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|Jun 25, 1974
|Filing date
|Nov 14, 1972
|Priority date
|Nov 14, 1972
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|C Huffnagle, H Wasserlein
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|Amp Inc
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United States Patent [191 Huffnagle et al.
[ June 25, 1974 1 1 MULTI-CONTACT CONNECTOR AND CONTACT TERMINAL FOR FLAT CABLE [75] Inventors: Clifton Wesley Huffnagle, Camp Hill, Pa.; Henry George Wasserlein, Jr., Seminole, Fla.
[73] Assignee: AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, Pa. [22] Filed: Nov. 14, 1972 [21] App]. No.: 306,470
[52] US. Cl 339/17 F, 339/97, 3.39/210 M [51] Int. Cl. 05k H04 [58] Field of Search 339/17, 75, 95-99, 339/14,103,176,l74,192, 196, 210, 275, 252, 256, 258
[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,475,243 7/1949 lrreang 339/99 R 2,694,189 ll/1954 Wirsching 2,783,417 2/1957 Eannarino 339/192 R 3,115,541 12/1963 Hannel et al 339/97 R X Leach 339/99 R 3,227,991 1/1966 Zdanis 339/98 $337,833 8/1967 Creedon 339/192 R X 3,394,454 7/1968 Logan 339/97 P X 3,614,706 10/1971 Kukla r 339/14 R 3,617,983 11/1971 Patton 339/98 FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS 67,298 2/1951 Netherlands 339/97 R Primary Examin'er-Bobby R. Gay Assistant Examiner-Terrell P. Lewis [57] ABSTRACT Multi-contact connector for flat cable comprises base member and cap piece which are assembled to the cable. Wire-in-slot type electrical contact terminals mounted in the base member engage the conductors of the cable and establish electrical contact therewith. Contact terminals each provide redundant contact to the conductors and engage the cap member in a manner which maintains electrical contact and secures the cap member to the connector.
14 Claims, 12 Drawing Figures Plmmzs m4 sumunfe PATENTEnJu'xas m4 SHEET 5 OF MULTI-CONTACT CONNECTOR AND CONTACT TERMINAL FOR FLAT CABLE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to multi-contact electrical connectors adapted for use on flat cables of the type having a plurality of conductors contained in a web of insulating material.
It is generally known to use electrical connectors for flat cables having wire-in-slot type contact terminals therein which puncture the cable in a manner such that each conductor of the cable is moved into the slot of one of the contact terminals, see for example, US. Pat. Nos. 3,189,863, 3,444,506,and3 ,225,833. Theinstant invention is pa rficularly directed to embodiments in flat cable connectors which permit inspection of the cable and contacts prior to assembly of the cap piece to the base member of the connector, to improve contact terminals for flat conductor cable connectors, and to a connector having improved means for holding the cap piece in assembled relationship to the base member.
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide an improved multicontact connector for use with a flat cable. A further object is to provide an improved contact terminal for use with flat cables which establishes redundant electrical contacts with the conductors of the cables. A further object is to provide a contact terminal having improved spring characteristics for maintaining electrical contact with the conductor. A further object is to provide a contact terminal adapted for use with flat cable which will accept a range of conductor sizes.
These and other objects of the invention are achieved in a preferred embodiment thereof, which is briefly described in the foregoing abstract, which is described in detail below, and which is shown in the accompanying drawing in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a connector in accordance with the invention, the base member being exploded from the cap member in this view.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a connector in accordance with the invention installed on one end of a flat cable.
FIGS. 3 and 4 are views taken along the lines 3-3 and 4-4 of FIG. 2.
FIG. 7 is a fragmentary perspective view of an apparatus for assembling a cable to the base section of a connector in accordance with the invention and forcing the conductors of the cable into the slots of the contact terminals of the connector.
FIG. 8 is a view taken along the lines 88 of FIG. 7 and showing the underside of the cable insertion die.
FIG. 9 is a fragmentary cross-sectional view showing a-portion of the cable insertion die and the base portion of a connector, this view illustrating the initial movement of the cable connectors into the slots of the contact terminals.
FIG. 10 is a view similar to FIG. 9 but showing the positions of the parts at the conclusion of the cable insertion process.
FIG. 11 is a perspective view of a contact terminal in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 12 is a view of the contact terminal showing the side thereof which is opposite to the side shown in FIG. 1 1.
Referring first to FIGS. 5 and 6, a widely used form of flat cable 4 comprises a plurality of parallel conductors 2, which may be either solid or stranded, contained in a continuous web 6 of plastic insulation. The underside 8 of the cable has parallel arcuate surface sections which are symetn'cally located with respect to the conductors 2 and which intersect each other to form grooves or depressions 110. The upper surface I l is substantially flat but may have shallow grooves 12 between adjacent conductors and in alignment with the grooves 10. Cables of the type shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 are made with varying numbers of conductors and with conductors of varying sizes. One widely used size or type has its conductors 2 spaced apart by 0.050 inch, the conductors being AWG 28 or 30 wires.
A connector assembly in accordance with the invention, FIGS. 1 and 2, comprises a cap member 16 and a base member 18, the base member containing a plurality of electrical contact terminals 20 arranged in two parallel rows extending along the sides of the base member. Each contact terminal, (FIGS. 11 and 12) have a yoke portion 22 intermediate its ends comprised of a pair of parallel plate sections 24, 26 which are connected to each other by a vertically extending bight 25. A mounting post 28 extends downwardly from plate section 26 and is enlarged adjacent to the plate section, a dimple 30 being formed on this enlarged section to retain the terminal in a housing as will be described below.
