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Cover for use with a ribbon coaxial cable connector

  • US 4,025,142 A
  • Filed: 09/01/1976
  • Issued: 05/24/1977
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1975
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A cover for use with an electrical connector of the type having side slots and downwardly facing shoulders in association therewith and useful for removably locking the connector to a printed circuit board or the like having a pair of spaced openings therethrough, said cover comprising:

  • a. a lid adapted to be positioned on the connector;

    b. a rearward extension on the lid having a depending bar extending across the width thereof, said bar adapted to provide strain relief for a cable which may be attached to the connector; and

    c. a pair of resilient legs each depending from opposite sides of the lid and each being a single unit and having a lower and an upper latch thereon, said lower latch being positioned on the outside surface of the leg and projecting outwardly, said upper latch being spaced above the first latch on the inside surface of the leg and projecting inwardly, said upper latches adapted to engage the shoulders and removably lock the lid to the connector and the lower latches adapted to be inserted through the openings and removably lock the connector to the printed circuit board or the like.

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