Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electrical connector. The electrical connector comprises an insulative housing and a plurality of terminals disposed in the insulative housing. The insulative housing comprises a top face, a bottom face opposite to the top face, and a plurality of side faces extending between the top face and the bottom face. A corner portion between at least two adjacent side faces of the side faces is formed as a chamfered surface. Such a configuration reduces the dimension of the electrical connector, enables a more compact arrangement of components on the electronic system, and enables the dimension of the electronic system to be reduced, such that the entire assembly, including the electrical connector and the electronic system, can be manufactured at a lower cost and can be more compact and more lightweight.

Abstract: A terminal-equipped electric wire includes an electric wire in which a core wire including a plurality of strands is covered with a covering, and a terminal fitting attached to the electric wire. The terminal fitting includes a core wire connection body physically and electrically connected to the core wire. The core wire connection body has a bottom, a pair of cantilever side walls erected from the bottom and arranged facing each other with a space therebetween, and at least one set of paired pressure contact bodies arranged facing each other with a space therebetween between the pair of side walls so as to come into pressure contact with the strands in an outermost layer of the core wire.

Abstract: A method of making a contact module of an electrical connector which includes a tongue and plural contacts exposed to two opposite surfaces of the tongue is characterized by the steps of: forming the contacts from a single contact carrier to have one contact thereof with a first contacting portion oriented reversely-symmetrically with respect to a second contacting portion of another contact thereof and to have two outermost contacts each with a respective integral latching portion; insert-molding the contacts with a first insulator while exposing front ends thereof and the latching portions; severing a carrier strip from the front ends of the plurality of contacts; and over-molding a second insulator to the first insulator and embedding the front ends of the plurality of contacts.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a tongue portion, a shielding plate, a first contact assembly and a second contact assembly accommodated to the insulative housing. The first contact assembly and the second contact assembly include a number of first contacts and second contacts respectively. The first contacts include a number of outer contacts and a number of inner contacts. Each first contact includes a head portion. There are an outer secondary belting connecting the head portions of the outer contacts together and an inner secondary belting connecting the head portions of the inside contacts together. The outer secondary belting and the inner secondary belting are separated from each other.

Abstract: A leadframe for a contact module includes signal contacts arranged in pairs carrying differential signals. Each pair of signal contacts includes a first signal contact and a second signal contact. Each signal contact has a mating beam at an end thereof configured to be electrically connected to a corresponding header contact of a header assembly. Each mating beam includes a stem and a branch extending from the stem. A first paddle extends from the stem and a second paddle extends from the branch. In an initial, stamped orientation, the mating beams are stamped such that the mating beams of the first and second signal contacts within the same pair of signal contacts are angled non-parallel to one another.

Abstract: A chain terminal is configured that a plurality of terminals are arranged in a chain shape by being connected to a side edge portion of a strip plate-shaped carrier through bridging sections respectively, and the terminals are configured to be cut and separated from the carrier when the bridging sections are cut out along a preset cutting line. Both side edges of each of the bridging sections are formed as slanted edges that are slanted with respect to lines respectively being perpendicular to the cutting line so that the width of each of the bridging sections at a terminal side is large and the width of each of the bridging sections at a carrier side is small.

Abstract: An electrical connecting device includes an electrical connecting member including an electrical connecting element and a removable component connecting to the electrical connecting element. The electrical connecting element includes a base portion extending on a plane, two connecting portions formed on the base portion, and an arm portion extending between the two connection portions. The removable component includes a plurality of finger portions each connecting to one connecting portion of each adjacent electrical connecting element at a connection that is configured to be breakable. A supporting element respectively extend from the end portions of two outermost ones of the finger portions of the comb element and extend adjacent to the plane and beside the arm portions of the electrical connecting elements.

Abstract: A differential signal connector includes a plurality of pairs of signal contacts, a plurality of ground contacts, and an insulating housing holding the signal contacts and the ground contacts. On a first connection side for connection to a connection partner, the ground contacts are arranged on both sides of each pair of signal contacts so that a contact array of a fixed pitch is formed. On a second connection side for connection to board, the ground contacts are arranged spaced apart from each other in a first row, while the pairs of signal contacts, which are adjacently arranged on both sides of the ground contact on the first connection side, are arranged so as to be allocated in a second row and a third row located on both sides of the first row so that the pairs of signal contacts are arranged zigzag on the second connection side.

