Abstract: A ribbon cable connector for attachment to an end of a ribbon cable comprises a plurality of contact element receptacles adapted to receive a plurality of contact elements. A pair of adjacent contact element receptacles is separated from one another.

Abstract: A terminal holder unit of a wire connecting device includes a terminal accommodation space and a holder-side groove penetrating a wall of a holder base portion of the terminal holder unit in a wire extending direction. A covered electric wire is inserted into the holder-side groove. A press-insert terminal is inserted into the holder-side groove in a terminal insertion direction. A part of an insulating coating portion of the wire is removed, when cutting portions of the press-insert terminal are press-contacted to the wire. A part of a conductive wire portion of the wire is exposed to an outside of the wire, so that the press-insert terminal is electrically connected to the wire. A pair of wire stopper portions is formed in the holder base portion at both sides of the holder-side groove for limiting a movement of the wire in a direction from a wire assembled position to an open end of the holder-side groove.

Abstract: The invention discloses a fixing structure and an electronic displaying apparatus therewith. The electronic displaying apparatus includes an apparatus body and a fixing device. The fixing device pierces an electrical wire through a piercing structure and the fixing device is fixed on the apparatus body, so that the apparatus body and the electrical wire are electrically connected. Thereby, the electrical wire can provide both supporting force and power to the apparatus body through the fixing device.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to board (e.g. PCB) mountable connectors for small gauge ribbon cables having a plurality of 28-40 AWG wires wherein the connectors are fabricated from a plurality of adhered layers comprising at least on metal.

Abstract: An electronic device may include a connector body that accommodates a connector terminal, and a sealing member provided in the connector body to seal a gap between the connector body and the electronic device.

Abstract: A terminal, including an insertion groove to be pressed into by a conductor disposed between a pair of conductive arm parts, where a notched part larger than a width of the insertion groove is disposed at the end of the insertion groove.

Abstract: An electrical-conductive assembly for a signal cable and a connecting line, includes a signal cable, a connecting line and an electrical-conductive means. The signal cable includes an outer insulation cover and a plurality of cores located in the outer insulation cover. The signal cable is continuous and provided with at least one electrical-conductive portion. A portion of the outer insulation cover on the electrical-conductive portion is removed to bare the cores. The connecting line has cores therein. One end of the connecting line is provided with a connecting portion. The cores of the connecting line are bare in the connecting portion. The electrical connection means electrically connects the cores of the connecting portion to the cores of the electrical-conductive portion.

Abstract: An electrical connector for terminating electrical conductors includes a housing and a cap mounted to the housing. The housing includes a first housing section extending between a front wall and a base, a first wire groove formed through the front wall, and an insulation displacement connector (IDC) element disposed in the first housing section and configured for attachment to a printed circuit. The cap includes a pivot portion pivotally mounted to the housing and a cover portion extending from the pivot portion, where the pivot portion defines a wire receiving recess. In this regard, the cap is rotatable between an open position in which the first recess is linearly aligned with the first wire groove, and a closed position in which the cover portion is coupled to the front wall and the pivot portion is offset from the base to define a wire cavity.

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.

Abstract: The invention relates to a contact arrangement for a measuring probe or a measuring head for measuring high frequency, especially on a semiconductor wafer. The arrangement comprises a contact end for electrically contacting planar structures. A coplanar conductor structure having at lease two conductors carried by a dielectric is provided at the contact end. Between the dielectric and the contact end, the measuring tip is configured in such a manner that the conductors of the coplanar conductor structure are disposed in mid-air and in a resilient manner in relation to the dielectric retaining them. The invention is characterized in that the dielectric is provided with at least one arrangement for transmitting electrical signals, the arrangement being electrically connected to at least one conductor of the conductor structure in such a manner that the arrangement transmits signals from the at least one conductor that is electrically connected to the arrangement.

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.

Abstract: A printed circuit board interconnect assembly for use in an automobile comprising a male portion and a female portion. The female portion of the interconnect assembly contains crimped spring clip terminals inside a plastic housing. The male portion of the interconnect assembly contains male pins held together by a plastic housing. The male pins are angled at their mating ends to engage and be retained by the female spring clip terminals.

Abstract: An optical module package may include a body that, in one embodiment, may be made of metal. Ceramic inserts may be inserted into the metal body. The ceramic inserts may have a pair of shelves to facilitate electrical connection. In one embodiment, each shelf may include an upwardly directed contact surface and a downwardly directed contact surface. As a result, a more compact design may be formed in some embodiments which has desirable strength characteristics.

