Amp LLC

Atahusain E Emadi

Daniel J Mignogna

Eric Timothy Green

Dennis E Smith

John S Margosiak

A system of keying and fastening together a pair of mating connectors is provided where each of the connectors is of the type having forward and rearward thin walled metal shells clinched together about their flanged edges to retain a housing means therewithin, with the forward and rearward shells having adjacent aperture lateral flanges. The system includes a pair of key members each securable to the front of the forward shell at a respective lateral flange, seated within correspondingly hexagonally shaped flange apertures of the forward shell only, held against the front surface of the rearward shell. On one of the connectors a pair of jackscrews extend through the flange apertures and through with the apertures being slightly larger than the jackscrew portions extending therethrough, the jackscrews being apertures of the key members of the one connector, secured rearwardly of the connector by means permitting rotation after mounting and simultaneously securing the key members to the connector. The key members of the other connector have threaded apertures thereinto from the leading end for being threadedly engaged by the threaded leading ends of the jackscrews of the mating connector, to fasten the connectors together during mating immediately after keying.

Keyed electrical connectors with jackscrews

A system of keying of a panel mounted connector and a mating connector is provided where each of the connectors is of the type having forward and rearward thin walled metal shells clinched together about their flanged edges to retain a housing means therewithin, with the forward and rearward shells having adjacent apertured lateral flanges enabling mounting of either one of the connectors to a panel at an I/O port of an electronic apparatus by screw means. The keying system includes a pair of key members each securable to the front of the forward shell at a respective lateral flange, by the corresponding screw means extending through the apertures of the rearward and forward shell flanges and threaded into a threaded key member aperture. The key members may have octagonal cross-sections and are seated within correspondingly octagonally shaped flange apertures of the forward shell only, held against the front surface of the rearward shell. The screw means for the connector to be panel mounted comprise the panel mounting means and extend first through respective panel holes adjacent the panel cutout and aligned with the shell flange apertures.

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Carlisle, PA, United States of America

Atahusain E Emadi