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US 4,050,772 AGranted
Unitary socket terminal for electronic circuits
OwnerJean Birnholz, Pierre Coutyinventors
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Abstract
A unitary socket terminal for electronic circuits, said socket terminal having lead ingress guide means and internal lead gripping means. The guide means provides unimpeded ingress to the lead gripping means. The socket terminal may also be provided with external contact or terminal means.
Claims6
A unitary socket terminal for electronic circuits and connections, comprising:
- a. a cylindrical tubular body having a circumferentially continuous inner wall which defines a cylindrical inner chamber,
- b. a cylindrical tubular head, larger in diameter than the tubular body, formed at the upper end of said tubular body,
- c. said tubular head having a circumferentially continuous inner wall which defines a funnel-shaped orifice whose smaller end communicates with said inner chamber,
- d. said inner wall in said tubular head curving smoothly into said inner wall in the tubular body to form a continuous lead-guiding surface,
- e. a downwardly facing annular shoulder formed on said tubular head,
- f. said annular shoulder being adapted to engage a circuit or connecting element which encircles the tubular body, and
- g. lead-gripping means formed at the lower end of the tubular body to engage a lead guided thereinto.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.