The Whitaker Corporation

Amp LLC

Robert S Correll, Jr

Michael Warren Fogg

Mai-Loan Thi Tran

John Thomas Larkin, Jr

Benjamin Howard Mosser

John L Broschard

Dennis Leroy Kemmick

Donald Eugene Dellinger

Ronald W Brennian, Jr

David D Wiltraut

Robert H Frantz

Earl William McCleerey

Timothy Lee Kocher

Jon A Fortuna

Darrell Lynn Wertz

Andrew Dewitt Balthaser

Michael A Viselli

Donald J Summers

Joseph R Steinman

Richard A Lyon

John A Fortuna

Michael E Bowman

An electrical connector for terminating flat cable of the type having a plurality of signal and ground conductors in parallel alignment comprises a housing which holds a plurality of signal contacts and a ground bus. Each of the signal contacts has a signal conductor termination slot configured for insulation displacement termination of a respective said signal conductor. The ground bus has a plurality of ground conductor termination slots each configured for insulation displacement termination of a respective said ground conductor, and at least one bypass slot configured to permit at least one of said signal conductors to pass through said ground bus without termination thereto. The signal conductor termination slots, the ground conductor termination slots and the at least one bypass slot are arranged such that the plurality of signal and ground conductors reside in a common plane in the connector after termination thereto.

Ribbon cable connector with ground bus

An electrical connector (16) is adapted to be secured to a mounting surface (84) of an electrical component (12). A gasket (86) is disposed between the connector and the mounting surface to provide an acoustical seal and to urge the connector outwardly against its latching members (72,76) to provide a firm and stable assembly (10). The connector (16) includes a button (38) which, when depressed, operates contacts (52,54) for receiving a conductor (22,24). Spaced apart projections (100) extend from a surface (88) of the connector into pressing engagement with portions (106) of the gasket thereby having a stabilizing affect on the connector when the button is depressed.

Electrical connector for a speaker cabinet

An electrical connector (3) for a fluorescent lighting fixture (1) comprises a circuit board (9) having an integral lamp ballast (10), a first bank of sockets (4) and wire connecting ports (11,12). A housing (16) encloses the ballast and the circuit board. The first bank of sockets are exposed from the housing for connection to fluorescent lamps, and the wire connecting ports are exposed from the housing for connection between external wiring from a source of electrical power and wiring extending to a second bank of sockets for the fluorescent lamps.

Integrated ballast and lamp connector

A cover (10) adapted to be releasably secured to an electrical connector assembly (30) for positioning the assembly (30) to a surface of an electrical article (70) by use of a vacuum-suction nozzle (66). The connector assembly (30) includes a housing (32) having a transverse body section 33) and a plurality of electrical terminals (50) disposed therein and extending above the body section (33). The cover (10), which overlies at least a central region of the housing, has a plate (12) having planar top surface (14) and at least one projection (18) extending substantially perpendicularly from a lower surface (16) of the cover (10) intermediate the side edges thereof. The projection (18) is dimensioned to be received in a central location of the connector assembly (30) and to be releasably gripped by cooperating surfaces therein. The cooperating surfaces exert sufficient force against the at least one projection (18) to retain the cover (10) on the connector assembly during positioning of the connector assembly to the electrical article (70) whereafter the cover (10) is removable from the assembly (30).

Electrical connector with releasable positioning cover

A PCMCIA receptacle connector 2 for use with a PCMCIA card includes a plurality of receptacle contact terminals 34 positioned in two rows of cavities 18 in a housing 12. Each of the cavities has two cavity sections 20, 28. Mating pin terminal are received through the first cavity section 20 and the contact terminals are inserted from the rear face 16 of the housing 12 into the second housing cavity 28, which has smooth interior walls 32. Each stamped and formed contact terminal 34 has a forward mating section 36, a central contact support section 48, and a rear conductor contact section 42 including surface mount solder tails 44. The contact support section 48 includes resilient spring members 50 in the form of edge stamped cantilever spring members that engage the interior smooth walls 32 of the second cavity section 28 to retain the contacts in the housing 12 and to properly position the mating contact section 36 and the solder tails 44.

Memory card receptacle connector and contact terminal

A connector 60 for disk-shaped batteries 40 including a housing 62 with a battery receiving cavity 74, opposed endwalls 66 having spring arms 68 that extend outwardly from the cavity 74 for retaining the battery 40 in the housing 62, a surface mountable positive terminal 77, and a surface mountable negative terminal 79. The positive and negative terminals 77,79, are disposed in respective terminal receiving passageways 72 of the housing with spring arm contact sections 80 opposing each other along the housing sidewalls and with surface mountable connecting sections 84 of both the terminals 77,79, extending outwardly from respective the housing sidewalls 64 at the bottoms thereof. The terminals are electrically engageable with battery electrodes on opposed surfaces of the battery, and the surface mountable connecting sections thereof are spaced apart at least the thickness of a the battery, being a sufficient distance from each other to prevent bridging therebetween when the connecting sections are soldered to respective circuit pads on a circuit board.

