Tyco Electronics Corporation

Christopher Lee Allgood

John Raymond Shuey

David Allen Klein

Jeremy Christin Patterson

Jimmy Glenn Grubbs

Garold Micheal Yurko

Don Harold Crowe

A connector assembly which has a housing and a cover. The housing has a connector mating face and a cover mating face. The cover is removably attached to the housing. The cover has a wire receiving cavity with an opening at the end of the cavity. One or more receptacle carrier receiving cavities extend through respective openings on either side of the housing, thereby allowing one or more receptacle carriers to be inserted into the respective receptacle receiving cavities through the respective openings on either side of the housing. The cover can be positioned on the housing in different orientations.

Connector assembly with receptacle carriers

A terminalfor use in connecting a battery cableto a rectangular bladeon a batteryincludes a terminal bodyand a spring member or multiple contact band. The spring memberis fabricated from a material that is more elastic than the terminal bodyto reduce mating force, but still generate sufficient normal force to provide a good connection to the rectangular blade. The multiple contact spring bandhas a plurality of spring beams in the form of twisted louvered spring beamsor curved spring beams. The spring memberis positioned within a receptacle sectionof the terminal bodythat includes two parallel walls. The terminal bodyalso includes a wire termination section for attaching the terminalto a battery cable. Inline and right angle versions of the terminals employ similar spring members

High current automotive electrical connector and terminal

An electrical connector includes a housing having a mating end and a wire receiving end. A cover is provided on the wire receiving end of the housing. The cover has a ridge on an interior surface thereof to stabilize the cover on the housing. The cover flexes about the ridge when the cover is mounted on the housing. A connector position assurance element (CPA) is slidably received in a channel on the cover and is movable between a pre-staged position and a staged position. The CPA engages a connector latch on the housing to assure that a mating connector is fully mated to the connector when the CPA is in the staged position. The CPA includes a simply supported latch beam having a latch element thereon that engages a step in the channel to latch the CPA to the cover.

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Lexington, NC, United States of America

Christopher Lee Allgood