Contact strip having pre-break recess with gradient width and deep
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorChih-Pi Cheng
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Abstract
A contact strip comprises a plurality of contacts, and a connecting carrier having a plurality of connecting portions connecting with the contacts. The contact has a main body, a linking portion extending upwardly from the main body and a mounting portion downwardly bent from the main body. A pair of pre-break recesses are symmetrically defined on a front and a rear surfaces of the connecting portion, the recess laterally extends through the whole connecting portion and substantially has a gradual deeper depth. Operator can quickly and conveniently tear the recesses from the deep side of the recess to the shallow side of the recess to remove the connecting carrier from the contacts.
Claims10
A contact strip comprises:
- a plurality of contacts, the contact having a main body, a linking portion extending from the main body and a mounting portion downwardly bent from the main body;
- and
- a connecting carrier having a plurality of connecting portions connecting with the contacts, at least one recess extending through two opposite lateral sides of the connecting portion and gradually becoming deeper from one of the lateral side to the other lateral side so as to be easily torn from the other lateral side of the connecting portion to remove the connecting carrier from the contacts.
A carrier strip comprising:
- a carrier having an edge;
- and
- at least one contact extending from said edge of the strip and comprising:
- a connecting portion extending from said edge and having first and second edges;
- an engaging portion extending from the connecting portion;
- and
- a recess arranged at the connecting portion adjacent to the edge of the carrier and which has a gradient width and depth from first edge to the second edge.
An electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a plurality of passageways in matrix and arranged with rows and columns;
- and
- a plurality of contacts respectively disposed in the corresponding passageways, each of said contacts defining a connection portion with a torn edge which originally is used to be connected to a carrier with other contacts of a same row in a side-by-side manner before assembled into the corresponding passageways;
- wherein
- said torn edge defines an asymmetric boundary area between thereof a first end to a second end microscopically under condition that the boundary area around the first end is larger than that around the second end for allowing said contact to be torn away from the carrier from the first end to the second end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.