Socket contact
AssigneeJapan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
InventorTakeshi TAKAHASHI
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Abstract
A socket contact which is reduced in manufacturing costs and has a spring member difficult to be removed from a socket contact body. The socket contact includes a socket contact body, and a spring member fitted on the socket contact body. The spring member includes an elastic annular portion and at least one protruding portion provided on the elastic annular portion. A hollow cylindrical contact portion of the socket contact body for receiving a pin contact therein is formed with at least one slit that extends in a receiving direction in which the contact portion receives the pin contact therein, and a hole that receives the protruding portion for limiting the movement of the spring member in a direction parallel to the receiving direction.
Claims14
A socket contact comprising:
- a socket contact body including a contact portion, which has a hollow cylindrical shape, for receiving a pin contact therein;
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- a spring member fitted on the socket contact body, the spring member including an elastic annular portion fitted on an outer periphery of the contact portion, and at least one protruding portion provided on the elastic annular portion,
- wherein the contact portion has at least one slit formed therein which extends in a direction of receiving the pin contact,
- wherein the contact portion has a receiving portion formed therein for receiving the protruding portion and limiting movement of the elastic annular portion in a direction parallel to the direction of receiving the pin contact, and
- wherein the contact portion has a contact point portion that is pressed against an outer periphery of the pin contact by returning force of the elastic annular portion when the pin contact is received into the contact portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.