An electronic equipment cabinet is shown having an integrated cover panel which provides a plurality of connector receptacle positions to which outside equipment may be connected. Connector contacts are snap locked into the receptacle positions. The connector receptacle contacts are automatically bridged when the mating connector plug is removed to short circuit the connector contacts. L-shaped bridging contacts maintain positional stability while L-shaped connector contacts permit direct insertion of the contacts into a printed circuit board within the equipment cabinet. Two unitary ground strips are fashioned to provide shielding shrouds around each of the plurality oconnector receptacles while attaching as single units to the cover panel and closing ground contact with the cabinet housing. This cabinet arrangement finds one use as a trunk access unit to interconnect a plurality of data stations into a local area ring network.
An electric connector provided with a protective cover for protecting terminals fixed in a male connector housing. Locking components formed on the protective cover and the housing are interlocked with each other so as to make the protective cover stable except when the male housing is fitted in a corresponding part. By inserting the male connector housing into the corresponding part, the locking components are automatically released from the interlock, the protective cover is slid by the wall of the corresponding part, and the terminals are connected with circuit patterns of a printed wiring board mounted on the wall of the corresponding part. The electric connector permits the protective cover to securely protect the terminals against a collision with other male housings when they are conveyed, for example.
A connector includes a first end for floating securement to a circuit board such that the connector can move within a range of motion, a second end including a socket for receiving a pin of a bus bar and a conductor for electrically interconnecting the socket and the circuit board.
A method of forming a receptacle connector insert capable of maintaining constant distances between terminal groups even when a receptacle connector has the terminal groups of three rows or more and of being easily produced, comprising the steps of locking a terminal group (2) positioned at both ends to a pair of metal mold main bodies (4) as shown in FIG. 3(a) and holding a terminal group (2) arranged at the center in a rear core (6), moving a front core (5a) arranged on the right side of a curved part (2b) downward while bending the curved part (2b) as shown in FIG. 3(b), storing the curved part (2b) in a second storing part (10a) as shown in FIG. 3(c), moving a front core (5b) arranged on the left side toward the curved part (2b) as shown in FIG. 3(d) and storing the curved part (2b) in a second storing part (10b) as shown in FIG. 3(e), moving the metal mold main bodies (4) from both sides toward each other so as to form a cavity (7) using the metal mold main bodies (4), front core (5), and rear core (6) as shown in FIG. 3(e), and releasing the front cores (5a, and 5b) in the same manner as above, one by one, even when the front core is released.
Connector block (3) comprising at least one contact member (22) provided with a first contact terminal (10) for electrical contact to a contact terminal (60) of a mating connector (2), a second contact terminal (9) and a spring subdivision (13) giving the contact member a resilient capacity in its axial direction, the first contact terminal (10), the second contact terminal (9) and the spring subdivision (13) being integrally made and the spring subdivision (13) having a corrugated compression spring with equally spaced sinusoidal subdivisions, each of the first contact terminals (10) being provided with bent extremity (16).
Connector block (3) comprising at least one contact member (22) provided with a first contact terminal (10) for electrical contact to a contact terminal (6) of a mating connector (2), a second contact terminal (9) and a spring part (13) giving the contact member a resilient capacity in its axial direction, the first contact terminal (10), the second contact terminal (9) and the spring part (13) being integrally made and the spring part (13) having a corrugated structure; separate ground means (19, 19') are arranged to provide a static discharge capacity for vulnerable electronic components connected to the second contact terminals (9).