Abstract: A device for contacting an electric line includes a contact element, which has at least two contact tongues on the side facing the line. To achieve secure contacting, the contact element includes clamping halves, which are arranged resiliently in relation to one another.

Abstract: A wire connector block is provided which is formed to be used with both wire wrapping and wave soldering in connecting wires to wire connectors mounted thereon. Additionally, a method is disclosed for mounting a ribbon wire onto a printed wire board (PWB) that is connected to wire connectors. The ribbon wire is manipulated, preferably bent, to define an enclosed space with the printed wire board in which is disposed a material that is resistant to the passage of moisture therethrough.

Abstract: A method of positioning wires in the slot (18) of a bifurcated insulation displacement contact (10). The wires are positioned in the slot alternatively disposed with respect to the side-to-side direction (“A”) of the slot. As between the or each successive pair of wires in the slot, the angle made between the wires of the pair is greater than that made by one of the wires with respect to the side-to-side direction of the slot.

Abstract: A display instrument has a housing (1) with a base plate (3), on which a cable receptacle (5) is molded. In the region of the cable receptacle (5), contact pins (8) molded into the base plate (3) protrude with contact tips out of it. A clamping clip (17) is able to be swivelled over a flat cable (6) inserted into the cable receptacle (5), in such a way that the contact tips (21) penetrate into individual wires (7) of the flat cable (6) and thereby establish the contacting of the display instrument.

Abstract: An electrical connection box comprises lower and upper casings capable of being combined with each other, an electrically insulating wiring board located between the casings and having a wire laid in a desired shape thereon, a busbar in contact with at least a part of a wire laying surface of the wiring board, and an insulating plate located between the lower casing and the wiring board and/or between the upper casing and the wiring board. The insulating plate has thereon a projection for pressing the laid wire away from the busbar. The wiring board is formed with a laying groove in which the wire is laid. Post-formed protuberances for preventing the wire from getting out of the laying groove are formed in predetermined portions of the laying groove.

Abstract: An electrical connector for joining conductors is formed by a male plug half and a female receptacle half. Bus strips are positioned on the end of the plug and/or in the bottom of the female receptacle. Stripped wires are inserted into each end of the connector and pass through the bus strips and into the opposite half. Rotation of the male plug along a "quick connect" path bends the conductors tightly against the bus strips and clamps the wires between the bus strips.

Abstract: Two cables containing electric wires are electrically connected via a connecting device. The device includes a plurality of electrical connection units arranged in parallel and linked via a flexible linking portion. Each of the electrical connection units includes a groove adapted for stacking an electric wire of a first cable and an electric wire of a second cable to be connected thereto. Each groove is mounted with a cutting element. When the electric wires are received in the groove, the cutting element cuts into the electric wires and contacts a wire core included in the electric wire. Adjacent electrical connection units are connected through a flexible linking portion. By virtue of this connecting device, the cables are easily connected on the installation site and generation of an excess length of the cable is avoided.

Abstract: An insulation displacement contact (1) has a generally semi-circular configuration. A longitudinal slot (2) and a lateral slot (22) extending from the base of the longitudinal slot define a pair of tines (24). The free ends of the tines (AA,BB) are parallel to one another to assist location in an insulation displacement connector housing (12).

Abstract: An insulation displacement contact (10) comprises a contact spring (12) with two resilient contact shanks (20) that limit a contact slot (30), and a U-shaped force spring (14) formed as a separate component from the contact spring (12). The shanks (28) of the force spring (14) run largely perpendicular to regions of the contact shanks (20) and encompass same.

Abstract: An electrical connection box includes a casing having an upper casing (10) and a lower casing (11). Terminal holes (19, 20) are formed on the outer wall of the casing. An insulating plate (12), mounted in the casing, has a several of wiring grooves (13) formed on at least one of its opposite faces (12a, 12b). Terminal driving portions (24 and 25), obtained by increasing a width of the wiring grooves (13), are provided at predetermined locations in the wiring grooves (13). Wires (14, 15) having first and second diameters are inserted into and held in the wiring grooves (13). Pressing contact terminals (16, 17) includes a pressing contact portion (16a, 17a) and an input-output terminal portion (16b, 17b) formed at its opposite ends, respectively. The pressing contact portions (16a, 17a) are driven into the terminal driving portions (24, 25) to connect through pressing contact to the wires (14, 15) held in the wiring grooves.

