Abstract: An electrical connector employing a radially resistant barrel socket having a bore extending from one end which slidably receives an electrically conductive pin. A spacer member is disposed to space a stop member from the one end of the barrel socket. An inner diameter of a bore in the spacer member is greater than the inner diameter of the adjacent bores in the stop member and the barrel socket to define a recess which receives a projection carried on the pin which the pin is inserted into the barrel socket. An end cap is fixed over the stop member and the spacer member and to the barrel socket to resist axially outward flexure of an inner edge portion of the stop member upon the exertion of pull-out forces on the pin and the barrel socket tending to disengage the pin from the barrel socket.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substantially tubular socket contact. In one aspect, the electrical contact has a longitudinal axis and includes a substantially tubular, hollow body having a first end and a second end. The first end contains a bounded aperture. The body has at least two elongated slots and at least two contact members disposed along the longitudinal axis. At least one the contact member has a compound curve. The electrical connector also has a solder cup disposed adjacent to the second end of the body. The solder cup has at least one flared portion distal to the second end of the body. The electrical connector can be made using stamping and forming processes. In another aspect of the invention, a terminated electrical connector is provided.

Abstract: A one piece blank including a configurable and combination sleeve and spring cage, defining a first female connector, and which is interengageable with a male connector having an extending male terminal pin insertable within an opposing open end of the female connector, such that both a greater area of electrical contact and increased normal holding forces are established therebetween. The female terminal further includes a plurality of interiorly extending and elongated beams, accessible through said open end, and which are configured in a combined angled and torsional manner in order to achieve a three dimensional and substantially hourglass shaped configuration.

Abstract: A contact having a contact spring, a contact positioner, and a locking element. The contact spring having resilient contacts. The contact positioner receives the contact spring for connection to an electrical conductor. The locking element has a guide face with a locking side that maintains the contact in a housing. A cover covers the locking side to form a closed surface. A guide plate is integrally formed with cover and covers the lateral side of the guide face to form a closed surface. The cover and guide plate enlarge a seal opening of the housing to prevent the seal from damage by the locking element when the contact is inserted and withdrawn from the housing.

Abstract: A medium voltage controller for electrical equipment, such as motors, transformers, reactors, and capacitors, having an arc resistant cabinet, swaged internal electrical connections, a one-piece self-aligning withdrawable finger cluster, a pull-out instrument compartment, a load discharge device, cast fuse holders, disconnect switch, a switch illuminator, low power current transformers, and an optical temperature measuring system. The one-piece self-aligning withdrawable finger cluster includes a plurality of members formed to surround a mating stab for making a removable electrical connection. The throat of the finger cluster is smaller than the mating stab, and, when mated with the stab, opposing members are biased against the stab.

Abstract: A jack for a plug-jack combination, having a spark protection sleeve (12) and a jack contact (1) fixed in the spark protection sleeve (12). The jack contact (1) is pretensioned solely by an elastic, reversible deformation of its contact elements in the final, assembled state.

Abstract: A hyperboloid contact socket is provided which can be manufactured in a cost efficient manner using automated high speed manufacturing processes and wherein different types of terminations can be affixed to the contact socket as desirable for user requirements.

Abstract: An electrical connector made from a Be-Cu alloy can be crimped at room temperature without localized annealing of the crimp section first. Sufficient ductility and tensile strength are imparted to the alloy by cold working the alloy, after final solution annealing, by at least 40% in terms of area reduction and then overaging the alloy during age hardening.

Abstract: The present invention relates to female electrical terminals comprising a connection section for connection to a conducting wire and an opposing contact section for mating with a complementary male terminal. A flexible contact element is disposed within at least a portion of the contact section for urging a complementary male terminal into engagement with a contact section wall. The flexible contact element is protected from damage by prohibiting access to its leading edge. The present invention also relates to electrical connectors comprising female electrical terminals.

