Electrical connectors – Including or for use with tape cable – With mating connection region formed by bared cable
Patent
1998-07-13
2000-07-25
Vu, Hien
Electrical connectors
Including or for use with tape cable
With mating connection region formed by bared cable
H01R 907
Patent
active
060930551
ABSTRACT:
An improved flat flexible cable connector (1) for a flat flexible cable (6) includes a housing (4), terminals (3) and an actuator (5) movable between an initial engagement position and a final engagement position. The terminals include integral contact pieces (16) that are deflected by a pushing piece (8) of the actuator during movement of the actuator to its final engagement position. When the actuator is in the final engagement position, the cable is held in position by way of projections (21) on the housing which engage and retain corresponding engagement holes (20) of the cable, and, at the same time, the pushing piece of the actuator presses conductors of the cable against contact areas of the contact pieces (16) of the terminals. Movement of the actuator to its initial position puts the cable (6) in a releasable position by moving the actuator away from the contact pieces of the terminals and from the projections of the housing, thereby causing the contact pieces to lift the cable and release the projections from the engagement holes of the cable. Thus the cable can be pulled out from the cable connector when the actuator is in this initial position. The cable is positively held in the final engagement position and cannot be inadvertently released. The cable is therefore put in a releasable position by a single action.
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Caldwell Stacey E.
Molex Incorporated
Vu Hien
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