Amp LLC

John Philip Kunkle

Billy E Olsson

Donald G Stillie

Ralph Melvin Cooper

Donald W McClune

Dana Hollingsworth

A sealed electrical connector assembly comprising an insert molded header, a sealed connector plug matable in an exterior header cavity and an unsealed connector plug matable in an interior header cavity is disclosed. Each connector plug incorporates a secondary lock and terminal position assurance. An outer housing cover forming a portion of the mating envelope at the forward end of the connector plugs can be secured to the forward section of the insulative housing only when a resilient latch, forming a primary latch, is in a fully seated position. If the latch is in the deflected or not fully seated position, an abutting ledge on the housing cover will engage the deflected latch to prevent assembly of the housing cover to the insulative housing.

Sealed electrical connector assembly with terminal retainer

A surface mounting socket suitable for use with dual in-line circuit packages and printed circuit boards adapted only for surface mounting is disclosed. The socket has a plurality of terminals each having perpendicular sections which form a compliant termination to a surface mounting pad on the printed circuit board. Each terminal is compliant about a longitudinal force along two orthogonal axes and is compliant in response to a torsional moment about a third orthogonal axis.

Surface mount socket for dual in-line package

Stamped and formed terminal receptacle for a printed circuit board comprises a hollow tubular receptacle portion, a transition portion, and a mounting portion. The tubular receptacle portion has a lead-receiving upper end and contains a hairpin type spring which extends downwardly from one wall of the receptacle and is reversely bent so that it extends upwardly toward the lead-receiving end. The tip of this spring is formed laterally of the axis of the receptacle to provide an inclined lead-in surface for the lead. The transition portion has features which prevent the flow of solder into the receptacle portion during soldering and the mounting portion has improved means for holding the terminal in the hole on the printed circuit board during handling prior to wave soldering.

Receptacle terminal for printed circuit board

An eyelet-shaped type connector for connecting together opposite sides of a printed circuit board and having a first end section of a generally cylindrical shape extending out of one side of a hole in a printed circuit board and a second end section of a generally cylindrical shape extending out of the other side of the printed circuit board. A plurality of legs, bowed towards each other, connect the two end sections together. Because the legs are bowed inwardly they will give and become more bowed as the extended first and second ends are soldered to conductive areas around the holes in the printed circuit board and the board contracts after the solder has cooled, thereby eliminating cracking of the solder joints. The inside surfaces of the connector are coated with a soldering repellant material such as chromium and the outside surfaces with a solder attracting coating such as tin.

Connector for connecting together opposite sides of a printed circuit

A first half of a two piece connector housing has a plurality of parallel tubular elements extending from a common backing and defining a plurality of first cavities, each containing a hermaphroditic contact. The second half of the housing has a grid-like network of partitioning walls which define a plurality of second cavities and which fit in-between the tubular members of the first half. Each second cavity also contains one of said hermaphroditic contacts which mates with an aligned hermaphroditic contact in a cavity in the first housing half. Each contact has a trough-like element and a pair of leaf-like spring elements mounted thereon. Two such contacts will mate when inverted with respect to each other, with the leaf-like elements of one contact mating with the inner surfaces of the trough-like elements of the other contact to provide four separate areas of electrical conduction.

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Harrisburg, PA, United States of America

John Philip Kunkle