Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
439658000 | Having separate through-passageways for enabling securement of intermediate portion of conductors thereto | 19 |
20090017691 | In-line electrical disconnect with terminal holders - An electrical disconnect has a pair of selectably engageable enclosures each including a housing and a cap and one or more terminals supported therein. The terminals each have spring fingers at outer ends opposite wire ports in the cap to receive a stripped end of a wire in a push-in engagement. One terminal has a male blade and the other terminal has a female blade at forward ends thereof. The blades are releasably engageable in overlapping relation in an engagement zone. The housings have wire receiving receptacles therein which reside in the engagement zone when the enclosures are joined. A terminal holder biases the overlapping blades into contact with one another. The terminals are arcuately spaced about 120° from one another in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the connector. | 01-15-2009 |
20090061693 | CONNECTOR WITH FLEXIBLE REGION - Electrical connectors that contain a flexible region are provided. In one embodiment, a connector has a first portion that includes several channels and a second portion that has one or more channels. One or more of the channels may include conductors for electrical connections. The connector further comprises a flexible region that is configured to flexibly connect the first portion with the second portion. Further aspects of the invention relate to connection systems that include a connector having a flexible region. The connection system comprises a connector and an element, such as a connecting block, having one or more mounting surfaces. An alignment feature may be used to align the connector block with a connector. | 03-05-2009 |
20090264019 | CIRCUIT BOARD CONNECTOR - A circuit board connector is provided. The circuit board connector includes: a connector housing which is mounted on a circuit board; and a terminal which is press-fitted into the terminal press-fitting hole of the connector housing. The terminal includes: a terminal connecting portion which is disposed through the rear side of the connector housing to be connected to a mating connector; a press-fitting portion to be fixed to the connector housing; a board fixing portion fixed to the circuit board by soldering; and a coupling portion extending and bent toward a side of the circuit board to couple the press-fitting portion with the board fixing portion. The circuit board connector also includes a stress absorbing portion provided with a center hole which is provided on a midway of the coupling portion so as to absorb a stress by being deformed. | 10-22-2009 |
20100029137 | Connection unit and mounting process for such a connection unit - The invention relates a connection unit comprising an insert provided a front part and a back part provided with longitudinal through holes. At least one longitudinal through hole in the front part of the insert coincides with a longitudinal through hole in the back part. The connection unit includes at least one contact extending through a longitudinal through hole in the front part and through a longitudinal through hole in the back part of the insert. A front portion of the contact is provided with a stop pressing on a stop in the longitudinal hole in the front part of the insert. A back portion of said contact is provided with retaining means which require said back portion be forced into the longitudinal hole in the back part of the insert. The invention also relates a mounting process of such a connection unit, as well as a connection kit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100075541 | RELAY CONNECTOR FOR FLEXIBLE CABLES - A connector ( | 03-25-2010 |
20100081336 | CONNECTOR CONNECTION TERMINAL AND CONNECTOR USING THE SAME - A connector connection terminal has a fixed piece to be inserted and fixed to a base of a connector, a coupling portion projecting out from an upper side of the fixed piece, and a movable piece extending along the fixed piece from an upper end of the coupling portion and having one end as an upper contact and another end acting as an operation receiving portion. A lower contact is arranged at a position facing the upper contact of the upper side of the fixed piece. The operation receiving portion of the movable piece is operated with an operation lever rotatably supported by the base. An elastic arm is cut out with a slit formed along the upper side of the fixed piece to define a free end of the elastic arm as a lower contact. An aspect ratio of a cross-sectional area of the elastic arm is greater than or equal to 1.2. | 04-01-2010 |
20100136843 | PLUG-AND-SOCKET CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY - The proposed plug-and-socket connector assembly comprises a male plug with contact pins and a female receptacle with contact sockets. The receptacle comprises a slider, opening the sockets to pass the pins and closing them by tight clamping, an arm displacing the slider, a lock holding the slider so that the pins freely penetrate into the sockets, and a lock releasing button. Optionally, the arm can be substituted by a knob, shifting the slider on guides. The slider is designed as a frame with a grid of plates passing through rows of the sockets shaped as clamps having embracing portions for tightly gripping the pins. The first sockets' ends are fixed in the receptacle, the second ends thereof are movable, varying the embracing portions. The proposed assembly improves contact, simplifies the design of such devices, and reduces their size. | 06-03-2010 |
20100144205 | Carbon nanotube-based electrical connectors - Electrical connectors comprising carbon nanotubes, at least one polymer, and a metallic electrical conductor are described. The carbon nanotubes are dispersed in the polymer to create an electrically-conducting polymer dispersion. The metallic electrical conductor contacts the electrically-conducting polymer dispersion to form the electrical connector. The electrical connectors include standard electrical connections for incorporation into standard electrical circuit applications. Methods to prepare the electrical connectors are described. | 06-10-2010 |
20120045942 | Pluggable Cable Connector - A pair manager for use in securing a twin-axial cable to a printed circuit board is described. The pair manager comprises a generally block-shaped portion containing a pair of channels. The channels extend from the front face to the rear face of the block-shaped portion. An integral flange and a pair of integral fingers extend perpendicularly from the front face of the block-shaped portion. The flange extends generally from the center of the front face and the fingers extend from opposite edges of the front face. The fingers and flange function as a partial shield cavity around each pair of conductors. This design helps to maintain better impedance matching when connecting twin-axial cables to a printed circuit board. | 02-23-2012 |