Abstract: The invention makes it possible to distinguish between a plurality of types of female terminal fittings. A gold-plated female terminal fitting 10Au is formed by attaching a shell 20 to a terminal main body 11, and a tin-plated female terminal fitting 10Sn is formed by attaching a shell 30 to the same kind of terminal main body 11 as used for the gold-plated female terminal fitting. The shells 20 and 30 for the gold-plated female terminal fitting and the tin-plated female terminal fitting, respectively, are provided with mutually differing distinguishing means 22, 24, 25, 26, 30, 32, and 34. The gold-plated female terminal fitting 10Au and the tin-plated female terminal fitting 10Sn can be distinguished from one another on the basis of these distinguishing means 22, 24, 25, 26, 30, 32, and 34.

Abstract: An electrical connector and method of making same includes a bore extending from an open first end of a housing to an opposed second end. An electrical contact formed of a plurality of contact strips with opposed angularly offset ends and fixedly secured in electrical contact with the housing in the angularly offset position by an internal end anchor and an external end anchor. In one aspect, detents are formed in at least one of the contact strips to engage a complimentary recess in a conductive member insertable into the bore and contact to releasably retain the conductive member in the housing.

Abstract: A contact having a contact spring, a contact positioner, and a locking element. The contact spring having resilient contacts. The contact positioner receives the contact spring for connection to an electrical conductor. The locking element has a guide face with a locking side that maintains the contact in a housing. A cover covers the locking side to form a closed surface. A guide plate is integrally formed with cover and covers the lateral side of the guide face to form a closed surface. The cover and guide plate enlarge a seal opening of the housing to prevent the seal from damage by the locking element when the contact is inserted and withdrawn from the housing.

Abstract: In a contact element (10) for electrically connecting two contact pieces (13, 15, 16, 17) opposing each other with contact surfaces (18), wherein the contact element (10) extends along a longitudinal axis (19) and encompasses numerous separate, identical spring-mounted individual elements (12) that are arranged essentially parallel to each other and transverse to the longitudinal axis (19), which are secured to a continuous carrier band (11) extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis (19), and establish the electrical contact between the contact surfaces, a large working area is achieved while keeping current load capacity high by designing the individual elements as interlaced contact bridges (12).

Abstract: A radially resilient electrical connector includes a cylindrical sleeve with spaced notches at one end circumferentially offset from or axially aligned with spaced notches at an opposed second end. A contact member has ends on contact strips engaged with the notches at the ends of the sleeve to axially offset the ends of the contact strips from each other and to form each contact strip into a hyperbolic shape. The ends of the contact strips are fixedly mounted in the notches.

Abstract: Upon coupling a shield connector 10 to a partner-side connector 50, the cam followers 37 of the shield connector 10 are made engage with the cam grooves of a lever 56 provided at the partner-side connector 50, and the lever 56 is rotated. Then, the shield shell 55 covering the outer surface of the tip end side of the terminal housing tube 52 moves into the fit-in portions 15 of an inner housing 12, so that the belt portions 19B of belt-shaped elastic pieces 19 are applied with a force directed to the inner side of an inner housing fit-in hole 34 due to the sliding-contact resistance between the belt-shaped elastic pieces and the shield shell 55. However, according to the embodiment, the sliding-contact resistance acts as a force of pulling the belt-shaped elastic pieces 19.

Abstract: A terminal fitting (30) has a substantially box-shaped main body (31) with a base plate (36), first and second side plates (37, 38) projecting from the base plate (36), and outer and inner projecting plates (39, 40) projecting from the side plates (37, 38). The outer projecting plate (39) has a recess (50) for receiving a lock when the terminal fitting (30) is inserted into a cavity of a housing. The recess (50) is rectangular and an opening edge thereof is continuous over the entire periphery. A holding piece (51) projects from an edge of the inner projecting plate (40) and fits into the recess (50) for keeping the box shape of the main portion (31).

Abstract: A presser spring (43) is separately formed with a fuse body (33), and therefore may be formed of a material having a high spring characteristic. The presser spring (43) is attached to a portion of peripheral wall portions (41b) to which a back plate portion (41a) is opposed, so that a mating tab terminal (39), inserted in an engagement space (45), is pressed against the back plate portion (41a) by the presser spring (43).

