Amp LLC

The Whitaker Corporation

The Whitaker Company

Lucas Soes

Johannes Marcelus Broeksteeg

Hermanus P Gilissen

Petrus R Van Dijk

Hermann P Gilissen

Eduardus F Ten Berge

Ludovicus C Van Der Sanden

Johannes Marinus Den Otter

Theirry Mezin

Johannes T Janssen

Franciscus G Vugts

Josephus Antonius Janssen

Alexandre Rosi

Franciscus M Wouters

Howard Robert Tan

Johannes Lambertus Van De Sandt

Jan Hendrik Wiekamp

Willem Reginald Smits

An electrical motor unit 2 having main housing 4 with the inner workings of the motor, a brush housing 44 at one end of the main housing 4, and a control module disposed along the main housing 4 generally transverse to the brush housing 44; where the control module includes circuit links 26 defining a circuit grid 24 with electronic components 30 thereupon to define a control circuit where some of the circuit links 30 include first contacts 32 for mating with an electrical connector and second contacts 34 that are pluggably matable with electrical circuitry of the brush housing 44 as the circuit grid 24 is fitted to the rain housing 4.

Electrical motor unit having a control module

A connector assembly comprises a male connector with pin terminals, and a female connector with receptacle terminals matable therewith. The male terminal comprises a separator protrusion adjacent the contact engageable with separating extensions of contact arms of the female terminal. During coupling, the contact arms are biased apart by engagement with the separator protrusion thereby preventing rubbing of the contact surfaces during initial coupling. The latter reduces wear of the contact surfaces and also reduces mating forces.

Electrical connector assembly with reduced wear and mating forces

Method for producing a connection of data transmission lines, and plug

Electrical connector, housing and contact

An electrical plug is described, which joins together automatically from a specific position, the electrical plug consisting of two plug halves, the first plug half having at least one first electric contact and a first housing, and the second plug half having at least one second contact, which is complementary to the first contact, and a second housing, the first housing having two part-housings which are movable relative to one another in the plug-in direction, and between which a spring in a prestressed state is arranged in such a way that the part-housings can be moved towards one another counter to the spring force, the first part-housing on the plug-in face side bearing the first contact and having at least one spring arm, the second housing having at least one stop in such a way that the spring arm runs against the said stop when the two plug halves are connected. The second part-housing has at least one cam which is arranged in such a way that the cam moves the spring arm away from the stop when the first part-housing and the second part-housing are pushed together, and that the first part-housing, which is then freely movable, is inserted automatically into the second plug half by the force of the spring.

Electrical plug comprising two halves

An electrical connector is shown which is useable with coaxial or twinaxial shielded cables where an inner housing module has a pair of electrical terminals positioned therein for electrical connection with a signal conductor of the coaxial or twinaxial cable. The housing is insertable within a shield member to form a shielded subassembly. A grounding spring clip is positioned intermediate the two shielded sub assemblies, thereby commoning the adjacent shields, and at the same time provides contact portions for receiving pins of a mating pin field.

High frequency cable connector

An electrical pin field is shown having a printed circuit board having a plurality of pins inserted therethrough, having contact sections positioned on opposite sides of the board. An insulating housing is positioned on one side of the printed circuit board, whereas a housing is positioned on the opposite side, being held in place by way of a locking plate. The locking plate includes two opposing locking arms, which when the locking plate, and housing are fully positioned on the printed circuit board grip the pin terminal portions adjacent to the board, thereby retaining the housing to the board.

Electrical pin field

An insulating housing for mounting in a mating female connector housing of an electrical connector, whereby the insulating housing is a two-piece construction including a housing member which receives a cover therein. The cover comprises a strain relief member which, in a preferred embodiment, is integrally formed as part of the cover and which comprises a plurality of teeth. When the cover is mounted in the insulating housing, the strain relief member may be pivoted from an unlocked to a locked position, whereupon the plurality of teeth bite into the insulation of the insulated wires, thereby relieving strain on the insulated wires.

Electrical connector having improved strain relief

Module terminals comprising a column of right angle contacts are assembled to a housing module for receiving post header terminals at one end and inserted into complimentary holes of a printed circuit board on the other end. Interposed between adjacent terminal modules are shielding members that serve to limit crosstalk between adjacent rows of contacts. The shielding members are attached to over-moulded insulative webs of the terminal module and are resiliently biased thereagainst so that they ensure good contact of an integral grounding pin with one of the right angle contacts of the terminal module and also to ensure a flush fit of the grounding shield against the terminal module.

