Plural Contacts, Each Formed By Slot Between Pair Of Fingers Patents (Class 439/404)
  • Patent number: 7264498
    Abstract: Among each of the conductors 4a to 4e that form the flat cable 2 of the flat harness 1, at the installation part of the relay connector 6, conductors 4a and 4e, conductors 4a1 and 4a2, and conductors 4e1 and 4e2 are respectively cut and separated, and then connected to the relay connection terminal 8. Thereby, the number of conductors 4 that form the flat cable 2 is decreased to a minimum, and thus it is possible to decrease the unnecessary amount of material. In addition, in the manufacturing steps, the crimping step of the flat cable 2 to the relay connector 6, the cutting step, and the molding step are carried out in one step, and thus the number of manufacturing steps can be decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2007
    Assignee: Fujikura Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Sakiyama, Takehisa Ide
  • Patent number: 7261585
    Abstract: A press-contact connector 10 has a first member 20 which accommodates a plurality of terminals 21 having press-contact blades 21a and a second member 30 which is attached to the first member 20 and holds a plurality of wires 11 in an aligned state. The second member 30 has a plurality of retaining portions 31 capable of retaining the wires 11 respectively, formed in an approximate U shape and arranged in parallel to one another. The retaining portion 31 has claw portions 33 which are provided at inner walls 32 to lock the wire 11 in such a way as to contact with a bottom portion 31a of the retaining portion 31, and lances 34 which are provided at serial directional ends of each retaining portion 31 to urge the wire 11 in the direction of the opening of the retaining portion 31 in a cross section. Since each wire 11 is held bent by the cooperation of the claw portions 33 with the lances 34, compatibility with automation is possible and the wires 11 can be held sufficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yamanashi, Takashi Muro
  • Patent number: 7255590
    Abstract: A plug connector device (10) for multicore flat cables (15), has a plug (11) which can be fixedly joined to one end of a flat cable in a mechanical fashion, and a plug socket (12) which can be run through by the flat cable (15) such that, with their first contact ends (62), contact elements of the plug socket (12) engaging in the plug (11) can be electronically connected to the flat cable at their other contact ends (63) using IDC technology. To assure that the plug connector device is robust and has high contacting reliability, provision is made that plug (11) is provided with contact elements (18), whose first contact ends (38) are configured for the electrical connection to the first contact ends (62) of the contact elements (19) of the plug socket (12), and whose other contact ends (36) are configured for the connection to the flat cable (15) using IDC technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Michael Schremmer, Tobias Schimmele-Breff, Manfred Illg
  • Patent number: 7252551
    Abstract: There is provided an electronic part incorporating connector in which an electronic part and a connecting part for connecting a lead of the electronic part to an electric wire are housed in a housing, wherein the housing is divided into a first housing for housing the electronic part and a second housing for housing the connecting part, and by connecting the first housing and the second housing to each other, the lead of the electronic part is connected to the connecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiichi Ueno, Takenobu Yabu
  • Patent number: 7252534
    Abstract: An electrical connection arrangement for electrical connection of an electrical device with a bottom part for holding at least one device-side cable, with a top part for holding at least one connection-side cable and with a contact body for electrical connection of the device-side cable to the connection-side cable, the bottom part and the top part being formed essentially of an electrically insulating material. The connection is improved in that at least one fastening device for fastening at least one device-side cable is formed in the bottom part, that the contact body is located in the top part and has a first contact device and a second contact device, and that, in the joined position of the bottom part to the top part, the contact body makes contact with the device-side cable with the first contact device and makes contact with the connection-side cable with the second contact device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2007
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Heinz Reibke
  • Publication number: 20070178743
    Abstract: A shielded cable connecting structure for connecting a shielded cable to an electric wire having a conductor, the shielded cable including an electric wire portion which has a conductor and an inner sheath covering the conductor, a braided wire braided around the inner sheath, and an outer sheath covering the braided wire, the shielded cable connecting structure includes a connecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2007
    Publication date: August 2, 2007
    Applicant: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tadahisa Sakaguchi
  • Patent number: 7249962
    Abstract: A connector assembly for interconnecting an end of a cable comprising one or more twisted pair conductors, each of the conductors enveloped in an insulating covering, with the bifurcated contacts of a connecting block. The assembly comprises an insulated housing and a plurality of non-contacting conductive terminals disposed in the housing. Each of the terminals comprises a blade exposed along a front face of the housing and adapted to be inserted into one of the bifurcated contacts, and a piercing mechanism comprising at least one tooth. Each of the conductors is terminated by one of the terminals, the teeth puncturing the insulated covering of a free end of the conductor thereby bringing the terminal into conductive contact with the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Belden CDT (Canada) Inc.
