Abstract: A wire cover includes an inner cover member covering a bent section of an electric wire from an inner peripheral side and an outer cover member covering the bent section from an outer peripheral side. One end portion of the wire cover sandwiches the electric wire along a first direction. The other end portion of the wire cover sandwiches the electric wire along a second direction. The inner cover member and the outer cover member move relative to each other along the first direction. When observed from a third direction intersecting a plane that includes the first direction and the second direction, a first attachment portion and a second attachment portion are positioned outward of the surface of the inner cover body on the innermost side of the bent section or inward of the surface of the outer cover body on the outermost side of the bent section.

Abstract: A connecting terminal for connecting at least one first electrical conductor to a second electrical conductor, the connecting terminal including a housing with a first conductor insertion opening for inserting the first electrical conductor and with a second conductor insertion opening for inserting the second electrical conductor, the first and the second conductor insertion openings being arranged on opposite sides of the housing, the connecting terminal including a contact insert, which includes a first clamping spring, a second clamping spring and a busbar, the first and the second clamping springs being fastened in end areas of the busbar facing away from each other, and a free space being present between the first and the second clamping springs, the connecting terminal including an inner piece as a further separate component, which is arranged at least with a middle section predominantly in the free space between the first and second clamping springs.

Abstract: Modular connectors for rigid tubing are provided. An assembly according to embodiments of the present disclosure may include a rigid tube connected to a coupling assembly, the coupling assembly including a main body having a first tubular section and a second tubular section. The assembly may further include a connector head coupled to the coupling assembly, the connector head including a first section coupled to a second section, wherein the first and second sections define an internal cavity for housing an electrical connector, and wherein the first tubular section extends within the internal cavity.

Abstract: A high power electrical connector is provided for transmitting electrical signals from a pair of cables, such as high current capable cables, to an associated member, such as a dash panel. The high power electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a pair of contact path assemblies therethrough for transmission of the electrical signals. The cables can be rotated relative to the housing and rotated relative to each other via the contact path assemblies. Ground path assemblies are also provided for grounding the cables. The cables can each be rotatable relative to a portion of the respective ground path assembly.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a pair of connectors and two or more conductive paths formed in each connector in the pair of connectors. The pair of connectors includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector is substantially more flexible than the second connector, and each connector in the pair of connectors includes a bulkhead. Each of the two or more conductive paths in each connector in the pair of connectors is electrically isolated from all other conductive elements in the respective connector. A shroud may be located between the bulkheads and disposed about the pair of connectors when the pair of connectors are coupled together electrically.

Abstract: An electrical splice assembly includes a housing having a forward portion, a rearward portion, and an intermediate portion defining a plurality of terminal retention cavities between the forward portion and the rearward portion. A conductive bus plate is retained within the forward portion of the housing. A plurality of terminals each extend into a respective terminal retention cavity and each terminal is in electrical contact with the bus plate. Each of the terminal retention cavities is defined by 1) a pair of opposing sidewalls connected to the forward portion and to the rearward portion and 2) a pair of opposing retention beams. The retention beams each include a latch which engages a respective terminal to retain the terminals in the terminal retention cavities.

Abstract: An electrical connector is provided in the present invention, including an insulating housing, a first group of conductive terminals, a second group of conductive terminals and a third group of conductive terminals. A mating section of the insulating housing forms a receiving cavity, which disposes at least one horizontal division plate therein to form multiple receiving semi-cavity. A horizontal retaining section and a vertical retaining section of each conductive terminal are received and retained into the mounting section of the insulating housing, the tails thereof extend outside the bottom surface of the mounting section, and the flexible contact section enters into the corresponding receiving semi-cavity of the mating section. The electrical connector of the present invention disposes a wider complementary margin along an up and down direction and a left and right direction, thereby ensuring a safe connection of the electrical connector and a complementary connector.

Abstract: An electrical-conductive assembly for a signal cable. The signal cable includes an outer insulation cover and a plurality of cores inside the outer insulation cover. Each core has a protective sheath and an electric wire located in the protective sheath. The electrical-conductive assembly includes an electrical-conductive portion and an electrical-conductive portion member. The electrical-conductive portion is provided on a section of the signal cable with a portion of the outer insulation cover removed. Each core inside the electrical-conductive portion is formed with a naked lead section by removing a portion of the protective sheath. The electrical-conductive member is assembled with the electrical-conductive portion and includes at least one electrical-conductive covering piece electrically connected to the naked lead section and at least one electrical-conductive post extending from the electrical-conductive covering piece.

