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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7175489 | Joint terminal, a joint connector and a production method therefor Joint terminals (20c) and a housing (10) are united by a press-in operation instead of being united by insert molding. Thus, there is no likelihood that an injection pressure will deform the joint terminals (20c). The joint termina... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7175480 | Connector and a terminal fitting A terminal fitting (20) has close-contact portions (24) that frictionally engage inner walls (11a) of a press-in hole (11), biting projections (25) behind the close-contact portions (24) for biting in the inner walls ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7172472 | Joint connector, a joint terminal, and a production method for joint terminal A joint terminal (20c) has a coupling (41) that initially is substantially parallel with a carrier (51). The coupling (41) has an intermediate portion (45) joined to the carrier (51) by an extension (52) and is... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7018246 | Maintenance of uniform impedance profiles between adjacent contacts in high speed grid array connectors An electrical contact that is particularly suitable for use in high speed, grid array connectors is disclosed. The contact includes a retention member extending along a length thereof. The retention member is adapted to retain the contact within a connector base and... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7008250 | 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... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6974355 | Connector A connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of terminals received in the receiving holes. The insulative housing includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and third and fourth surfaces connected between the first surfac... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6839428 | Sealed terminating device A terminating device for interconnecting service provider wiring with subscriber wiring includes a base, a customer bridge, a removable cover and insulation displacement contacts for terminating the service provider wiring and the subscriber wiring. The insulation d... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6832932 | Coaxial cable connector having anti-rotational features An electrical connector including a center conductor assembly having an inner conductor, an insulator and center a contact for electrically coupling with a mating connector. The center contact includes at least one spur which engages with the insulator to resist rot... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6672886 | Electrical connector having improved contacts A male connector (10) includes first and second individual housing portions (28, 30) engaging with each other, a number of printed substrates (16) held by the first housing portion and a number of signal contacts (18) and a number of grounding terminals (... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6461175 | IC card connector with grounding terminal member An IC card connector is provided with grounding terminal members, in which a pair of grounding terminal members has simple structure and common shape allowing a reduced cost and easy fabrication. The IC card connector is provided with a housing with a plu... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6379195 | Electrical junction box and its assembling method An electrical junction box consists of a relay terminal, a housing member having a receiving cavity formed therein for receiving the relay terminal, a circuit body having a mating terminal which mates with the relay terminal, and a locking means provided ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6155885 | Terminal press-fitting construction in connector housing A terminal press-fitting construction in a connector housing includes terminal press-fitting open holes 22, formed in the connector housing 21, and terminals 23 inserted respectively in the terminal press-fitting open holes 22 in a press-fitted manner. Ch... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6149471 | Arrowhead retention feature for a terminal pin A terminal retention feature for retaining a terminal pin in a terminal block is disclosed. The retention feature includes an arrowhead shape having barbs thereon. The barbs are tapered on the front side to reduce insertion forces and eliminate deformatio... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6109981 | Socket contact A socket contact includes at its one end a connection portion to be connected to a board, at its center a fixing portion to be fixed to an insulator and at the other end two contact pieces having contact portions, respectively, for receiving therebetween ... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6093062 | Structure of a connector terminal An improved structure of a connector terminal is disclosed. A material belt is punched with a bank of plural female terminals. One end of each female terminal is connected to the material belt, and the end of the female terminal connected to the material ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 5989075 | Contact for electrical connector A contact for an electric connector is configured as an elongated post. The contact consists of a body portion, a terminal portion for being soldered to a substrate, a PCB for example, a contact portion for engaging with a corresponding contact in a matin... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5590463 | Circuit board connectors A process for fabricating an electrical connector by the steps of: providing a housing of thermoplastic material having a front surface which will constitute an exterior surface of the connector, a rear surface and an opening extending to the rear surface... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5489221 | Electrical connectors The four corners of the pressure section (20) of the contact (10) punched out of a metal sheet are rounded off to form an oval surface (22). The lower portion (38) of the contact mounting opening (32) of the housing (30) is made of the same configuration ... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5403215 | Electrical connector with improved contact retention A contact (10) has an intermediate body portion (11) provided with respective side edges (14, 15) formed with a protruding convex portion (16) and a recessed concave portion (17), respectively. The contacts (10) are slidably inserted into respective chann... | 04/04/1995 |
