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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 1988

Filed:

Aug. 25, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jay M Heisey, Elizabethtown, PA (US);

Jon F Kautz, Camp Hill, PA (US);

Charles S Pickles, Hummelstown, PA (US);

Assignee:

AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
29874 ;
Abstract

An electrical terminal has been described and illustrated which comprises a compliant retention section that has been sheared thereby forming resilient leg members joined at their ends and having outer radiussed surfaces for springably and frictionally engaging a plated through hole in an electrical panel member when the compliant retention section is inserted into the hole and inner shear surfaces which extend between the ends and into the ends to at least the outermost points of the ends so that the inner shear surfaces frictionally engage and move along each other when the resilient leg members are flexed inwardly upon insertion of the compliant retention section in the plated through hole.


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