Electronic package with socket and reinforced cover assembly

US6945798B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Tyco Electronics Co., Ltd · US

Inventors

• Justin Shane McClellan · Camp Hill, US
• Troy Everette Conner · York, US
• Peter Paul Wilson · Palmyra, US
• Attalee S. Taylor · Palmyra, US
• Brett Charles Miller · East Berlin, US
• Matthew Richard McAlonis · Elizabethtown, US
• John Brown · Ann Arbor, US
• Richard Elof Hamner · Hummelstown, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 30, 2003
• Grant date: Sep 20, 2005
• Expiry date: Apr 30, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S439/94
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A cover for an electrical socket includes multiple walls joined with one another and configured to overlay an electrical socket. A latch element is provided with at least one of the walls to securely retain the walls against the electrical socket. A rigid member is secured to the walls and retains the walls in a predefined relation with respect to one another. The rigid member includes a heat resistant plate rigidly mounted to the walls of the cover which include lower edges and upper edges aligned in a common plane. The upper and lower edges are configured to abut against and retain the electrical socket in a common planar relation with one another. Brackets extending from the walls slidably receive the rigid member.