Auto Splice Systems Inc.

Tyco Electronics Services Gmbh

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Tyco Electronics Corporation

Te Connectivity Corporation

Carlisle Interconnect Technologies, Inc.

Autosplice, Inc.

Deutsch Engineered Connecting Devices, Inc.

Giuseppe Bianca

Robert Martin Bogursky

Alex Robert Rengifo

Leonid Foshansky

Mohamed Ikbal Ali

Joseph J Lynch

Douglas P Green

Scott C Proctor

James Friedhof

Richard Howe

Timothy Stephany

John Hover

James P Friedhof

An electrical connector contact has a body for receiving a conductor and for receiving a male pin contact. A spring is configured for engaging the pin contact and includes a plurality of spring fingers positioned for forming a bore with the spring fingers bent radially inwardly and configured for securing a pin in engagement with the body. A sleeve is configured for engaging the body to overlie the spring. Indentations are formed in the body at discrete positions around the body and extend radially inwardly into the pin section. The spring includes tongues extending radially inwardly and configured for extending into the indentations for securing the spring with the body.

Multiple piece contact for an electrical connector

A reverse-gender pin contact for use with a connector having a high density layout, includes a body having a hollow first portion extending along an axis for receiving a conductor. The first portion extends along the axis to a neck, the neck extending along the axis to an engaging end for insertion inside a mating socket contact. A retention feature extends from the neck transverse to the axis.

Reverse-gender pin contact for use with a connector having a high density layout

A male contact assembly includes a contact body having a mating end and a wire end opposite the mating end. The wire end has a wire barrel configured to receive and be terminated to a wire conductor. The male contact assembly includes a spring body having a front end and a rear end. The rear end is coupled to the mating end of the contact body such that the rear end of the spring body and the mating end of the contact body are coaxially aligned for a mating length. The front end of the spring body includes a male connector comprising at least one compliant beam. The at least one compliant beam of the male connector is resiliently deflected when connected to an external female connector.

Male contact assembly

A system for securing one or more electrical contacts within an electrical component includes a main housing defining a contact-retaining chamber, a base fixed within the contact-retaining chamber, a resilient retainer supported on the base and positioned around at least a portion of the one or more electrical contacts, a compressor within the contact-retaining chamber, wherein the resilient retainer is positioned between the base and the compressor, and a moveable actuator configured to be moved into a retaining position in which a retaining force is exerted into the compressor. The retaining force is translated into the resilient retainer to securely retain the electrical contact(s) within the electrical component.

Systems having an actuator forcing a resilient retainer through a compressor to secure electrical contacts in an electrical component

An electrical connector includes a shell with a chamber and an insert assembly received in the chamber. The insert assembly has cavities therethrough that are configured to receive contacts. The contacts are configured for electrical connection to mating contacts of a mating connector. The insert assembly has resilient latches extending from an outer periphery of the insert assembly that engage the shell to hold the insert assembly in the chamber.

Electrical connector having resilient latches

A system and method is provided for securing a spring body against a socket body, thereby reducing movement of the spring body during periods of vibration. Preferred embodiments of the present invention operate in accordance with a socket body that includes at least a proximal end, a spring body that includes at least a distal end, and a sleeve. In one embodiment of the present invention, the distal end of the spring body is configured to be placed over the proximal end of the socket body, and the sleeve is configured to be placed over the distal end of the spring body. The sleeve preferably includes an inner circumference that is sized to creating a frictional engagement between an inner surface of the sleeve and an outer surface of the spring body, and between an inner surface of the spring body and an outer surface of the socket body.

Multi-piece socket contact assembly

A new continuous carrier for surface mount or other electrical or mechanical parts, and a method of fabricating same, formed by molding one or a pair of continuous flexible film strips to a side or sides of a series of desired electrical or mechanical components such that the components are attached to the single strip or filament or suspended between the film strips or filaments. Following the initial molding step, the components, while still supported by the film strips or filament, are subjected to secondary processing Examples are: providing electrically-conductive coatings on the component throughout or selectively, providing electrically-conductive traces on the moldings, or molding in a second molding stage a part of a different composition or shape to the initial molded part. The film stips may be provided with sprocket holes or other equivalent structure for advancing the film strips during the molding process and for reeling up the result assembly onto a reel for sale or distribution to a PCB assembler.

