Molex Corporation

Daniel M Palmieri

Richard R Edgley

William R Lenz

Rupert J Fry

Timothy R Ponn

Lawrence D Kroeger

Terri L Brewster

A strain relief system is provided for holding an electrical cable to a printed circuit board. The system includes a flat flexible cable including a plurality of parallel conductors with insulation around the conductors and a web of insulation between adjacent conductors. The web has an opening therethrough. A cable retention clip is provided for holding the cable to the board. The clip includes a base engaged in the cable opening, and a boardlock leg projecting from the base into an appropriate mounting hole in the printed circuit board.

Strain relief system for holding cables to circuit boards

An electrical connector system is provided for a video display tube yoke. The system includes a header mounted on the yoke and including a header body and a plurality of stiff terminal pins projecting from the body and terminated to appropriate leads from the yoke. A connector mates with the header and includes a dielectric housing having a plurality of terminal-receiving cavities and a plurality of pin-receiving passages communicating with the cavities. A plurality of terminals are received in the cavities. Each terminal includes a terminal portion adapted to be terminated to a wire conductor, and a trap portion aligned with one of the terminal-receiving passages. The trap portion is adapted to receive and trap one of the stiff terminal pins of the header. Latches are provided between the header and the connector to hold the connector in mated condition with the header.

Electrical connector system for a video display tube yoke

A packaging system is disclosed for a plurality of electrical connectors each having a longitudinal axis between opposite ends thereof. The system includes an elongated carrier strip having a given width on which the electrical connectors are mounted. The connectors are mounted adjacent each other in an end-to-end array with the longitudinal axes of the connectors extending in the longitudinal direction of the carrier strip.

Packaging system for electrical connectors

A device is disclosed for facilitating insertion of an exposed conductive element, such as an exposed wire end of an electrical cable, into an electrical connector in termination with a terminal in the connector. The device is in the form of a shroud of insulating material secured to an insulating portion of the conductive element and substantially surrounding a conductor portion of the conductive element. The shroud is configured to allow the conductor portion to be inserted into the connector in termination with the terminal therein. In the preferred embodiment, the shroud is insert molded to the insulating portion of the conductive element.

Shroud device for electrical conductors

A stamped and formed, unitary, metal wire trap speaker terminal used in coupling a speaker wire extending from an audio speaker to a lead wire for an audio system of an entertainment appliance includes a base portion and a wire trap receiving portion. The base portion to which is coupled the speaker wire has wings or arms that are adapted to be wrapped about a thin, rectangularly shaped insulator that is affixed to a frame member of the audio speaker. The wire trap receiving portion extends from one edge of the base portion, preferably at an angle of about 150 degrees, and has a wire receiving cavity so that a stripped end portion of the lead wire may be inserted through a wire receiving or entry port having divergently extending wire guides to aid the assertion of the stripped end portion of the lead wire into the wire receiving cavity. A cam contact beam is formed from one of the walls forming the wire receiving cavity and obliquely extends into the wire receiving cavity. When the stripped conductor portion of the lead wire is inserted into the wire receiving cavity, the conductor is trapped or locked between the contact beam and an opposite wall of the wire receiving cavity resulting in the coupling of the conductor of the lead wire to the terminal and thereby to the speaker wire.

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Bloomingdale, IL, United States of America

Daniel M Palmieri