A pair of arms 32 extend upwardly from the plate section 26 and are spaced apart to define a first wire receiving slot 36. The upper portions of the opposed edges of the slot 36 diverge so that the upper portion of the slot is of increasing width. The outwardly facing edge 38 of the arms are tapered gently towards each other in the intermediate portions of the arms and are relatively sharply tapered at the upper ends as shown at 39. The upper or free ends of the anns are thus sharply pointed to facilitate penetration of the cable during installation.
A similar pair of arms 40 extend upwardly from the plate section 24 and have divergent opposed edges 41 which define a second wire receiving slot 42. The outwardly facing edges 44 of the arms 40 are also tapered towards each other and the upper or free ends 46 have laterally extending barbs which provide downwardly facing shoulders 43. The arms 32, 40 are thus substantially the same excepting for the provision of the barbs on the upper ends 46 of the arms 40. It should also be noted that the arms 40 are inclined towards the arms 32 (which are planar extensions of the plate section 36) so that the free ends of the arms are closely adjacent to each other for reasons explained below.
Contact terminals as shown in FIG. 11 can be manufactured at any desired size for different sizes of conductors. A terminal which is suitable for the AWG 28 or 30 conductors of the cable described above is advantageously manufactured from metal stock having a thickness of 0.010 inch. It is desirable to manufacture the contact terminal of a metal having good spring characteristics such as a No. 4 hard phosphor bronze in order to permit use of one terminal having specific dimensions with a range of wire sizes. As will be explained below, the manner of installing a connector in accordance with the invention on a cable and the structural features of the contact terminal permit the use of relatively thin sheet metal having good spring characteristics rather than a comparatively heavy gauge metal which is substantially stronger and less elastic than the No. 4 hard phosphor bronze referred to above.
The base member 18 comprises a block of insulating material having bosses 51 on its underside to support it on a printed circuit board. The contact terminals are contained in two rows 52, 52 of cavities extending inwardly from its upper surface 53 along the opposite sides thereof. The cavities 52 have a ledge or shelf 54 recessed from the upper surface of the base member and have a relatively smaller opening 56 extending through to the underside S8 of the base, the opening 56 being offset relative to the upper portions of the cavity so as to receive the offset post portions 28 of the terminals. As best shown in FIG. 4, the openings 56 receive the enlarged upper portions of the posts 28 in which the dimples 30 are provided and the lower edges of the yoke portion 22 are supported on the shelf 54 of each cavity. The cavities 52' are similar to the cavities 52 but the openings 56 are on the opposed ends of the cavities from the openings 56 of the cavities 52. This arrangement locates the wire receiving slots of the terminals in each row at intervals of 0.100 inch, the slots in the terminals in the one row being offset by a distance of 0.050 inch from the slots in the other row so that the contact terminals will engage the conductors at the indicated locations in FIG. 5.
Latching arms 60, 60' are provided at each end of the base member and have enlarged free ends 62. These latching arms are adapted to enter recess 64, 64' in the cap member, the recesses having suitable upwardly facing shoulders for engagement with the enlarged ends 62 of the latch arms. The upper ends of the latch arms are slightly above the upper ends of the terminals 20 mounted in the base 18 so that the conductor cable 4 can be located between the latch arms at the time of application of the connector to the cable.
The cap member 16 has two rows of openings 64 extending therethrough from its upper side 67 to its underside 68, these openings being so located as to receive the contact arms 32, 40 of the terminals. As best shown in FIG. 4, each opening has a conical portion 70 adjacent to the underside of the cap member, an intermediate cylindrical portion 73 which merges with the conical portion, and an enlarged upper portion, the inner end of which is defined by an upwardly facing shoulder 72. The diameter of the relatively short cylindrical portion 73 is advantageously slightly less than the distance between the oppositely directed edges of the arms 40 at the shoulders 43 so that the arms will be flexed inwardly towards each other by a slight amount by the cap member.
The cap member is advantageously provided with a shallow rectangular recess 67 on its underside as shown in FIG. 3. When the base member and cap member are clamped to the cable, the cable is clamped between the opposed surfaces of the base and cap member which surround the recess 67 and the plastic web material flows into this recess to a slight extent. The recess thus permits firm clamping of the cable between the base and cap members.
The connector is advantageously installed on the cable by means of an apparatus 74, FIG. 7 comprising a jig or workholder 76 which is supported between gibs 78 on a base plate 80 which in turn may be secured to the bed or platen of a suitable bench press. The jig 76 is removable from the base plate so that several jigs intended for different sizes of connectors can be used. Two rows of relatively small circular openings 82 are provided on the upper surface of the jig for the reception of the post portions 28 of the contact terminals in the base section 18 and two relatively large openings 84 are provided for the reception of bosses 51 on the underside of the base member. A pair of guide pins 86 are mounted in the jig to locate the cable with respect to the base member of a connector mounted on the jig. The cable is also located by means of a stop block 88 which has a surface 90 against which the end of the cable is located during installation. The stop block 88 is adjustably mounted as shown at 92 on a mounting block 94 which is secured to the base plate.
The cable is pressed downwardly onto the base member by means of a die block or pressing block 96 mounted on the end of the press ram 98. It will be understood that the block 96 and the base plate can be used with any suitable bench press. Block 96 is formed of three sections 100, 100' and 102, FIG. 8. The sections 100, 102 have recesses 108 provided on their sides which bear against the center section 102 to define rectangular openings extending into the underside of the block. The edges of these recesses are beveled inclined as shown at 105 to provide guiding surfaces for the edges of the terminals during the cable installation operation. The width of the recesses 108 is substantially equal to and slightly greater than, the distance between the outer ends of the barbs 46 of the arms 40 as is apparent from FIG. 9. Both pairs of arms can thus move freely into the recesses as shown in FIG. 9 but the arms are restrained against the flexure during movement of the wires into the slots. It should also be mentioned that the openings 108, 108 have a width which is slightly greater than the distance between the oppositely facing surfaces of the arms 32, 40 but not excessively greater in order to provide support for these arms against buckling.
