Four-sided ground contact assembly

Details Four-sided ground contact assembly Four-sided ground contact assembly

1999-02-19

2000-08-29

Paumen, Gary F.

Electrical connectors

With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision

Direct grounding of coupling part member passing into aperture

H01R 466

Patent

active

061099376

ABSTRACT:
A four-sided ground contact assembly for use in an electrical receptacle includes a first contact element and a second contact element. Each of the first and second contact elements is mounted to a mounting bridge of the electrical receptacle. The first contact element has a pair of opposing contact leg portions and a base portion. The second contact element has a pair of opposing contact leg portions and a base portion The leg portions of the first and second contact elements are circumferentially spaced from one another and provide four points of contact on four sides of a ground pin of an electrical plug. The base portion of the first contact element is integral with the mounting bridge and the base portion of the second contact element is disposed above and fastened to the base portion of the first contact element and thus to the mounting bridge.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2672593 (1954-03-01), Shenton
patent: 3723948 (1973-03-01), Wyatt et al.
patent: 3868161 (1975-02-01), Frantz
patent: 4240686 (1980-12-01), Kurbikoff
patent: 4375307 (1983-03-01), Rock

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