Abstract: An electrical terminal assembly is disclosed herein. The electrical terminal assembly includes a wire assembly receiving portion that is adapted to receive a wire assembly. The electrical terminal assembly further includes an electrical contact portion. The electrical contact portion is electrically connected to the wire assembly receiving portion. The electrical terminal assembly further includes a spring portion that is adapted to engage the electrical contact portion. The spring portion and the electrical contact portion cooperate to form a female receiver therebetween to engage and secure a male connector when the spring portion and the electrical contact portion are engaged.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is shown having a housing member with a lever assist which rotatably draws complimentary connectors together. The lever assist is attached by way of mounting studs to a shroud on each side of the sidewall of the connector housing where the lever arms are positioned within the shroud to protect the lever arms and the gear teeth on the free ends of the lever arms.

Abstract: A connector having a first connector portion with a first connection interface and a guide projection is disclosed. The connector also has a second connector portion with a second connection interface configured for insertion into the first connection interface. The connector also has a lever having a guide channel configured to receive the guide projection. The lever is linearly movably connected to the second connector portion and is positionally biased away from the second connector portion. While the guide projection is within the guide channel, movement of the lever from a fully positionally biased location with respect to the second connector portion initiates a change in a state of connection between the first connector portion and the second connector portion.

Abstract: A locking mechanism for electrical connectors is disclosed. The locking mechanism comprises one or more sockets affixed to one of a pair of electrical connectors, e.g., a male electrical connector, and one or more mating studs affixed to the other of the pair of electrical connectors, e.g., a female electrical connector. The sockets lockingly engage the studs when the pair of electrical connectors are connected. The sockets are affixed to the male electrical by ribs, which form part of elongate socket fittings that also include the sockets, and socket fitting retainers. The studs are affixed to the female electrical connector by threads.

Abstract: A connector is provided having functions for sensing the half-fitted state and improved compactness and workability through a simple construction with few components. The connector includes: a first connector part (2) having a first housing fitted with a contact pin; a second part (21) having a second housing with a contact pin connecting with the aforesaid one; and a rotating ring (15) fitted rotatably to the first or second housing and having locking legs (161) that lock coupling of the two parts. On rotating ring (15), a latching section (181) that inhibits the rotation of the rotating ring and housing where the rotating ring is fitted is provided. Prior to coupling of the two parts, the rotating ring (15) is latched to the housing by the latching sections. During mating-coupling, anti-rotation is terminated by the other part being pushed in, the rotating ring (15) is free to rotate, and coupling of the two parts is locked by the locking legs (161).

Abstract: A connector has a male housing (10) with a hood (12) and a female housing (20) that can be telescoped into the hood (12). The female housing (20) has an elastic hold-down piece (38) that elastically contacts the male housing (10) at an angle to a direction in which the housings (10; 20) are telescoped together. An elastic pressing force of the elastic hold-down piece (38) prevents housings (10) and (20) from shaking at an angle to the fit-in direction. The elastic hold-down piece (38) is made of the synthetic resin and has a small elastic deformation amount. Thus, the elastic hold-down piece (38) has a higher effect than an elastic hold-down piece made of rubber in preventing shaking.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a first connector part that has a male housing with an engaging portion formed on the outer periphery thereof; a second connector part 2 that has a female housing 3 provided with a portion defining a cavity for receiving the male housing; sensing means 7 that senses the mated state of the first and second parts; and locking means 6 that locks the first and second parts in the mated state at a regular mating position. The locking means 6 is made of a clip member made of a spring wire-like body and has first latch portions 63A, 66A and a second latch portion 67A. The sensing means 7 is made of a sliding sensing member having a sensing arm 73 made of a resilient piece provided with an engaging portion 73a? that latches into the second latch portion 67A. The female housing 3 at the outer wall thereof is provided with a portion defining a through-hole that projects the first latch portions 63A, 66A of the clip member 6 into the cavity.

Abstract: An electrical connector (100) for receiving a camera module (5) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) retained in the insulative housing and a metal shield (4) covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing (1) includes first and second side walls (13, 14) with a receiving chamber (10) formed therebetween. Either the first or the second side wall includes a pair of elastic locking arms (131) integrally extending therefrom. The locking arms extend into the receiving chamber for abutting against the camera module.

Abstract: A cover apparatus has a cover main body held to a compressor by using a clip to cover a terminal and electrical parts connected to the terminal, the clip having an elasticity. The cover main body has a an internal passageway or pass portion formed in an inner portion of the main body, and the clip has a press portion, an insertion portion extended from the press portion, and an engagement portion formed in the insertion portion. The insertion portion is inserted within the pass portion and the engagement portion is detachably engaged with a fence provided in the compressor in adjacent to the terminal by its elasticity, and the press portion contacts an outer surface of the cover main body.

