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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4934963 | Electrical connector An improved electrical connector includes a housing extending in an axial direction between a rear conductor entry end and a forward mating end. A plurality of terminal receiving recesses extend between the ends of the housing. A plurality of electrical t... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4869686 | Right angle electrical connector An electrical connector housing and an electrical connector are provided. The housing comprises telescopingly engageable first and second shells, each of which includes a generally peripheral side wall and opposed ends. The first shell is characterized by... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4857010 | Ribbon cable harness and method of making same An electrical ribbon cable harness which includes a flat electrical ribbon cable terminated to an insulation displacement type electrical connector. The cable is manufactured such that upon displacement of the cable conductors, the webs between said condu... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4850221 | Wire sensing apparatus An apparatus is provided for accurately sensing the presence of an end of a wire in a position for stripping insulation therefrom or crimping a terminal thereto. The apparatus comprises a housing having an aperture extending therethrough for delivering a ... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4840451 | Shielded fiber optic connector assembly An improved fiber optic connector assembly for connecting the ends of optical fibers to OED lenses is provided by a plug connector including a front mating end and a corresponding number of fiber receiving channels. Each channel includes an enlarged gener... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4838806 | Electrical connector An improved plug-and-receptacle electric connector arrangement designed such that in mating the plug connector and the receptacle connector, the plug connector is inserted at an angle within the receptacle connector until the front end of the plug has rea... | 06/13/1989 |
| 4835921 | Raceway frame and method for curved modular wall panel A raceway frame for a curved modular wall panel is made of molded thermoplastic material in order to avoid the expense of secondary forming operations. The frame is generally of an I-shape and is molded in two T-shaped sections which are joined by, for ex... | 06/06/1989 |
| 4825537 | Automated crimped wire harness fabricator An improved lead insertion apparatus for randomly inserting crimped wire leads one at a time into a multicircuit connector includes a pair of elongate insertion jaws for longitudinally surrounding and gripping a crimp terminated wire lead. The insertion j... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4825960 | Synchronized hydraulic hammer arrangement Hydraulic hammers are useful for transmitting high impact blows to a tool for fracturing hard material. When two hammers are used in combination the impact blows delivered to a common tool by the hammers should be synchronized for maximum effectiveness. T... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4826440 | Chip carrier and header assembly and terminals therefor An I.C. chip carrier and header assembly is provided. The assembly comprises a generally rectangular shrouded header with pins force fit therein. The pins are connectable to conductive traces on a printed circuit. A protective tape may be disposed over th... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4824391 | Connector for flat flexible circuit members A connector is provided for joining two flat flexible cables. The connector comprises a carrier having an elongated base, a pair of guides extending orthogonally from opposed ends of the base and a generally planar support extending from the base and disp... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4820182 | Hermaphroditic L. I. F. mating electrical contacts A low insertion force mating electrical contact structure includes a pair of hermaphroditic terminals. Each hermaphroditic terminal is provided with dual cantilevered contact beams disposed in spaced parallel relationship and extending from a common base.... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4820180 | Floating panel mount for electrical connector A floating panel mount for an electrical connector comprises opposed pairs of multiple cantilevered latch structures. Each latch structure comprises a lower arm cantilevered from a mounting flange. An upper arm is cantilevered from the end of the lower ar... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4815594 | Universal packaging system for electrical components and the like A universal packaging system for objects such as electrical components, connectors, semiconductors, chips, etc. includes an elongated, hollow, tubular package formed of resiliently deformable material for containing a plurality of said objects, each objec... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4813885 | Wiring harness connector retainer A wiring harness assembly includes an electrical connector terminated to a cable including several electrical conductors. The connector is mounted in a cavity defined between front, rear and side walls of a retainer including snap mounting structure for s... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4813884 | High contact pressure insulation displacement terminal for multi-strand wire An insulation displacement terminal is provided to achieved high pressure against the conductors of a multi-strand wire and to minimize the amount of strand rearrangement likely to occur with fine strand wires. The terminal comprises at least one insulati... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4812003 | Optic sensing assembly An optic sensing assembly for detecting reflection at a target area includes a cable holding element formed as an integral, one-piece body having sockets for directly receiving nonterminated ends of a light supply fiber optic cable and a light receiving f... | 03/14/1989 |
| 4810154 | Component feeder apparatus and method for vision-controlled robotic placement system An improved apparatus and method for feeding a large volume of electrical components to a vision controlled robotic placement apparatus is provided. Electrical components in a reeled pocketed carrier tape are indexed along a dereeling component feeder to ... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4808113 | Connector for flexible flat cable A miniaturized surface mountable connector arrangement for connecting printed circuits on a printed circuit board to another circuit member, such as flat flex cable is provided. Each circuit on the circuit board is provided with at least two spaced apart ... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4807358 | Carrier for molded articles and method of using the carrier A reusable carrier for releasably retaining modular telephone jacks or other small molded articles is stamped and formed from a strip of metal and has a plurality of depending U-shaped clips extending from an elongated carrier strip. The carrier strip is ... | 02/28/1989 |
