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| 20080280510 | ELECTRICAL CONTACT - An electrical contact includes a mating portion and a crimp portion connected by a transition region. The mating portion is configured to receive a mating external contact pin. The mating portion has a top wall and a bottom wall joined by opposing side walls. The top, bottom and side walls form a contact box open at one end. The contact box includes a contact beam that extends through the contact box, a front flap portion and a front aperture for insertion of the mating contact, and a back aperture adjacent to the transition region. The front flap portion protrudes partially into the front aperture forward of the contact beam to prevent a free end of the contact beam from receiving a direct impingement force when mating the electrical contact with the second electrical contact. | 11-13-2008 |
| 20090247011 | CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY HAVING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY LOCKING FEATURES - A connector assembly includes a housing having a cavity defined by at least one wall. The cavity extends between a mating end and a loading end. The housing has a terminal latch associated with the cavity, and the at least one wall has a projection extending into the cavity. A terminal is loaded into the cavity through the loading end and is held within the cavity by the terminal latch. The terminal includes body having an opening, wherein the projection extends at least partially into the opening to secure the terminal within the cavity. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20090311896 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR HAVING FLOATING ALIGNMENT MEMBER - An electrical connector includes a dielectric housing having a mating cavity extending to a base wall and at least one terminal cavity through the base wall to the mating cavity. The terminal cavity being configured to receive a terminal therein having a pin extending into the mating cavity. A primary terminal lock extends from an interior wall of the housing and is configured to engage the terminal to retain the terminal in the terminal cavity. An alignment member is received within the mating cavity and has an alignment plate having at least one opening aligned with a corresponding terminal cavity. The alignment member is movable within the mating cavity between a seated position in which the alignment plate is proximate to the base wall and a supporting position in which the alignment plate is positioned remote from the base wall. A tip of the terminal is held within the opening when the alignment member is in the supporting position, and a pin base of the terminal is held within the opening when the alignment member is in the seated position. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100003852 | ELECTRICAL CONNECTOR WITH IMPROVED GROUNDING - A shielded electrical connector is disclosed that includes a receptacle having a outer ground shield surrounding a dielectric cover. The dielectric cover includes a plug reception cavity and has an electrical contact and an inner ground shield disposed therewithin. The outer ground shield includes grounding features configured to ground the outer shield to a module wall and attachment features configured to attach and ground the outer shield to a substrate. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100029146 | SOCKET CONTACT - A socket contact having a mating portion, a crimp portion, and a transition region connecting the mating portion with the crimp portion. The mating portion includes a top wall and a bottom wall joined by two opposing sidewalls, wherein the top, bottom and two opposing sidewalls forming a contact box open at, at least one end and configured to accept a pin contact. The contact box includes a first contact beam and a second contact beam. Each of the first contact beam and second contact beam includes a free end and a fixed end. The free end has a plurality of contact fingers. Each of the first contact beam and the second contact beam has a plurality of contact points. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100197177 | SOCKET CONTACT - A socket contact having a mating portion, a crimp portion, and a transition region connecting the mating portion with the crimp portion. The mating portion includes a first contact beam and a second contact beam. The first contact beam has a cantilevered portion with at least one first contact finger with a first contact point. The first contact beam also has an inflexible first fixed contact point which is positioned on the surface of the first contact beam. As a mating pin is inserted through the front aperture of the mating portion, the mating pin engages the first finger contact point causing the first contact beam to deflect. The mating pin then engages the inflexible first fixed contact point at a shallow mating angle and a reduced normal force, resulting in the first contact beam of the mating portion of the socket contacting the mating pin at multiple points of contact. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100317219 | MULTI-POSITION CONNECTOR - A connector assembly includes a housing that includes one or more slots for inserting a component defined in a top side of the connector housing. Each slot includes a first and a second interior surface separated by a distance. Channels are defined in each surface and are adapted to receive a portion of a terminal. Openings for receiving a terminal are defined in a bottom surface of the housing. When the terminal is fully inserted into the opening the terminal portion is substantially adjacent to a surface within the channel and a contact region of the terminal is substantially centered between the first and second interior surfaces of the slot so as to enable lateral movement of the contact portion between the first and second surfaces when the component is inserted. | 12-16-2010 |