The sections 100, 100 102 are held in assembled relationship by suitable fasteners as shown. Openings 104, are provided on the underside of the die block for the latching arms 60, 60' of the base member 18 and a recess 106 is also provided for the projection 89 on the stop block 88.
When a cable 4 is to be assembled to a connector 14, the base section 18, is first positioned on the jig 76 with the post portions 28 of the terminals disposed in the holes 82. The end of the cable is then located between pins 86 with the cut end against the surface 90. The press is then cycled to move the insertion die 96 downwardly as shown in FIG. 9 until it reaches the position shown in FIG. 10. During such insertion, the upper ends of the arms of each contact terminal pierce the cable on each side of one of the conductors 2 and the upper ends of the terminals enter the openings 108 in the insertion die. As downward movement of the die proceeds, the conductors are forced into the inner ends of the slots 36, 42 until they are located in the portions of the narrow slots which extend into the yoke section 22 of the terminal.
As previously noted, the terminals are advantageously manufactured of relatively thin material having good spring characteristics and the arms are therefore flexed laterally outwardly by the wedging effect of the conductors as shown in FIG. 10. In fact, the upper ends of the arms are supported by the walls of the openings 108, against the outward flexure which they would otherwise undergo. In other words, the forces imposed on the terminal by the wire during its movement into the slots would cause a flexure of the arms beyond the positions shown in FIG. if they were not confined by the walls of the openings 108. By virtue of the fact that the arms are supported during installation of the cable, the individual conductors are deformed to a greater degree than would otherwise be the case and fresh surface is formed on these conductors for the electrical contact interface between the conductors and the edges of the slots. Since the conductors are of copper, they yield (i.e. they are permanently deformed) during installation of the cable and are not capable of forcing the arms apart when the block 96 is removed.
The block 96 also serves, during installation of the cable, to prevent buckling or other failure of the terminals as a result of compression and/or torsional stresses developed while the wires are being forced into the slots of the terminal. The terminals thus need not be of relatively thick metal in order to prevent buckling or torsional failure without added support. The support provided by the openings in the insertion block thus permits the use of a relatively thin material having good spring characteristics as noted above.
After the cable conductors have been fully inserted into the slots of the terminals, the insertion block is raised and the end of the cable is inspected for any improperly inserted conductors or other defections. Casual inspection of the electrical connections at this stage will reveal any defects such as improperly located conductors or insufficiently inserted conductors. While such defects are only rarely encountered and are usually a result of improper application technique, such as improper alignment of the cable in the jig, they nonetheless do occur on rare occasions and the fact that the cable can be inspected is an advantageous feature.
The cap member 16 is then assembled to the base member 18 by simply pushing it downwardly with the insertion block until the latch arms are seated in the recesses 64. The upper ends of the arms 32, 40 will be flexed inwardly during assembly of the cap and after passage of the hook-like upper ends 46 through the restricted cylindrical sections 73 of the openings 66, the arms will return partially to their normal positions and the shoulders 43 will be seated against the surfaces 72 as shown in FIG. 4. As previously noted, the diameter of the cylindrical portion 73 of each opening 66 is preferably such that the arms are flexed inwardly by a slight amount by the cap member.
Several of the advantageous features of a connector in accordance with the invention stem for the fact that the contact terminals can be produced of relatively thin stock material having good spring characteristics. In the assembled connector, as installed in the cable, the contact terminals have intentionally stored energy which resiliently urges the edges of their slots against the insertion wire. The use of thin stock metal in the terminals as described above is in turn permitted by virtue of the fact that the arms of the terminals are supported against failure by buckling during installation of the connector on the cable. Also, the provision of two sets of contact arms provides sufficient contact surface notwithstanding the thinness of the metal.
A further advantage of the invention is that four separate areas of contact are provided between each terminal and each conductor. These redundant contacts reduce the possibility of high resistance connections and/or open circuits. It is also advantageous that the individual contacts are held in a flexed condition by the cap member and engage the cap member to hold it against the upper surface of the cable. The interengagement of each contact with the cap member prevents any buckling or bowing of the cap with an accompanying relaxation of mechanical retention of the connector to the cable.
As described above, the contact terminal 20 is advantageously formed with the arms 4&0 inclined towards the arms 32. This slight inclination of the arms is advantageous in that it locates the opposed edges of the slot in the arms 40 closely adjacent to the opposed edges of the slot in the arms 32, particularly at the upper ends of the arms. When the conductor is forced downwardly as, illustrated in FIG. 9, the insulation or the web material of the cable must be extruded from around the conductor andthe extruded insulation can flow into the space between the opposed surfaces of the arms 40 and the arms 32. The gap between these opposed surfaces is smallest at the upper ends of the arms and increases as the lower ends of the arms (adjacent to the yoke 22) are approached. Therefore, as extrusion of flow of the insulation surrounding the conductor increases during movement of the conductor downwardly, an increasingly greater space is provided into which plastic material can flow. The extruded plastic does not, therefore, wedge itself between the opposed faces of the arms and force them apart.
Terminals in accordance with the invention are manufactured by blanking flat sheet metal and bending the blank along the bight 25 to bring the arms 32, 40 in substantial alignment with each other. It is advantageous if the arms are not perfectly aligned but are very slightly offset with respect to each other so that the slots of the arms will be offset very slightly. The offset relationship of the slots gives rise to the imposition of tensile stresses in the conductor because of the fact that it is stretched and these tensile stresses further contribute to the stored energy in the contact system by means of which the electrical contact is assured.
