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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 15, 1993
Mark R Thumma, Oberlin, PA (US);
Charles S Pickles, North Attleboro, MA (US);
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A pair of shorting contacts (16,16) on mated connector bodies (10,10). The shorting contacts are protrusions on the respective connector bodies which are laterally reversed mirror images of each other. The respective protrusions confront each other in a substantially transverse configuration. Initial engagement between the respective protrusions is at an initial point contact (25) at a high stress. The protrusions thereafter wipe against one another and come to engage at a final point contact (26). The path from the initial point contact to the final point contact constitutes a line between the respective connector bodies.