Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Samuel A Norling

Gary C Detter

Andrew Frank Rodondi

Jay Harold Garretson

Emil J Tolnar, Jr

Richard V Landries

Christopher D Burns

Janet S Penney

An electrical power distribution center includes stacked circuit arrays of varying current carrying capacity located between an upper housing and a lower housing, each having terminal access holes therein for receiving terminals formed on pre-stamped metal circuit elements. The terminals are selectively connected to either electrical or electronic devices carried on top of the upper housing or to wiring connectors connected to the outer surface of the lower housing. The pre-stamped metal circuit elements are removably mounted in recesses in a plurality of stacked electrical insulation boards supported within the lower housing and centered therein by guide stems formed integrally of the lower housing. Each of the electrical insulation boards includes raised surfaces thereon congruent with the recesses on an adjacent electrical insulation board for holding the metal circuit elements in place therein while insulating each of the metal circuit elements from adjacent metal circuit elements.

Electrical power distribution center

A connector device for electric circuit terminals includes mating male and female connectors, one of which has resilient extended lock arm means that will lock behind a lock bar of a sized window of the other connector. When the two connectors are mated, a connector position assurance and assist device is inserted axially along a tracked slot and displaces the void between the sized window and under the extended lock arm means, with this device including releasable, resilient lock tab means to retain it in operative engagement with the connectors. If the connectors are only partly interconnected, upon initially insertion of the connector position assurance and assist device through the connector with the extended lock arm means it will assist the two connectors to become fully and rigidly mated, whereas if the device is initially inserted via the connector with the sized window it will refuse the further mating of the connectors and actually effect their separation whereby to prevent any type of connector partial engagement or intermittent electrical connection to occur.

Electrical connector with connector position assurance/assist device

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New Middletown, OH, United States of America

Samuel A Norling