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Modular drawer connector

  • US 4,915,641 A
  • Filed: 08/31/1988
  • Issued: 04/10/1990
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A modular drawer connector comprising:

  • opposed, mateable, panel-mountable male and female drawer connector housings, each said drawer connector housing comprising a forward mating end and an opposed conductor-receiving end, said conductor-receiving end comprising a plurality of spaced apart rearwardly projecting walls defining at least one rearwardly projecting socket, one said wall of each rearwardly projecting socket comprising a deflectable cantilevered wall having at least one locking aperture extending therethrough;

    a plurality of drawer connector terminals mounted in each of the drawer connector housings, each drawer connector terminal comprising a forward mating contact portion and a rear contact portion disposed respectively at the forward mating ends and the conductor-receiving ends of said drawer connector housings, the forward mating contact portions of the drawer connector terminals being electrically mateable upon movement of the forward mating ends of the male and female drawer connector housings to a fully mated condition; and

    at least one DC terminal module comprising a nonconductive housing, a plurality of insulated conductors extending into said housing and a plurality of metallic terminals having rearward conductor-engaging portions electrically engaged with the respective conductors of said DC terminal module, each said metallic terminal of said DC terminal module further comprising a forward contact portion selectively mateable to a rear contact portion of one of said drawer connector terminals, said nonconductive housing of said DC terminal module being dimensioned for engagement with the rearwardly directed socket of said drawer connector housing, said nonconductive housing of said DC terminal module further comprising at least one locking protrusion releasably engageable with the locking aperture in the deflectable cantilevered wall of the rearwardly projecting socket of the drawer connector housing, whereby the DC terminal module may be disengaged from the drawer connector housing to permit replacement of the drawer connector housing and the drawer connector terminals mounted therein without retermination of the insulated conductors of said DC terminal module.

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