Electrical connector assembly and method of making

Details Electrical connector assembly and method of making Electrical connector assembly and method of making

1986-08-25

1988-10-25

Echols, P. W.

Electrical connectors

Contact comprising cutter

Insulation cutter

29881, 439 61, H01R 424, H01R 4304

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047800933

ABSTRACT:
A connector assembly includes a stacked linear array of an alternating sequence of terminals and resiliently compressible insulator portions. The array is linearly compressed in an accordian-like fashion and is inserted in a housing having a cavity of length less than the uncompressed length of the array. The array is inserted in the housing and allowed to expand against opposing walls of the housing thereby maintaining the terminals in a self-compensating floating arrangement. A method for forming the connector assembly includes the steps of arranging resiliently compressible dielectric material between terminals to form a stacked linear array, linearly compressing the stacked linear array in an accordian-like fashion, inserting the compressed array in a housing, and thereafter maintaining the array in linear compression within the housing.

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