Abstract: A massage gun includes a gun body, a massage head arranged on the gun body, an auxiliary physiotherapy assembly arranged in the massage head, a main circuit board arranged in the gun body, and a connecting cable electrically connected to the auxiliary physiotherapy assembly and the main circuit board, where the connecting cable is made of a conductive wire resistant to high-speed bending. The connecting cable electrically connected to the auxiliary physiotherapy assembly in the massage head is made of the conductive wire resistant to high-speed bending, which solves the problem that the connecting cable breaks easily when the massage gun performs high-speed piston movement. Because the connecting cable does not break easily, electrical connection can be maintained, thereby prolonging the service life of the massage gun, and reducing use costs.

Abstract: A support device supports a component gripping device including an engagement part to be engaged with a predetermined component. The component gripping device grips the component in a state in which the engagement part is caused to be engaged with the component. The support device contains a support body part, a first shift mechanism part, a second shift mechanism part, a third shift mechanism part, a first rotation mechanism part, a second rotation mechanism part, and a third rotation mechanism part.

Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a first substrate including a first contact structure located on a first pad, and a second substrate including a second contact structure on a second pad. The first contact structure includes a first metal base layer covered by a first nano-twinned metal coating layer. The second contact structure includes a second nano-twinned metal coating layer on the second pad. The first contact structure is connected to the second contact structure, thereby forming a bonding interface between the first nano-twinned metal coating layer and the second nano-twinned metal coating layer.

Abstract: A chip structure including a chip body and a plurality of conductive bumps. The chip body includes an active surface and a plurality of bump pads disposed on the active surface. The conductive bumps are disposed on the active surface of the chip body and connected to the bump pads respectively, and at least one of the conductive bumps has a trapezoid shape having one pair of parallel sides and one pair of non-parallel sides.

Abstract: A connector terminal may include a terminal main body extending along a center line, a contact portion provided at a first end portion of the terminal body in an extension direction of the terminal body, a lance portion provided at a second end portion of the terminal body in the extension direction of the terminal body, a connecting portion disposed between the contact portion and the lance portion, and a resin positioning portion disposed between the contact portion and the connection portion. The resin positioning portion may include a guide wall portion with a tubular shape having a through hole and a positioning wall portion configured to close the through bole inside the guide wall portion in the extension direction of the center line. The positioning wall portion includes a locking protrusion portion and the guide wall portion includes a locking recess portion that locks the locking protrusion portion.

Abstract: A method of welding a superalloy component includes the following sequential steps. A welding step for welding a cavity using a filler metal in an inert atmosphere, where the cavity is located in the component. A covering step for covering the filler metal and a portion of the component with a weld filler layer in the inert atmosphere. The weld filler layer has a greater ductility than material comprising the component and/or material comprising the filler metal. A second covering step for covering the weld filler layer with a braze material, and subsequently performing a brazing operation. A heat treating step heat treats the component.

Abstract: A terminal manufacturing apparatus includes a pressing device adapted to form a chained terminal including a crimp portion by bending a continuously supplied plate-shaped workpiece into a hollow shape, the crimp portion being crimpable with a conductor part of a coated conductor accommodated therein, a welding device adapted to bring two edge portions of the crimp portion in proximity to each other and join the two edge portions by welding, a conveying/positioning time calculating unit adapted to determine a conveying/positioning time of the welding device on the basis of a machining time required by the pressing device and the welding device, and a conveying/positioning mechanism adapted to position the chained terminal in a welding machining position within the welding device in accordance with the conveying/positioning time.

Abstract: A method for producing a pin for a feedthrough for an electromedical implant. A pin is produced using the following method steps: creating a foil-, sheet- or strip-shaped semi-finished product by joining at least one first layer element including an electrically conducting, preferably biocompatible, material in foil, sheet or strip form and at least one second layer element including a solder and/or an easily soft-solderable material, preferably in wire, sheet or strip form, or by applying the at least one second layer element onto the at least one first layer element; and at least partially detaching a pin, or a set of multiple pins connected to a connecting web 46, from the semi-finished product. A method is also provided for producing a feedthrough and an electromedical implant and to a pin, a feedthrough or an implant produced in the corresponding manner.