| 4802864 | Right angle strain relief adapter for electrical connectors An adapter molded from an elastomeric material is adapted to be mounted to an electrical connector having a cable extending therefrom, to provide a strain relief transition of the cable through a bend.... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4795374 | Double sided edge connector A double sided edge connector is provided including a housing formed from a pair of substantially identical hermaphroditic housing halves and aligned pairs of electrical terminals. Each housing half includes a plurality of parallel spaced apart contact gu... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4781611 | Zero insertion force electrical contact assembly A zero insertion force electrical contact assembly is provided. The assembly comprises a bifurcate contact and a trifurcate contact. The bifurcate contact includes a pair of parallel contact beams cantilevered from a base. The contact beams include cam su... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4780093 | Electrical connector assembly and method of making A connector assembly includes a stacked linear array of an alternating sequence of terminals and resiliently compressible insulator portions. The array is linearly compressed in an accordian-like fashion and is inserted in a housing having a cavity of len... | 10/25/1988 |
| 4776813 | Sealed connector assembly An improved sealed connector includes at least one terminal with an associated terminated conductor. The sealed connector includes a housing having at least one resilient arm with a free end finger extending within a terminal receiving channel for retaini... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4770591 | Apparatus for unloading a container having a matrix of storage positions Disclosed is a method and apparatus for discharging serial arrays of solid components contained in a three dimensional matrix of feeding positions, into a delivery track, one serial array at a time. The matrix of feeding positions is comprised of trays ea... | 09/13/1988 |
| 4766668 | Pitch transition wire guide apparatus A pitch transition wire guide apparatus for use in wire harness fabrication machines includes a plate member having a wire engaging edge and a corresponding number of open-ended wire guide channels, each extending inwardly from the edge to a closed end. T... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4767896 | Stamped circuitry assembly Disclosed is a printed circuit board assembly including an integral metal stamping having a plurality of conductive circuit paths received in complementarily-shaped recesses of a dielectric substrate. The integral metallic stamping includes an improved sn... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4762504 | Connector coupling lock An environmentally sealed connector assembly includes interfitting manually telescoping separable plug and receptacle connectors. Each connector includes an outer metallic shell, with the plug connector telescopically interfitting the receptacle shell. A ... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4758174 | Environmentally sealed electrical connector An electrical connector includes opposed matable halves. Each half of the connector includes a rigid outer shell and a one-piece molded elastomeric insert frictionally retained in the respective outer shell. The inserts frictionally retain appropriate ele... | 07/19/1988 |
| 4755146 | Heat-dissipating socket connector for leaded modules A new and improved heat-dissipating socket connector for connecting individual leads of a leaded module to individual circuits on a printed circuit board comprises a unitary molded dielectric frame including a module-receiving recess. The frame is cantedl... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4754865 | Connector transfer system A harness making machine includes a transfer system receiving electrical connectors in abutting relation and separates the connectors while moving them from a feed track to a delivery track. The separation provides uniform spacing between terminals for te... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4755143 | Hingeable connector A hingeable connector assembly includes at least one female terminal mounted in a terminal mounting space formed in a female connector housing and at least one male terminal member mounted in a male connector housing. The female terminal and said male ter... | 07/05/1988 |
| 4752246 | Preloaded spring contact electrical terminal A preloaded spring contact electrical terminal with a support portion mounted in a fixed position in a housing, an abutment portion and a spring flex portion deformed to preload the abutment portion against a housing cavity wall. A contact portion is axia... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4740180 | Low insertion force mating electrical contact A low insertion force mating electrical contact structure is provided in a male terminal including a final contact portion and a forwardly extending lead-in portion having a gradual twisted cross section relative to the final contact portion. In a preferr... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4737888 | Receptacle assembly and mounting bracket for circuit board connections A receptacle assembly for making electrical connections to a circuit board mounted in a chassis facilitates assembly of the components and avoids damage to the circuit board connections due to vibrations and shock. The assembly includes a receptacle conne... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4737122 | Multiconductor connector An insulation displacement type connector for terminating a plurality of insulated conductors. The connector has a housing defined by a generally cylindrical open ended configuration. Insulation displacement type terminals are mounted on the housing aroun... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4735588 | Spring contact electrical connector assembly having a twist profile An electrical connector assembly including a female receptacle for receiving a mating contact member. The mating contact member is an axially elongated member formed of an electrically conductive material. The female receptacle is formed of an electricall... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4733463 | Electrical cable harness fabrication The present invention provides an improved method and assembly for testing the electrical integrity of a multi-circuit cable harness. An intermediate harness product is prepared including a short test tab comprising a portion of insulated multiconductor c... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4729152 | Apparatus and method for assembling electrical harnesses Disclosed is an electrical cable harness making apparatus including a shuttle table system for moving a connector between loading and termination stations. The shuttle table system includes a plurality of coplanar tables moveable in a common closed rectil... | 03/08/1988 |
