Electrical connectors – Coupling part including flexing insulation – Having plural – laterally spaced – prongs or prong sockets
Patent
1986-01-30
1987-07-28
McQuade, John
Electrical connectors
Coupling part including flexing insulation
Having plural, laterally spaced, prongs or prong sockets
439701, H01R 13506
Patent
active
046828397
ABSTRACT:
A multi-row modular electrical connector is described having a securement mechanism in the cell walls and the wall of each module for cooperatively, tridimensionally securing each module to the cell. The securement mechanism comprises (i) a row of notches in each cell wall; (ii) a locking projection on one wall of each module; (iii) a slotted locking bar along the rearward edge of each cell wall exterior spaced away from the cell cavity; and (iv) a wedging wall on one wall of each module near the rear thereof snugly receivable through the slot of the locking bar. Each notch has a slotted access portion spaced from the cell cavity and a tab therebetween and the projections each have a wall receivable in the notch to provide a first dimension of securement and wings spaced from and overlying the module wall and sized to be received in the slotted access portion with the tab receivable between the wings and the module wall to prevent the wings from passing into the cell cavity to provide a second dimension of securement. The wedging wall passes snugly under the locking bar when the module is almost completely inserted in the cavity whereby the locking bar is behind the wedging wall to wedge the module between the locking bar and a vertical rib in the front of the cell and/or a front of the locking projection and an end wall of the notch to provide a third dimension of securement.
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McQuade John
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