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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1994
William L Stein, Sr, Warren, OH (US);
Robert W Rimko, Transfer, PA (US);
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A low profile electrical bussing plate for electrically connecting a plurality of spaced pin terminals carried by an insulated housing of an electrical connector assembly, the housing having a planar face from which the terminals project and which is matable with an insulated housing or member for connection with the housing having an end face for engaging and holding the bussing plate against the planar end face of the housing when connected thereto. The bussing plate includes an elongated planar base plate having a plurality of spaced apart, generally rectangularly shaped openings, a plurality of spaced pairs of first and second arms integral with the base plate along its opposite elongated sides and located transversely of the openings and with the arms each being folded across the base plate toward each other and bent to provide arcuate portions which face one another. The first and second arms at the free ends terminated adjacent the plane containing the base and are deflectable when engaged by a pin terminal upon the latter being inserted therebetween to biasingly engage the pin terminals and the bussing plate having first and second sides respectively integral with the side edges of the openings and extending perpendicular to its base so as to straddle the first and second arms and align the pin terminals in the bussing plate.