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US 5,334,053 AGranted
Dual-beam electrical contact with preload tabs
AssigneeBurndy Corporation
InventorRocco J. Noschese
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Abstract
An electrical connector is provided with a housing and a plurality of electrical contacts. The housing has a plurality of contact receiving channels having preload shelves. The contacts each have two opposing cantilever arms and means for biasing a distal end of one of the arms towards the other arm. The distal ends of the arms have preload tabs that contact each other during insertion of the contact into the housing, and are used to preload the arms at their final position in the housing.
Claims13
An electrical connector contact comprising:
- a rear section;
- a middle section integrally formed with the rear section;
- and
- two opposing arms extending from the middle section, the two arms including opposing spaced preload tabs at their distal ends, opposing spaced contact areas, and means for moving the opposing preload tabs into contact with each other comprising an extended portion on one of the arms adapted to contact an interior wall in a channel of a housing of an electrical connector, the extended portion being deflectable towards the other one of the arms to thereby move the preload tabs into contact with each other during insertion into the housing channel in order to keep the contact areas spaced from each other.
1 more element
An electrical connector comprising:
- a housing comprised of an electrically insulating material, the housing having contact receiving channels;
- and
- electrical contacts located, at least partially, in the receiving channels, the contacts each having a rear section, a middle section, two opposing cantilever first and second arms extending from the middle section, and means for biasing a distal end of the first arm towards a distal end of the second arm when the contact is inserted into one of the channels, the means for biasing comprising the first arm having an extended portion, the width of the contact between the extended portion and the second arm prior to location in the housing being greater than the width of the channel such that the contact is compressed by the housing to move the two arms against each other wherein the distal ends of the arms each comprise a tab that contact each other when the electrical contact is inserted into the receiving channel in order to keep contact areas on the arms spaced from each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.