Socket contact for electrical connectors
AssigneeFramatome Connectors International
InventorsHans-Otto Geltsch, Harald Lutsch
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a socket contact (1) for electrical connectors, having a box-shaped sheet-metal frame (3) and four contact elements (5, 6) incorporated therein as well as a connection part for cables, which adjoins the sheet-metal frame. In this case, the sheet-metal frame has, seen in the direction of insertion, a front frame part (7). The latter comprises two parts which have two sides respectively joined together via an edge, of which sides those lying respectively opposite one another are either joined via a first contact element (5) to the rear frame part (8) or respectively have a second contact element (6) with a free head end (9), which extends in the direction of the rear frame part.
Claims12
A socket contact for electrical connectors, having a box shaped sheet metal frame and four contact elements incorporated therein, the socket contact having a connection part for cables which is linked to the sheet metal frame wherein the sheet metal frame includes on a side opposite to the connection part for the cables a front frame part comprising two sub-parts, each of the sub-parts having respectively, two sides joined together by an edge, wherein a first set of sides lying respectively, opposite one another are joined by a first of the contact elements to the rear frame part, and wherein a second set of sides lying respectively, opposite one another includes a second of the contact elements which include a free head end extending in the direction of the rear frame part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.