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Manufacturers of connectors

This page has been split off of the socket and connector makers page. Most of the socket makers are also still listed here.

3M
tel: +1-800-447-7187 - Atlanta Sales Center

Advanced
Advanced Interconnections Corp.
5 Energy Way
West Warwick, RI 02893
USA
tel: +1-800-424-9850 - Toll free U.S. and Canada
tel: +1-401-823-5200
fax: +1-401-823-8723
info@advintcorp.com
www.advintcorp.com/ general
www.advintcorp.com/corporatestart.html company
www.advintcorp.com/productstart.html products
www.advintcorp.com/globalstart.html distributors
ISO 9001 Certified designer and manufacturer of innovative interconnect solutions. Standard and custom designs, specializing in high density SMT BGA Socketing Systems, Board to Board Connectors, and many varieties of Adapters. Screw-machined terminals and patented design features offer reduced processing costs as well as long-term reliability.

American Micro Products
American Micro Products
www.american-micro.com/

AMP
(Founded in 1941 by U.A. Whitaker as Aero-Marine Products.)
AMP, Inc.
www.amp.com/
One of the best connector/sockets makers around. Their policy is/was to be able to provide good connectors for any standard except when they (with their years of experience) considered the standard to be too flawed.

Amphenol
Amphenol
www.amphenol-online.com/
Amphenol is one of the largest manufacturers of interconnect products in the world. The company designs, manufactures and markets electrical, electronic and fiber optic connectors, interconnect systems and coaxial/flat ribbon cable.

Antona
Antona Corporation
4187 Knobhill Drive
Los Angeles, CA 91403
USA
tel: +1-818-783-4299
fax: +1-310-783-4216
sales@antona.com
www.antona.com/
ftp.antona.com/pub/
Design and manufacture socket adapters for SMD components. Also make adapters for PC, STD and RS232 to RS422 interfacing.

Aries
Aries Electronics, Inc.
62A Trenton Ave.
Frenchtown, NJ 08825-0130
USA
tel: +1-908-996-6841
fax: +1-908-996-3891
www.arieselec.com/

Arrow

Augat
(Augat Company is now part of Thomas&Betts.)
Augat Inc.
USA
tel: +1-617-222-2202
www.tnb.com/

Azimuth
Azimuth Electronics, Inc.
2605 S. El Camino Real
San Clemente, CA 92672
USA
Tel: 949-492-6481
Fax: 949-492-0744
sales@azimuth-electronics.com
www.azimuthelectronics.com/

Burndy

CAB
CAB Produkttechnik GmbH
Haid-und-Neu-Straße 7
76131 Karlsruhe
Germany
tel: +49-721-6626-00
fax: +49-721-6626-119
cab_gmbh@compuserve.com
www.cabgmbh.com/
distributed by EPT

Cinch
Cinch Connectors
Sold to Connector Division TRW Electronic Components Group.
TRW sold the Cinch/Connectors Division to Labinal Components and Systems in Elk Grove, Illinois in 1987.

CMB
Cable Manufacturing Business
8412 Friesland Dr.
Huntington Beach, CA 92647
USA
tel: +1-714-848-5796
fax: +1-714-848-2296
www.cablemanufacturing.com/
CMB offers the widest selection of computer cables and accessories to meet the unique needs of the industry... for distributors, resellers, and government. We understand your needs and maintain inventory to service all of your orders with priority. All of-our products are pre-tested to ensure the highest quality and performance at a price that defines incredible value. We guarantee every cable product we sell. This is why we offer but a lifetime warranty.

Comm Con Connectors
Comm Con Connectors, Inc.
1848 Evergreen Street
Duarte, CA 91010
USA
tel: +1-626-301-4200
fax: +1-626-301-4212
info@commcon.com
www.commcon.com/
Connectors

CTI
distributed by TNT

Diamond
Diamond USA Inc.
27 Industrial Avenue
Chelmsford, MA 01824
USA
tel: +1-978-256-6544
tel: +1-888-370-3809
fax: +1-978-256-3362
info@diausa.com
www.diausa.com General
Manufacturer of high performance convex and angle polished fiber optic connectors and mating adapters (E2000, FC, SC, ST, DIN, PM). We offer a comprehensive product line including attenuators, backplane systems, couplers and multifiber systems. Terminations services available for active and passive components.

