Enhanced detent guide track with dog-leg
USRE31995E · kind E · reissue
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 19, 1984 |
| Grant date | Oct 1, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 19, 2004 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC —)General
Abstract
An electrical connector having a receptacle including a receptacle shell and a plug including a plug housing, a coupling nut threaded on the plug housing and engaged with a coupling ring, the coupling nut having threaded engagement with the plug housing and the coupling ring having locking flanges engageable with cooperable locking lands on the receptacle shell, the plug and receptacle being adapted to be fully electrically mated and locked by rotation of the coupling ring through about 90 degrees. An arcuate detent member subtending an angle of about 180 degrees is keyed to the plug housing for relative axial movement of the plug housing, and is received within an annular groove in the coupling ring for resilient forcible selective engagement of opposite radially outwardly enlarged ends of the arcuate detent member with two sets of radially outwardly formed recesses in the coupling ring. When the coupling ring is rotated to the fully locked position of the plug and receptacle means, the ends of the arcuate member are forcibly snapped into one set of recesses to indicate attainment of the locked and fully mated position by sound and by feel. Rotation of the coupling ring in the opp…
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