Electrical connectors – Uninterrupted support rail or uninterrupted contact – With means to join tandem rails or tandem contacts
Patent
1999-01-28
2000-07-25
Paumen, Gary F.
Electrical connectors
Uninterrupted support rail or uninterrupted contact
With means to join tandem rails or tandem contacts
H01R 2500
Patent
active
060930373
ABSTRACT:
A track and connector arrangement in which the track (1) includes a metal casing (1), an insulator strip (12) mounted inside the casing (1) and having two opposed inside flanges (123), and two metal conducting strips (13) bilaterally mounted within the insulator strip (12) between the inside flanges (123) and flat top wall (121) of the insulator strip (12); the connector (2) includes a shell (21) longitudinally abutted against one end of the metal casing (11) of the track (1), a terminal holder (22) securely mounted on the shell (21), the terminal holder (22) having a protruding portion (2213) plugged into a positioning space (14) between bottom walls (113) of the metal casing (11) and inside flanges (123) of the insulator body (12), and two electric terminals (222) longitudinally bilaterally mounted on the terminal holder (22), the electric terminals (222) each having a curved springy contact portion (2222) at one end respectively pressed on the metal conducting strips (13) in the insulator strip (12) inside the metal casing (11) to conduct electricity.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3622938 (1971-11-01), Ito et al.
patent: 4089578 (1978-05-01), Valtonen
patent: 4245874 (1981-01-01), Bishop
patent: 5336100 (1994-08-01), Gabrius et al.
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