632results about "Connection formation by deformation" patented technology

A method of making a stimulation lead includes attaching multiple segmented electrodes to a carrier. Each of the segmented electrodes has a curved form extending over an arc in the range of 10 to 345 degrees. The method further includes attaching conductors to the segmented electrodes; forming the carrier into a cylinder with segmented electrodes disposed within the cylinder; molding a lead body around the segmented electrodes disposed on the carrier; and removing at least a portion of the carrier to separate the segmented electrodes.

The present invention is directed to a high density test probe which provides a means for testing a high density and high performance integrated circuits in wafer form or as discrete chips. The test probe is formed from a dense array of elongated electrical conductors which are embedded in an compliant or high modulus elastomeric material. A standard packaging substrate, such as a ceramic integrated circuit chip packaging substrate is used to provide a space transformer. Wires are bonded to an array of contact pads on the surface of the space transformer. The space transformer formed from a multilayer integrated circuit chip packaging substrate. The wires are as dense as the contact location array. A mold is disposed surrounding the array of outwardly projecting wires. A liquid elastomer is disposed ion the mold to fill the spaces between the wires. The elastomer is cured and the mold is removed, leaving an array of wires disposed in the elastomer and in electrical contact with the space transformer The space transformer can have an array of pins which are on the opposite surface of the space transformer opposite to that on which the elongated conductors are bonded. The pins are inserted into a socket on a second space transformer, such as a printed circuit board to form a probe assembly. Alternatively, an interposer electrical connector can be disposed between the first and second space transformer.

An implantable lead for a medical device with a coplanar coupling for connecting a conductor to a contact reduces conductor bending moments to improve lead reliability. The implantable lead comprises a lead body having a proximal end and a distal end, at least one conductor, at least one contact carried on the proximal end, at least one contact carried on the distal end, and at least one coupling. The lead body has an exterior surface. The conductor is contained in the lead body and extends from the lead proximal end to the distal end. The conductor is also electrically insulated. The contact carried on the proximal end is electrically connected to the conductor. The coupling has a conductor coupling and a contact coupling. The conductor coupling is placed over the conductor and attached to the conductor. The contact coupling exits the lead body and has a weld to connect the contact coupling to the contact. The contact coupling is configured to exit the conductor lumen and mate with the contact while retaining the conductor coplanar to the lead body.

In a structure 21 for connecting an electric wire and a connecting terminal in the invention, a ductile metal film 29 is formed in advance on an inner surface of a conductor caulking portion 24 of a crimp terminal 22 by such as plating, vacuum deposition, or adhesion. Then, the conductor caulking portion 24 in the rear portion of the crimp terminal 22 is caulked onto core wire portions M in a state of being stripped and extended in the axial direction from an end of a sheathed wire W to thereby establish connection. Subsequently, the metal film 29 is fused on heating. Accordingly, the ductile metal film 29 enters gaps between the inner surface of the conductor caulking portion 24 and the core wire portions M and between adjacent ones of the core wire portions M by the caulking stress. Hence, the area of contact between the conductor caulking portion 24 and the core wire portions M via the metal film 29 increases, and conductivity improves, thereby making it possible to suppress heat generation.

In one embodiment, a process, for fabricating a medical lead for stimulation of tissue of a patient, comprises: providing a plurality of wires; increasing an exterior surface area of each wire of the plurality of wires; arranging the plurality of wires angularly around a longitudinal axis; extruding polymer material of the plurality of wires; forming a lead body with a proximal end and a distal end after performing the extruding; and forming a plurality of terminals at a proximal end of the lead body; forming a plurality of segmented electrodes at a distal end of the lead body.

A method of connecting a terminal fitting and an electric wire, includes the steps of: providing a terminal fitting; providing an electric wire in which a core wire is covered with an insulating sheath; providing a conductive connecting member formed with an insertion hole; inserting the electric wire into the insertion hole of the connecting member; compressing the connecting member radially inwardly so as to caulk an inserted portion of the electric wire uniformly over a whole periphery thereof; and welding the connecting member and the terminal fitting by applying ultrasonic wave.

