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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:
Sep. 20, 1988
Filed:
Jul. 14, 1986
Howard J Venaleck, Painesville, OH (US);
Associated Enterprises, Inc., Painesville, OH (US);
Abstract
An electrical connector for connection to plural contacts mounted on a printed circuit board, other support or the like, including plural electrical contacts for engaging and electrically connecting with corresponding ones of such plural contacts, a support structure for supporting the electrical contacts, a resilient latch mechanism for maintaining the electrical connector in position with respect to such plural contacts and such printed circuit board and independently of such plural contacts, a keying mechanism to assure correct contact to contact installation and an anti-rotation mechanism cooperative with such printed circuit board to prevent rotation of the electrical connector relative thereto during installation onto such plural contacts. In a preferred embodiment the plural contacts are connected, e.g. by soldering, to the printed circuit board or to circuits thereon or associated therewith, and the anti-rotation mechanism helps to prevent applying torsion forces to such connections.