Tyco Electronics Corporation

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Philip Clay Brandberg

Brent David Yohn

Darrell Lynn Wertz

Marek Tadeusz Luksic

Timothy Lee Kocher

Hung Thai Nguyen

Lou Castagna

Edward John Howard

John Anthony Fulponi

Edmund Luther Jacobs

Greg G Griffith

Gary Sui Wong

Ivan P Morgan

Ivan Philip Morgan

An electrical connector includes a housing having a receptacle that is configured to receive an electrical wire therein along an insertion axis. An electrical contact is held by the housing. The electrical contact includes a contact beam that includes a wire interface that is configured to engage the electrical wire. The contact beam is movable between a closed position and an open position. The wire interface is configured to engage the electrical wire when the contact beam is in the closed position. The wire interface is configured to be disengaged from the electrical wire when the contact beam is in the open position. The contact beam is configured to be slidably engaged by an actuator along an actuation direction that is non-perpendicular to the insertion axis to move the contact beam from the closed position to the open position.

Electrical connector having poke-in wire contact

A connector assembly for installation on a ceiling grid having conductors therein. Contacts are mounted in a housing of the connector, with the contacts having contact portions. Mounting members are mounted in the housing, with the mounting members having grid mounting sections. A cam member is provided in the housing, with the cam member being movable between a first position and a second position. As the cam member is moved from the first position to the second position, the cam member biases the contact portions of the contacts into electrical engagement with the conductors of the ceiling grid and biases the grid mounting sections of the mounting members into mechanical engagement with the ceiling grid to provide a mechanical connection between the ceiling grid and the connector.

Connector for electrified ceiling grid

A connector for installation on a grid having conductors therein and a method of installation therefore. The connector has a housing with at least one contact mounted in the housing which makes an electrical connection with the conductors of the grid when the connector is mated with the grid. At least one mounting member is movable between a first position in which a grid mounting section of the at least one mounting member is positioned in the housing and a second position in which the grid mounting section extends beyond a top surface of the housing to provide a mechanical connection between the grid and the connector.

Connector for electrified ceiling grid and method of installing the same

A connector, an electrified grid element and the combination. First and second contacts with first and second contact portions are secured in the housing of the connector. The second contact portion is offset from a first surface of the connector a greater distance that the first contact portion. An electrified grid has a first conductor and a second conductor, with the first conductor having an opposite polarity to the second conductor. A first insulator member is positioned proximate the first conductor and a second insulator member is positioned proximate the second conductor. The first and second insulator members prevent the mating of the connector to the electrified grid unless the connector is properly oriented in the electrified grid, thereby insuring proper polarity between the connector and the electrified grid.

Polarity protection for electrified grid and mating connector

A spring contact design used to connect varied electrical components to circuit boards such that the components may be installed onto the board and thereafter removed without soldering and desoldering of the component leads is disclosed. The inventive contacts use integral flexible elements and appropriate contact element shaping to ensure solid multiple electrical connection points between the contact and the electrical component lead. With the use of the inventive spring contacts, components may be easily installed onto a circuit board and tested to ensure functional performance and, if necessary, may be removed or replaced without the need for time consuming soldering and desoldering of the component leads to the board contacts. The inventive contacts are designed to ensure sound electrical connection with component leads of different cross sections, shapes and sizes. Use of the inventive contacts in housings sized and shaped for different electrical components are also disclosed.

Spring contact for connectors

The invention is directed to an electrical connector (20) having a housing with electrical contacts secured therein. An alignment post (30') is secured to the housing. The alignment post (30') has a forward end (131) with a first width, a locking groove (32'), and a flared portion (130) disposed between the forward end (131) and the locking groove (32'). The flared portion (130) has a second width that is greater than the width of the forward end (131). The flared portion (130) defines a locking shoulder (132).

Alignment post having an improved locking feature

A filtered terminal block assembly comprises a dielectric insert (20) having a cavity (48) including a pocket (50) and a bore (52), a ground plate (16) to which the dielectric insert (20) is disposed and having an opening (46) in alignment with the bore (52), a filter element (24, 26) having an inner end disposed in the cavity (48), an electrical contact (14) extending through the filter element (24, 26), the pocket (50) and the bore (52) with an outer end of the filter element (24, 26) electrically connected to the electrical contact (14), a ground member (22) electrically connected between the filter element (24, 26) and the ground plate (16), and an electrically-conductive thixotropic material (54) in the pocket (50) and along an inner surface of the cavity (48) electrically connecting an inner end of the filter element (24, 26) to the electrical contact (14).

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Carlisle, PA, United States of America

Philip Clay Brandberg