Abstract: A method and a press for crimping metal terminals onto electric cables, wherein the metal terminal is retained in the centered crimping position, during the entire crimping process. To this end, the press of the invention comprises a crimping assembly (3) provided with means of controlling the knife (7) for the conductor (18) of the electric cable (19) independently or separately from the remaining knives (8,9), respectively for crimping the insulation (20) of said cable (19) and for detaching the carrier strip (21) supporting the metal terminal (17). By comparison with the known art, the method and the press of the invention offer the advantage of ensuring that the metal terminal is kept centered in the correct position for crimping, without undergoing unwanted displacement during the process of attaching to it the conductor and the insulation of the electric cable.

Abstract: The upper surface panel 15 and the lower surface 14 of the electric wire connection portion of the crimping terminal 10 are formed in such a cross-sectional shape that when placed and joined together an internal space is formed therein to house the end portion of an electric wire W and also such that when the interior is compressed and sealed by receiving crimping force from an vertical direction the end portion of the electrical connection is crimped thereby. Further, an electric wire insertion aperture 17 is provided in the junction 16 between the lower surface panel 14 and the upper surface panel 15 to allow the end portion of the electric wire W to be inserted therebetween.

Abstract: A differential signal connector includes a plurality of pairs of signal contacts, a plurality of ground contacts, and an insulating housing holding the signal contacts and the ground contacts. On a first connection side for connection to a connection partner, the ground contacts are arranged on both sides of each pair of signal contacts so that a contact array of a fixed pitch is formed. On a second connection side for connection to a board, the ground contacts are arranged spaced apart from each other in a first row, while the pairs of signal contacts, which are adjacently arranged on both sides of the ground contact on the first connection side, are arranged so as to be allocated in a second row and a third row located on both sides of the first row so that the pairs of signal contacts are arranged zigzag on the second connection side.

Abstract: A terminal strip includes a number of terminals and a strip connecting the terminals. The terminal has a body, a soldering portion extending downwardly from the body and a spring beam extending upwardly from the body. The strip has a number of slots defined during punching the soldering portion thereof. The body has a bottom edge and a connecting portion connecting with the soldering portion. A breaking cut is formed in the connecting place between the bottom edge and the strip. The breaking cut is distributed into a number of slots connecting with each other. The configuration of the breaking slot can make several slots each with a short tearing journey when the terminals are separated from the strip, that can improve the efficacy of the product yield.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric contact element produced from a solid material, which is embodied as a plug-in contact (2a) or as a socket contact (2b), and which comprises a plug-in section (2) and a connection section (3) for contacting an electric bunched conductor, with the connection section (3) being formed as a crimped connection, and with the connection section (3) being formed as a hollow cylinder (3a) comprising a slot (4) in the axial direction.

Abstract: A connector includes at least one first contact and at least one second contact. Each of the at least one first contact and the at least one second contact includes a tail with a leg extending therefrom and an arm with a contact section arranged to electrically couple with a corresponding contact when the connector is mated to an electrical device or another connector. The leg of each of the at least one first contact is offset with respect to the leg of each of the at least one second contact.

Abstract: Manufacturing efficiency of a connector is greatly improved, and the manufacturing costs and the product cost can be reduced. A coaxial connector (P) for a board of the present invention is configured so that an extended portion of an outer terminal (42) and an extended portion of an inner terminal (44) are positioned so that one extended portion is not superimposed on the other extended portion when a half-cylinder portion of the outer terminal is viewed from an upper side.

Abstract: An electrical connecting element (1?) includes an integral, electrically conductive profile body having at least two deformation regions which are arranged successively in the longitudinal direction and in which the profile body is deformed differently.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connecting device (1) for a solar panel (14, 18). The connecting device (1) comprises contacts (4.1-4.4) for operatively connecting differently arranged connecting strips (15, 19) of more than one type of solar panel (14, 18).

