Multiple circuit fork contact connector

Details Multiple circuit fork contact connector Multiple circuit fork contact connector

1998-06-12

2000-03-21

Paumen, Gary F.

Electrical connectors

With insulation other than conductor sheath

Plural-contact coupling part

439856, 439857, H01R 1310

Patent

active

060396105

ABSTRACT:
Improved electrical connectors and an improved technique for mounting metal contacts in an electrical connector. Such a technique employs overlapping, staggered arrays of forked electrical contacts in connector channels which engage corresponding blade contacts in a mating connector. The blades are inserted between prongs of the forked contacts. In the preferred embodiment, the electrical connector has an insulating housing having two parallel arrays of linearly aligned, offset, overlapping channels extending inwardly through a front of the housing. Each of the channel arrays extend inwardly through to two arrays of channels at a rear of the first housing. A forked metallic contact having a planar base, a pair of parallel and coplanar prongs at one of the ends separated by a gap, is mounted in each of the front channels such that the prongs from each forked metallic contact is positioned in one of the channels of the rear arrays of channels. A second housing is mated with the first housing. The second housing has an array of linearly aligned electrical contact blades extending out of the second housing. Each blade being positioned between the prongs of one of the forked electrical contacts within a channel of the rear arrays of channels.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4274700 (1981-06-01), Keglewitsch et al.

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