Abstract: A method for forming an optical fiber array. A substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface is provided. The substrate is provided with a plurality of apertures extending through the substrate from the first surface to the second surface. In addition, a plurality of fibers are provided. The fibers have fiber ends with a diameter smaller than the smallest diameter of the apertures. A first fiber is inserted in a first corresponding aperture, from the first surface side of the substrate, such that the fiber end is positioned in close proximity of the second surface. The inserted first fiber is bent in a predetermined direction such that the fiber abuts a side wall of the first aperture at a predetermined position. After the first fiber is bent, a second fiber is inserted in a second corresponding aperture, from the first surface side of the substrate, such that the fiber end is positioned in close proximity of the second surface.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing, a metallic outer shell enclosing the insulative housing, and a metallic inner shell positioned between the metallic outer shell and the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a base and a tongue portion protruding from the base. The contacts include a number of flat contacting portions exposed on a top surface and a bottom surface of the tongue portion, respectively. The tongue portion is located at a center of the metallic outer shell along a vertical direction. The metallic inner shell and the metallic outer shell are in mechanical contact with each other in order to achieve a relative larger grounding area.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a copper-based bonding wire whose material cost is low, having excellent ball bondability, reliability in a heat cycle test or reflow test, and storage life, enabling an application to thinning of a wire used for fine pitch connection. The bonding wire includes a core material having copper as a main component and an outer layer which is provided on the core material and contains a metal M and copper, in which the metal M differs from the core material in one or both of components and composition. The outer layer is 0.021 to 0.12 ?m in thickness.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods of welding a stack of metal foil layers together using a penetration weld. The methods include stacking of the metal foil layers, pressing or compressing the metal foil layers between end plates and welding the end plates and compressed metal foil layer stack together.

Abstract: A method for forming an interconnection element having metalized structures includes forming metalized structures in an in-process unit that has a support material layer with first and second spaced-apart surfaces defining a thickness therebetween, a handling structure, and an insulating layer separating at least portions of the first surface of the support material layer from at least portions of the handling structure. The metalized structures are formed extending through the thickness of the support material layer. The method also includes etching at least a portion of the insulating layer to remove the handling structure from the in-process unit and further processing the in-process unit to form the interconnection element.

Abstract: A rotatable power/signal connector includes a fixing part and a rotating part. The fixing part comprises a housing portion in which a set of terminals is mounted for terminating conduits, an upper inner cover with recesses for receiving a first resilient member and a first gear, and a lower inner cover with recesses for receiving a second resilient member and a second gear. The rotating part comprises an upper outer cover with the first gear, a lower outer cover with the second gear, the first resilient member, and the second resilient member. The rotating part is rotatable relative to the fixing part and fixable to the fixing part at a number of predetermined positions.

Abstract: A crimp terminal includes a pressure-bonding section to which at least a conductor tip of an insulated wire is connected by pressure bonding, the insulated wire in which a conductor is covered with an insulating cover and an insulating cover on a tip side is peeled to expose the conductor to obtain the conductor tip, and a terminal connection section to which another connection terminal is allowed to be connected. The terminal connection section and the pressure-bonding section are configured as different parts, and a connection section in which the terminal connection section and the pressure-bonding section are connected in series in the order named from a tip side to a rear side in a long length direction is configured.

Abstract: A power distribution device for connection with a plurality of power supply units includes a signal control element, a transmission mechanism including a current transmission unit and a ground transmission unit, and a plurality of electrical connectors respectively adapted for insertion of and connection with the power supply units. Each electrical connector includes a first conductive terminals electrically connected to the signal control element for transmitting an electrical signal to the signal control element, and a plurality of second conductive terminals electrically connected to the current and ground transmission units for transmitting current to the current and ground transmission units.

