US 7,547,232 B2Granted

Electrical connector contact

AssigneeFCI Americas Technology, Inc.

InventorsRichard A. Johannes, William R. Lyons, Michael S. Glick, Franklin A. Holub, Raymond Bruce McLauchlan

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Abstract

An electrical connector assembly including a housing, electrical contact terminals, a hood and a filter member. The housing is sized and shaped to be plugged into an electrical connector socket of an initiator of a gas generator. A first one of the terminals has a wire connection section and a female connection section. The hood surrounds the female connection section of the first terminal. The hood is a stamped and rolled sheet metal member which has a general tube shape. The filter member is connected to the first terminal for providing electromagnetic induction suppression. The filter member can be on a filter assembly having a multi-capacitor chip attached to a spring lead frame.

Claims19

Dependent claims

An electrical component assembly comprising:

a lead frame comprising at least one member with at least one first contact area and a second contact area, wherein the at least one first contact area is adapted to electrically connect the assembly to another electrical component, wherein the lead frame comprises at least one cantilevered mounting leg spaced from the first contact area, wherein the mounting leg is configured to mount the lead frame to a housing, and wherein the at least one first contact area comprises at least one bent deflectable beam;
and
a circuit member directly electrically mounted to the lead frame at the second contact area, wherein the circuit member comprises a first terminal electrically connected to the lead frame at a first location and a second terminal electrically connected to the lead frame at a second location, wherein the lead frame comprises a hole between the first and second locations, wherein the circuit member spans over the hole between the first and second locations, and wherein the circuit member is attached to the lead frame as a modular one-piece unit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/977,231Filed 23 Oct 2007 · division
Priority: 23 Jul 2003
Published: US 2008/0057790 A16 Mar 2008
Granted: 16 Jun 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H01R 13/7197
Specially adapted for high frequency, e.g. with filters: with filters integral with or fitted onto contacts, e.g. tubular filters
H01R 13/6625
With built-in single component: with capacitive component
H01R 13/719
Structural association with built-in electrical component: specially adapted for high frequency, e.g. with filters
H01R 13/11
Sockets for co-operation with pins or blades: resilient sockets

Family

Application60/489,891Us provisional application · filed 23 Jul 2003
Application60/525,495Us provisional application · filed 25 Nov 2003
Application10/878,453Parent of this division · filed 28 Jun 2004
Application11/259,337Parent of this division · filed 25 Oct 2005
Application11/523,364Parent of this division · filed 18 Sep 2006
US 2008/0057790 A1Pre-grant publication · published 6 Mar 2008
US 7,303,441 B2Parent of this division
US 7,121,892 B2Parent of this division
US 6,997,750 B2Parent of this division
US 2005/0020136 A1Published application
US 2006/0035524 A1Published application
US 2007/0015397 A1Published application
US 7,547,232 B2This patent

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