Socket connector carrying flexible contacts

US6974331B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Tyco Electronics Co., Ltd · US

Inventors

• John Brown · Ann Arbor, US
• Matthew Richard McAlonis · Elizabethtown, US
• Justin Shane McClellan · Camp Hill, US
• James Charles Shiffler · Hummelstown, US
• David Charles Martin · Mechanicsburg, US
• Michael Anthony Correll · Hershey, US
• Peter Paul Wilson · Palmyra, US
• Attalee S. Taylor · Palmyra, US
• Brett Charles Miller · East Berlin, US
• Troy Everette Conner · York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 25, 2003
• Grant date: Dec 13, 2005
• Expiry date: Jul 21, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R13/428
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A socket connector including a socket base having a slot oriented at a first angle with respect to a bottom surface of the socket base. The socket connector also includes a contact having a base beam and a retention portion. The retention portion forms an initial angle with the base beam before the contact is assembled with the socket base that differs from the first angle. The socket base receives the contact with the retention portion held in the slot such that an angle between the base beam and the retention portion is changed from the initial angle.