Electrical connectors – With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision – Grounding of coupling part
Patent
1994-09-26
1996-08-06
Paumen, Gary F.
Electrical connectors
With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision
Grounding of coupling part
439608, H01R 13658
Patent
active
055428517
ABSTRACT:
A electrical connector assembly comprising first and second, intermatable connector members including respective housings with rows of terminals and rows of ground plate portions extending in spaced apart, side by side relation. Ground plate portions of one connector member include resilient contact portions which are staggered so as to be offset on respective opposite lateral side of a center line of the row thereof and retained in respective housing cavities formed in the housing. A row of correspondingly staggered finger-like projections are provided in the other housing and have guiding and other ground plate supporting portions on respective opposite lateral sides thereof facing in opposite lateral directions and receivable in the respective cavities during movement of the connector members into mating engagement both to support the other ground plate portions in electrical engagement with the resilient ground plate portions and to guide the two housings accurately together.
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KEL Corporation
Paumen Gary F.
Usher Robert W. J.
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