Battery connector

An electrical connector (10) for mounting to the edge (70) of a circuit board (24) in disclosed. Two metal clips (30) are utilized to both position the connector on the circuit board and to hold it in place until the connector leads (16, 18) are soldered in place. Each of the clips (30) includes a shank (34) that is in interfering engagement with an opening in the connector housing (12), a pair of mutually perpendicular abutting surfaces (48, 50) that locate against a major surface (62) of the circuit board (24) and an edge (70) thereof, and a beam (42) having a free end (44) that engages a hole (60) in the circuit board. When the free ends (44) of the two clips (30) are inserted into the two holes in the circuit board, and the connector (10) pivoted into place, the connector is held in position against the major surface (62), adjacent the edge (70) of the circuit board.

Electrical connector for mounting to an edge of a circuit board

A connector assembly (20) includes a plug connector (22) having a housing (24) and an array of first contacts (40), the housing including latch projections (36) extending laterally from at least both of the opposed sides (30) or both the opposed ends (32) thereof; and a complementary receptacle connector (50) having a housing with a plug receiving cavity (68) and corresponding array of second contacts (70), the housing (52) including latch receiving recesses (66) adjacent the cavity floor (68) alongside at least both of the sidewalls (62) or both of the endwalls (64) corresponding to the sides (30) and ends (32) of the plug portion. During initial mating of the plug and receptacle connectors (22) (50), the latch projections (36 ) of the plug housing (24) bear against and create an interference fit with the adjacent receptacle housing wall surfaces (65) and upon full mating of the plug and receptacle connectors (22) (50), the latch projections (36) release the walls upon their being received in the cavity recesses (66).

Board to board matable assembly

An electrical connector (10) is disclosed having a one piece housing (12), a plurality of cavities (18,20,22,24) in the housing, arranged in two vertical stacks (14,16) of four cavities each, and a contact (26,28,30,32) in each cavity. The cavities in each stack are separated by thin walls (48,50,52) of the housing. Each of the contacts has a contact end (68) for mating with a mating connector, and a tail (78) that exits from the contact at a right angle to the mounting surface (36) of the connector. Some of the contacts (28,30,32) have support members (94,96,98,100,102,104) that extend from the contact to engage the floor (53) of the cavity while the upper surface of the contact is in engagement with the ceiling (51) of the cavity. There is a bearing structure established from the tails (78) through the support members and the thin walls (48,50,52) to the top surface (34) of the connector housing. This permits installation of the connector (10) to a circuit board (112) by applying an insertion force directly to the top surface of the housing.

Electrical connector with integral supporting structure

A tool for removal and insertion of a backplane or other electrical member with respect to a housing comprises a frame which can be fixed with respect to the housing and a carriage which can be connected to the electrical member. The carriage is guided in floating relation with respect to the frame and is movable in a first direction to remove the electrical member and in a second direction to insert the electrical member. Fixing the frame with respect to the housing prevents movement of the frame away from the housing, thereby enabling application of force to the carriage sufficient to overcome resistance to insertion of the electrical member.

Backplane removal and insertion tool

An electrical connector 10 for mounting on a circuit board 11 is provided comprising a first row of passages and a second row of passages which communicate a front surface 14 and a rear surface 16 of a housing 12, the passages being positioned in parallel rows, with each passage of a given row being vertically aligned with a corresponding passage in the other row. First electrical contacts 26 are retained in the first row of passages, and second electrical contacts 30 are retained in the second row of passages. The electrical contacts 26,30 comprise post sections 68 which extend forwardly from the front surface 14 of the housing 12, intermediate section 70 which are retained in the passages, and tail sections 22 which extend rearwardly and downwardly from the rear section 16 of the housing 12 to a free end 84 which is disposed to connect with an electrical connector on the circuit board 11, such as a conductive pad, 38. The tail sections 36 of the first electrical contacts 26 extend rearwardly and downwardly in a first plane, and the tail sections 34 of the second electrical contacts 30 extend rearwardly and downwardly in a second plane which is different from the first plane, thus enabling ease of visual inspection and repair of the connections of the free ends 84 of the tail sections 34 of the second electrical contacts 30 to the conductive pads 38 of the mounting surface 11.

Electrical connector

An electrical connector (1) comprises; a housing (2), a card receiving mouth (3), electrical contacts (4), prong receiving sockets (26) on the housing (2) card guide arms (5, 6), a prong (25) on each of the guide arms (5, 6) for locking engagement with any one of the sockets (26), and each of the sockets (26) lockingly engage one of the guide arms (5, 6) only with a card receiving groove (22) of one guide arm (5, 6) being oriented to face toward another guide arm (5, 6).

Mounting bracket for an electrical connector

A machine for assembling components in the form of ferrules (22) to electrical terminals (10) arranged in side-by-side strip form, comprises a rotary disc cam (50) with respective cam tracks (78 to 86) in which cam followers are connected to a feed member (26) for advancing the strip terminals (10), a shuttle (30) for presenting the ferrules (22) to an assembly station (AS) of the machine, an inserter (32) for taking each ferrule (22) from the shuttle (30) and assembling it to a respective terminal (10), a crimper (34) for crimping the ferrule (22) to the terminal (10) and a back-up device (36) for supporting the terminal (10) during the crimping operation. During each half revolution of the disc cam (50), the shuttle presents a ferrule (22) to the assembly station (AS) the inserter (32) inserts it over the terminal (10') at the assembly station (AS) and the crimper (34) and the backup device (36) cooperate to crimp the ferrule (22) to the terminal (10).

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Harrisburg, PA, United States of America

Robert S Correll, Jr