Secondary processing for electrical or mechanical components molded to continuous carrier supports

A novel press-fit electrically-conductive contact member, as, for example, an electrically-conductive metal pin, characterized by a conforming section which has an elastically-deformable region which acts as a spring and which is adapted to engage a substrate hole in a press-fitting relationship. The conforming section comprises opposed beam members configured to accommodate a considerably larger hole tolerance yet still provide sufficient retention force to stabilize the pin during a soldering process that such substrates may typically undergo. The beam cross-sections are configured to allow them to occupy a side-by-side position. Contact members with the conforming section can be manufactured by a wire-forming process in which end-to-end connected pins are formed as a continuous strip needing no excess material for carrying the pins, nor are any air gaps formed between the pins, and thus the finished continuous strip of pins can be wound up on a reel.

Conforming press-fit contact pin for printed circuit board

A unitary metal clip is stamped from a flat strip of sheet metal which is bent to provide two pairs of generally V-shaped fingers which extend upwardly from a base and have opposing apexes. An L-shaped arm also extends upwardly from the base between the pairs of fingers and has a horizontal pick-up tab that is located at a height above the opposing apexes of the fingers. A pneumatic head of an automatic pick and place machine grabs the pick-up tab and removes the clip from a pocket of a supply tape unrolled from a reel. The base of the clip is positioned on a solder pad of a PC board before solder re-flow. The lower edge of the sidewall of an EMI shield may be pressed down to bend the pick-up tab downwardly and squeeze the sidewall between the apexes of the fingers.

Surface mount electromagnetic frequency interference shield clip

A novel press-fit pin or socket member, as, for example, an electrically-conductive metal pin, characterized by a knurl section which has spaced bumps and adjacent grooves perimetrically and longitudinally spaced from one another and which is adapted to engage a substrate hole in a press-fitting relationship. Pin or socket members with the knurl section can be manufactured by a wire-forming process in which end-to-end connected pins are formed as a continuous strip needing no excess material for carrying the pins, nor are any air gaps formed between the pins, and thus the finished continuous strip of pins can be wound up on a reel.

Continuous press-fit knurl pin

A continuous electrical connector or component part of plastic or metal manufactured by injection molding of axial segments in sequence. A novel in-line interlocking structure is provided for interlocking adjacent segments. The interlocking structure comprises overmolded end units wherein the next overmolded part fills in a hole or recess left in the previous molded part. Electrical or mechanical parts may, if desired, be simultaneously incorporated in the units of each segment during the molding process.

Continuous molded plastic components or assemblies

A feeder for a pick and place machine used in connection with the mounting of small discrete parts such as electrical and mechanical components comprises a frame and mechanisms connected to the frame for advancing a carrier tape product from a supply reel. The carrier tape product preferably includes a pair of spaced apart continuous parallel carrier tapes having a series of longitudinally spaced parts with opposite sides molded over adjacent inner side edges of corresponding ones of the carrier tapes so that each part bridges the two carrier tapes. The feeder further comprises a separation station mounted to the frame for receiving the carrier tape from the supply reel. Mechanisms in the separation station are provided for exerting a sufficient force between a part in the separation station and the carrier tape to physically separate the part from the carrier tape without substantially displacing the part from a predetermined location on the separation station so as to impair the ability of the head of a pick and place machine to pick up the part. Preferably the force is exerted by preventing the inner side edges of the tapes from moving upwardly, by restraining the outer side edges of the tapes from inward movement toward the part, and by deflecting the intermediate portions of the tapes upwardly, causing the inner side edges of the tapes to break away from the part.

Feeder for separating parts molded to a continuous carrier tape

A continuous stamping of plated metal components, with carrier links between their ends, for surface mount soldering. A strip of components is formed which can be individually easily separated at severance regions between the adjacent components. The severance regions are located in the carrier links between the components. Preferably, the carrier links are offset upwardly from a solderable surface (20) of the components, or alternatively may be coplanar with such surface (FIG. 17). The carrier regions (21) that remain after severance may also serve as an overtravel stop during insertion of the component into a support. In a two-row embodiment (FIG. 10), the carrier regions (50, 52) are formed to be asymmetrical in order to increase spacing between pins. Advantages include: less material required, lower cost for selective plating, adjustable pin length in the die, flat stamping, tip plating for better electrical contact, and scrapless end product.

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Temecula, CA, United States of America

Giuseppe Bianca