Electrical connections between a cable connector and an electronics module--that has a corresponding panel connector--are made/broken quickly and easily with a light, low-bulk half-shell that is an exclusively mechanical, nonelectrical intermediary from connector to module. A rack receives and holds the module, and a connector holder, formed in the rack, receives and holds the cable and panel connectors aligned. A cam is associated with the rack or module, and a cam-follower with the other--pref...

A wet-mateable electrical connector which does not use elastomer as a primary seal is provided. The wet-mateable electrical connector includes a female connector body having an internal central cavity and a female metal sealing surface at a forward end and a female contact housing disposed within the internal central cavity. The female contact housing includes a plurality of female contacts. A sliding pin is movably disposed within the internal central cavity. The wet-mateable electrical connect...

An electrical connector includes a housing enclosed by an EMI shield having fastening devices integrally extending downward therefrom. Each fastening device has a substantially hour-glass shape with an opening defined therethrough thereby forming two resilient side portions. The fastening devices are inserted through corresponding holes defined in the PCB whereby a diagonal section and an upper protrusion of each side portion are positioned above the PCB, a curved section of each side portion ab...

A light emitted diode (LED) light bulb holder used for LED type Christmas light bulb strings comprise specially designed terminals that are used in conjunction with an insertion element to effectively hold leads of a light emitted diode and to firmly connect the LED light bulb with the holder. Thus the insertion element, the terminals and electrical wires seated in a holder body can provide an excellent effect of connecting LED light bulbs with electrical wires.

A device for taking-up or stowing a cable (16, 64) with several leads (36), including a take-up drum (18, 60) which rotates around an axle (30, 38) to take up the cable is disclosed. The leads of the cable are connected to a first connection device (38). This first connection device also provides an electrically conductive connection to the lines of a supply. In order to prevent the leads of the cable from breaking when the drum rotates, the first connection device should be connected to the dru...

An electrical connector includes a first insulative housing and a second insulative housing. Each housing has two lugs formed on opposite ends thereof corresponding to each other. Each lug defines a recess having a support face formed therein. Two locking members bridge between the first and second housings and engage with the lugs thereby securing the housings together to form the connector. Each locking member has a base section and two retention sections formed on opposite ends thereof. The r...

A monolithic planar filter capacitor assembly includes a dielectric substrate, a plurality of through-holes, sets of interleaved ground and active electrodes and, within at least some of the through-holes, discrete capacitor structures electrically connected to one of the sets of interleaved electrodes.

A filter electrical connector having a housing and a contact and filtering circuit subassembly. The contact and filtering circuit subassembly has a ferrite block, electrical contacts passing through the ferrite block, and a lead frame and circuit element assembly. The lead frame and circuit element assembly is mounted on the ferrite block and is electrically connected to the electrical contacts.

A printed circuit board mounted connector which employs separate fasteners for securing the connector to elongate mounting holes of the board. The fastener has an upper cap and a lower non-circular threaded rod. The insulative housing of the connector has a pair of side flanges. Each flange has a stepped through-hole, consisting of an upper hole for receiving the upper cap of the fastener and a lower non-circular hole for receiving the lower non-circular threaded rod of the fastener, and a numbe...

The invention relates to a one-piece contact spring (10, 11) including a box-shaped contact part (20) having a bottom wall (22) side walls (24, 26) and a top wall (28), and including a spring arm (32) which is bent back into the interior of the contact part at the insertion opening and together with at least one additional spring arm (34) forms a plug-in contact socket, wherein the spring arm (32) bent back into the interior of the contact part is integrally formed on the narrow side of the bott...