Abstract: A cable electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector including a plurality of conductive elements, a cable connecting with the electrical connector and having a number of core wires soldering with the conductive elements, and an insulative enclosing body enclosing the core wires and the conductive elements. The insulative enclosing body has at least one opening above a soldering area of the core wires and the conductive elements. The opening improves impedance in the soldering area of the core wires and the conductive elements.

Abstract: A cable electrical connector assembly includes an electrical connector, a cable soldered with the electrical connector, and an insulative body. The electrical connector includes a printed circuit board having a number of conductive pads, two of the conductive pads forming a differential signal pair for differential signal transmission. The cable has a number of core wires soldered with the conductive pads. The insulative body encloses a soldering area of the conductive pads and the cable core wires. The insulative body has a slot between the two conductive pads of the differential signal pair, the slot running through the insulative body along an up-to-down direction. The slot improves impedance in the soldering area of the core wires and the conductive pads.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connection between a first metal component and a second metal component covered by a sheath. The first and the second metal component are connected to one another by means of a welded connection. In each case, a partial region of the first metal component and a partial region of the second metal component that comprises at least one section of the sheath are enclosed by a layer of insulating material that is applied.

Abstract: One aspect is a method of coupling a feedthrough assembly to a surrounding case of an implantable medical device. An insulator having a plurality of conducting elements extending therethrough is provided. The insulator is placed with conducting elements within an opening of a case, thereby defining a narrow space between the insulator and the case. A braze preform is placed adjacent the insulator and case in the narrow space. The insulator is heated with a laser until raising the temperature of the adjacent preform above its melting point such that it fills the space between the insulator and the case.

Abstract: A cochlear implant includes a processor, an array of electrodes disposed along a flexible body and a lead body connecting the processor to the array of electrodes. The lead body includes a first tube having a first outside diameter, a second tube having a second outside diameter smaller than the first diameter, a portion of the second tube being disposed within the first tube, and wires passing through the first tube and the second tube, the wires comprising a helically coiled portion. A method for forming a lead body is also provided.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrode wire for electro-discharge machining and a method for manufacturing the same. The electrode wire includes a core wire including a first metal including copper, a first alloy layer formed at a boundary region between the core wire and a second metal plated on an outer surface of the core wire due to mutual diffusion between the core wire and the second metal, and a second alloy layer formed due to diffusion of the first metal to the second metal. A core wire material is erupted onto a surface of the electrode wire for electro-discharge machining, which includes the core wire, the first alloy layer, and the second alloy layer, along cracks appearing on the second alloy layer, so that a plurality of grains are formed on the surface of the electrode wire.

Abstract: A buss bar strip for mounting to a solar panel to electrically connect to a series of electrical lines extending from solar cells. The buss bar strip can include a thin elongate flat flexible strip of insulative material having a longitudinal length. A predetermined pattern of elongate conductors can be longitudinally disposed on the insulative strip in at least two rows along the longitudinal length and electrically isolated from each other. Each conductor can have a predetermined position, length, and spacing from each other on the insulative strip for laterally electrically connecting to selected electrical lines from the solar cells at lateral electrical connection points located along the length of the conductor on exposed surfaces on the conductor.

Abstract: A hybrid grounding connector is provided which combines the positive attributes of currently used connections. A recess is pre-milled, formed or extruded into the body of a compression connector and the recess is pre-filled with solder. After conductors are installed in the connector, an external heat source is applied to heat the solder until it flows into strands of the conductors and forms a solidified joint of the compression connector.

Abstract: A terminal includes a tubular crimp portion that crimp connects with an electric wire. The tubular crimp portion is composed of a metal member. The tubular crimp portion includes a non-weld portion and a weld portion, the weld portion being formed by welding. A metal base material constituting the metal member of the non-weld portion includes a normal portion and an annealed portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pin-less registration and inductive heating system involving the use of a pre-alignment station for imaging an initial position of a laminate element, an imaging and computer operation control system for determining a required correction factor between an alignment of the laminate element at the pre-alignment station and a preferred stack orientation for the laminate element, and an alignment and transfer system for securely gripping, transferring, and repositioning a laminate element from atop position to the preferred stack orientation employing a preferred four-axis orientation.

