Electrical connectors – Coupling part including flexing insulation – Having plural – laterally spaced – prongs or prong sockets
Reexamination Certificate
2002-04-18
2003-08-05
Vu, Hien (Department: 2833)
Electrical connectors
Coupling part including flexing insulation
Having plural, laterally spaced, prongs or prong sockets
C439S686000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06602094
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the invention
This invention relates to an electrical cable connector, more particularly to an electrical cable connector having a socket body and a cable sleeve connected to the socket body.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIGS. 1
to
4
illustrate a conventional electrical cable connector that includes a socket body
11
, a plurality of terminals
131
mounted in the socket body
11
, a cable
17
with a plurality of cable wires
13
that have end portions respectively connected to the terminals
131
, and a cable sleeve
12
connected to the socket body
11
and enclosing the end portions of the cable wires
13
. The socket body
11
has two opposite sides formed with opposing retaining recesses
113
. The cable sleeve
12
includes an inner housing
16
and two latches
161
projecting from the inner housing
16
and disposed in the retaining recesses
113
so as to retain the inner housing
16
on the socket body
11
. A plastic encapsulant
121
is extruded onto and encloses the inner housing
16
and the latches
161
for protecting the cable wires
13
from dust and moisture. The conventional electrical cable connector is disadvantageous in that the latches
161
tend to be undesirably removed from the retaining recesses
113
prior to the extrusion of the encapsulant
121
onto the inner housing
16
and the latches
161
.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide an electrical cable connector that is capable of overcoming the aforementioned drawback of the prior art.
According to the present invention, an electrical cable connector comprises: a socket body having opposite front and rear ends, two opposite side faces extending between the front and rear ends, and a plurality of terminal passages formed in the socket body and extending from the rear end to the front end, each of the opposite side faces being formed with a first retaining recess that extends from the rear end toward the front end in a longitudinal direction, and a second retaining recess that extends in a transverse direction relative to the longitudinal direction; a plurality of terminals received in the terminal passages, respectively; a plurality of cable wires having end portions connected to the terminals, respectively; and a cable sleeve connected to and extending from the rear end of the socket body and sleeved around the end portions of the cable wires. The cable sleeve includes an inner housing that surrounds the end portions of the cable wires and that has a front end. The cable sleeve further includes two opposite latch members extending outwardly from two opposite sides of the front end of the inner housing. Each of the latch members has a longitudinal portion that is fittingly disposed in a respective one of the first retaining recesses in the side faces, and a transverse portion that extends from the longitudinal portion in the transverse direction and that is fittingly disposed in a respective one of the second retaining recesses in the side faces so as to limit movement of the inner housing relative to the socket body.
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McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC
Sattizahn Brian T.
Vu Hien
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