Abstract: A conductive contact includes a hollow cylinder, a spring strip and a contact head.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a Universal Serial Bus (USB) head comprises: locating metal sheets with both ends being closed into a first mold and performing a first injection molding; removing a sprue portion and a fixing portion at top of the metal sheets from a product subjected to the first injection molding, to obtain a first-injected-product; locating the first-injected-product into a second mold and performing a second injection molding; removing an exposed fixing portion of the metal sheets from a second-injected-product, to obtain the USB head desired. In the USB head, four metal sheets are arranged with a certain spacing, and the metal sheets are closed at both ends.

Abstract: An electrical contact assembly has a plurality of formed elongate closed seam tubular elements attached to a carrier with each of the elongate tubular elements attached to the carrier via a tab. Scored creases are formed in the tabs for separating the elongate tubular elements from the assembly and scored creases are formed in the carrier for defining carrier strips. The carrier strip had a plurality of grouped elongate tubular elements. The electrical contact assembly is placed in a crimping die where at least one or more wires are inserting into selected elongate tubular elements. Pressure is applied to least one or more of the selected elongate tubular elements to produce bulk material deformation along a substantial portion of the elongate tubular elements to crimp the elongate tubular elements to the wires as electrical contacts.

Abstract: A light emitting diode lamp, includes a pair of contacts for the electrical connection of the light emitting diode, wherein the pair of contacts includes two crimp contacts separated electrically from one another, each crimp contact including a conducting input including a conducting crimping skirt and a clinching zone intended to receive by clinching an electrical contact of the light emitting diode.

Abstract: A differential signal connector includes a plurality of pairs of signal contacts, a plurality of ground contacts, and an insulating housing holding the signal contacts and the ground contacts. On a first connection side for connection to a connection partner, the ground contacts are arranged on both sides of each pair of signal contacts so that a contact array of a fixed pitch is formed. On a second connection side for connection to a board, the ground contacts are arranged spaced apart from each other in a first row, while the pairs of signal contacts, which are adjacently arranged on both sides of the ground contact on the first connection side, are arranged so as to be allocated in a second row and a third row located on both sides of the first row so that the pairs of signal contacts are arranged zigzag on the second connection side.

Abstract: By using a lead frame as an intermediate member, a contact group of a connector is manufactured. The lead frame includes a plurality of first leads arranged on a plane and spaced from one another, a plurality of pairs of second leads, each pair being arranged on the plane between the first leads, and a connecting portion connecting the first and the second leads on one end side. The second leads have a pitch which is greater on the other end side than that on the one end side to make the second leads approach the first leads on the other end side, respectively. The lead frame further includes bridge portions connecting approached ones of the first and the second leads to each other at a portion where an interval between the first and the second leads is reduced.

Abstract: A terminal strip includes a number of terminals and a strip connecting the terminals. The terminal has a body, a soldering portion extending downwardly from the body and a spring beam extending upwardly from the body. The strip has a number of slots defined during punching the soldering portion thereof. The body has a bottom edge and a connecting portion connecting with the soldering portion. A breaking cut is formed in the connecting place between the bottom edge and the strip. The breaking cut is distributed into a number of slots connecting with each other. The configuration of the breaking slot can make several slots each with a short tearing journey when the terminals are separated from the strip, that can improve the efficacy of the product yield.

Abstract: A chain terminal is configured that a plurality of terminals are arranged in a chain shape by being connected to a side edge portion of a strip plate-shaped carrier through bridging sections respectively, and the terminals are configured to be cut and separated from the carrier when the bridging sections are cut out along a preset cutting line. Both side edges of each of the bridging sections are formed as slanted edges that are slanted with respect to lines respectively being perpendicular to the cutting line so that the width of each of the bridging sections at a terminal side is large and the width of each of the bridging sections at a carrier side is small.

