Electrical connectors – Convertible by internal change to selectively cooperate with... – Including repositionable contact
Patent
1989-08-21
1991-05-28
Desmond, Eugene F.
Electrical connectors
Convertible by internal change to selectively cooperate with...
Including repositionable contact
29883, 29884, 439518, 439640, H01R 2900
Patent
active
050189859
ABSTRACT:
A connector is described of the type that has contacts lying in insulative material in a housing, wherein a separate positioner (24 in FIG. 2) of insulative material is molded about each contact (22) to form a terminal device (20), and the terminal devices can be arranged in a variety of configurations. Each terminal device includes an elongated metal contact with front and rear end portions and a middle, and an insulative positioner (24) molded about the middle. The terminal devices lie in the housing with the molded positioners of adjacent contact devices substantially abutting each other and holding the contact ends in a predetermined pattern, wherein the axes of all terminal devices extend parallel to each other. The middles of the contacts are hollow and include access openings (52 in FIG. 5) into which molding material can flow, so the molded material of the positioner seals the middle of the inside of each contact. The positioners are preferably of triangular cross section, as seen along an axis of the contact, and are positioned in a row with the flat sides (71) of alternate contacts lying in a common plane and with an apex (76) of a positioner therebetween lying on that plane.
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Desmond Eugene F.
ITT Corporation
Peterson Thomas L.
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