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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8029324 | RF connector assembly An electrical connector assembly includes a housing that has an insert and an organizer separate from, and coupled to, the insert. The insert and the organizer have insert openings and organizer openings aligned with corresponding insert openings. The organizer open... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7780482 | Miniature electrical connector with extractable contact elements and associated tool for unlocking and extracting the contacts An electrical connector may include an insulating body including a series of at least two parallel and adjacent longitudinal cells which may be aligned. The electrical connector may include a series of electrical contact elements, each of which may include a locking... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7736199 | Contact retention assembly A contact retention assembly includes a body, an outward angled tine and an inward angled tine. The body extends between a front end and a back end. The outward angled tine extends from the body to a housing engagement surface and is configured to engage a portion o... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7291046 | Electrical contact assembly Embodiments of the present invention provide an electrical contact assembly that includes a main body, contact legs, and an interlocking member. The main body is configured to receive and retain a wire. The contact legs are configured to mate with a mating structure... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7192318 | Contact element with spring tongue A contact element has a contact body. A contact arrangement is attached to the contact body. The contact arrangement has a spring tongue. The spring tongue has a free end with a locking face for securing the contact element in a contact housing. The locking face is ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7008270 | Cable connector A cable connector comprises a housing having a terminus receiving cavity that receives a terminus assembly. The cavity has a rearward facing shoulder and an annular recess defining a forward facing shoulder. The terminus assembly includes a terminus which is attache... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6979237 | Electrical connector having receptacle contacts An electrical connector (1) includes an insulative housing (10) defining a number of passageways (14), and a number of receptacle contacts (20) received in the passageways of the insulative housing. Each receptacle contact has a body port... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6932660 | Contact arrangement with an electrical plug connection A contact arrangement for providing an electrical plug connection between an electrical device and an exchangeable storage battery for a current supply of the electrical device has a plug part having at least one contact tong with two oppositely located contact surf... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6679735 | Electrical contact, in particular pin contact The invention relates to an electrical pin contact, (1, 32, 56), having a connecting part (2) and a connector tongue (4) together with a locking part (3, 33, 57). A separate locking spring (14, 34, 58), is provided which is inserted into the locking part ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6537112 | Contact mount strip and process for severing a contact held on said strip A strip (1) is described which includes a first device (5, 15) for temporarily holding a contact (2), and having a second device (26) for retaining the contact inside a tube. Provided with a clip (39) in such a manner that the contact is ready to be inser... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6475037 | Contact element made of sheet-metal material For transmitting high currents, such as in the electrical system of a motor vehicle for example, a contact element is proposed which is rolled and stamped from sheet-metal material and which consists of a contact-making section, a conductor-connecting sec... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6402571 | Electrical socket contact with guide rail The present invention concerns an electrical socket contact (1) with a base part (2) and two contact spring arms (7) integrated on the base part. The socket contact also has a guide rail (8) which is integrated on the base part in an offset position in re... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6361377 | Terminal fitting, a connector housing and a connector comprising the same A terminal fitting (30) is provided for contact with a contact terminal (20) and for inverted insertion into a cavity (11). The terminal (30) has a cover (40) and a terminal main body (31). The cover (40) has a relatively high strength and is integrally s... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6299491 | RF connector clip ring A clip ring for securing a contact pin in a connector cavity is circumferentially compressible as in prior art clip ring, but includes several beam fingers projecting radially and obliquely outward against the walls of the cavity for a more secure and mor... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6149472 | Electrical terminal An electrical terminal for use with a resin-made connector housing containing a locking lance, consists of a terminal body having a collar projecting circumferentially therearound, and a locking member separate from the terminal body. The locking member h... | 11/21/2000 |
| 5997347 | Watthour meter socket adapter with snap-on jaw contacts A jaw blade contact for a watthour meter socket adapter includes a terminal with a blade end and an opposed jaw contact end. A spring clip is fixedly mounted on the terminal and has a jaw contact end opposed from the jaw contact end of the terminal for re... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5989079 | Male side terminal fitting A male terminal fitting 20 is formed by bending, for example, copper alloy metal plate, and comprises, in a unified manner, a barrel member 30, a contact protrusion 40 for insertion into a female terminal fitting, and a tubular member 50 located between t... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5951336 | Terminal fitting A protecting cover B is provided for a miniature terminal, the upper face having a lance 41 formed by shearing. This lance 41 has a pair of protecting members 42 located in the posterior side thereof, the posterior edges of the protecting members 42 being... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5938486 | Female electrical contact member and electrical connector housing member adapted to receive a member of this kind A female electrical contact member comprises a body with connecting members at one end for connecting it to an electrical conductor, such as crimping lugs, and at the other end a series of elastic lugs for gripping a cylindrical male member and extending ... | 08/17/1999 |
