Hermaphroditic flat cable connector

Details Hermaphroditic flat cable connector Hermaphroditic flat cable connector

1987-01-27

1988-04-12

Weidenfeld, Gil

Electrical connectors

Adapted to cooperate with duplicate connector

Butt coupling

439594, 439660, H01R 2500

Patent

active

047371188

ABSTRACT:
A connector for transmission cable has a lower housing and an upper housing securable thereto to be terminated to a prepared end portion of the cable. The conductors are laser welded in slots of the terminals. The contact sections of the terminals reside on respective resilient supports of the lower housing which act in cantilever fashion. A hood section of the upper housing extends over the plurality of contact sections to define a cavity. The connector structure is hermaphroditic in that one connector is matable with another identical connector having a reversed vertical orientation. The respective hoods cooperate to resist the forced cantilever action of the pairs of resilient supports urging each other apart, thus generating contact normal force. The hermaphroditic connectors latch when fully mated.

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