Abstract: A safety plug for a female welding lead connector configured to remain tethered to the female welding lead connector and including a male head configured in the shape of a male end of a male welding lead connector so that the male head of the safety plug can be inserted into a female welding lead connector, rotated, and secured in place inside a female welding lead connector in the same manner as a male welding lead connector.

Abstract: Provided are embodiments for an electrical connector system. Embodiments include an electrical connector and a support ring where the support ring includes a baseplate having a first side and a second side, a recessed portion on a first side of a baseplate for a primary O-ring, and a sidewall extending from the second base plate. Embodiments also include a housing coupled to the support ring, wherein the sidewall extends into the housing, wherein the support ring is coupled to the electrical connector on the first side, and the support ring is coupled to the housing on the second side. Also provided are embodiments for the support ring and assembling the electrical connector system.

Abstract: A surgical instrument assembly includes a surgical instrument having an instrument body, an elongate member with a distal end configured to be inserted into an anatomical passageway of a patient, a sensor operable to generate a signal corresponding to a location of the elongate member, and a first electrical connector electrically coupled with the sensor. The assembly further includes a cable assembly having a cable that communicates with a processor, and a coupling that releasably couples with the instrument body. The coupling includes a coupling body having first and second lateral sides that extend parallel to one another and are configured to extend parallel to a side of the instrument body when the coupling is coupled with the instrument body. The coupling includes a second electrical connector that electrically couples with the first electrical connector to transmit the signal from the sensor proximally through the cable and toward the processor.

Abstract: A connecting device with multiple axial connectors. The connecting device includes a main base and a plurality of connectors, wherein the main base has a long shape. A plurality of first through holes are formed on the main base, and the connectors extend through the first through holes. Each connector has a tubular body, and a groove is formed on an outer periphery of the tubular body. A wire extends from one end of the tubular body. A c-shaped clamp joins the groove and presses an inner surface of the first through hole, whereby the connectors is secured to the main base. The difficulty of maintenance of the connecting device is reduced.

Abstract: An e-vapor device may include a vaporizer assembly that is detachably coupled to a battery assembly via a connector. The connector may include a male connecting portion and a female connecting portion. The male connecting portion may include mating arms extending from a rim of the male connecting portion. The female connecting portion may include an inner surface and lugs on the inner surface. The mating arms of the male connecting portion are configured to engage the lugs of the female connecting portion so as to electrically couple the vaporizer assembly and the battery assembly. A knurled pattern may also be provided on an outer surface of the male connecting portion and/or female connecting portion so as to conformally interface with a reversed pattern on an inner surface of the vaporizer assembly and/or the battery assembly.

Abstract: An electric wire insertion member includes an axially elongated cutout, a circumferentially elongated cutout, a turnable fitting, a locking projection, and an elastic locking piece. The axially elongated cutout extends frontward from a rear end of the shield pipe. The circumferentially elongated cutout extends from the axially elongated cutout in a circumferential direction. The turnable fitting is configured to be fitted in the shield pipe and to turn in a circumferential direction. The locking projection protrudes from the turnable fitting and configured to enter the axially elongated cutout as the turnable fitting is fitted into the shield pipe and to enter the circumferentially elongated cutout as the turnable fitting turns. The elastic locking piece is configured to be locked in a circumferential direction by a locked surface of the axially elongated cutout when the locking projection is positioned in the circumferentially elongated cutout.

Abstract: A connector has a first housing (10), a second housing (40) including a base (41) arranged behind the first housing (10), and a retainer (60) between the base (41) and the first housing (10) and movable between partial and full locking positions along facing surfaces of the base and the first housing. The retainer (60) includes operating portions (62) projecting forward so that tips thereof are exposed at a front of the first housing (10). The first housing (10) has locking receiving portions (18, 19) arranged side by side in a moving direction of the retainer (60), and the operating portion (62) is formed with a lock (66) for resiliently locking the locking receiving portions (18, 19) when the retainer (60). An engaging direction of the lock (66) and the locking receiving portions (18, 19) intersects assembling directions of the retainer (60) and the first housing (10).

Abstract: A waterproof optical fiber assembly includes an optical fiber connector mating with an optical fiber adapter. The optical fiber connector includes a fiber joining head, a sealing member, a sleeve, a housing, and a boot. The sleeve defines an annular groove for receiving the sealing member and two latching protrusions adjacent to the annular groove, the housing defines two unlocking grooves for the two latching protrusions, the fiber joining head is sleeved in the sleeve adjacent to the annular groove, the housing is fitted around an end of the sleeve away from the fiber joining head. The optical fiber adapter includes an assembling seat including a base board, a barrel, and two elastic arms.

