Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Patent
1986-01-21
1988-01-12
Echols, Percy W.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
29874, 439857, 439877, 439885, H01R 300
Patent
active
047181664
ABSTRACT:
A high reliability low cost connector has flat retainers blanked from an electrically conductive sheel metal and inserted into opening in an electrically insulating body. Each retainer has a post at one end extending from an opening at one side of the body and has a pair of integral wings spaced from each other in a plane at its opposite end disposed in the opening at the opposite side of the body. Spring clips are blanked and formed from an electrically conductive sheet metal spring material and are inserted into the body openings so loop portions of the clips fit between the pairs of retainer wings in each opening and are biased into resilient electrical engagement with the retainer wings. Each clip preferably has two pairs of juxtaposed spring leaves integral with the loop spaced at 90.degree. relative to each other around a common axis to grip a terminal inserted between the spring leaves. The loops are also formed with interruptions in each loop in a common location between two adjacent spring leads. The sheet metal retainers and clips are inserted into the body openings while suspended from support strips left during the blanking steps and are then separated from the support strips. In that way the retainers and clips have predetermined uniform orientations in the openings.
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Biscione Marios
DeFilippis Pietro
Salvatore Amedeo
Arbes Carl J.
Echols Percy W.
Haug John A.
McAndrews James P.
Sharp Melvin
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