    Inventors: Luc Milette, Michel Bohbot
  • Patent number: 7232331
    Abstract: An electrical connector (10) having a contact element (50) retained in a hollow body (12). The body (12) has an internal socket structure (44) for receiving an end of the contact element (50) so that insulation displacement contacts (54) of this engage and make electrical connection to wires (70) of an incoming cable (16) to which the connector is connected. Fingers (56) of the connector element (50) extend externally of the connector body and carry electrical contacts (82).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2007
    Assignee: ADC GmbH
    Inventors: Wayne Dennes, Michael Sielaff
  • Patent number: 7223115
    Abstract: An insulation displacement contact (IDC) includes: upper and lower ends, each of the upper and lower ends including a slot configured to receive a conductor therein, the slots being generally parallel and non-collinear; and a transitional area merging with the upper and lower ends. An IDC of this configuration can be employed, for example, in 110-style connectors, and can enable such connectors to compensate for differential to common mode crosstalk between adjacent IDC pairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Amid Hashim, Scott M. Keith
  • Patent number: 7217012
    Abstract: An illuminated sign (88) includes a flexible electrical power cord (100) including first and second parallel conductors (112, 114) surroundingly contained within an insulating sheath defining a constant separation distance between the parallel conductors (112, 114). A plurality of light emitting diode (LED) devices (102) are affixed to the cord (100). Each LED device (102) includes an LED (104) having a positive lead (130p) electrically communicating with the first parallel conductor (112) and a negative lead (130p) electrically communicating with the second parallel conductor (114). A stencil (92) defines a selected shape, and the electrical cord (100) is arranged on the stencil (92). Power conditioning electronics (210, 220) disposed away from the stencil (92) electrically communicate with the first and second parallel conductors (112, 114) of the electrical power cord (100). The power conditioning electronics (210, 220) power the LED devices (102) via the parallel conductors (112, 114).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Lumination, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Southard, Srinath K. Aanegola, James T. Petroski, Christopher Bohler
  • Patent number: 7210957
    Abstract: A string light engine includes a flexible power cord, a heat sink, an IDC terminal, a PCB, and an LED. The flexible power cord includes an electrical wire and an insulating material for the wire. The heat sink attaches to the power cord. The IDC terminal is inserted through the insulating material and electrically communicates with the wire. The PCB is at least partially received in the heat sink. The PCB includes a first surface having circuitry and a second surface opposite the first surface. The circuitry is in electrical communication with the IDC terminal. The second surface is abutted against a surface of the heat sink so that heat is transferred from the LED into the heat sink. The LED mounts to the first surface of the PCB and is in electrical communication with the circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Assignee: Lumination LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Mrakovich, Jeffrey Nall
  • Patent number: 7201601
    Abstract: An insulation displacement multipoint connector for electrical plug connectors includes connection elements which form at one end thereof an insulation displacement termination area for a connection of electrical conductors without requiring stripping and, at the other end, a plug contact area for a multipoint counter connector. The insulation displacement termination area has flat, slotted insulation displacement terminals. The connection elements are arranged such that for one row of plug contacts of the connection elements embedded next to each other, the insulation displacement terminals of these connection elements are located in several rows in the insulation displacement multipoint connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: ERNI Elektroapparate GmbH
    Inventor: Jürgen Lappöhn
  • Patent number: 7179114
    Abstract: A tracer wire connector (10) having two parts, a main body (11) and a cover (12). The main body includes a base (16) and a raised portion (24) connected with the base, the raised portion forming a first groove (13) extending from one side of the base to an opposite side of the base, the raised portion forming an at least partially closed bore (14) having a closed off end (17) extending parallel to the first groove, and the raised portion forming a second groove (15) traversing the first groove and the bore. The cover forms a cavity (23) adapted to receive the main body and includes at least one cutting element (22) disposed within the cavity aligned to fit into the second groove upon insertion of the main body into the cover. Disposed within the cover is a displaceable insulating material which is displaced to fill empty space within the connector upon insertion of the main body into the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Gas Technology Institute
    Inventors: Pawel Kuzan, Dennis R. Jarnecke
  • Patent number: 7179115