| 5378175 | Electrical connector for mounting on a printed circuit board An electrical connector is adapted for mounting on a printed circuit board. The connector includes a dielectric housing having a plurality of terminal-receiving passages. A plurality of standoffs project from the housing toward the printed circuit board t... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5320562 | Capped electric lamp A cap electric lamp of the type used in optical systems, for example, or as a vehicle headlamp, includes a glass lamp vessel with a first and a second neck-shaped portion in mutually opposing arrangement with seals through which current supply conductors ... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5263882 | Electrical connector with improved terminal retention means A retention system is provided for an electrical connector which includes a dielectric housing having at least one terminal-receiving cavity. A terminal is insertable through an insertion face of the housing into the cavity. The terminal is stamped from m... | 11/23/1993 |
| 5158479 | Connector with a fluid seal A connector having a male part and a matching female part, both parts are provided with mating faces extending essentially parallel to the plug-in direction and moving along each other when these parts mate with each other. One connector part is provided ... | 10/27/1992 |
| 5116263 | Connector for posted terminals Terminals having rectangular post sections of very small dimension are secured in housing passageways of an electrical connector, which passageways are molded using core pins larger in dimension than said very small dimensioned terminal post sections, so ... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5064391 | Asymmetrical high density contact retention An electrical connector (20) is disclosed which includes a dielectric housing (24) having first and second contact receiving channels (40) with each channel defining a pair of side walls (154,156). A rib (158) on the housing separates the first and second... | 11/12/1991 |
| 4936798 | Electrical connector The housing, which is of circular cross section, defines a series of spaced, terminal-receiving cavities arranged in a ring about the axis of the housing. An annular terminal retainer is received in an annular recess in the housing, at the outer periphery... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4804341 | Electrical connector A connector housing is formed with two kinds of terminal passages for receiving therein two kinds of terminals each of which has an electrical contact portion, a conductive lead connecting portion and a transition portion between the electrical contact po... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4802868 | Contact spring connector strip An improved contact spring connector strip of the type having a housing forming contact chambers and inlets, contact sets in the chambers, and a cover with passageways. The contact sets include springs, which engage stops formed in the inside wall of the ... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4799904 | Compliant tail connector An electrical connector formed from a solid material having a compliant end with a plurality of barb-like concentric rings formed about a hollow cavity formed in the material in which an axially extending channel has been formed for engaging a press fit t... | 01/24/1989 |
| 4772229 | Plug connector having separate terminal retaining member Connector plug comprises a housing having main body part and a separate terminal retaining member which retains the terminals in the cavities of the housing. The terminal retaining member extends into a recess which is between the ends of the main body of... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4695107 | Integrated circuit sockets A novel integrated circuit socket provides splash-preventing capillary action improving half-round section pins that seat better by means of a conical longitudinal shape that wedges in holes in conventional printed circuit boards. The pins have P.C. board... | 09/22/1987 |
| 4674816 | Electrical connection system To reliably prevent ingress of moisture to a connection between an electrical connecting cable or line to an electrical apparatus within a housing, the conductors of the cable or line are externally surrounded by an insulating layer which is of such a mat... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4626721 | Electrical connector for submergible motor pump assembly A submergible motor pump assembly with easy access to any part of the assembly by dismantling minimum elements, i.e. without requiring disassembly of the whole and without requiring discharge of lubricating oil for a mechanical seal. Also, plural balance ... | 12/02/1986 |
| 4618205 | Light fixture A light fixture for receipt of a wedge base bulb which is adapted to be surface mounted. The fixture includes a base plate member having a front side and a rear side. A socket member is molded integrally with the base member and extends outwardly from the... | 10/21/1986 |
| 4582383 | Terminal apparatus and a batch inserting type test plug for a drawer type relay A terminal apparatus and a batch inserting type test plug for a horizontal type case drawer protective relay allows for easy measuring and testing of a plurality of poles. The terminal apparatus has an inspection window on a front surface of upper and low... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4580869 | Connector and method of making it A connector insert of insulating material having connecting pins molded therein is force-fit into a connector shell formed as a unitary structure with pin shields. The connector shell is formed with guide pin openings at each end that receive guide pins u... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4566751 | Distributor cap with ignition cable A distributor cap for use in an internal combustion engine includes the ignition cable 5 having at one end thereof a terminal member 9. A bonding member 10 is molded from a hot-melt adhesive resin such as to bury both the terminal member and a portion of ... | 01/28/1986 |
| 4548454 | Electrical contact for a vehicle steering device Disclosed is a contact means for the transmission of signal or ignition current between the stationarily mounted steering column and the steering wheel rotatable with respect to the steering column. A contact track is fastened to the steering column and a... | 10/22/1985 |
