Electrical connectors – Adapted to cooperate with duplicate connector – Contact intermeshable with duplicate mating contact
Patent
1990-03-11
1992-06-02
Bradley, Paula A.
Electrical connectors
Adapted to cooperate with duplicate connector
Contact intermeshable with duplicate mating contact
439595, 439594, H01R 1328, H01R 2500, H01R 1342
Patent
active
051183048
ABSTRACT:
An electrical terminal for forming an electrical connector assembly has an electrical wire connecting portion and a tubular terminal connecting portion extending forward from the electrical connecting portion. First and second axes are defined in the cross-sectional plane of the terminal connecting portion. A plurality of slots are formed in the terminal connecting portion with at least one of the slots extending from the free end of the terminal connecting portion toward the electrical wire connecting portion. when the connecting portion of one electrical terminal is fitted in the slot formed in the connecting portion of another electrical terminal, the respective electrical terminals are sequentially connected in a chained fashion in the direction of the first axes, the second axes of the respective connecting portions are parallel to each other, and the first axes of the respective connecting portions are in alignment with each other.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3623152 (1971-11-01), Gutshall
patent: 4061406 (1977-12-01), Kunkle
patent: 4162815 (1979-07-01), Fleischhakes
patent: 4565416 (1986-01-01), Rudy et al.
Fujitani Mitsuhiro
Inoue Nori
Konoya Hisashi
Oka Hiroyuki
Bradley Paula A.
Sumitomo Wiring System Ltd.
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