Gte Products Corporation

Osram Sylvania Inc.

Tyco Electronics Logistics Ag

Osramsylavania Inc.

Richard P Walker

Ronald E Thomas

Steven M Boyd

Michael J Bonavita

Douglas G Seymour

Edward H Key

An electrical connector that comprises an electrically insulating housing having a front end and a back end displaced along a longitudinal axis. An electrical contact receiving aperture is formed in the housing and is arrayed parallel to the longitudinal axis. The back end of the connector housing further includes a contact receiving entrance that has a given cross-sectional, one-way footprint and has a given length &ldquo;L&rdquo; along the longitudinal axis. An electrical contact is positioned in the contact-receiving aperture, and has the same cross-sectional, one-way footprint as the entrance. At least a portion of the longitudinal length of the contact, designated &ldquo;L &rdquo; is sufficient to retain engagement with the contact receiving entrance until the contact enters the electrical contact-receiving aperture in the insulating housing. The one-way footprint assures correct alignment of the contact with the housing aperture and allows for a much smaller contact with lesser spacing between contacts, thus allowing for a greater contact density and a miniaturization of the connector.

Electrical connector

An angled lamp socket includes a body and a housing. The body contains therein opposing lamp retaining clips and a plurality of IDC contacts. The housing contains a plurality of holes to receive wire leads. The housing also contains a housing disc. The bottom portion of the IDC contacts are connected electrically to the wire leads and the top portion of the IDC contacts are connected to the lamp. When a lamp is inserted into the socket body, the horizontal axis of the lamp will extend at an angle in relation to the wire leads. In a preferred embodiment, such an angle is 90&deg; thereby providing a right angle lamp socket.

Angled IDC lamp socket assembly

A connector assembly which includes inner and outer connector housings and a locking spacer attached to the inner housing. The connector assembly may be obtained by the user with the locking spacer in a pre-installed position relative to the inner housing. Such pre-installed assembly includes a gasket contained within the connector assembly and held in place by the locking spacer. Latching members are provided which permit the locking spacer to be moved from the pre-installed position to a final installed position wherein the locking spacer will serve to maintain the gasket, and contacts within the inner housing, in place during use of the connector assembly.

Electrical connector with gasket abutting locking spacer

A lamp socket is provided that includes slidably engaging body and housing components. Resilient retention members are attached within the body component to grasp the base of a wedge base lamp to attach the lamp to the body component. Contacts extend into the body component to engage lead wires of the lamp. Such contacts extend out of the body component and through respective apertures in the housing component for electrical and mechanical attachment to a mating connector. The contacts are held in place relative to the body component by being inserted into body openings within the body component structured and arranged to hold the contacts in place.

Lamp socket

A two piece male contact, such as a harness contact for use in a harness connector. The two piece male contact includes an elongated contact pin which is connectable to a mating female contact, and a terminal, one end of which is electrically and mechanically attached to the contact pin and the other end of which is connectable to a conductor.

Male contact

Electrical contacts are fixed in a connector by ultrasonic melting of a portion of the connector body. The contacts are positioned in appropriate apertures having one part formed with a boss which defines a well. A widened section of the contact fits into the well and the boss is melted and forced into the well, thus fixing the contact in position.

Method of mounting electrical contacts in connector body

A hand held tool for cleaving optical fibers including an elongated body having a longitudinal axis extending lengthwise thereof. A fiber support surface is attached to the body and extends in a plane which is transverse to such longitudinal axis. Fiber cutting means are attached to the body and are selectively moveable in the general direction of the longitudinal axis away from the fiber support surface, and towards the fiber support surface for severing an optical fiber extending across the fiber support surface such that the end face of the fiber is smooth and lies in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the fiber. Tension means for subjecting the optical fiber to tension during the cleaving operation are provided including a first tension arm and a second tension arm each arm being pivotally attached to the body for pivotal movement about an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis, the tension arms being spring biased away from each other. Clamping means are provided for holding the optical fiber in place and include a first and second jaw member attached to the tension arms. Actuating means attached to the body are moveable in the direction of such longitudinal axis towards and away from the cutting means for causing pivotal movement of the tension arms about such transverse axis to urge the arms together, and for urging the cutting means away from the fiber support surface, when the actuating means moves towards the fiber support surface, and for allowing the tension arms to be pivoted about such transverse axis away from each other to subject the fiber to tension while the cutting means moves towards the fiber support surface to cleave the fiber, when the actuating means are moved away from the fiber support surface.

Hand held fiber optic cleaving tool

A hand tool for pulling a single wire or contact into a connector block includes a thumb lever for effecting a gripping action on the wire or contact and a trigger member for moving an outer holder and sleeve with respect to an inner holder and sleeve whereby gripping of the wire is independent of the movement between wire and connector block.

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Saegertown, PA, United States of America

Richard P Walker