Jack

• US 4,778,410 A
• Filed: 09/18/1987
• Issued: 10/18/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hosiden Electronics Co. Ltd. (Hosiden Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hosiden Electronics Co. Ltd. (Hosiden Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masanori
• Primary Examiner(s): McGlynn, Joseph H.
• Application Number:
  US07/097,788
• Time in Patent Office: 396 Days
• Field of Search: 439/418, 439/660, 439/676
• US Class Current: 439/676
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/62 Sliding engagements with one side only, e.g. modular jack coupling devices
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/26 Connections in which at least one of the connecting parts has projections which bite into or engage the other connecting part in order to improve the contact H01R4/188, H01R4/203, H01R4/5075 take precedence; using shape memory materials H01R4/01

Abstract

A jack, e.g., a. modular telephone jack, is formed by providing plug inserting hole in the front end of an insulating body; terminal inserting holes and first contact insertion slots communicating with each other are formed on the back end of the insulating body; and second contact insertion slots communicating with the front ends of the first contact insertion slots are formed in the front end of the insulating body. Terminals holding cords, respectively, are inserted in the terminal insertion holes, and fork-shaped first contacts extended laterally integrally from the terminals are inserted in the first contact insertion slots. Plate-shaped second contacts are inserted in the second contact insertion slots to engage with the first contacts, and free end portions of the second contacts are folded back towards the inside of the plug insertion hole.

Claims

1. A jack comprising:

an insulating body having a plug insertion hole formed in a front end of said insulating body from receiving therein a plug to be inserted, terminal insertion holes formed in a rear end of said insulating body, first contact insertion slots formed along said terminal insertion holes in communication therewith and arranged in line, and second contact insertion slots formed in the front end of said insulating body to communicate with front ends of said first contact insertion slots;

terminals inserted in said terminal insertion holes for attachment to cords, each of said terminals having a first contact of a plate shape extending into a corresponding one of said first contact insertion slots; and

second contacts inserted in said second contact insertion slots to engage with said first contacts, free end portions of said second contacts being folded back towards the inside of said plug insertion hole.

2. A jack defined in claim 1, wherein guide grooves which communicate with the front ends of the said second contact insertion slots, are formed to extend from the front ends of said second contact insertion slots around the front end of said insulating body and then along an inner wall surface of said plug insertion hole in a rearward direction, said second contacts being disposed along said guide grooves.

3. A jack defined in claim 2, wherein said terminal insertion holes are arranged in staggered relation to one another, and said first contact insertion slots are directed alternately in opposite directions from associated ones of said terminal insertion holes.

4. A jack defined in claim 3, wherein each of said first contacts is a fork-shaped contact extending in a longitudinal direction of said terminal insertion holes.

5. A jack defined in claim 4, wherein each of said first contacts and an associated one of said terminals are disposed alongside each other, and one of legs of the fork-shaped contact is defined as a portion of the terminal.

6. A jack defined in claim 5, wherein said cords are attached to said terminals by crimping both front and back portions of said first contacts.

7. A jack defined in claim 3, wherein said second contacts are formed by punching a plate-shaped member, and portions of said second contacts inserted in said second contact insertion slots are held in a common plate.

8. A jack defined in claim 1, wherein bosses are formed on both side edges of each of said second contacts integrally therewith