    Abstract: A connector is provided for compensating crosstalk with respect to an adjacently placed connector. Each of the connectors includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a plurality of pairs of contacts on the PCB, a plurality of pads disposed at edge portions of the PCB for compensating crosstalk, and a plurality of connecting parts for connecting electrically the pads to the pairs of contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Commscope Solutions Properties, LLC
    Inventor: Amid Hashim
  • Patent number: 7163415
    Abstract: A contact construction requiring minimum space above a connector allowing installation of a connection cable on a circuit board in a layout direction of contacts that provides increased freedom in wiring/board design. A bottom surface of the housing forms a mounting surface of the circuit board while a top surface forms a cable layout surface for laying out the connection cable in the surface direction of the circuit board. A bottom end of a terminal in the housing protrudes toward the circuit board side to form a contact part to connect with the circuit board, and the top end forms a connection part to connect with the connection cable. A plurality of terminals is provided in a row in the housing, a plurality of wires is laid out on the cable layout surface in the circuit board direction, ensuring each connection cable is electrically connected to the desired terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: SMK Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Miyoshi
  • Patent number: 7163416
    Abstract: A factory installed wiring guide that guides conductors into position for quality termination and crimp and which provides strain relief (support) for the wires or fibers and the outer sheath of the cable to create a quality cable or sub-cable assembly supporting termination at both ends of the cable. The wiring guide is sized to overcome obstacles and fit into conduits during network wiring installation. The wiring guide may be inserted into a cavity on the backside of a RJ45 female connector, completing the termination of a station cable to a RJ45 female jack. The wiring guide may be installed into a plastic housing creating a RJ45 male connector. The wiring guide may be utilized for multiple connections without damaging or compromising the wiring guide and without the need for cutting the wire from the sub-connector. The wiring guide supports universal attachment to either male or female RJ45 connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Inventor: James Allen Carroll
  • Patent number: 7156687
    Abstract: An insulation displacement connection (IDC) connector assembly includes an IDC connector and external cables. The cables are inserted in the IDC connector through passageways disposed in a surface of the IDC-connector to be terminated to the IDC connector. A positioning recess is defined in the top surface of the IDC connector corresponding to each cable and each communicates with the corresponding passageway and is exposed to surfaces adjacent to the surface mentioned above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu Man Chiang, Chung Hsin Huang, Yi Chiu Kao, Yu Hung Su
  • Patent number: 7156686
    Abstract: A splice connector includes a first IDC terminal, a second IDC terminal, a body receiving the first and second IDC terminals, and a cover connected to the body such that the cover selectively slides with respect to the body in the first linear direction from first position to a second position. The body defines a first seat configured to receive an associated first cable and second seat configured to receive an associated second cable that is to be electrically connected to the associated first cable. The first and second IDC terminals each include a portion that extends into a region adjacent a respective wire seat. The cover is configured to cooperate with the body where a portion of the cover engages a portion of the body at a third position between the first position and the second position such that in the third position movement of the cover with respect to the body in a second direction, which is opposite the first, is inhibited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Gelcore LLC
    Inventors: William Sekela, Mark Mayer, Matthew Mrakovich
  • Patent number: 7134903
    Abstract: A connector for engaging an electrical conductor that includes a wire surrounded by insulation includes a housing formed with a first slot engageable with the wire and including first and second laterally-spaced surfaces having between them a first width that is less than a width of an outer surface of the insulation and greater than a width of the wire. A cover having a second slot engageable with the wire includes third and fourth laterally-spaced surfaces spaced along a length of the conductor from the first and second surfaces, and offset laterally from the first and second surfaces, the third and fourth surfaces having between them a second width that is less than a width of an outer surface of the insulation and greater than a width of the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventor: Slobadan Pavlovic
  • Patent number: 7126073
    Abstract: An intermittent contact connector device including a frame having a first frame section movably connected to a second frame section; two electrical contacts connected to the second frame section, and an electrical shorting member connected to the first frame section. At least one of the contacts is an insulation displacement contact (IDC) member. The shorting member is adapted to contact the two electrical contacts to thereby electrically connect the two electrical contacts to each other when the first frame section is moved towards the second frame section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: FCI USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Raymond Bruce McLauchlan
