Abstract: Connector assembly comprises an outer housing and an inner housing which is inserted into the outer housing. The inner housing has terminal receiving cavities which extend between its ends and which open onto one of the sides of the inner housing along the full width thereof as measured between the ends. The terminals are inserted into the cavities by aligning the terminals with the cavities and moving them laterally of their axes into their cavities. After assembly of the terminals to the cavities, the inner housing is assembled to the outer housing.

Abstract: Excellent electrical connection between a female contact and an electrode terminal of an oxygen sensor can be assured for a long period of use even when the oxygen sensor is exposed to vibrations and/or humid atmosphere, by providing an oxygen sensor, comprising electrodes, a sensor element which generates an electromotive force or which changes its electric resistance value between the electrodes depending on oxygen concentration of a gas to be measured, electrode terminals arranged on the sensor element and connected to the electrodes, and a metallic accommodating member accommodating the sensor element, comprising; a female contact electrically connected to the electrode terminal; a ceramic housing electrically insulating the female contact from the metallic accommodating member; a resilient member pressing the ceramic housing; and a caulking ring pressing the resilient member to exhibit its resilient power; the female contact, the ceramic housing, the resilient member and the caulking ring forming a conse

Abstract: A blind mate shielded input/output connector assembly is disclosed for use in the robotic assembly of an electrical component, such as a radio, to electrical conductors, such as electrical wires in a harness in an automobile. The connector assembly includes a header which can be fixedly mounted to the electrical component and which includes an alignment post protruding beyond printed circuit board pins located in the header. A receptacle module includes cavities for receiving multi-contact electrical connectors and an alignment cavity into which the alignment post can be inserted. The receptacle module is mounted to a carrier panel beyond which conductors in the harness extend so that the receptacle module can move in any direction within the plane of the panel, thus permitting alignment during straight line movement of the header toward the panel. The receptacle module can also be used to provide EMI shielding and a filter can be mounted in the header.

Abstract: A high current carrying connector plug and receptacle are disclosed. The plug comprises a body of electrical insulating material with plurality of shaped passages extending therethrough, electrical conductors having a flat blade contact portion, a stop means and a hollowed cylindrical portion for receiving and securing a current carrying electrical cable. The passages include stop engaging means. A retainer means engages the flat bladed portion preventing axial movement of the conductors in the plug body.The receptacle comprises a body of electrical insulating material having shaped passages therethrough, electrically conductive conductor contact engaging assemblies in each passage at the front face of the body. The contact assemblies comprise movable jaws having a front contact engaging portion and a rear coupler engaging portion and a spring retainer means converging at least one pair of jaws.

Abstract: An electrical connector with an openable cover. The front half of an upper wall of the connector housing is removed to provide an opening with a slide cover provided for covering the opening. A peep notch is formed in the front edge of the upper wall of the connector. The slide cover is configured such that in a closed position a peep gap appears between the rear edge of the slide cover and the front top edge of the connector housing. A retainer mechanism is provided on the cover which comprises an angular projection formed on the slide cover and having a guide surface, and a retainer projection formed on the lower surface of the front edge of the housing whereby the retainer projection is guided by the guide surface to be engaged with the angular projection locking the slide cover in its closed position. A resilient, cantilever type, retainer piece is provided for insuring a positive, locked seating with a mating connector.

Abstract: A rotation detecting device comprising a pole formed of a ferromagnetic material, a bias magnet for applying a magnetic flux to the pole, a bobbin receiving the pole and the bias magnet in a series arrangement, a detecting coil mounted on the bobbin, terminals each having a coil connecting part connected to one end of the wire of the coil and a lead wire connecting part connected to a lead wire, a cap for covering the terminals and a portion of the bobbin holding the terminals, fixing means for fixing the terminals to the bobbin.

Abstract: A protective shell of an electrical connector includes clip members affixed to the inside surfaces of the module-receiving cavity, with spring arms of the clips extending forwardly and inwardly to latch behind transverse ribs along the outwardly facing surfaces of the terminal modules inserted into the shell from its rearward face. Each clip includes a pair of outwardly directed tabs along lateral edges of the body section, and the tabs are inserted outwardly through associated longitudinal slits in the shell wall and then bent over along the outward surface of the shell, preferably into recesses to be flush with the outward shell surface. A pair of such clips along the upper inside surface and along the lower inside surface cooperate to retain a pair of terminal modules inserted into the shell in a manner permitting easy module removal from the shell.

