Electrical assembly, comprising: —a base part (20), and —a removable part (10) configured to be fixed in a removable manner on the base part (20), the base part (20) comprising: —a flexible membrane (22) delimiting, at least in part, a leaktight internal volume (24), —at least one movable electrically conducting element (25), carried by the membrane (22), and extending, at least in part, in the internal volume (24), and —at least one internal electrical contact (28) disposed in the internal volume (24) under the movable conducting element (25), the movable conducting element (25) contacting, during a deformation of the membrane related to the assembly of the removable part (10) on the base part (20), the internal electrical contact (28) for the establishment of an electrical connection between them, and being distant from the internal electrical contact in the absence of fixing of the removable part on the base part.

Electrical assembly, comprising: —a base part (20), and —a removable part (10) configured to be fixed in a removable manner on the base part (20), the base part (20) comprising: —a flexible membrane (22) delimiting, at least in part, a leaktight internal volume (24), —at least one movable electrically conducting element (25), carried by the membrane (22), and extending, at least in part, in the internal volume (24), and —at least one internal electrical contact (28) disposed in the internal volume (24) under the movable conducting element (25), the movable conducting element (25) contacting, during a deformation of the membrane related to the assembly of the removable part (10) on the base part (20), the internal electrical contact (28) for the establishment of an electrical connection between them, and being distant from the internal electrical contact in the absence of fixing of the removable part on the base part.

A cable connector includes a slide coupled to a spring to bias the slide from a retracted position to an extended position and at least one latch coupled to the slide. The slide, when in the extended position, is configured to rotate the at least one latch to secure the at least one latch, and when in the retracted position, is configured to rotate the at least one latch in an opposite direction to release the at least one latch. The slide is configured to engage a contact switch when securing the at least one latch.

An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrical contact device and a second electrical contact device. The first electrical contact device includes at least one first electrical contact and an actuator movable between a first position and a second position. The second electrical contact device includes at least one second electrical contact device and an interlock feature to engage the actuator when the actuator is in the first position. The actuator is in the first position when the first electrical contact is in electrical communication with a power source, and the actuator is in the second position when the electrical communication between the first electrical contact and the power source is disconnected. When the actuator is in the first position and the second electrical contact engage the first electrical contact, the interlock feature engages the actuator, thereby securing the first electrical contact device and the second electrical contact device against disconnection.

A single prong, multiple signal conducting plug and plug detection circuitry is provided. The plug may be electrically coupled to a stereo headset including a microphone. The plug may include four signal conducting regions arranged in a predetermined order along the length of the prong. Detection circuitry may be operative to determine whether a microphone type of plug (e.g., a four region plug including a microphone region and two audio regions, or a three region plug including microphone region and only one audio region) or a non-microphone type of plug (e.g., stereo plug) is inserted into the jack of an electronic device (e.g., mobile phone). Detection circuitry may also detect user activated functions performed in response to user activation of one or more switches included with the headset. For example, the headset may include a single switch for performing a function with respect to a microphone (e.g., end-call function).

A single prong, multiple signal conducting plug and plug detection circuitry is provided. The plug may be electrically coupled to a stereo headset including a microphone. The plug may include four signal conducting regions arranged in a predetermined order along the length of the prong. Detection circuitry may be operative to determine whether a microphone type of plug (e.g., a four region plug including a microphone region and two audio regions, or a three region plug including microphone region and only one audio region) or a non-microphone type of plug (e.g., stereo plug) is inserted into the jack of an electronic device (e.g., mobile phone). Detection circuitry may also detect user activated functions performed in response to user activation of one or more switches included with the headset. For example, the headset may include a single switch for performing a function with respect to a microphone (e.g., end-call function).

A plug connector includes a first connector half configured as a socket connector and a second connector half configured as a plug connector, each of the connector halves including an insulating body housing at least a respective pair of electric contact elements, respectively female and male, a short-circuit element being provided between the contacts of the socket connector half, adapted to hold such contacts shorted upon unmated connector, wherein the short-circuit element is made from a strip of resilient metallic material, shaped so as to constitute a spring and to offer, at each of its ends, a resilient contact, the first end of the short-circuit element being substantially rigid and stable in contact with a respective female electric contact element, while the second end of the short-circuit element, upon plug connector unmated, goes intimately into contact with the other element of female electrical contact of the socket connector.

The present disclosure provides a charging receptacle and a charging plug, which cooperate with each other and comprise a receptacle ejection device and a plug ejection device respectively for automatically separating the charging receptacle from the charging plug after charging of the apparatus to be charged is completed. The present disclosure further provides a charging system comprising the charging receptacle and the charging plug as described above.

The present disclosure provides a charging receptacle and a charging plug, which cooperate with each other and comprise a receptacle ejection device and a plug ejection device respectively for automatically separating the charging receptacle from the charging plug after charging of the apparatus to be charged is completed. The present disclosure further provides a charging system comprising the charging receptacle and the charging plug as described above.

An electrical receptacle is selectively coupled to a power plug, and the power plug includes a plurality of prongs insertable into the electrical receptacle. The electrical receptacle includes a contact configured to be engageable with one of the plurality of prongs, a power relay in electrical communication with the power source and the contact, and a switch electrically coupled to the power relay. The switch is moveable between a first position and a second position. The switch is biased toward the first position. The power relay is configured to disable electrical communication between the power source and the contact when the switch is positioned in the first position. The power relay is also configured to enable electrical communication between the power source and the contact in response to the one of the plurality of prongs slidably engaging the switch to move the switch into the second position.