Abstract: A connector is provided, which is configured for being connected to a similar connector. The connector has a global cylindrical shape around a longitudinal axis and includes a connection zone having comprising at least one electrical contact. A housing extends at least partly around the connection zone and has at least two projecting members. A cylindrical locking nut surrounds the housing and is at least partly movable relative to the housing. The housing and the locking nut are configured for respectively cooperating with corresponding locking nut and housing of the similar connector.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a recess gate in a semiconductor device includes etching a silicon substrate to form a trench that defines an active region, forming a device isolation layer that gap-fills the trench, forming a hard mask layer over the silicon substrate, the hard mask layer comprising a stack of an oxide layer and an amorphous carbon layer, wherein the hard mask layer exposes a channel target region of the active region, and forming a recess region with a dual profile by first etching and second etching the channel target region using the hard mask layer as an etch barrier, wherein the second etching is performed after removing the amorphous carbon layer.

Abstract: A positioning and grounding structure for ring connectors. A cutting part is formed by cutting one side of the ring connector. The connecting base has a grounding part. Using the relative position between the grounding part and the electrical connecting part as well as the cutting part for double positioning, the ring connector can be quickly fixed on a circuit board. The grounding part can quickly connect noises or electrostatics to the ground. The structure solves the problem of connectors in the prior art that lacks positioning and grounding designs. The provided ring connector can quickly position and ground.

Abstract: A rotating power connector for an electric welding torch unicable includes a generally cylindrical outer housing having a longitudinal axis. A connector pin is fixedly, axially disposed within the outer housing and extends from one end thereof. A rotating stud is rotatably, axially disposed within the outer housing and extends from another end thereof. The connector pin and the rotating stud have ends in contact within the outer housing. A secondary electrical contact ring also is disposed within the outer housing. The secondary electrical contact ring includes at least one contact portion contacting the rotating stud. At least one biasing member is disposed between the rotating stud and the contact ring. The biasing member urges the rotating stud into engagement with the connector pin and urges the contact ring into engagement with the rotating stud.

Abstract: Electrical connection element provided with peripherally distributed electrical contacts designed to cooperate with the corresponding contact pins of a plug, a rotary safety disk being provided and having peripheral perforations the number and position of which are chosen, on the one hand, at rest, to conceal the peripheral contacts of the connection element and, on the other hand, be superimposed therewith when the disk driven by the pins of the plug is rotated, whereas sealing blocks are positioned under the safety disk so as to seal off the peripheral perforations thereof in the rest position. The sealing blocks are positioned on a sealing disk also provided with perforations, and which is formed under the safety disk and mounted fixed in terms of rotation and able to move in terms of translation against the action of an elastic arrangement which biases it towards the safety disk.

Abstract: A seismic cable coupling comprising connector body, a coupling ring is rotatably mounted on the connector body. The coupling ring includes a ring body having a first longitudinal projection and a second longitudinal projection, the first longitudinal projection having an interior surface including a first angled groove, the second longitudinal projection having an exterior surface including a first raised stud. The coupling ring is a hermaphrodite coupling ring that mates with a coupling ring having a substantially identical ring body.

Abstract: An electrical contactor assembly is provided that includes a base and power terminals mounted thereto. The power terminals are configured to convey signals. The assembly includes an actuator mounted to the base that moves between initial and final positions along a first direction of motion. The assembly includes a bridge contact supported by the actuator and moved in the first direction of motion. The bridge contact includes contact surfaces on opposite ends thereof aligned with corresponding power terminals. The contact surfaces engage and interconnect the power terminals when the actuator and bridge contact are moved to the final position. The bridge contact moves in a second direction of motion with respect to the actuator. The second direction of motion differs from the first direction of motion during engagement.

Abstract: The invention concerns an electrical connection device in particular for constituting geophysical data acquisition and processing systems, consisting of two identical electrically and mechanically fitting male/female connectors, each connector comprising a body (10) bearing a set of connection pins and a ring (20) enclosing the connector body base and capable of being moved in rotation relatively to said body, the connector ring comprising an raised motif (27) for plugging in the associated connector. The invention is characterized in that the body of each connector comprises two stages of raised motif of which one front raised stage substantially matching the ring motif to co-operate with the associated connector ring motif in a locked position of the device and a rear stage to co-operate with the ring motif of the same connector in a retracted position of said ring.

