Contact retention device

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1978-02-21

1979-04-03

Dost, Gerald A.

Geometrical instruments

H01R 1340

Patent

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041474007

ABSTRACT:
A contact retention device is disclosed for positively retaining a contact within a housing in such manner that no special insertion or extraction tools are required to respectively mount and dismount the contact and which will provide an audible indication when the contact is positively latched properly. The subject retention device includes a spring member having one end mounted fixedly in a connector housing and the other end spring biased against a free end of a blade contact with a portion of the spring member projecting beyond the end of the contact to form a contact release tab. The retention device not only serves to secure the contact within the housing but it adds to the resilience of the contact to bias it into engagement with a mating contact.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3091746 (1963-05-01), Winkler
patent: 3530424 (1970-09-01), Gregory
patent: 4045110 (1977-08-01), Sterken

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