression is formed in the housing so that, when the prongs of a standard three-prong plug are inserted into the holes of the plate to rotate the plate, all three prongs will make contact with the plate and rotation thereof will be facilitated. The power strip may include a surge protector as well.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrical connector which includes a plug comprising at least one insulative lateral support, an insulative medial lateral support and a wire having a first longitudinal section fixed to the insulative lateral support, a second longitudinal sectional fixed to the insulative medial support and an exposed third longitudinal section interposed between said first longitudinal section and said second longitudinal section. The connector also includes a receptacle comprising at least one insulative support and a wire having a first longitudinal section fixed to the insulative support and an exposed second longitudinal section of the plug. Also disclosed is a method of manufacturing this connector and a mold for use therein.

Abstract: Disclosed is an assembly which comprises a printed circuit board on which there is mounted a component of an electrical connector. The printed circuit board and the electrical connector component have aligned mounting apertures. A boardlock member extends axially through these apertures and has a mounting foot engagement structure from which two resilient spaced legs depend. These spaced legs each have projections which are axially spaced from one another so that the connector member may engage a circuit board of one thickness on the projection of one leg and also engage a circuit board of another thickness by the projection on the other leg.

Abstract: For a switch connector with contact elements disposed in contact cavities of an insulator body, with contact elements with at least one spring-elastic arm in the contact cavities, and in which contact blades of a corresponding mating connector can be inserted in the contact cavities and thus make contact with the contact elements and in which there is provided at least one shorting jumper which short-circuits two contact elements in the absence of an inserted mating connector, the short circuit being broken when the blade contacts are inserted in the contact cavities, it is proposed that the shorting jumper is designed as a rigid contact part and has at least one contact limb which is disposed between the contact spring limbs of the contact elements and that in the contact cavities there is a switching element provided with a switching spring limb, the switching spring limb acting on the contact spring limb of the contact element in such a way that the latter is displaced until the switching spring limb bears

Abstract: A connector utilized to electrically connect together conductive pads disposed on different substrates includes a flexible substrate having a plurality of conductive through-holes therein. A conductive line formed in the flexible substrate extends between at least two of the conductive through-holes. A plurality of contacts are mounted in the conductive through-holes of the flexible substrate. Each contact includes a post connected to a base of a crown-shaped head having a plurality of projections around the periphery of the base that extend away from the base in the direction opposite the post. The post of each contact is soldered into one of the plurality of conductive through-holes. A compression mat positioned on a side of the flexible substrate opposite the crown-shaped heads includes a plurality of resilient cylinders that extend away from a resilient base. Each resilient cylinder has a distal end alignable in registration with a distal end of the post of one of the plurality of contacts.

Abstract: An electrical connection configuration which can be used to upgrade an electrically-connected two part system to allow for a "first" component of the original system to interact with either a "second" component of the original system or an alternate "second" component being part of an alternate system, while restricting connection between the "first" component of the alternate system to connection only with the "second" component of the alternate system. Connection is prevented between the "first" component (e.g., a hand tool) of the alternate system and the "second" component (e.g., a control box) of the original system.

Abstract: An apparatus for making contact with a conical contact, in particular a battery terminal, is specified, which apparatus is manufactured from sheet metal by punching and shaping and has two rings of different diameters which each have an opening on one side and are connected to one another by means of two bent clips, one to the left and one to the right of the openings and the apparatus has means for reducing the width of the openings which means engage on the clips at least one further contact making area and has strips arranged on the external side of the rings, respectively at positions lying one opposite the other, the free ends of which strips have a shape which is complementary to the free end of the respective opposite strip, and the free ends, which are shaped in a complementary fashion, of opposite strips bear one against the other.

Abstract: A single-sided electronic connector for assembly to a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) includes a connector housing having a pin supporting wall extending the width thereof, a plurality of conductive pins extending from an outboard side of the wall, a plurality of soldertails corresponding to the conductive pins extending from an inboard side of the wall, and a plurality of gripper arms which extend from an inboard side of the housing for receiving and securing an edge of the PCBA therein through an interference fit such that the soldertails engage only one side of the PCBA. Each gripper arm defines a slot having crush ribs into which the edge of the PCBA is inserted. A pair of mounting ears extend from a respective pair of gripper arms, and are configured to receive a mounting screw therethrough for attaching the electronic connector to a support structure.

Abstract: Coaxial connector (10) for mounting to a circuit board (12) at an edge (14) thereof and having an outer conductor housing block (20) with an enlarged rearward housing section (22) and an elongate threaded cylindrical forward housing section (30). A bottom housing section (70) is provided that depends beneath downwardly facing housing surfaces (60) of wings (24) that are coplanar with inner conductor (40), extending through a board recess (16), with the bottom housing section (70) being provided rearwardly of forwardmost ends (62) of the downwardly facing housing surfaces (60). The bottom housing section (70) is sufficiently massive to move the center of mass of the connector rearwardly of the forwardmost ends of the downwardly facing surfaces (60) so that the connector (10) remains stablely positioned without tooling on the top of the circuit board during assembly prior to soldering thereto.

Abstract: An electrical connection box for use in a vehicle, e.g. a car, has a junction box and a circuit addition box removably mounted on the junction box and having a connector engaging portion for engagement in use by a connector of an external circuit. The circuit addition box has bus bars connecting circuit components of the junction box to the connector engaging portion to provide electrical connection to the external circuit. To achieve a compact arrangement, avoiding the need to adapt the junction box, the circuit addition box is removably mounted on a relay housing of the junction box adapted to receive a relay, the relay housing having electrical terminals engaged by the bus bars of the circuit addition box.

