Electrical connectors – Metallic connector or contact having movable or resilient... – Spring actuated or resilient securing part
Patent
1996-09-13
1998-11-24
Abrams, Neil
Electrical connectors
Metallic connector or contact having movable or resilient...
Spring actuated or resilient securing part
439595, 4397525, H01R 1122
Patent
active
058399259
ABSTRACT:
An electrical terminal comprises a forward receptacle portion for mating with a tab. The receptacle portion as a pair of spaced opposed side walls connected by a contact spring support base and a contact spring joined to the forward end of the support base by a forwardly bowed bight. The contact spring extends obliquely and rearwardly from the bight between the side walls. For protecting the bight and the contact spring from damage by a probe a barrier comprises barrier halves projecting towards one another from the side walls, and which may have chamfered, probe deflecting upper surfaces. In order to allow a terminal to be inserted into a cavity in a housing, the cavity having a channel in its floor, the channel being of substantially the same width as the contact spring, the lower part of the bight and the adjacent part of the support base are formed as a sledge having runners which are slideable along the surfaces of the floor, on either side of the channel.
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Abrams Neil
Patel T. C.
The Whitaker Corporation
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