Electrical connector construction

Details Electrical connector construction Electrical connector construction

Filed on

1976-11-11

Date issued

1978-01-03

Examiner

McGlynn, Joseph H.

Patent Class

Geometrical instruments

Other Related Categories

339 97R, H01R 908, H01R 1354

Type

Patent

Status

active

Patent number

040663167

Description

ABSTRACT:
A multipart electrical connector construction comprising a conductor mounting plug adapted for insertion in a slotted cavity of a receptacle housing. The housing carries a plurality of contact terminals which at one end provide sockets for receiving backplane terminal pins, for example. At the other ends, and within the housing cavity, the contact terminals are formed to present insulation cutting blades. The plug is provided with a plurality of fingers for maintaining conductors therebetween in registration with the receptacle housing terminal blades, the insulation of the conductors being pierced and electrical contacts made as the plug is inserted in the housing cavity. A feature of the connector construction is an upturned spring tab on each of the contact terminals for guiding the plug fingers upwardly so that pawls provided at the finger ends engage a detent lip of a recess in one wall of the cavity housing for "snap-in" locking of the plug, the spring tab also preventing its inadvertent removal.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3820055 (1974-06-01), Huffnagle et al.
patent: 3993393 (1976-11-01), Worth

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