Power connector assembly
AssigneeAlltop Electronics (Su Zhou) Co., Ltd
InventorChu-Lin Chen
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Abstract
A power connector is provided which includes an insulating housing having a plurality of contact receiving passages, each of said plurality of contact receiving passages receives a contact pair having a pair of independent conductive contacts, each of said independent conductive contacts has a base portion and a contacting portion extending from said base portion, a retention portion extends from at least one of said independent conductive contacts to another one of said independent conductive contacts, and rests on said another one of said independent conductive contacts when said contacting portion deforms under force, so as to prevent said contacting portion of said conductive contact from over deforming under force, and ensure the stability of power transmission.
Claims20
A power connector, comprising:
- an insulating housing having a plurality of contact receiving passages,
- a contact pair having a pair of independent conductive contacts received in one of said plurality of contact receiving passages, wherein
- said independent conductive contact has a base portion, a contacting portion extending from said base portion, and a retention portion extends from at least one of said independent conductive contacts toward another one of said independent conductive contacts, and said retention portion rests on said another one of said independent conductive contacts when said contacting portion deforms under force.
A power connector assembly, comprising:
- a receptacle connector having an insulating receptacle housing and receptacle contact pairs received in contact receiving passages of said insulating receptacle housing,
- a mating plug connector having an insulating plug housing and plug contact pairs received in contact receiving passages of said insulating plug housing, wherein
- each of said receptacle contact pairs has a pair of independent receptacle contacts received in a corresponding contact receiving passage of said insulating receptacle housing,
- each of said receptacle contacts has a retention portion extending opposite to another one of said receptacle contacts, and
- said retention portion of said pair of receptacle contacts of said receptacle contact pair rests on each other when said receptacle connector is mated with said plug connector.
A conductive contact pair, comprising:
- a pair of independent conductive contacts adapted to be received in a contact receiving passage of a power connector,
- each of said conductive contacts having a base portion and a contacting portion extending from said base portion, wherein
- at least one of said conductive contacts has a retention portion extending opposite to another one of said conductive contacts;
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- wherein said retention portion is defined on said base portion and has a resilient clip extending from said base portion, and a retention end is formed at the end of said resilient clip.
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