Electrical connector

• US 3,178,674 A
• Filed: 11/28/1962
• Issued: 04/13/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Wilfred R. Scheller
• Original Assignee: Wilfred R. Scheller
• Inventors: Scheller, Wilfred R.
• Application Number:
  US04/240,585
• Time in Patent Office: 867 Days
• US Class Current: 439/748
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/28 Contacts for sliding cooperation with identically-shaped contact, e.g. for hermaphroditic coupling devices H01R24/84 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/415 by permanent deformation of contact member
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/428 by resilient locking means on the contact members; by locking means on resilient contact members
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/6272 comprising a single latching arm

Claims

1. DISENGAGEABLE ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR MEANS COMPRISING, AN INSULATING HOUSING HAVING A CAVITY EXTENDING THERETHROUGH, A FIRST RETENTION BOSS MEANS PROJECTING FROM A WALL OF SAID CAVITY AND HAVING A FORWARDLY FACING RETENTION SURFACE EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF THE AXIS OF SAID CAVITY, AND A SECOND RETENTION BOSS MEANS HAVING REARWARDLY FACING RETENTION SURFACES EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF THE CAVITY AXIS, SAID REARWARDLY FACING SURFACES BEING DISPOSED FORWARDLY IN SAID CAVITY AND SAID FORWARDLY FACING SURFACE AND EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY BEYOND SAID FORWARDLY FACING SURFACE ON SAID SIDE THEREOF, A CONTACT TERMINAL IN SAID CAVITY, SAID TERMINAL HAVING A PAIR OF AXIALLY EXTENDING SIDEWALLS IN STRADDLING RELATIONSHIP TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND BOSS MEANS, AND INWARDLY DIRECTED EARS ON SAID SIDEWALLS PROJECTING TOWARDS EACH OTHER AND EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID FORWARDLY AND REARWARDLY FACING RETENTION SURFACES THEREBY TO RESTRAIN SAID TERMINAL AGAINST FORWARD AND REARWARD MOVEMENT.