Abstract: This invention concerns a multipole electric plug and socket device consisting of a plug enclosure and a socket box enclosure in which there are contact elements and mating contact elements connected to electric lines and accommodated in appropriate compartments, where the enclosure can be connected to a pivot hinge device and can be locked with a catch mechanism opposite the pivot hinge device, and box-shaped magazines having contact elements compartments can be inserted into the plug enclosure and/or the socket box enclosure, and these magazines have catch devices that interlock with mating catch devices on the housing walls, and the plug enclosure has an insertion orifice for frontal insertion of magazines at the front.

Abstract: Components for use with a base member in forming a cluster block assembly. More particularly the components include a cover housing which receives the base member and has slot-access cavities for terminals, terminals positioned in the cavities for being attached to wires entering the assembly and receptacles for sliding receiving post terminals entering the cavities through the slots and a cap for covering the cover housing.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved connector assembly including a terminated wire, a crimp-type terminal, and a two-piece housing assembly of interfitting carrier and cover members. The terminal is crimped to the wire in a conventional fashion, presenting a portion of reduced cross section at the crimp engagement with the wire. The terminated wire is loaded into channels formed in a carrier member. The carrier member includes protrusions received in the reduced cross section of the crimp portion. After mounting of the terminals, the carrier is telescopically inserted in a sleeve-like cover member.An excessive crimp height prevents the complete reception of the terminal within the carrier channel, thereby preventing telescopic insertion of the carrier within the cover member. Thus, an excessive crimp height in the crimp portion of the terminal is visually indicated during connector assembly.

Abstract: An electrical connector having plug and receptacle parts which can be mated with the parts oriented over a wide angular range relative to one another. The male contacts each include a pair of spaced apart, elongated blades which are received with a similarly dimensioned V-shaped slot in a female contact. A pair of spring loaded latch plates releasably lock the plug and receptacle together on mating.

Abstract: A socket for a multipolar plug connector for direct soldering onto or into a printed circuit board with contact bodies arranged in compartments of an insulating contact carrier and having formed on them contact lugs which protrude beyond the socket comprises a clamping strip which is made of electrically insulating material and is arranged at a distance from the side of the contact carrier exhibiting the exit openings for the contact lugs. This clamping strip has a number of separate clamping points which correspond to the plurality of compartments and in which the contact lugs are fixed between their free end and the end connected to the contact body in a freely selectable arrangement with respect to the compartments.

Abstract: An improved structure of new type cord outlet is formed by an outer shell, an inner socket and a pair of conductor terminal pieces. The two conductor terminal pieces are installed into conductor terminal grooves. The terminal grooves are provided with long flanges which are received within inverted "U" shaped portions of the terminals. Short flanges are also provided to contact the wire crimp portion of the terminals. The wires are folded through a plurality of wire grooves to form a strain relief. The inner socket is provided with hook shaped latch fingers to lockingly mate with wedge shaped projections in the outer shell to form a tight assembled structure. Having the property of being tight, the improved structure of this new type cord outlet is not easily loosened. Thus, providing a durable long lasting device.

Abstract: A multiple pole coupling for electrical lines is disclosed in which plural contact elements are mounted in longitudinal passages in a coupling body. A first housing with a base plate and cover plate receives a slide with a set of slide passages therein for receiving contact elements. A set of base plate passages and a corresponding set of cover plate passages are disposed in the same pattern as the slide passages but the cover plate passages are laterally offset from the base plate passages. The slide is disposed in the housing in a first position with the passages therein being aligned respectively with the corresponding base plate passages. Each contact element extends through a base plate passage and is disposed partially in the base plate passage and partially in the corresponding slide passage. Each of the contact elements has a laterally extending abutment shoulder and each of the base plate passages has an enlarged portion adjacent the part of the contact element disposed therein.