In the foregoing description, the underside of the cable as viewed in P16. 6 is positioned against the upper ends of the contacts. lt should be mentioned that either side of the cable can be positioned against the upper ends of the terminals, the grooves 12 in the disclosed embodiment serving to locate the cable if the upper side is positioned against the contacts. Some commercially available flat cables do not have such grooves in which case the cable is located entirely by the latching arms 60, or it may be located by the pins 86 of the application tooling.
A connector as shown in the drawing can be mounted on a printed circuit board and the post portions 28 soldered to conductors on the underside of the board or these post portions may be inserted into contact sockets or a complimentary connector. If desired, alternative forms of contact members can be substituted for the posts 28 such as contact sockets.
Changes in construction will occur to those skilled in the art and various apparently different modifications and embodiments may be made without departing from the scope of the invention. The matter set forth in the foregoing description and accompanying drawings is offered by way of illustration only.
What is claimed is:
l. A stamped and formed electrical contact terminal for forming an electrical connection with an insulated wire comprising:
a pair of closely spaced, parallel, substantially planar plate sections which are connected by a bight, and bight extending along corresponding first sides of said plate sections,
each plate section having a pair of spaced apart arms extending from second corresponding sides of said plate sections; and
a contact member extending from a third side of at least one of said plate sections,
said second corresponding sides being adjacent to said first corresponding sides, said arms having opposed edges, said edges defining a wire-receiving slot, said slots extending into said plate-sections whereby, upon movement of a conductor laterally of its axis into said slots, the edges of said slots pierce the insulation of said wire and establish electrical contact therewith.
2. A contact terminal as set forth in claim 1, said contact member comprising a post member.
3. A contact terminal as set forth in claim 1, said arms being of decreasing widths along their lengths and being stiffly flexible towards and away from each other.
4. A contact terminal as set forth in claim 3, the arms of at least one of said pairs having outwardly directed free ends of each arm of said one pair having a shoulder lying in the plane of said plate sections for latching engagement with one part of a two-part connector housmg.
5. A contact terminal as set forth in claim 1, said slots extending in parallel laterally offset relationship to each other.
6. An electrical connecting device for forming electrical connections with the conductors of a multiconductor flat cable of the type comprising a plurality of conductors in side-by-side parallel relationship, said conductors being contained in a web of plastic insulating material, said connecting device comprising:
a base member of insulating material having a plurality of cavities extending therethrough from one side thereof to another side which is opposite to said one side,
an electrical contact terminal in each of said cavities,
each of said contact terminals having a wirereceiving portion comprising a pair of spaced-apart arms, said arms having opposed edges defining a wire-receiving slot, said arms extending normally beyond said one side of said base member, cap member which is adapted to be assembled to said base member against said one side thereof, said cap member having openings extending therethrough for reception of said arms of said contact terminals, and interengageable means on said arms and said cap member for retaining said cap member on said base member whereby,
upon positioning said cable in spaced parallel relationship to said one side of said base member, and upon movement of said cable towards said one side, said arms penetrate said cable and each of said conductors is forced into said slot in one of said contact terminals, and upon assembly of said cap member to said base member, said cable is clamped between said cap member and said base member.
7. An electrical connecting device as set forth in claim 6, said interengaging means comprising laterally outwardly directed free end portions on said arms, said free end portions having shoulders directed towards said one side of said base member, said shoulders being against surface portions of said cap member which extend parallel to said one side of said base member.
8. An electrical connecting device as set forth in claim 7, each of said contact terminals having a generally U- shaped yoke portion intermediate the ends thereof, said yoke portions comprising a bight and substantially parallel plate sections, said arms extending from one side of one of said plate sections which is adjacent to said bight, a second pair of arms extending from the other one of said plate sections, said second pair of arms providing a second wire-receiving slot.
9. An electrical connecting device as set forth in claim 8, said second pair of arms being inclined towards said pair of arms.
10. An electrical connecting device for forming electrical connections with a multi-conductor flat cable of the type comprising a plurality of conductors in sideby-side parallel relationship, said conductors being contained in aweb of plastic insulating material, said connecting device comprising:
a base member of insulating material having a plurality of cavities extending therethrough from one side thereof to another side which is opposite to said one side, each of said cavities being generally rectangular and having an internal ledge which is recessed from, and which extends parallel to, said one side, each cavity including a rectangular opening extending from said shoulder through said base member to said other side, said opening being in a corner of said cavity, stamped and formed contact terminal in each of said cavities, each of said contact terminals having a wire-receiving portion comprising a yoke of U- shaped cross-section and comprising a pair of sideby-side plate sections connected by a bight, a pair of spaced-apart arms extending from each of said plate sections at one end of said yoke section, each of said pairs of arms having opposed edges defining a wire-receiving slot, a contact post member integral with one of said plate sections at the end thereof which is opposite to said one end, said opposite end being on said ledge and said post member extending through said base member and beyond said opposite side, and cap member which is adapted to be assembled to said one side of said base member said cap member having openings extending therethrough at locations corresponding to the location of said contact terminals and, interengaging means effective between the free ends of at least one pair of said arms and said cap member for retaining said cap member on said base member whereby,
upon positioning said cable in spaced parallel relationship to said one side of said base member and upon movement of said cable towards said one side, said free ends of said contact terminals penetrate said cable and each of said conductors is forced into said slots in one of said contact terminals, and upon assembly of said cap member to said base member, said cable is clamped to said base member.
