Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.

Itt Corporation

Itt Cannon, Ltd.

Werner Pfitzenreiter

Manfred Illg

Juergen Frommer

Manfred Schock

Robert Hasenfratz

Andreas Michael Schremmer

Martin Gollhofer

Tobias Schimmele-Brell

Iain Thomas Learmonth

Gerhard Geiselmann

A hand-held electrical device () such as a mobile telephone, includes a carrier () formed by a thick (over 2 mm) plate of insulative material having a plurality of recesses that receive electronic components. The periphery of the carrier forms most of the periphery of the electronic device. A circuit board () with traces thereon lies facewise adjacent to a face of the carrier. Electronic components lying in recesses of the carrier, are connected by resilient blades to conductive traces on the circuit board.

Portable electronic device with carrier plate

In a process for fitting a round cable provided with a number of single wires with a multi-way, preferably flat, plug into which the single wires are placed, the single wires have their free ends stripped of insulation and are fitted with contacts. In such a process, assembly can be carried out in a cost-effective manner and the risk of damage to the small contacts is greatly reduced. Provision is made for the single wires to be placed alongside each other in a wire holder of the plug, for the ends projecting beyond the wire holder to be cut to the same projecting length and stripped of insulation to the same length and for a contact carrier to be provided with the corresponding number of adjacent contacts and connected to the end of the wire holder receiving the single wire ends, and for the opposing regions of stripped single wire ends and connection elements of the contacts to be interconnected to make electrical contact.

Process of making cable plug connector

A locking device is provided for an electrical connector system to hold two connectors, (1, 2) together. The locking device includes S-shaped sheet metal locking hooks (9) on a second connector that lock into cutouts (8) on a plate (7) of the first connector. One curved arch (14) of the S-shaped sheet metal hook snaps into the cutout and resists unmating.

Locking device for a connector

Cable plug connector

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Werner Pfitzenreiter