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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7857668 | Connector module for ruggedized applications A connector module can be configured to provide a connection between a component such as an electrolytic capacitor and a circuit board while supporting the component in a spaced apart manner from the board Due to the connector module, secondary soldering operations ... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7731544 | U-shaped electrical connector spring devices and methods According to some embodiments, an electrical connection assembly comprises a conductive support having a pair of longitudinal conductive slots for receiving a corresponding pair of longitudinal conductive pins; and a U-shaped conductive spring coupled to the conduct... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7435143 | Fixture for optoelectronic components such as PLCC2-type and PLCC4-type light emitting diodes A device for holding and for the connection of optoelectronic components, such as light-emitting diodes (LED's) of the PLCC2 and PLCC4 type, is formed from a body made of plastic coupled with a metal cluster. The metal cluster includes a contact arm and a positionin... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7331799 | Stacked electronic component and fastening device thereof A stacked electronic component includes multiple energy storage units and a fastening device. Each energy storage unit has a first electrode and a second electrode. The fastening device includes first and second fastening member disposed on opposite sides of the ene... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7217162 | Tabular terminal-use female terminal A tabular terminal-use female terminal in which a tabular terminal is inserted is provided, which tabular terminal-use female terminal includes: a pair of elastic holding pieces extending in an insertion direction of the tabular terminal; a holding portion provided ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7137852 | Fixing structure for electron device The invention provides a fixing structure for an electron device that enables an electron device to be attached and removed from wiring with one touch. The structure is provided with bus bars formed from conductive plate material that are connected to a power source... | 11/21/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6917397 | Connector, backlight assembly lamp unit including the connector and liquid crystal display having the same A connector is provided for preventing a connection terminal inserted into a connector housing from being dislodged. The housing has a hanging projection formed at an inner bottom surface of a through hole and a body portion inserted into the through hole from one s... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6817877 | Power supply rail for supplying electric power to current consuming elements of varying dimensions The invention concerns a power supply rail consisting of a profiled section (30) comprising two legs each for receiving a conducting strip (10, 20) provided with contacts at regular intervals. The invention also concerns a method for making a such a ra... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6293819 | Battery stage module A battery stage module comprises a battery stage with a battery chamber and two conductive members. A plurality of screws are locked to the jumper contacts of a circuit board and clamps the battery stage module to the circuit board. Each conductive member... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6231370 | Electrical connector for leaded electronic component An electrical connector (10) for mounting a leaded electronic component (70) to a circuit board (80) includes a housing (12) having a base (18) with side walls (44) and at least one end wall (30) extending upwardly therefrom together defining a component-... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6149470 | Electrical connector for antenna or the like An electrical connector is disclosed for being mounted on a board and for connecting a loop antenna to a circuit on the board. The antenna connector has a connector block and first and second terminals. The connector block is constructed from a non-conduc... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5957731 | Socket and socket holder for capless incandescent lamp An incandescent lamp (1) to be connected to a socket (11) includes a glass tube (2) having a sealing portion (5) at each end thereof, and a generally U-shaped lead portion (4a) connected to a filament (3) disposed in the glass tube (2) is projected from e... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5941735 | Press-fit fuse or component holder A holder for an electrical or electronic component includes a body formed of electrically non-conductive material having a recess to receive a component such as a fuse. At least two laterally spaced electrically conductive contacts are accommodated by the... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5921819 | Backlight including a replaceable light tube for a liquid crystal display An easily replaceable backlight includes a light section having wires extending from either end thereof which are detachably joined to a connecting body. The connecting body includes wires which are joined with a power connector. The contacting part is be... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5888102 | Surface mount carrier for electronic components A surface mount carrier device which permits an electrical component having wire leads to be converted for surface mounting on a printed circuit board is disclosed. The carrier device comprises a body member fabricated from an electrical insulating materi... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5846098 | Capacitor connecting structure and capacitor The disclosed capacitor connecting structure can connect two wires to a capacitor simply, while reducing the numbers of parts and connecting steps required. The capacitor connecting structure comprises: a capacitor (27; 85; 141) having two electrodes on b... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5808859 | Circuit breaker box A circuit breaker box including a holder base having two wire holder shieldings and pairs of clamping spring plates in the wire holder shieldings, each of the clamping spring plates having a pair of vertical ribs disposed at an inner side, the vertical ri... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5288249 | Base for cartridge lamp A mounting base for cartridge style electrical lamps includes a base member and a lead housing. The base member positions the mounting base with respect to the source of electrical power and the lead housing positions the cartridge lamp leads for engageme... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5260859 | Lighting unit for collinear double ended tubular lamps An elongated strip light for use with low voltage, tubular lamps having conical end contacts. The lighting unit has an angle strip made of an insulating material to which a pair of electrically conductive tracks are mounted on the outside of the strip. A ... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5211579 | Battery holder A battery holder is disclosed which is of one piece construction and which includes a housing having a base and a pair of spaced end walls. One of the end walls is longer than the other and defines a recess therein which is configured to receive one end o... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5108314 | Connector assembly for electrical components Connector assemblies for electrical components include a base frame having opposing side walls and opposed pairs of interior walls which are disposed parallel to the side walls. The interior walls define a mounting hole which is sized and configured to re... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5041953 | Light fixture A light fixture suitable for supporting and illuminating a parallel string of lamps with contacts on opposite ends permits light to be emitted from those lamps over a wide area, with little obstruction by the leaf fixture itself. The fixture may comprise ... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5038257 | Electric supply ramp Disclosed is an electric ramp comprising an insulating support below which there are arranged two conductive strips that are superimposed and separated from each other by an insulating body. The conductive strips each have plates cut out in the direction ... | 08/06/1991 |
| 4978319 | Strip mounted adapter supporting a lamp and featuring conductive spade engaging apparatus The present disclosure is directed to a removable adapter for installing a lamp on a strip. The strip is constructed with uniformly spaced, identical current delivering electrodes, adjacent electrodes being of opposite polarity. The present adapter includ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4938709 | Connection terminals for rigid-wire loop cartridge light bulbs Terminals for electrically contacting wire loops disposed on each end of a cartridge type bulb are formed from resilient electrically conducting sheet metal. Each terminal consists of an elongated member having a relatively narrow contact portion joined t... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4938708 | Mounting arrangement for cartridge bulb and improved terminal therefor A pair of terminals are each provided with snap dentents for engaging the contact pins extending from the opposite ends of a baseless cartridge bulb. The terminals are mounted to a support and are spaced a distance D which is substantially exactly the sam... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4699445 | Electrical terminal assembly for thermistors An electrical terminal assembly is provided with retention clip means for retaining a substrate in place. The retention clip means are designed in such a manner as to allow the insertion of the substrate into the clip means without damaging a sensitive la... | 10/13/1987 |
| 4444455 | Fuse clip for a cartridge fuseholder A fuseholder assembly for a fusible loadcenter is described. The assembly comprises a fuse unit and a base member. The fuse unit includes a pair of spaced apart U shaped fuse clips axially aligned about the longitudinal axis of a cartridge fuse. The fuse ... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4432594 | Clip-together interconnection busing clip for multiple fuse holder arrays A fuse holder clip for snap-in insertion into a parallel array fuse holder block features a terminal lug configured in the form of a right-angle strap of length such as to allow mechanical and electrical engagement to a similarly configured adjacent clip ... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4429945 | Terminal for baseless cartridge lamp sockets A socket assembly for a baseless cartridge lamp of the dual filament type has identical terminals for engaging the loop and hook terminals at the opposite ends of the lamp. The terminals have a spring tongue which engages the lamp terminals and a spring s... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4268107 | Fuse holder A fuse holder for a cartridge type fuse is formed of a housing having a fuse transfer region and a fuse contact region in the interior space thereof. A fuse carrier is provided, which carrier is captured within the housing. The fuse carrier is movable bet... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4268106 | Fuse holder assembly A fuse holder assembly for a cartridge type fuse includes an elongated fuse carrier bar having a cylindrical opening in a fuse containment portion for loosely accepting the fuse therein. The fuse contacts include a conductive spring at the inward end of t... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4260215 | Electrical fuseholder An electrical fuseholder for receiving an elongated, cylindrical fuse is provided with a pair of sheet-metal terminals which serve as means for connection into a circuit to be protected, as well as mechanical mounting means. The terminals are secured resp... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4082408 | Electric fuse holder An electric fuse holder of the modular kind, i.e. formed by combining a plurality of identical fuse holder units. The fuse holder units are shaped in such a way that they can be joined together under pressure of wedge action merely by virtue of their geom... | 04/04/1978 |
| 4059739 | Electrical power receptacle having built-in switching contacts An alarm system detects the electrical disconnection of electrical equipment such as an appliance which connects by a power plug to a power receptacle on an AC power line. The detection and alarm generating portion of this system is preferably located in ... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4037908 | Strip of light-signal unit shells A strip of light-signal unit shells to be formed into single light-signal units including a flat sheet of conductive material having openings which form continuous longitudinal conductors along two opposite edges of the sheet, continuous transverse conduc... | 07/26/1977 |
| 4018981 | Electrical component package An electrical component package includes a housing having a pair of open ended terminal receiving passages and a cavity intermediate the inner ends of the passages for receiving the body of the component. The bent leads of the component are received in gr... | 04/19/1977 |
| 3993395 | Modular snap-together fuse block assembly A modular assembly for mounting a plurality of fuses in electrically insulating enclosures or blocks in side by side relationship on a plane mounting surface. The assembly includes a single sidewall L-shaped fuse support and insulating enclosure and a sep... | 11/23/1976 |
