Electrical connectors – With insulation other than conductor sheath – Metallic connector or contact secured to insulation
Patent
1989-07-18
1990-10-23
Pirlot, David L.
Electrical connectors
With insulation other than conductor sheath
Metallic connector or contact secured to insulation
439741, H01R 1342
Patent
active
049648187
ABSTRACT:
A socket usable, e.g., with an audio connector, comprises a plastics body having chambers running forwardly of the rear of the body and communicating with the front via apertures through which the connector pins pass. Each chamber receives and supports a bifurcated contact in a position to grip and engage a pin passed into the chamber via the aperture. The contacts are flat--blanked from sheet metal and edge portions of the heads are received in slots extending the length of the chambers. An edge of each contact has a tag twisted out of the plane of the contact and received in a deeper portion of one of these slots. Each contact extends rearwardly of the body to facilitate its electrical connection to a lead. Each contact has a tail and the tails of the different contacts may be of different lengths so that the tips of projections thereon lie in a plane. The projections of different contacts may be on the tail leading or trailing edges so they are at different distances from the plane of the rear of the body. The socket has a frontal slot to receive a skirt on the connector and a further chamber runs from the rear of the body to the slot. A clip is located in the further chamber with a hook part engaging the back of the slot and another part passing into the slot to engage and hold the skirt when it is inserted. The socket has a flange by which it can be fixed to equipment casing. The method of making the socket and an electrical circuit incorporating at least one socket are described.
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