Chrysler Corporation

Other

Daimlerchrysler Corporation

Thomas E Zielinski

Larry L Neblett

Kenneth Hartwig

Dean B Clark

David Bjarne Hansen

Paul W Geyer

David A Lescamela

Guenter Rohr

Robert D Kennedy

Sucha S Sian

Gregg A Eisenmann

Nickolas O'Branovic

Min Sway-Tin

Charles E Hendricks

An electrical connector assembly has a male and female connector. The male connector has electrical contacts in a housing for conducting AC or DC current. The female connector also includes a housing with electrical contacts to electrically couple with the male electrical contacts. The electrical contacts are coupled between a power source and a rechargeable power user, such as batteries in an electric vehicle. A mechanism to terminate power of the rechargeable power user is coupled with the system to prohibit use of the rechargeable power user during charging.

Universal charge port connector for electric vehicles

An electrical connector assembly has a male connector and a female connector. The male connector has electrical contacts for conducting AC or DC current. The female connector includes electrical contacts for coupling with the male electrical contacts for conducting the AC or DC current. A mechanism to eliminate current arcing during disconnection of the male and female connectors is coupled with at least one of the male or female connectors.

An electrical connector assembly has a male and female connector. The male connector has a housing with electrical contacts to conduct AC or DC current. The female connector also includes a housing to couple with the male housing. The female housing includes electrical contacts to electrically couple with the male electrical contacts. A latch mechanism is associated with the male or female connector housing to releasably couple the male and female connectors together. A lock mechanism is coupled with the latch mechanism to prohibit unauthorized disconnection of the male and female connectors in a coupled position.

A seal retainer for an electrical connector comprising two seal retainer halves for connecting around a wire assembly, the seal retainer halves being identical with corresponding locking tabs.

Split seal retainer for an electrical connector

An electrical connector comprising power and control circuits within the same connector body.

Dual power/control connector

A battery disconnect switch is provided for breaking the conductive path in an electric vehicle comprising at least one conductor pin moveable between a conducting position and a non-conducting position. At least one spring is provided for biasing the conductor pin toward the non-conducting position. A surging mechanism moves the conductor pin to the conducting position and a locking mechanism holds the conductor pin in the conducting position against the bias of the spring. A release mechanism releases the locking mechanism allowing the bias of the spring to force the conductor pin to its non-conducting position.

Battery disconnect switch for electric vehicle

An electrical connector comprising a male member, a female member, a cam lever for engaging the male and female members, and a lock portion including a sliding member slidable on a track and engaging the cam lever for holding said cam lever in a closed position.

Cam lever operated connector

An electrical connector comprising a female member and a male member further comprising a pin connector body defining a plurality of cavities and a plurality of pins within the cavities, the pins rotatably mounted within the cavities.

Rotatable pin connector

A female electrical connector element for connecting a wire lead to a male contact pin has a first end which is crimped to the wire lead and a second end in the form of a socket. The socket includes a cantilevered contact floor and a separate spring contact in opposed relation to the cantilevered contact floor. The male contact pin is inserted between the spring biased contact surface and the cantilevered contact floor to establish an electrical connection. In accordance with the method of fabricating the connector, the cantilevered contact floor is supported sequentially by a series of forming surfaces at a bight portion thereof while the contact floor is being bent through 180.degree.. The side flanges of the female component are then folded over the contact for making an enclosure for defining the socket that retains the unitary spring contact.

Method of fabricating an electrical terminal

A female electrical terminal element for connecting a wire lead to a male contact pin has a first end which is crimped to the wire lead and a second end in the form of a socket. The socket includes a cantilevered contact floor and a unitary separate spring contact in opposed relation to the cantilevered contact floor. The male contact pin is inserted between the spring biased contact surface and the cantilevered contact floor to establish an electrical connection. In order to improve the reliability and current carrying capacity of the female component, the cantilevered contact floor is supported at a bight portion thereof while the contact floor is being bent through 180.degree.. After the cantilevered contact floor is bent 180.degree., the side flanges of the female component are folded over to make an enclosure for defining the socket and retaining the unitary spring contact in the socket.

Electrical terminal and method of fabricating same

Locking a cable socket to a cable plug in a cable assembly is affected by integrally molding a lock assembly to the socket and plug housings. A pair of overstress brackets of the socket housing prevent a resilient latch of the lock assembly from breaking if excessive force is used to move the latch from a catch post mounted on the plug housing. Also, the overstressed brackets are formed in a manner that permits a single molding operation when forming the socket housing.

Cable assembly, lock therefor

A terminal secondary lock bar effects locking of keepers in circular grooves of terminals disposed in rows above and below a lock bar receiving cavity arranged in an interior location within the housing of a plug and a socket of an in-line environmentally sealed cable assembly. The lock bar has two outer laterally directed semi-triangularly shaped fingers and at least one rectangular shaped finger disposed therebetween. The outer fingers are flexed inwardly upon insertion until a region of the cavity provides a lock reaction to the ends of the fingers which flex outwardly into the lock region of the cavity. The outer fingers are also flexed inwardly upon removal of the lock bar from the cavity.

Secondary lock mechanism for an environmentally sealed cable assembly

An environmental seal for a plug and socket connector assembly that protects interior terminals from environmental elements yet minimizes mating forces needed to mate terminals in the plug with the terminals in the socket.

Environmental seal means for plug and socket connector assembly

Plug and socket housings of in-line cable assemblies providing terminal receiving channels disposed so that different size terminals are placed on a common horizontal center line. The housings permit two tiers of terminals to be housed.

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China, MI, United States of America

Thomas E Zielinski