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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7892035 | Electrical card connector with moveable housing An electrical card connector includes a first insulative housing (1), a number of first contacts (2) mounted in the first housing and having a first soldering portion (22), a second insulative housing (4) located behind the first housing,... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7874875 | Electrical connector An electrical connector for electrically connecting an element to a circuit board includes at least two adjacent insulation bodies, a plugging slot located on the insulation bodies for being plugged with the element, and a set of conductive terminals disposed on the... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7510445 | Connector with high connection reliability In a connector adapted for connection to a mating connector, each contact includes a holding portion held by the housing, a contact receiving portion extending from the holding portion and adapted to contact a contact portion of a corresponding one of contacts of a ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7371129 | Elevated height electrical connector An electrical connector includes first and second connector bodies which are arranged to first be positioned together, and then separated once electrical contacts have been inserted in at least one of the first and second connector bodies. During, after, or both dur... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7267580 | Card edge connector having heat-dissipating mechanism According to one embodiment of the present invention, a card edge connector (100) includes an elongated insulative housing (1) having a central slot (15) cooperatively enclosed by a bottom wall (150) and a pair of sidewalls thereof (13... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7238054 | Electrical connector A connector includes a plurality of contacts each having at one end a contact portion adapted to contact a connecting object, at the other end a connection portion to be connected to a substrate or the like, and between the contact and connection portions a fixed po... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7232344 | High speed, card edge connector A connector assembly (100) includes an insulative housing (10) defining a central slot (14) with two rows of passageways (16) by two sides thereof and two rows of contacts (20) disposed in the corresponding passageways, respectivel... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7207815 | Card connector A card connector for connecting an expansion card to a circuit board and including a long insulating body with a central slot and a plurality of conductive terminals. The card connector also includes a metal casing with a covering function covering the insulating bo... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7001207 | Continuous ribbon for a cable connector A connector for a ribbon cable is described having two part plates which are preferably connected to one another via a connection piece. The part plates are therefore preferably integral in design. In the region of the connection piece there are contact slots made i... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6837751 | Electrical connector incorporating terminals having ultrasonically welded wires An electrical connector utilizing a plurality of terminals to which wires have been ultrasonically welded, most preferably via UWTI technology, wherein the terminals are aligned for the welding process and also aligned in the connector via one or more terminal carri... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6746257 | Enhanced memory module assembly An enhanced memory module assembly comprises a memory module including a substrate with a plurality of conductive traces arranged in an edge thereof. A first connector is detachably and electrically assembled to the edge of the substrate and includes a first housing... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6743053 | Electrical connector with improved spacer An electrical connector (1) includes a first insulative housing (10), a number of contacts (20), and a second housing (30) attached to the first housing. The first housing defines a first and a second cavities (101,103) therein, a ... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6431889 | High density edge card connector An electrical connector comprising: an insulative housing having at least one cavity; a retaining member removably securable to the insulative housing and occluding at least a portion of the cavity, the retaining member having at least one aperture in com... | 08/13/2002 |
| 5577936 | Wafer retention in an electrical receptacle An electrical terminal carrying substrate or wafer is maintained in a channel of a die-cast metal frame of an electrical receptacle by peens that create radiused retaining lips. The slip-fit wafer is thus held into place within the channel at one end of t... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5006080 | Electrical connector The electrical connector in accordance with the present invention may be connected to, for example, other connector mounted on a circuit board of a machine. This electrical connector is provided at one end of the housing thereof with a board connection sp... | 04/09/1991 |
