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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1998
William Vito Pauza, Palmyra, PA (US);
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to electrical connectors or more particularly to an improved technique for mounting metal contacts in an electrical connector. Such a technique employs frangible sacrificial ribs in connector channels which engage the contacts upon insertion into the channels and bias the insertion force in a controlled direction thus avoiding connector breakage. The connector has a housing composed of an insulating material and an array of linearly aligned channels extending through a surface of the housing. Each of the channels is defined by internal peripheral walls. At least one frangible dielectric projection extends from a wall of each channel into the channel. The projections are situated either at a same position on each channel wall or at a opposed position on each channel wall of the array of channels.