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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1978
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1973
Paul Robert Krider, Camp Hill, PA (US);
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Abstract
A card edge connector in which a plurality of conductors are terminated rapidly and simultaneously with a single, downward thrust of the conductors into the connector. A plurality of contacts are retained in the connector housing in a side-by-side, parallel relation. Each contact has a U-shaped portion opened at the trough of the U and with slots extending down in both legs of the U. A third slot, unique to each contact, exists in a vertically positioned panel of the housing. These three slots are aligned so that a conductor can be forced therein with a single, downward thrust of the conductor. The sides of one of the slots in the U is narrow and cuts through the conductor insulation and into the wire to make an electrical contact. The other slot in the U cuts into the insulation but not into the wire, thereby providing strain relief in two dimensions. The slot in the housing panel traps the conductor therein to provide strain relief in the third dimension.