Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7651366 | Electrical connector assembly with shorting contacts An electrical connector assembly is provided. The electrical connector assembly includes a housing including a body fabricated at least partially from a dielectric material. The housing body has an opening therein. An electrical contact is held by the housing. The e... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7484995 | Lamp system A lamp system including a bulb assembly, a socket assembly, and a conductor base assembly is provided. The bulb assembly includes an insulation object, a first bulb pin, and a second bulb pin. The socket assembly includes an outer housing, a first conductive termina... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7371979 | Electrical interconnection arrangement An electrical busbar arrangement has provision for connecting a single feeder cable to a plurality of branch cables within an insulating housing. A branch port is provided for each branch cable, and a spring-loaded slidable support plate is arranged to receive the b... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7348492 | Flexible wiring board and electrical device using the same A flexible wiring board is obtained as follows. A copper foil pattern is formed on the both surfaces of a base polymer film made of polyimide, etc. The copper foil pattern of the both sides, except for an end portion of the copper foil pattern of one surface, is cov... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7331792 | Trailer tow connector assembly An electrical connector including a first connector portion and a second connector portion. Each of the first and second connector interfaces includes several terminals. At least a portion of the terminals of the first connector interface are electrically coupled to... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7311548 | Jumper installation feedback A jumper including a connecting face, a light-emitting face, and a light pipe extending from the connecting face to the light-emitting face is provided. The light pipe is operable to transmit a light from a provided computer hardware from the connecting face to the ... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7247039 | Contact safety device for pin-and-socket connectors with a shorting bar with an integrated circuit element The invention concerns a contact safety device for pin-and-socket connectors with an inserted state and a preassembled state, in which a safety mechanism is provided in the contact safety device to secure ignition contacts of the primer against interference and that... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7241168 | Joint connector and method of assembling it A joint connector has a housing (10) with insertion spaces (11) for receiving terminal fittings (20). A joint terminal (30) is mounted in the housing (10) at a first position where the joint terminal (30) is retracted from t... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7238063 | Field communication and computer data distribution system A field communication and computer data distribution system includes a weatherproof housing with a hinged lid, a panel positioned in the housing and having a plurality of pairs of insulation displacement connector units mounted thereon, and a pair of multi-terminal ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7232335 | K-series watthour meter socket adapter A watthour meter socket adapter carries rigid conductors extending from a connection to jaw contacts in a housing, the conductors mounting the socket adapter between the lower load mounting connections and the upper line mounting connections in a meter fitting to de... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7179134 | Electric connector for electrically connecting a wire of one article to a contact of another article An electric connector for electrically and mechanically connecting two articles, each having a conductive part, is able to reduce the number of electric connectors used in a connecting structure, to reduce the connecting work so as to reduce the costs of the connect... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7153157 | Terminal block jumper An electrically insulated body carries one of more jaw members which are mountable over threaded terminals in a meter socket to provide a bypass connection between line and load socket terminals to enable a watthour meter to be removed and reinstalled relative to th... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7011551 | Electrical terminal block A terminal block for conductively coupling multiple pairs of electrical wires includes a deadfront cover mounted onto a non-conductive base so as to define multiple pairs of wire receiving receptacles, each pair of wire receiving receptacles being electrically conne... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6957974 | System for providing data and power signals to networked devices A connector system is provided in which a branch connector may be secured in a pre-wired power and data network. The branch connector is designed to interface with existing network connections to provide at least one additional interface point for added or temporary... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6933452 | Terminal connection device for speaker A terminal connection device is adapted for connecting two voice coils in a speaker between a series connection and a parallel connection wherein the terminal connection device includes a jumper housing and a terminal switch detachably mount thereto. The jumper hous... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6932639 | Electroluminescent cable connector The electroluminescent cable (EL-cable) connector is a connector for mechanically and electrically splicing together a pair of EL-cables, each cable having a center conductor coated with an electroluminescent phosphor and two fine wires spiraling the length of the p... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6930498 | Membrane probing system A membrane probing assembly includes a probe card with conductors supported thereon, wherein the conductors include at least a signal conductor located between a pair of spaced apart guard conductors. A membrane assembly includes a membrane with contacts thereon, an... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6929504 | Combined electrical connector and radiator for high current applications An electrical connector useful for both high-current and low-current applications including a first and a second conductive terminals, in which the terminals are interconnected by a plurality of substantially rigid and elongated conductive strips and apertures or ga... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6903541 | Film-based microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and sensors Flexible multilayer microwave or mm-wave circuits and sensors are provided having at least (a) a first metallization layer, at least a portion of the first metallization layer being adapted for operation at a frequency ranging from 20 GHz to 100 GHz; (b) a second me... