Abstract:
An antenna mount is provided including a contact pin having first and second distal ends, a barrel encasing the contact pin, a base encasing the barrel, a terminal lug press fit within a cross-section of the base, and a set screw receptacle disposed in a portion of the base for receiving a set screw to secure an antenna to the base. The first and second distal ends of the contact pin extend past first and second distal ends of the barrel, the first distal end of the contact pin extends past a first distal end of the base, and a second distal end of the base surrounds the second distal end of the pin.
Abstract:
Thin plug assemblies and methods for constructing the same are disclosed. The plug assembly can include a plug portion, a cable portion, and an interfacing portion between the plug portion and the cable portion. The plug portion can include several conductive regions each connected to a conductor of the cable portion to form conductor/plug member coupling(s), for example via a plug extension member associated with each conductive region. The plug assembly is constructed such that a diameter of the plug portion, interface portion, and at least part of the cable portion have substantially the same diameter. Ring structures enhance one or more of the conductor/plug member couplings by providing a press or interference fit directly to the coupling(s). Ring structures are constructed to slide axially over at least one conductor and at least one plug member.
Abstract:
An electrical connector (100) comprising a male (120) and female (150) part, each part (120, 150) having a magnet (135, 165) adapted to attract the parts (120, 150) together to make a connection. The parts (120, 150) can connect at any relative rotational orientation and preferred embodiments prevent offset connection between the magnets (135, 165) or parts (120, 150). The connector (100) is particularly suited for use in out of reach locations, for example to easily and safely replace light bulbs into sockets suspended from a ceiling.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a charging interface. The interface includes a first contact interface system for receiving a male connector. The first interface contact interface system includes a housing with a front surface, where the front surface includes an aperture leading to a well within the housing. A first positive contact is disposed within the well and a first negative contact is disposed within the well. The interface also includes a second contact interface system comprising conductive contacts disposed on the front surface outside the aperture. The conductive contacts comprise a second positive contact and a second negative contact.
Abstract:
A low inductance electrical spring connector for a disc drive interconnecting the conductors of a flex circuit support and seal apparatus to conductive traces on a PCB, the electrical spring connector having a dielectric housing with a plurality of spaced-apart insulator portions, and a plurality of conductive spring contacts disposed between the insulator portions. The dielectric housing forms an open ended insertion cavity disposable below the flex circuit support and seal apparatus. First ends of the conductive spring contacts are solderable to conductive traces on the PCB, while second ends of the conductive spring contacts are contact surfaces disposed in the insertion cavity. Inserting the conductors of the flex circuit adjacent the contact surfaces into the insertion cavity causes the contact surfaces to engage the conductors of the flex circuit to secure the flex circuit support and seal apparatus while providing electrical contact between the head-disc assembly and the printed circuit board.
Abstract:
A coaxial plug-and-socket connector has an external-conductor contact-socket for engaging a mating plug external-conductor. The socket has an end face through which the mating-plug external-conductor passes. The external-conductor contact-socket has a bushing with a metal wall with an axial slit. The wall at the bushing end face is compressed in such manner that it conically tapers toward the mating-plug external-conductor. The opposite wall segments at the slit partly overlap so the bushing has a frustoconical shape and spring properties.
Abstract:
A female electrical connector for mating with a male counterpart is provided. The female connector includes an outer structure and an inner structure. The outer structure has a first inner surface for receiving a first contact member of the male counterpart. The inner structure includes at least one resilient conducting wire mounted within the inner structure for contacting the second contact member of the male counterpart upon insertion of the second contact member of the male counterpart into the inner structure. The at least one resilient conducting wire has opposite ends and a central portion. The opposite ends are contacting and fixed to the inner structure. The central portion is spaced from the second inner surface prior to insertion of the second contact member of the male counterpart into the inner structure and displaced toward the second inner surface upon insertion of the second contact member of the male counterpart into the inner structure. The connector may include a plurality of the resilient conducting wires, the wires extending at a non-intersecting angle to the longitudinal axis in order to form a hyperboloid shape. Alternately, the connector may include a plurality of the resilient conducting wires extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis. Typically, the inner and outer structure are coaxial.
Abstract:
The present invention pertains to a stator for an electric motor, composed of a stator core assembly (2), stator windings (3) and, arranged at one end of the stator core assembly (2), an interconnecting arrangement (4) for the stator windings (3). An interconnecting arrangement (4) features an insulating part (9) with slotted chambers (11) in order to accept electrical connecting leads (12), insulated from each other, in order to interconnect the wire ends (7) of the stator windings (3).
Abstract:
The push-in/push-out lampholder has a guide track for an unlocking member which is permanently coupled to a fixation member. The guide track may be heart-shaped and be partly traversed by the unlocking member when a lamp cap is pressed into the lampholder. The lamp cap must be released if it is to reach an operational position under the influence of a spring. The fixation member permanently coupled to the unlocking member is then in engagement with a profile of the lamp cap and retains the lamp, pressed against contact members. It is not until a second, separate push is given that the unlocking member continues its path through the guide track. In a special embodiment, the fixation member and the unlocking member are combined into an integrated member, which may be a ball which is enclosed in inwardly narrowing bores of a cylindrical ball holder and in the guide track. The lampholder can be slim and can be manufactured mainly from metal or from synthetic resin.