Abstract: An electrical sleeve terminal of one piece construction comprises a split sleeve for engaging a mating terminal and a crimp barrel for attaching the terminal to an electric cable. The split sleeve has six circumferentially spaced beams that have contact dimples in an alternatively staggered arrangement to biasingly engage the mating terminal in two planes. The split sleeve has flanges at the respective edges of the split that are securely fastened together. The crimp barrel is an integral extension of one flange and a separate finger that is an integral extension of the other flange is fixed in the crimp barrel to engage the conductor of the electric cable.

Abstract: A connector system for operatively connecting the ends of two fiber optic cables together. A wall-mountable plate includes an elongated receptacle containing spaced through bores. The bores have opposed frusto-conical entry sections which are joined by a cylindrical central section. A terminal connector is mounted on the end of each cable and has spaced frusto-conical projections which end in cylindrical nose portions containing the ends of the fibers. The terminal connector projections are insertable through opposite ends of the bore into abutment of the nose portions at an interface location along a central portion of the bore. Lock tabs and shoulders on the receptacle and on one of the terminal connectors latch the connector within the bore, with the terminal being held without bias and against reverse movement out of that end of the bore. A collar is slidably mounted on the other terminal connector, with a spring captured between the connector and the collar for biasing them apart.

Abstract: A lamp socket for a lamp bulb having a contact base that includes a right angle/single piece plastic socket portion having a tubular part into which a metallic ring-like member is insertable and serves the dual purpose of a lamp bulb retainer as well as the ground contact for the lamp bulb.

Abstract: A fiber-optic connection system comprises three interfitting plastic parts. A two-piece cable terminal includes a cable receiving body and a terminal body. The terminal body has two spaced projections which mount the fiber ends and has a pair of converging cable guide walls. The cable receiving body has walls with gripper teeth complementary to the guide walls. When two cable strands are introduced and the bodies are interconnected to form the terminal connector, the walls trap the cables. The fiber ends are finished by hot plate melting. The terminal connector is inserted into a header having pockets to mount electro-optical devices. The pockets have integral spring rails to force the devices into contact with the projections containing the fiber ends upon assembly. A series of integral lock tangs and shoulders retain the component parts interconnected to prevent inadvertant disassembly.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a socket connector body which has a flexible lock arm and connector position device slideably retained on it. The connector position assurance device moves from a rearward release position when the flexible lock arm flexes outwardly to engage a lock shoulder of a mating connector body to a forward lock position where the flexible lock arm is blocked against outward movement.

Abstract: A socket and panel mounting assembly for connecting a lamp in a lamp housing that has a rear panel exposed to all weather conditions includes a socket mounting hole with a weather guard ring formed therearound and including a notch thereon engageable with a flexible socket lock arm that audibly indicates when the socket is in place on the panel and wherein a flexible gasket is supported on the mounted end of the socket to take up the interference between the lamp socket and the mounting hole panel thickness for further sealing the mounting hole within the ring. The hole and socket having coaxial means thereon to permit axial insertion of the socket into the mounting hole to compress the gasket and to locate the socket lock arm for engagement with the notch when the socket is moved to a locked, rotated index position on the panel.