Electrical connectors – With coupling movement-actuating means or retaining means in... – Retaining means
Patent
1995-09-19
1997-03-11
Vu, Hien
Electrical connectors
With coupling movement-actuating means or retaining means in...
Retaining means
439354, H01R 13627
Patent
active
056094981
ABSTRACT:
A connector system includes a plug connector that latches to a receptacle connector when mated thereto, and which discourages unqualified personnel from unlatching the connectors to unmate them. The plug connector has a pair of narrow release passages (64, 66, FIG. 3) for receiving small rods (60, 62) of a release tool, the plug connector having a thin breakable barrier (70, 72) near the top of each passage. Unqualified mechanics hesitate to break the barriers, and even when the barriers are broken there are only small passages for viewing the latching mechanism. A pair of pin contacts (20, 22, FIG. 14) of the receptacle connector, are connected together until the two connectors are mated, by the use of a wire conductor (210) that has a portion that is wound into a coil (212) that is forced over one pin contact, the coil having an arm (216) that presses against the other pin contact. A bent metal strip contact having one end (90, FIG. 9) forming a socket and the other end (134) crimping to a wire, has its opposite ends offset by rolling a middle portion (162) of the strip about an axis (153) that is angled about 45.degree. from axes (151, 152) at the opposite ends of the contact.
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ITT Corporation
Peterson Thomas L.
Vu Hien
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