Electrical connectors – Self aligning contact
Patent
1993-01-22
1994-08-16
Paumen, Gary F.
Electrical connectors
Self aligning contact
439852, H01R 1128
Patent
active
053382170
ABSTRACT:
An improved connector terminal is provided that is capable of being inserted more easily into a terminal accommodating chamber of a connector housing.
The connector terminal comprises a wire connecting part and an electric contact part that may be inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber of a connector housing having an opening edge. The electric contact part includes a rectangular cylindrical body having two pairs of opposing walls for a total of four walls and a guide protrusion protruding continually from the tip of at least one of the four walls of the body. The guide protrusion has a guide surface that slides along the opening edge of the connector housing when the electric contact part is inserted into the terminal accommodating chamber. The guide protrusion is structured to protrude from one of the four walls so as to have substantially the same width as the wall width or structured so that a bent guide surface is formed by extending and bending tips of at least two of the four walls that have a width smaller than the width of the respective wall.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2188530 (1940-01-01), Del Camp
patent: 2948877 (1960-08-01), Batcheller
patent: 3550067 (1970-12-01), Hansen
patent: 3711819 (1973-01-01), Matthews
patent: 4859198 (1989-08-01), Owen
Abe Kimihiro
Endo Takayoshi
Koumatsu Seiji
Saitoh Hitoshi
Yagi Sakai
Paumen Gary F.
Yazaki -Corporation
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