Deutsch
ImCon - representative of Compagnie Deutsch
Mar. nam 1
Brno
CZ
tel: 00420545129446
fax: 00420545233169
CDG@deutsch.cz
www.deutsch.cz/
Waterproof DEUTSCH connectors for automotive, railways, mining, military, aircraft, agroculture, robotics, CAN networks, sensors, construction equipment, meets most of the international and MIL standards, special sealed connectors for PCB especially for sealed industrial electronics for heavy environment, CKB connectors according to UIC railways standards, filtered connectors, Opto modem (single optic cable) for RS-232, RS-485, RS-422 up to 2,5 km, Hermetics relays for railways, military, aero and industrial applications, HF cables from our division ALPEN.

D.F. Sales
(This is a distributor)
D.F. Sales
690 Quinn Ave.
San Jose, CA 95112
USA
tel: +1-801-399-5315
fax: +1-801-399-5334
Sandy78le@aol.com
www.dfsales.com
We specialize in components of AMP, MOLEX, 3M, BERG, etc. D.F. Sales is a division of Connectors Unlimited inc. In business over 14 years. We are independent stocking distributor. We have 20,000 square foot of warehouse dedicated to your electronic needs.

Dupont

Emulation Solutions
Emulation Solutions
1376 Borregas
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
tel: +1-408-745-1524
fax: +1-408-745-1526
sales@adapters.com
www.adapters.com/
ES make adapters for emulating, programming, testing and debugging ICs. Our adapters are for DIP, PLCC, PGA, BGA, microBGA, QFP, TSOP, SOP, TSSOP.
We make adapters for Any Package, Any Pin Coun, Any Pitch, any questions?

Emulation Technology
Emulation Technology, Inc.
2344 Walsh Avenue, Building F
Santa Clara, CA 95051
USA
tel: +1-408-982-0660
fax: +1-408-982-0664
et@emulation.com
sales@emulation.com
support@emulation.com
www.emulation.com/ General
www.emulation.com/corpinfo/corpinfo.htm About
www.emulation.com/whatsnew/whatsnew.htm Corporate news
www.emulation.com/catalog/cross Technical data
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www.emulation.com/dist/dist.htm Distributors/Rep's
www.emulation.com/catalog Order Datasheets/books
Emulation Technology is a global supplier of chip level signal access tools, sockets, adapters, test clips, probes and accessories used with in-circuit emulators, programmers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes and for prototyping. We carry sockets and adapters to support emulation, programming, prototyping, testing and debugging for PQFP, BGA, microBGA, QFP, DIP, PLCC, TSOP, SSOP, SOP, TSSOP, SOIC configurations. We can also create custom products to match your specification. Emulation Technology makes finding the right product easy with our new search engine and e-commerce on-line store.

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Enplas
Enplas Corporation
Japan
tel: +81-482-25-7233
fax: +81-482-57-0191
www.enplas.com/

EPT
tel: +1-617-928-3400
distributor of Cab

E-tec
E-tec Interconnect Ltd.
Industrial Zone C
CH-1606 Forel (Lavaux)
Switzerland
tel: +41-21-7810810
fax: +41-21-7810811
info@e-tec.ch
www.e-tec.ch/ General
E-tec is a Swiss manufacturer of precision IC sockets and connectors, offering one of the most comprehensive product lines for socketing BGA, LGA, CGA, and CSP chips. PGA, IPGA, DIL, SIP sockets and many more are also manufactured by E-tec Switzerland and a full range of other connectors for board-to-board and cable-to-board requirements are offered by E-tec Taiwan.

General Bussan
General Bussan Co., Ltd.
Japan
tel: +81-3-3383-1711
fax: +81-3-3383-1719

Grayhill
www.grayhill.com/
Keypads, solid state relays, switches

Harwin
Harwin, Plc
PO Box 319
New Albany, IN 47151
USA
tel: +1-812-285-0055
fax: +1-812-285-0056
mis@harwin.com
www.harwin.com/ General
Manufacturers of board, smt, power, miniature and high rel connectors, PC sockets, spacers, pillars and custom connectors.

