Electric receptacle assembly

• US 5,566,053 A
• Filed: 10/11/1995
• Issued: 10/15/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jonie Chou
• Original Assignee: Jonie Chou
• Inventors: Chou, Jonie
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard, Leo P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Whang, Y.
• Application Number:
  US08/541,121
• Time in Patent Office: 370 Days
• Field of Search: 361/752, 361/753, 361/756, 361/796, 361/799, 361/800, 361/801, 361/802, 361/829, 361/823, 361/833, 174/50, 439/61, 439/325, 439/374, 439/377, 206/334, 206/328, 333/246, 333/247
• US Class Current: 361/753
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 25/006 the coupling part being secured to apparatus or structure, e.g. duplex wall receptacle
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 31/02 Intermediate parts for distributing energy to two or more circuits in parallel, e.g. splitter with a holder adapted for supporting apparatus to which its counterpart is attached H01R33/92
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 9/0039 Galvanic coupling of ground layer on printed circuit board [PCB] to conductive casing printed shielding conductors, ground planes or power planes for reduction of cross-talk or noise in printed circuits H05K1/0218

Abstract

An electric receptacle assembly including a flat base plate and a cover shell, wherein the flat base plate has two upright partition boards, two rows of upright metal frames respectively extended outwards from the upright partition boards, a circuit board supported between the partition boards, two pairs of metal contact plates fastened to respective bevel slots on the upright metal frames and connected to the circuit board by conductors, two metal contact rods respectively connected to the circuit board for connection to power supply, and two ground conductors respectively connected to the circuit board; the cover shell has two sets of plug holes on two bevel bearing surfaces at two opposite sides thereof corresponding to the metal contact plates for mounting electric plugs.

Claims

1. An electric receptacle assembly comprising:

a flat base plate having two upright partition boards longitudinally disposed in a parallel relation, two sets of metal upright frames transversely disposed at two opposite sides and respectively perpendicularly extended outwards from said upright partition boards, two pairs of vertically spaced metal contact plates respectively fastened to said two sets of metal upright frames, each of said metal contact plates being covered with a top insulation strip and a bottom insulation strip, each of the upright frame defining two inwardly sloping slots at different elevations for holding one pair of metal contact plates, a circuit board supported between said partition boards, one of each pair of metal contact plates having a tip at one end connected to said circuit board, two substantially L-shaped ground conductors respectively connected to said circuit board at two opposite sides, each ground conductor having one end connected to said circuit board and an opposite end connected to a respective locating plug rod on said flat base plate, two metal contact rods respectively connected to said circuit board for connection to power supply for permitting electricity to be transmitted through said circuit board to said metal contact plate; and

a cover shell covered on said flat base plate, having two bevel bearing surfaces sloping downwardly outwards at two opposite sides and disposed at a tilt angle perpendicular to the inwardly sloping slots of said two sets of metal upright frames respectively, and sets of plug holes on each bevel bearing surface corresponding to said metal contact plates for mounting electric plugs.

2. The electric receptacle assembly of claim 1 wherein said partition boards have a respective back projection at one end;

said metal contact plates are respectively connected to two opposite sides of said circuit board by conductors;

said circuit board is disposed in a horizontal position having one end supported on the back projections of said partition boards, and an opposite end made with a slot coupled to an upright support on said flat base plate.