Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Tyco Electronics Corporation

Te Connectivity Corporation

Electrolux Home Products, Inc.

Te Connectivity Services Gmbh

Te Connectivity Solutions Gmbh

Berg Technology, Inc.

Tyco Electronics Canada Ulc

Te Connectivity Italia Distribution S.r.l.

Mercury Systems, Inc.

Te Connectivity Soultions Gmbh

Tyco Electronics Co., Ltd.

Chong Hun Yi

Kuan-Yu Chen

Matthew Richard McAlonis

Dustin Carson Belack

Tod M Harlan

Kevin Michael Thackston

Brian Keith Weaver

Albert Tsang

Pei Tsao

Iosif R Korsunsky

Keith Edwin Miller

Eric Juntwait

Gary Ellsworth Biddle

Richard Benjamin Emenheiser

Joseph Ortega

James M Sabo

William James Moyer, Ii

Gary Altemose

Robert A Astle

Kevin E Walker

Thomas W McCollough

Raony Barrios

Ramesh Subramanian

Marcello Correa Machado

Nicholas Paul Ruffini

William Thomas Anniss, Iii

William L Small

Christopher Stephan Rousey

Willard Grant

George Nicholas Lauri, Iii

Stephen Thomas Morley

Ronald Skovira

Jia-Yong He

Joanne E Shipe

Kyle Gary Annis

Richard C Batley, Iii

Richard L Malehorn

Terrance F Little

Brent David Yohn

Robert William Brown

Matthew David Morrison

Tom Morris

Christopher A Rowland

Charles (Chuck) Blichasz

Matthew Richard Mcalonis

David James Fabian

Lei Pan

Robert Neil Mulfinger

Lewis Robin Johnson

Stephen Sedio

Jim Xin Zhao

Yuan-Chieh Lin

Scott Keith Mickievicz

John M Spickler

Darryl J McKenney

Lawrence Se-Jun Oh

Scott Eric Walton

John Louis McKibben

Jared Joseph Smalley, Jr

Andrew Dewitt Balthaser

Kurt Allan Randolph

Divya Shukla

Stanrich Dwayne Fernandes

Denver Harley Wilson

Brian Todd Klinger

Paul Walter McDowell

James Scott Showers

Thomas Gregory Gartlan

Rodney Thomas Smith

Stephen J Descioli

Michael Christopher D'Imperio

Kemper C Walke, Iii

Erica L Ouellette

James Koser

Robin Johnson

Richard (Rick) Emenheiser

Richard (Dick) Malehorn, Ii

Fulvio Calvone

Pai B Ramachandra Rajendra

Stephen J Morley

Stephen Descioli

Matt Richard McAlonis

Simon Boutin

Steven Jon McIntire

James Doucette

Darryl J Mckenney

Simon Andre Boutin

A filter base for receiving a complementary mating filter housing assembly. The filter base includes a base platform having fluid ingress and egress stanchions, and a wire harness assembly including a connector housing integral with or connected to the base platform for establishing an electrical connection between the filter base and the filter housing assembly. The wire harness assembly includes conductors extending between first and second connectors, with one or more resilient contacts provided on the second connector. The connector housing has an upper surface and an oppositely facing lower surface and is dimensioned to receive a first end portion of the one or more contacts. The contacts are flexible from a first position to a second position when a mating portion of the one or more contacts engages a mating connection surface of the filter housing assembly. The mating connection surface may be a circuit pad of a printed circuit board, wherein the contact mating portions are configured to be positioned in mechanical and electrical engagement with the circuit pads when the filter housing assembly is received within the filter base.

Filter base for electronic connection to mating filter housing assembly

A wire harness assembly including a first connector, a second connector, and conductors extending between the first connector and the second connector. Contacts are provided on the second connector. The contacts have termination sections which are mounted on the second connector, compliant sections which extend from the termination sections, and substrate engagement sections which extend from the compliant sections. The substrate engagement sections have curved contact sections which are configured to be positioned in mechanical and electrical engagement with circuit pads of a mating printed circuit board. Embossments are provided on the curved contact sections to provide additional strength and stability to the curved contact sections.

Electrical connector and wire harness assembly with compression contacts

A plug-in connector having terminal provided in terminal receiving cavities. The terminals have memory card engagement sections. A memory card receiving slot is provided in the housing. The memory card receiving slot spans the terminal receiving cavities. A portion of the memory card receiving slot is in alignment with each of the terminal receiving cavities. An elongated opening extends between the memory card receiving slot and the terminal receiving cavities. A memory card is positioned in the memory card receiving slot. The memory card stores data which is identifiable to the specific device and allows the data to be easily conveyed.

Connector with memory card

An electrical contact and lead frame having a contact base and a tab section. The tab section extends from the contact base. The tab section has a first wall and an oppositely facing second wall. The first wall and the second wall are configured to make an electrical and mechanical connection to a mating receptacle portion of a mating contact of a first mating plug assembly. An insulation displacement slot is provided in the tab section. The insulation displacement slot extends from the end surface. The insulation displacement slot is configured to make an electrical and mechanical connection to electrical conductors of a second mating assembly.

