Electrical connectors – With coupling movement-actuating means or retaining means in... – Having push-pull contacts spaced along only one planar side...
Patent
1995-05-11
1997-03-25
Bradley, P. Austin
Electrical connectors
With coupling movement-actuating means or retaining means in...
Having push-pull contacts spaced along only one planar side...
439354, H01R 450, H01R 13627
Patent
active
056138695
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a modular connector for a communication line. The inventive connector includes a body having a terminal side for inserting into a corresponding jack and a cable side for fastening to an end of the communication line. The connector also includes a spring-biased tab which has a first end connected to the terminal side of the body and a second free end. The tab has a pair of oppositely extending locking shoulders spaced from the free end of the resilient tab. The tab is movable for operatively engaging and disengaging the locking shoulders with corresponding internal abutting surfaces within the jack to secure and release the connector from the jack. A guard extends from the cable side of the body towards the terminal side of the body. At least a portion of the second free end of the tab is covered by a section of the guard for preventing the tab from catching another communication line or other object when its associated line is removed from the jack.
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Extract from 37 C.F.R. .sctn.68.500 (1988), pp. 168-187.
Erlich Ron
Thayer Charles
Bradley P. Austin
Kim Yong
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
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