An end portion processing apparatus for processing an end portion of a shielded wire in which part of an outer sheath has been removed such that an exposed braid disposed between an inner sheath and the outer sheath extends from a distal end of the outer sheath, includes a wire clamp portion which positions the end portion of the shielded wire in an open condition of the wire clamp portion, and clamps the end portion of the shielded wire, a pair of claw portions which strikes against the exposed braid radially thereof at the clamped end portion of the shielded wire to expand the end portion of the braid, a first pipe portion which is disposed in a standby position on a line of extension of the clamped end portion of the shielded wire, and is fitted onto an outer periphery of the inner sheath, a second pipe portion which is provided on an outer periphery of the first pipe portion in concentric relation thereto, and is slid toward the shielded wire to fold back the expanded braid on the outer sheath, and a control portion which controls the operations of the claw portions, the first pipe portion and the second pipe portion.

A continuous cable processing apparatus for producing cable sections with processed ends comprises a cable transport apparatus having at least one transport means for moving and holding the cable in the axial direction and, transversely thereto, a knife station. According to a special variant, two transport means are arranged in the longitudinal cable direction on both sides of the knife station and, after the cable has been cut through, each hold one of the cable end regions produced on cutting, so that said end regions are movable in the longitudinal cable direction. At least one of these end processing stations is arranged transversely with respect to the longitudinal cable direction, adjacent to the knife station and at least one transport means is movable transversely with respect to the longitudinal cable direction so that a cable end region can be fed to the end processing station.

The invention relates to a power transmission line repairing robot and particularly relates to a broken strand crimping work robot mechanism of a super-high-voltage power transmission line. The broken strand crimping work robot mechanism comprises a front line stroking device, a front walking clamping mechanism, a front arm, an electrical equipment box body, a crimping arm, a rear arm, a rear walking clamping mechanism and a rear line stroking device, wherein one ends of the front arm and the rear arm are respectively and fixedly connected to the electrical equipment box body and the other ends of the front arm and the rear arm are hinged with the front walking clamping mechanism and the rear walking clamping mechanism; the front line stroking device and the rear line stroking device are respectively arranged on the outer sides of the front walking clamping mechanism and the rear walking clamping mechanism; one end of the crimping arm is fixedly connected with the electrical equipment box body; and the other end of the crimping arm is a crimping end and is located between the front walking clamping mechanism and the rear walking clamping mechanism. The broken strand crimping work robot mechanism has the advantages of large climbing angle, good safety protection, short obstacle crossing time, simple obstacle crossing process, simple and efficient line stroking process, small abrasion on the line and good broken strand crimping effect, improves the personal safety, reduces the labor intensity of staff and improves the efficiency.

An interposer including a fence that receives and aligns a semiconductor device, such as a flip-chip type semiconductor device, with an interposer substrate. The fence may include edges that are configured to progressively align a semiconductor device with the interposer substrate. The fence may also include one or more laterally recessed regions to facilitate rough alignment of a semiconductor device with the interposer substrate. Methods for fabricating the fence include the use of stereolithographic and molding processes. When stereolithography is used to fabricate the fence, a machine vision system that includes at least one camera operably associated with a computer may be used to control a stereolithography apparatus and facilitates recognition of the position and orientation of interposer substrates on and around which material is to be applied in one or more layers to form the fence. As a result, the interposer substrates need not be precisely mechanically aligned.

A method of constructing a mapping catheter is described where the catheter has numerous electrodes each associated with a single connection in a plug. The method consists of first arranging a plurality of wires in the desired relationship, with each of the wires running to a connection in a plug. Next, a single electrode is formed on each wire. Because it is often difficult to associate a particular connection with a particular plug, an electrical signal is then applied to a single one of the wires. The electrical signal can be applied to the connection or to the electrode. The electrical signal is then found among by examining either the electrodes or the connections, depending on which where the electrical signal was applied. Once the electrical signal is discovered, a map can be made between the connections and the electrodes.

