Electrical connectors – With coupling movement-actuating means or retaining means in... – Including movement of coupling part about axis
Patent
1994-11-09
1997-03-04
Paumen, Gary F.
Electrical connectors
With coupling movement-actuating means or retaining means in...
Including movement of coupling part about axis
H01R 1362
Patent
active
056073194
ABSTRACT:
An engagement type connector assembly in which the arrangement of terminals is miniaturized. The connector assembly includes male and female connectors in which the female connector swings about a pair of supporting shafts provided at its end so as to be engaged with the male connector. The female connector includes a female housing and an outer frame. A pair of rotating shafts protrudes from the female housing in such a manner that the rotating shafts are in parallel with the supporting shafts so that the female housing is swingably coupled to the outer frame through the rotating shafts. That is, the female housing is supported through the rotating shaft on the outer frame. Hence, in engaging the female connector with the male connector by swinging the female connector, the female housing is allowed to swing independently of the outer frame, thus being correctly aligned with the male housing. Therefore, the inlets of the female terminals into which the male terminals are inserted may be made more compact. Additionally, the electrode spacing interval can be reduced commensurately because the female terminals engage the male terminals in a non-oblique or substantially straight manner.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4923408 (1990-05-01), Zinn
patent: 5431573 (1995-07-01), Endo et al.
Katsuma Takatoshi
Matsunaga Hideki
Saijo Eiji
Wakata Shigekazu
Paumen Gary F.
Sumitomo Wiring Systems Ltd.
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