Integral night vision tube contact assembly and method of making
AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsJohn Carl Nelson, Glen Anthony Maurice, George John Winter, John Michael Kessler, Ronald Wesley Ward
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Abstract
A universal contact assembly for an image intensifier tube wherein the pin socket and flat are both parts of an integrally formed unit. The pin socket has a through hole for accepting a wire lead to be soldered. A method of making a universal contact assembly wherein the pin socket shell and flat are machined from a single piece.
Claims10
In an image intensifier tube which is bounded on one end by a back plate bearing a contact assembly for connection to an external power source, wherein the contact assembly comprises the combination of a longitudinally extending pin socket having an interior for accepting and holding a conductive pin and a conductive flat member which surrounds the pin socket at a position along the pin socket length and extends in a substantially perpendicular direction outwardly from the pin socket, the improvement wherein;
- both the pin socket and the flat member are parts of integrally formed unit.
A method of making a contact assembly for an image intensifier tube, comprising the steps of:
- providing a first piece of metal,
- from the first piece of metal, automatically machining an outer piece of the contact assembly comprised of an at least partially hollow longitudinally extending pin socket shell and an elongated flat member which surrounds the pin socket shell near one end and extends outwardly from the shell in a substantially perpendicular direction to the shell,
- providing a second piece of metal,
- from the second piece of metal, automatically machining an insert having spring fingers for the pin socket shell, and
- inserting the insert into the pin socket shell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.