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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Friedrich Josef Kourimsky, Bensheim, DE;
Gheorghe Hotea, Griesheim, DE;
Assignee:
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439748 ; 439746 ;
Abstract
Improved locking lance structure for an electrical contact having a body portion from which a locking lance is cantilevered from a base where the base is resiliently interconnected to the body portion to provide sufficient resiliency for easier seating of the contact within a passageway of a housing and sufficient resilience so that the locking lance may function to position the contact within the passageway.