Combination terminal blade with tabs and insulation displacement slots

Latch

An electrical/mechanical switching having a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is a neutral terminal and has a first terminal power engagement tab and a first terminal engagement tab with a first terminal copper dimple. The second terminal is a neutral terminal and has a second terminal mating engagement tab and a second terminal engagement tab with a second terminal copper dimple. A cam member is provided proximate the first terminal engagement tab and is movable between a first position and a second position to move the first terminal engagement tab into electrical and mechanical engagement with the second terminal engagement tab. An opening projection is provided proximate the first terminal engagement tab and the second terminal engagement tab and is movable between a first position and a second position to separate the first terminal engagement tab and the second terminal engagement tab.

Electrical/mechanical switching module

An embodiment is directed to a grounding terminal for mounting on a grounding surface. The grounding terminal has a top wall having a first mounting opening and a bottom wall having a second mounting opening. The second mounting opening is in alignment with the first mounting opening to receive mounting hardware therethrough. A first side wall extends between the top wall and the bottom wall at angles other than 90 degrees. A second side wall extends between the top wall and the bottom wall at angles other than 90 degrees. As the mounting hardware is tightened, the shape and positioning of the side walls relative to the top wall and bottom wall reduces the amount of torque required to move the top wall toward the bottom wall to allow for the mounting hardware to be tightened without the need for special tooling.

Grounding terminal

An electrical connector having a latch which extends from the first housing surface of the housing. A mounting portion extends from the latch arm to the first housing surface. A first mounting surface of the mounting portion extends at a first angle from the first housing surface in a direction toward the mating connector latching end. The first mounting surface extends from the first latch arm surface at a second angle. The length of the mounting portion as measured between a vertex of the first angle and a vertex of the second angle along the first housing surface is greater than the distance that the first latch arm surface is spaced from the first housing surface. The latch arm is pivotable about the mounting portion. The latch and the mounting portion have low stress concentrations when the latch arm is pivoted about the mounting portion.

Resilient latch with low stress concentrations

An electrical connector having a housing with a mating face and a wire-receiving face. Terminal-receiving cavities extend from the mating face toward the wire-receiving face. A receiving cavity extends from the wire-receiving face to an end wall provided at an end of the terminal-receiving cavities. The receiving cavity has a first section provided proximate the wire-receiving face and a second section provided proximate the end wall at the end of the terminal-receiving cavities. A transition wall is provided between the first section and the second section. A rear cover member is provided proximate the wire-receiving face. The receiving cavity is configured to receive a gang sealing member in the first section or individual wire sealing members in the second section to form a seal between the housing and the respective gang sealing member or the individual wire sealing members.

Electrical connector which accepts different seal configurations

An electrical contact includes a contact portion for mating with a mating contact, a wire barrel and an insulation barrel. The insulation barrel has a lead-in projection extending from the insulation barrel toward the wire barrel. The insulation barrel has a first crimping arm and a second crimping arm, with the first crimping arm positioned closer to the wire barrel than the second crimping arm. The lead-in projection is attached to and extends from the first crimping arm. The lead-in projection has a free end which extends proximate to the wire barrel and proximate to an electrical conductor of an electrical wire terminated in the wire barrel. The wire barrel is crimped to the electrical conductor of the electrical wire terminated in the wire barrel and the insulation barrel is crimped to an insulation sleeve of the electrical wire terminated in the wire barrel.

Insulation crimp with lead-in projection

An electrical connector having a housing with a shrouded latch. The shrouded latch has a latch arm which extends between shrouded latch walls. The shrouded latch walls have first projections and second projections. A connector position assurance device is positioned proximate to and movable relative to the shroud latch and the latch arm between a first position and a second position. The connector position assurance includes side members with inner surfaces positioned proximate to the shrouded latch walls. The side members have first projection receiving recesses which cooperate with the first projections and the second projections when the connector position assurance device is in the first position. The side members have second projection receiving recesses which cooperate with the second projections when the connector position assurance device is in the second position.

Electrical connector with a connector position assurance member for a shrouded latch

An electrical connector with a wire seal member. The wire seal member has seal member openings which extend through the seal member. Recesses are provided proximate the seal member openings and extend about the circumference of the seal member openings, the recesses extend from a first surface of the seal member in a direction toward a second surface. A rear-loaded cover/retainer is positioned proximate the wire seal member. The cover/retainer has cover/retainer openings, the cover/retainer openings are positioned to align with the seal member openings. The cover/retainer openings have projections which are positioned about the circumference of the cover/retainer openings. Wherein as the projections of the cover/retainer are moved into the recesses of the wire seal member, the projections enter the recesses and cause the seal member openings to interact with and seal the wire conductors.

Electrical connector having a rear seal and a rear-loaded cover/retainer member

Sealed rear-loaded electrical connector housings, assemblies and systems are disclosed. The housing includes a connector having a TPA cap including an aperture and a TPA leg, a rear wire seal including a wire aperture and a TPA leg aperture, and a housing including a positioning surface. In a pre-loaded configuration, the rear wire seal is inserted into the housing, and the TPA cap is mounted onto the housing with the aperture aligned with the wire aperture and the TPA leg disposed at least partially in the TPA leg aperture. In a loaded configuration, the TPA cap is mounted deeper onto and locked in place on the housing, and the TPA leg passes through the TPA leg aperture forming a water-tight seal with the TPA leg aperture. The assembly includes the connector and a wire-crimped terminal disposed in the connector. The system includes a first connector and a second connector.

Sealed rear-loaded electrical connector housings, assemblies, and systems

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