Abstract: A method for the production of an electric contact carrier includes producing a basic profile from a basic material. A contact material is applied on a contact accepting area of the basic profile. The contact material is formed into a contact of the contact carrier. Then, the contact carrier is removed from the basic material.

Abstract: An implantable lead may have a distal assembly including a coupler, a terminal pin and a conductive member rotatably secured to both the coupler and the terminal pin. The conductive member may be a fine-wire, multiple-filar coil. The conductive member may be welded to the coupler and/or the terminal pin by welding through banded portions formed within the distal and proximal ends, respectively, of the conductive member.

Abstract: A conductive member connection structure includes a connection structure to electrically connect first and second conductive members that are positioned with a gap in between, a first metal member that is melted by heating and is welded to a connecting surface of the first conductive member and to a connecting surface of the second conductive member, and a second metal member that has a higher melting point than the first metal member and is covered with the first metal member without being melted by the heating. The second metal member is configured so as to prevent the first metal member from flowing out in a molten state thereof.

Abstract: A connection plate for battery terminals capable of inhibiting a base and a battery terminal connection portion from being detached from each other is provided. This connection plate for battery terminals (2) includes a battery terminal connection portion (4) fitted into a second hole (31) of a base (3) made of first metal, including a hole for connection (42) into which a second battery terminal (1b) is inserted and a flange portion (4b), while the battery terminal connection portion is constituted by at least a first layer (40) made of second metal, arranged on a side opposite to the base and a second layer (41) made of third metal, arranged between the base and the first layer.

Abstract: Various embodiments concern a lead comprising a cable conductor and a coil electrode having one or more filars, the one or more filars wound in a helical pattern. The lead can further include an inner fitting axially aligned with the coil electrode. The inner fitting can comprise external threading and a slot extending along the inner fitting. The slot can receive a portion of the cable conductor. The lead can include an outer tubular fitting having a lumen with internal threading. Each of the coil electrode and the inner fitting can be partially received within the lumen, both of the external threading and the one or more filars threadedly engaged with the internal threading. The cable conductor can be pinched in the slot to mechanically connect the cable conductor to the inner fitting. The pinching can be supported by the outer tubular fitting.

Abstract: An individual cell for a battery comprises an electrode stack disposed within a cell housing and a method for the production thereof. The individual electrodes, preferably electrode foils, are electrically connected to lead vanes, and at least electrodes of different polarity are separated and insulated from each other by a separator preferably a separator foil. Lead vanes of the same polarity are electrically connected to each other to form a pole. The lead vanes of a pole are electrically compressed with each other and/or welded to each other.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a connector with isolated conductive paths In various embodiments, a method includes assembling, at least partially, the connector using a groove of the connector. A flexible member can be secured in the groove and solder can be flowed into the flexible member in the groove. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.

Abstract: A pane provided with at least one electrical connection element is described. The pane has a substrate, an electroconductive structure on a region of the substrate, a layer of soldering mass on a region of the electroconductive structure, and a connection element on the solder mass. The connection element contains a first and a second base region, a first and a second transition region, and a bridge region between the first and the second transition region, a first and a second contact surface arranged on a lower side of the first and second base regions. The first and the second contact surfaces and surfaces of the first and the second transition regions, facing the substrate are connected to the electroconductive structure by the solder mass. An angle between a surface of the substrate and each tangential plane of the surfaces of the first and the second transition region, facing the substrate, is less than 90°.

Abstract: Methods of forming a socket assembly and associated structures formed thereby are described. Those methods and structures may include forming a socket assembly comprising a socket body having a plurality of vertical openings, wherein contact assemblies are disposed within individual vertical openings. The contact assemblies comprise a compression spring surrounding an insulated conductive wire.

Abstract: A process for the production of a plug, in which a circuit board panel with openings is provided for forming a circuit board. A plug insert, having a plurality of pins and a plurality of plug contact surfaces, is then placed in one of the openings, by means of an automatic SMD fitment device, in such a way that at least one pin of the plug rests on the circuit board panel, and at least two plug contact surfaces, which are electrically connected to the pins, rest on the circuit board, with the contact surfaces of the plug being on one plane The plug contact surfaces are then automatically soldered to at least one of the contact surfaces of the circuit board.