Abstract: A unitary contact with a box-like contact part, in which two spring legs are oppositely arranged that extend to respective free ends in the direction of the mating face of the contact spring where one of the spring legs is formed by a reverse inward bend and the other spring leg is formed through separation from an opposite wall.

Abstract: A terminal fitting has a bottom wall (15). A curved portion (21) is folded back at a front end (15F) of the bottom wall (15). A touching portion (22) extends back from the curved portion (21) and is in contact with the bottom wall (15). A contact portion (23) extends back from the touching portion (22). The contact portion (23) is displaced resiliently about the rear end (22R) of the touching portion (22) in response to contact by a male tab (T), and a resilient restoring force of the contact portion (23) ensures high contact pressure. The curved portion (21) is not resiliently deformed when the contact portion (23) is displaced. Thus, there is no possibility of concentrating a stress on the curved portion (21) and the height of a terminal fitting can be reduced by reducing a radius of curvature of the curved portion (21).

Abstract: A plug socket for establishing a high-current electrical connection and including a metal body formed along a portion of its longitudinal extent as a hollow cylinder section, and a contact spring jack received in the hollow cylinder section and having a plurality of linear, substantially hyperbolically extending, contact elements connected at their opposite ends by respective circumferential material bands, with the contact spring jack being anchored, at its rear, with respect to a plug-in direction of an associated contact pin, end in the hollow cylinder section with a press fit, and with its front, in the plug-in direction of the associated contact pin, end forming a sliding fit connection with the hollow cylinder section.

Abstract: A terminal structure of a connector includes a female terminal having a spring contact in a fitting portion thereof, and a male terminal having a male tab to be inserted into the fitting portion of the female terminal and contacted by the spring contact. When the male tab is fitted into the fitting portion of the female terminal to connect the male and female terminals together, during the interval between a point of initial contact between the male tab and the spring contact and a point just before the insertion force of the male tab reaches its peak value, the contact angle &dgr;L of the male tab with respect to the spring contact, and the friction coefficient &mgr; between a surface of the male tab and a surface of the spring contact satisfy the following relational expression: 90°>&dgr;L≧90°− tan−1[(3−5&mgr;)/(5+3&mgr;)].

Abstract: A terminal socket assembly including a T-shaped sealed connector for interconnecting electrically powered vehicular components with a male input pin and output cable. A spring cage is formed into a substantially helix “hourglass shape” configuration. A tubular sleeve receives the configured spring cage in axially inserting fashion and includes first and second extending bracket portions which are biased towards each other to create a compressing and interference fit with the inserted spring cage. The assembled sleeve and spring cage is receives and engaging and inserting portion of the male pin. Gripping portions extend from a selected bracket portion and fixedly engage an extending end of a cable to electrically communicate the two cables. A sealed connector housing forms a part of and encases the terminal socket assembly and extending connector cables and includes assembleable male and female housing portions and end seals.

Abstract: An electrical connector utilizing two elongated terminals each having dual contact blades extending laterally from an elongated support section forming a U-shaped cross section. A recess for each terminal is defined by the respective dual contact blades and support sections The first blade of the dual blades for the first terminal mates within the recess of the second terminal and the first blade of the dual blades for the second terminal mates within the recess of the first terminal. A laterally bisected S-shaped insert device engages electrically between the blades of the terminals. The insert device comprises a first and a second member each having a series of inward bent ribs for engaging the adjacent blades. The ribs extend in the same direction as the mating movement of the opposing terminal. An arrangement of tangs and prongs of each member hold and lock the insert device within the recesses by engaging the leading and trailing edges of the blades of each terminal.

