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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7909663 | Modular optimized plug-in jaw A modular jaw unit for a busway system includes a spring support member having a central section and four independently moving support ends. The central section has a plurality of bosses and slots for coupling the jaw unit to another jaw unit. The support ends exten... | 03/22/2011 |
| RE42022 | Insulated jumper in particular for terminal blocks of switchboards Electrical connection jumper, in particular for terminal blocks of switchboards, comprising a conducting body extending in the longitudinal direction and a plurality of connector elements for electrical connection, which extend in the transverse direction from said ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7854635 | Adapter for air conditioning connector An electrical connectivity disc (100, 130, 200) includes a plurality of serrated slots (106, 108) positioned about the disc. The disc preferably includes a plurality of barbs (136) about a peripheral edge (104) of the disc (130). A... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7845991 | Apparatus for the electrical connection of cell arresters An apparatus for the electrical connection of cell arresters is provided. The apparatus having a first contact element having a first guide device and a second guide device, the first guide device being designed to rest against a first cell arrester and the second g... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7670197 | Electrical splice connector An electrical splice connector includes a housing, a conductive member retained within the housing and defining a longitudinal axis, and at least two biasing members circumferentially disposed about the longitudinal axis of the conductive member and biased toward th... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7614922 | Quick attachment junction box A quick attachment junction box is provided that simplifies the installation of electrical wires into the junction box and minimizes the tools and parts necessary for proper installation. A connection element is provided to allow for quick connection of electrical w... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7413486 | Insulated jumper in particular for terminal blocks of switchboards Electrical connection jumper, in particular for terminal blocks of switchboards, comprising a conducting body extending in the longitudinal direction and a plurality of connector elements for electrical connection, which extend in the transverse direction from said ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7270573 | Electrical connector with load bearing features Complementary contact and contact block designs are disclosed that help prevent movement of a contact received in the contact block when an electrical connector is press-fit or otherwise connected to a printed circuit board. A protrusion may be included on one or bo... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7255592 | Electrical wire connector A push-in wire connector for electrically interconnecting multiple wires together is disclosed to have a guide and lock element, which is mated with a conduction and retention element and assembled inside the enclosing space of an enclosing element. Multiple wire in... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252560 | Crimped center conductor A center conductor for use in a coax jack module assembly, for example. The center conductor including a conductive body having a crimped region and an uninterrupted region. The crimped region being located only within one of a first half and a second half of the co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7214106 | Electrical connector Electrical connectors are adapted to provide a reliable electrical connection to mating elements of a mating connector. The connector can have sockets that accept mating elements of the mating connector. Conductors of the connector are associated with each socket an... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7204719 | Connector for solderless connection and plug connected to the connector A connector including a plurality of terminal wires forming gently-sloping hills in a longitudinal direction and having curved front and rear opposite end portions and wire retaining bodies each of which has substantially the same length as the wires to partially co... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7191518 | Method of making a hyperboloid electrical contact A hyperboloid contact socket is provided which comprises a tubular body of conductive material and preferably having at one end a lip defining an entrance aperture for receiving a mating pin terminal and having on the opposite end a termination of an intended config... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7182616 | Connector receptacle having a short beam and long wipe dual beam contact A contact assembly for use in an electrical connector. The contact assembly includes an insulative contact block defining a plurality of apertures therethrough. The contacts assembly also includes a plurality of dual beam contact terminals. Each plurality of dual be... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7147521 | Wiring junction block A wiring junction block, e.g. for taillamp pigtails in a vehicle lighting system. The wiring junction block includes a body having an input end including a first set of electrical terminals for receiving electrical power from a vehicle wiring harness. The body also ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7114253 | Male terminal fitting and method of manufacturing the same A male terminal fitting and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed as including a plate-shaped contact protrusion (11, 31, 41, 51) formed at one side for mating with a female terminal fitting, and a conductor clamping portion (12, 32, 42, 52) ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7115003 | Electrical terminal socket assembly including both T shaped and 90° angled and sealed connectors A terminal socket assembly for interconnecting electrically powered vehicular components with an associated input male input pin and an output cable. The socket assembly includes a spring cage blank having first and second extending edges and a plurality of spaced a... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7070463 | Waterproof relay connector The waterproof relay connector for connecting a lead wire includes a connector housing having a lead wire insertion hole, and lead wire retaining means for retaining the lead wire inserted in the lead wire insertion hole, an elastic portion having a through hole ext... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7070462 | Electrical connector with expandable tubular clamping sections An electrical connector including two tube sections which are open at a first end of the connector; and a connecting section connecting the two tube sections to each other. The tube sections and the connecting section form a conductor receiving area which is open at... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7063440 | LED accent lighting units A lighting unit including at least one elongated substrate having a plurality of light-emitting optoelectronic devices mounted thereon and an elongated housing supporting the elongated substrate. The housing includes integrally-formed reflectors positioned adjacent ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7011548 | Board mounted side-entry electrical connector A side-entry, blade-receiving electrical connector is provided for mounting on a printed circuit board. The connector includes a dielectric housing having a bottom wall and a blade-receiving receptacle at a side of the housing. At least one conductive terminal is mo... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6932625 | Junction socket with a moveable contact piece A receptacle of this junction socket includes a resilient contact piece extended from a front wall, and bent twice inwardly in vicinities of top and bottom openings of the receptacle; a movable contact piece as a rear wall facing to the resilient contact piece, and ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6875063 | Electrical terminal socket assembly including both T shaped and 90° angled and sealed connectors A terminal socket assembly for interconnecting electrically powered vehicular components with an associated input male input pin and an output cable. The socket assembly includes a spring cage blank having first and second extending edges and a plurality of spaced a... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6751862 | Method of making an electronic device An electronic device containing an electronic element such as a thermistor element is produced first by providing the element with electrodes formed on its two main surfaces facing outward away from each other, at least two terminals and a casing. Each terminal has ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6746286 | Push-in wire connector A connector for connecting electrical conductors includes a housing, a generally rectangular electrically conductive busbar and a pressure spring. The housing defines an enclosure and a plurality of front ports which provide access to the enclosure. Receptacles form... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6722929 | Universal clamp for a cylindrical element, in particular for a cable The present invention relates to a set of fixing clamps for fixing a cylindrical element, each clamp being constituted by a block provided on one of its faces with a channel for receiving the cylindrical element, and also provided with clamping means. The set compri... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6695638 | Electrical wire connector device The invention relates to a wire connector for connecting two or more wires of same or different wire gauges. The wire connector has a body, a first set of fingers, a second set of fingers, and a resilient means for keeping the first set of fingers and the... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6672909 | Electrical connection and connectors An electrical connector has a conductive member formed from several sheets of a resilient conductive material, such as a wire mesh or conductive textile. The sheets are layered and joined together at intervals to form separate passages between the sheets ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6656002 | Electrical terminal socket assembly including T shaped sealed connectors A terminal socket assembly including a T-shaped sealed connector for interconnecting electrically powered vehicular components with a male input pin and output cable. A spring cage is formed into a substantially helix "hourglass shape" configuration. A tu... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6607953 | Structural integrity enhancement of dielectric films An exemplary embodiment of the present invention discloses a method for forming a storage capacitor for a memory device, by the steps of: forming a bottom electrode of the storage capacitor over a BoroPhosphoSilicate Glass (BPSG) layer; forming a storage ... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6491531 | Plug-in connector for an ignition system in a motor vehicle A plug-in connector between an ignition coil and a spark plug is designed so that the longitudinal tolerances cause no undesired coupling of the plug-in connector to the spark plug. When the plug-in connector is brought together with the ignition coil to ... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6283801 | Elastic terminal in an electrical device A spring connection terminal for an electrical device includes a conducting support part fixed to a main conducting part, and at least one clamping spring folded into the form of a loop and provided with a clamping window inside which a flange of the supp... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6132238 | Connector for electrical conductors The invention concerns a connector of a construction type that is extremely sparing of material. A contact insert of the connector is formed of a simple busbar rod and a piece of spring steel sheet from which leaf springs are stamped out in the shape of t... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6126453 | Transmission line terminations and junctions Termination and junction assemblies for flat strip transmission line links are shown to include a protective cover, an electrically conductive ground sleeve, a spring signal contact and a double-sided adhesive pad. A flat strip transmission line link is i... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6017253 | Electrical connector with a tubular contact formed from an array of V-shaped members An electrical connector having a housing and electrical contacts mounted in the housing. The electrical contacts form double female receiving sections for receiving male contact sections of mating electrical contacts. Each electrical contact is formed fro... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5857877 | Receptacle container for pressed screen contact pins An electrical terminal (2) comprises a pin receiving contact section (8) and a pin mounting section (4). The receptacle terminal (2) is for mounting to pins stamped from pressed screens of automobile fuse and relay boxes, to adapt pin terminals thereof in... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5853305 | Connection clip to a busbar for a draw-in multipole circuit breaker or system A connection clip electrically connects one of the contact terminal strips of a circuit breaker to a terminal strip for connection to a busbar. At least one opposed pair of independent contact fingers in the form of a bridge is made of conducting material... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5676570 | "F" port interface connector The method and system of the present invention provide an improved "F" port interface connector is provided having increased ampacity and greater reliability. The "F" port interface connector includes a generally cylindrical port having an insulative diel... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5588884 | Stamped and formed contacts for a power connector A power connector system according to the present invention includes a pin contact having two blades that are located parallel and opposed to each other and attached to each other by an U-shaped bridge. A socket contact is provided having two U-shaped cav... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5411419 | Multipole connection terminal and method for producing same This invention is to provide a multipole connecting terminal which can join a plurality of electric cables in the same direction. The multipole connecting terminal comprises first and second terminal connecting portions 40a and 40b formed on the opposite ... | 05/02/1995 |