Abstract: Medical devices provide a connector enclosure that includes a feedthrough integrated into the base of the connector enclosure. The feedthrough may include feedthrough passageways that align longitudinally with lead connectors of the connector enclosure where feedthrough pins extend from the lead connectors through the feedthrough passageways. The feedthrough may also include filter plates mounted to the base of the connector enclosure to provide an integrated filtered feedthrough. Additionally, the connector enclosure may include metallic features such as the base and one or more walls that define an enclosure of the lead connectors. The base may be bonded to the can of the medical device to provide a hermetic seal such that the feedthrough integrated into the base eliminates the need for a feedthrough for the can.

Abstract: A connector terminal, fabricated from a metallic material for connector which material has a tin or tin alloy layer, formed on a copper or copper alloy base material, wherein the thickness of the tin or tin alloy layer at a contact site on the surface of the terminal is smaller than the thickness of the tin or tin alloy layer in the areas other than the contact site, and a copper-tin alloy layer is formed as an under layer of the tin or tin alloy layer at the contact site; and a connector terminal, fabricated from a metallic material for connector which material has a copper or copper alloy base material, wherein a copper-tin alloy layer is formed in a spot shape at a contact site on the surface of the terminal, and a tin or tin alloy layer is formed in the remaining areas on the surface.

Abstract: A connecting structure between circuit boards and a battery pack having the same. A hot bar does not make a direct contact with a circuit pattern of a flexible printed circuit board while soldering the flexible printed circuit board to a rigid printed circuit board, thereby preventing the damage to the circuit pattern and preventing electric short between a plurality of the circuit patterns due to the solder. During a soldering process, a base insulating layer having glass transition temperature (Tg) higher than a reflow temperature of the solder is arranged between the circuit pattern and the hot bar, the base insulating layer being perforated by a plurality of apertures to allow heat from the hot bar to more efficiently reach the circuit pattern and the solder. In addition, the circuit pattern covers the apertures, so that solder is unable to reach the hot iron.

Abstract: Provided is a wire connection structure for a three-phase sheath type heater that enables to maintain insulation properties, electrical safety, and reliability, without damaging a wire connection portion, even if an installation location is a high-temperature, high-pressure environment, and enables to flow a large electric current, while suppressing the production cost. A canister 2 made of metal is disposed on the distal end side of three sheath type heating elements 10 in a state that a distal end of each of the sheath type heating elements 10 is inserted through a bottom plate 20. A wire connection plate 3 made of metal is disposed in the canister 2 for star-connection. Distal ends of core wires 11 of the sheath type heating elements 10 are joined to the wire connection plate 3 by welding. An insulating material 4 is compressively filled in the remaining space of the canister.

Abstract: An electromagnetic contactor manufacturing method includes a step of forming an arc extinguishing chamber connection portion by simultaneously brazing a fixed terminal and a pipe penetrating and fixed to a tub-shaped arc extinguishing chamber, and a tube portion of a first connection member in communication with an open end portion of the arc extinguishing chamber; a step of forming a cap connection portion having a flange portion extending outward in a radial direction from an open end of a bottomed tubular cap; and a step of disposing a flange portion of the first connection member and a flange portion of a second connection member in close contact with a base plate in which an aperture hole is formed, and welding each of the flange portions to the base plate so that the arc extinguishing chamber connection portion and the cap connection portion are in communication through the aperture hole.

Abstract: A method and system is provided to join the wire ends of a stator by placing a crimpable element on a wire end pair such that the wire ends of the wire end pair are surrounded by the crimpable element, and deforming the crimpable element using a crimping tool to form a crimped joint. The crimped joint is configured to provide an electrical connection between the wire ends of the wire end pair. The wire ends may be retained in substantial contact with each other by the crimpable element. The wire end portion of the stator may be immersed in a molten solder bath to form a solder joint joining the wire end pair comprising a crimped joint. The stator may be configured as a bar pin stator including a plurality of bar pins defining the wire ends.

