Amp LLC

Clifton W Huffnagle

John C Asick

Leroy J Morningstar

John A Woratyla

Charles I Tighe, Jr

Michael S Peppler

William Jeffrey Hudson, Jr

James Leon Groft

James Paul Ward

A mounting and grounding clamp has opposed members positioned from each other by a bight section. Undulating surfaces of the opposed members are adapted to engage respective surfaces of an insulated wing of a coaxial cable when the clamp is secured thereon via leg members captured by hook members. Contact members of one of the opposed members penetrates the cable wing and electrically engages the shielding material therein.

Mounting and grounding clamp for shielded cable

Apparatus is disclosed for terminating flexible flat electrical cable, including means for transposing selected pairs of adjacent conductors into a vertical orientation for subsequent common termination in a single terminal slot. The transposing means includes conductor pushing blades each of generally inverted U-shaped profile having outwardly divergent bottom surfaces, and a template having profiled channels therein defined by inwardly convergent sidewalls of a prescribed angled configuration. The cable is positioned above the template, and upon downward actuation of the conductor pushing blades against the selected pairs of adjacent conductors, said conductors are made to rotate into a vertical orientation while proceeding deeper into the profiled template channels. A combing member is further disclosed for preorientation of the selected conductor pairs prior to their insertion into the template.

Apparatus for transposing a pair of parallel and adjacent conductors

An improved conductor preparation and termination means and method are disclosed for terminating multi-conductor flat cable having a high density arrangement of conductors on close centerlines. The present invention is particularly useful for mass termination of flat transmission cable and/or ribbon cable. The subject method and means is primarily distinguished from the known methods and means for terminating cable in that in the present instance at least some of the conductors are pushed from the insulation of the cable to a position where they are exposed and can be engaged by suitable terminating means.

Connector for terminating high density cable

Method for terminating high density cable

A modular connector and scheme for crimping magnetic wire thereto are disclosed. The subject connector is particularly useful for interconnecting wires of magnetic coils, found in dot matrix print heads, directly to standard flat flexible cable, ribbon cable, or round wire conductors on closely centered grids. The connector allows for each coil to be individually repairable separate from all other coils and eliminates the previous assembly steps of splicing and soldering the wires of the coils onto a printed circuit board header which in turn was connected to a cable.

Modular connector and crimp arrangement for magnetic wire

An improved crimp barrel is described for making an insulation piercing crimp connection with flat flexible cable having thick insulation surrounding a heavy conductor. The subject crimp barrel provides added strength for the insulation piercing portions so as to enable penetration of relatively thick insulation without collapsing.

Crimp barrel for thick, flat, flexible cable

An insulation displacing contact and connector are disclosed for effecting electrical engagement with closely spaced conductors of a multi-conductor flat flexible cable. The elements of the contact include a plurality of parallel tines spaced along a plane defined by the axis of the conductor and defining therebetween at least two insulation displacing slots which form a tortuous path for the conductor. Latching means may be provided on the free end of at least one tine to engage and secure a cover to a contact carrying connector base.

Multi-contact connector and contact terminal for flat cable having a

A cam actuated connector assembly is disclosed for effecting a low insertion force mating of the connector assembly with a plurality of fixed pin or post terminals. The housing includes a first housing member adopted to hold therein a plurality of spring contact terminals and a second housing member receiving the first housing member therein with cam means therebetween for effecting relative movement of the housing members. In the normal relaxed condition of the connector assembly, the contacts are in a closed configuration. Upon actuation of the connector assembly for mating, the housing members are moved relative to one another by the cam means causing the contact terminals to be moved to an open position to receive the mating pin or post terminals. The subsequent release of the second housing member effects a closing of the terminals to an engaged condition.

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Camp Hill, PA, United States of America

Clifton W Huffnagle