Delphi Technologies, Inc.

Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Aptiv Technologies Limited

Raymond J Blasko

Barry Michael Daggett

Christopher Adrian Margrave

Dominic Anthony Messuri

Joseph Howard Gladd

Patrick Joseph Reedy

Robert C Beer

Jeffrey Michael Hickox

Mark D McCall

Joseph Matthew Senk

Hoi Lui

John M Sova

Ronald Allen Baldwin

Peter M Politsky

Donald John Mizner

George W Powell, Jr

Aaron Dillon Monroe

Stacy Ann Brussalis

Randall S Cvelbar

Andrew John Kocjan

Mauro R Jadue

Paul S Lam

William G Flask

Dale M Higginbotham

Michael R Croutch

Joseph M Senk

A terminal is used in an electrical connector and receives a matable contact member. The terminal has a receptacle contact section has a bottom wall, an upper wall, and a primary and a secondary spring beam, or member. The primary member extends from a bottom wall and is bent back into the receptacle contact section. The primary member has an upper surface facing the upper wall and a lower surface opposite the upper surface. The primary member includes a free end that is spaced from the upper wall a distance less than a thickness of the matable contact member. The secondary member is formed from the bottom wall that extends into the contact section and includes a free end disposed beneath the lower surface of the primary member in an overlapping, spaced relationship thereto remote from the free end of the primary member.

Dual contact beam terminal

A filtered electrical connector for a power module comprises a connector body having a back wall partly defining a chamber at one end of the connector body. An alternating current filter is retained in the chamber, and a terminal extends through the back wall, the chamber, and the alternating current filter disposed in the chamber. The filtered electrical connector is attached to a housing having a metal portion with the chamber disposed in a pass-through hole of the housing. The terminal is attached to an electrical circuit inside the housing and the alternating current filter is grounded on the metal portion of the housing to filter alternating current flowing outside of the housing from the electrical circuit inside the housing via the terminal.

Filtered electrical connector and combination having same

A filtered electrical connection header assembly for an electrical device, and methods for assembling a filtered connection header assembly for an electrical device, are disclosed. An electrical connection header may include a housing for an electrical circuit and a connection header assembly secured to the housing that includes a plurality of electrical pins. The pins may each include a first portion, and a second portion oriented generally orthogonal to the first portion. The second portions of the pins extend into the housing to contact the electrical circuit. A forward end of a connector shroud may receive a pin stabilizer having a plurality of apertures that receive the first portion of the pins for engagement with a mating connector. The electrical connection header may further include a filter assembly configured to filter a signal transmitted though the pins that is secured to the external surface of the housing.

Top mount filtered header assembly

An electrical assembly comprises a lower housing, a circuit board mounted in the lower housing, and an insulator block mounted on an upper surface of the circuit board holding a plurality of terminals that have contact heads extending above the insulator block and connector tails extending below the insulator block and attached to the circuit board. The contact heads extend through a face seal. An upper housing having an integral upstanding shroud is attached to the insulator block and/or the lower housing so that the contact heads are disposed within the shroud and the face seal is compressed between the insulator block and the upper housing. The shroud has an outer periphery and the insulator block has an outer periphery that is spaced inwardly of the outer periphery of the shroud to provide a space beneath the upper housing for attaching electrical and/or electronic components to the circuit board adjacent the insulator block.

Electrical assembly

The present invention provides an electrical connector assembly and a method of mating the same. The electrical connector assembly includes a panel sub-assembly which mates to at least one electrical connector body. Preferably two cam leveraging devices which rotate in opposing directions are mounted rotatably to the panel sub-assembly for sliding engagement of respective cam studs engaged rigidly to the electrical connector body. Opposing rotations of the cam leveraging devices along respective and parallel rotation axes causes the panel sub-assembly to move linearly along a mating axis disposed orthogonally to the rotation axes and toward the electrical connector body to a staged position. During linear panel sub-assembly movement from the disconnected position to the staged position, the cam studs slide against a first portion of a track carried by respective cam levers and which generally spirals radially inward toward the rotation axis. Reversing rotation of both cam leveraging devices causes the panel sub-assembly to continue linear movement toward the electrical connector body from the staged position and to a mated position. During linear panel sub-assembly movement from the staged position to the mated position, the cam stud lifts off of the first portion, and is caught by and slides along a second portion of the track to a mated end.

