Electrical connecting system and parts

• US 3,270,251 A
• Filed: 08/16/1963
• Issued: 08/30/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William R. Evans
• Original Assignee: William R. Evans
• Inventors: Evans, William R.
• Application Number:
  US04/302,653
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• US Class Current: 361/729
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/22 End pieces terminating in a spring clip
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/716 Coupling device provided on the PCB
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/113 co-operating with pins or blades having a rectangular transverse section
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/415 by permanent deformation of contact member
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/432 by stamped-out resilient tongue snapping behind shoulder in base or case
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/00 Coupling parts adapted for simultaneous co-operation with two or more identical counterparts, e.g. for distributing energy to two or more circuits supported only by co-operation with a counterpart H01R31/00; with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/88
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 9/2458 Electrical interconnections between terminal blocks
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49204 Contact or terminal manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12188 having marginal feature for indexing or weakened portion for severing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12278 Same structure at both ends of plural taper
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12361 having aperture or cut

Claims

8. ELECTRICAL CONNECTING MEANS FOR CONNECTNG ONE OR MORE ELECTRICAL MODULES HAVING ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS THEREON TO CIRCUIT MEANS AND COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, A MODULE CIRCUIT BOARD HAVING ELECTRICAL CONDUCTORS FIXED TO ONE SURFACE THEREOF FOR CONNECTION TO ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS TO BE CONNECTED TO ANOTHER SURFACE AND SUPPORTED BY SAID MODULE BOARD, FEMALE CONTACTS SUPPORTED BY SAID MODULE BOARD AND HAVING A SOCKET PASSAGE EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY THERETHROUGH, SAID FEMALE CONTACTS BEING DISPOSED EXTRENALLY OF SAID MODULE BOARD ON THE SAME SURFACE OF SAID MODULE BOARD AS SAID ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS, A PLURALITY OF TINES EXTENDING FROM EACH SAID FEMALE CONTACT AND EXTENDING THROUGH OPENINGS IN SAID MODULE BOARD FOR CONNECTION TO SAID CONDUCTORS THEREON, OPPOSED SPRINGLIKE TONGUES ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID CONTACTS HAVING CONTACT SURFACES THEREON URGED TOWARD EACH OTHER, EARS EXTENDING FROM SAID FEMALE CONTACTS AND OVERLYING SAID TONGUES ADJACENT THE OUTER ENDS THEREOF TO LIMIT THE OUTWARD DEFLECTION OF SAID TONGUES, CIRCUIT MEANS TO WHICH SAID MODULE BOARD IS DETACHABLY CONNECTED, SAID CIRCUIT MEANS INCLUDING MALE CONTACT TABS INSERTABLE LONGITUDINALLY THROUGH THE PASSAGES OF SAID FEMALE CONTACTS AND FRICTIONALLY ENGAGED BY SAID TONGUES THEREOF FOR ELECTRICAL ENGAGEMENT THEREWITH, SAID TABS BEING FIXED TO AN INSULATING BASE MEMBER AND EXTENDING PERPENDICUALRLY THEREFROM.