The invention discloses a full-automatic double-end harness crimping machine which comprises a pay-off device, a feeding device and a cutting and stripping device. The pay-off device, the feeding device and the cutting and stripping device are disposed in sequence. An upper movable positioning device is arranged on the left side of the cutting and stripping device. A lower movable positioning device is arranged on the right side of the cutting and stripping device. The upper movable positioning device and the lower movable positioning device are the same in structure. The feeding device is fixed on the upper movable positioning device. A wire head crimping device is arranged in front of the cutting and stripping device. A wire tail crimping device is arranged in rear of the cutting and stripping device. The wire head crimping device and the wire tail crimping device are the same in structure. A wire picker is arranged on the right side of the wire tail crimping device. The full-automatic double-end harness crimping machine allows for integrative operation of automatic fixed-length feeding, automatic cutting, automatic stripping and automatic front-rear wire terminal crimping, and allows for full line production safely and automatically. Therefore, the full-automatic double-end harness crimping machine is high in production efficiency, low in power consumption, stable in product quality, high in precision and adaptable to large-scale batch production.

The invention provides an automatic glue cover penetrating machine which comprises a machine frame, a controller, a cutter mechanism, a wire feeding mechanism, a first wire clamp, a second wire clamp, a scaling powder pick-up mechanism, a tin pick-up mechanism, a wire pulling mechanism, a terminal punching mechanism, a glue cover penetrating mechanism, a first wire clamp driving mechanism and a second wire clamp driving mechanism. The first wire clamp is movably arranged on the machine frame, the wire feeding mechanism is arranged on the machine frame and conveys wire rods, the scaling powder pick-up mechanism and the tin pick-up mechanism are sequentially arranged on the machine frame, the first wire clamp driving mechanism is arranged on the machine frame and drives the first wire clamp to move among the wire feeding mechanism, the scaling powder pick-up mechanism and the tin pick-up mechanism, the cutter mechanism and the wire pulling mechanism are sequentially arranged on the machine frame, the second wire clamp is movably arranged on the machine frame, the terminal punching mechanism and the glue cover penetrating mechanism are sequentially arranged on the machine in the moving direction, away from the wire pulling mechanism, of the second wire clamp, the second wire clamp driving mechanism is arranged on the machine frame and drives the second wire clamp to move among the wire pulling mechanism, the terminal punching mechanism and the glue cover penetrating mechanism, and the aim that a wire harness automatically penetrates through a glue cover is achieved.

In a wire press-clamping method of press-clamping a conductor of a wire to a conductor press-clamping portion of a press-clamping terminal in electrically-connected relation thereto, there is used the press-clamping terminal having conductor press-fastening piece portions for press-fastening the conductor, and a press-clamping member is interposed between the conductor press-clamping portion and the conductor, and is press-fastened by the conductor press-fastening piece portions.

Apparatus and methods for filament crimping. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a body and a filament crimp element. The filament crimp element comprises a first set of cavities disposed at a spacing which creates a first set of features and a second set of cavities disposed at a spacing which creates a second set of features. The first and second set cavities are substantially opposite one another. The first set of features are adapted to be placed at least partially within the second set of cavities and the second set of features are adapted to be placed at least partially within the first set of cavities. Methods and apparatus for the manufacture of the device are also disclosed. In addition, methods for automated placement and manufacture of assemblies using the crimp elements are also disclosed.

Provided are a method and a device for crimping a terminal onto the uncoated end portion of an electric wire so that the electric wire may not be ridged or folded when crimped. The terminal crimping device comprises an applicator (10) and a clamp device (50) for holding and moving an electric wire (E) upward and downward. The applicator (10) includes crimpers (13 and 15) and anvils (14 and 16) acting as crimping tools, a slide cutter (17) for cutting a connecting portion between a terminal and a band body, and a cut-off punch (18) for pushing down the slide cutter (17). At the terminal crimping time, the electric wire (E) is moved at first by the clamp device (50) downward to the height position (H2') of the upper face of the slide cutter. After this, the crimpers (13 and 15) are moved downward, while the electric wire (E) is being moved by the clamp device (50) downward to a crimping height position (H1), thereby to crimp the terminal onto the end portion of the electric wire, and the slide cutter (17) is moved downward to cut off the terminal from the band body. As a result, the electric wire (E) is crimped/cut while being substantially straight.

An insulating body-forming part is formed on a border between a surface of a crimp terminal formed of an aluminum material and a conductive contact body provided on the surface and containing a nobler metal material than the aluminum material.

A high speed communication jack including a housing including a port for accepting a plug, the port including a plurality of pins each connected to a corresponding signal line in the plug and a shielding case surrounding the housing. A flexible circuit board between the shielding case and the housing having a substrate, a plurality of vias extending through the substrate with each via being configured to accommodate a pin on the housing, a plurality of traces on a first side of the substrate, with each trace extending from a corresponding one of the plurality of vias, and a shielding plane on a second side of the substrate opposite the first side of the substrate.

