Electrical connector

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1975-01-10

1976-04-20

McGlynn, Joseph H.

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339217S, H01R 3108

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039514986

ABSTRACT:
An electrical connector generally including an insulated housing having a plurality of like terminals received therein. The housing includes a hollow chamber portion having two facing walls. One of the walls includes a plurality of upstanding protrusions formed on the interior thereof while the other wall has a plurality of cavities formed therethrough to allow communication into the chamber portion. Each cavity is in alignment with a protrusion. Each terminal includes a crimp portion at one end, an indexing portion at the other end having an opening formed therein and a resilient barrel-shaped portion intermediate the ends. The contact portion has a cross section larger than any other portion of the terminal and also the size of the cavities. The contact portion is changeable between a normally expanded configuration and any one of a plurality of contracted configurations and is contractable to squeeze through a cavity into said chamber whereupon the contact portion assumes its normal expanded configuration and the index opening at the end of the terminal receives the corresponding protrusion to position the terminal. The cavities are transversely spaced a given distance so that the contact portions of any two terminals inserted into the chamber portion through adjacent cavities resiliently press against each other.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3172718 (1965-03-01), Lalonde
patent: 3193795 (1965-07-01), Krehbiel

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