| 4943242 | Zero insertion force high density connector system A system for providing low insertion force electrical interconnections between high density contacts for use in interconnecting circuit packages. A housing has disposed therein one or more pre-buckled beam connectors. Each connector has a resilient insula... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4842538 | Low insertion force circuit board connector assembly A low insertion force electrical connector system comprises a receptacle having a plurality of electrical contacts arranged in at least two opposing rows. A low insertion force system selectively spaces apart or closes the electrical contacts to limit ins... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4795374 | Double sided edge connector A double sided edge connector is provided including a housing formed from a pair of substantially identical hermaphroditic housing halves and aligned pairs of electrical terminals. Each housing half includes a plurality of parallel spaced apart contact gu... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4483581 | Electrical edge connector An electrical edge connector suitable for Liquid Crystal Displays has contacts arranged at a housing slot with contact tails extending in a row, transversely of the slot, the tails being connected to the contacts by resilient bight portions of U-form arra... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4400049 | Connector for interconnecting circuit boards A connector for connecting coplanar circuit boards in an edge-to-edge fashion. The connector has a housing with a circuit board receiving cavity extending through and between opposite faces of the housing. The cavity has two opposing side walls which supp... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4334732 | Electrical connector unit A multi-circuit connector (5) to receive edge contacts of plug-in modules (4) and make electrical contacts with a printed board (2). The connector (5) comprises means (20) to achieve a floating mount in a support (11) having lateral spring tabs (19) and c... | 06/15/1982 |
| 4262981 | Printed circuit board connector A printed circuit board connector is disclosed wherein the pattern of the wire-wrap posts of the contacts in the connector is different from the pattern, and the spacing, of the contacting sections of the contacts which engage the printed circuit board. T... | 04/21/1981 |
| 4175818 | Electrical connectors An electrical connector including first and second wire connecting portions extending in the same longitudinal direction from a contact portion and aligned with each other in a lateral direction, the wire connecting portions being spaced apart in the late... | 11/27/1979 |
| 4166667 | Circuit board connector A connector for a circuit board includes a mounting member having a plurality of apertures therein. The electrical contacts each have a flat contact portion at one end, an arcuate portion at the other end, and an intermediate portion having an expanded se... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4094573 | Circuit board edge connector An edge connector for a circuit board includes a plurality of contact terminals each having a contact head, each contact head having a loop portion. The contact terminals are supported in a cavity in an insulative housing in such relation that the loop po... | 06/13/1978 |
| 4067637 | Electrical connector A multiposition modular connector assembly includes lower and upper halves each comprising a series of frangibly interconnected connector elements, each upper element being individually engaged to a lower element by latch means to provide a composite stru... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4066325 | Electrical connector for printed circuit board An electrical connector for a printed circuit board or the like comprises a connector body having two rows of longitudinal terminal receiving cavities respectively disposed on opposite sides of a lateral slot. Each cavity has a forward longitudinal openin... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4045114 | Method of manufacturing an electrical connector An electrical connector comprising a housing and a contact having a part lying on a planar surface of the housing is manufactured by a method involving arranging the contact on a first housing part and then bonding a second housing part to the first housi... | 08/30/1977 |
| 4026014 | Method of making connector assembly for printed wiring board An improved connector assembly for use with a printed wiring board is provided, composed of at least two segments which are initially separate from each other and which are assembled together with contact elements carried thereon. The contact elements are... | 05/31/1977 |
| 4025147 | Connector A connector for an edge board or the like comprising an elongated body defining a card slot with opposed contact slots having an elongated backer frame secured thereto. The lower ends of the body and the backer frame each have a plurality of V-shaped slot... | 05/24/1977 |
| 3994556 | Apparatus for clamping together conductors that are to be electrically interconnected The invention relates to an electrical junction box for use with snap-in type printed circuit board modules. The junction box is connected to some form of electrical apparatus such as an electrical motor. The junction box has terminals to which conductors... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3957334 | Printed circuit board array for card reader The invention relates to a card reader and to a novel connector for a plurality of printed circuit boards. In the connector a plurality of dielectric laminates are bonded together with electrical contacts arranged in rows. Printed circuit boards are inser... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3941448 | Connector block A connector block having a first slot extending from one face in a direction for receiving the edge of a circuit board, a second slot extending from a second face in a direction opposite to the first slot and past the first slot for receiving a nose with ... | 03/02/1976 |
