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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1988
Ellis P Lipp, Charlottesville, IN (US);
Emhart Industries, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
A housing has flat terminals, such as traces on a circuit board, along a flat side. A contact carrier having first and second contacts mounted on it is slidable in the housing so that the contacts may slide along the traces in a first direction. First spring blades bias the first contacts against the traces while a second spring blade biases a pivotable member holding the second contacts away from the traces. A plunger mounted on and slidable with the carrier includes a ramp which forces the pivotable member towards the traces when the plunger is depressed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to cause the second contacts to contact the traces. The carrier comprises two body portions which are held together with a tongue in groove, snap-in latch system.