Abstract: A radially resilient connector is fixedly mounted at one end in a cup shaped recess in a terminal. A cap is fixed over the other end of the connector and rotated with respect to the terminal to angularly offset the opposed ends of the contact member of the connector. The cap is then fixed to the terminal. In one aspect, the connector has two outer sleeves mounted over opposite ends. A tab on one sleeve engages an aperture in the other sleeve after one of the sleeves is angularly offset with respect to the other sleeve. In another aspect, an inner sleeve of the connector is formed with an electrically insulating material, radially extending projection extending therefrom dividing the outer sleeve into two separate conductive parts. An electrical circuit connected to one of the outer sleeves causes current to flow through the contact member to the other sleeve portion to generate heat within the connector.

Abstract: For transmitting high currents, such as in the electrical system of a motor vehicle for example, a contact element is proposed which is rolled and stamped from sheet-metal material and which consists of a contact-making section, a conductor-connecting section and a fastening section with an overlapping sleeve. In the contact element, the sleeve is at a radial distance from the fastening section.

Abstract: A contact pin for an electrical connector comprises a body, a connector element, and a sheath, the connector element being maintained in the extension of the body by being coupled with a peg projecting from the front face of the body, the sheath being disposed around the connector element and maintained on the body by clamping an annular portion of the latter. At the peg end, connector element comprises an end for coupling with said pin, conformed such that the pin cannot fit inside the cross section of said coupling end, the connector element being capable of deforming elastically to enable its coupling end to friction fit onto the pin, the thus deformed connector element being unable to fit inside the cross section of the sheath.

Abstract: A female electrical connector includes a socket (1) made of conducting material, defining an approximately cylindrical internal space (2) open at one of its ends, inside of which plural wire contacting components made of a conducting material are placed, these being intended to grip, flexibly, a male component to be inserted into the socket (1), the plural components each extending from one end of the cylindrical space (2) to the other. The wire contacting components are formed from a single wire (4).

Abstract: A female terminal fitting (20) has a main body (21) in the form of a rectangular tube. An elastic contact piece (27) is formed by folding back an extending part of a vertical wall (26) on the main body (21). An accommodation space (28) is defined in the main body (21) upward from the elastic contact piece (27). A male terminal fitting (10) can be inserted into the accommodation space (28) and displaced downward to bring the male terminal fitting (10) into contact with the elastic contact piece (27). Restricting projections (37, 38) project from upper and lower sides of the elastic contact piece (27) and are held in contact with a receiving portion (36) that bulges out from the vertical wall (26). The restricting projections (37, 38) prevent the elastic contact piece (27) from being deformed in response to forces exerted by the male terminal fitting (10).

Abstract: A method of inserting a terminal stud adapter section of a terminal stud into the radial bore of a rotor, involving a tool, which includes an elongated tool body having a head at one end from which a pair of pins project. The head is preferably plated with copper. The head is received in the recess of a stud adapter section with the pins engaging in apertures in the adapter section. By inserting the adapter section in the radial bore of a rotor, the adapter section can be threaded to the bore copper. Upon removal of the tool from the recess of the adapter section, an outer section of the terminal stud is received within the radial bore and an inner end thereof makes electrical connection with the adapter section.

Abstract: The invention relates to a one-piece contact spring (10, 11) including a box-shaped contact part (20) having a bottom wall (22) side walls (24, 26) and a top wall (28), and including a spring arm (32) which is bent back into the interior of the contact part at the insertion opening and together with at least one additional spring arm (34) forms a plug-in contact socket, wherein the spring arm (32) bent back into the interior of the contact part is integrally formed on the narrow side of the bottom wall (22) or a side wall (26) on the face side thereof, that at least two additional spring arms (34) are integrally formed laterally at the free end of the bent-back spring arm (32) and are set on edge at right angles and extend with their free ends towards the insertion opening and constitute a receptacle for a complementary contact.

