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US 4,398,780 AGranted
Shielded electrical connector
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorsLawrence G. Novotny, Elvert S. Watts
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Abstract
A shielded connector for shielded cable provides a plug and receptacle coupled to multiple wires of the cable, together with metal shells with facility for stacking and interlocking multiple shielded connectors.
Claims3
A shielded connector for multiple conductor cable having a male and female connector pair with terminals thereof having aligned wire connecting portions and oppositely projecting mating portions adjacent mating sides of said connector pair, the improvement comprising:
- first and second metal intermated shells enclosing said connector pair and having a first opening encircled by a first flange exposing a first mating side of one of said pair of connectors, and second opening encircled by a second flange exposing a mating side of the other of said connectors,
- said shells enclosing a cable entrance for wires connected to said pair of connectors, and
- fastener means extending through said intermated shells to connect together, plural, stacked pairs of intermated shells, and wherein a plug mating side of said pair of connectors will interfit with a receptacle mating side of another of said pair of connectors so that a pair of multiple conductor cables are electrically coupled together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.