Amphenol Corporation

The Bendix Corporation

Allied Corporation

Leonard A Krantz

Gary C Toombs

Edward R Gliha

Douglas M Johnescu

Stephen Punako

Ronald W Morse

John Henry Mikolaicyk

Joseph D Magnan

Edward P Hogan

Richard L Paul

An electrical connector filter or transient suppression component structure includes a component body, a first lead adapted to electrically contact a feedthrough contact pin in an electrical connector and a second lead adapted to engage a ground plate. The first lead may be cylindrical to extend all the way around the contact pin, the second lead including a cylindrical termination section which electrically connects the component to the ground plate by engaging an aperture provided in the ground plate. The components are housed in a dielectric insert assembly which, in one embodiment includes pairs of circular openings at one end and rectangular/circular opening pairs at the other end, the component body being inserted into a rectangular opening and the contacts and termination section extending through the circular openings. The second end of the insert may include projections surrounding one circular opening in each of the pairs of circular openings to insulate the contacts from the ground plate, the projections extending through circular openings in the ground plate and the cylindrical termination sections of the ground lead extending through and engaging additional circular openings in the ground plate.

Diode/filter connector

A transient suppression component includes a lead assembly adapted to permit in-line installation in a connector contact. One lead surrounds the other and is cylindrical for connection to the aperture tines of a connector ground plate. The other lead carries electrical signals between mating portions of the connector contact assembly. A transient suppression component body is connected between the feedthrough lead and the cylindrical ground lead.

Transient suppression component

A transient suppression component includes a lead assembly adapted to permit in-line installation in a connector contact. One lead surrounds the other and is cylindrical for connection to the aperture tines of a connector ground plate. The other lead carries electrical signals between mating portions of the connector contact assembly. A transient suppression component body is connected between the feedthrough lead and the cylindrical ground lead. The feedthrough lead can be made from a single stamped piece of metal formed to include a component mounting section which substantially encloses the component.

A transient suppression connector includes a plurality of contacts each of which carries both a negatively and a positively biased diode. The connector also includes negative and positive bias voltage input pins and a grounding arrangement including a respective common diode for the negatively and the positively biased contact diodes.

Reverse current biased diode connector

An electrical connector assembly having means for protecting its contacts from adverse voltage surges includes protectively terminating one terminal of a silicon diode within a notch formed in the contact and the other terminal with a conductive sleeve encircling the contact body but spaced therefrom. The conductive sleeve is in releasable engagement with a plurality of conductive spring fingers which are integral with a conductive grounding plate whereby a ground path is established between the connector shell and the contact without stressing the diode or its terminations.

Electrical contact with transient suppression

An electrical connector has a removable dielectric insert sized to fit within the forward opening of the connector shell with internal threads in the shell being threadably engaged by an external threads on a locking nut threadably inserted into the shell to abut the insert. A retaining ring is snapped into an annular recess of the insert to captivate the nut on the insert and provide a surface to aid in retraction of the insert. The terminals are two piece with a rearward portion being nonremovably retained within the shell and the forward portion having a circuit component thereon which can be replaced when the insert is removed.

Electrical connector having transient suppression and front removable

An electrical connector having means for protecting its terminals from transient voltages includes a selectively plated cavity endwall in a substrate being laterally offset from its respective terminal receiving passage, a silicon diode being mounted in the cavity and connected to a conductive spring, and ground paths completing a conductive circuit between the terminal, the endwall and the connector shell, the spring completing an electrical ground path through the diode for overvoltages to be diverted from the terminal to the shell ground.

Electrical connector having means for protecting terminals from

This invention is a lens type fiber optic connector that has a lens holder assembly (70) releasably mounted (54, 78) within the bore of an insert (55). This arrangement provides for quick and easy installation, repair or replacement of a lens (10) or defective optical fiber (81) without the need to replace or disassemble the entire connector.

Lens holder assembly for a fiber optic connector

An electrical connector (10) having built-in rapid response solid state circuit protection devices (42) for the absorption of electromagnetic pulses and the like associated with the connector contacts (16) by grounding to the connector shell (22), the circuit protection devices (42) mounted between a ground plate (44) and an insert disc (52) which carries an electrical connection to the respective contact (16). In some embodiments leads (48, 50) of the device (42) are connected into the connector (10), while in the other embodiments the diodes (156) are directly mounted to the ground plate (150) and disc (152). All connections are soldered to minimize the inductance created by the connections to minimize the response time and accurately control the voltage level triggering the devices. (FIG. 1)

Electrical connector with a built in circuit protection device

A filter connector is disclosed having a compound filter with two filter elements (20,22) connected in cascade in the filter contact (14). Separate ground plates (40,50) are provided for each of the filter elements (20,22). Each filter element, such as a pi section filter, is provided with an electrode arrangement which facilitates connection of filter elements in cascade and minimizes susceptibility to flash-over between electrodes. The filter element comprises a center conductor (74) with a dielectric sleeve (100) coaxially thereof. A ground electrode (80) is disposed on the external surface of the sleeve, one active electrode (78) extends from the internal surface to the external surface of the sleeve over one end surface thereof and another active electrode (82) extends from the internal surface to the external surface of the sleeve over the other end surface thereof. The marginal space between the active electrode (78) and the ground electrode (80) is on the external surface of the sleeve and is coated with a dielectric material (108). Similarly, the marginal space between the active electrode (82) and the ground electrode (80) is coated by a dielectric material (116).

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Sidney, NY, United States of America

Leonard A Krantz