公开(公告)号：DE3664024D1

公开(公告)日：1989-07-20

申请号：DE3664024

申请日：1986-06-13

Applicant: LABINAL SA

Inventor： VANDAME BERTRAND

IPC: H01R13/42 ,  H01R13/422

Abstract: An electrical connector including two complimentary box-shaped elements each including a body having a plurality of compartments. Each compartment includes an aperture to receive an electrical contact device, a locking device for engaging the electrical contact device to lock the contact device in the compartment, and a lug having a portion that is sufficiently steep to prevent the electrical contact device from passing over this portion of the lug when the electrical contact device is inserted into the compartment in a position different from a normal insertion position. Also provided is a barrier which consists of a ramp connected to the steep portion of the lug. In the normal insertion position the electrical contact device passes over the ramp and lug to be locked in the compartment, whereas in a position different from this normal insertion position the electrical contact device abuts the steep portion of the lug and cannot fully enter the compartment or engage the locking device.

公开(公告)号：DE3664025D1

公开(公告)日：1989-07-20

申请号：DE3664025

申请日：1986-06-17

Applicant: LABINAL SA

Inventor： VANDAME BERTRAND

IPC: H01R13/42 ,  H01R13/28 ,  H01R13/46 ,  H01R13/514 ,  H01R13/627 ,  H01R13/629 ,  H01R13/631 ,  H01R24/84 ,  H01R23/27

Abstract: An electrical connector including a first box element and a second box element, each box element receiving an electrical contact and the other box element when one of the box elements is inverted head-to-tail upside down with respect to the other box element. Each element includes male and female portions. The male portion includes a locking lug having an elastic portion and a stiff rounded portion. The female portion includes a joggle. The joggle of each element is adapted to engage the locking lug of the other element during assembly of the first and second elements along an insertion axis. When this occurs the joggle will climb up the stiff rounded portion of the locking lug thereby displacing the first and second elements in opposite directions perpendicular to the insertion axis. Further displacement along the insertion axis displaces the joggle into contact with the elastic portion which bends, so as to displace the two elements closer to each other perpendicular to the insertion axis. The initial displacement perpendicular to the insertion axis of the first and second elements away from each other ensures that the electrical contacts in each box element are initially separated from each other so that there is no damage to these elements. These two electrical contacts are then brought together for engagement with each other to form an electrical connection when the first and second elements are displaced toward each other as the joggle contacts the elastic portion of the locking lug.