Amp LLC

Tyco Electronics Corporation

The Whitaker Corporation

David B Sinisi

Lee Andrew Barkus

Edward John Bright

Jeffrey Byron McClinton

Steven J Kandybowski

Attalee Snarr Taylor

David Allison Trout

Robert H Frantz

Jason M'Cheyne Reisinger

Keith McQuilkin Murr

Richard Nicholas Whyne

Robert Daniel Hilty

Matthew M Sucheski

Wilmer L Sheesley

Darrell Lynn Wertz

William R Evans

Andrew Dewitt Balthaser

Jeffrey George Pennypacker

Peter Clark O'Donnell

Carolyn S Sinisi

Hollis P Raymond

An electrical connector is provided. The electrical connector includes a substrate and an elastomeric element extending outwardly from the substrate. The elastomeric element extends outwardly from a base portion thereof at the substrate to an end portion thereof that is opposite the base portion. An electrical contact engages an electrically conductive element of the substrate. The electrical contact has a portion extending over at least a portion of the end portion of the elastomeric element.

Electrical connector with elastomeric element

A socket is provided which has an insulative housing surrounding a metal substrate. The substrate has an array of apertures which are located in spatially arranged order to accommodate the precise pattern desired for the device to be connected. Contact assemblies include stamped and formed contacts having an insulative plastic molded over a central section of the contact. The molded inserts are receivable in the apertures of the substrate and are later swaged to retain them and the contacts to the substrate.

Metal contact LGA socket

This invention is directed to an electrical connector, particularly an electrical ballast connector, that offers a reliable means preferably to extract electrical conductors therefrom. The connector comprises a dielectric housing having a plurality of cavities therein extending between a contact loading face and a conductor receiving face, where the conductor receiving face includes an aligned row of conductor openings of a like plurality, where each opening includes a lateral slot in communication with the cavities. A stamped electrical contact is provided within each cavity, where said contact includes a base and a pair of spaced apart arms upstanding therefrom, where the inner edge of a first arm is aligned with its corresponding conductor opening, and the other arm includes an angular extension directly downwardly and toward the first arm. The end most edge of the other arm is aligned with and exposed to its corresponding conductor opening, and at least a portion of the angular extension is exposed to its corresponding lateral slot, whereby an extraction member may be received in the lateral slot to laterally flex or pivot the angular extension to provide a free path for the electrical conductor so as to remove the electrical conductor from contact with said inner edge. Finally, antioverstressing means are provided to limit the flexing or pivotal action of the angular extension.

Ballast connector for lighting fixture

An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing including a transverse body section and a shroud portion extending forwardly therefrom and defining a cavity, an array of pin contact members extending forwardly of the body section and within the cavity and at least one pair of closely spaced elongate members within the cavity. The elongate members extend to respective leading ends forwardly beyond the leading edge of the shroud portion and cooperate with the shroud portion and with each other to disallow inadvertent entry of a human finger into the cavity proximate pin contacts adjacent the elongate members. The pair of elongate members further provide aligning and keying means for the connector.

Receptacle connector having protected power contacts

A micro-strip type connector is disclosed having a one-piece receptacle ground bus. The connector includes two parallel rows of signal contacts, one row on each side of the ground bus, the signal contacts and the bus bar having solder tails that extend through plated through holes in a substrate, such as a printed circuit board, and are soldered in place there. The one-piece receptacle ground bus includes a flat vertically disposed root section, a plurality of first contact beams in a row and extending from the top edge of the root section and a plurality of members extending from the bottom edge which are bent around through 180 degrees to be parallel with the root section and extending upwardly to form another row of second contact beams, the two rows of beams converging. A plurality of solder tails extend from the bottom edge of the root section.

Connector with one piece ground bus

An improved electrical contact element for use in connector housings. More particularly, the contact element includes a U-shaped retention section having one resilient leg extending obliquely outwardly. Further included is a resilient web in between and connecting the forward termination section and retention section to provide a degree of independent movement of the former relative to the latter.

Electrical contact element

A stiffener device for use with electrical connectors. More particularly, the stiffener device includes a rigid L-shaped member having a groove in which an electrical connector is slidingly received and locking clips which are attached to the connector and frictionally received in a channel in the L-shaped member to prevent relative movement between the member and connector.

Electrical connector stiffener device

A heat sink (60) having one or more cooling fins (64) along a central shaft (66) is securable to an active device substrate (12) by a spring clip (80) whose latch sections (92) are latched under latch projections (44) on side walls (40) of the housing (30) to which the substrate (12) is mounted. The bow-shaped formed wire spring clip (80) has arcuate inner sections (82) disposed against the central shaft (66) of the heat sink (60) and exerts spring force downwardly on a retention fin (68) of the heat sink (60) when latched to the housing (30), which holds the bottom surface (62) of the heat sink (60) against the top substrate surface (22) to create a thermal connection.

Retention system for removable heat sink

An electrical connector for positioning between and electrically interconnecting electrical components. The electrical connector includes a dielectric housing having compartments and contact elements freely disposed in the compartments and having cantilever spring arms supporting conductive contact areas at the free ends thereof for electrical engagement with conductive pads or the like on the electrical components.

Electrical connector for interconnecting arrays of conductive areas

A zero insertion force card edge connector for mounting on a backplane and receiving therein a daughter card whereby circuits on the backplane and card are electrically interconnected through contact members in the connector. More particularly, the connector includes cam members, slidably mounted between an upper and lower housing for driving spring arms on the contact members into engagement with conductive pads on thedaughter card. The cam members further move the upper housing downwardly, in cooperation with the spring arms which are preloaded in the connector, to remove restraining members which otherwise restrain the spring arms from entering the card slot and engaging the conductive pads.

Zero insertion force card edge connector

The present invention relates to a chip carrier socket having two opposing hinged frames, one to clamp and positively latch the other against the carrier. More particularly the socket contains a plurality of contact elements with generally horizontally extending contact surfaces to engage the carrier pads. The hinged frames include one having a double spring construction for bearing against the carrier and another having extended arms overlying the first frame and clamping it against the carrier.

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Harrisburg, PA, United States of America

David B Sinisi