Molex Corporation

Francis Duggan

Eugene Folan

Seamus Doyle

Maurice Shanahan

Colm Conlon

Kieran Wright

Andreas Vogt

John Rochford

A high power electrical connector includes a plug and receptacle for use in a power transmission system. The plug includes a wire conductor attached to a mounting end and a circular contacting portion extending from a second end. The plug is configured to mate with a receptacle connector having a sleeve for engaging the circular extension and a mounting end for connection to a conductive wire. A contacting ring made from a braid provides a low resistance interface between the plug and receptacle minimizing the potential for heat buildup across the interface and minimizing electrical failure.

High power connector

An electrical connector system includes a connector mounted on a printed circuit board and mateable with a mating connector in a mating direction at an acute angle to the circuit board. A connector housing mounts at least two sets of first and second terminals. The connector housing is mountable on the circuit board in a mounting direction generally perpendicular to the board. The first terminals have tail portions extending in the mounting direction generally perpendicular to the circuit board. The second terminals have tail portions extending at an acute angle to the mounting direction. The printed circuit board has holes for receiving the tail portions of the first terminals and elongated slots for receiving the angled tail portions of the second terminals. The slots are sufficiently long to accommodate distal ends of the angled tail portions which extend at the acute angle to the mounting direction.

Circuit board mounted electrical connector

An electrical connector assembly is provided for mating with a complementary second connector. The assembly includes a housing mounting a terminal module for movement relative to the housing between a projecting position and a retracted position. The terminal module includes a dielectrical module body having a front mating end which projects from the housing and a rear mounting end which mounts the terminal module in the housing for movement between said positions. A plurality of conductive terminals are mounted on the module body and include front flexible contact ends projecting from the front mating end of the module body for engaging appropriate terminal contacts of the complementary second connector. When the second connector is mated with the connector assembly, the contacts of the second connector engage the front flexible contact ends of the terminals and move the terminal module from its projecting position to its retracted position.

Electrical connector assembly

A jack assembly includes a contact switching system for receiving a coaxial plug. The assembly includes an insulative housing having a plug-receiving chamber. A fixed terminal is mounted on the housing and has a fixed switch contact portion located outside the chamber. A moveable terminal is mounted on the housing and includes a spring arm located inside the chamber in the path of insertion of the coaxial plug. A movable switch contact portion is connected to the spring arm for movement therewith into and out of engagement with the fixed switch contact portion. The movable switch contact portion is located outside the chamber. Therefore, engagement of the coaxial plug with the spring arm inside the chamber is effective to cause relative movement of the switch contact portions outside the chamber.

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Shannon, Ireland

Francis Duggan