Abstract: A connector includes a plurality of cavities (12) into which terminal fittings are to be accommodated. The cavities (12) are separate tubular members independent of a connector main body (14) and each of the cavities (12) also is configured as a separate member independent of the other cavities. The connector main body (14) functions as a holder for accommodating the plurality of cavities (12) and the cavities (12) are locked individually in the connector main body (14). Clearances are provided between the individual cavities (12) and the connector main body (14) in these locked parts and the cavities (12) are permitted to move relative to the connector main body (14) due to the clearances.

Abstract: A rechargeable battery socket and the manufacturing method of making the same is disclosed. The rechargeable battery socket includes an insulating housing defining a number of terminal channels, a number of terminals received in the insulating housing, and a shell assembled to one side of the insulating housing. Each terminal includes a contacting portion received in corresponding terminal channel and a tail extending out of the insulating housing. Each terminal channel provides a pair of ribs on two opposite inside faces thereof. The contacting portion of the terminal cooperates with the rib to thereby secure the terminal in the insulating housing.

Abstract: A joint connector extending structure includes first and second connector terminals, first and second housings for housing the first and second connector terminals, and a joint connector configured to fit in first and second cutouts of the first and second housings laid on top of one another to engage with male contacts of the first and second connector terminals housed in the first and second housings thereby to conduct the first and second connector terminals and integrate the first and second housings.

Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes a housing (1) and a number of terminals (2). The housing includes a floor (10) having a number of bar sections (19) and a number of passageways (16) arranged alternately along a lengthwise direction. The floor has an outwardly exposed bottom face (101) tapered with respect to an imaginary center line thereof. The number of terminals are secured in the corresponding passageways. Each terminal has a contacting section. The housing has additional wall section thickness well within the product height requirement.

Abstract: Connector adapters that may allow contacts in a connector insert to form electrical connections with contacts in an incompatible connector receptacle. One example may provide a connector adapter for providing a connection between a connector insert and an incompatible connector receptacle. The connector adapter may be a magnetic connector providing a magnetic connector receptacle at a first end to accept a connector insert having an attraction plate. This connector adapter may further provide a connector insert having an attraction plate at a second end to insert into a magnetic connector receptacle on an electrical device.

Abstract: An apparatus and system for coupling power. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a trunk cable comprising a first conductor, a second conductor, and a third conductor; a first connector, wherein a first terminal of the first connector is conductively coupled to the first conductor; a second connector, wherein a first terminal of the second connector is conductively coupled to the second conductor; and a third connector, wherein a first terminal of the third connector is conductively coupled to the third conductor, and wherein the first, the second, and the third connectors are each adapted to couple to a different DC-AC power converter and an output of the trunk cable comprises three-phase AC power.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a pair of connectors, two or more conductive paths formed in each connector in the pair of connectors, and a shroud encompassing at least a portion of the pair of connectors. The pair of connectors includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector is substantially more flexible than the second connector, and each connector in the pair of connectors includes a bulkhead. Each of the two or more conductive paths in each connector in the pair of connectors is electrically isolated from all other conductive elements in the pair of connectors. The shroud is located between the bulkheads and disposed about the pair of connectors when the pair of connectors are coupled together electrically.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an elongated insulating housing defining a number of passageways and power terminals received in corresponding passageways. The passageways are arranged side by side along a longitudinal direction of the insulating housing. Each power terminal has a first terminal and a second terminal oppositely arranged beside the first terminal. The first terminal has a first contacting portion, a first fixing portion extending towards the second terminal, and a first connecting portion connecting the first contacting portion and the first fixing portion. The second terminal has a second contacting portion oppositely arranged beside the first contacting portion of the first terminal. A curved intermediate region is formed between the first connecting portion and the first contacting portion of the first terminal. A width of the first fixing portion is larger than a distance between the first contacting portion and the second contacting portion.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a first terminal and a second terminal both disposed in the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a receiving passageway for fixing the terminals and an inserted channel through with the receiving passageway. Each of the first terminal or the second terminal has a base portion located in the receiving passageway, a contacting portion extending into the inserted channel and a tail extending out of the insulative housing. The first terminal further has a encircling portion at an end of the tail of the first terminal. At least, a portion of the tail of the second terminal located in the encircling portion so as that the tail of the second terminal may be held by the tail of the first terminal. Therefore the tails of the two terminals are immovable respectively.