Abstract: An electrical connecting device includes an electrical connecting member including an electrical connecting element and a removable component connecting to the electrical connecting element. The electrical connecting element includes a base portion extending on a plane, two connecting portions formed on the base portion, and an arm portion extending between the two connection portions. The removable component includes a plurality of finger portions each connecting to one connecting portion of each adjacent electrical connecting element at a connection that is configured to be breakable. A supporting element respectively extend from the end portions of two outermost ones of the finger portions of the comb element and extend adjacent to the plane and beside the arm portions of the electrical connecting elements.

Abstract: Provided is system and method for terminating stator windings to provide a fast, reliable, and convenient connection system. A U-shaped intermediary connection piece comprising individual pieces with cable exits is provided. Stator windings are attached to the individual pieces and the stator and connection piece are encapsulated with resin. The individual pieces are eliminated, thereby electrically isolating the cable exits.

Abstract: By using a lead frame as an intermediate member, a contact group of a connector is manufactured. The lead frame includes a plurality of first leads arranged on a plane and spaced from one another, a plurality of pairs of second leads, each pair being arranged on the plane between the first leads, and a connecting portion connecting the first and the second leads on one end side. The second leads have a pitch which is greater on the other end side than that on the one end side to make the second leads approach the first leads on the other end side, respectively. The lead frame further includes bridge portions connecting approached ones of the first and the second leads to each other at a portion where an interval between the first and the second leads is reduced.

Abstract: A socket connector includes an insulative housing with a plurality of receiving holes, and a plurality of contacts received in the receiving holes. The contact has a soldering portion, and a retaining arm and a resilient arm respectively extending upwardly from the soldering portion. The retaining arm has a broken edge facing downward, which is formed by breaking a carrier from the contact.

Abstract: A wire with a terminal fitting (10) formed by crimping and cutting a terminal fitting with a carrier in which a terminal fitting (12) projecting forward is coupled to a carrier (C). The wire with the terminal fitting (10) is provided with a crimping portion (30) to be crimped into connection with an end portion of an insulated wire 40 formed by covering a core (42) with a coating (43), a link (13) coupling the crimping portion (30) and the carrier (C), and an escaping portion (35) formed by partly cutting off a rear end part of the crimping portion (30) and enabling a cutting mold (53) for cutting the link portion (13) to be arranged at a position where a front end (53A) of the cutting mold (53) is located before the rear end of the crimping portion (30).

Abstract: A differential signal connector includes a plurality of pairs of signal contacts, a plurality of ground contacts, and an insulating housing holding the signal contacts and the ground contacts. On a first connection side for connection to a connection partner, the ground contacts are arranged on both sides of each pair of signal contacts so that a contact array of a fixed pitch is formed. On a second connection side for connection to board, the ground contacts are arranged spaced apart from each other in a first row, while the pairs of signal contacts, which are adjacently arranged on both sides of the ground contact on the first connection side, are arranged so as to be allocated in a second row and a third row located on both sides of the first row so that the pairs of signal contacts are arranged zigzag on the second connection side.

Abstract: An electronic wiping torsional connector for use in connecting to mating contacts on an insulating base. The connector includes a plurality of contacts 1-10, each having a contact area 93 adapted for wiping contact to a pad, an anchor area 92, and flattened, ribbon-like connector for receiving a wiping contact. Contacts 1-10 twist against an anchor 92 when the insulating base is inserted into the connector to provide the wiping contact.

Abstract: There is provided an inner terminal capable of providing enhanced reliability of connection in a circuit board. There is also provided an inner terminal capable of providing enhanced high-frequency characteristics by appropriately adjusting impedance. An expanded part (31) for carrier-disconnection is integrally formed with an interconnecting part (27) of an inner terminal (21). The expanded part (31) is formed to be expanded from opposite sides of a horizontal part (29). Also, the expanded part (31) is formed in a plate shape having the same thickness as the horizontal part (29) and also having the front and rear sides which are flush with the horizontal part (29). The expanded part (31) is formed such that edges of the expansion serve as parts at which the inner terminal is disconnected from the carrier when the terminal is produced.

