The Whitaker Corporation

Daniel Gerard Grab

Mark R Thumma

Ricky Edward Brown

Charles Dudley Cooper

Matthew Moo Cho

A connector (10) including a housing (12) and a plurality of terminals (40) extending in respective passageways (30) through the housing (12) from a mating face (14) to a board-mounting face (16) , the terminals (40) having board-mounting sections (60) extending beyond the board-mounting face (16) . Each passageway (30) has a preselected dimension from an outer housing wall (20) to an inner housing wall (26) . Each terminal (40) has a thickness dimension less than the passageway dimension. The board-mounting section (60) and at least a portion of the body section (50) of the terminal (40) adjacent thereto is embossed laterally from the plane of the body section a selected distance. Upon staking the terminals (40) in the respective passageways (30) , the embossed portion (52) of each terminal (40) is disposed adjacent the outer housing wall (20) and the remaining portion of the body section (50) is disposed adjacent an inner housing wall (26) . Thus terminals (40) formed of thin stock are usable with the housing and stakable thereto, while the board-mounting sections thereof remain accurately positioned with terminal-receiving holes (72) of a circuit board (70) .

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Harrisburg, PA, United States of America

Daniel Gerard Grab