Miniature electrical shunt connector
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorJon D. Stine
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Abstract
A miniature shunt connector has a shunt stamped with coplanar pairs of cantilever beams and inserted into a cavity of a low-profile housing which intersects a pair of post-receiving cavity portions. The adjacent inner shunt beams include downward projections which latch behind a latching aperture of the housing upon full shunt insertion, with the pairs of cantilever beams disposed along and on each side of centerlines of the post-receiving cavity portions and adapted to be deflected outwardly by respective terminal posts entering the shunt connector along the centerlines. The housings may be dimensioned and shaped for vertical and side-by-side stacking to shunt pairs of an array of terminal posts.
Claims6
A miniature shunt connector for commoning a pair of terminal posts, comprising:
- a conductive shunt stamped from a thin metal sheet and including a body section forwardly from which extend in a plane therewith outer cantilever beams and inner cantilever beams paired therewith to receive respective terminal posts therebetween, said inner cantilever beams having facing surfaces each having a latch projection struck downwardly therefrom, each projection including a forwardly facing stop surface;
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- a housing including a shunt-receiving cavity extending from a mating face to a rear wall and intersecting a pair of post-receiving cavity portions selectively spaced and adapted to receive thereinto a corresponding pair of terminal posts to be commoned, said shunt-receiving cavity having opposed upper and bottom surfaces, said housing including a rearwardly facing stop surface associated with said latch projections and proximate said mating face and along said bottom surface of said shunt-receiving cavity between said post-receiving cavity portions, whereby said shunt is insertable into said shunt-receiving cavity from said mating face and latchable therewithin, with the forwardly facing stop surfaces latching behind the rearwardly facing stop surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.