Abstract: A remote socket apparatus comprises a socket to receive a remote electronics unit. The socket is configured to house multiple media to connect to remote electronics housed in the remote electronics unit. The socket includes a socket interface configured to mate with a remote electronics unit interface. At least one of the socket and remote electronics unit further includes an actuation mechanism configured to connect the multiple media simultaneously. The remote socket apparatus can be utilized in a network that provides in-building wireless (IBW) communications and in a converged network that also provides wired in-building telecommunications.

Abstract: An electrical connector for making electrical connection to insulated conductors, the connector having a first connector part which has lengthwise extending wire channels for receiving portions of the insulated conductors; insulation displacement contacts for making separate electrical connections to the conductors, when received in the lengthwise extending wire channels, under relative movement between the insulation displacement contacts and the wires, so that the insulation covering the conductors is cut and the insulation displacement contacts make electrical connections to the conductors; transverse wire channels intersecting with said lengthwise extending wire channels and being shaped to receive portions of insulated conductors of another electrical cable from which the outer covering of the cable has been removed; and a second connector part relatively moveable with respect to the first part for effecting said relative movement, wherein the insulation displacement contacts are located at intersections

Abstract: An electrical connector suitable, for example, for connecting high voltage carrying cables in a low pressure environment comprises a housing having a conducting surface and a plurality of cable insertion parts, each cable insertion part comprising an electrical conductor configured to connect to an electrical cable and an insulating sleeve surrounding the electrical conductor, wherein the housing surrounds the plurality of cable insertion parts.

Abstract: A sinking electrical connector defines a receiving space for receiving a corresponding plug and includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained on the housing, and a metal shell covering the housing. The shell includes a top wall, a bottom wall opposite to the top wall, a pair of side walls, and at least one mounting member. The mounting member has a first extending plate extending laterally from the side wall, a second extending plate extending backwardly from the first extending plate, a third extending plate extending inwardly toward the side wall from the second plate, and a mounting tail extending downwardly from the second extending plate to be mounted onto a printed circuit board.

Abstract: A pair manager for use in securing a twin-axial cable to a printed circuit board is described. The pair manager comprises a generally block-shaped portion containing a pair of channels. The channels extend from the front face to the rear face of the block-shaped portion. An integral flange and a pair of integral fingers extend perpendicularly from the front face of the block-shaped portion. The flange extends generally from the center of the front face and the fingers extend from opposite edges of the front face. The fingers and flange function as a partial shield cavity around each pair of conductors. This design helps to maintain better impedance matching when connecting twin-axial cables to a printed circuit board.

Abstract: Electrical connectors comprising carbon nanotubes, at least one polymer, and a metallic electrical conductor are described. The carbon nanotubes are dispersed in the polymer to create an electrically-conducting polymer dispersion. The metallic electrical conductor contacts the electrically-conducting polymer dispersion to form the electrical connector. The electrical connectors include standard electrical connections for incorporation into standard electrical circuit applications. Methods to prepare the electrical connectors are described.

Abstract: An electronic part equipped unit includes a case body having a first recess portion for containing an electronic part and a second recess portion for containing a relay terminal and a ground terminal which are connected to the electronic part through leads, a wire side terminal to which a middle portion of a wire is attached, a cover member to which the wire side terminal is attached, and a shortcircuit preventing cover that covers a bottom wall and a side wall of the case body at a position corresponding to the second recess portion. The wire side terminal is brought into contact with the relay terminal when the cover member to which the wire side terminal is attached is fitted to the second recess portion of the case body.

Abstract: Electrical connectors comprising carbon nanotubes, at least one polymer, and a metallic electrical conductor are described. The carbon nanotubes are dispersed in the polymer to create an electrically-conducting polymer dispersion. The metallic electrical conductor contacts the electrically-conducting polymer dispersion to form the electrical connector. The electrical connectors include standard electrical connections for incorporation into standard electrical circuit applications. Methods to prepare the electrical connectors are described.