Electrical connector assembly

An electrical connector assembly comprises an electrical USB connector that has a separate lock piece attached to the terminal of the electrical connector. The lock piece has a collar that fits onto the terminal adjacent to the connector body of the electrical connector. The collar has orientation slots that receive tabs of terminal to properly orient the positive lock piece onto the terminal and inner retention shoulders that cooperate with lock fingers of the terminal for locking the positive lock onto the terminal. A flange attached to the collar serves as a finger guard and push surface when the collar is attached to the terminal. The lock piece has lock arms for attaching the collar to a face panel.

Positive lock piece and electrical connector assembly equipped with same

The present invention provides an electrical distribution center assembly and a method of constructing the same. The electrical distribution center assembly includes an electrical distribution center member, an electrical connector, a support member which retains the electrical connector and includes at least one cam follower projection, at least one cam lever rotatably mounted to the electrical distribution center member, and a driver member for abutting the cam lever arm. An engagement movement of the driver member causes the cam lever to rotate and engage the cam follower projection thereby multiplying an engagement force to draw together the electrical distribution center member and the electrical connector against a resistance. The cam lever also leverages a disengagement force applied to the driver member to separate the electrical distribution center from the electrical connector.

Electrical distribution center assembly

An electrical distribution center having a terminal connector body overlying a housing. The connector body has a plurality of cavities. Terminals have blades which project from the housing into the cavities through an inner surface of the connector body. A sealing member is interposed between the housing and the connector body and seals around each of the blades and against the inner surface of the connector body around each of the cavities. The sealing member has a substrate layer covered on both sides by layers of silicone rubber. Cable terminals are adapted to be inserted into the cavities through an outer surface of the connector body to make electrical contact with the blades projecting from the housing.

Sealed electrical distribution centers

An electrical distribution center including a printed circuit board having electronic components thereon and a first and second through hole formed in the print circuit board. A terminal is provided which may be a female tuning fork, male blade or blank for insertion in the first through hole. A solderable spring tab is stamped, bent and formed from the body the terminal. The solderable spring tab is inserted in the second through hole. The solderable spring tab compensates for movement of components due to the difference in thermal expansion of the printed circuit board, solder joint, and terminal material.

Printed circuit board with pass through bussed terminal system for a

The invention includes an electrical distribution center for including a two-piece main insulation assembly, Stamped male blade or tuning fork terminals are press-fit between the two-piece main insulation assembly, The upper half of the two-piece insulation assembly has a top surface including a plurality of terminal stations and guide stations that are raised and separated from each other so as to provide a network of wire channels that communicate with wire passages, The terminal stations have terminal slots that extend through the upper half of the main insulation assembly to intersect the wire passages, The bottom surface of the lower half of the two-piece insulation assembly is configured in a similar fashion as the top base of the upper portion of the two-piece insulation assembly,

Electrical distribution center with two-piece insulation assembly

Male and female electrical connectors are locked together by a resilient cantilevered lock arm of the male insulator body engaging a latching member of the female insulator body. The lock arm has a T-shaped member at its free end which provides a thumb pad for depressing the lock arm and disconnecting the electrical connectors.

Manually disengageable connector lock

A thermoplastic breakout fitting is attached to an axially slit corrugated conduit which houses a plurality of electrical leads. The breakout fitting has first and second portions which comprise semitubular bases which are attached to each other by an integral flexible hinge at a longitudinal side edge of the semitubular bases so that the portions can be closed about the corrugated conduit. The hinged portions have a collar and a closure which form a housing which communicates with the corrugated conduit for receiving breakout leads which are passed through an aperture through a panel. The collar is attached to the panel by a flange of the collar which engages one side ot the panel, a pilot ring which supports the collar in the aperture in the radial direction, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced deflectable lock arms which have catches at their free ends which engage the opposite side of the panel.

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Boardman, OH, United States of America

Raymond J Blasko