Electrical connectors – With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision – Grounding of coupling part
Patent
1991-11-01
1992-12-29
Desmond, Eugene F.
Electrical connectors
With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision
Grounding of coupling part
439607, H01R 13648
Patent
active
051747715
ABSTRACT:
Improved means for securing an externally mounted ground plate to an electrical connector, the ground plate being secured along one of the sides of the connector and having a leading edge thereof exposed at the mating face of the connector and adapted to be received within the housing of a complementary connector upon the connector being mated thereto. The improved means includes a pair of tabs extending from the ground plate proximate the leading edge thereof and engagable with and latchingly securable in cooperating slots on end walls of the connector housing and an inwardly directed rolled portion extending substantially along the entire length of the leading edge of the ground plate, the rolled portion being received within a cooperating recess of the associated housing side wall. The recess is configured to receive rolled edge of the ground plate such that the ground plate lies securely against the side wall and the overall dimensions of the mating face are not substantially increased thereby.
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U.S. patent application Ser. No. 07/767,344 filed Sep. 27, 1991, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/691,167 filed Apr. 24, 1991, now abandoned, which was a continuation of Ser. No. 07/586,360 filed Sep. 21, 1990, now abandoned. (AMP Case 14884).
Burgit Richard A.
Hillbish Warren C.
Kaufman John W.
AMP Incorporated
Desmond Eugene F.
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