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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2006
Hideyuki Takahashi, Shizuoka, JP;
Kiyokazu Ikeya, Shizuoka, JP;
Hideyuki Takahashi, Shizuoka, JP;
Kiyokazu Ikeya, Shizuoka, JP;
Sensata Technologies, Inc., Attleboro, MA (US);
Abstract
In a contact assembly, a first set of contacts (-through-) is arranged on a first surface and a second set of contacts (-through-) is arranged on a second surface with respective contacts of each set used as pairs. A plurality of first and second sets are stacked one on top of another separated by insulators, the first terminal portions () of respective first and the second sets of contacts are aligned in the direction of stacking and the second terminal portions () of the first and second sets of contacts are arranged in such a fashion as to be symmetrical relative to a median line. The pitch (P) of the second terminal portions () of the first and the second sets of contacts is expanded to a greater degree than the pitch (P) of the first terminal portions () in two preferred embodiments. The pitch of the second terminal portions of a contact assembly () having two first and two second sets of contacts is also shown expanded in the stacking direction in one embodiment forming a zigzag pattern of the second terminal portions.