Electrical connectors – Metallic connector or contact having movable or resilient... – Spring actuated or resilient securing part
Reexamination Certificate
2001-01-31
2001-10-23
Sircus, Brian (Department: 2839)
Electrical connectors
Metallic connector or contact having movable or resilient...
Spring actuated or resilient securing part
Reexamination Certificate
active
06305993
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a contact socket for receiving a tab or pin terminal.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
A contact socket according to the preamble of claim
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is disclosed in DE 196 19 514 A1. The known contact sockets have a complicated construction and are therefore difficult to manufacture. These known contact sockets are expensive to manufacture. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a contact socket allowing the design of a simpler manufacturing process and which thereby entails lower costs.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This object is achieved by a contact socket having two internal spring legs formed on a base spring, contacting sections of the spring legs face each other, and one of the two spring legs is bent in a U-shaped configuration, while the other spring leg is bent linearly, extending slightly obliquely towards the interior of the base spring, characterized in that the linear spring leg is supported by a support member bent in a U-shape configuration.
Accordingly, the contact socket, which is of a single-part construction, has a base spring (or a base part) and two internal spring legs, the contacting sections of which face each other. The single-part construction allows the optimization of the manufacturing process which consists essentially of a bending operation and/or stamping operation.
A further advantage of the contact socket according to the invention is that the resilient force on one of the two spring legs can be relatively easily increased by a support member which is also formed integrally on the base spring, and on the free end thereof one of the spring legs is supported. The resilient force can hereby be considerably increased.
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Nguyen Son V.
Sircus Brian
Tyco Electronics Amp GmbH
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