Abstract: The receptacle terminal has an electrical wire connection portion electrically connected to an electrical wire and an electrical connection portion receiving an opposing terminal pin. The electrical connection portion has a pair of walls accommodating a resilient piece. The resilient piece urges the pin against one of the pair of walls to pinch the pin therebetween. The receptacle terminal is constituted by a blank having parts corresponding to the base wall, the crimping piece, the pair of walls, and the resilient piece. The resilient piece has a joining piece and an extended strip joined to the joining piece. The extended strip of the blank extends along an insertion direction of the pin. The joining piece projects from a longitudinal edge of the one of the pair of walls.

Abstract: A terminal has a bottom wall, a pair of side walls, an upper wall, an elastic contact portion that is freely elastically deformable in a direction substantially vertical with respect to the bottom wall, an elastic receiving surface portion that opposes the elastic contact portion, an excessive-displacement-preventing piece, and a deformation-preventing stopper. The side walls respectively rise from both ends of the bottom wall. The upper wall extends from at least one of the side walls to over the bottom wall and opposes the bottom wall. The elastic contact portion and the excessive-displacement-preventing piece are provided on one of the bottom wall and the upper wall while the elastic receiving surface portion is provided on the other of them. The excessive-displacement-preventing piece is situated in the vicinity of the elastic contact portion and come into contact with the elastic contact portion in order to prevent excessive displacement of the elastic contact portion.

Abstract: An electrical terminal socket is provided for receiving a terminal pin member. The socket is stamped and formed from a single sheet of conductive metal material and includes a base wall, and a pair of side walls folded upwardly from opposite sides of the base wall. A top wall is folded inwardly from the top of one of the side walls, whereby the base wall, side walls and top wall define a socket with an opening at a front end thereof for receiving the terminal pin member. A terminating section extends from the base wall at a rear end of the socket. A spring arm is folded downwardly from a rear end of the top wall into the socket. The spring arm is tapered from a wide end thereof joined to the top wall to a narrow free end thereof which does not interfere with the terminating section during stamping and forming of the electrical terminal socket.

Abstract: For a readily manufactured configuration of contact plugs for electrical plug connectors, which consists of a stable sleeve body, formed from a sheet material, and a contact spring plug, lying in this sleeve body and having a plurality of contacting means, such as contacting wires or contacting strips in linear or strip-shaped contact with a contact pin, which is to be introduced into the plug, it is proposed that the sleeve body be provided with at least one projection, which is directed transversely to the longitudinal axis of the contact plug and formed by at least one stamping and is in positive engagement with one of the two edge strips of sheet material, connecting the contact wires or contact strips of the contact spring plug with one another.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming and disconnecting an electrical path includes a split tine socket that is formed of a high yield strength conducting material or metal and which includes a plurality of tines. Each tine functions as a two stage spring to supply a normal force that urges the tine toward the center of the socket. Each tine includes a first stage that has a smaller inside diameter and is therefore thicker than an adjacent second stage. The outside diameter of both stages includes a taper so that the tines are nearly cylindrical when fully mated with a pin. The second stage includes a reverse taper whereby it has a larger inside diameter proximate the first stage than at an opposite end proximate a tip, which ensures that physical, and therefore electrical, contact with the pin will occur at the tip of the tine. The first stage is in electrical contact with a socket contact portion that is typically crimped or soldered onto a wire. A plurality of sockets are typically included in a connector.

Abstract: A pair of mated connector (11, 12) are latched together by a pair of studs (21) on a first connector that are inserted into a pair of sleeve assemblies (22) on the second connector, with each stud having a stud groove (40) that receives an inwardly projecting flange (32) of the sleeve assembly. The sleeve assembly includes an outer sleeve (54) with an internal sleeve groove (28), and a spring clip (23) lying in the sleeve groove. The spring clip is largely in the form of a cylinder with an axially-extending slot (31) that allows the cylinder to resiliently expand and contract. The spring clip is trapped in the sleeve groove and has an inwardly-projecting flange (32) that snaps into the stud groove when the stud is fully inserted.