11. A multi-conductor flat cable having an electrical connecting device thereon, said cable comprising a plurality of conductors in side-by-side parallel relationship, said conductors being contained in a web of insulating material, said connecting means comprising:
a base member of insulating material having a plurality of cavities extending therethrough from one side thereof to another side which is opposite to said one side,
an electrical contact terminal in each of said cavities,
each of said contact terminals having a wirereceiving portion comprising a pair of spaced-apart arms, said arms having opposed edges defining a wire-receiving slot, said arms extending normally beyond said one side of said base member,
said cable being substantially against said one side of said base member, said arms extending through said cables and each of said conductors being in the said wire receiving slot of one of said contact terminals,
a cap member assembled to said base member against said cable, said cap member having openings extending therethrough, said arms of said contact terminals extending into said openings, and interengageable means on said arms and said cap member, said interengaging means latching said cap member to said base member and maintaining said cap member and said base member in clamping engagement with said cable.
12. A multi-conductor flat cable and connecting means as set forth in claim 11 said base member and said cap member being on one end of said cable.
13. A multi-conductor cable and a connecting means as set forth in claim 12, said interengaging means comprising laterally outwardly directed free end portions on said arms, said free end portions having shoulders directed towards said one side of said base member, said shoulders being against surface portions of said cap member extending parallel to said one side of said base member.
14. A multi-conductor cable and a connecting means as set forth in claim 13, each of said contact terminals having a generally U-shaped yoke portion intermediate the ends thereof, said yoke portions comprising a bight and substantially parallel plate sections, said arms extending from one side of one of said plate sections which is adjacent to said bight, a second pair of arms extending from the other one of said plate sections, said second pair of arms providing a second wire-receiving slot.
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|Mar 2, 1987
|May 2, 1989
|Switchcraft, Inc.
|Self-latching lamp jack
|Mar 21, 1989
|Jan 30, 1990
|Amp Incorporated
|Electrical connector having a cable terminating cover retention system and a strain relief therefor
|Jan 29, 1990
|Oct 2, 1990
|Amp Incorporated
|Strain relief
|Apr 14, 1989
|Nov 20, 1990
|Ferdie Meyer
|Method and article used for connecting electronic components
|Nov 29, 1988
|Jul 16, 1991
|Amp Incorporated
|Self regulating temperature heater carrier strip
|Oct 5, 1990
|Jun 16, 1992
|Amp Incorporated
|High density ribbon cable connector
|Feb 14, 1992
|Mar 2, 1993
|Amp Incorporated
|Contact retention
|Jul 17, 1995
|May 27, 1997
|The Whitaker Corporation
|Two step tab crimper and wire inserter
|Dec 20, 2003
|Jun 23, 2005
|Lear Corporation
|Female Terminal for Inserting in a Printed Circuit Board
|Oct 29, 1984
|Jun 16, 1987
|Thomas & Betts Corporation
|Three-row connector for mass terminating flat cable
|Aug 9, 1977
|Feb 16, 1978
|Amp Inc
|Elektrische anschlussklemme und elektrisches kabelverbindungsglied
|Aug 29, 1977
|Mar 15, 1979
|Dunkel Otto Gmbh
|Ribbon cable connector system - has contact pins or sleeves with contact fingers at other end, to which cable conductors are connected
|Nov 14, 1978
|Jul 5, 1979
|Amp Inc
|Verfahren und verbinder zum anschliessen eines biegsamen elektrischen flachkabels
|Feb 16, 1979
|Dec 6, 1979
|Litton Systems Inc
|Elektrischer verbinder
|Sep 28, 1979
|Apr 30, 1980
|Continental Wirt Electronic
|Stecker fuer ein flaches kabel
|Dec 6, 1985
|Jun 11, 1987
|Siemens Ag
|Strip-cable plug connector
|Sep 22, 1993
|Dec 5, 2002
|Tyco Electronics Logistics Ag
|Bandkabelverbinder zur Kontaktierung einer Leiterplatte
|Jan 26, 1979
|Aug 8, 1979
|AMP INCORPORATED (a New Jersey corporation)
|Electrical connector for establishing connections between a flat flexible cable and a further connector
|Jul 9, 1979
|Jan 14, 1981
|AMP INCORPORATED (a New Jersey corporation)
|Electrical connection to multilayer cable
|Jul 31, 1984
|Apr 3, 1985
|General Motors Corporation
|Insulation displacement terminal
|May 14, 1990
|Dec 5, 1990
|The Whitaker Corporation
|High density ribbon cable connector
|Feb 10, 1993
|Aug 18, 1993
|The Whitaker Corporation
|Contact retention
|Sep 17, 1998
|Apr 14, 1999
|DIETER H�LZLE TECHNIK-PROJEKTE GmbH
|Electrical connector for flat cables
|Feb 27, 1986
|Oct 23, 1986
|Amp Incorporated
|Cover for flat cable connector
|U.S. Classification
|439/400, 439/752
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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October 17th, 2014
Dark Purple – states with marriage equality
Light Purple – states in circuits in which marriage equality has been ruled.
Pink – states that recognize legal marriages from other places
The US Supreme Court has denied Alaska's request for a stay. Marriage is now equal in 31 states plus the District of Columbia.
October 15th, 2014
The State of Alaska asked for a stay to its marriage ruling. And by astonishing odds, two of the Ninth Circuit's most conservative judges, Diarmuid O'Scannlain and Jay Bybee, were on the three judge panel deciding the matter. O'Scannlain and Bybee were two of the three judges who would have given Proposition 8 an en banc hearing.
However, things were different this time around.
Bybee sided with judge Marsha Berzon in denying stay at the Ninth Circuit level and in issuing a temporary two day stay for the state to appeal to the Supreme Court in hopes of getting a more permanent stay.
Which means that marriages will not begin first thing tomorrow in The Last Frontier, but rather at noon on Friday.
October 14th, 2014
Although Alaska state law requires a three day wait, Magistrate Mary Treiber waived the requirement and allowed two lesbian couples to marry. Which is a pleasant little story.
But perhaps more interesting is where this happened, the town of Barrow.
Barrow is the northernmost city in the United States, lying above the Arctic Circle and just 1,300 south of the North Pole. The population is less than 5,000.
