Amp LLC

The Whitaker Corporation

Robert K Grebe

Glenn E Bennett

John K Daly

John E Lucius

Dean A Puerner

Earl R Kreinberg

David S Szczesny

Frank H Bermier, Jr

Michael Furbacher

Dennis E Petrie

An electrical connector comprises a generally cylindrical tube member (10) having a tube wall (12) and an electrically conductive body (22) having a plurality of louvers (24) in a generally tubular array. The body and the tube member are nested one within the other, with the louvers having respective sides (28) projecting away from the tube wall for engagement with a complementary connector. The body and the tube member are secured against relative axial movement in at least one direction by at least one extruded projection (40) of the tube wall.

Louvered contact electrical connector

Two flat cables are interconnected to comprise a tap connection or a splice connection by stacking them and pressing together against them an assembly of upper and lower interconnecting structures which include opposing regions of alternating shearing wave shapes and relief recesses. The wave shapes shear the conductors of the cables and extrude the thus-sheared conductor strips into the opposing relief recesses so that newly sheared conductor edges are moved adjacent electrical engagement surfaces defined by vertical edges of the adjacent wave shapes. Dual conductor cables have their respective conductors interconnected by using a pair of assemblies of upper and lower interconnecting structures, each assembly having shearing wave shapes and relief recesses disposed transversely across only the half of the cables within which the appropriate conductors are disposed. The upper and lower structures can include lateral flanges which are riveted together after termination to the cables to lock the upper and lower structures together. A pair of housing members can be latched together to house the assemblies of interconnecting structures terminated to the cables.

Electrical connector and method of interconnecting flat power cables

A monolithic transition adapter terminated to a flat power cable has one or two plate sections extending forwardly from the termination which conclude in an array of first and second alternating spring contact arms deflectable downwardly and upwardly respectively. The spring arms are formed to include free ends having arcuate contact sections convex in opposing directions comprising a lead-in to receive thereinto a blade-like contact member from forwardly thereof, and facilitating the deflection by the mating contact of the spring arms in the respective opposing directions. A monolithic contact member matable with the transition adapter includes a planar body portion having a forward blade contact and a plurality of terminal sections rearwardly thereof such as for interconnecting with a printed circuit board. In one such contact member the blade contact shares providing for an assured lead-in for mating by including a plurality of blade sections in an array of alternating first and second blades angled to define alternating downward and upward ramps to engage respective free ends of the transition adapter's spring arms and initiate the deflection of the spring arms in appropriate opposing directions for mating; this enables the vertical distance between the free ends of the deflected spring contact arms after mating to be minimized, reducing the vertical profile of the mated interface.

Electrical terminals for flat power cable

An adapter substrate (40) for carrying one or more electrical components (80,90), includes plated circuitry to which the components are connectable, to comprise a member securable between a chip carrier socket (20) and a printed circuit panel (14) and provide electrical interconnection therebetween. The electrical components are connected to selected ones of the interconnections between the socket and the panel in order to modify, effect or sense the selected interconnections. While the other interconnections are passed through the substrate such as by plated through-holes (44), the selected interconnections are interrupted by the dielectric material of the substrate (40) and are plated blind holes (46) connected by path segments (120) to be electrically connected to the one or more electrical components; completing the connection to the socket's contacts are plated through-holes (116) and path segments (128) to contact pads (52). Into the plated through-holes and plated blind holes alike can be inserted post members (42) matable with plated through-holes (16) of the panel; contact sections connectable with the socket's contacts (28 ) can be pads (52) for surface mounting. One such adapter can be used to fabricate an assured backup power supply (10) for an IC chip carried in the socket (20), when a battery (80) and a logic chip control circuit (90) therefor are the electrical components.

Component-carrying adapter for chip carrier socket

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Robert K Grebe