| 5921821 | Terminal fitting A protective cover B of an electrical terminal is partitioned into an upper cover 50 and a lower cover 40. By doing this, the upper cover 50 and the lower cover 40 can be simultaneously bent prior to fitting. The upper cover 50 has its left and right edge... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5755599 | Electrical contact A contact is shown comprised of an inner spring and an outer assist spring where the front contact section is longitudinally moveable within the outer assist spring. The front contact section includes contact arms where side spring sections are constricte... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5711687 | Electrical terminal with locking lance A tab terminal comprises an inner contact body and an outer spring body having a locking lance. The outer body is mounted over the inner body in a vertical direction, whereby inwardly bent tabs of the inner contact body receive a side wall of the outer bo... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5697813 | Connection terminal To provide a connection terminal which can be mounted with an improved operation efficiency, and has sufficient retaining force and strength, a front end portion of a connection terminal is constituted by side plate portions formed by substantially perpen... | 12/16/1997 |
| 5653612 | Electrical contact assembly with stabilizing contact mount An electrical connector with a housing and a plurality of contact assemblies. Each contact assembly has a contact and a contact mount. Both the contact and the contact mount are generally tubular shaped. The contact mount surrounds a substantial portion o... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5634825 | Electrical terminal An electrical terminal to be inserted into a terminal receiving chamber of a connector housing is provided. The terminal includes a terminal body which can be provided by folding a conductive metal plate and a protective cover made of synthetic insulating... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5624283 | Electrical terminal back-up spring with anti-chattering support members An electrical terminal comprises an inner contact body and an outer spring body. The outer spring body is box-shaped and encloses the inner contact body. The outer spring body comprises spring beams edge-stamped out of top and bottom walls respectively. P... | 04/29/1997 |
| 5567179 | Connector system for coaxial cables An electrical connector system includes a housing, at least one electrical cable assembly, at least one retaining member and a resilient locking member. The housing has formed therethrough at least one retention window and at least one shaped aperture whi... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5409405 | Pull-to-seat terminal collar A connector assembly comprises a connector body having a plurality of cavities extending from a rearward conductor end to an intermediate location and an enlarged common opening along its forward end from the intermediate location to a forward end and wit... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5266056 | Electrical terminal having improved retention means An electrical terminal (2,102) is shown having a pin (4) or socket contacts (104) a retaining spring (6) and an insulation crimping barrel (8). The retaining spring (6) is defined as a substantial box section where the upper wall (36) includes a stamped o... | 11/30/1993 |
| 5240439 | Electrical contact An electrical contact adapted for plugging connection is provided with locking lances projecting therefrom in obliquely outward direction and engaging a locking shoulder of a contact receiving chamber when said contact is inserted into said contact receiv... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5199909 | Contact socket for connecting flat contact tongues The inventive contact socket serves to connect flat contact tongues as are used in plug-type connection devices for testing purposes, in particular in the manufacture of automobiles. The contact socket (1), which permits frequent plug-in cycles with small... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4976632 | Data bus contact A triaxial contact assembly for terminating a screened twisted pair of wires comprises three contact members (12,14,16) and a ferrule (18). The inner contact (12) is of conventional construction but the intermediate contact member (14) consists of an inte... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4938720 | electrical connector An electrical terminal for receiving a pin (15) comprises a rolled socket (2) surrounded by a helper spring sleeve (6). The socket (2) has contact springs (10) with contact bosses (12). The sleeve (6) has spring arms (42) which are provided about the circ... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4813887 | Electrical connector for multiple outer conductor coaxial cable An electrical connector for an electrical cable with a plurality of conductors comprises a plurality of subassemblies that may be easily assembled and automatically aligned by plural captivation means provided on the subassemblies. Such a connector for a ... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4775334 | Multicontact connector and electrical contact for same A multicontact electrical connector suitable for use in avionics, radar and industrial electronic control systems and devices comprises a plurality of electrical contacts each in the form of an electrically conductive contact body defining a shank, a rete... | 10/04/1988 |
| 4702707 | Power contact having removable mating components A power contact having a mating component removably mounted in a base. More particularly, the mating component includes a stem with a mating socket at one end and a threaded portion at another end which is threaded into one opening of a bore extending thr... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4508418 | Releasable position-locking connector assembly A connector assembly comprises a male and a female connector, the male connector having releasable lock means on its shank. The lock means includes a plurality of radially extending tongues extending outwardly from such shank, the tongues being compressib... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4484792 | Modular electrical connector system A modular electrical connector system provides relatively high density pin out capability for high speed signal transmission and coupling while maintaining discrete wire capability. The system includes plural cable terminators, plural connector blocks, ea... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4412718 | Electric plug contact and method for its manufacture In the case of a plug contact which consists of an electrical contact body (11) and of a spring sleeve (12) with a longitudinal joint (43), encompassing said contact body on the outside, the fixation of the spring sleeve on the contact body has been solve... | 11/01/1983 |
| 4350408 | Electrical pin connector There is disclosed a pin connector particularly suited for use in automotive ignition wiring. The pin connector comprises a metal shaft for insertion into the standard wire receiving sleeves of distributors, coils and the like and, for this purpose has a ... | 09/21/1982 |