Abstract: An outer circumferential groove filled with a seal material and an opposing surface portion are provided to a fit portion of a case. A tray portion opposing the opposing surface portion and an outer circumferential protruding portion entering the outer circumferential groove are provided to the fit portion of a cover. Master dimensions are set so that an outer clearance A0 between the outer circumferential groove and the outer circumferential protruding portion is always larger than an inner clearance C0 between the former and the latter when center positions of the cover and the case coincide with each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connector which includes basic parts that can be assembled and nested together, forming a high-density connector technology for hermaphroditic contacts.

Abstract: A modular electrical plug connector assembly for control units in a motor vehicle includes a module rack and at least first and second plug-in modules that are situated in the module rack and that each includes respective housings shaped to accommodate respective electrical plug connectors. The housings are provided with respective electrically conductive contact elements. The first and second plug-in modules are positioned relative to one each other in a predetermined manner in the module rack, and are inseparably connected to the module rack by a joining process.

Abstract: A fabrication method of an alloy resistor includes: providing an alloy sheet having a plurality of openings spacing apart from each other and going through the alloy sheet and a plurality of alloy resistor units located between any two adjacent openings, wherein each of the alloy resistor units has an insulating cover area and a plurality of electrode ends on both sides of the insulating cover area; forming an insulating layer on a surface of the insulating cover area of the alloy resistor units by an electrodeposition coating process; cutting the alloy along a connecting portion, so as to obtain separated alloy resistor units; and forming a conductive adhesion material on the electrode ends of the alloy resistor units. An alloy resistor having an insulating layer with a smooth surface can be obtained by performing an electrodeposition coating process.

Abstract: An electric connecting structure comprising preferred oriented Cu6Sn5 grains and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed. The method of the present invention comprises steps: (A) providing a first substrate; (B) forming a first nano-twinned copper layer on part of a surface of the first substrate; (C) using a solder to connect the first substrate with a second substrate having a second electrical pad, in which the second electrical pad comprises a second nano-twinned copper layer, and the solder locates between the first nano-twinned copper layer and the second nano-twinned copper layer; and (D) reflowing at the temperature of 200° C. to 300° C. to transform at least part of the solder into an intermetallic compound (IMC) layer, in which the IMC layer comprises plural Cu6Sn5 grains with a preferred orientation; wherein at least 50% in volume of the first and second nano-twinned copper layer comprises plural grains.

Abstract: A battery (100) provided by the present invention includes an electrode body (80) having a positive electrode and a negative electrode (84), a bottomed battery case (10) for holding the electrode body (80), and a current collecting plate (20) that connects the battery case (10) with either the positive electrode or the negative electrode of the electrode body. A part of the current collecting plate (20) and a bottom part (16) of the battery case (10) are fixed to each other by welding, and a sealed structure (40) that surrounds a weld (30) composed of a portion that has been welded is formed at the periphery of the weld (30).

Abstract: The invention proposes a process for the surface treatment of aluminum in order to produce an electrical contact, and a corresponding component part, wherein an oxide layer on the aluminum surface is removed, for example by etching, in a first step and, in a second step, before an oxide layer is re-formed, the surface is sealed wet-chemically with a conversion layer having metal ions of zirconium or titanium.

Abstract: A method for forming an optical fiber array. A substrate having a first surface and an opposing second surface is provided. The substrate is provided with a plurality of apertures extending through the substrate from the first surface to the second surface. In addition, a plurality of fibers are provided. The fibers have fiber ends with a diameter smaller than the smallest diameter of the apertures. A first fiber is inserted in a first corresponding aperture, from the first surface side of the substrate, such that the fiber end is positioned in close proximity of the second surface. The inserted first fiber is bent in a predetermined direction such that the fiber abuts a side wall of the first aperture at a predetermined position. After the first fiber is bent, a second fiber is inserted in a second corresponding aperture, from the first surface side of the substrate, such that the fiber end is positioned in close proximity of the second surface.