Abstract: Electrical terminal having an insulation displacement contact for electrically engaging multiple conductors received therein. The IDC includes a first contact region in-line with, a second contact region such that multiple conductors may be received in a staked manner with the first conductor receiving region is located in-line with a second conductor receiving region and separated therefrom by a fulcrum.

Abstract: An insulation displacement connecting (IDC) terminal that allows wires to be parked in a retaining region thereof prior to being terminated within and IDC portion of the terminal. The retaining region of the terminal is generally a rounded longitudinal slot having a width which is slightly less than the outermost diameter of a conductor to be inserted into the terminal. The terminal which is designed with large fiat spring contacts located about a central slot, includes an IDC portion, which cuts into the insulation of the wire to establish contact. A slight gap in a top portion of the retaining region pulls apart and allows for insertion of a wire into the slot of the retaining region. The spring contacts of the terminal pull together and the gap is narrowed once the wire enters the retaining region, thus, preventing the wire from escaping through the gap. The spring contacts then close on the wire where it remains parked until such time as the wire is terminated within the IDC portion of the terminal.

Abstract: An insulation displacement connecting (IDC) terminal that accepts two insulated wires in a single slot for the making of an electrical connection. The IDC portion of the terminal, which cuts into the insulation of the wire to establish contact, is designed with large flat spring contacts about a centrally located slot, wherein the contacts displace torsionally when normal forces placed on the terminals exceed a fixed load. The torsional displacement is enabled by the inclusion of a widened slot proximate a base portion of the terminal. The widened slot in combination with an angular orientation of the terminal contained within an insulated connector module housing enables the contacts to twist to away from one another. This displacement effect allows for larger gauge and more than one conductor to be inserted into the terminal without permanently yielding the beam contacts of the terminal.

Abstract: There is provided a bifurcated contact for terminating a pair of insulated conductors. The contact includes a pair of furcations each having first and second interconnected and interdependent resilient elements. Each first element is in the form of a loop extending into a slot formed by the second elements. The first and second elements are on different planes. The first elements include juxtaposed termination surfaces wherein a second conductor may be terminated after the termination of the first conductor without disturbing the integrity of the termination of the first conductor.

Abstract: An electrical terminal for mechanically holding and electrically contacting an electrically insulated wire or cable. The terminal includes an electrically conductive, elongate, resilient strip having a free first end and a slot, extending in the longitudinal direction from the first end, for receiving the wire or cable. An opening in the strip, which is in communication with the slot, has an internal diameter which is greater than the narrowest width of the slot. To facilitate electrically contacting another terminal, the electrical terminal comprises a base and an electrically conductive, elongate strip attached thereto having a second end for contacting the other terminal. The strip comprises a first element forming the free first end, and a second, separate element forming the second end, the first element being rigidly attached to the base and having a third, opposite end for resiliently supporting the second end of the second element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connection arrangement having a rectilinear insulation-piercing and wire-retaining slit, and to a tool endpiece for providing connection between wires (2) and such arrangements. The insulation-piercing and wire-retaining slit extends longitudinally along a profile-shaped portion (31, 32, 33) of a conductive part (3) having a U-shaped cross-section with the free ends of the U being folded towards each other and leaving a space therebetween corresponding to the width of the slit, said profile-shaped portion being intended to serve as a guide for the endpiece of the connection tool (6). The endpiece includes a core (60) whose shape is complementary to the shape of the cavity in the profile-shaped portion and which slides therealong. The endpiece slides parallel on either side of each of the folds (31) delimiting the slit in the profile-shaped portion, and it enters the housing via a hole (51) whose shape is complementary thereto, which hole, serves to guide the tool.

Abstract: A multigauge-multiwire terminal includes a first split cylinder portion providing a pair of jaws defining a continuous wire receiving slot and a second rib cage portion providing a plurality of opposing resilient ribs aligned to provide a discontinuous slot. In use a wire is inserted laterally of its length into the continuous slot, the jaws of which slice through the insulation on the wire and grippingly engages it. The insertion of another wire displaces the first inserted wire into the discontinuous slot in which it is gripped by the opposing ribs which generally provide for a three point contact with the conductor portion.