Abstract: A waterproof rubber plug has a through hole for allowing a pair of electrical wires to pass therethrough. the end of each of the electrical wires being electrically connected to a terminal. The waterproof rubber plug is inserted into a mounting hole formed in a connector housing for filling the gap between the outer periphery of each of the pair of electrical wires and the inner surface of the mounting hole of the connector housing. The through hole is divided into a pair of branch holes, each allowing the corresponding one of the pair of electrical wires to pass therethrough so as to tightly engage the outer periphery of each of the electric wires.

Abstract: An electric outlet extender with a male plug at one end to be connected into a wall outlet and a female electrical outlet at an opposite end and with a first tubular telescoping member rotatably connected to the male plug and a second telescoping member extending from the female outlet to telescope into the first telescoping member whereby the extender can be plugged into a wall outlet, turned to any desired angle and extended to desired length while hugging the wall.

Abstract: An electrode connector and connector condition sensor for a biopotential sensing apparatus wherein a plurality of electrodes are connected to individual output leads for individual electrode channels by a connector which does not abrade the surface of the electrode button contact and does not require that pressure be applied to the electrode during connection. Two spring biased conductive arms for the connector are spread apart by the cam surface of an actuator button to receive the button contact and are contoured to engage substantially the entire peripheral surface of the button contact when the actuator button is released. The biopotential sensing apparatus includes a processor which senses the loss of signal in any electrode channel during a test period and activates an indicator to provide a warning indication.

Abstract: A printed circuit board connector includes contact elements for electrically connecting contacts of at least two electrical printed circuit boards, and retaining devices retaining the contact elements in an intended position inside the printed circuit board connector. The contact elements and the retaining devices are constructed and/or disposed in such a way as to cause forces exerted upon the retaining devices by and/or through the contact elements to at least partly cancel one another out in the region of the retaining devices.

Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for use with a circuit card which has a generally planar substrate having multiple conductive elements disposed along at least one edge thereof. Each of the conductive elements is coupled to an electrically conductive trace on the surface of the planar substrate, and at least one conductive cover panel is provided which may be mounted to the planar substrate. An electrical coupling which includes multiple electrical contacts for external connection to the circuit card is provided, and each of the multiple electrical contacts is then coupled to an associated electrical terminal, such as a solder tail, which may then be mated to one of the multiple conductive elements on the planar substrate. A grounding clip is then mounted on at least one of the associated electrical terminals.

Abstract: A transition adapter connects two different multi-conductor cables. The adapter includes a board holder, a printed circuit board mounted on the board holder, and input and output connectors mounted on the circuit board. The board holder has a base member and wall members extending from opposite edges of the base member. The printed circuit board has input contact areas, output contact areas and conductor traces connecting the respective contact areas. Each connector has a plurality of contacts, with each contact having a wire receiving portion and a terminal portion. The terminal portions engage and are connected to the contact areas on the circuit board. By connecting the conductors of the cables to the contact wire receiving portions, the two cables are properly connected to each other.

Abstract: A connection arrangement, in particular an intermodulation-protected coaxial connection arrangement comprising a cable (1) and a cable connection means (2, 11), such as a coaxial connector (2), a lead-in unit (11) or the like, fixed to the cable. The connection arrangement comprises a conductive thick-walled connection piece (3) having an aperture (3a) forming a passage for the cable through the connection piece to the cable connection means (2, 11). The connection arrangement further comprises a crimp connection (5) or the like between the connection piece and the cable connection means, said crimp connection forming between the connection piece (3) and the cable connection means (2, 11) a first closed-circle sealing surface (5) around the aperture (3a) comprised by the connection piece (3).

Abstract: An electrical connector (20) includes a dielectric housing (22) having a mating face (24) and a pair of contacts (44,54) disposed therein. Each contact (44,54) has a contact section (46,56) exposed at the mating face (24). The first contact section (46) is associated with a forwardly extending shroud (26) spaced from and circumscribing the first contact section (46). The second contact section (56) is associated with a forwardly extending silo (28) closely surrounding the second contact section (56). The second contact section (56) is complementary to the first contact section (46) and the silo (28) is complementary to the shroud (26), whereby the connector mating face (24) is hermaphroditic.

Abstract: A system is provided for polarizing electrical connectors of generally parallelepipedal shape and of the type having a male housing part adapted to be inserted in a skirt of a female housing part, one of these parts having along one wall at least one longitudinal tongue and the other of these parts having at least one corresponding groove which receives the tongue when the male housing part is fitted into the skirt of the female housing part. The free end of the tongue terminates in a bevel, the free edge of the skirt terminates in a corresponding bevel and the bevels on the tongue and on the free edge of the skirt are oriented so that, if the male housing part is not offered up in the correct position for insertion into the skirt, the bevels bear one against the other and tend to close up the opening of the skirt.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly has a rigid body having an outwardly directed face and formed with a plurality of pockets opening at the face, respective electrical contacts fixed in the pockets of the body, and a cover formed of a flexible elastomeric plastic completely surrounding the body except at the pockets. This cover is formed unitarily with an annular skirt projecting outward past the face and with a web bridging the skirt except at the pockets and lying against the face of the body.