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6855004 | Electrostatic protection cover An electrostatic protection cover for press fitting onto an electrical connector of a kind having at least one array of a plurality of compressive conductive elements. The electrostatic protection cover comprises a main body including an upper section to be position... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6796849 | Electrical connection device A fixed electrical connection member of an electronic device for connecting one or more electrical conductors of the electronic device to a mobile electrical connection member external to the electronic device includes, on the side external to the electronic device,... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6585532 | Coaxial connector and communication device having the same A coaxial connector includes an upper insulating case provided with columnar ribs in the four corners thereof. These ribs are provided to position a fixed terminal and a movable terminal. The tops of the ribs are arranged so that the fixed terminal is eas... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6555742 | Earth ground terminal An earth ground terminal provides an electroconductive substrate part and an electroconductive spring contact which protrudes integrally from one edge of the substrate part toward the side opposite to the substrate part. Through holes which have undergone... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6428349 | Method and apparatus for jumpering resistors and other components on a printed circuit board A conductive clip is placed over a component mounted to a printed circuit board (PCB) to form a conductive path between terminals of the component. In one embodiment, a conductive clip is placed over a surface mount technology (SMT) component, with the cl... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6123553 | Branch junction box assembly A branch junction box assembly containing a busbar and a flexible printed substrate. The busbar has a contact section extending therefrom and, similarly, the substrate has a contact portion extending therefrom. Connection between the two is made by insert... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6099334 | Coaxial connector with switch A resilient, curved switch terminal is elastically flexed when deflected by a connector pin inserted into a coaxial connector. The switch terminal is sufficiently long to provide a broad range of resiliency that accommodates plug pins of various dimension... | 08/08/2000 |
| 5611710 | Multi-pole plug insert A multi-plug insert has a first part which provides a first number of contact inserts. A second part includes a second multiple number of connecting contacts relative to the first number. Each contact insert in the first part is permanently conductively c... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5610436 | Surface mount device with compensation for thermal expansion effects A surface mount electronic device, attachable to a circuit board, comprises an insulating substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface; a plurality of metallized terminal pads on the bottom surface; and a plurality of leads, each attached to one of... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5588855 | Connector When a short-circuit terminal 4 is inserted into a 22, a first engaging projection 46 formed in the terminal 4 is engaged with an engaging member 24, thereby realizing first engagement. Thereafter, when a retainer 5 is pressed to its main locking position... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5562489 | Electrostatic discharge protection device A plurality of electrostatic discharge protection devices are disclosed for use with semiconductor chip packaging such as surface mount chip packages wherein the electrostatic discharge protection devices have shorting arms that extend outward from the el... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5550521 | Electrical ground connection between a coaxial connector and a microwave circuit bottom plate An electronic circuit is implemented on a substrate on an electrically conductive bottom plate fixed into an electromagnetic shield box. A coaxial socket is fixed to an outside wall of the shield box, the core of the socket being inserted in a hole in the... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5470243 | Electrical connector with snorting switch An electrical connector 10 is disclosed having a shorting switch 30 that shorts connector contacts 14 together when the mating connector 90 is separated therefrom and breaks the short when the mating connector 90 is mated thereto. The shorting switch 30 i... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5456617 | Joint connector A joint connector having a connector housing and containing electrical wires having terminals on their distal ends. Some terminals are electrically coupled to each other through a shorting plate. There are two groups of chambers accommodating terminals, o... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5456612 | High density electrical connector with integral self shunt feature An electrical connector assembly comprises a header having a plurality of pins, the pin header being interconnectable with a receptacle header having a plurality of receptacle contacts. A selected pair of adjacent passageways has a space between the adjac... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5449301 | Shunt connector A shunt connector provides for electrical connection of a pair of adjacent terminal pins inserted into a housing. A spring contact having a convex bowed body portion extends into a cavity in the housing where the pins are inserted. The terminal pins are i... | 09/12/1995 |
| 5403204 | Joint connector A joint connector having a housing with a plurality of chambers formed by partitioning the interior thereof in each of which a female terminal is located. One or more shorting plates, each of which has a coupling portion and a plurality of contact portion... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5374200 | Fully programmable din connector The fully programmable DIN connectors constructed in accordance with the present invention have housing bodies comprised of a plurality of like cells that are each capable of receiving shorting clips and that, when shorting clips are selectively received ... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5277606 | Fully programmable connector A fully programmable connector is provided in which selected ones of the connector contacts can be electrically shorted within the same connector housing body. The housing body includes a plurality of identical cells each containing an electrical contact ... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5266043 | Fully programmable connector A fully programmable connector is provided in which selected ones of the connector contacts can be electrically shorted within the same connector housing body. The housing body includes a plurality of identical cells each containing an electrical contact ... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5259776 | Fully programmable DIN connector The fully programmable DIN connectors constructed in accordance with the present invention have housing bodies comprised of a plurality of like cells that are each capable of receiving shorting clips and that, when shorting clips are selectively received ... | 11/09/1993 |