  • Patent number: 7121869
    Abstract: A power cord electric connection structure includes a power cord and a terminal socket that are electrically connected in a vertical direction. The power cord has a connecting portion in which the conductive core is bare and exposed outside the insulation layer. The terminal socket has a coupling trough which contains a conductive terminal to form a plane contact with the bare conductive core so that a secure electric connection is established, and wiring management of the power cord and terminal socket is easier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Topower Computer Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 7121871
    Abstract: A contact for a wire tap connector includes a substantially planar insulation displacement portion configured to receive a primary wire and electrically connect thereto, and a poke in wire section integrally formed with and attached to the planar insulation displacement portion. The poke in wire section is configured to accept a prepared connecting wire in one or more positions relative to the insulation displacement portion. When the contact is situated in a housing, a slidable stuffer may be provided to quickly and easily install the connector assembly to a primary run wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Stephen Duesterhoeft, David James Fabian, Stanley Allen Kline
  • Patent number: 7121870
    Abstract: An IDC terminal structure includes a plurality of terminal pairs and a terminal seat. Each of the terminal pairs has a first terminal and a second terminal. The terminal seat has a plurality of first and second insert slots. The first and second slots are equally spaced from one another in a staggered manner corresponding to the first and second terminal. At least two of the first terminal has a main extension on a middle portion extended towards the second terminal of the same pair and the first terminal of a neighboring pair. So that the first terminal is close to the second terminal of the same pair and the first terminal of the neighboring pair to generate an induction compensation effect. The first terminals of the neighboring pairs are also close to each other to generate an induction compensation effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: Surtec Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • Patent number: 7114985
    Abstract: A modular communications connector includes a housing defining a plug receiving opening, a conductor carrying sled including a printed circuit board designed in conjunction with the conductors to improve crosstalk performance. The connector includes a wire containment fixture arrangement allows for simplified field termination of the modular connector. The connector is assembled by loading the contacts and printed circuit board onto the sled, which is snap fit into the housing. Then, wires are positioned through the wire containment fixture and the fixture is slidably engaged with the sled at a first position and slid along the sled to a second position where the wires are terminated with IDCs mounted on the sled. The connector preferably includes first and second pluralities of conductors, with the second plurality each having IDC portions arranged in first and second rows of four IDCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Panduit Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Doorhy, Andrew J. Stroede, Russell A. Vanderhoof
  • Patent number: 7101216
    Abstract: An electrically coupled insulation displacement system comprises a first contact having a first insulation displacement slot therein having an open end and a closed end. The first insulation displacement slot has a first portion having a width adjacent the open end and a second portion having a width intermediate the first portion and the closed end, the first portion has a larger width than the second portion. The insulation displacement system further comprises a second contact, which includes a second insulation displacement slot therein having an open end and a closed end. The second insulation displacement slot has a first portion having a width adjacent the open end and a second portion having a width intermediate the first portion and the closed end, the first portion has a smaller width than the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Xavier Fasce, Guy Metral, Jerome A. Pratt
  • Patent number: 7097492
    Abstract: For automatic wiring of terminals of electrical apparatus, for example fluorescent lamp luminaires, a line or wire-laying tool is used which has a finger (31) on which a pressure element (37), movable between three positions I, II, III with respect to the finger, and the terminal, respectively, is retained. The pressure element presses a wire (20) in an insertion slit (12) of a slit blade insulation piercing connector SBIPC (11). The pressure element (37) has a cutter blade at an end surface, and further has two pressure sections (46, 47). One section (46) is used to effect a connection at the beginning of a wire run, or for through-wiring, and the other (47) is used to terminate the end of a wire line, and to cut the wire. The finger (21) is always outside of a contacting zone (3), thus permitting miniaturization of the terminal to a degree limited only by insulation requirements of air or creep paths between adjacent SBIPCs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Vossloh-Schwabe Elektronik GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Albeck, Stefan Koller