Abstract: The proposed plug-and-socket connector assembly comprises a male plug with contact pins and a female receptacle with contact sockets. The receptacle comprises a slider, opening the sockets to pass the pins and closing them by tight clamping, an arm displacing the slider, a lock holding the slider so that the pins freely penetrate into the sockets, and a lock releasing button. Optionally, the arm can be substituted by a knob, shifting the slider on guides. The slider is designed as a frame with a grid of plates passing through rows of the sockets shaped as clamps having embracing portions for tightly gripping the pins. The first sockets' ends are fixed in the receptacle, the second ends thereof are movable, varying the embracing portions. The proposed assembly improves contact, simplifies the design of such devices, and reduces their size.

Abstract: A connector connection terminal has a fixed piece to be inserted and fixed to a base of a connector, a coupling portion projecting out from an upper side of the fixed piece, and a movable piece extending along the fixed piece from an upper end of the coupling portion and having one end as an upper contact and another end acting as an operation receiving portion. A lower contact is arranged at a position facing the upper contact of the upper side of the fixed piece. The operation receiving portion of the movable piece is operated with an operation lever rotatably supported by the base. An elastic arm is cut out with a slit formed along the upper side of the fixed piece to define a free end of the elastic arm as a lower contact. An aspect ratio of a cross-sectional area of the elastic arm is greater than or equal to 1.2.

Abstract: A connector (1) comprises a housing (11) including a base plate portion (12) facing one surface of a pair of flat cables (101), and a plurality of terminals (51) for contacting conductive wires of the flat cables, wherein the base plate portion includes a plurality of hook members (31) disposed side by side with the terminals for engaging with engaging holes (112) of the flat cable.

Abstract: The invention relates a connection unit comprising an insert provided a front part and a back part provided with longitudinal through holes. At least one longitudinal through hole in the front part of the insert coincides with a longitudinal through hole in the back part. The connection unit includes at least one contact extending through a longitudinal through hole in the front part and through a longitudinal through hole in the back part of the insert. A front portion of the contact is provided with a stop pressing on a stop in the longitudinal hole in the front part of the insert. A back portion of said contact is provided with retaining means which require said back portion be forced into the longitudinal hole in the back part of the insert. The invention also relates a mounting process of such a connection unit, as well as a connection kit.

Abstract: Electrical connectors that contain a flexible region are provided. In one embodiment, a connector has a first portion that includes several channels and a second portion that has one or more channels. One or more of the channels may include conductors for electrical connections. The connector further comprises a flexible region that is configured to flexibly connect the first portion with the second portion. Further aspects of the invention relate to connection systems that include a connector having a flexible region. The connection system comprises a connector and an element, such as a connecting block, having one or more mounting surfaces. An alignment feature may be used to align the connector block with a connector.

Abstract: A connecting structure includes a unit body including a case having an electronic-component housing concave portion and a fitting-connection concave portion and an electronic component housed in the electronic-component housing concave portion and making a first connecting portion in the fitting-connection concave portion; an electric wire having an electric-wire side terminal in the middle of the electric wire in an electric-wire direction; and a cover member having an electric wire housing portion held on the electric wire so as to overlie an area of the electric-wire side terminal and a cover side fitting part to be fitted in the fitting-connection concave portion. In such a configuration, after the cover member is previously assembled with the electric wire to form a cover-assembled wire, the cover-assembled wire is fit in the fitting-connection concave portion and simultaneously therewith the first connecting portion is connected to the electric wire side terminal.

Abstract: An electrical connector configured to interconnect first and second electrical components. The connector includes a connector housing that is coupled to the first electrical component. The connector housing has a mating face that extends substantially in an axial direction and includes a slot opening. The connector also includes a connector contact that extends through the connector housing and the slot opening. The connector contact has a base portion located a depth within the connector housing and a curved portion formed along and protruding through the slot opening and beyond the mating face. The connector contact is configured to pivot about the base portion when a mating contact of the second electrical component is moved alongside the mating face in the axial direction and engages the curved portion. The curved portion is movable within and along the slot opening in the axial direction.