Prestressed shielding plates for electrical connectors

A mother board-to-daughter-board electrical connector comprises a metal housing having mounting feet for securing it to a mother circuit board, and a rocker assembly consisting of an elastomeric electrical connector element and a metal spring support fixed together in internested relationship. The connector element has an upright arm and a transverse arm, a first node projecting from the upright arm and a second node projecting from the transverse arm. Printed conductors on the connector element have contact surfaces extending over the nodes. The metal support has trunnions which engage in circular openings in side plates of the housing. The daughter circuit board can be inserted into the housing in a vertical, pre-loaded position and can be tilted towards the rocker assembly so as to be latched thereagainst by latching tongues on the housing, in a connecting position, in which conductors on the daughter board engage respective ones of the contact surfaces on the first node. The contact surfaces on the second node engage the conductors on the mother board. As the daughter board is tilted to its connecting position, the rocker assembly is tilted in the same direction against the resilient action of the spring support whereby contact surfaces on the first node are spring loaded against the conductors of the daughter board.

Mother board-to-daughter board elastomeric electrical connector

A backplane assembly includes a backplane board having a plurality of connector assemblies connected thereto for electrical connection with a header mounted on a backplane. The header includes a plurality of pins defining a pin field on the opposite side of the backplane. The pins extend through a mounting rail providing support for a plurality of cable connectors. The mounting rail is stamped and formed to include alignment slots whereas the cable connector is molded to define alignment ribs. The cable connector housing includes latching arms on opposite sides thereof having locking lugs which lock in place within apertures in the mounting rail. A release mechanism is positioned between the latching arms such that outward movement of the mechanism moves the latching arms together disconnecting the cable connectors from the mounting rail. A twinaxial cable connector inner housing can also be positioned in the cable connector housing, where the inner housing is comprised of outer housings and an inner insert. Twinaxial cable having signal pairs, are aligned with pin receiving openings in the inner housing. Outer shield members are provided with integral terminals which surround the signal contacts to form a fully shielded differential pair of signals.

Cable backpanel interconnection

A backplane assembly includes a backplane board having a plurality of connector assemblies connected thereto for electrical connection with a header mounted on a backplane. The header includes a plurality of pins defining a pin field on the opposite side of the backplane. The pins extend through a mounting rail providing support for a plurality of cable connectors. The mounting rail is stamped and formed to include alignment slots whereas the cable connector is moulded to define alignment ribs. The cable connector housing includes latching arms on opposite sides thereof having locking lugs which lock in place within apertures in the mounting rail. A release mechanism is positioned between the latching arms such that outward movement of the mechanism moves the latching arms together disconnecting the cable connectors from the mounting rail. A twinaxial cable connector inner housing can also be positioned in the cable connector housing, where the inner housing is comprised of outer housings and an inner insert. Twinaxial cable having signal pairs, are aligned with pin receiving openings in the inner housing. Outer shield members are provided with integral terminals which surround the signal contacts to form a fully shielded differential pair of signals.

An electrical connector housing assembly consists of an insulating housing and a pair of insulating covers. The housing has a row of cavities extending diagonally across a central wall of the housing, each for receiving an electrical terminal having slotted plate portions with wire receiving slots opening in opposite directions and being located on opposite surfaces of the central wall. Each cover has a row of notches extending across a base wall of the cover, for receiving the end portion of a respective one of the slotted plates. According to a first mode of use, the slotted plates of each terminal are coplanar with each other and the covers are mated with the housing to drive the wires of flat flexible cables, into the wire receiving slots of the terminals with the two cables extending parallel to each other. According to a second mode of use, the slotted plates of each terminal, are twisted about a neck of the terminal so that the slotted plates thereof extend at right angles to each other. For this mode of use, one of the covers is mated with the housing in a second angular orientation which is orthogonal with respect to the first angular orientation, the cables extending at right angles to each other, according to the second mode.

Electrical connector housing assembly and an electrical terminal therefor

An electrical terminal includes an insulation displacement slot formed by two upstanding beams having a slot there between profiled to receive a wire. At an upper portion of the terminal, a wire receiving opening is formed which is profiled to receive an insulated wire, the opening being in transition with, insulation severing surfaces. To increase the reaction forces on the beams, a back-up spring is added to the spring beams, interconnected to the spring beams alongside the wire contact surfaces.

Insulation displacement contact having back up spring

An electrical connector 10, for connecting individual conductors 27 of an electrical cable 28 to a printed circuit board 11, comprises electrical terminals 26 and a similarly constructed electrical terminal 50. The electrical terminal is characterized in that it has an actuator arm 32 having a first leg portion 36, a second leg portion 38, a third leg portion 40 and a joining portion 42 joining the first, second and third leg portions 36, 38 and 40. An actuator 22 is positioned in an actuation area 44 between engaging surfaces 36a and 38a which causes the electrical terminal 26 to be positioned in a home position in the insulating housing 12. As the actuator 22 is moved further into an actuation area 44, the engaging surfaces 38b and 40a move into pinched engagement with the conductor 26 of the cable 28.

Growing community of inventors

Rosmalen, Netherlands

Lucas Soes