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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6171115 | Electrical connector having circuit boards and keying for different types of circuit boards An electrical connector includes a housing (12) that carries a plurality of circuit boards (13) in a parallel, spaced-apart array. The circuit boards are of two different types. One type has a keying recess (60) that is keyed to a land (39) in the housing... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6142828 | Shielded connector having adjustable cable exit A shielded electrical connector for use with a cable (2) having a wire conductor (4) within a ground sheath (6) includes an interconnection device (10) having a front mating end (12) and a rear cable-connecting end (14). A conductive shield (20) is dispos... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6120318 | Stacked electrical connector having visual indicator subassembly An electrical connector includes a housing having cavities that can receive mating electrical connectors. The cavities are arranged as vertically aligned pairs. The housing holds visual indicators which are associated with the cavities. The visual indicat... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6116943 | Modular plug having a circuit board A modular plug electrical connector includes a housing and a circuit board having an array of circuit holes. Terminals in the housing have legs that extend into the circuit holes for electrical connection with the circuit board and mechanical retention of... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6113400 | Modular plug having compensating insert A modular plug electrical connector for terminating a plurality of communications wires which are associated as signal pairs in a communications system includes a dielectric housing having a cavity and a compensating insert which is mountable in the cavit... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6096980 | Non-ohmic energy coupling for crosstalk reduction Crosstalk is reduced in a communications wiring system by an arrangement of circuit traces on a circuit board. The circuit board has circuit traces which are arranged for interconnecting terminals in first and second electrical connectors, wherein the ter... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6093061 | Electrical connector having terminal insert subassembly An electrical connector includes a housing having a cavity which holds a pair of terminal inserts. Each of the terminal inserts includes a respective molding which holds a respective plurality of terminals. The moldings have respective latch arms which la... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6093060 | Electrical connector assembled with a terminal array that is connected by a carrier strip An electrical connector includes a housing having a front face and a cavity which is open through the front face for receiving a mating electrical connector. The housing has a terminal support shelf and a wall which is spaced from the terminal support she... | 07/25/2000 |
| 6079851 | Fluorescent lighting fixture having two separate end supports, separate integral ballast subassembly and lamps sockets, and hood positionable above end supports for mounting in or below opening in suspended ceiling A lighting fixture 12 for use with fluorescent lamps 2 can be mounted in an opening in a suspended ceiling 4 or it can be supported below a ceiling. An integral ballast subassembly 14 is mounted on one end of the lighting fixture 12 on a ballast end suppo... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6050842 | Electrical connector with paired terminals Electrical connector 10 is used to terminate individual wires 6, 8 in two twisted wire pairs 2, 4. The connector includes an insulated housing with terminals 50 located in terminal receiving cavities 34 in the housing. The terminals 50 are inclined relati... | 04/18/2000 |
| 6042393 | Support for compliant pin terminals An insert subassembly for an electrical connector includes a lower terminal insert and an upper terminal insert. The lower terminal insert includes a lower insulative member which carries a plurality of terminals which have exposed portions at a rear of t... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6042420 | Electrical connector and boardlock with minimal footprint An electrical connector which is mountable on a circuit board includes a housing (10) having a board-mounting face (13), a channel (38) which opens into the housing from the board-mounting face, and a pair of grooves (36, 37) which extend from the channel... | 03/28/2000 |
| 6036528 | Hollow contact for solder connection An electrical contact facilitates making a soldered connection between an insulated wire conductor and a circuit board. The contact includes a tubular contact body having a hollow interior. One end of the contact body has an insulation piercing edge which... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6036551 | Stackable electrical connector An electrical connector includes a housing having a base and first and second parallel walls which are connected to the base. The first and second walls are spaced-apart to define a slot therebetween. The first wall has a thickness and an open portion whi... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6033266 | Modular connector with preload and beam length reduction features A connector includes a contact insert, at least one contact, and a housing. The contact is mounted to the contact insert. The contact includes a mounting portion coupled to the contact insert and a beam portion having a length. The housing is engageable w... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6033238 | Ribbon cable connector with ground bus An electrical connector for terminating flat cable of the type having a plurality of signal and ground conductors in parallel alignment comprises a housing which holds a plurality of signal contacts and a ground bus. Each of the signal contacts has a sign... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6001296 | Apparatuses and methods for controlling the fill of tooling cavities A tooling assembly (10) having complementary die sections. Die section (12) includes a face portion (14) having a tooling insert (16) mounted therein. Insert (16) includes an impression configuration (20) formed therein. Flow device assemblies (40) are in... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5938487 | Socket contact having tapered beam A socket contact has a generally tubular base defining a longitudinal axis and beams extending from the base at spaced-apart locations around the base. The beams converge to define a pin reception zone between the beams. At least one of the beams has a ta... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5928036 | Dual row memory card connector An electrical connector for interconnecting first and second memory cards to a mother board includes a housing having a pair of card-receiving slots. The housing carries sets of signal contacts and ground contacts. Each of the ground contacts has a pair o... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5921788 | Electrical header with improved post retention An electrical header comprises a dielectric housing having cavities and contact posts held in the cavities. The contact posts extend beyond a first face of the housing for attachment to a substrate and extend beyond a second face of the housing for engage... