Amp LLC

Frederick W Rossler, Jr

Frank P Dola

Steven Feldman

William B Long

John H Lauterbach

Kermit M Jones, Jr

Gerald M Anderson

Temperature sensor in plug form comprises a plastic body member having a bore with a metallic sensing member in one end, a thermistor in the bore, and a contact member with a spring portion in the bore and a contact portion extending through a slot in the body member from the bore to the other end of the body. Contact portion has electrical terminal for wire attachment and spring portion maintains contact with thermistor. Sensing member has retaining arms which extend into grooves in threaded cylindrical surface of body which are threaded as body is screwed into place in an engine block.

Temperature sensor

A strain relief bushing having camming strain relief means for grasping a cord located therein. The strain relief bushing may be rotatably engaged and disengaged. It may be applied to existing cord, located in an aperture for later cord application or applied contemporaneously therewith.

Strain relief

A multi contact electrical connector for interconnection of a ground-signal multi-conductor flat cable to a plurality of electric circuit elements such as terminal posts extending from a panel is disclosed. The connector includes a plurality of discrete terminals in a multi-contact insulating housing with a ground bus mounted on the housing. Conductor template surfaces are located on oppositely facing insulating cover members. The free ends of the conductors in the flat cable are reoriented during assembly of the connector so that proper ground and signal electrical terminations can be established using slotted plate terminal members located on centerlines differing from that employed in the cable itself.

Flat cable connector having wire deployment means

A stamped and formed connector for connecting semi-rigid conduit to electric boxes is disclosed. The subject connector is stamped from flat sheet metal stock in continuous fashion and is subsequently formed to have a conduit engaging portion and a connector box engaging portion. An end of a length of semi-rigid conduit is securely held in an aperture in the base of the connector while the connector itself can be readily mounted in an aperture of a junction box or the like.

Semi-rigid conduit connector

A two piece electrical terminal for use with stranded electrical wires such as those used in aluminum utility cables is disclosed. A device for establishing this electrical termination comprises two mutually rotatable members each having eccentric bores. Misalignment of the bores results in the establishment of intimate metal-to-metal contact between the individual strands and between the outer strands and with the die-cast body of the connector.

Eccentric bore electrical connecting device

Multi-contact electrical connector comprises a housing and cover members. The housing has a mating end, a rearward end, and laterally facing sides which extend between the mating and rearward ends. Contact terminals are contained in the housing and arranged in parallel rows which extend across the laterally facing sides. Each terminal has a wire-receiving portion which is dimensioned to receive a wire and establish electrical contact therewith upon movement of the wire laterally of its axis and into the wire-receiving portion. An electrical commoning means extends across the sides of the housing adjacent to the rearward end thereof and also has spaced-apart wire-receiving portions for reception of ground wires in a cable. The cover members are dimensioned such that they can be assembled to the side surfaces of the housing and each cover member has wire-receiving grooves or channels therein in which the wires of the cable can be positioned prior to assembly of the cover members to the housing. When the cover members are assembled to the housing, the wires are inserted into the wire-receiving portions of the terminals and into the wire-receiving means of the commoning means. A method of positioning the wires and the cover members and assembling the cover members to the housing is also disclosed.

Connector having wire locating means

Lighting unit assembly which is adapted to be mounted in a panel comprises a housing having wall portions which define a plurality of enclosures, each enclosure surrounding a lamp bulb mounting site. The lamp bulbs are mounted in removable lamp bulb connectors which have contact terminals which are in contact with the bulb and are also in disengageable contact with terminals in a tap connector. The tap connectors are mounted in the housing adjacent to the lamp bulb sites and the conductors extend through these tap connector housings and are electrically connected to the tap connector terminals. The lighting unit assembly is completely pre-wired and assembled so that when it is inserted into a panel, a harness connector on the conductors in the assembly can be immediately coupled to a complementary harness connector.

Lighting unit assembly

A connector for affixing a flexible conduit having external helical grooves to an electrical junction box is disclosed. The connector comprises a stamped and formed metallic retaining clip in conjunction with a rigid housing. The clip engages the helical grooves and also establishes contact with a circular hole in one face of the junction box. Both a secure mechanical and electrical connection are established so that the metallic conduit and the metallic junction box can serve as a continuous electrical ground. A straight-through and a right angle version of the connector are disclosed. The retaining clip is mounted in the housing so that the connector snaps into the circular hole and can be removed without damage.

Flexible conduit connector

An electrical connector for commoning a plurality of conductors, such as insulated wires, employs two similar mating insulating housings and a terminal plate formed from a resilient conductive metal. Conductor contact means such as parallel edge slots extend inwardly from two opposed edges of the terminal plate. The terminal plate is mounted in recesses formed in the housings and wire supporting passages traverse the recesses so that the electrical connection can be established between the various conductors and the terminal plate.

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New Port Richey, FL, United States of America

Frederick W Rossler, Jr