Electrical connectors – Self aligning contact – Contact mounted in floating nonconductive holder
Patent
1995-01-19
1996-11-19
Paumen, Gary F.
Electrical connectors
Self aligning contact
Contact mounted in floating nonconductive holder
439557, H01R 1374
Patent
active
055756735
ABSTRACT:
A panel mount system includes an electrical connector for mounting in an aperture in a panel. The connector has a mounting flange for interfacing with the panel, and a pair of cantilevered latch structures. Each latch structure includes a base arm projecting from the mounting flange and one locking arm deflectably cantilevered at one side of the base arm from an end thereof remote from the mounting flange. The locking arm extends angularly from the end of the base arm and from the one side thereof back towards the mounting flange. The other side of the base arm opposite the locking arm is substantially rigid. The maximum cross-sectional dimensions of one of the latch structures and its adjacent portion of the mounting aperture is different from the maximum cross-sectional dimensions of the other latch structure and its adjacent portion of the mounting aperture to provide polarization for the connector relative to the panel. The cross-sectional dimensions of the base arm adjacent the mounting flange is less than the adjacent portion of the mounting aperture to provide floating of the connector within the aperture relative to the panel.
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Dahlem Charles M.
Murphy Paul
Nelligan, Jr. Joseph W.
Reisdorf Paul A.
Sampson Stephen A.
Molex Incorporated
Paumen Gary F.
Tirva A. A.
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