Electrical connectors – Coupling part having handle or means to move contact... – Expandable – prong receiving socket
Patent
1986-10-08
1987-10-20
McQuade, John
Electrical connectors
Coupling part having handle or means to move contact...
Expandable, prong receiving socket
439265, 439359, H01R 1362
Patent
active
047009969
ABSTRACT:
An electrical edge connector (14) of the zero insertion force type includes a pair of opposing blocks (30, 32) defining a longitudinal guideway (34) therebetween. Opposite corresonding pairs of female contacts (52, 54) are disposed in transverse holes in the blocks (30, 32), and male contacts (60) are slidably supported in the female contacts in one block for selective actuation into or out of sliding engagement with the female contacts in the other block responsive to insertion of a slider (36).
REFERENCES:
patent: 2724093 (1955-11-01), Preston
patent: 4076362 (1978-02-01), Ichimura
patent: 4327955 (1982-05-01), Minter
patent: 4352533 (1982-10-01), Murase et al.
patent: 4392700 (1983-07-01), Showman et al.
patent: 4591219 (1986-05-01), Reimer
Page 238, 1982-1983 ITT Cannon Connectors Catalog, PC Edgecard Connector PB21/PB18 Series.
Page 280, 1984-1985 ITT Cannon Connectors Catalog, Zero Insertion Force Modular Edgecard Connectors.
August Melvin C.
Bowen Stephen A.
Williams John T.
Cray Research Inc.
McQuade John
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