  • Patent number: 7070442
    Abstract: A terminal support has a first main body. Wall plates are arrayed on the first main body in a first direction so as to define a first space between each of adjacent ones of the wall plates. The first space is adapted to receive a terminal having a blade portion and a sheathed electric wire. The blade portion extends in the first direction, and no clearance is formed between both ends in the first direction of the terminal and the adjacent ones of the wall plates. Chamfered portions are formed on both sides in the first direction of a tip end of each of the wall plates. A punch has a second main body. Press members are arrayed on the second main body in the first direction so as to define a second space between each of adjacent one of the press members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Yamanashi, Takashi Muro, Kei Sato, Chitoshi Nakamura
  • Patent number: 7070441
    Abstract: A battery terminal includes an undercut groove that provides a leak proof seal between a battery terminal and a plastic battery cover or housing. The leak proof seal prevents electrolyte from seeping from the interior of the housing as well as prevents electrolyte from seeping between the battery terminal and plastic housing when the battery housing is filled with electrolyte.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Tulip Corporation
    Inventors: Mark K. Gregory, Bernard N. Spiegelberg, Terry J. Evraets
  • Patent number: 7070443
    Abstract: An insulation displacement connector (40) selectively effects insulation displacement of required conductive paths of a flat cable (30) in correspondence with the function of a bulb socket connector (20). Further, the other unnecessary conductive paths are passed through without being subjected to insulation displacement connection. In addition, as the insulation displacement connector (40) and a socket housing with a bulb (21) fitted thereto are engaged, insulation displacement terminals and bulb conductor portions of the bulb (21) are electrically connected directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Harunori Tashiro, Masaru Fukuda
  • Patent number: 7056147
    Abstract: A strip is provided with a series of housings for a like number of terminals to which conductor wires accede thrust by a tool in order to establish a connection, by means of displacing the conductor wires over the terminals. Each housing or chamber is independent of those adjacent, the separation being constituted by means of transversal partitions, which makes possible the pouring of a sealing gel into the respective housing chamber up to a level which is at a height lower than the entrance step of the conductor wires and above the edge of the terminals, with the objective that both said terminals and the connections thereof with the conductors be immersed in the sealing gel in order to prevent oxidation on the connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Raychem S.A.
    Inventors: Juan Tomas Arias, Jose Vicente Gimeno
  • Patent number: 7052307
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a modular jack for connecting a modular plug, and more particularly, a modular jack with a connection cap which comprises: a plurality of IDC terminals electrically connected to a printed circuit board; a back cover provided with a plurality of penetration grooves so as to support the IDC terminals; and a connection cap for pressurizing and connecting wires to connection slits of the IDC terminals penetrated through penetration grooves of the back covers and protruded outward, the connection cap being provided with terminal insertion grooves for inserting the plurality of IDC terminals and a plurality of wire insertion grooves for coupling wires, the back cover and the connection cap being detachably coupled to a housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Dae Eun Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Gon Kim, Jung Suk Lee, Hye Jung Kim
  • Patent number: 7037118
    Abstract: The invention relates to an access module (1) for telecommunications and data technology, having a housing in which externally accessible input and output contacts for connection of lines and wires are arranged, with the housing having a cavity in which at least one printed circuit board (6) is arranged, with the input and output contacts being arranged on opposite end faces of the housing, with the input contacts being in the form of at least one connecting strip (5) with insulation-displacement terminal contacts (41), and the output contacts being in the form of at least one plug connector (8), with the housing having at least two parts, with a front housing part (2) being fitted with the input contacts and the printed circuit board (6), and a rear housing part (3) being detachably connectable to the front housing part (2), with the rear housing part (3) having at least one outward bulge (9), and with the plug connector being arranged behind the outward bulge (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: ADC GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko Neumetzler, Harald Klein, Antony Nijhuis
  • Patent number: 7029314
