Contact element with spring tongue
AssigneeTyco Electronics AMP GmbH
InventorsGheorghe Hotea, Hannes Jahn Wendling
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Abstract
A contact element has a contact body. A contact arrangement is attached to the contact body. The contact arrangement has a spring tongue. The spring tongue has a free end with a locking face for securing the contact element in a contact housing. The locking face is movable between a locked position and an assembly position. The spring tongue has first and second retention tongues. The first retention tongue extends laterally to a longitudinal direction of the spring tongue and engages an opening in the contact body when the locking face is in the locked position. The second retention tongue extends perpendicular to the spring tongue for engagement with the contact housing when the locking face is in the locked position.
Claims20
A contact element, comprising:
- a contact body;
- a contact arrangement attached to the contact body, the contact arrangement having a spring tongue, the spring tongue having a free end with a locking face for securing the contact element in a contact housing, the locking face being movable along a bending path between a locked position and an assembly position;
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- a retention element extending from the spring tongue that engages the contact body to secure the spring contact from bending outside of the bending path when the locking face is in the locked position.
A contact element, comprising:
- a contact body;
- a contact arrangement attached to the contact body, the contact arrangement having a spring tongue, the spring tongue having a free end with a locking face for securing the contact element in a contact housing, the locking face being movable between a locked position and an assembly position;
- a first retention tongue that extends from the spring tongue, the first retention tongue extends laterally to a longitudinal direction of the spring tongue and engages an opening in the contact body when the locking face is in the locked position;
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- a second retention tongue that extends from the spring tongue, the second retention tongue extends perpendicular to the spring tongue for engagement with the contact housing when the locking face is in the locked position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.