Abstract: A high voltage electrical connection includes an electrical receptacle connector and a mating electrical plug connector. The electrical receptacle connector includes a receptacle that is mounted over a hole in the casing and fastened thereto with a plurality of terminated electrical leads that are attached to an internal component of an electrical device inside the casing and threaded through a hole in the casing. The receptacle has a chamber including an inlet at one end that is aligned with the hole in casing and an outlet at the other end. The electrical receptacle connector also includes a terminal holder and a terminal housing, both of which are made of electrical insulation material. The holder retains the plurality of terminals, of the respective leads is inserted into the chamber through the outlet of the receptacle and retained in the chamber. The terminal housing is then inserted into the chamber via the outlet with its flange being disposed in the outlet.

Abstract: A high voltage electrical connection includes an electrical receptacle connector and a mating electrical plug connector. The electrical receptacle connector includes a receptacle that is mounted over a hole in the casing and fastened thereto with a plurality of terminated electrical leads that are attached to an internal component of an electrical device inside the casing and threaded through a hole in the casing. The receptacle has a chamber including an inlet at one end that is aligned with the hole in casing and an outlet at the other end. The electrical receptacle connector also includes a terminal holder and a terminal housing, both of which are made of electrical insulation material. The holder retains the plurality of terminals, of the respective leads is inserted into the chamber through the outlet of the receptacle and retained in the chamber. The terminal housing is then inserted into the chamber via the outlet with its flange being disposed in the outlet.

Abstract: A CPA device located entirely on a first connector of a pair of interfitting connectors, wherein the CPA device is actuable only in the event that the two connectors are actually mated. A slide slides between a prestaged position and a staged position. The latter position is attained only upon release of a CPA actuation lock which automatically occurs upon mating of the connectors. The slide is then slid to the staged position, whereat the slide interferes with a clasp mechanism of the connectors so as to prevent unintentional release of the clasp mechanism.

Abstract: A high density seal connector for use in an automotive vehicle. The connector includes a strain relief member when the strain relief member has an outer frame which in part defines the connector. The strain relief member further includes a protective inner cover which is attached to an inside surface of the frame. The inner cover also includes an inside surface and an outside surface which has a plurality of orifices therethrough. The connector also includes a resilient seal member which is molded directly to the inside surface of the inner cover. The seal member includes a plurality of seal plugs which fill a predetermined number of the orifices of the inner cover.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly and method for making it. The assembly has a housing and two slides that are slideably supported in the housing spaced apart from the housing's side walls. The slides each include at least one mating slot adapted to receive a mating portion of a mating connector. A slide assist lever is pivotally interconnected with the housing and the slides to move the slides and facilitate mating with the mating connector. The slide assist lever has a first arm and a spaced apart second arm, the first arm extending between the first slide and the adjacent side wall of the housing, and the second arm extending between the second slide and the adjacent side wall of the housing.

Abstract: A pre-staged electrical connector system including mutually seatable first and second connector halves. A female terminal retainer is seated in the first connector half, having a front face, a rear face and a plurality of terminal cavities for each receiving a portion of a terminal, wherein the terminal has an annular abutment. A plurality of flexible locking fingers extend from the front face, each straddling two adjacent terminal cavities. Each flexible locking finger includes a pair of spaced apart locking shoulders, one for each straddled terminal cavity, each locking shoulder having a terminus. When the female terminal is passed into a terminal cavity from the rear face, the terminus of the locking shoulder thereat interferingly abuts the terminal abutment, thereby preventing rearward withdrawal of the female terminal through the rear face.

Abstract: A female electrical connector (100) having a connector position assurance (CPA) component (130) which is permanently captured thereto. A female electrical connector includes a prestage CPA lock mechanism (142) composed of a lock seat (144) formed in a CPA component (130) interfaced with a torsional lock (146) of the female electrical connector. The torsional lock is composed of a prestage lock finger (148) having a lock boss (154), a prestage lock release finger (150) and a torsion pivot (152) connected with a slide assist cover (106) of the female electrical connector and joined with both the prestage lock finger and the prestage lock release finger. The lock boss is interferingly received in the lock seat while the slide assist cover is at a prestaged position, and the lock boss moved out of the lock seat responsive to the slide assist cover reaching a staged position.