    Abstract: A press-contacting connector includes a connector housing, a wire holder and an assisting plate. The connector housing has a plurality of press-contacting terminals and a holder fitting portion in which a plurality of press-contacting blades of the press-contacting terminals are provided. The wire holder is fitted into the holder fitting portion of the connector housing, and holding a plurality of wires. The assisting plate is attached to the wire holder so as to press-hold press-contacting portions of the wires to the wire holder. The assisting plate has a plurality of guide portions which guides the press-contacting blades to the press-contacting portions of the wires respectively. When the wire holder is fitted into the connector housing, the press-contacting blades press-contact the press-contacting portions of the wires respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Muro, Kaoru Matsumura, Nobuyuki Sakamoto, Toshiharu Kawashima, Makoto Yamanashi
  • Patent number: 7025621
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a connector housing (2) and a printed circuit board (3) with two sets of contact elements (7, 8). The first set of contact elements (7) is located on the front face of the printed circuit board (3) and protrudes into an opening in the plug connector housing (2). The second set of contact elements (8) is located on the rear face of the printed circuit board (3). The contact elements of the second set (8) are configured to form insulation-displacement contacts (8). The plug connector (1) also includes a cable manager (5) which has a continuous opening (13) and is configured on the front face (16) with guides (19) for cores or wires which are intended to make contact with the insulation-displacement contacts (8). The guides (19) in the region of the insulation-displacement contacts (8) are configured with recessed receiving elements or holders (20) for the insulation-displacement contacts (8), and the cable manager (5) can be latched to the plug connector housing (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Krone GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Mössner, Ferenc Nad, Michael Gwiazdowski
  • Patent number: 7026559
    Abstract: A switch has insulation displacement connectors on a connector portion of the switch body. Such an insulation displacement connector has two tines with an open-ended slot for receiving a wire transverse to the slot. When the wire is pushed along the length of the slot, insulation is displaced and there is electrical contact made with the connector. An insulating flap is hinged to the switch body for rotation between an open position, an intermediate catch position at an acute angle from the connector portions, and a latched position approximately parallel to the connector portion. Rotating the flap from the catch position to the latched position presses wires into the insulation displacement connectors. Each of the connectors has a generally keyhole-shaped opening for receiving the wire. The axis of the hinge between the flap and body is approximately parallel to the length of the wire in the connector and is integrally molded with the switch body and flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Judco Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen C. James
  • Patent number: 7014495
    Abstract: A factory installed wiring guide that guides conductors into position for quality termination and crimp and which provides strain relief (support) for the wires or fibers and the outer sheath of the cable to create a quality cable or sub-cable assembly supporting termination at both ends of the cable. The wiring guide is sized to overcome obstacles and fit into conduits during network wiring installation. The wiring guide may be inserted into a cavity on the backside of a RJ45 female connector, completing the termination of a station cable to a RJ45 female jack. The wiring guide may be installed into a plastic housing creating a RJ45 male connector. The wiring guide may be utilized for multiple connections without damaging or compromising the wiring guide and without the need for cutting the wire from the sub-connector. The wiring guide supports universal attachment to either male or female RJ45 connectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Inventor: James Allen Carroll
  • Patent number: 6994582
    Abstract: A connector module permits termination of cross-connect wires on one surface (front) and cable wires on an opposite surface (rear). The module exhibits a configuration, which permits test access and protector (i.e., protection module) mounting from the front surface. The jumper wires are inserted from a side surface through wire guides or channels that bring the wires from the side surface to the front surface where the wires can be terminated without impeding insertion and removal of protection modules from the front of the connector module. There is an intermediate surface below the front surface that is accessible from the front and recessed to allow protection modules to be installed completely below the terminated wires, allowing termination and maintenance of jumper wires after the protection module is installed from the front.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: Porta Systems Corporation
    Inventors: William V. Carney, Alan J. Squillante, Michael Fasano, Michael Belle-Oudry, Anthony Andrew Ray, Clifford D. Le Strange
  • Patent number: 6994583