Abstract: An electrical connector for coaxial cable having at least one contact with a contact region for connection to a mating contact and a connection region for connection to a coaxial cable, wherein the contact includes a peripheral groove; a contact-securing sleeve can be pushed onto the contact from an end face that has at least one latching arm which latches in the groove and at least one further latching element; and a casing with at least one receiving chamber for receiving the contact with the contact-securing sleeve, wherein the latching element of the contact-securing sleeve latches with a mating latching element of the casing and the receiving chamber holds the latching arm in the latched position.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a socket contact (1) for electrical connectors, having a box-shaped sheet-metal frame (3) and four contact elements (5, 6) incorporated therein as well as a connection part for cables, which adjoins the sheet-metal frame. In this case, the sheet-metal frame has, seen in the direction of insertion, a front frame part (7). The latter comprises two parts which have two sides respectively joined together via an edge, of which sides those lying respectively opposite one another are either joined via a first contact element (5) to the rear frame part (8) or respectively have a second contact element (6) with a free head end (9), which extends in the direction of the rear frame part.

Abstract: A terminal socket assembly for interconnecting electrically powered vehicular components with an associated input male input pin and an output cable. The socket assembly includes a spring cage blank having first and second extending edges and a plurality of spaced apart and angled beams extending between the edges. The spring cage is formed into a substantially cylindrical shape, and particularly in an “hourglass shape”, configuration utilizing any of a variety of different forming and bending operations. A substantially tubular sleeve is provided for receiving the configured spring cage in axially inserting fashion. The sleeve is compressingly engageable, such as by forming an axially extending slit along the length of the sleeve with a predetermined incremental amount of spacing established between adjoining surfaces, and in order to create an interference fit with the axially inserted spring cage.

Abstract: A sleeve and post terminals combination, wherein a single piece sleeve terminal which is slidingly interfaced with a smooth surfaced post terminal for high current circuit applications. The sleeve terminal is formed from sheet metal stock, having an inner sleeve component and an outer sleeve component. The inner sleeve component includes three circumferentially spaced electrical contracts. The post terminal is configured to be snugly received by the inner sleeve component, wherein the three contacts are radially forced against the post terminal. The post terminal preferably has a bullet nose and has a smooth surface. In a preferred environment of operation, the post terminal is connected with a BEDC, and the sleeve terminal is connected with a high current capacity wire.

Abstract: An elastic tongue piece 3 is arranged in an engaging part 2 in which a male terminal 10 can be engaged. The elastic tongue piece 3 is constructed in such a manner that a base end portion 3b is fixed to a backward part of an upper wall of the engaging part 2, and a distal end portion extends forward in the engaging part 2 by way of a curved portion 3c continued from the base end portion 3b. A contact 3a is formed at the distal end portion of the tongue piece 3, and at an intermediate position of the tongue piece 3 between the curved portion 3c and the contact 3a, is provided a fulcrum portion 3d which is in contact with a wall face of a lower wall 2c of the engaging part 2 and slidable with respect to the wall face. The tongue piece 3 is constructed as to be supported at the fulcrum portion 3d against a force in a direction in which the tongue piece is displaced by an insertion of the male terminal.

Abstract: A hyperboloid electrical socket contact has a tubular ferrule with several oblique slots extend along its length. Resilient contact wires extend along the slots so that they project inwardly into the bore through the ferrule midway along their length to form a contact region for an inserted male pin. The ends of the wires are bent into locating notches in the ferrule where they are welded.

Abstract: A generator has a bore connector having a threaded radial opening for receiving a sectional terminal stud. The terminal stud includes an adapter section having threads on a radial inner end thereof for threaded engagement with the bore copper and a recess at its opposite end. An outer section of the terminal stud is received in the recess, making electrical connection therewith through an electrical connector. The outer section is maintained in the radial bore of the rotor by a threaded nut. The rotational orientation of the adapter section is fixed by its threaded engagement with the bore copper, while the outer section can be inserted without regard to rotational orientation, thereby facilitating refurbishment of the generator without remachining the bore copper.

