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US 4,374,607 AGranted
Electrical pin and socket connector
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorsEdward J. Bright, Hitesh Cherry, Robert E. Dehoff, James L. Fedder, Tom R. Williams
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Abstract
The invention disclosed herein is a pin and socket connector having a low insertion force and a high resistance to tensile forces. More particularly, the pin, which is composed of spring beam members, and the socket, have complementary locking teeth and grooves and also cooperating means for releasing the spring beam members into locking engagement with the socket.
Claims4
A pin and socket connector of the type formed by the pin being telescopingly received in the socket, said connector comprising:
- a. an elongated pin of conductive material having cable receiving means at one end and cylindrical, socket insertion means at the opposite end, said insertion means being slotted to define a plurality of spring beam members and further having a plurality of outwardly projecting teeth encircling the circumference of the insertion means at a location rearwardly of its free end;
- b. removable means positioned on the insertion means adapted to removably hold the spring beam members together in a compressed position;
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- c. an elongated socket having cable receiving means at one end and a receptacle at the opposite end adapted to receive the insertion means of the pin with the receptacle wall containing a plurality of circumferential, tooth-receiving grooves and the socket further having means to remove the removable means upon the receptacle receiving the insertion means thereby permitting the spring beam members to expand, forcing the teeth into the teeth-receiving grooves to thereby lock the pin in the socket.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.