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WO1997028579A1 - Contact electrique matrice - Google Patents

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WO1997028579A1
WO1997028579A1 PCT/US1997/001751 US9701751W WO9728579A1 WO 1997028579 A1 WO1997028579 A1 WO 1997028579A1 US 9701751 W US9701751 W US 9701751W WO 9728579 A1 WO9728579 A1 WO 9728579A1
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terminal
reference axis
beams
power port
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Christopher S. Pendleton
Ray C. Doutrich
Stuart Stoner
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Berg Technology, Inc.
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Priority to US09/101,888 priority Critical patent/US6190215B1/en
Priority to DE69720968T priority patent/DE69720968T2/de
Priority to JP9527900A priority patent/JP2000504149A/ja
Priority to EP97905738A priority patent/EP0880805B1/fr
Publication of WO1997028579A1 publication Critical patent/WO1997028579A1/fr
Priority to KR19980705969A priority patent/KR19990082240A/ko

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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
    • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/72—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/722—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures coupling devices mounted on the edge of the printed circuits
    • H01R12/727—Coupling devices presenting arrays of contacts

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  • the present invention relates to a socket-type terminal for use in effecting a relatively high-amperage power connection with a male pin of any desired length.
  • a power port terminal for interconnecting a backplane with a male pin plug may be formed in any one of a variety of ways.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,702,707 illustrates a power terminal that includes a base to which a mating component having a socket may be attached. In this terminal the base and a portion of the mating component are formed as screw machined parts.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,749,357 shows a power connector in which a socket defined from a crown band of spring contact beams is inserted into a block of conductive material. In both of these arrangements the contact beams of the terminal extend around the entire 360° periphery of the male pin. However, since one end of the terminal is closed, the socket may accept a pin having only a predetermined limited axial dimension.
  • the power terminal shown at page 334, 335 of the Du Pont Electronics Interconnect and Packaging Catalog, August 1988, is also a machined part having a socket that may accept a pin having only a predetermined limited axial dimension.
  • This part also includes a snap- ring latch arrangement which is received about the socket of the terminal and which cooperates with a housing to retain the terminal.
  • the terminal shown in U.S. Patent No. 4,002,400, assigned to the assignee of the present invention, is formed from a stamped blank of conductive material. Again, however, it appears that the socket portion of the terminal is blocked at an axially rearward point by a wire crimp barrel and an insulation crimp barrel, effectively limiting the axial dimension of a pin receivable in the socket.
  • the power terminal forming a part of the Du Pont HPC Connector System is fabricated from a stamped blank of conductive material.
  • the length of the pin receivably by the socket is not limited, the socket region does not fully surround the pin when the same is received therein.
  • U.S. Patent 5,376,012 discloses a power port terminal which is formed by stamping from a blank of conductive material.
  • the socket includes a web with a plurality of beams. The inner surface of the beams define a substantially continuous cylindrical contact surface.
  • the trailing mounting portion has a set of mounting legs.
  • the present invention relates to a power port terminal formed by stamping from a blank of conductive material.
  • the terminal comprises a contact receiving socket portion and an integral mounting portion.
  • the terminal has a reference axis extending therethrough.
  • the contact receiving socket portion includes a web with a plurality of beams thereon. When the terminal is formed the beams cooperate to form an axially extending tubular socket region.
  • the inner surface of the beams on the bends thereof define a substantially continuous cylindrical contact surface at a predetermined point along the reference axis within the tubular region.
  • the contact surface is interrupted only by the spacing between the beams and is thus adapted to surround a male pin over 360° of its periphery.