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5895290 | Sealed panel mount electrical connector A seal for use with an electrical connector having a flange which is dimensioned to confront a mounting panel around a cutout in the mounting panel comprises one-piece seal member including a conductor seal and a flange seal. The conductor seal is configu... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5893773 | Electrical connector having a cover with pre-stage positioning An electrical connector for terminating flat cable comprises a housing which holds a plurality of contacts, and a cover which is attachable to the housing. The cover is relatively movable on the housing from an initial position wherein the flat cable can ... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5876219 | Board-to-board connector assembly An electrical connector assembly for interconnecting a pair of circuit boards in parallel spaced-apart planes comprises first and second connectors. The first connector includes a dielectric first housing having a mating face and an array of first contact... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5876240 | Stacked electrical connector with visual indicators A stacked electrical connector 2 including right angle RJ-45 modular jacks 4 positioned in columns also includes LED's 38 positioned on the front mating face 18 of the connector 2. Internal passages 28 extend from the mating face 18 of the jack housing 18... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5863213 | Memory card connector and adapter therefor An adapter is removably mountable on one end of a memory card of predetermined length. The adapter has a protrusion which registers with a notch in the end of the memory card, and the adapter has a substitute notch which provides the memory card with an e... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5860813 | Elastomeric connector with control of loose circuitry An elastomeric electrical connector (30) comprises an elastomeric core (32) having sides (48) extending in a longitudinal direction between opposite ends (46), and a flexible film (34) having circuit traces (36) thereon wrapped around the core. One of the... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5855489 | Low profile actuator for ZIF socket A zero insertion force socket for an electronic package comprises a cover (20) which is slidably mounted on a base (10). The cover has a package mounting surface (22) which defines a plane. A cam mechanism (30) which is operable for sliding the cover on t... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5839911 | Adjustable and releasable strain relief The invention is a strain relief for an electrical connector which is terminated to a plurality of wires extending from the connector in a wire bundle. The strain relief comprises a housing which is mountable on the electrical connector, a barrel connecte... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5839913 | Edge connector having latches for multiple daughter boards An edge connector for a plurality of daughter boards has a plurality of adjacent board-receiving openings which are configured to receive the daughter boards first in a common linear insertion direction at respective upstream positions and then in a commo... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5836786 | Patch panel having snap together construction Components of a patch panel snap together for easy assembly and disassembly. The patch panel includes a mounting panel, an interface housing with a snap latch attachment to the mounting panel, and a connector assembly with a snap latch attachment to the i... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5833472 | Socket assembly for an electronic package A socket assembly (10) for an electronic package (2) comprises a base (20) which is mountable on a circuit board (8), and a separable subassembly (11) which houses the electronic package and is securable to the base with threaded fasteners (80). The subas... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5823801 | Electrical connector having thin contacts with surface mount edges An electrical connector carries a plurality of contacts each comprising an electrically conductive body made of sheet material. The body of each contact has a thickness defined by thickness of the sheet material, and an outer edge extending through the th... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5779498 | Flat cable connector The object of the present invention is to reduce housing size and make it possible to provide connections between connecting members of a flat cable and electrical terminals at a high density in a limited housing space, while minimizing the number of flat... | 07/14/1998 |
| 5755593 | Electrical outlet having panel mount latches An electrical outlet which is mountable over a cutout of known size in a wall panel wherein the known size is one in a range of different standard sizes. The outlet comprises a base which is dimensioned to extend across the cutout and a plurality of latch... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5741156 | Protective cover for electrical connector A protective cover for an electrical connector comprises a shell having a wall and an aperture extending through the wall to permit a wire leading from the connector to pass out of the shell. The aperture is surrounded by a flexible skirt which is dimensi... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5741146 | Coaxial switch A switch comprises a housing which holds first and second contacts. The first contact has a pair of first contact arms which are spaced-apart on opposite sides of a pin-receiving cavity. The second contact has a resilient contact arm which extends into th... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5741158 | Communications outlet having termination aid platform A communications outlet comprises a base which is mountable on an outlet box to permit interconnections with wires in the outlet box. The base has a mounting cage in which an electrical connector having insulation displacement terminals can be mounted aft... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5731545 | Protective housing for an electrical device A protective housing for an electrical device includes a base and a cover. The base has a mounting station for the electrical device, and the cover can be installed over the base with the electrical device received inside the cover. The cover has an open ... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5729442 | Thermostat housing with removable terminal block A thermostat housing which provides a protective enclosure for electronic components of a thermostat assembly comprises a base, a terminal block removably attached to the base, and a cover. The terminal block provides an interface between the electronic c... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5713767 | Socket contact having spring fingers and integral shield A socket contact (4) comprises a unitary contact body (12) including a tubular body portion (20) having a wall (22) which defines an interior space (24) and an open end (25) which permits insertion of a lead (11) of a mating contact into the interior spac... | 02/03/1998 |
