Amp LLC

Gary Lee Zimmerman

Richard P Clark

Albert Casciotti

David Murray Little

John A Rehm

A carrier housing is disclosed having a plurality of parallel spaced receptacles, each receptacle adapted to receive a loose piece electrical terminal therein. The housing serves several functions, first, to hold the terminals for mass handling and/or insertion of loose piece terminals, second, as a means to assure correct alignment of the loose piece terminals, and third, as a housing to at least partially support and insulate the terminals after the terminals have been inserted into a printed circuit board or the like. The carrier housing can be formed in either continuous or discrete length.

Loose piece terminal mounting assembly

An improved electrical contact is disclosed formed from a sheet metal stock base which has been skived and inlaid with at least one strip of metal having different electrical and/or mechanical characteristics from the base metal to thereby form an improved electrical contact. The inlaid strips can include a strip of noble metal to improve the electrical characteristics of the contact at the point of engagement with a mating contact. At least one solder repelling strip can be inlaid so that the resulting contact may be dip or wave soldered without the danger of the solder being wicked into the contact. A further inlaid strip can include a solder material so that the contact can be soldered by a reflow operation.

Inlaid contact

An improved connector housing assembly is disclosed having a double row of contact cavities with both rows being closed entry. The double row of contact receiving cavities are separated by a wall having an integral hinged portion movable from a first position, in alignment with the cavities, to a second position normal to the cavities and closing one row of cavities.

Closed entry connector housing

Two dielectric housings are mounted respectively to printed circuit boards. When the housings are mated together the two printed circuit boards will be connected electrically together with pins on the one board within receptacles of the other board. One of the housings is connected to an edge margin of the board and is provided with a chamfered lip which covers the edge of the board and provides a polarizing structure to permit interconnection between the two housings when oriented as desired.

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Shermansdale, PA, United States of America

Gary Lee Zimmerman