Electrical connector
AssigneeConnecteurs Electriques Deutsch
InventorsThierry Cassar, Simon Delaire, Sébastien Queva, Martin Brunet, Samuel Soufflet
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Abstract
An electrical connector includes a housing defining an internal connector space and mateable with a mating housing of a second electrical connector in a mating direction parallel to a mating axis, a pair of electrical contacts housed in the internal connector space and mateable with a plurality of second electrical contacts of the second electrical connector, and a lever housed in the internal connector space. A mechanical contact between the housing and the lever establishes a fulcrum of the lever. The fulcrum is arranged between the electrical contacts. A pivoting of the lever moves a position of the electrical contacts relative to the housing.
Claims20
An electrical connector, comprising
- a housing defining an internal connector space and mateable with a mating housing of a second electrical connector in a mating direction parallel to a mating axis;
- a pair of electrical contacts housed in the internal connector space and mateable with a plurality of second electrical contacts of the second electrical connector;
- a lever housed in the internal connector space, a mechanical contact between the housing and the lever establishes a fulcrum of the lever, the fulcrum is arranged between the electrical contacts, a pivoting of the lever moves a position of the electrical contacts relative to the housing.
An electrical connector assembly, comprising:
- an electrical connector including a housing defining an internal connector space, a pair of electrical contacts housed in the internal connector space, and a lever housed in the internal connector space, a mechanical contact between the housing and the lever establishes a fulcrum of the lever, the fulcrum is arranged between the electrical contacts, a pivoting of the lever moves a position of the electrical contacts relative to the housing;
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- a second connector including a mating housing mateable with the housing of the electrical connector and a plurality of second electrical contacts mateable with the electrical contacts of the electrical connector, the lever is pivoted around the fulcrum such that each of the electrical contacts is bottomed out against a respective one of the second electrical contacts.
A lug-free electrical connector assembly, comprising:
- a first connector including a housing defining an internal connector space and a pair of electrical contacts housed in the internal connector space;
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- a second connector mateable with the first connector along a mating axis, the second connector including a mating housing mateable with the housing of the first connector and a plurality of second electrical contacts mateable with the electrical contacts of the first connector, a terminal end surface of each of the electrical contacts at least partially abuts against a respective mating surface of a corresponding electrical contact receptacle of one of the second electrical contacts, abutment of the electrical contacts with the second electrical contacts is secured by a tilted arrangement of the first housing relative to the mating housing with respect to the mating axis.
A lug-free electrical connector assembly, comprising:
- a first electrical connector including a first housing defining an internal connector space and having an electrical socket contact housed in the internal connector space;
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- a second electrical connector mateable with the first electrical connector along a mating axis, the second electrical connector having a second housing mateable with the first housing and a second electrical contact mateable with the electrical socket contact, a terminal end surface of the electrical socket contact at least partially abuts against a mating terminal end surface of the second electrical contact, a shell terminal surface of the first housing does not abut against a shell terminal surface of the second housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.