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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8142238 | Electrical connector for high temperature environments An electrical connector for establishing an electrical contact with a complementary connector, in particular in a high-temperature environment, the electrical connector including: a housing having an essentially cylindrical inner volume with an opening at least at o... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8029326 | Electrical connector having an electrical contact with a contact arm An electrical contact includes an at least partially cylindrical body having a terminating segment and an end segment. A contact arm extends from the terminating segment to the end segment. The contact arm includes a contact tip that is configured to engage a mating... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7850495 | Electrical contacts A device of and method for an improved electrical contact is disclosed. The electrical contact includes a plurality of axially-aligned electrically conductive wires, each wire being in electrical contact with at least one other wire at a peripheral surface thereof; ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7845993 | Female electrical terminal The present invention relates to a female electrical terminal destined to couple with a male blade terminal (60), comprising a body (12) equipped with a bottom wall (15) having projections (18-21) for the electrical contact with th... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7845992 | Electrical connector with contact arm preloading An electrical terminal including a first connection section; and a second connection section. The second connection section includes at least two cantilevered deflectable contact arms configured to contact a mating electrical terminal. A front end of each of the arm... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7837521 | Terminal reducing a large insertion force A terminal including a tube-shaped electrical contact portion into which an insert portion of a mating terminal is inserted. The electrical contact portion includes: a pair of walls arranged in parallel to each other, which the insert portion is inserted between; an... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7828609 | Line spring jack and its assembly method A line spring jack and an assembling method are disclosed. The line spring jack comprises a jack body, a jack cap, a line spring wire and a positioning plug. Said jack body further comprises a plug hole; said line spring wire is located in said plug hole; said jack ... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7806737 | Stamped beam connector An electrical connector includes a first and second array of flexible beams that are overlapped within a hood and that define a substantially cylindrically cavity for receiving a mating connector. Contact areas of each of the flexible beams may be shaped to define m... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7798870 | Male and female connection structure A male and female connection structure includes a female terminal, and a male terminal to electrically connect to the female terminal by being inserted into a connection position of the female terminal and to electrically disconnect from the female terminal by being... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7775841 | Hyperboloid electrical contact A hyperboloid contact socket includes a tubular body of metal or other suitable conductive material. The tubular body includes first and second ends. The first end includes a lip defining an aperture entrance for receiving a mating pin terminal. At the second end of... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7775840 | Female connector terminal with internal plate spring A female connector terminal into which a rectangular male connector terminal is to be inserted includes a hollow conductor having a rectangular engagement portion for inserting the male connector terminal; a protrusion arranged at the engagement portion of the condu... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7762856 | Push on terminal assembly A terminal assembly includes a terminal and a barrel. The terminal has a coupling portion that fastens to a conductor, a mating portion with compression tabs arranged to form a channel, and an interlocking member on at least one of the compression tabs. The barrel i... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7556541 | Electrical terminal with high conductivity core An electrical terminal including a first member and a second member. The first member has a front end configured to receive a mating contact and a rear end configured to attach to an electrical conductor. The first member is adapted to contact a first side of the ma... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7537497 | Multi-piece electrical receptacle terminal A multi-piece electrical receptacle terminal including a frame with a receptacle section adapted to receive a male contact; and a spring movably captured in the receptacle section. The spring includes a front end and a contact section spaced from the front end for c... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7491100 | Electrical connector contact An electrical connector assembly including a housing, electrical contact terminals, a hood and a filter member. The housing is sized and shaped to be plugged into an electrical connector socket of an initiator of a gas generator. A first one of the terminals has a w... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7491099 | Pressuretight contact connection for fuze electronics A pressuretight contact connection for the programming and power supply for fuze electronics is described, which is provided in a housing (10) from which a contact pin (34) projects in an electrically insulated and pressuretight manner in order to make... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7467980 | Female connector terminal for electric power connector A female connector terminal includes a connector terminal body, which has a positioning portion on the middle for positioning in an electrically insulative member, a bonding portion at the rear side for bonding to a circuit board, and a tubular contact portion at th... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7462078 | Power connectors A power connector includes a main body and a conductive contact. The main body has a front surface and a sidewall. The front surface defines a receiving cavity. The front of the sidewall defines at least one positioning hole communicating with the receiving cavity, ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7393252 | Female electrical contact element and method for making a female electrical contact element The female contact element comprising a rear shank designed to receive an electrical conductor and a front shank equipped with an elastic socket designed to receive a male contact element. The female contact element is formed from a one-piece tubular body in which t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7387548 | Electric contact and female terminal An electric contact and a female terminal have high spring elasticity and high electric conductivity. In the electric contact 1 arranged inside the female contact maker 11, the contact member 2 in an approximately cylindrical shape is formed by ... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7347747 | Terminal fitting with a resilient reinforcing piece A rectangular tube (10) is formed such that a pair of side plates (12L, 12R) stand up from the opposite left and right edges of a bottom plate (11) and an extending end of an upper plate (13) extending from the upper edge of the le... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347746 | Receptacle connector assembly A receptacle connector assembly configured to mate with a pin array connector assembly having a number of pins includes a number of socket assemblies. Each socket assembly includes a sleeve surrounding a number of conductive wires that form a cavity for receiving an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7347748 | Terminal fitting and connector provided therewith A terminal fitting (T) is secured to an end portion of a wire (W) and then is inserted into a cavity (11) of a housing. The terminal fitting (T) has a tubular main portion (20) for receiving a mating terminal. A wire connection portion (40) is b... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338334 | Method for forming a terminal metal and terminal metal formed by the method A male contact portion, a female contact portion, a clamp portion where an electric wire is clamped for connection, a crimp portion where an electric wire is crimped and a piercing portion where an electric wire is pierced to be crimped are formed separately, whereb... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7331800 | Shieldless, high-speed electrical connectors An electrical connector that includes first and second linear arrays of electrical contacts is disclosed. The first linear array includes a first differential signal pair, a first ground contact lead adjacent to the first differential signal pair, and a second groun... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7318758 | Plug connector for the electrical connection of solar panels The invention relates to a plug connector for exterior application, in particular, for the electrical connection of solar panels, comprising a plug (16) with a plug housing (14), comprising at least one contact pin (3), or contact sleeve (13 | 01/15/2008 |
| 7311566 | Electrical connectors An electrical connector for high current applications has a mating plug and socket assembly. The socket assembly has two sockets arranged coaxially of one another and electrically interconnected. The central socket receives and contacts a pin on the plug assembly; t... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7309239 | High-density, low-noise, high-speed mezzanine connector A mezzanine style electrical connector is disclosed. The connector includes first and second arrays of electrical contacts extending through a connector housing. Each contact array may include single ended signal conductors or differential signal pairs or a combinat... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7303427 | Electrical connector with air-circulation features A preferred embodiment of an electrical connector includes an electrical conductor for transmitting electrical power, and a housing. The electrical conductor is mounted in the housing so that the housing and the electrical conductor define a channel for circulating ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7303441 | Electrical connector contact An electrical connector assembly including a housing, electrical contact terminals, a hood and a filter member. The housing is sized and shaped to be plugged into an electrical connector socket of an initiator of a gas generator. A first one of the terminals has a w... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7294027 | Electrical terminal with layered springs Disclosed herein is an electrical terminal. The electrical terminal includes a frame, a first spring, and a second spring. The frame has a receptacle section adapted to receive a male contact. The first spring is movably captured in the receptacle section. The secon... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7294020 | Canted coil spring power terminal and sequence connection system The present invention provides an electrical terminal for electrical connections formed from a metal stamping and including a coil spring interface. Broadly, the inventive electrical terminal includes a female terminal body having at least one opening for receiving ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7291033 | Snap-on and self-lock RF coaxial connector The invention disclosed a RF coaxial connector. The RF coaxial connector comprises a plug connector and a jack connector that can be inserted into the plug connector. A groove is provided on an outer surface of said jack connector. Said plug connector includes a cor... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7285010 | TDI detecting device, a feed-through equipment and electron beam apparatus using these devices An electron beam apparatus comprises a TDI sensor (64) and a feed-through device (50). The feed-through device has a socket contact (54) for interconnecting a pin (52) attached to a flanged (51) for separating different environment... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275969 | Terminal fitting A terminal fitting (10) has a rectangular tube (13) with opposed first and second side plates (15, 16). A upper plate (17) is bent from the first side plate (15) into contact with the second side plate (16). A standing porti... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270573 | Electrical connector with load bearing features Complementary contact and contact block designs are disclosed that help prevent movement of a contact received in the contact block when an electrical connector is press-fit or otherwise connected to a printed circuit board. A protrusion may be included on one or bo... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7264518 | Electrical contact including integral stop member An electrical contact is provided. An embodiment of the electrical contact includes a bottom member, a pair of side walls and a tongue. The bottom member includes a first portion and a second potion and also defines a horizontal plane. The pair of sides walls extend... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7261604 | Electrical terminal element The invention relates to an electrical terminal element for pushing through an opening, in particular a round opening, in an elastic material along a pushing through direction of the terminal element, comprising a contact part which has a connection section for the ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7258585 | Device and method for latching separable insulated connectors A latching mechanism for joining separable insulated connectors employs a plurality of finger contacts to create an interference fit with an electrode probe of an elbow connector. The electrode probe enters a cylindrical grouping of the plurality of finger contacts ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7252559 | Two piece electrical terminal An electrical female terminal is provided of two piece construction comprising an outer body and an inner body. The outer body has a forward shield portion and rearward conduction attaching portion. The inner body has a forward receptacle portion and a rearward cond... | 08/07/2007 |