Congratulations, ladies.
October 12th, 2014
The Land of Sarah Palin is now in the marriage equality column. In a surprise summary judgment — the surprise being that it came out on Sunday afternoon local time after having heard oral arguments Friday afternoon –Federal District Judge Timothy Burgess found (PDF: 206KB/25 pages) " that Alaska's ban on same-sex marriage and refusal to recognize same sex marriages lawfully entered in other states is unconstitutional as a deprivation of basic due process and equal protection principles under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution."
The ruling comes less than a week after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Alaska's Federal Courts, overturned bans in Idaho and Nevada. The ruling takes effect immediately, and there was no stay issued with it. Nonetheless, Gov. Sean Parnell quickly announced that he would try to appeal the decision.
Alaska has a three day waiting period. While couples should be able to get marriage licenses on Monday, marriages may not take place before Thursday.
April 25th, 2014
Alaska is one of the three (and soon to be two) states in which there is not a current court challenge to anti-gay marriage bans. However, in a tax matter, the Alaska Supreme Court has just ruled that the state cannot discriminate against same-sex couples. (ACLU)
The Alaska Supreme Court ruled today that the state unconstitutionally discriminates against same-sex couples by denying them equal access to a property tax exemption for senior citizens and disabled veterans.
The rules were challenged by the ACLU of Alaska, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on behalf of three couples who were denied full access to a $150,000 property tax exemption that Alaska makes available to opposite-sex married couples. Because same-sex couples cannot legally marry in Alaska, the state treated them as roommates rather than as families and let them get the exemption for only half of the value of their homes.
In 1998 Alaska amended its state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. As it seems unlikely that the state Supreme Court invalidated that constitutional provision, it will be interesting to see how this ruling is administered. It would seem that, in application, the court ruled that same-sex couples must be treated as though married.
June 20th, 2013
Sometimes I think the National Organization for Marriage gets so caught up in their own spin that they have no notion of how surreal their proclamations sound. Consider this bit about Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski's recent support for equality:
Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, responded: "Senator Murkowski has sealed her political fate. Alaskans voted by an overwhelming majority (68%-32%) to protect marriage in their Constitution when given the opportunity, and an even stronger majority of Republicans in Alaska supported that move; thus, her betrayal of marriage is tantamount to political suicide."
For those who have forgotten, in 2010 Sarah Palin and the Tea Partiers ran a candidate against Murkowski in the Republican primary. She just wasn't conservative enough for them. And when Joe Miller won the primary, they thought that Murkowski's moderate positions had sealed her political fate.
But Murkowski ran a write-in campaign.
I don't mean a third party ticket. I don't mean being listed without a party. I mean that people had to pull out a pen and physically write her name down on their ballot. There hadn't been a US Senate seat win by write-in ballot since Strom Thurmond in 1956.
Murkowski won. Miller challenged a bunch of the ballots due to misspellings of Murkowski's name, but she still beat him. He sued and went to court claiming that there must have been fraud (cuz, really, how could that many people go write in her name?) and the courts still said that she won. The people had a choice between ticking the box for a NOM-approved candidate or remembering and writing in a difficult-to-spell name. They chose Murkowski.
So in just what surreal reality – let's call it a NOMian reality – does Brown think that the Alaskan voters are going to replace Lisa Murkowski with a more conservative candidate?
March 7th, 2012
Romney hangs in there again like a punch-drunk fighter staggering toward the finish of the sixth round (ooh look at me, I'm using a sports metaphor), picking up wins in six of the states up for grabs yesterday including a very hotly contested Ohio, where Santorum very nearly pulled off an upset. Romney did best in his home state of Massachusetts, and he did well in neighboring Vermont. He also did very well in the Idaho caucuses, where 23% of spudsters are fellow Mormons. There were no exit polls in Idaho, but in Arizona where Mormons made up 14% of the vote, they broke 96-4 for Romney on Feb 28.
Romney also did very well where he had very little actual competitors (Virginia, where Santorum and Gingrich weren't on the ballot). Which is to say that he has done very well where he had the home field advantage (as did Gingrich) or where his most potent opponent was missing. Or Alaska.
Which goes to day that Romney is still having trouble closing the deal with Santorum racking up rack up wins in the more conservative middle bits of the continent. In Oklahoma, Santorum's first place finish came in spite of Sen. Tom Coburn's endorsement of Romney, while Romney actually came in third in North Dakota and just barely avoided that same fate in Oklahoma. And in Ohio, where Romney poured massive amounts of dollars into the race, he only managed to pull out a 1% win over Santorum in the bellwether state. But even there, he he lost among Evangelical, blue collar and rural voters, but won among those who were 50 and older.
But here's the stat I find most telling: When Ohio voters were asked whether they'd support Romney in the general election regardless of who they voted for in the primary, 36% said they would not be satisfied with a Romney candidacy, versus 33% who said they'd reject a Santorum candidacy. In other words, Ohio Republicans are less willing to settle for Romney than Santorum.
But this is a race for delegates, not popular votes. And whatever weaknesses that exist in Romney's popular support within the GOP, he's still by far the frontrunner in the delegate race according to CNN's count, with more delegates than his opponents combined. But at only about half way through the primaries, Romney's still a long way from the 1,144 needed to secure the nomination. Kansas, US Virgin Islands and Guam hold caucuses next week, followed by primaries in Alabama, Mississippi and Hawaii the week after that. Which means that for Romney, the long slog continues. But for the other candidates in the field, the slog is even longer.
The idea behind Super Tuesday was to bring the nomination process into clearer focus. The only thing made clear yesterday is that GOP voters would still prefer another candidates. But that's not the choice available to them. Which means that Romney will almost certainly be the nominee when all is said and done, but what is said and done before then will continue to be the story. As Ezra Klein at the Washington Post put it, "For three guys who profess to not like the media very much, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich are really making all our dreams of a long, unpredictable primary come true."
