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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8186041 | Soldering fixture A soldering fixture is disclosed having a unitary base member configured to maintain a printed circuit board and an electrical connector in a particular orientation during soldering. The unitary base member includes a lateral channel dimensioned to maintain a plural... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8166638 | Rotary clip bonder Multiple connector clips are bondable onto an electronic device simultaneously with a rotary clip bonder, wherein a pick head comprising a plurality of collets is positioned at a clip supply channel. A plurality of connector clips are picked up from the clip supply ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8141238 | Automated twist pin assembling machine for interconnecting stacked circuit boards in a module Twist pin z-axis interconnectors are assembled in columns of aligned vias in stacked printed circuit boards of a circuit module in automated assembly cycles. Each assembly cycle involves singulating a single twist pin from a plurality of twist pins, inserting the tw... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8136234 | Flaring coaxial cable end preparation tool and associated methods A cable end preparation tool is for a coaxial cable having an inner conductor, an outer conductor, and a dielectric therebetween. The cable end preparation tool includes a body and a blade carried by the body for removing a portion of the dielectric between the inne... | 03/20/2012 |
| 7797821 | Tool for pulling and cutting a Z-axis electrical interconnector A connection portion of a z-axis interconnector is assembled into contact with a plurality of aligned vias in a corresponding plurality of stacked printed circuit boards by gripping and pulling a leader portion of the interconnector connected to the connection porti... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7698809 | Apparatus and method for detecting a location of conductive pins with respect to a circuit board An apparatus for detecting a location of conductive pins with respect to a circuit board during an assembly process using a press tool to mate the circuit board and the conductive pins includes a detector housing holding a plurality of switches aligned with correspo... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7644494 | Wire terminal installation tool A tool for effecting attachment of an electrical terminal terminated on a wire with respect to a mating electrical contact is provided including an elongate tubular body having a first opened end, a second opened end and a continuous slot from the first to the secon... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7516541 | Terminal inserting apparatus Providing a terminal inserting apparatus which does not give a limitation to an assembled wiring harness thereby, the terminal inserting apparatus includes a jig mounting unit, a housing holding unit, an inserting unit and a jig transporting unit. The jig mounting u... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7472473 | Solder ball loading apparatus This invention provides a solder ball loading apparatus which enables fine solder balls to be loaded on pads while void is blocked from being caught into bump upon reflow. Inactive gas is supplied and the inactive gas is sucked from a loading cylinder located above ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7441327 | Terminal inserting apparatus A terminal insertion apparatus includes a wire-holding unit, a housing-holding unit, and an terminal-inserting unit. The wire-holding unit holds electric wires connected to terminal fittings. The housing-holding unit holds a connector housing. The terminal-inserting... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7424775 | Captive wired test fixture A method for wiring a test fixture comprised of two parallel fixture plates wherein the wires are wired randomly from locations on one plate to locations on a second plate using a system of software algorithms and positioning apparatus to control the motion of one p... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7415760 | Apparatus for pre-forming a twisted-pair electrical cable A wiring block pre-forms a cable end having twisted wires for subsequent installation of a plug on the cable end. A back end of the block leading to a cavity within the block receives the cable end such that a cable portion adjacent to the cable end sits inside the ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406764 | Method of determining the acceptability of the press contacting of a terminal using reference data A method of determining the acceptability of a press contact of a wire between press contact blades of a terminal. The method includes the steps of storing a reference data of a relationship between displacements of the press contact blades when the wire is brought ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7370408 | Hold down device in a terminal applicator A terminal applicator (50) for attaching electrical terminals (52) to a wire includes a terminal hold down device (90) for limiting movement of the terminal during the crimping process. The hold down device (90) includes a hold down arm (... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363703 | Device for fitting electric wires with sleeves A sleeve-fitter includes a sleeve module, a fitting module, a control and a base module. The fitting module and control are part of the base module. In operation, a centering pin and a round hole cooperate when the sleeve module is in contact with the base module an... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356914 | Twist-on wire connector applicator A wire connector applicator is capable of holding a clip of interconnected twist-on wire connectors in a tube which can be rotated by an electric motor. The connectors rotate with the tube for installation on the ends of stripped electrical wires. The invention is a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7325438 | Crimping tool for plug connectors having cable shield clamp means A crimping tool is provided for crimping upon on a shielded data cable a plug connector having a body portion, and a cable shield clamping portion that is initially angularly arranged in an open loading position, characterized by the provision of a pair of operating... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7322623 | Sawtooth terminal blade gripper and method of gripping A gripping apparatus is disclosed. The gripping apparatus includes a first finger including a plurality of first sawteeth along a first longitudinal end and a receiving area being located between adjacent sawteeth and a second finger including a plurality of complem... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318271 | Device for assembling connector A process and device for assembling a connector is provided, by which the production efficiency can be improved by preventing the problem of insertion error from occurring in a step of terminal insertion into a connector housing in the manufacturing process of the w... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7299541 | Contact press-fitting apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a contact press-fitting apparatus which can perform the press-fitting of all of the contacts with high reliability, without leading to problems such as buckling of the contacts, even in cases where the array pitch ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7275313 | Unlocking jig An unlocking jig (40) is fit on a female housing (10) from below. As a result, a guide groove (43A) on a bottom portion (43) of the unlocking jig (40) engages a convexity (22C) on a lower surface of the female housing (10... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7275317 | Method of production for a wiring harness job order An object of the present invention is to provide a wiring harness job-order production method and a wiring harness job-order production system, wherein a space for producing a wiring harness is reduced and the production efficiency of the wiring harness is improved.... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270569 | Coax connector having steering insulator The angled coaxial connector includes an insulator and inner conductor. The steering insulator serves to help guide, align, and locate an inner conductor in the bend of the angled connector. The steering insulator is adapted to receive and retain the inner conductor... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7270574 | Covers for electrical connectors A cover for an electrical connector includes substrate mounting beams. When a force is applied to the top, the beams transfer the force to the lead frame, pressing contacts of the connector to an electrical device such as a substrate. Flat rock application may be ap... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257888 | Connector removal tool A tool for engaging a telecommunications connector within a slot so that a releasable latch of the connector is released by the tool. The tool may be used to remove a telecommunications connector from a mating opening of a receptacle or may be used to insert a conne... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251879 | Installation, insulation displacement, and terminating tool having piston-cylinder driving assembly An installation, insulation displacement, and terminating power tool, for inserting electrical wires into, and for electrically connecting the electrical wires to electrical contact members disposed within, an electrical connector, comprises a piston-cylinder drivin... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7243422 | Apparatus for press-fitting An apparatus for positioning and press-fitting press-fit portions of roughly L-shaped legs of contacts arranged in multiple rows in a connector into a substrate includes a press-fitting head and an alignment plate. The press-fitting head is rotatable between a rest ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7243415 | Equipment for equipping plug housings with fitted-out cable ends of a cable An equipping installation introduces fitted-out cable ends into plug housings and is arranged downstream from a fitting-out installation. A contact for the first plug housing is arranged at the leading cable end and a contact for the second plug housing is arranged ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7231710 | Apparatus for securing wire connectors An apparatus for securing wire connectors includes a rotatable cylindrical member defining at least one chamber configured to store at least one wire connector. A frame supporting the rotatable cylindrical member is detachably mountable on a drill. A dispensing hous... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7222415 | Manual machine for attaching an insulation displacement type connector A manual machine for attaching an insulation displacement connector (10) has housing stoppers (34A,34B) for positioning it on a rest (33), a housing holder (35) for holding the connector on the rest, and a set block (36) dis... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7194915 | Lever connector test fixture A universally adjustable tool for measuring the force required to throw the lever of a lever-type, two-part, electrical connector. The tool comprises a handle, a base bar to which the handle is slideably attached, and a pair of legs having adaptors to permit the too... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7192508 | Devices to conduct current to or from the electrodes in electrolysis cells, methods for preparation thereof, and an electrolysis cell and a method for production of aluminum by electrolysis of alumina solved in a melted electrolyte Device (1) to conduct current to or from the electrodes of an electrolysis cell, which device in the direction towards the electrolysis cell comprises three types of segments; at least one outer segment (2) joined with at least one intermediate segment... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191518 | Method of making a hyperboloid electrical contact A hyperboloid contact socket is provided which comprises a tubular body of conductive material and preferably having at one end a lip defining an entrance aperture for receiving a mating pin terminal and having on the opposite end a termination of an intended config... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7174324 | Crimping connection design system using multilayer feedforward neural networks Estimation sections which have beforehand learned a relationship between known connection data pertaining to connection design and unknown connection data pertaining to connection design for the known connection data estimate the unknown connection data for the know... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7165313 | Method of producing an electric motor An electric motor, in particular a stepper motor, comprises a first rigid component having a recess and a second rigid component having a protrusion. The protrusion is at least partially oversized relative to the recess before assembling the first and second compone... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7134190 | Wire harness manufacturing machine The present invention is an automated wire harness machine (40) capable of manufacturing a wire harness (42) unique in-part due to the automation process. The novel wire harness is generally a plurality of bundled, preferably un-stripped, insulated wir... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134189 | Coaxial cable connector and tool and method for connecting a coaxial cable A connector for coaxial cable, and a tool and method for connecting coaxial cable. The connector may have a projection configured to extend into a channel defined by an inner conductor of the coaxial cable and to engage an inner surface of the inner conductor; and a... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134191 | Terminal press-fitting device A press-fitting device in which a terminal of a connector having a staggered arrangement section of the terminal of the connector is press-fitted into an insertion hole is provided. In the press-fitting device, a first terminal restricting member on which a guide se... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7121165 | Tool for wristwatch Substantially cylindrical head tube body, center tube body and tip tube body threadedly engage each other to thereby construct a tool main body of a tool for wristwatch. The through hole of the center tube body is provided with a partition part having a small-diamet... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114247 | Method of making an electrical connector A method of making an electrical connector comprises the steps of: forming an electrically conductive member having a body including an interface, the body having a longitudinal chamber therein; forming an electrically conductive pin; overmolding the interface with ... | 10/03/2006 |
