An apparatus that melts and monitors sleeves for installation onto shielded cables. The apparatus includes a heat source for melting the sleeve, cable supports for supporting the cable during the melting process, a sensor system that is configured to measure a dimension of the sleeve during melting, and a computer that is connected to receive sensor data from the sensor system and send heater control signals to the heat source. The computer is configured to receive dimensional data from the sensor system, monitor that dimensional data by performing a dimensional analysis, and then deactivate or remove the heat source in response to dimensional analysis results indicating that the sleeve is fully melted (in the case of a solder sleeve) or only fully shrunken (in the case of a dead end sleeve) onto the cable.

A signal contact member and a ground contact member to which a center conductor and an outer conductor of a coaxial cable are connected are supported by an insulating housing member. The ground contact member has an annular fitting portion that fits and connects to the ground contact portion of a mate connector device. The annular fitting portion is provided with an opening for disposing a center conductor connection portion of the signal contact member. A shell portion of a ground contact member or an insulating housing member is provided with a conductive member given a ground potential. The conductive member partially fills the opening in the annular fitting portion.

Method for forming a shield connection of a shielded cable with the steps of pushing a sleeve onto a shield of a cable, inserting the cable with the sleeve into a magnetic pulse welding coil, and energizing the magnetic pulse welding coil with a current pulse in such a way that the sleeve is joined to the shield with a material bond.

A contact assembly for an electrical connector includes a contact positioner having contact support walls holding a contact array. The contact array includes signal contacts and ground contacts interspersed with the signal contacts. The signal contacts include mating ends configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector and mounting ends configured to be terminated to a host circuit board. The signal contacts include transition portions between the mating ends and the mounting ends. The ground contacts include mating ends, mounting ends, and transition portions between the mating ends and the mounting ends. The contract assembly includes a ground bus wire extending transversely across the contact array. The ground bus wire is electrically connected to each of the ground contacts. The ground bus wire is electrically isolated from each of the signal contacts.

A connector is provided and includes an alignment plate defining major and minor apertures, a capture plate and a pin plate. The capture plate includes an outer body defining an opening, an inner body traversing the opening and first elastic elements extending from the inner body to generate first biases. The capture plate is securable to the alignment plate to position the inner body between the major apertures. The pin plate defines intermediate apertures and includes pins and second elastic elements to generate second biases opposing the first biases. The pin plate is interposable between the alignment and capture plates whereby the intermediate and major apertures align and the pins extend through the minor apertures.

A connector-equipped multicore cable includes a connector including a first end portion and a second end portion and a multicore cable including a plurality of coaxial electrical wires and connected to the first end portion. The connector includes, at the second end portion, a cover that is made of a metal and that covers a connector terminal. The plurality of coaxial electrical wires each include a first shield layer. The first shield layer and the cover are electrically connected to each other.

A coaxial connector that may include a connector portion, a coupler portion that may be configured to be coupled with the connector portion, and a post portion that may comprise a forward post portion and a rearward post portion that is configured to form an electrical ground path with the forward post portion during operation of the connector. The forward post portion may comprise a forward post engagement portion that is configured to engage a rearward post engagement portion of the rearward post portion such that the forward post portion and the rearward post portion are fixed relative to each other. The forward post engagement portion may be configured to engage the rearward post engagement portion to provide the electrical ground path between the forward post engagement portion and the rearward post engagement portion so as to provide a ground path that extends from an outer conductor of a coaxial cable through the forward and rearward post engagement portions and to the post portion.

Provided is a wiring structure with which a module board of one mobile communication apparatus can be connected to a circuit board of another mobile communication apparatus by using an optimal wiring material. The present invention is provided with: a main board 2; a first module board 8; a first connector that can be fitted to a coaxial cable connector and a connector mounted on a flexible printed board and that is mounted on the first module board; a second connector 10 fitted to the first connector; and wiring materials 6a, 6b, 14a-14e that are attached to the second connector and electrically connect the main board and the first module board.

A manufacturing method for assembling a high voltage vertical disk ferrule, the ferrule being stamped and having a vertical disk-like structure, which is not necessarily round or does not necessarily have any roundness. The high voltage disk ferrule has an opening residing and traveling over the wire core and/or a wire braided shield, to which an end portion of the wire braided shield is affixed thereto the ferrule, or between two ferrules, such that a portion of the wire braided shield is flared and substantially perpendicular to the direction along which the wire core extends. The high voltage vertical disk ferrule slides over the core insulation, towards the outer insulation when the wire is pushed. The end portion/flared portion of the braided shield and the high voltage vertical disk ferrule, or the end portion/flared portion of the braided shield between at least two high voltage vertical disk ferrules are soldered, welded, or brazed together. The wire braided shield develops a natural spring force against the ferrule, and causes it to be accordioned, pleated, or folded against itself, and therefore pushes the vertical disk ferrule forward.

A method utilizes a funnel system and robotic end effector grippers to feed an unjacketed portion of a shielded cable through a sleeve. The funnel is designed with one or more thin extensions (hereinafter “prongs”) on which a sleeve is placed prior to a cable entering the funnel. Preferably two or more prongs are employed, although a single prong may be used if properly configured to both guide a cable and fit between the sleeve and cable. The prongs close off the uneven surface internal to a sleeve and provide a smooth surface for the cable to slide along and through the sleeve, preventing any damage to the exposed shielding. The sleeve is picked up and held on the prongs using a robotic end effector. If the sleeve is a solder sleeve, the robotic end effector has grippers designed to make contact with the portions of the solder sleeve that are between the insulating rings and the central solder ring.