Electrical connector with spring pin contact

• US 3,242,456 A
• Filed: 10/07/1963
• Issued: 03/22/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Duncan William C W
• Original Assignee: Duncan William C W
• Inventors: DUNCAN WILLIAM C W
• Application Number:
  US04/314,293
• Time in Patent Office: 897 Days
• US Class Current: 439/252
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/02 Contact members

Claims

1. AN ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR MEMBER WHICH COMPRISES AN INSULATION BODY HAVING FRONT AND REAR SURFACES AND HAVING AT LEAST ONE BORE THEREIN OPENING AT SAID FRONT SURFACE, AND A CONDUCTIVE PIN CONTACT MEMBER DISPOSED IN SAID BORE, SAID PIN CONTACT MEMBER HAVING A REARWARD MOUNTING PORTION SUPPORTED IN SAID BORE WITH ITS AXIS COINCIDENT WITH THE CENTRAL AXIS OF THE BORE AND SO AS TO BE RESTRAINED AGAINST BOTH LATERAL AND AXIAL MOVEMENT IN THE BORE, AN ELONGATED, LATERALLY RESILIENT, INTERMEDIATE SPRING SHANK PORTION EXTENDING FORWARDLY FROM SAID MOUNTING PORTION AND DEFLECTED TRANSVERSELY OF SAID COINCIDENT AXES, AND A CONTACTING PORTION AT THE FORWARD END OF THE SHANK PORTION, SAID SHANK AND CONTACTING PORTIONS BEING SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETELY RECESSED WITHIN THE BORE, SAID CONTACTING PORTION BEING OF SMALLER TRANSVERSE DIMENSION THAN THE ADJACENT FORWARD PORTION OF THE BORE TO PROVIDE CLEARANCE FOR RECEIVING A MATING SOCKET CONTACT MEMBER, THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SHANK AND CONTACTING PORTIONS AND THE WALL OF THE BORE BEING FREE OF OBSTRUCTIONS, AND SAID CONTACTING PORTION BEING LATERALLY OFFSET FROM THE CENTRAL AXIS OF THE BORE BY THE DEFLECTION OF THE SHANK PORTION WHEREBY WHEN THE MATING SOCKET CONTACT MEMBER IS AXIALLY INSERTED INTO THE BORE AND ENGAGED WITH SAID CONTACTING PORTION THE LATTER WILL BE FORCED FROM SAID LATERALLY OFFSET POSITION TOWARD THE CENTRAL AXIS OF THE BORE AGAINST THE SPRING FORCE OF SAID SHANK PORTION TO PROVIDE LATERAL SPRING BIASED ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE PIN AND SOCKET CONTACT MEMBERS.