June 26th, 2011
New Yorkers were celebrating the passage of marriage equality on Friday night, on the eve of that city's massive Pride celebration commemorating a raid on a gay bar on Christopher Street in 1969. Local police got in on the fun by staging a modern day raid on a gay bar on West 28th Street:
An unannounced inspection that several agencies carried out at a gay bar in Manhattan on Friday night occurred at nearly the same time that patrons were celebrating the passage of legislation in Albany legalizing same-sex marriage.
…"I was on the roof deck, smoking a cigar and having drinks with friends, and all of a sudden, the police showed up and started shining flashlights in everyone's face and offending everyone," said Thomas J. Shevlin, a financial markets researcher and the treasurer of the Stonewall Democratic Club.
…Along with flashlights being shined in people's faces, lights were turned off and patrons were forced to empty their pockets "without probable cause," Mr. Shevlin said.
And then there's this in Chicago:
In what could be a hate crime, dozens of tires on floats headed for Chicago's Pride Parade were cut with knifes just hours before the Parade Sunday.
Chuck Huser, owner of long-time Pride float provider Associated Attractions at 4834 S. Halsted on Chicago's South Side, said the floats were fine when he left 8 p.m. Saturday night, but when he returned 5 a.m. Sunday to start preparation for drivers to depart, he found two tires punctured each on more than 30 floats.
"This is catastrophic," he told Windy City Times at 8 a.m. June 26. "This has never happened before, and we have been doing this since 1989."
And finally, some truly tragic news of a fatal accident that led to the cancellation of Anchorage's Pride parade:
A convertible carrying the grand marshal in Saturday's gay PrideFest parade struck and killed a man just as the event began in downtown Anchorage, police said. Police late Saturday identified the victim as 50-year-old James L. Crump of Anchorage. Crump worked as a registered nurse for the city's Health and Human Services department and was walking in the annual parade, police said.
…"It's a pure accident," Frank said. "(The driver) just panicked and kept hitting the accelerator and it kept jumping forward."
May 13th, 2011
Dateline Wasilla:
The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman reports today that the principal of Wasilla High School told members of the school's symphonic jazz choir that they would not be allowed to perform the 1975 Queen song "Bohemian Rhapsody" because Freddy Mercury, who wrote it, was gay.
In the face of student protests, and fearing ACLU involvement, the principal backed down–to a point.
The choir will be allowed to perform the song, but only in a censored version, without lyrics the principal deems objectionable.
In a lame face-saving move, principal Dwight Probasco decided to compromise by banning the lyrics about the singer having "just killed a man." No word on whether "We Will Rock You" and "We Are The Champions" are allowed at hockey games. Joe McGinniss is having a field day on his blog, including a "separated at birth" photo of Probasco alongside Elton John that you absolutely have to see. His commenters are also getting in the spirit, including one Sandra Tompkins who re-wrote the lyrics of "Bohemian Rhapsody" just for Wasilla and its favorite daughter. It totally needs to go viral:
April 20th, 2011
Lou Engle is taking his dominionist craziness of TheCall Crisis to the capital of crazy, Wasilla, Alaska. Why? "We believe that Alaska is key to the future of this nation," he explains. Citing Oil, earthquakes, and apparently Johnny Cash, all signs point to Alaska as "a place of refuge for our nation." Engle's TheCall is part of a larger 2-day conference set for June 3-4.
Engle, who is transfixed by key numbers when they repeat themselves on the calendar, has also announced a gathering slated for Detroit on "11.11.11." He is also a stealth supporter of Uganda's "Kill-the-gays" bill.
August 9th, 2010
Alaska was among the earliest states in the Union to pass a constitutional amendment in 1998 to ban same-sex marriage. Bristol Palin was nine years old at the time, which would be plenty of time to protect her marriage. Half her life, in fact. In another nine years she became pregnant and gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on December 27, 2008. She never married. She and the boy's father, Levi Johnston have been off-again and on-again since then, but they are now back off again
And according to David Frum, this is precisely why last week's decsision striking down Prop 8 is a danger to heterosexual marriages. I kid you not.
Update: Frum's last paragraph says, "The harm feared from same-sex marriage has already arrived: Whether same-sex marriage is accepted or not, opposite-sex marriage as a norm and expectation has already collapsed." Maybe I misread, but I took this to mean that regardless of what the court finally decides, at least some of the "collapse" is attributed to same-sex marriage. That's the premise he cited at the begining, and it's where he appeared, to me at least, to be at the end — after having dismissed the racial discrimination claims pretty effectively. But of course that wasn't NOM's argument. In fact, in addressing NOM's argument, he called their warnings about the supposed superiority of opposite-sex parents rasing children "important and valid."
Maybe I misread it, maybe he's inelegant in wrapping this up. Thank God, being confused or confusing isn't a crime. But I still find his position unclear, and I struggle to understand whether he thinks there's any connection or not.
August 17th, 2009
Of course the mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, has not formally announced that he supports and encourages anti-gay discrimination. But he might as well have.
Non-discrimination policies are hardly new, controversial, or unexpected. Currently 21 states, 85% of Fortune 500 companies, and dozens more cities and municipalities protect their gay and lesbian residents from discrimination in employment and housing. It is expected that Congress will pass with bi-partisan support, and the president will sign, a Employment Non-Discrimination Act into law.
So why then would Mayor Dan Sullivan veto a provision passed by the Anchorage assembly on a 7 to 4 vote?
"My review shows that there is clearly a lack of quantifiable evidence necessitating this ordinance," the mayor said. "My review also shows that the vast majority of those who communicated their position on the ordinance are in opposition."
