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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. 05, 1981
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edgar Burns, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
339 / ; 3392 / ;
Abstract
A contact retention assembly is disclosed for an electrical connector in which the contact has a retention section of U-shaped cross-section. One of the sidewalls of the U-shaped retention section has a retention tine formed therefrom which extends rearwardly and inwardly toward the opposite sidewall for engaging a forwardly facing shoulder provided by projection formed in the corner of the contact cavity.