Abstract: The invention provides a terminal chain so that a terminal can be connected with a signal conductor only by being press-formed by dies. A rectangular piece (12) is jointed to an end part extending in the longitudinal direction of a carrier (11). The rectangular piece (12) is placed in dies (40, 50) for press-forming. A signal conductor W1 exposed at one end of a wire W is placed on the rectangular piece (12). The rectangular piece (12) is press-formed by the dies (40, 50) to enclose the signal conductor W1. A terminal (20) which is connected with the signal conductor W1 is formed. The contacting position of the carrier (11) and the terminal (20) is disconnected.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a row of terminals and a plastic base having a row of terminal slots. The terminals are disposed in the slots. Each terminal has an elastically moveable portion having a connection point, a fixing portion fixed into the slot, and a pin portion extending out of the plastic base. An inserted electrical element may be connected to the connection point and elastically move the elastically moveable portion. The row of terminals is one of two rows of terminals formed by oppositely tearing and pressing a metal sheet. The terminals have oppositely torn and cut portions seamlessly oppositely connected together. When the row of terminals is developed into a plane and one of the terminals is reverse-backside joined between the two neighboring terminals, the oppositely torn and cut portion of the terminal is seamlessly jointed to the oppositely torn and cut portions of the two neighboring terminals.

Abstract: An electronic device which comprises a lead frame comprising at least one clip, a capacitor comprising at least one terminal, the at least one terminal being received in the at least one clip, and a semiconductor chip attached to the lead frame.

Abstract: A surface mount device jumper includes a base member and an electrode member. The base member is fabricated from a resin laminate. The electrode member is fabricated from an electrically-conductive material and is formed in a generally C-shaped configuration to define an opening therethrough. The opening is sized to receive the base member such that the electrode member partially wraps around and clamps to the base member to retain the base member in the opening.

Abstract: A connector insert includes a unitary body, cavities extending through the body, and contacts. The body extends between mating and loading sides. The loading side is configured to engage a circuit board. The mating side is configured to mate with a peripheral connector to electrically couple the circuit board with the peripheral connector. The cavities extend through the body from the mating side to the loading side. The contacts are held in the cavities of the housing and protrude from each of the mating and loading sides to engage the circuit board and peripheral connector and to provide an electronic signal path between the circuit board and the peripheral connector. The contacts are loaded into the cavities through the loading side and retained in the body by an interference fit between the contacts and the body. The interference fit prevents the contacts from being removed from the body through the mating side.

Abstract: A pad includes a retaining portion and a soldering portion. The retaining portion has a through hole running therethrough in a thickness direction of the metal sheet and four side edges perpendicular to the metal sheet. The soldering portion extends from a first side edge of the retaining portion. The whole of the pad is electroplated except two opposite third and forth side edges of the retaining portion which connect with opposite ends of the first side edge.

Abstract: The instant disclosure provides a contact-carrier combination for an electrical connector. The contact-carrier combination includes a carrier having a palm portion and a plurality of finger portions extending from the palm portion and laterally separated from each other at a predetermined interval, and a plurality of contacts correspondingly connected to the plurality of finger portions. Each finger portion is bent to form an escaping section. Each contact includes a base portion detachably connected to the carrier and a flexible arm slantingly extending from the base portion in a direction substantially the same as the bending direction of the receiving arm. The additional room provided by the arrangement of the instant disclosure enables the connector to adapt longer flexible arms, thereby enhancing the overall electrical connectivity of the connector and reduce assembly complexity. With the simplified shape of the contact in a completed connector, dimensional accuracy can be easily maintained.

Abstract: A contact strip comprises a plurality of contacts, and a connecting carrier having a plurality of connecting portions connecting with the contacts. The contact has a main body, a linking portion extending upwardly from the main body and a mounting portion downwardly bent from the main body. A pair of pre-break recesses are symmetrically defined on a front and a rear surfaces of the connecting portion, the recess laterally extends through the whole connecting portion and substantially has a gradual deeper depth. Operator can quickly and conveniently tear the recesses from the deep side of the recess to the shallow side of the recess to remove the connecting carrier from the contacts.

