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

• Current Assignee: AMP Incorporated (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Original Assignee: AMP Incorporated (Johnson Controls International plc)
• Inventors: Shannon, Suel Grant, Huber, John Henry
• Primary Examiner(s): Lake, Roy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Desmond, E. F.
• Application Number:
  US05/719,547
• Time in Patent Office: 265 Days
• Field of Search: 317/101 DH, 339/17 C, 339/17 CF, 339/17 F, 339/125 R, 339/128, 339/176 MF
• US Class Current: 439/470
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/51 for rigid printed circuits or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/598 Each conductor being individually surrounded by shield, e.g. multiple coaxial cables in flat structure
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/79 connecting to rigid printed circuits or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/242 the contact members being plates having a single slot

Abstract

This invention relates to a device which removably latches a ribbon coaxial cable connector to a printed circuit board. More particularly the device has a pair of depending legs each having a pair of oppositely projecting latches. One set of latches adapted to removably retain the connector to the printed circuit board and the second set of latches adapted to provide a removable cover for the connector.

Claims

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.

2. 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 spaced openings therethrough, said cover comprising:

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

b. a pair of resilient legs each depending from opposite sides of the lid and each having spaced apart, shoulder-defining lower and upper latches thereon, said lower latch projecting outward from the outside surface of the leg at a point removed from the free end thereof, with the surface from the free end to the latch shoulder being beveled vertically and rounded transversely, said upper latch projecting inwardly from the inside surface of the leg, 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 to removably lock the connector to a printed circuit board or the like.

3. The cover of claim 2 wherein the lower portions of the legs are of reduced width and thickness relative to the upper portions.