In other words, the citizens want to discriminate against gay people… but gay people don't need protection from this discrimination. Maybe it's just the Monday blues, but I'm finding it difficult to fathom an interpretation of this statement that isn't an unstated endorsement of anti-gay discrimination.
July 3rd, 2009
She gave no reason as far as I could tell from her long, rambling speech — unless it had something to do with Seward's Folly and Alaska being the air transport crossroads of the world. Her resignation doesn't take effect until July 26. Something tells me that in the unpredictable realm of Palin-land, just about anything can and might happen in the next twenty-three days.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACKm0AwStA8
May 30th, 2009
Tim LaHaye's popular Left Behind novels are a series of fictional tales about the lives of those in the battle of good v. evil after The Rapture takes place and Jesus calls all the saved Christians to Heaven. His archvillian, Nicolae Carpathia, is the Antichrist, the world leader who declares himself God and fights against the forces of Jesus Christ.
As an anti-gay activist and author of the homophobic screed What Everyone Should Know About Homosexuality, it's little surprise that LaHaye makes his Antichrist the son of pernicious Satan-worshiping homosexuals.
But now a Baptist pastor in Alaska has gone LaHaye one better. Believing that "there is no greater sin against God", he naturally jumped to the conclusion that the Anti-Christ himself will be gay.
But will the Antichrist be a homosexual? Having seen what the Bible says of sodomy, we have no further to look than the book of Daniel, chapter 11 to find our answer. It says, "Neither shall he [Antichrist] regard… the desire of women…." As I said at the onset, I am not the first to draw attention to this, but the verbiage is clear.
Ron Hamman, pastor of the Independent Baptist Church of Wasilla, has written a Religion View in his local paper, the Frontiersman. Poor Hamman, if he weren't from Sarah Palin's home town, no one would pay him much attention. But having set himself up for mockery, it's only fair that I point out that Pastor Hamman is nearly biblically illiterate as well at intellectually challenged.
Many readers will just laugh or wonder why we are wasting time on this story. But I'll give Pastor Hamman the courtesy of responding to his great announcement on his own terms. And it is on those terms that Hamman's argument fails. Miserably.
Perhaps unknown to Hamman, "the verbiage" he's quoting wasn't written in English. And though it truly is clear, it doesn't support his rather irrational assumptions.
Hamman, like many a conservative preacher, only trusts the King James Version of the Bible. So his source for the quote above is Daniel 11:37.
Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all.
We'll assume for a minute that Hamman is correct in believing that this prophesy of Daniel refers to the apocryphal character known as the Antichrist. We'll even set aside the irony that Daniel was a eunuch and suppose that "not regarding the desire of women" could mean homosexuality.
But Hamman forgot about context. And original meaning. And the fact that this verse was written in Hebrew. Had he just taken a second to go online and check another translation, he would have realized that this had nothing to do with sexuality at all. Rather, all of what "the king" was magnifying himself above were gods. Here's the same verse, in the context of the surrounding verses, from the New International Version.
36 "The king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god and will say unheard-of things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been determined must take place. 37 He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers or for the one desired by women, nor will he regard any god, but will exalt himself above them all. 38 Instead of them, he will honor a god of fortresses; a god unknown to his fathers he will honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and costly gifts. 39 He will attack the mightiest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him. He will make them rulers over many people and will distribute the land at a price.
Alas, poor Hamman. Had he gone to Divinity School, or picked up any study reference, or discussed it with any literate Christian, he would have known that he was basing his entire claim on a misreading of a single verse taken out of context.
Now he just looks like an idiot.
December 16th, 2008
The Wasilla Bible Church in Wasilla, Alaska, burned Friday night. Investigators have discovered that an accelerant was poured at several locations around the church, including the exits, and set afire. The fact that the fire was set at the church's exits is particularly disturbing because five members of the congregation were inside at the time. No one was injured, but the fire caused more than $1 million in damage.
Wasilla Bible Church became famous when one of its members, Alaska governor Sarah Palin, became the GOP vice-presidential candidate. The church became embroiled in controversy when it was learned that it was promoting a Love Won Out ex-gay conference in nearby Anchorage. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, which is leading the arson investigation, issued a statement saying, "There is no information that the fire was politically motivated."
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I know what it is to be the victim of an arson fire based on firsthand experience. It's very unsettling, to say the very least. The people of Wasilla Bible Church will most certainly rebuild the charred walls of their church. I hope they will also be able to quickly rebuild the sense of safety they found within those walls. And I hope the perpetrators are caught and brought to justice, whoever they are. Even if they are "radical homosexual activists."
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AA I have a low key 5K at the end of this month, Blaydon Race next month (5.7M ish) - then nothing else planned until GNR. That's some year you've got planned
2Old 10M could indeed be the new trendy distance! I've got 10M planned tomorrow. Your shortened weekend was still speedy! Shame about Liverpool, hope the delayed travel home didn't hamper any training plans!
Trendy 10M Barry You're getting some decent sessions in for the IM, hope you're niggle free.
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The point at which I'll be participating in "timed driving events/speed contests" seems far off at this point, but since I don't think I'll be rich enough to have a truck and trailer at that point, I am wondering how to get a racing car to/from events.
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If full coverage is desired they usually do want to view it.
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I've had 21st Century for 15 years. The only time they wanted to see my truck was when I had to file a claim. I drove my truck to their office and their adjuster came out to the parking lot and took photos. That was in 2000. Since then I've bought a new Toyota truck, then traded that in on my BMW Z3. They've never asked to see either vehicle. I've always had full coverage. Oh, and since the accident wasn't my fault, and the other guy's insurance paid the claim, my rates didn't change at all. I'm happy enough with 21st Century that I'm staying with them.
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