Electrical connector housings
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorCornelus Adrianus Henricus Maria Sterken
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Abstract
An electrical connector housing includes two housing parts of electrically insulating material and a strip carrying a plurality of locking lances. The strip is assembled in one of the housing parts so that an individual locking lance extends into a cavity defined by aligned passageways in the two housing parts for resiliently engaging an electrical contact when received in the cavity.
Claims4
An electrical connector housing for a plurality of electrical contacts comprising:
- a. first and second housing parts of electrical insulating material and being adapted for mating one with the other, each housing part having at least one row of spaced parallel passageways, the passageways of the housing parts being aligned to define at least one row of cavities extending between opposed faces of the housings when mated for receiving electrical contacts;
- b. a channel in the first housing part extending across the passageways;
- c. an elongated strip of insulating material having a plurality of spaced apart lances projecting outward form one edge, said strip positioned in the channel with individual lances extending into the cavities in the row for resiliently engaging and retaining electrical contacts which may be inserted into the cavities.
An electrical connector housing comprising first and second housing parts of insulating material and a strip carrying a plurality of locking lances extending from one surface of the strip, a major portion of each lance extending laterally outwardly from one side of the strip, but a minor portion of each lance extending laterally outwardly from the opposite side of the strip, the locking lances being generally parallel and equi-spaced along the length of the strip, and each minor portion being stepped to define a protuberance, each housing part including cooperating means for latching the first and second housing parts together, each housing part having a row of spaced, parallel passageways, the passageways of the housing parts being aligned to define a row of cavities extending between opposed faces of the connector housing for receiving electrical contacts, the strip being assembled in the first housing part so that an individual locking lance extends into each cavity defined by the passageways of the first and second housing parts for resiliently engaging an electrical contact when received in the cavity.
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