Abstract: A method (10) of forming an electrically conducting feedthrough. The method (10) comprises a first step (11) of forming an electrically conductive structure (21) comprising a sacrificial component and a non-sacrificial component. At least a portion of the non-sacrificial component can then be coated with a relatively electrically insulating material (35) prior to removal of at least a portion of the sacrificial component from the electrically conductive structure. The structure of the feedthrough provides electrical connection through the wall of a housing of an implantable component while preventing unwanted transfer of materials between the interior of the component and the surrounding environment.

Abstract: A battery connecter includes a plurality of terminals. Each of the terminals includes a resisting portion, a supporting portion, and a contacting portion. The resisting portion includes a first portion and a second portion bent from the first portion. The supporting portion extends from the first portion and resists the second portion. The contacting portion is bent and extends from the supporting portion. The invention also discloses a portable electronic device using the battery connecter.

Abstract: A USB connector fabrication method includes the steps of (a) stamping a metal sheet into a terminal set having a set of first terminals, a set of second terminals and material bridges joining the first terminals and the second terminals, (b) preparing an electrically insulative housing having punch holes and then mounting the terminal set in the electrically insulative housing to keep the material bridges in vertical alignment with the punch holes, (c) using a machine to cut off the material bridges and (d) securing a metal shield around the periphery of the electrically insulative housing.

Abstract: There is provided an inner terminal capable of providing enhanced reliability of connection in a circuit board. There is also provided an inner terminal capable of providing enhanced high-frequency characteristics by appropriately adjusting impedance. An expanded part (31) for carrier-disconnection is integrally formed with an interconnecting part (27) of an inner terminal (21). The expanded part (31) is formed to be expanded from opposite sides of a horizontal part (29). Also, the expanded part (31) is formed in a plate shape having the same thickness as the horizontal part (29) and also having the front and rear sides which are flush with the horizontal part (29). The expanded part (31) is formed such that edges of the expansion serve as parts at which the inner terminal is disconnected from the carrier when the terminal is produced.

Abstract: A contact sheet (100) comprises a first contact strip (1), a second contact strip (4) coplanar with the first contact strip (1) and a plurality of first contacts (2) and second contacts (3) located between the first contact strip (1) and the second contact strip (4) alternatively, the first contact (2) comprises a first body portion (21) having a first notch (211) and a first protruding portion (212), the second contact (3) comprises a second body portion (31) having a second notch (311) and a second protruding portion (312), the first protruding portion (212) fits with the second notch (311), the second protruding portion (312) fits with the first notch (211).

Abstract: A contact sheet (100) comprises a first contact strip (1), a second contact strip (4) coplanar with the first contact strip (1) and a plurality of first contacts (2) and second contacts (3) located between the first contact strip (1) and the second contact strip (4) alternatively, the first contact (2) comprises a first body portion (21) having a first notch (211) and a first protruding portion (212), the second contact (3) comprises a second body portion (31) having a second notch (311) and a second protruding portion (312), the first protruding portion (212) fits with the second notch (311), the second protruding portion (312) fits with the first notch (211).

Abstract: A contact strip comprises a plurality of contacts, and a connecting carrier having a plurality of connecting portions connecting with the contacts. The contact has a main body, a linking portion extending upwardly from the main body and a mounting portion downwardly bent from the main body. A pair of pre-break recesses are symmetrically defined on a front and a rear surfaces of the connecting portion, the recess laterally extends through the whole connecting portion and substantially has a gradual deeper depth. Operator can quickly and conveniently tear the recesses from the deep side of the recess to the shallow side of the recess to remove the connecting carrier from the contacts.

Abstract: A combined terminal is made by combination of first and second terminals. The first terminal has a first plate portion. The second terminal has a second plate portion and a window portion formed in the second plate portion. The first and second terminals are combined so that the first and second plate portions are superposed while the first terminal remains to be linked to a frame by a link portion therebetween. The combined first and second terminals are removed from the frame by cutting the link portion through the window portion.

Abstract: An electrical contact strip comprises a carrier and a plurality of contacts projecting from and linking with the carrier. A plurality holes are defined on the carrier for securing the carrier. A plurality of supporting portions and protrude beyond the contact in a thickness direction for protecting the contacts.