Abstract: Female electrical connector component of the type comprising a socket (1) made of conducting material, defining an approximately cylindrical internal space (2) open at one of its ends, inside which wire contacting components made of a conducting material are placed, these being intended to grip, flexibly, the male component of the said connector to be inserted into the said socket (1) and extending from one end of the said cylindrical space (2) to the other, characterized in that the said wire contacting components are formed from a single wire (4).

Abstract: The invention makes it possible to distinguish between a plurality of types of female terminal fittings. A gold-plated female terminal fitting 10Au is formed by attaching a shell 20 to a terminal main body 11, and a tin-plated female terminal fitting 10Sn is formed by attaching a shell 30 to the same kind of terminal main body 11 as used for the gold-plated female terminal fitting. The shells 20 and 30 for the gold-plated female terminal fitting and the tin-plated female terminal fitting, respectively, are provided with mutually differing distinguishing means 22, 24, 25, 26, 30, 32, and 34. The gold-plated female terminal fitting 10Au and the tin-plated female terminal fitting 10Sn can be distinguished from one another on the basis of these distinguishing means 22, 24, 25, 26, 30, 32, and 34.

Abstract: The invention provides a miniaturized female terminal fitting. A female terminal fitting 10 has resilient contacts 16 within a cover 20. When a male tab 30 is inserted into the cover 20, the resilient contacts 16 bend outwards as they make contact therewith. Side walls 21 have recessed members 25 formed therein, the resilient contacts 16 being capable of entering these recessed members 25. Due to these recessed members 25, at least a portion of the bending space for the resilient contacts 16 is provided within the wall thickness of the side walls 21 of the cover 20. Consequently, the side walls 21 can be positioned further inwards by a distance corresponding to the dimensions gained by locating the bending space within the side walls 21.

Abstract: A base plate strip is formed with an extension which is forwardly extending from an electrical contact barrel. A groove is provided in the extension such that the groove is extending across a fore open end of the electrical contact barrel. A fore end extended piece of a resilient contact tongue strip overlies the extension of the base plate strip. The resilient contact tongue strip is cut together with the base plate strip along the fore open end of said electrical contact barrel. This defines a stepped surface in the base plate at the open periphery of the electrical contact barrel and defines an engagement end piece at the fore end of the resilient contact tongue. The engagement end piece engages with the stepped surface to prevent the resilient contact tongue from moving in the insertion direction of an associated pin terminal.

Abstract: Method for producing a firm, motion-resistant connection between mating surfaces of a male member, such as a shaft or hub, and a female member such as a bore. One or more thin ribs of pressure-deformable composition, such as integral soft metal or plastic, are formed on one of the mating surfaces, which ribs deform and spread between the surfaces when the male member is forced into the bore to connect the members. According to a preferred embodiment, the shaft is the fixed core shaft of a xerographic toner developer roller within a toner cartridge and/or the hub of a bearing support member for the shaft, and the bore is a central core shaft-engaging bore in the hub and/or a hub-engaging bore in the cartridge housing, and the connection is an electroconducting connection providing near-zero capacitance.

Abstract: A base plate strip is formed with an extension which is forwardly extending from an electrical contact barrel. A groove is provided in the extension such that the groove is extending across a fore open end of the electrical contact barrel. A fore end extended piece of a resilient contact tongue strip overlies the extension of the base plate strip. The resilient contact tongue strip is cut together with the base plate strip along the fore open end of said electrical contact barrel. This defines a stepped surface in the base plate at the open periphery of the electrical contact barrel and defines an engagement end piece at the fore end of the resilient contact tongue. The engagement end piece engages with the stepped surface to prevent the resilient contact tongue from moving in the insertion direction of an associated pin terminal.

Abstract: In a female terminal (10), projections (17) of a contact piece (12), received within a body (11), are engaged respectively in windows (16) formed respectively in opposed walls (15) of the body (11). A support portion (31), formed on the body (11), is resiliently held against a concave surface (18A) of the contact piece (12). The support portion (31) is held against the contact piece (12) through an engagement portion (40) which makes a concave-convex engagement in a direction of a thickness of the contact piece (12).