Abstract: A circuit board connector is provided. The circuit board connector includes: a connector housing which is mounted on a circuit board; and a terminal which is press-fitted into the terminal press-fitting hole of the connector housing. The terminal includes: a terminal connecting portion which is disposed through the rear side of the connector housing to be connected to a mating connector; a press-fitting portion to be fixed to the connector housing; a board fixing portion fixed to the circuit board by soldering; and a coupling portion extending and bent toward a side of the circuit board to couple the press-fitting portion with the board fixing portion. The circuit board connector also includes a stress absorbing portion provided with a center hole which is provided on a midway of the coupling portion so as to absorb a stress by being deformed.

Abstract: A connector (10) includes an insulative housing (11) having a plurality of terminal-receiving cavities (17). A plurality of conductive terminals (20) are mounted in the terminal-receiving cavities with each terminals having a contacting portion (21), a terminating portion (24), and a retention portion (22). The retention portion has at least one barb member (26) projecting therefrom and at least one reentrant portion (27) extending thereinto. The reentrant portion is positioned adjacent the barb member and in front of the barb member along the terminal insertion direction such that material displaced by the barb member is received in the reentrant portion during insertion of the terminal into the terminal-receiving cavity.

Abstract: An electrical card connector (100), assembled on a printed circuit board (PCB), includes an insulating housing (1) and a plurality of contacts (3) received in the insulating housing. The insulating housing defines a plurality of receiving channels (12) and a plurality of fixing channels (11). Each contact includes a base portion (31), a contact portion (33) cantilevered above the base portion and partially received in the receiving channel, and a pair of fixing portions (34) respectively at two lateral sides of the base portion and received in corresponding fixing channels.

Abstract: Electrical connectors that contain a flexible region are provided. In one embodiment, a connector has a first portion that includes several channels and a second portion that has one or more channels. One or more of the channels may include conductors for electrical connections. The connector further comprises a flexible region that is configured to flexibly connect the first portion with the second portion. Further aspects of the invention relate to connection systems that include a connector having a flexible region. The connection system comprises a connector and an element, such as a connecting block, having one or more mounting surfaces. An alignment feature may be used to align the connector block with a connector.

Abstract: An electrical disconnect has a pair of selectably engageable enclosures each including a housing and a cap and one or more terminals supported therein. The terminals each have spring fingers at outer ends opposite wire ports in the cap to receive a stripped end of a wire in a push-in engagement. One terminal has a male blade and the other terminal has a female blade at forward ends thereof. The blades are releasably engageable in overlapping relation in an engagement zone. The housings have wire receiving receptacles therein which reside in the engagement zone when the enclosures are joined. A terminal holder biases the overlapping blades into contact with one another. The terminals are arcuately spaced about 120° from one another in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the connector.

Abstract: A connecting structure includes a unit body including a case having an electronic-component housing concave portion and a fitting-connection concave portion and an electronic component housed in the electronic-component housing concave portion and making a first connecting portion in the fitting-connection concave portion; an electric wire having an electric-wire side terminal in the middle of the electric wire in an electric-wire direction; and a cover member having an electric wire housing portion held on the electric wire so as to overlie an area of the electric-wire side terminal and a cover side fitting part to be fitted in the fitting-connection concave portion. In such a configuration, after the cover member is previously assembled with the electric wire to form a cover-assembled wire, the cover-assembled wire is fit in the fitting-connection concave portion and simultaneously therewith the first connecting portion is connected to the electric wire side terminal.

Abstract: An electrical connector for mounting on a printed circuit board, comprising: an insulating housing defining a first mating face and a second mating face adjacent to each other, and a top surface opposite to the second mating face, a plurality of passages extending from the second mating face toward the top surface and communicating with the first mating face, an imaginary central line extending through the top surface of the housing along lengthwise direction. A plurality of contact terminals received in the passages and each including a mounting portion securely positioned within the corresponding passage, each contact terminals including a contacting point extending from the mounting portion and out of the first mating surface, and a terminating end portion extending also from the mounting portion and away from the passage.

Abstract: Several embodiments of a hermetic terminal assembly are disclosed and an associated method. The terminal assembly includes a metallic body that has body a bottom portion. The bottom portion includes an interior surface, an exterior surface and at least one opening. The terminal assembly also includes a current-conducting pin extending longitudinally through the opening, and a prefabricated dielectric retainer receiving the pin and covering at least a portion of the interior surface and surrounding at least a portion of the opening. The terminal assembly includes a dielectric epoxy bonding to the body, the retainer and the pin, and providing a seal between the pin and the opening in the bottom portion through which the pin is extending. In another embodiment, the prefabricated retainer may be omitted entirely.

