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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 1977
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Russell A Roiko, Minneapolis, MN (US);
James D Throne, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
339 / ;
Abstract
A spring compression reserve contact element is used in both the female connector and the male connector of a standard type male-female telephone cable connector having parallel wire support channels. The contact element has an elongate wiping contact body and a bifurcate insulation and conductor connection end connected to the contact body coplanar with the adjoining portion thereof, parallel to the contact body and offset from the contact body a distance equal to one-half of the spacing between adjacent wire support channels of the connector.