Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7950952 | FPC connector with rotating latch A cable connector includes a housing with an insertion recess for receiving an end of a flat cable and a plurality of terminals disposed in the housing for connecting to conductive leads of the flat cable. An actuator is attached to the housing so that the attitude ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7896688 | Electrical connector with flexible circuit board A contact pin is accommodated in the housing body such that a first end portion of which is adapted to be subjected to soldering and is projected from an outer face of the housing body. A cover body including upper cover (17) and lower cover (18) is co... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7430801 | Connector assembly This connector assembly comprises a header 1 to which a plurality of coaxial cables 3 are connectable and a socket 2 configured to be mounted on a printed board 4. The header 1 can be detachably coupled to the socket 2. The ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7374451 | Electrical connector An electrical connector (100) comprises an insulating housing (1) defining a cavity (10), a plurality of terminals (2) arranged side by side along a lateral direction of the insulating housing. Each terminal comprises a contact beam (2... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7361042 | Electrical connector An electrical connector including a housing, first and second contacts arranged in the housing, each of which has a fixed part engaging with a board-shaped portion of the housing and an operating part movable to the fixed part, and an actuator movable to the housing... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7351096 | Cable connector A cable connector includes a contact assembly including an electrical insulating block part which is configured to incorporate plural signal contacts; and a relay wiring substrate mounted to a back of the contact assembly. The relay wiring substrate includes, on a s... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7351100 | Electric connector A plug member is adapted to be fitted into a socket member in a first direction. The plug member includes: a plug body, formed with a plug groove extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and plug contacts each having a blade portion. A p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7329141 | Method for shielding flat circuit body, shielded flat circuit body, and wiring harness A method of shielding a flat circuit body and a wiring harness including the shielded flat circuit body, the shielded flat circuit body of the wiring harness includes a FFC having insulator covering around a conductor, a shield film covering the FFC and a connecting... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7316581 | Terminal fitting and method of attaching the same The terminal fitting includes: an electric contact part to be connected to a mating terminal fitting; and an electric wire connecting part including a bottom wall and a pair of caulking pieces rising up from the bottom wall, the pair of the caulking pieces caulking ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7306478 | Connector improved in dust tightness In a connector provided with a main body including a plurality of contacts arranged in parallel in a first direction and a housing holding the contacts, an operating member is coupled to the main body and is rotatable between an open position at which a connection o... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7291044 | Cable assembly with wire spacer A cable assembly (1) includes an insulative housing (10) with a number of passageways (121, 122), a number of terminals (50) received in the passageways of the insulative housing, an alignment plate (20) assembled on the rear end o... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7275954 | Connector establishing a stable connection between a contact of the connector and a connection object In a connector including first and second contacts to be connected to a connection object and a housing holding the first and the second contacts, an actuator has a cam movable with respect to the housing between a connecting position of the connection object and a ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7273388 | Wiring harness, connector, and method of assembling the wiring harness Providing a method of assembling a wiring harness and the wiring harness and a connector allowable to reduce required hours and a cost for assembling the wiring harness, the wiring harness includes a FFC and the connector. The FFC has a plurality of conductors and a... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7273390 | Connector assembly This connector assembly comprises a header 1 to which a plurality of coaxial cables 3 are connectable and a socket 2 configured to be mounted on a printed board 4. The header 1 can be detachable coupled to the socket 2. The ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7252535 | Flat circuit body with terminals, method of manufacturing the same, die system for manufacturing the same and manufacturing apparatus for the same Providing a method of manufacturing a flat circuit body with terminals with small number of steps of process, a terminal pressure welding apparatus includes a pair of dies having respectively a recess, in which claws of a piercing terminal penetrating through a cond... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7244137 | Integrated socket and cable connector According to one embodiment of the present invention, an integrated socket is disclosed. The socket includes a socket grid to receive one or more pins from a component, a frame coupled to the socket grid to provide structural support, and a cable receptacle integrat... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7121890 | Cable connector with a grounding clipping portion A cable connector comprises a circuit board and a cable. The circuit board comprises a plurality of parallel and separated first and second conductive paths with a ground area alternatively arranged between on either surface. The cable comprises a plurality of trans... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7077689 | Plug connector for printed circuits A plug connector for printed circuits comprises a plug (10), which supports the contact section (42) of the printed circuit (40) on one side and a retaining element (261, 262), by means of which the plug (10) may be pre-fixed, rest... | 07/18/2006 |
