Electrical connector with grounded contact

Details Electrical connector with grounded contact Electrical connector with grounded contact

1999-09-28

2000-11-07

Bradley, Paula

Electrical connectors

With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision

Grounding to connector container or housing

H01R 466

Patent

active

061427950

ABSTRACT:
A connector is provided with a contact that is grounded to a metal shell, which can be constructed at low cost. A grounded contact device (1A) that lies in a passage (10) of a connector housing, has a contact (20A) with a front mating end (3) and a rear terminating end (2) for connecting to a cable wire, the contact device also having a grounding element (9) in the form of a sleeve that lies around the contact and that can be inserted with the contact into the passage. The grounding element has a surrounding part (34) that closely surrounds a flange (8) on the contact, and has a rear portion with slots forming a plurality of tines (44) with a larger outside diameter than the surrounding part. When the contact device is inserted into the passage, the tines are compressed to squeeze the surrounding part of the grounding element tightly against the flange. The housing includes an insulator part (11) surrounded by a metal shell (52), the passage extending through the insulator part adjacent to its periphery (62), and with at least part of the passage having one side forming an opening (60) which is open to the shell. A portion (13) of the metal shel! lies in the opening and directly engages the grounding element of the contact device.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3966292 (1976-06-01), Schultz
patent: 4572600 (1986-02-01), Nieman
patent: 5151035 (1992-09-01), Kawai

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