Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Stoneridge, Inc.

William E Cross

Charles R Nestor

Robert G Plyler

Melodee Ann Chapin

Chia P Day

John S Norris, Jr

Terry L Basinger

Frank J Spano, Jr

Jeanne E Hillestad

A databus multiplexing connection system is disclosed including an electrical connector for multiplexing data including in-line CAN-bus splice connector. The connector includes a 4-way connector body and a secondary lock/bussing assembly. The secondary lock/bussing assembly includes a main body, buss-bars, and one or more optional resistors. The secondary lock/bussing assembly secures terminals inside the connector body, provides an interface for connection of a 2-way mating connector thereto, verifies that the terminals are properly installed (i.e. proper orientation) in the connector body.

Databus multiplexing connection system

An electrical connector comprises a connector body having two rows of terminal cavities which extend axially through the connector body. The connector body has a nose portion which comprises a plurality of ribs which define channels at the forward portions of the terminal cavities. An elastomeric seal ring is mounted on the connector body and extends across the channels to bias the terminals against the bottoms of the channels and into interference positions with respect to lock shoulders which retain the terminals in the rearward direction. A cap member mounted on the nose portion of the connector body retains the terminals in the forward direction, holds the terminals in their interference positions in the terminal cavities and fastens the elastomeric seal ring in the axial direction.

Electrical connector

An insulation displacement terminal comprises a base having a pair of integrally connected side members. Each side member has slotted end plates which are juxtaposed the respective slotted end plates of the other side member to form two pairs of longitudinally spaced plates having cooperating slots which impart a scissors-like action against the conductive core of an insulated electrical conductor which has its insulation pierced as it is forced into the slots.

Insulation displacement terminal

A socket connector for parallel circuit boards comprises a dielectric connector body and a plurality of sinuous contact strips which are inserted into cavities in the connector body through top openings and individually retained in the cavities. The contact strips have end tabs disposed in shallow slots in the connector body side walls to stabilize the contact strips and facilitate removal.

Socket connector for parallel circuit boards

An electrical socket connector is detachably connected to a post terminal having two axially arranged contacts. The socket connector comprises a one-piece ceramic connector body having a pair of tiered terminal cavities each of which is closed at one end and has a central guide rib. Each cavity retains an appropriately sized channel-shaped contact terminal and communicates with a socket for receiving the post terminal lead wires which project through a boot for sealing the open end of the connector body. The one-piece connector body is made by dry pressing ceramic powder into a machineable preform with terminal cavities. The preform is then drilled to provide the socket and retention shoulders in the longitudinal ribs.

Molding and machining of one piece electrical socket connector

A lamp socket that is insertable into a generally circular opening in a mounting panel and having a pair of radially outwardly extending access slots for portions of the lamp socket, characterized in that the lamp socket includes a flexible locking tab that moves into one of the access slots to lock the lamp socket to the mounting panel after the lamp socket is rotated a limited distance about the longitudinal center axis of the lamp socket.

Lamp socket

An electrical female terminal comprises a longitudinal floor portion having an integral transverse wall at one end. A pin terminal is inserted through a hole in the transverse wall against a stop formed by an L-shaped flap which is integrally attached to a longitudinal edge of the floor portion of the female terminal. The female terminal has a second flap which is integrally attached to an opposite longitudinal edge of its floor portion and which functions as a spring clip to bias the pin terminal against a projection in the floor portion. The pin terminal is resistance welded to the projection and the flaps are spaced from the transverse wall to provide access for one of the welding electrodes.

Female terminal

An accessory electrical connector comprises an accessory terminal attached to the end of an electrical lead and retained in the cavity of a connector body with the lead extending back through a front opening. The accessory electrical connector is plugged into a cavity of a terminal block through a front opening where the contact portion of the accessory terminal is laterally spaced from an available power terminal in the terminal block. A circuit breaker or the like is then plugged into the two terminals to provide electrical continuity through the terminal block.

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Brookfield, OH, United States of America

William E Cross