KE Socket

Keystone
Keystone Electronics Company
31-07 20th Road
Astoria, NY 11105-2017
tel: +1-718-956-8900
fax: +1-718-956-0940
www.keyelco.com/

Kycon
1810 Little Orchard St.
San Jose, CA 95125
tel: +1-408-494-0330
tel: +1-888-KYCON22
fax: +1-408-494-0325
fax: +1-800-22KYCON - Specs by fax
sales@kycon.com
support@kycon.com
www.kycon.com/
They make connectors.

McKenzie
tel: +1-510-651-2700

MCT

MMM
MMM Co., Ltd (Textool)
USA
tel: +1-800-328-7732

Molex
www.molex.com/
Connectors

Nepenthe
Nepenthe Socket
2479 East Bayshore Road
Suite 800
Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA
tel: +1-650-496-6666 - Main
tel: +1-650-496-6665 - Voice mail
tel: +1-800-637-3684 - sales
fax: +1-650-856-8650
www.nepenthe.com/
www.nepen.com/

NEY

NPlast

OZ Tek
OZ Technologies, Inc.
3387 Investment Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94545
USA
tel: +1-510-782-2654
fax: +1-510-782-2656
www.oztek.com/
Products:
Plastronics
Plastronics Socket Company
2601 Texas Drive
Irving, TX, 75062
USA
tel: +1-972-2582580
tel: +1-800-582-5822 - toll free phone
fax: +1-972-2586771
fax: +1-800-582-5890
plastron@flash.net
We are socket manufacturers and make burn-in sockets

Samtec
tel: +1-800-726-8329
www.samtec.com/

Takachiho
Takachiho Denki K.K
Japan
tel: +81-485-24-9900

Textool

Thomas Betts
www.thomasbetts.com/

TI
Texas Instruments
111 Forbes Boulevard
Mansfield, MA 02048
USA
tel: +1-508-236-5388
tel: +1-508-236-5202
fax: +1-508-236-5339
fax: +1-508-236-5200
larmstrong@ti.com
bwilkins@ti.com
tsutton@ti.com
www.ti.com/mc/igb General
Burn-in Test Sockets. TI creates custom-engineered and core testing solutions for the semiconductor industry to ensure quality, boost yield, and increase productivity. TI has an extensive portfolio of existing burn-in test sockets and is leading the industry with CSP and Rambus technology solutions, servicing the memory, microprocessor, ASIC and logic businesses.

TNT
TNT Distributors, Inc.
13264 Pond Springs Rd.
Austin, TX 78729
tel: +1-512-258-7196
fax: +1-512-258-5053
Distributor of CTI

Transamerican Electronics Division
Transamerican Electronics Division
6400 Airport Road, Bldg A, # C
El Paso, TX 79925
tel: +1-915-778-0272
fax: +1-915-778-5517
gns789@1eagle1.com
We will convert any surface mount component into a DIP package component.
The types that we can convert include: SOIC, TSOP type 1 and 2, SOJ, (PLCC to PGA coming soon)

Welcon
See Wells (next entry). The term Welcon is from about 1982...

Wells-CTI
(1997: Purchased by PCD Inc. and combined with CTi Technologies to create WELLS-CTI.)
Wells-CTI, Inc.
3502 N. Olive Road
South Bend, IN 46628
USA
tel: +1-219-287-5941
fax: +1-219-287-0356
www.wellscti.com/
Manufacturer of Burn-In/Test sockets for BGA, SBGA, FBGA, CSP, QFP, TSOP, SSOP, HSOP, MCR, SOJ, SOP, ZIP, PLCC, LCC, DIP, PGA, Discretes and Carriers, Clips and Contactors. Also BGA surface-mount production sockets.

X-Multiple or X-RJAX
X-Multiple
X-RJAX (this seems to be their product)
www.xmultiple.com/ Site crashes my Netscape 4.7 browser under Linux!
www.xrjax.com/ Beware: lots of Flash!
X-RJAX are coax connectors that work like the easy to use snap-in RJ form factor telephone and twisted wire LAN plugs.

Yamaichi
Yamaichi Electronics USA, Inc.
2235 Zanker Road
San Jose, CA 95131
USA
tel: +1-408-456-0797
fax: +1-408-456-0799
Japan:
tel: +81-3-3778-6121
fax: +81-3-3778-6181
www.yeu.com/

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