Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Delphi Technologies, Inc.

John R Metzger

Terry A George

William J Palm

Bruce D Taylor

Randall Kent Smith

Eric B Poma

George R Smith

Jeremy Richardson

Jeffrey M Handel

Brian K Dew

Patrick S Kiraly

A wire cable assembly, such as those used in electric or hybrid electric vehicles, having a plurality of shielded wire cables spliced together. The center conductors are joined together and enclosed in an inner insulator. The shield conductors of the cable are joined by an electrically conductive sleeve enclosing the inner insulator and attached to the shield conductors of the shielded wire cables. The sleeve separates the outer insulating layers of the shielded wire cables. The sleeve is encased by an outer insulator that is sealed to the outer insulating layers of the shielded wire cables. A method of splicing shielded wire cables together is also presented.

Device and method for splicing shielded wire cables

A crimping apparatus and methods are provided that apply a press force and a part of the press force is separately applied as a core crimp force for crimping a terminal to a wire conductor. A die assembly includes a die defining a cavity that includes an independently moveable core plate and a ram assembly includes a ram in force connection with a load pin and a core plate. When the ram applies the press force, the core crimp force will be separately applied from the ram through the load pin and core plate to produce a core crimp portion that connects the wire conductor to the terminal. The applied core crimp force is subsequently transferred from the core crimp portion to the core plate to the load pin and into the ram.

Apparatus and methods that apply a press force including a separately applied core crimp force

A thermal probe has a premolded single unitary plastic outer shell forming an open end adapted to receive a connector unit and having an inboard end defining a probe portion. The plastic outer shell has deformable walls forming a bore. A pair of terminals and wire leads connected to a thermistor have a plastic mounting member premolded thereon; the plastic mounting member is slideably press fit in the bore to position the thermistor within the bore and to axially locate the thermistor in spaced relationship to the inboard end of the outer shell. Side segments on the terminals extend outwardly of the plastic member and are embedded in the deformable walls of the bore to interlock the thermistor in place within the outer shell.

Plastic thermal probe assembly with press fit sensor

A temperature sender has a spring biased thermistor located in a temperature probe housing; the housing is adapted to be connected to a female connector cover defining a receptacle for a mating connector; a multiple segment flat element terminal is molded in-situ of the cover and one of the terminal segments is located in the temperature probe housing and has connector means thereon which connect to and align a biasing spring with respect to the thermistor; two of the multiple segments are located in the receptacle with one of them serving the dual function of indexing the mating connector to the female connector cover and defining a probe point for testing electrical continuity between the terminal and thermistor and the second one of the other segments serving to electrically connect the mating connector to the thermistor to complete a sender circuit.

Temperature sender connector cover and terminal

An electrical connector comprises a male connector body having a rigid cantilevered lock arm which slides into a track portion of a female connector body. The female connector body as a flexible internal latch arm which has a lock projection which engages in a window of the rigid lock arm to lock the connector bodies together. A connector position assurance device slides into a gauge slot of the female connector body only if the connector bodies are properly engaged and the internal flexible latch arm is fully engaged in the window of the rigid lock arm.

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Cortland, OH, United States of America

John R Metzger