Abstract: An electrical connector system including a terminal retainer having a plurality of terminal receiving cavities formed therein and aligned in a rectilinear pattern of rows and columns. The terminal retainer includes a front face, an opposite rear face and a plurality of terminal cavities extending from the rear to the front face. Each terminal cavity receives a portion of a terminal, wherein the terminal has an annular abutment. A plurality of flexible locking fingers are provided which extend from the front face, each being positioned to straddle two adjacent terminal cavities. Each flexible locking finger includes a pair of spaced apart locking shoulders, one for each straddled terminal cavity, each locking shoulder having a terminus. When the female terminal is passed into a terminal cavity from the rear face, the terminus of the locking shoulder thereat interferingly abuts the terminal abutment, thereby preventing rearward withdrawal of the female terminal through the rear face.

Abstract: An electrical connector system including a terminal retainer having a plurality of terminal receiving cavities formed therein and aligned in a rectilinear pattern of rows and columns. The terminal retainer preferably has a block like configuration including a front face and opposite rear face and a plurality of terminal cavities extending from the rear to the front face. Each terminal cavity is constructed and arranged to receive a portion of a terminal, wherein the terminal has an annular abutment. A plurality of flexible locking fingers are provided which extend from the front face of the female terminal retainer, each being positioned to straddle two adjacent terminal cavities. Each flexible locking finger includes a pair of spaced apart locking shoulders, one for each straddled terminal cavity, each locking shoulder having a terminus.

Abstract: An electrical connector system including a first and second connector housing wherein the first connector housing made from a die cast metal. The first connector housing includes a base portion having a plurality of through holes formed therein and a shroud extending from the base portion and surrounding the plurality of through holes. The shroud forming a socket to receive projections extending from the second connector housing in the mating direction of the connector housings, and wherein the first connector housing is connected to an electronic device having a plurality of electrical terminal pins extending through the through holes for engaging female terminals carried in the projections of the second connector housing.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly has a pair of mating connector housings carrying mating metal terminals, a double ended shorting clip carried by one of the housings and having both ends thereof in spring biased engagement with its associated metal terminals in that housing and a connector position assurance member. The shorting clip first has one end automatically disengaged from its associated metal terminals by a first cam when the connector housings are mated together and then its other end automatically disengaged from its associated terminals by a second cam on the connector position assurance member when connected to the mated housings so that a shorting path across the associated metal terminals is only fully disconnected if proper mating of the connector housings is assured.

Abstract: A compact header assembly for connection to a printed circuit board comprises a header housing 20 having a central through opening 22, a pin terminal and carrier strip assembly 24 having a carrier strip 26 which is slidably connected to the header housing 20 via a rail and groove connection and which carries a plurality of pin terminals 28 which are connected to the circuit traces 14, 15 of the printed circuit board 12 and a preassembled wiring harness connector subassembly 30 having a retainer housing 32, a connector body 34 which is connected to the retainer housing 32 and which carries a plurality of female socket terminals 36. The connector body 34 after the terminals 36 are positioned therein is slidably connected to the retainer housing 32 and the retainer housing 32 in turn is then slidably connected into the central opening 22 of the header housing 20 and with the socket terminals 36 matingly engaging the pin terminals 28 when the connector subassembly 30 is connected to the header housing 20.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a thermoplastic connector body, a plurality of electrical terminals which are attached to a plurality of insulated conductor wires, an elastomeric seal, a thermoplastic backshell, a connector position assurance device and a thermoplastic cap. The elastomeric seal provides both conductor wire and interface seals. The backshell includes movable clam shells which gather the conductor wires in a bundle in the closed position. The connector position assurance device cooperates with one of the clam shells and a release lever to insure that the electrical connector is properly latched to a mating connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a thermoplastic connector body, a plurality of electrical terminals which are attached to a plurality of insulated conductor wires, an elastomeric seal, a thermoplastic backshell, a connector position assurance device and a thermoplastic cap. The elastomeric seal provides both conductor wire and interface seals. The backshell includes movable clam shells which gather the conductor wires in a bundle in the closed position. The connector position assurance device cooperates with one of the clam shells and a release lever to insure that the electrical connector is properly latched to a mating connector.

Abstract: An electrical header assembly for a printed circuit board or the like comprises a housing of thermoplastic material having a mating portion and a conductor portion and a row of laterally spaced insert molded blade terminals of stamped sheet metal construction. The blade terminals have tails which are bent vertically in a secondary bending operation to provide vertical legs which are positioned and retained by laterally deflectable walls defining channels at the end of the conductor portion of the housing. The housing has a narrow peripheral groove which is defined by confronting faces of the mating and conductor portions of the housing and which is adapted for mounting the electrical header connector on an apertured panel wall.