Electrical connector
AssigneeFramatome Connectors International
InventorsAnton Bieringer, Peter Nutzel
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Abstract
An electrical connector with a first housing part receiving socket contacts, and a second housing part receiving knife contacts, where the two parts of the housing can be locked together and released by means of pins or the like, firmly attached to the housing parts. A single U-shaped clamp is mounted on one part of the housing and has legs with linking grooves in the region of board-shaped expansions. The grooves can be swung onto pins of the other housing part. The legs are provided with springy chamfers which, in the release position, are braced as stop elements again that housing part which carries the clamp. A locking hook mounted resiliently on a housing part reaches releaseably into a recess or hole in the cross piece of the clamp when the latter is in the locking position.
Claims10
An electrical connector with a first housing part receiving socket contacts, and a second housing part receiving knife contacts, pins attached to said housing parts for locking together and releasing said housing parts, and a single U-shaped clamp mounted on one of said housing parts for pivoting motion about an axis between a release and a locking position, said clamp comprising legs and a cross piece, said legs having board-shaped expansions containing linking grooves which have boundary surfaces and can be swung onto pins of the other housing part, the legs being provided with springy chamfers which, in a release position, are braced as stop elements against that housing part which carries said clamp, said cross piece having a recess or hole releasably engaged by a locking hook mounted resiliently on a housing part when said clamp is in a locking position, at least said boundary surfaces reaching behind said pins having bends extending at right angles to a swivel plane defined by said legs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.