Fci Americas Technology Inc.

Miguel Conde

James Mills

Patrick St-Louis

Gerald Wolford

David Rolston

A connector for providing semi-permanent connection between a bus bar and a connector contact is formed by ovelapping a bus bar tab with at least one contact tail of the connector contact and gripping the overlapped bus bar tab and the contact tail with a spring clip. In this manner, the spring clip produces the pressure required to establish adequate contact between the bus bar tab and contact tail. According to another feature, the junction including the bus bar tab, the contact tail and the spring clip are isolated by covering them with an electrically insulating sleeve, this sleeve also serving to retain the spring clip in position.

Semi-permanent connection between a bus bar and a connector contact

A device for connecting an electrical contact to a flat bus bar conductor formed with a tab comprises a spring sleeve and a tubular shroud. The sleeve receives both the tab and the electrical contact in order to interconnect these tab and contact. The shroud has a first section in which the sleeve fits and a second section through which the tab is inserted in the sleeve, this second section being slotted to define a seat for the bus bar conductor. The electrical contact comprises a first pair of mutually spaced apart flat contact members, and a second pair of flat contact tails connected to the contact members and spaced apart from each other for insertion in the sleeve with the tab between them. An electrical connector comprises an electrically insulating housing formed with a cavity with front and rear openings, and the electrical contact having its contact members inserted in the cavity through the rear opening to form a conductor-receiving receptacle accessible through the front opening. Finally, a bus bar system comprises a backplane PCB comprising a rear face, at least one generally flat bus bar conductor running behind the backplane PCB and including an edge adjacent to the rear face of the backplane PCB and integral tabs distributed along this edge, and at least one opening cut into the backplane PCB for access and connection to at least one tab through the above described device and contact.

Connector assembly comprising a tab-receiving insulated spring sleeve and a dual contact with pairs of spaced apart contact members and tails

The present invention relates to a laminated conductor assembly comprising an input section, an output section, and a superposition of alternate electrically conducting and electrically insulating layers. The electrically conducting layers present a geometry which defines both capacitive and inductive structures, and these capacitive and inductive structures form, between the input and output sections, a capacitive and inductive frequency-filtering circuit. The electrically conducting layers comprise respective superposed first end portions for defining first capacitive structures, respective superposed second end portions opposite to the first end portions for defining second capacitive structures, and respective narrower bridge portions for interconnecting the first and second end portions of the corresponding electrically conducting layers, wherein these narrower bridge portions define respective inductive structures. Preferably, the narrower bridge portions are laterally offset with respect to each other. The laminated conductor assembly can be a laminated direct current bus bar.

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Seal Beach, CA, United States of America

Miguel Conde