Abstract: An electrical terminal has been described and illustrated which comprises a compliant retention section that has been sheared thereby forming resilient leg members joined at their ends and having outer radiussed surfaces for springably and frictionally engaging a plated through hole in an electrical panel member when the compliant retention section is inserted into the hole and inner shear surfaces which extend between the ends and into the ends to at least the outermost points of the ends so that the inner shear surfaces frictionally engage and move along each other when the resilient leg members are flexed inwardly upon insertion of the compliant retention section in the plated through hole.

Abstract: A locating device for crimping tools adapted to hold a connector firmly between crimping die sets and a wire guide for guiding a wire into the connector located between the crimping die sets.

Abstract: Connector housings having as an integral part thereof, compensators to accommodate variation in circuit board thickness to enable a plurality of connectors to be mounted thereon simultaneously. More particularly, the compensators include depending, collapsible projections on the bottom surfaces of the housings which are selectively collapsed in response to the thickness of the board at each mounting site.

Abstract: A connector mounting press for mounting connectors onto a circuit board. The press includes a connector receiving space and a device to releasably hold a connector therein to be picked up by a descending tool unit for mounting on an underlying circuit board. A device for automatically transferring connectors from a magazine to the space and for applying a constant pressure on the connectors in the magazine and space is also disclosed.

Abstract: A plurality of components are force-fitted into a workpiece simultaneously, by the following steps: preparing a dummy workpiece with tool supports fixed thereto in a predetermined pattern, each tool support being removably surmounted by a component insertion tool; placing the dummy workpiece beneath a magnetic chuck on the platen of a hyrdraulic press; lowering the platen so that the tools are magnetically secured to the chuck; raising the platen to remove the tools from the tool supports; replacing the dummy workpiece by an actual workpiece with the components arranged thereon in said predetermined pattern; lowering the platen so that each tool on the chuck force-fits the component therebeneath into the workpiece; raising the platen with the tools thereon; and removing the actual workpiece from the press.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an applicator tool capable of picking up loose miniature spring sockets and inserting them into holes in a printed circuit board. More particularly, the tool has dual air lines, one being connected to a compressed air supply and the other being connected to a vacuum. With the sockets laying on the work surface, vacuum pulls a socket into the tool nozzle. The tool is then placed into alignment with a hole and the trigger squeezed to activate the air supply to drive a ram which drives the socket out of the tool and into the hole in the board.

Abstract: The disclosed invention is an improvement to a card edge connector insertion tool. More particularly, the improvement includes a spring loaded guide block mounted on the insertion tool which enables the tool to be machine drivable for semi-automatically mounting a connector onto a printed circuit board.