Integrally molded capped type connector

• US 5,993,256 A
• Filed: 03/19/1998
• Issued: 11/30/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
• Original Assignee: Hosiden Corporation
• Inventors: Shimojyo, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): DONOVAN, LINCOLN D
• Application Number:
  US09/044,145
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 439/604, 439/605, 439/606, 439/586-8, 439/597-9, 439/865-8
• US Class Current: 439/604
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/405 Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/24 Assembling by moulding on contact members

Abstract

In an integrally molded capped type connector, the insulating body of the connector has a contact hole extending therethrough from the rear end face to the front end face thereof and an inlet aperture leading to the contact hole from the front end face. The contact hole comprises a slot and a pin contact receiving bore extending along a common longitudinal axis and having cross-sectional areas superposed on each other. The forward end of the slot extends across the inlet aperture perpendicularly to the width thereof and beyond the opposite sides of the slot to define protective walls between the opposite widthwise end portions of the slot at its forward end and the front end face of the body. The base of the socket contact is formed on its opposite side surfaces with lugs adapted to fill up the pin contact receiving bore.

Claims

1. An integrally molded capped connector for establishing a connection with an opposing connector having a plate-like pin contact comprising:

an integrally molded block-shaped body of electrically insulating material, having a front end face and an opposite rear face, said front face including an inlet aperture extending towards said rear face, said rear face having a rectangular slot forming a contact hole, extending towards said front face to a slot end which joins an end of said inlet aperture, said contact hole including a pin contact receiving bore extending the length of said slot along an axis common with an axis of said slot, said contact receiving bore having a cross sectional width traversing the slot cross section greater than the plate like pin contact cross sectional width, said slot end having a width wider than the width of the joined end of said inlet aperture to provide protective walls between said slot end and said front face;

a plate like socket contact including two generally parallel, resilient contact blades, lying in a common plane, inserted in said slot from said rear face so that forward ends of said blades are positioned behind said protective walls, said contact blades receiving therebetween the plate like pin which extends through said inlet aperture and said pin contact receiving bore, a base plate portion of said contact portion joining rear ends of said contact blades and having lugs on side surfaces thereof for closing said contact receiving bore, and a terminal portion extending from said base plate portion outside of said body for connection to a wire of an electrical cord; and

a cap integrally molded on the rear portion of said body to cover said connection of said wire with said terminal portion.

2. The connector of claim 1 wherein said pin contact receiving bore is circular, and said lugs are semi-circular with exposed end faces facing rearwardly.

3. The connector of claim 1 wherein said pin contact receiving bore is a rectangular bore having an elongated rectangular cross-section intersecting in a criss-cross form with the cross-section of said slot, and said lugs are rectangular tabs lanced out of said base with the cut end faces of the tabs facing rearwardly.

4. The connector of claim 1 wherein said pin contact receiving bore comprises a rectangular forward half portion having an elongated rectangular cross-section intersecting in a criss-cross form with the cross-section of said slot and a circular rearward half portion, and said lugs are semi-circular having the exposed end faces facing rearwardly.

5. The connector of claim 1, 2, 3 or 4 wherein said inlet aperture is circular and has outwardly tapered peripheral surface.

6. The connector of claim 1, 2, 3 or 4 wherein said inlet aperture is of rectangular shape having a cross-section slightly larger than that of said pin contact, at least the opposed major sides the rectangle having outwardly diverging tapered surfaces.

7. The connector of claim 1, 2, 3 or 4 wherein a plurality of said contact holes are formed in said body, said contact holes being arrayed at equal intervals in a row, the corresponding slots being parallel to each other and oriented perpendicularly to the plane of said array, said socket contacts being inserted in the respective slots, and the major surfaces of said socket contacts being parallel to each other.

8. The connector of claim 7 wherein said terminal portions of said socket contacts extend rearwardly from said body while at the same time said terminal portions are protruded upwardly and downwardly alternately in the array.

9. The connector of claim 7 wherein said body is of generally rectangular shape having top and bottom surfaces parallel to the plane of the array of said contact holes, the top surface of said body being formed with a ridge extending in the front-to-rear direction for guiding said opponent connector as it is inserted over and removed from said body, an indentation for loosely locking with the opponent connector being formed in said ridge in the middle between the front and rear end thereof.