The Whitaker Corporation

John Edward Pryce

Reginald John Simmons

Michael Joseph Whelan

Richard Johnathon Howells

An airbag connector and cable assembly comprises a connector having a cable receiving cavity and a cable outlet extending perpendicularly to the cavity. A flat cable terminated to the connector is folded along a fold in the cable outlet region of the connector. The cable is then looped over the fold to provide a flexible loop. The loop enables absorption of tolerance in the positioning of the cable at the outlet with respect to the fold, without causing undue force on the conductors that are bent through the fold. The latter insures a high reliability and is cost effective.

Connector and cable assembly for ribbon cable with 90 outlet

A fuel pump unit comprises a pump supporting flange for closing an opening in a fuel tank. The supporting flange has a wet side from which projects a fuel pump and an opposite dry side from which projects a lip defining a through opening in the supporting flange. An electrical connector has a mating portion for mating with a further connector connected to the power supply for the pump. There depends from the mating portion an insulating block into which have been moulded electrical tabs each having one end projecting into the mating portion and the other end projecting below the insulating block. Leads are connected to these lower portions of the tab terminals by means of electrical clips. The connector is inserted through the opening in the supporting flange from the wet side thereof so that a resilient skirt surrounding the insulating block is force fitted to the inner surface of the lip and a sealing ring is compressed by a flange at the bottom of the skirt, against the wet side of the supporting flange. The leads are then also connected to contacts of the pump.

Fuel pump unit and an electrical connector therefor

An electrical connector comprising an insulative housing, a pair of inmoulded terminals and a separate core support member, makes electrical contact with a twin core flexible conductor comprising a flexible elastomeric outer tube and flexible spaced apart inner conductors. The core support member comprises a core section substantially filling the inner space formed by the conductors and tube thereby providing support to the flexible tube conductor such that pin sections of the terminals can be sandwiched between the conductors and the core section and additionally sandwiching the flexible outer tube between strain relief projections of core support member arms and the core section for securely fixing the connector thereto. The connector is of a cost-effective and simple construction that is also easy to assemble. A certain length of the twin core tube conductor can be positioned along the top sill of an automobile window frame thereby providing a detection means for objects captured between the window and frame, whereby pressure against the flexible tube causes the conductors to enter into electrical contact.

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Hertford Heath, United Kingdom

John Edward Pryce