Abstract: An IC test/burn-in socket with spring cantilever beam contacts and a lid 4 that provides for self-aligning of the IC lead and the socket contacts 6. The lid is actuated from above, and the lid has three positions--one for an unloaded socket, one for holding the contacts apart for insertion of an IC, and the other for releasing the contacts such the the spring force of the cantilever beam contacts make electrical contact with the IC leads. The cantilever contacts are arranged in interdigitated rows. The flat cantilever contacts allow the contacts to spread a substantial distance to achieve the desired contact force and will thus accommodate a wider range of IC lead thicknesses and, so, be more forgiving than earlier designs. There is a lid with troughs to guide the contacts and a through hole whereby an IC is inserted. The troughs and through hole provide improved registration of IC lead to socket contacts.

Abstract: A bus bar assembly including an elongated insulative base member and a plurality of modular insulative unit pieces attached to the base member and having contact receiving openings, conductive bus bars in an enclosed region defined by the base member and unit pieces, contact pins of the bus bar extending upward into insulative tubular members extending downward from and centered within the openings, insulative fins supporting the bus bars above a bottom wall of the base member, an insulative divider wall between adjacent bus bars extending upward from the bottom wall, mounting holes in the upper and lower walls, and an insulative shield between the region between mounting holes and the bus bars.

Abstract: A contact element of unitary construction, the contact element including a plurality of contact element mating portions which are connected via serpentine portions. The contact element being used in connector modules and providing both electrical connection and mechanical retention.

Abstract: A high voltage electrical coupling has two parts, each with spaced mating conductors, one part forming a socket shaped to receive the body of the second part. The second coupling part has an elastic, insulative support forming sleeves around its conductors and a slot between the sleeves. The first part has an insulative barrier wall extending between its conductors and fitting in the slot of the second part. Either the socket of the first coupling part or the elastic body of the second part are tapered into the socket so that the elastic body is compressed against the barrier wall as the parts are mated, thereby squeezing closed any possible air path along the surfaces of the barrier wall.

Abstract: A high voltage CRT anode electrical coupling has a connector with several spring contact fingers extending from a base and an insulating ring around the connector between the base and fingers. An insulative shroud is molded around ring and base leaving the fingers unconfined.

Abstract: A high voltage electrical component can be insulated by placing such component into a first sleeve of preformed insulative material dimensioned to receive and telescope over the component. An internal abutment in the first sleeve positions the component for reception of both the first sleeve and component by a second sleeve of preformed insulative material dimensioned to receive and telescope over the first sleeve and component within. An internal abutment in the second sleeve further secures and centers the component and the first sleeve for subsequent encapsulation by insulative materials used with injection molding to form an outer insulative jacket. Once encapsulated within the insulative jacket the telescoping sleeves form a convoluted path outwardly from the component to the exterior of the jacket thereby minimizing high volt leakage.