| 6969270 | Integrated socket and cable connector According to one embodiment of the present invention, an integrated socket is disclosed. The socket includes a socket grid to receive one or more pins from a component, a frame coupled to the socket grid to provide structural support, and a cable receptacle integrat... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6924855 | Displaying apparatus with flat panel A flat panel displaying apparatus is disclosed. The flat panel displaying apparatus includes a liquid crystal display module displaying a picture, a chassis surrounding edges of the liquid crystal display module, defining an external appearance of the flat panel dis... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6908332 | Connector A connector structure 1 has a cable 3, and a left connector 10 and a right connector 20 connected respectively to left and right ends of the cable 3. The left and right connectors 10 and 20 respectively have terminal ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6902416 | High density probe device A probe block assembly has an electrically insulative housing and an electrically conductive plate. The front side of the housing has a forward face and a recessed face. The electrically conductive plate is positioned against the recessed face of the housing. A plur... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6814614 | Electrical connector having contacts with connecting portions formed obliquely in a direction of the aligned contacts In a connector member, each of contacts has a contact portion to be connected to a counterpart connector, a retention portion retained by an insulator, and a connecting portion to be connected with a cable. Each connecting portion is connected with the cable by sold... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6786762 | Cable assembly module with compressive connector A cable includes a number of wires. Each of the wires has a number of signal conductors encompassed by a dielectric sheath, and the sheath is encompassed by a conductive shield. The wires are arranged side-by-side in a row at an end of each wire, where a termination... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6648675 | Method for fitting an object with a cable harness comprising at least one flat conductor, and electric/electronic devices connected thereto A method for fitting a carrier with a cable harness having main and branch conductors and with a device. A contact element is arranged on the carrier. A top portion of the main conductor, a bottom portion of a first end of the branch conductor, and a top ... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6602092 | Cable assembly module with compressive connector A cable includes a number of coaxial wires. Each of the wires has a central conductor encompassed by a dielectric sheath, and the sheath is encompassed by a conductive shield. The wires are arranged side-by-side in a row at an end of each wire, where a te... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6464540 | Connector unit having signal paths substantially equal to one another in delay time of signals transmitted therethrough In a connector unit having primary and secondary connectors (11 and 12) which have a plurality of primary contact leads (111) and a plurality of secondary contact leads (121) which correspond to the respective primary contact leads (111), the primary cont... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6422896 | Flat circuit member connector A connector (10) comprises a housing (20), at least one terminal (15) receivable in the housing (20), and a fixing mechanism (25, 26) fixable to the housing (20). The terminal (15) has a contact surface (18) extended in a thickness direction thereof. When... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6327150 | Disk drive test rack with universal electrical connector A disk drive test device for performing a test (e.g., power only self test, tests which use a serial interface) on at least one disk drive at a time. The test device includes an electrical connector which is configured so as to be able to provide the nece... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6217374 | Electrical connector with wire management system An electrical connector includes an elongated dielectric housing having a central body portion with a front face, a rear face and at least three rows of terminal-receiving passages extending therebetween and including a top row, a middle row and a bottom ... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6058604 | Cable for allowing mass storage device address selection A cable constructed with insulation displacement connectors produces cables which connect data storage devices to a host system. The cable allows automatic address selection of data storage devices depending on the presence or absence of a CSEL terminal p... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6030254 | Edge connector interposing probe An edge connector interposing probe (100) for testing the operation of two electrical assemblies which normally couple to one another via edge connectors. The interposing probe has a male edge connector (208/210) which fits into an edge connector of the f... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5899774 | Flat wire connectors for flat surface-mounted multi-purpose wire A flat, surface mounted, flexible, multi-purpose wire has a plurality of flat elongated conductors spaced apart in a generally parallel relationship. Each of the flat conductors includes a plurality of copper layers. An adhesive material separates the fla... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5833486 | Press-contact connector An electrical connector (10) has electrical cables (50) pressed into channels (19) to connect the cables by pressure crimping to a respective terminal (43); the channels are aligned in a common plane to facilitate crimping. Some of the terminals (43) are ... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5667401 | Cable connector, circuit board and system having circuit boards connected together by the cable connector A cable connector includes cables, and jacks attached to ends of the cables. The jacks have contacts connected to the cables. The contacts extend in a first direction substantially perpendicular to a second direction in which the cables extend from the ja... | 09/16/1997 |
| 5609491 | Electrical connector for printed circuit board assembly An assembly for connecting inputs and outputs to a printed circuit board subassembly is disclosed. The assembly includes an electrical connector 2 that includes a housing 4 and a plurality of terminals 6 located in openings 28 extending between a mating f... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5415567 | Wire management adapters for terminating a cable A wire management adapter for organizing wires for presentment to a connector include a member having an array of grooves at the leading edge thereof. In one aspect, guideways are provided for positioning the wires of a cable for receipt within the groove... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5272807 | Method of assembling a connector to electrical conductors A connector (10) having two rows of signal terminals (20) is easily terminated to conductors (106) of discrete wires (14) by providing rear sections (28) of the terminals extending from the front housing member (30). A wire-carrying subassembly (130) havi... | 12/28/1993 |
| 5211578 | Connector housing assembly for discrete wires A connector (10) having two rows of signal terminals (20) is easily terminated to conductors (106) of discrete wires (14) by providing rear sections (28) of the terminals extending from the front housing member (30). A wire-carrying subassembly (130) havi... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5114362 | High density electrical connector and method of making a high density electrical connector A high density ribbon cable connector includes bipartite strain relief halves adapted to trap between them a high density ribbon cable. The strain relief halves and ribbon are snap latchable into position within a fixture housing with the cable extending ... | 05/19/1992 |
