Electrical connector
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorAlexander William Hasircoglu
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Abstract
A connector with spring contacts extending through openings in opposed surfaces of a dielectric housing. The contacts are positioned to engage conductive pads on leadless circuit elements and to establish wiped connections when the elements are located on the opposed surfaces of the housing.
Claims8
An electrical connector comprising:
- a dielectric housing with opposed surfaces adapted to mate with circuit elements having contact pads thereon, said housing having at least one contact-receiving cavity including openings in said surfaces and a pocket offset from the openings;
- and a contact formed from a strip of conductive spring metal, said contact having a folded mounting portion intermediate its ends and extending in the same direction from said portion in lengths bent into opposed unbalanced compound cantilever springs, said lengths having first legs relatively disposed to one another at acute angles and second legs bent back from and overlying the first legs, said mounting portion being frictionally fitted into said pocket, each second leg including an arcuate segment projecting into one of said openings, said springs and housing being so configured that said first legs are resiliently shiftable into substantial contact with each other in response to pressure exerted on said arcuate segments.
As an article of manufacture, an electrical contact formed from a strip of conductive spring metal, said contact having a fold intermediate its ends and extending from the fold as opposed unbalanced compound cantilever springs, said springs having straight first legs extending in the same direction from said fold, the included angle between said first legs being about 10.degree., each spring having a second leg joined to its first leg by an arcuate bend, the included angles said first legs located between said second legs, having an arcuate contact segment adjacent its ends.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.