Abstract: A keying system for an electrical connector (10, 16) is disclosed. Keying members (160, 234) are provided in mating pairs so that one is assembled to the cable connector (10) and the other is assembled to the mating panel connector (16). Each of the keying members (160,234) is assembled by inserting it into the open end of the connector so that lugs (186,236) on the dielectric insert (44,218) within the connector enter camming slots (178) in the keying member (160,234) which is then twisted to lock it in place. The keying members can be easily and conveniently assembled and disassembled in the field by the end user.

Abstract: A protective cover assembly for an end of a cable connector having a cable housing that encloses a plurality of connective pins or sockets and that satisfies all requirements for space applications. A connector body flange is formed at the extremity of a cable and is positioned so that it may register with a corresponding connector body flange on the end of a companion cable to which a connection is to be made, one cable end having cable lead pins and the companion cable end having lead sockets with which the pins register. A latch mechanism having a latch housing is received in the connector body flange and a crank connected to a manually rotatable cap actuates a spring-loaded latch element that is engageable with a connector body flange to secure or to release the cover assembly with the simple twisting motion of the cap, thereby simplifying the task of effecting coupling and decoupling of the cable ends.

Abstract: The invention provides a connector system and methods for attaching a first and second connector. Each connector includes an elongate connector body and a coupling nut rotatably coupled about the connector body. Each coupling nut includes a center plate and a pair of latch arms, with each arm having a groove therein to define a tooth at a distal end of each arm. The arms are substantially parallel to the connector body. Each connector further includes at least one resilient member which resists movement of the arms away from their parallel orientation relative to the elongate body. The first and second connectors may be connected by abutting the connector bodies and rotating the coupling nuts so that the grooves and teeth of corresponding arms mate with each other.

Abstract: A system is provided for the automated detection of target nucleic acid sequences in which multiple biological samples are individually incorporated into matrices within carriers in a two-dimensional format. The matrix carrier is an inexpensive, disposable unit that represents a closed system separating the specimens. The system integrates sample preparation within the matrix and facilitates biochemical reactions, addition of reagents and washes, removal of waste fluids, temperature control and the automated processing thereof. The carriers are processed in stepwise treatments that expose, amplify, and detect the presence or absence of specific genetic entities in each sample. The nucleic acids or other desired biological components held within the matrices are treated by one or more of the techniques such as amplification, electrophoresis, analyte-receptor binding or hybridization as selected for the desired analysis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a termination of a multi-strand electrical conductor carrying relatively high current levels at high frequency in an environment having an ambient temperature of up to about 300.degree. C. The cable is separated into groups of wire strands which are fanned outwardly so that each group projects away from the longitudinal axis of the cable. A retainer is provided to guide the groups of wire strands and to hold them against an annular terminal. The tips of the wire strands and adjacent surfaces of the retainer and the annular terminal are melted into a monolithic fused ring or welded surface, by means of heli-arc welding apparatus. A similar mating connector half is similarly formed, both halves of which mate to form an in-line connector.

Abstract: A connector is provided for making electrical connection between electrical conductors in a first connector casing and electrical conductors in a second connector casing. The first and second connector casings are mutually engageale in one orientation only by relative axial movement. The connector has a first connector assembly (10) at one end thereof and a second connector assembly at the other end thereof, the connector assemblies being engageable with corresponding connector assemblies in other tool bodies. The connector assemblies each have a connector body (11) and a support ring (15) and pins (22, 23, 25) for preventing relative axial and rotational movement between the ring (15) and the connector casing (20), the pins (22, 23 and 25) making no direct engagement with the connector assemblies.

Abstract: A multiwire electrical connector for making electrical connections between the tractor and trailer of a tractor-trailer rig. The connector has two members, each with a set of mating connector elements (e.g., spherical balls and mating spherical recesses). A flange-locking means is provided for locking the two connector members together; one member is pressed against the other along an axial direction, and the members are rotated relative to one another until radially-extending flanges engage flange receptacles. Spring means in at least one member urge the mating connector elements tightly against each other along the axial direction, to assure continuous electrical contact between the connector elements. The spring means also cooperates with the flange-locking means to provide resistance to axial compression of the members toward one another, thereby providing tight, vibration-resistant engagement of the locking flanges and flange receptacles.

Abstract: A cable-entry seal for a multicontact seismic cable connector consists of a cable anchor molded near an end of a multiconductor cable and a sphincter grommet. A compression sleeve, urged by a gland nut axially compresses the sphincter causing it to expand radially to form a water tight seal. A rotatable locking cam has a spiral slot lined with a low friction material to lock a pair of cable connectors together.