Abstract: The present invention relates to conveyor control system and methodology that may be operatively coupled with other such systems in order to implement a control strategy for a modular conveyor system. A module and/or series of modules are provided that clamp to a cable, the modules having associated logic and inter-module communications for control. This includes relatively inexpensive power distribution, interconnection and motion logic for industrial conveyor systems.

Abstract: A lighting device having a three-way conductor strip with three conductors extending in an axial direction and electrically connected at intervals to LED elements arranged in a row. Each LED element is in a plastic housing which surrounds the LED and the conductor strip, is light emitting and may have a lens over the LED. The housing includes two shells fixed together, and with supporting elements therein for an LED element, an adjacent axial conductor strip area and a heat activatable electrically conductive material. The three-way conductor strip comprises a continuous positive conductor, a continuous negative conductor and an interrupted central conductor that extends from LED element to LED element.

Abstract: A hermetic or semi-hermetic terminal assembly having a cup-shaped body portion with a generally flat bottom wall and at least one opening in the bottom wall defined by an annular lip extending into the cup. One current conducting pin extends through each opening and beyond the lip on both ends of the body portion, the inner end of the pin being on the dish side of the cup-shaped body portion, and the outer end on the outer side of the body. A resilient plastic material is molded into place within the body portion to bond the pin to an inside surface of the lip with a hermetic seal. The plastic extends beyond the face of the body portion and bonds to the pin to provide the desired air path between the respective pins and each other and/or the face of the body portion.

Abstract: A garden lamp pole device has an insertion tang, a hollow protection casing disposed on the insertion tang, and a branch wire set positioned by the hollow protection casing. The branch wire set has a first electric wire, a second electric wire, and a hard string. A clamp seat positions the branch wire set and a connection wire set. The connection wire set is connected to a socket seat. The clamp seat has a main seat, an auxiliary seat, a first conductive plate, and a second conductive plate. The clamp seat clamps the branch wire set and a connection wire set. A socket seat and a cover plate clamps the connection wire set.

Abstract: A 240 volt electrical circuit comprised of modular components which quickly assemble in a manner such that all wiring is completed in the electrical box prior to installing the 240 volt receptacle module, thereby eliminating the need for extra length wires in the electrical box and the cumbersome wiring practices associated with conventional 240 volt electrical circuits. The 240 volt receptacle module plugs into the prewired electrical box, thereby providing quick and easy removal and replacement of the module in the event of failure. The 240 volt electrical circuit is self-configured by simply assembling the modular components. A dedicated earth ground is self-distributed to each electrical component with no effort on the part of the installer, thereby providing safer electrical circuits.

Abstract: A cable tap assembly includes a housing having a mating face (28) and an opposite terminating face (26). A plurality of terminals (32, 40) are mounted in the housing. Each terminal includes a mating portion engageable through the mating face of the housing with a complementary mating terminal, and a terminating portion generally at the terminating face of the housing. A wiring assembly, such as a printed circuit board (16), is mounted on the terminating face of the housing and includes a plurality of connectors (18-20) electrically couples thereto. The connectors are adapted to receive conductors of at least one multi-conductor electrical cable (88). A strain relief cover (22) and cap (24) assembly is mountable at the terminating face of the housing, over the wiring apparatus, and is adapted to hold and provide strain relief for the cable.

Abstract: A square blocked anode with first and second opposite flat faces and rectangular sidewalls joining the flat faces has a diagonal hole formed between one sidewall and a second face of the anode. Insulation is stripped from a distal end of a multiple strand insulated wire lead and the stripped end is inserted through the sidewall into the diagonal opening. Wire strands which emerge from the opening in the second surface of the anode are spread around the opening and solder may be applied to the spread strands. The square anode is fitted within a capsule having a square body with inner walls similar to the anode and slightly larger than corresponding surfaces of the anode. The insulated wire lead which emerges from the diagonal opening in a sidewall engages an inner surface of the capsule and an opposite sidewall of the anode engages an opposite inner surface of the capsule in friction fit, holding the anode in the capsule after the anode with the emerging wire lead are pressed in the capsule.