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US 6,475,013 B1Granted
Electrical connector having actuation device
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsShaofei Pang, Ren-Chih Li, Tao Xu
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Abstract
An electrical connector comprises a base, a cover, a gear and a rack. The base having a plurality of passageways opened therein. The cover is slidable engaged with the base. The gear and the rack are provided for actuating the cover to slide on the base. Because rotation of the gear is controlled accurately, the actuation process can be operated easily and precisely.
Claims7
An electrical connector comprising;
- a stationary base having a plurality of contact receiving passageways therein;
- a cover mounted on said base having therein a plurality of through holes in alignment with the corresponding contact receiving passageways, respectively, said cover being moveable relative to said base in a front-to-back direction thereof,
- an actuation device including a rotative Sear receivably and at least partially mounted in one of said base and said cover, and a rack with arms receiveably mounted in the other of said base and said cover;
- wherein
- said gear defines an operation face upwardly exposed to an exterior of said cover, and a gear portion of said gear which is rotatively engaged with a rack portion of the rack, the gear portion moved relatively along the rack portion in a direction of said front-to-back direction when said gear is rotated, thus resulting in the cover being moved relative to the base along said front-to-back direction;
- wherein said gear substantially extends through both said cover and said base.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.