20120149244 | SINKING ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH AN IMPROVED MOUNTING MEMBER - A sinking electrical connector defines a receiving space for receiving a corresponding plug and includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained on the housing, and a metal shell covering the housing. The shell includes a top wall, a bottom wall opposite to the top wall, a pair of side walls, and at least one mounting member. The mounting member has a first extending plate extending laterally from the side wall, a second extending plate extending backwardly from the first extending plate, a third extending plate extending inwardly toward the side wall from the second plate, and a mounting tail extending downwardly from the second extending plate to be mounted onto a printed circuit board. | 06-14-2012 |
20120295486 | REMOTE SOCKET APPARATUS - A remote socket apparatus comprises a socket to receive a remote electronics unit. The socket is configured to house multiple media to connect to remote electronics housed in the remote electronics unit. The socket includes a socket interface configured to mate with a remote electronics unit interface. At least one of the socket and remote electronics unit further includes an actuation mechanism configured to connect the multiple media simultaneously. The remote socket apparatus can be utilized in a network that provides in-building wireless (IBW) communications and in a converged network that also provides wired in-building telecommunications. | 11-22-2012 |
20130217266 | METHOD OF FORMING CONNECTOR WITH ISOLATED CONDUCTIVE PATHS - An apparatus includes a pair of connectors, two or more conductive paths formed in each connector in the pair of connectors, and a shroud encompassing at least a portion of the pair of connectors. The pair of connectors includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector is substantially more flexible than the second connector, and each connector in the pair of connectors includes a bulkhead. Each of the two or more conductive paths in each connector in the pair of connectors is electrically isolated from all other conductive elements in the pair of connectors. The shroud is located between the bulkheads and disposed about the pair of connectors when the pair of connectors are coupled together electrically. | 08-22-2013 |
20130225005 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERCONNECTING DISTRIBUTED POWER SOURCES - An apparatus and system for coupling power. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a trunk cable comprising a first conductor, a second conductor, and a third conductor; a first connector, wherein a first terminal of the first connector is conductively coupled to the first conductor; a second connector, wherein a first terminal of the second connector is conductively coupled to the second conductor; and a third connector, wherein a first terminal of the third connector is conductively coupled to the third conductor, and wherein the first, the second, and the third connectors are each adapted to couple to a different DC-AC power converter and an output of the trunk cable comprises three-phase AC power. | 08-29-2013 |
20130337695 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HAVING IMPROVED HOUSING - An electrical connector ( | 12-19-2013 |
20130337696 | JOINT CONNECTOR EXTENDING STRUCTURE AND JOINT CONNECTOR - A joint connector extending structure includes first and second connector terminals, first and second housings for housing the first and second connector terminals, and a joint connector configured to fit in first and second cutouts of the first and second housings laid on top of one another to engage with male contacts of the first and second connector terminals housed in the first and second housings thereby to conduct the first and second connector terminals and integrate the first and second housings. | 12-19-2013 |
20130344747 | RECHARGEABLE BATTERY SOCKET AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A rechargeable battery socket and the manufacturing method of making the same is disclosed. The rechargeable battery socket includes an insulating housing defining a number of terminal channels, a number of terminals received in the insulating housing, and a shell assembled to one side of the insulating housing. Each terminal includes a contacting portion received in corresponding terminal channel and a tail extending out of the insulating housing. Each terminal channel provides a pair of ribs on two opposite inside faces thereof. The contacting portion of the terminal cooperates with the rib to thereby secure the terminal in the insulating housing. | 12-26-2013 |
20140024262 | CONNECTOR - A connector includes a plurality of cavities ( | 01-23-2014 |
20140187096 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR - An electrical connector is provided in the present invention, including an insulating housing, a first group of conductive terminals, a second group of conductive terminals and a third group of conductive terminals. A mating section of the insulating housing forms a receiving cavity, which disposes at least one horizontal division plate therein to form multiple receiving semi-cavity. A horizontal retaining section and a vertical retaining section of each conductive terminal are received and retained into the mounting section of the insulating housing, the tails thereof extend outside the bottom surface of the mounting section, and the flexible contact section enters into the corresponding receiving semi-cavity of the mating section. The electrical connector of the present invention disposes a wider complementary margin along an up and down direction and a left and right direction, thereby ensuring a safe connection of the electrical connector and a complementary connector. | 07-03-2014 |
20140302721 | APPARATUS HAVING A CONNECTOR WITH ISOLATED CONDUCTIVE PATHS - An apparatus includes a pair of connectors and two or more conductive paths formed in each connector in the pair of connectors. The pair of connectors includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector is substantially more flexible than the second connector, and each connector in the pair of connectors includes a bulkhead. Each of the two or more conductive paths in each connector in the pair of connectors is electrically isolated from all other conductive elements in the respective connector. A shroud may be located between the bulkheads and disposed about the pair of connectors when the pair of connectors are coupled together electrically. | 10-09-2014 |