Socket contact
AssigneeJapan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
InventorTakeshi Takahashi
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Abstract
A socket contact which is reduced in manufacturing costs and has a spring member difficult to be removed from a socket contact body. The socket contact includes a socket contact body, and a spring member fitted on the socket contact body. The spring member includes an elastic annular portion and at least one protruding portion provided on the elastic annular portion. A hollow cylindrical contact portion of the socket contact body for receiving a pin contact therein is formed with at least one slit that extends in a receiving direction in which the contact portion receives the pin contact therein, and a hole that receives the protruding portion for limiting the movement of the spring member in a direction parallel to the receiving direction.
Claims14
A socket contact comprising:
- a socket contact body including a contact portion, which has a hollow cylindrical shape, for receiving a pin contact therein;
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- a spring member fitted on the socket contact body, the spring member including an elastic annular portion fitted on an outer periphery of the contact portion, and a plurality of protruding portions provided on the elastic annular portion,
- wherein the contact portion has a plurality of slits formed therein which extend in a direction of receiving the pin contact,
- wherein the contact portion further has a plurality of receiving portions formed therein for receiving the respective plurality of protruding portions and for limiting movement of the elastic annular portion in a direction parallel to the direction of receiving the pin contact,
- wherein the contact portion further has a contact point portion that is adapted to be pressed against an outer periphery of the pin contact by a returning force of the elastic annular portion when the pin contact is received into the contact portion, and
- wherein the plurality of receiving portions are formed so as to respectively meet the plurality of slits.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.