    Abstract: A connector for connecting with cables and mate with a plug connector includes a first housing and a second housing assembled to each other, and a plurality of conductive terminals received in the first housing. The first housing has a first insulator and a first shell shielding the first insulator. The second housing has a second insulator and a second shell shielding the second insulator. Each conductive terminal has a contact end and a pierce end. When the first housing and the second housing are assembled together, the pierce ends of the conductive terminals stick ends of the cables for electrically connecting with the cables, meanwhile, by the U-shaped anchors of the first shell and the pressing protrusions of the second shell to sandwich and press against the cables. Thus, the cables are prevented from coming off or disengaging from the connector in order to keep a stable communication performance and extend the available life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: L&K Precision Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kuan Chi-Te
  • Patent number: 6991496
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a housing, a circuit board, harness terminals, and contact terminals. The housing has a hole and a lid. The circuit board is detachably disposed in the hole. If the circuit board is broken down, the lid is opened and the circuit board is removed from the hole. A new circuit board is then disposed on the terminals in the hole. The lid is closed so that the terminals are elastically deformed and the electrodes of the circuit board are electrically connected to the terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Nobukazu Kuribayashi, Masahiko Sugaya, Shigeo Shiba
  • Patent number: 6991488
    Abstract: An electrical connector for connecting two or more wires together electrically, having wire slots are oriented in a direction substantially parallel to each other, facilitating the use of only one operation to connect all wires; also retaining a terminated wires. Also methods for producing such connector, minimizing waste of production material, using such connector and configuring such connector at small dimensions and tolerances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Inventor: Anthony Freakes
  • Patent number: 6988909
    Abstract: An actuator that reduces the number of components, simplifies connection, and lowers costs. The actuator includes a connector body and a cover. The connector body has an input terminal and an output terminal. The cover holds a harness with the connector body. The connector body or the cover includes a cutter that is arranged between the input terminal and the output terminal. The cutter cuts a signal line of the harness into two cut pieces when attaching the connector body and the cover to each other. The input and output terminals each include two contact portions that penetrate through a coating of the signal line of the harness to contact one of the two cut pieces of the signal line when attaching the connector body and the cover to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2006
    Assignee: ASMO Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Satoshi Morizaki
  • Patent number: 6979222
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes first and second mating sections (17, 18). The first section (17) forms a plurality of channels (25–28) for receiving wires (12–15). The second section (18) has receptacles (24A–24D) for receiving contact elements (20–23) having IDC contacts for connecting respectively to the wires. The contact elements are constructed so that they may be placed in any one of four quadrature positions while providing a dual IDC connection with its associated wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Woodhead Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Riccardo Comini
  • Patent number: 6972375
    Abstract: A wiring harness for connecting electrically between in-vehicle units includes a pitch ribbon cable having a plurality of bridge portions and a connector having a boss and a press-contact portion. Each bridge portion includes first, second and third notches. The third notch is engaged to another boss of the in-vehicle unit in case of assembling the pitch ribbon cable to the in-vehicle unit so that layout of the wiring harness becomes definite. The second notch is engaged to the boss of the connector in case of attaching the pitch ribbon cable to the connector. The first notch is engaged to the press-contact portion of the connector with using the second notch as a positioning reference so that positioning of the pitch ribbon cable becomes definite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Sugaya, Nobukazu Kuribayashi
  • Patent number: 6971903
    Abstract: The insulation displacement terminal 3 is retained on the terminal retainer portion 5 of the main housing 6. The lead 12 of the insulation displacement terminal 3 is soldered to the first surface 10a of the circuit board 10 through the bottom plate 13 of the main housing 6 and the circuit board 10, which is held in the second retaining space 11 between the main housing 6 and second cover housing 8. After the insulation displacement terminal 3 in such a subassembly state is connected by insulation displacement with a desired portion of the insulated wire 2, the first cover housing 7 is combined with the main housing 6. The receiving portion 44 of the second cover housing 8 receives the insulation displacement load via the bottom plate 13 of the main housing 6 and the circuit board 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: J.S.T.Mfg. Co.,Ltd.
