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US 7,351,112 B2Granted
Electrical connector defining a contact curvature
AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorsTimothy ChinSoon Yoap, HwaLiang Ng, George P. Thomas
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AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorsTimothy ChinSoon Yoap, HwaLiang Ng, George P. Thomas
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An electrical connector apparatus comprising a housing supporting a plurality of contacts in a row, each of the contacts having an initial engagement surface, the plurality of initial engagement surfaces defining a contact curvature across the row that is configured for tangentially engaging a mating connector. A method providing an electrical device that is connectable to a receptacle by a connector having a plurality of contacts defining a contact curvature; inserting the electrical device into the receptacle to tangentially engage a portion of the connector on one of either the electrical device or the receptacle with the contact curvature on the other of the electrical device or receptacle, thereby initially contactingly engaging more than one but less than all of the plurality of contacts before contactingly engaging all the plurality of contacts.
An electrical connector apparatus comprising a housing supporting a plurality of contacts in a row with insertion lengths that vary incrementally, distal ends of the plurality of contacts defining a continuous arcuate contact curvature disposed along a constant radius of curvature across the entire row, the disposition of the plurality of contacts thereby configured for making an initial contacting engagement, with respect to the entire plurality of contacts, simultaneously by two or more adjacent different length contacts of the plurality of contacts but less than the entire plurality of contacts when connecting the electrical connector and a mating connector together.
A method comprising:
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