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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Victor Beloritsky, North Andover, MA (US);
Satishchandra Shantilal Mistry, Billerica, MA (US);
Robert Saba, Walpole, MA (US);
Philip Charles Vaccaro, Merrimack, NH (US);
Assignee:
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439 63 ; 439 41 ; 439 83 ; 439884 ;
Abstract
An electrical contact (6) has a base (18) for surface mount engagement with a circuit board (4), first spring fingers (19) on a first edge of the base (18), and second spring fingers (21) on a second edge of the base (18), the first spring fingers (19) and the second spring fingers (21) projecting upwardly to define respective sides (24, 25) of at least one electrical receptacle (23), and each of the first spring fingers (19) being offset along the base (18) from each of the second spring fingers (21).