    Inventors: Akira Goto, Yoshikazu Takagi, Kazushi Miyahara, Megumi Chiyoda
  • Patent number: 6969272
    Abstract: In a pressure welding connecting terminal, a wide plate part 15a is formed at one side of a base plate 15 while a narrow plate part 15b that leads to the wide plate part 15a is formed at the other side of the base plate 15, an electric contact 17 is formed being bent integrally with the wide plate part 15a, and an electric wire-pressure welding part 22 is formed integrally with the narrow plate part 15b. The electric wire-pressure welding part 22 includes: a folded part 23 projectingly formed on a side surface 15c of the base plate 15 and folded in a U-turn-shape; a narrow connecting part 24 leading to the folded part 23 and piled on the base plate 15; a wide pressure welding piece 25 leading to front and rear ends of the connecting part 24 and bent to rise up perpendicularly to the base plate 15; and a leg part 26 projectingly formed at a lower part of the pressure welding piece 25 so as to support the pressure welding piece 25 when an electric wire is press-fit thereinto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Sakamoto, Takashi Muro
  • Patent number: 6960097
    Abstract: A pressure connection structure with coaxial cables, which can reduce the number of steps for terminal processing of ultra-thin coaxial cables or simplify the process. Leading end portions of the cables each having a core conductor wire, an inner insulating layer for covering the core conductor wire, an outer conductor-shielding layer for covering the inner insulating layer, and an outer insulating layer for covering the outer conductor-shielding layer are processed to remove the outer conductor-shielding and outer insulating layers thereby to bare the inner insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshimasa Morishita
  • Patent number: 6955557
    Abstract: A connector with insulation displacement contacts for connecting electric conductors, in which the insulation displacement contacts are held in a carrier body and the electric conductors are guided in conductor guide channels of a conductor guide component. When the carrier body and conductor guide component are joined together the electric conductors are contacted by the insulation displacement contacts. The carrier body and conductor guide component are joined by means of an assembly tool constructed as a half-shell housing, in which bevels are provided which cooperate with bevels on the conductor guide component, so when the carrier body and the conductor guide component are pressed together in the half-shell housing, the carrier body and conductor guide component are pressed together by mutual displacement on the bevels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Harting Electronics GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jean Francois Bernat, Jean-Merri de Vanssay, Abdallah Fakhri, Andreas Huhmann, Simon Seereiner
  • Patent number: 6953363
    Abstract: An auxiliary device module Z includes: an auxiliary device 1; a base board 2 mounted on the auxiliary device 1 which has terminals 5e; and a case 3 in which the base board 2 can be mounted. Fitting the base board 2 into the case 3, the terminals 5e of the base board 2 and electric wires 4 of a connecting portion 5e? in the case 3 are connected electrically to form a connector 5. Positioning portions 6 for guiding the terminals 5e are provided in the connecting portion 5e?. Thereby, when assembling the auxiliary device module Z, connecting electrically the terminal 5e with the electric wires 4 can be done simultaneously, accurately and easily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Kameyama, Takakazu Takahashi
  • Patent number: 6923671
    Abstract: An electric connection box provided with a wiring board 20 having an electric wire 21 arranged on both surfaces of an obverse surface 20a and a reverse surface 20b, an obverse cover arranged on the obverse surface 20a of the wiring board 20 and having a connector cavity, a reverse cover arranged on the reverse surface 20b of the wiring board 20 and having a connector cavity, and press contact terminals 10, 10A and 10B each having a press contact edge portion 11 pressed onto the electric wire 20 and a tab portion 12 and/or 13 erected in the connector cavity, wherein the press contact terminal 10, 10A or 10B presses the press contact edge portion 11 onto the electric wire 21 from a side where the electric wire 21 is arranged, thereby selectively erecting the terminal portion 12 and/or 13 on both surfaces of a surface having the electric wire 21 arranged thereon and/or a surface opposite to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventor: Koichi Uezono
  • Patent number: 6923672
    Abstract: A patch plug includes pairs of electrical conductors close one another. The electrical conductors of each pair have an interval smaller than the interval of two neighboring pairs of electrical conductors. At least one pair of the electrical conductors are crossed so that two neighboring pairs of electrical conductors that have the same electricity are close to each other to generate capacitance compensation thereby to enable the patch plug to conform to Category 6 standards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Surtec Industries Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Chen