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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:
Apr. 08, 1986
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert C Kaley, Landisville, PA (US);
Assignee:
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
339 / ; 3391 / ;
Abstract
A strip of hermaphroditic modular connector housings (10) interlinked by complementary male and female links (14 and 15 respectively). The male link (14) comprising a head (27) joined to a housing wall (11') by a neck (28) and the female link (15) comprising a pair of resilient arms (16) extending in spaced relation from the side wall (11) with free ends (17) projecting towards each other to define a through socket (18). Stop shoulders (20-23) are provided at opposite axial ends of the through socket (18) offset on opposite sides of the socket axis past which stop shoulders (20-23) the head (27) can be forced to be received in the socket (18).