ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH IMPROVED TERMINAL-RECEIVING PASSAGE MEANS

摘要

AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR (12) INCLUDES A DIELECTRIC HOUSING (14) MOUNTING A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS (46) .EACH TERMINAL INCLUDES A BLADE PORTION (48) TERMINATING IN A DISTAL CONTACT END (54) FORMED BY DUAL SPACED-APART CANTILEVERED SPRING ARMS (56) WITH MUTUALLY OPPOSING CONTACT PORTIONS (58) DEFINING A CONDUCTOR-RECEIVING MOUTH (60) THEREBETWEEN. THE SPRING ARMS ARE CANTILEVERED AT OPPOSITE EDGES (48A) OF THE BLADE PORTION (48) AND ARE OFFSET ON OPPOSITE SIDES (48B) OF THE BLADE PORTION. A PLURALITY OF PASSAGES (50) ARE FORMED IN THE HOUSING (14) AND INTO WHICH THE BLADE PORTIONS OF THE TERMINALS PROJECT. EACH PASSAGE (50) INCLUDES OPPOSING SIDE WALLS (50A) GENERALLY PARALLEL TO THE BLADE PORTION (48) OF THE RESPECTIVE TERMINAL IN THE PASSAGE. EACH SIDE WALL (50A) INCLUDES A LATERALLY OUTWARDLY OFFSET PORTION (50B) TO ACCOMMODATE ONE OF THE OFFSET SPRING ARMS (56) AT THE DISTAL CONTACT END (54) OF THE TERMINAL (46) .FIG 7