Abstract: A delatch mechanism includes wedges that reside in pockets adjacent to a post on a module when the module is latched in a cage. Pulling on a handle pulls the wedges out of the pockets so that the wedges rise and lift a tab. Pulling the delatch mechanism to a limit of its motion frees the post on the module from the tab, and further pulling transfers to the module to pull the module out of the cage. The delatch mechanism can include a spring system that returns the wedges to their pockets for latching, allows movement of the wedges relative to the module for lifting of the tab, and locks into the module to pull the module free of the cage. Handles for the latch mechanism can include a bail, a flexible tab, or fixed handle that is part of an integrated structure including the wedges.

Abstract: An elastic portion (24) is provided at a bottom surface of a fitting hole (22) formed in a housing (21) of a female connector (20). When a housing (31) of a male connector (30) reaches a reference position (B) during a connector-fitting operation, a bottom surface of the housing (31) contacts a distal end portion (24b) of the elastic portion (24), and presses and displaces this distal end portion (24b) downward. Because of a reaction force produced as a result of this displacement, the elastic portion (24) keeps on urging the housing (31) of the male connector (30) in a direction (upward) of fitting of a lock portion (33) into a lock portion-retaining portion (33).

Abstract: A clamping structure of projection lamp comprises a shade assembly, a lamp cup and a clamping tongue. The shade assembly has an insulating body with two grooves on two outer walls thereof. The lamp cup has two leads connected to the shade assembly. The lamp cup has two grooves on two outer walls thereof. The clamping tongue has a resilient main body having a plurality of upper arms and lower arms on two opposite sides thereof. The upper arm has upper clamping part and the lower arm has lower clamping part. The upper clamping parts of the upper arms clamp the grooves of the shade assembly and the lower clamping parts of the lower arms clamp the grooves of the lamp cup such that the lamp cup is elastically connected to the shade assembly.

Abstract: A battery cable disconnector enables a battery to be disconnected and reconnected quickly and easily without tools. The disconnector includes a female lug connector and a male lug connector adapted to be detachably connected together, each of the connectors having a two-faced contact section with one face for engagement with a face of the other connector when connected. The female contact section has an upper contact face and a lower non-contact face, the contact section having a centrally located circular opening with slots extending radially from the opening at the 12 and 6 o'clock positions and with grooves extending radially from the opening at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions on the lower non-contact face.

Abstract: A cord-to-cord restraining device for maintaining electrical cords and the like in plugged together electrical connection comprising a base member, a clip, an eyelet, and a hook. The base member has a front end, a rear end, a top side, and a bottom side. The clip is on the bottom side of the base member, and is configured to engage and secure the device on a first electrical cord. The eyelet is on the top side of the base member closer to the front end than the rear end. The eyelet defines an opening sized to receive a loop of a second electrical cord. The hook member is on the top side of the base member closer to the rear end than the front end, and is configured to receive the loop of the second electrical cord and secure the second electrical cord on the base member. Methods of using the device are also provided.

Abstract: An electrical plug connection has a first plug part having first contact elements and a second plug part having second contact elements. The plug parts being moved in a common plane toward one another until a contact position is reached in which the contact elements establish electrical contact with one another. A wire spring is mounted on the second plug part and has at least one spring leg that is moved from an initial position by the movement of the first plug part relative to the second plug part into a locking position in which the spring leg locks the first plug part and the second plug part in the contact position. The spring leg is a freely projecting spring wire and has a free end. The second plug part has a guide member for the free end of the freely projecting spring wire. The guide member is comprised of a first portion extending parallel to the moving direction and a slanted second portion slanted outwardly away from the second plug part.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a connector having a housing adapted for mating with an appropriate complementary mating connector. A pivot post is fixed to and projects from the housing. A lever is pivotable about the pivot post between operative and inoperative positions for mating and unmating the connectors. The lever includes an aperture embracing the pivot post. The aperture is larger than the post to allow for lost motion between the lever and the post. The lever includes a latch portion engageable with the mating connector for drawing the connectors into mated condition in response to rotating the lever about the pivot post from the inoperative position to the operative position. A spring is operatively associated between the lever and the pivot post to bias the lever in the mating direction of the mating connector when the lever is in its operative position to, thereby, bias the mating connector into a fully mated position.

Abstract: An extension cord retaining device for preventing accidental disengagement of male and female extension cord adapters. A first planar shaped member includes a flattened body portion and a first pair of angularly extending and spaced apart gripping members. A second planar shaped member includes a pair of spaced apart and axially extending legs which receive the flattened body portion of the first planar member in a coplanar fashion and a second pair of angularly extending and spaced apart gripping members which are arranged opposite the first pair of gripping members. An upper plate and a lower plate sandwich the first and second planar shaped members and fasteners secure the stacked arrangement together.

Abstract: A method for achieving a substantially waterproof connection between first and second parts using a resilient elongate tubular member formed from a single unitary piece of a substantially water impermeable material. The elongate tubular member has first and second opposed open ends. Once the first part is coupled to the second part, the tubular member rolled, from its donut configuration, from one of the parts toward the other part so that the first end encompasses a portion of one of the parts and the second end encompasses a portion of the other part whereby abutting surfaces of the first and second parts are completely encompassed by the tubular member to minimize penetration of a liquid between the tubular member and the first and second parts to achieve a substantially waterproof engagement therebetween.

