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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8137138 | Housing base for an electrical connector An electrical connector system includes a header connector that includes a header housing and a header contact. The header housing includes a header base and a header shroud extending from the header base. The header base includes a header contact opening. The heade... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8100722 | Electrical card connector having spring arms and protrusions to increase retaining force for cards An electrical card connector comprising: an insulating housing defining a plurality of channels; a terminal module with a plurality of contacts received therein; and a clip having a pair of first elastic pieces and a second elastic piece received in the correspondin... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8096836 | Electrical connector with contacts having tail portions with a different pitch than or discrete from contact portions of the contacts An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts. Each contact comprises an upper contact and a lower contact. The upper contact has a retention portion and a contact portion. The lower contact has a soldering portion and a planar ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8021191 | Connector with two-piece housing A connector includes a housing that is formed of a first and second section (the two sections which may be interlocking pieces) and has a hollow interior that is filled with a set of terminals. The housing pieces have a complementary engagement rail and channel that... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8002584 | Connector A connector has a top housing, a plurality of terminals mounted in the top housing. The top housing forms a plurality of receiving passages therethrough. Two sides of a bottom of the receiving passage are recessed outward to form two pairs of fixing recesses. One en... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7985099 | Electrical connector with improved housing background of the invention An electrical connector is provided and includes a housing having a pair of side walls defining a plurality of terminal grooves therein and a bottom wall connecting with said side walls and defining a top face facing upward. A plurality of terminals are received in ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7980895 | Electrical connector and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing an electrical contact module is provided. First, a lead-frame of electrical conductors is formed, wherein at least one supporting strip is formed in the lead-frame of electrical conductors in such a way as to maintain the electrical conduc... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7959470 | Connector with a connecting memer with a screw portion penetrating the insulators and terminals of two mating terminal housings A connector includes a first terminal housing with a plurality of first connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a second terminal housing with a plurality of second connecting terminals aligned and accommodated therein, a plurality of insulation membe... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7946888 | Electrical connector with improved contacts An electrical connector mating with a counterpart connector includes: an insulating housing having sidewalls and endwalls to define a receiving room and a number of contacts retained in the insulating housing. The contact has a first mating portion retained on an ou... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7892033 | Electrical connector ensuring proper connection An electrical connector comprises a dielectric housing and a plurality of conductive contacts. The dielectric housing defines a receiving slot comprising opposite upper inner wall and lower inner wall, a pair of opposite side inner walls respectively intersecting th... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7758385 | Orthogonal electrical connector and assembly An electrical connector includes a housing having a mating face and a mounting face. A plurality of signal contacts are held by the housing with the signal contacts being arranged in differential pairs to form signal contact pairs. Each signal contact has a body, a ... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7637782 | Card connector A card connector adapted for receiving a card has an insulating housing having a plurality of first terminal recesses. Each of the first terminal recesses includes a fixing recess extending frontward and rearward. The fixing recess has a substantially middle portion... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7601031 | Memory card adapter A compact memory card adapter, which improves connection reliability with an antenna circuit and ensures communication distance when a memory card with a non-contact communication function is inserted therein. The adapter is formed with a base made of an electrical ... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7572150 | Device connector with mating terminals bolted together A device connector to be connected with device-side terminals accommodated in a metal case (C) is provided with a first housing (10) for holding first terminals (20) connectable with the device-side terminals by bolt tightening and a second housing ( | 08/11/2009 |
| 7544097 | Card connector A card connector has: a connector housing which is formed therein so as to be enclosed on three sides by an opposed pair of first and second frames and a third frame that links the end portions of the first and second frames; and an open-close cover. The open-close ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7537486 | Card connector A card connector has: a connector housing 2 constituted of electrically insulating bodies in which is formed a bottomed card holding cavity that is open at the front and top and is enclosed on three sides by a pair of first and frames and by a third frame tha... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7507123 | Contacting appliance and contacting arrangement for mobile electrical devices The contacting appliance for temporarily establishing an electrically conductive contact is described, in particular a charging device for electrical devices. The appliance includes an accommodating entity which can be moved between at least two end locations, so th... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7357683 | Communications connector with crimped contacts A communications connector with a flexible printed circuit board is provided. The flexible printed circuit board is electronically and mechanically connected to the plug interface contacts of the jack near the plug/jack interface, in order to provide effective cross... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7186473 | Battery with built-in load leveling An integrated battery by incorporating battery elements, supercapscitors elements, and miniaturized electronic controllers within a single housing is devised. The supercapacitors provide a load leveling for the battery elements at both charging and discharging. So l... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7187766 | Methods and systems for compensating for alien crosstalk between connectors The present invention relates to methods and systems for minimizing alien crosstalk between connectors. Specifically, the methods and systems relate to isolation and compensation techniques for minimizing alien crosstalk between connectors for use with high-speed da... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7084342 | Semi-compensated pins for cold junction compensation An apparatus and system is presented for partially compensating the cold junction of a thermocouple system using low cost semi-compensated conductors of system components accommodating various thermocouple types. The thermocouple system, comprises a thermocouple por... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7063571 | Smart card connector An electrical connector (100) for a card (5) includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (2) received in the housing and a shell (4) attached to the housing. The housing includes a bottom wall (11) having a numb... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7057108 | Dual input plug apparatus A cord for use with duplex receptacles that have first and second receptacles. The cord includes first and second sets of prongs insertable into the duplex receptacles to receive independent low-voltage electrical signals, and first and second receptacles connected ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7018244 | Connector A connector includes an inner housing which holds a plurality of electric wires, an outer housing which accommodates the inner housing along a first direction, a fixing member which fixes the inner housing and the outer housing to each other and a convex portion whi... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6979229 | Electrical connector assembly for a vehicle An electrical connector assembly is adapted for interconnecting first and second conductors provided respectively on first and second vehicle components that are coupled removably to each other, and includes first and second electrical connectors. The first electric... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6963780 | Implantable medical device including a surface-mount terminal array An implantable medical device comprises an enclosure, a first plurality of electrical contacts disposed within the enclosure, at least a first electrical component secured within the enclosure, a second plurality of electrical contacts on the first electrical compon... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6908341 | Battery connector A battery connector in which, even when an engagement piece portion that is required for applying a preload to a contact of a contact member rubs with an engagement face formed in a wall face of a housing made of a synthetic resin, possibilities that the engagement ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6341987 | Cable connector assembly A cable connector assembly (1) includes a connector (10) including an insulating housing (11) and a plurality of terminals (13), a cable assembly (20) including a plurality of wires each having an exposed conductor (21), and a connection mechanism (30) in... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6116956 | Electrical connector for a power supply An electrical connector for a power supply and a conductive contact for such an electrical connector are disclosed. The electrical connector comprises a main body and a plurality of conductive contacts received in a plurality of grooves on the main body. ... | 09/12/2000 |
| 6097883 | Dual state memory card having combined and single circuit operation A printed circuit card having first and second circuit units mounted thereon in connection to terminal pads adjacent two card edges, with the first and second circuit units being in connection to each other and to select pads of a first edge such that upo... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6036547 | Double deck gang jack exhibiting suppressed mutual crosstalk A modular jack assembly which includes an insulative housing with a first longitudinal wall, a second longitudinal wall superimposed over the first longitudinal wall in spaced parallel relation. A third longitudinal wall is superimposed over the second lo... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5830007 | Electrical connector for a microphone An electrical connector is provided for mounting a microphone of the disc type which has opposite flat faces joined by a cylindrical periphery. The connector includes a dielectric housing having a cylindrical microphone insertion cavity defined by a rigid... | 11/03/1998 |
| 5772449 | Electrical installation bus connector A connector for connection to bus conductors comprises terminals that have a pair of contact sections mounted on supple springs. The contact sections are for biasing against exposed conductors of a bus line. The redundancy provided by the two remotely spa... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5681185 | Connector mating structure A method of preventing damage to the metal contacts of multiple contact connectors in wiring harnesses during shipment and preinstallation handling. The method comprises the steps of providing essentially identical connector bodies with complemental, mult... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5460536 | Replaceable high power electrical contacts for robotic tool changing systems A high power electrical interface unit for a robotic tool changing system has a housing, a high power electrical connector in the housing for attachment to a high power electrical cable, and a replaceable high power electrical contact removably attachable... | 10/24/1995 |
| 5421745 | Contact array A contact array (10) for electrically connecting an energy source (20) to a radio (12) and a charger comprising a circuit assembly (31) having a plurality of integral radio and charger contacts (38, 40) extending from one end of the circuit assembly (31).... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5383797 | System for handling electrical connectors by a vacuum-suction nozzle A system is provided for mounting a connector assembly to a mounting surface of an electrical apparatus through the use of a vacuum-suction nozzle. The connector assembly includes a dielectric housing adapted to be positioned adjacent the mounting surface... | 01/24/1995 |
| 4705333 | Test probe for leadless devices An electrical test probe assembly for use with a leadless surface mounted device is provided which includes an array of resilient spring contacts in a pattern corresponding to the contacts of a leadless device. The array of spring contacts are configured ... | 11/10/1987 |
| 4693542 | Electrical screw connection A connection, in particular of the miniature type for providing oblique connections at angles which may be selected over a wide range of angles on request. Said connections serving to put a conductor wire (3) into electrical connection with a conductor st... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4533203 | Connector for printed circuit boards Connector for right angle printed circuit board interface comprises two-piece dielectric housing with right angle contact elements therein each having a first arm and a second arm with respective first and second ends. First ends are pins fixed to a daugh... | 08/06/1985 |
