Abstract: A fastening device is used to snap and carry an electronic device which includes a plurality of positioning holes on its bottom side. The fastening device has a sliding unit and a carrier unit. The sliding unit is used to connect with and carry the electronic device and includes two guiding rails, a pushing portion, and a plurality of positioning pins. The carrier unit is connected with the sliding unit and comprises a plate, a plurality of first limiting units, a plurality of second limiting units, and a link-handle. Through the fastening device, the assembly process for the electronic device is simplified.

Abstract: A battery includes a first mechanical coupling unit and a second mechanical coupling unit. The first coupling unit includes a plurality of mechanical coupling pins (18). Each of the mechanical coupling pins (18) includes a pin head (22) and a pin shaft (20). The pin heads (22) have a greater diameter than the pin shafts (20). The second mechanical coupling unit includes a plurality of capture elements (24, 26) configured to capture heads of mechanical coupling pins of a first mechanical coupling unit.

Abstract: An electrical flex connector device for a printed circuit board, comprising a female member having a fixation portion for affixing the female member to an associated printed circuit board, a tab member extending from the fixation portion and configured to guide a male member of the flex connector device and to hold the male member between the tab member and the printed circuit board and a least one fastening member arranged on the female member for securely holding the male member in a predetermined position.

Abstract: The invention relates to a contact insertion guide structure having a contact and an insulative housing. The contact has a mating portion for contacting a mating contact at one end, a terminal portion for connecting to a circuit board on an opposite end, and a press-fit section between the mating portion and the terminal portion. The housing has a contact receiving passageway through which the contact is inserted, and a securing section which is formed in an inner wall of the contact receiving passageway and into which the press-fit section is received. The housing further includes a wide section that does not contact the contact and is formed in an inner wall of the contact receiving passageway proximate to the securing section. A contact support section is formed in the inner wall of the contact receiving passageway. The contact support section guides the contact while coming in contact with it at the time of insertion.

Abstract: An example socket includes a plurality of contacts and a base. The base includes exterior walls and interior walls which extend between the exterior walls to form openings within the base such that each opening in the base includes one of the contacts. At least some interior walls include indentations that are adapted to receive projections on the contacts such that when the projections on the contacts are positioned within indentations in the interior walls, the contacts are secured to the base. Another example socket includes a first group of the interior walls that is oriented in a first direction and a second group of the interior walls oriented in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction. The first and second groups of interior walls form openings within the base with the first group of interior walls being higher than the second group of interior walls.

Abstract: A PGA socket including a plurality of sub-socket components, which when used in combination forms a larger effective socket, includes multiple apertures configured to receive corresponding pins of an IC. The PGA socket further includes multiple contact members, each of the contact members corresponding to a respective one of the apertures. The contact members are configured to movably engage corresponding pins of the IC upon respective movement of the apertures so as to provide electrical and mechanical contact thereto. Each of the sub-socket components is configured to mechanically engage at least one of the other sub-socket components such that the contact members in each of the sub-socket components are capable of electrically connecting to corresponding pins of the IC substantially simultaneously.

Abstract: A shroud for interacting with a circuit component defining a component surface having an array of pins extending from the component surface. The shroud includes a planar member defining an array of apertures complimenting the array of the pins. The planar member is configured to interact with the circuit component to maintain uniform contact between the pins and a corresponding socket.

Abstract: A connector assembly for interconnecting optical and/or electrical conductors, comprising a first connector part (1) for one or more first conductors, a second connector part (7) for one or more second conductors, and a coupling auxiliary piece (13) adapted to be attached to a support plate (14) or the like. The coupling auxiliary piece (13) comprises a first receiving space (15) for the first connector part (1), and at the side opposite of the first receiving space (15) a second receiving space (19) for the second connector part (7). The receiving spaces are adapted to support each connector part independent of the other connector part and the coupling auxiliary piece (13) comprises a passage (22) for the second connector part (7) debouching into the first receiving space (15).

Abstract: An electrical connection for a battery pack to a battery charger or the like consisting of a bracket including a substantially flat male plate having a plurality of spaced headed projections and female electrical terminals carried within a projecting housing and a substantially flat female plate having a plurality of keyholes designed to facilitate receiving the projections and pairs of fixed and movable male electrical terminals positioned within a recess for engagement with the female electrical terminals.

Abstract: A battery pack connection consists of a substantially flat male plate having a plurality of spaced headed projections and female electrical terminals carried within a projecting housing and a substantially flat female plate having a plurality of keyholes designed to facilitate receiving the projections and male electrical terminals positioned within a recess for engagement with the female electrical terminals. At least one rotatable member is mounted on the female plate and has a pin that engages over the head of a corresponding projection to enable locking of the plates in both their electrical and mechanical connected relationship. Upon rotation of the member, the pin is moved out of engagement with the projection to enable uncoupling of the plates. A safety latch can be activated to abut the rotatable member when the plates are locked together to preclude inadvertent decoupling.

Abstract: For heating, a cordless iron (2) can be placed on a heating understructure (40) adapted to be connected to an electrical power supply system via a power supply cord (8). For this purpose, the power supply cord (8) has at its one end a power plug (14) adapted to be connected to the power supply system and at its other end a socket connector (18) adapted to be connected to the heating understructure (40). If the iron is to be heated constantly, the socket connector (18) can be disconnected from the heating understructure (40) for connection to the iron (2) direct.