Abstract: A locking device for maintaining a mating connection between female and male ends of electrical cords is provided including a locking member which is a flat rigid element. Structure in the locking member is provided for receiving enlarged plug and socket heads on ends of electrical cords through the locking member. At least one slot is formed in the locking member connected to the enlarged head receiving structure with the slot being configured to substantially fix the cord receiving tension forces in a predetermined position in the slot.

Abstract: The electric connector plug retainer (10) holds a male electric plug (12) in engagement with a female electric plug (14). The electric connector plug retainer (10) includes a first ring section (40) with a central aperture (48) for the passage of an electric cable (16) and a second ring section (42) for the passage of an electric cable (18). Elongated elastic members (44 and 46) are integral with the first and second ring sections (40 and 42), bias the first and second ring sections toward each other and bias the electric plug (12) and the electric plug (14) toward each other to retain an electric connection. A slit (52) is provided in the second ring section for the passage of a cable (18) into and out of the central aperture (50). Tabs (54) are provided in the slit (52) to restrict the passage of a cable through the slit. A slit (68) can be provided in the first ring section (40) if desired.

Abstract: An avionics line replaceable unit (LRU), of the type having numerous electronic circuit cards disposed therein in a parallel fashion. The cards being securely held in place when the cover of the LRU is screwed on thereby actuating a spring which transfers force to the circuit cards.

Abstract: An improved igniter and cable connector assembly for turbine engines. An igniter mounting adapter is secured to the engine. The igniter slides into a hole through the adapter and is retained by an enlarged head on the igniter. An annular seal is positioned around a high voltage terminal on the igniter head and a terminal on the cable connector is positioned against the igniter terminal. The cable connector is secured to the adapter, for example, by either a clamp assembly or a coupling nut or a quick release connector. As the cable connector is secured to the adapter, the seal is compressed between the igniter and connector insulators and, optionally, the connector terminal is rotated and pressed against the igniter terminal to establish a reliable electrical contact. The connector and igniter terminals preferably have mating conical or spherical surfaces, one of which may be an annular segment to provide an increased electrical contact area.

Abstract: An electrical plug and socket connector with a U-shaped locking hoop has cylindrical rollers provided at the side parts and the overlapping parts of the locking hoop. The rollers are provided with a central slot and an axle and are snapped into the side parts. The attachment of the locking hoop to one plug and socket connector half is such that the locking hoop can be snapped onto the bearing pins of the plug and socket connector half.

Abstract: A cord clip for maintaining electrical connection of a male electrical plug on a first conductor to a mating female electrical plug on a second conductor wherein the clip is composed of a first and second telescopically engaged tubular length with a tension spring captivated therein and normally urging the tubular lengths toward one another yet yieldable for axial movement of the lengths away from one another and wherein each of the tubular lengths includes a cord holding channel each affective to embrace one of the cords adjacent the electrical plug to hold the plugs together under the influence of the tension spring.

Abstract: There is disclosed a clamping device which comprises a U-shaped spring secured to a spring retainer in a pivotable manner. The spring retainer is a sub-assembly which consists of two plates forming a slot when sandwiched together to accommodate the spring. The two plates associated with the retainer assembly accommodate a rotatable bolt or screw which screw is directed into a compression stop assembly. A bracket is mounted to the appropriate waveguide flange. This bracket contains an aperture to accommodate a projecting end of the spring. The mating waveguide flanges are clamped in place by adjusting the captive screw which serves to deflect the U-spring completing the clamping action. The unit, as described in the specification, contains two U-shaped springs both of which are coupled to a central spring retaining unit and can operate to connect or disconnect two separate waveguide sections.

Abstract: A single piece resilient strip (10) has a back portion (12) and two opposite end portions (14 and 16) curling toward each other to form generally a C-shaped member. Outer tips (18 and 20) of the C further curl inwardly toward the back portion of the C in the manner of the lower half of a G. There are axially directed cord slots (22 and 24) located in opposite end portions of the strip for respectively receiving electrical power cords (34 and 36) of two couplers (38 and 40) to be held together therewith, with additional cord slots (30 and 32) extending to opposite side edges (26 and 28) of the strip for communicating the axially directed cord slots with the edges.

Abstract: An electrical connector for removably attaching a flat electrode to a conducting cable is shown. Flat, conductive upper and lower jaws are connected at the rear by flexible, resilient spring means, and are spaced apart at the front. The jaws are mounted within a housing, and are surmounted by a slide actuator having a finger movable member passing through a slot in a housing roof. The actuator slides on a guide means having a front planar surface and a rear planar surface higher than the front planar surface, the two planar surfaces connected by a ramp in a transition area. In the forward position, the actuator compresses the jaws together on the surfaces of the flat electrode to tightly hold the electrode in a locked conductive connection, and simple finger movement of the actuator releases the electrode.