A workstation and method for the installation of a pulling head assembly onto one or more conductors of a cabling system are provided. The workstation incorporates one or more of: a conductor clamp that holds the conductors of the cabling system in place during the installation of the pulling head assembly; a cutting guide having indicia marks that indicate the lengths to which to cut the conductors in order to achieve a staggered pattern of pulling eyes attached to the conductors in the pulling head assembly; a stripping tool that is used to remove a portion of the insulation from the terminal end of each conductor so that the end of the conductor may be inserted into the pulling eye; and a crimping tool that is used to crimp the pulling eyes onto the terminal ends of each of the conductors.

A method for easily applying a coating agent to an electronic circuit board accommodated in a housing without leaving uncoated portions. The method includes mounting the electronic circuit board to the housing, performing an electrical connection process in the electronic circuit board, and filling the housing with the coating agent (anti-moisture agent) to immerse the electronic circuit board in the coating agent.

A spring system arrangement and a related connector are disclosed. The purpose is to allow the use of contact springs, such as coil contact springs, with relatively large size body, to be located on a small center distance, i.e. pitch, and to electrically connect with contact pads of high density electronic devices, having a small device pitch. The device pitch can be smaller than the diameter of the spring body itself. In order to achieve this desired small spring pitch and high density, the contact springs are located in a nested head-to-toe and/or staggered orientation. Furthermore, the connectors utilize guide plates, referred to as combs, to accurately control the alignment of the contact springs tips to the contact pads of the electronic devices.

The invention discloses triple-core-wire automatic assembling equipment which comprises a workbench. A wire feeding station, an outer coat stripping station, a wire dividing station, a wire length adjusting station, an inner coat stripping station, a terminal compressing station, a PVC (polyvinyl chloride) tube assembling station, an ultrasonic welding station, a flag-shaped sheath assembling station, a flag-shaped sheath edge trimming station, a finished product carrying station, a conveying device and a control device are sequentially arranged on the workbench, cables are sequentially conveyed to the various stations by the conveying device, and the control device controls the various stations and actions of the conveying device. The three-core-wire automatic assembling equipment has the advantages that all working procedures which are required to be carried out from the moment when each cable is completely manufactured to the moment when a terminal is completely mounted can be completed at one step, the triple-core-wire automatic assembling equipment is extremely high in efficiency, and large quantities of labor and materials are saved.

A method of manufacturing a cable assembly using stranded cable material. A manufacturing jacket is placed over the cable to hold the strands in a desired state. A length of jacketed cable is then cut to a desired length. Appropriate terminations are slipped over the manufacturing jacket on the cable's first end, its second end, or at some intermediate point. For a typical type of termination, a short portion of the manufacturing jacket is stripped away at the point of termination to expose the strands. After the terminations are placed in the appropriate position, potting compound or other mechanical means are typically applied to lock the terminations to the exposed lengths of strands. A completed cable assembly is thus created. However, the presence of the manufacturing jacket, while highly desirable for manufacturing, is often undesirable for end use. All of the manufacturing jacket, or in some instances a substantial portion thereof, is therefore removed, using a variety of disclosed methods, to form an unjacketed cable. A variety of techniques are disclosed for carrying out these steps, including the use of modified terminations and modified jackets. The finished product may have no jacket at all, a partial jacket, or a jacket which is different from the one used in the manufacturing process.

Systems and methods are disclosed for interfacing with high frequency data transfer media and, more particularly, modular jack housing insert assemblies, such as those that are used as interface connectors for unshielded twisted pair (“UTP”) media, that compensate for electrical noise. The insert generally includes (a) an insert housing member and (b) a plurality of lead frames supported at least in part by said insert housing member. Each of the lead frames generally includes a rear end portion and a front end portion. In addition, each of at least four of the plurality of lead frames typically includes a capacitive element in electrical communication with at least the front end portion of the respective lead frame. The four lead frames are in electrical communication with capacitive elements arranged in two pairs to define a first pair of capacitive element lead frames and a second pair of capacitive element lead frames. The first pair of capacitive element lead frames and the second pair of capacitive element lead frames are spaced apart by an angle of at least thirty degrees. Jack assemblies including the disclosed insert and associated methods for use thereof are also disclosed.