Abstract: A light weight heavy duty electrical connector for a truck-trailer jumper cable which is constructed of a virtually indestructible plastic material resistant to corrosive chemical attack. The connector assembly includes an inner plastic body having a plurality of axially extending channels angularly spaced around the periphery thereof for receiving the individual conductors of the jumper cable and for mounting a corresponding plurality of resilient elongated split tubular electric contacts, each having a D-shaped cross-section and which are crimped to the respective conductors of the jumper cable. A removable plastic cap fits over the inner body to protect the contacts and to prevent short circuiting between the contacts. The inner body is received in an outer tubular plastic body having an integral funnel-shaped chamfer cable guard at the rear end thereof, with the jumper cable extending through the cable guard into the outer body.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a dielectric housing member having contact receiving passages in which electrical contact members are disposed. The resilient latching arms extend from walls of the contact receiving passages in engagement with contact members thereby retaining the contact members in position in the contact receiving passages with spaces being located between the latching arms and the walls of the contact receiving passages. A retaining member is located in the housing member and has projections disposed in the spaces between the passage walls and the latching arms thereby maintaining the latching arms in engagement with the contact members. Housing member includes a cavity along which retaining member extends. Retaining member has an inner wall including positioning holes through which contact sections of contact members extend into and along cavity with positioning holes serving to align contact sections when retaining member is positioned in cavity.

Abstract: An ultra multi-pole connector includes a plurality of small size multi-pole connectors each having a connector housing which has a plurality of terminals connected to a plurality of wires therein and engagement shoulders projecting from the upper portion of the connector housing, and a casing having a plurality of hollow sections to which said small size multi-pole connectors are mounted, respectively, and each of said hollow section having an engagement members, thereby the small size multi-pole connectors can be displaceably mounted in the hollow sections by engagement of the engagement shoulders and the engagement members.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a connector housing having a passageway extending therethrough in which a terminal housing is disposed. The terminal housing engages a stop surface in the passageway limiting the forward movement of the terminal housing in the passageway. A retaining member has a transverse section seated in an aperture in the connector housing. Retaining legs extend outwardly from the transverse section and inwardly into the connector housing passageway into engagement with a transverse rib on the terminal housing to retain the terminal housing in position in the passageway against the stop surface. Spring legs and projections extend outwardly from the retaining member and engage an inside surface of the connector housing adjacent the aperture thereby retaining the retaining member in position in the aperture and on the connector housing and the spring legs coupled with the retaining legs providing spring operation for the retaining member.

Abstract: An electrical distribution system incorporating power, data and analog signals into a single system, and suitable for use in a building is disclosed. A flat cable containing various conductors can be positioned within the walls of the structure and a common receptacle can be employed to provide a common outlet for power and signal. The mateable plug also containing power and signal terminals is engageable with the receptacle. Shiftable doors for environmental protection are located on the exterior of the receptacle. The doors provide both guidance for the plug into the receptacle and engage the exterior of the plug to ensure that one door fully closes prior to the other.

Abstract: A connecting device for ignition cables and a component in motor vehicle ignition system having a plurality of ignition cables with a L-shape hood of elastic materials which is attached to each of the cable terminals, housing of connecting device with hood supporting member for holding the hood in a mating alignment to outside terminals, and a locking member in the housing.

Abstract: Surface-mounting wiring device wherein a cover assembly mounted on a base carrying terminal members for covering them has a double structure of an inner cover and an outer decorative cover, the inner cover facing directly toward the terminal members is heat resistant, and the decorative cover exchangeably fitted over the inner cover is impact resistant, whereby the two conditions of heat and impact resistance are simultaneously satisfied, while the exchangeable decorative cover allows the device to have any desired appearance.

Abstract: An electrical connector system comprising a cylindrical plug assembly with terminals and a cylindrical socket assembly with terminals is disclosed. The assemblies may be axially joined virtually independent of their rotational orientation with respect to each other to effect the proper coupling of the terminals. The terminals of each assembly are recessed within their assemblies and coil springs are positioned to bias the terminals into an electrical coupling relationship with one other.

Abstract: An electric multiple-socket end connector has registering housing shells which present sets of openings for receiving plug blades and interlock when pressed together by way of flexible legs with locking feet on one of the shells which pass through passages in the other shell. These legs deflect while the feet pass through the passages whereupon the legs spring back causing the feet to snap into locking position. The housing shells present a central wireway between two conductor plates registering in the housing shells with sets of openings for receiving plug blades. These plates have extensions presenting cord piercing contact barbs to make electrical contact with the wire leads in an insulated cord held in the wireway when the housing shells are pressed together.