Electrical connector having a housing and an electrical contact and electrical contact
AssigneeThe Whitaker Corporation
InventorsHarald Bouda, Horst Gehrke, Günther Mumper
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Abstract
An electrical contact (1) is shown having a conductor connection region (2) for connection to an electrical conductor wire and a contact-making region (3) for making contact with a complementary contact pin is specified, the contact-making region essentially being designed in the form of a box with two side walls (4, 5), a top wall (6) and a bottom wall (7), the bottom wall (7) and the top wall (6) having a different width in the direction perpendicular to the plug-in direction, in such a way that the side walls (4, 5) run in a manner inclined with respect to the bottom and top walls (6, 7) and with respect to one another.
Claims18
An electrical contact comprising a one piece construction having a conductor connection region for connection to an electrical conductor and a contact-making region for making contact with a complementary contact, the contact-making region is formed as a box by two opposing side walls, a top wall and a bottom wall, where the top wall is wider than the bottom wall and the two opposing side walls are inclined with respect to each other and the top wall and the bottom wall, the contact making region having a contact spring arm extending at an inclination toward the bottom wall in a deflectable cantilevered form from the top wall, between the opposing side walls, and converging towards the bottom wall into a contacting region that would engage a complementary contact when inserted into the contact-making region and then diverging from the bottom wall to a free end, the contact spring arm being wider where the arm emerges from the top wall than at the contacting region and being tapered to fit between opposing side walls converging from the top wall toward the bottom wall, whereby higher contact forces would be generated upon the complementary contact than if the contact arm had a constant width equal to the contacting region.
An electrical contact for use in an electrical connector including a housing latch to secure the electrical contact in the electrical connector, the electrical contact comprising a one piece box receptacle having a trapezoidal cross section, the box receptacle being formed by opposing side walls diverging upwardly for a bottom wall, and a top wall formed by upper and lower overlapping layers, with a cantilever contact spring arm extending from the lower layer toward the bottom wall, the lower layer being supported by one of the sidewalls behind the cantilevered contact spring arm, and a lug extending from a front edge of the upper layer being folded downward and around to extend below a forward end of the cantilever contact spring arm in supporting relationship to the cantilever contact spring arm.
An electrical contact for use in an electrical connector, the electrical contact comprising a one piece box receptacle being formed by opposing side walls extending upwardly from the bottom wall, and a top wall formed by upper and lower overlapping layers, with a cantilever contact spring arm extending from the lower layer toward the bottom wall and a cantilever supporting spring extending from the top layer, the lower layer being supported by one of the sidewalls behind the cantilevered contact spring arm, and a lug extending from a front edge of the upper layer being folded downward and around to extend below a forward end of the cantilever contact spring arm in supporting relationship to the cantilever contact spring arm so that the cantilever contact spring arm is held between the lug and the cantilever supporting spring prior to deflection by a mating electrical contact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.