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Electrical connectors

US5242319A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 7, 1992
Grant dateSep 7, 1993
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 7, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01R31/06
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electrical connector is disclosed including two face-matched plastic mounting members covered with an outer shell to hold a row of intermediate terminals and pairs of lateral terminals, wherein the plastic mounting members have each big and small transverse recesses alternatively arranged on a respective inside face; each intermediate terminal has a flat, rectangular central portion respectively fitted into either small transverse recess and two opposite free ends extended out of the mounting members through respective through holes; each lateral terminal of the pairs of lateral terminal has a flat, parallelogramic central portion respectively fitted into either big transverse recess and two opposite free ends extended out of the mounting members through respective through holes.

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