The present invention is directed to a physiological recording device, or other types of sensors to detect a biopotential, and more particularly, a physiological recording electrode that can be used without skin preparation or the use of electrolytic gels. The invention is further directed to the configurations of structures on the physiological recording electrode's lower surface. The structures having a length, width, and height, which are capable, at least in part, of transmitting an electric potential from the skin which can be measured. The structures may or may not limit the depth of application, and/or anchor the electrode or other device during normal application, and/or allow for uniform application of the electrode or other device over unprepared skin.

After melted enamel coating is discharged from the crimping connectors, electrical wire-to-wire connection, that is, the fusion process, is carried out inside the crimping connector. In this conductor connection method based on the fusion process, plural the above enamel-coated conductor wires are inserted in the above crimping connector prior to the start of the fusion process. Further, the temporary crimping process which provides the crimping connector a temporary crimping by mechanical pressurizing means is also a part of entire process. Addition of force at both the end parts or either one of them of the cross-section orthogonal to the axis of the above crimping connector may cause expansion, which needs to be suppressed with external fore. At the same time, the areas of cross-section corresponding to both the end parts or either of them mentioned above should preferably be held as small as possible. The above temporary crimping is applied to the above crimping connector for this purpose.

The invention discloses a multifunctional full automatic wire ranging terminal pressing machine, which comprises an organic frame, as well as a front wire feeding module, a rear wire feeding module, a front peeling and cutting module, a rear peeling and cutting module, and a rear pressing end module which are arranged on the organic frame, therefore, the front wire feeding module is utilized to feed the wire ranging, two wires adhered together on the wire ranging are divided and moved horizontally; the front peeling and cutting module is utilized to complete cutting and front end peeling; the rear peeling module is used for peeling the rear end of the wire ranging; the front pressing end module and the rear pressing end module are respectively applied for pressing the front and the rear terminals of the wire ranging; and the rear wire feeding module is utilized to moving the wire ranging and complete the wire ranging output of the terminal pressing, the whole operation can be completed without operators, so that the automation degree of the production is improved, the structure of the whole device is simple, the control is convenient, the production efficiency is effectively improved, the production quality of the product is ensured, the production cost is lowered, and load of enterprises is lowered.

A wire connection part of a terminal fitting includes: a barrel piece which is caulked while covering a tip end of a wire, thereby being crimped to the wire; a serration part formed on an inner surface of the barrel piece and connected to a core of the wire; and a water stop part mounted on the inner surface of the barrel piece to close a gap with the wire. A projecting piece mounted anterior to the serration part to position a tip end of the core is mounted to the barrel piece. The tip end of the core is positioned by the projecting piece, whereby the positional deviation of the wire can be prevented.

Automated wire harness production systems and methods that rapidly present individual circuits to an assembler operating a wire harness layout board. Automatic wire indexing, sorting, and delivery systems transfer circuits into, and retrieve circuits from, a transportable programmable, automated, indexed storage system equipped with an array of individual circuit tubes, and a script-controlled assembly system sends visual, aural, and other cues to help an assembler populate and configure a wire harness layout board with connector blocks and turn posts, and guides the assembler in building, testing, reworking, and delivering the corresponding batch of wire harnesses.

A ferrule assembly for terminating at least one fiber of a ribbon cable in a ferrule, where the ferrule assembly is disposable in a housing of an optical connector, is provided. The ferrule assembly includes the ferrule having a mating face, at least one groove for receiving the fiber and at least one through-hole. The ferrule assembly also includes an alignment member holder having at least one alignment member and providing a first channel for the ribbon cable, the alignment member being insertable in the through-hole of the ferrule and having a first length such that an end of the alignment member extends beyond the mating face of the ferrule when the ferrule assembly is assembled. The ferrule assembly further includes a carrier body attachable to the alignment member holder, the carrier body having at least two biasing member capture portions, each of the biasing member capture portions providing an opening for capturing a biasing member therein when the alignment member holder and the carrier body are attached. The carrier body further provides a second channel for the ribbon cable, the second channel being disposed between the biasing member capture portions of the carrier body and being contiguous with the first channel when the alignment member holder and the carrier body are attached.