  • the cylindrical contact surface has a predetermined constricted dimension measured in a plane perpendicular to the reference axis, this dimension of the substantially continuous cylindrical contact surface being the most constricted dimension along the reference axis of the terminal.
  • the terminal is thereby able to accommodate a pin of any desired axial length.
  • the trailing mounting portion has a set of mounting legs thereon.
  • the mounting legs depend from the lateral flanges of a curved hood portion.
  • the hood and flanges preferably surround substantially 270° of the periphery of the pin.
  • the mounting legs extend generally perpendicular to the reference axis of the terminal.
  • Lateral projections also depend from the hood to restrain the terminal from pivoting about its longitudinal axis.
  • One or more of the beams may have a latch tab thereon.
  • the latch tabs engage with ribs provided in the terminal housing to secure the terminal therewithin.
  • Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a preferred embodiment of the terminal of the present invention
  • Fig. 2 is a top plan view of he terminal shown in Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 3 is a front end view of the terminal shown in Fig. 1 ;
  • Fig. 4 is a rear end view of the terminal shown in Fig. 1 ;
  • Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of the terminal shown in Fig. 1 as inserted in an insulative housing;
  • Fig. 6 is a side elevational view of the contact and housing shown in Fig. 5 wherein the housing is in vertical cross section; and Fig. 7 is a front end view of the housing and contact shown in Fig. 5.
  • a power port terminal generally indicated by reference character 10 in accordance with the present invention.
  • the terminal 10 is formed by stamping from a blank of a suitable conductive material, such as beryllium copper material. A developed view of the blank is illustrated in Fig. 6.
  • the terminal 10 includes a contact receiving portion 12 and an integral mounting portion 14.
  • a reference axis 10A extends through the terminal 10.
  • the contact receiving portion 12 includes a web 16 from which extend a plurality of beams, or fingers, 20.
  • the beams are preferably equiangularly arranged about the axis 10A. In the embodiment illustrated five beams 20 are shown, each beam being angularly separated from the angularly adjacent beam by a gap 20G .
  • each of the beams 20 has a curved inside surface 20S with an inward bend 20B located axially therealong.
  • the beams 20 cooperate to form an axially extending tubular socket region 26.
  • the socket region 26 is thus adapted to surround a male pin guided therein over 360° of its periphery.
  • the inner surface 20S of the beams 20 define a substantially continuous cylindrical contact surface 28 lying at a predetermined point 30 along the reference axis 10A within the tubular socket region 26.
  • the contact surface 28 is, as may be best seen in Figs. 3 and 4, interrupted only by the gap 20G between angularly adjacent beams 20.
  • the cylindrical contact surface 28 defined by the bends 20B of each beam 20 defines a circle centered on the reference axis 10A of the terminal.
  • the surface 28 thus imparts a predetermined constricted dimension 36 (i.e., the diameter of the surface 28) measured in a plane perpendicular to the reference axis 10A.
  • This dimension 36 of the substantially continuous cylindrical contact surface 28 is the most constricted dimension along the reference axis 10A of the terminal.
  • the through bore of the socket region 26 of the terminal 10 is thus effectively unlimited.
  • the terminal 10 is thereby able to accommodate a pin of any desired axial length.
  • two of the beams 20 are provided with latch tabs 38. As may be seen in Fig. 3 the tabs 38 extend outwardly beyond the basic outer diametric dimension of the contact receiving portion 12. As an alternative it should be understood that only a single latch tab or more than two latch tabs may be provided as desired.
  • the tabs 38 may be conveniently located on any of the beams 20.
  • the tab(s) 38 are formed as appendages disposed axially between the laterally outward beam(s) 20 ' and the mounting portion 14.
  • the tabs 38 may be additionally or alternately formed by punching through the material of the web 16.
  • the trailing mounting portion 14 extends rearwardly from the web 16.
  • the mounting portion 14 includes a hood region 40 melding into a pair of lateral flanges 42. As is best seen in Fig. 4 and 5 the hood 40 and the flanges 42 preferably extend substantially 270° about the reference axis 10A of the terminal 10.
  • a plurality of mounting legs 46 depending from each flange 42 defines a set of mounting legs for the terminal 10. The mounting legs 46 each extend downwardly a substantial distance below the contact receiving portion 12.
  • the mounting legs extend generally perpendicularly to the reference axis 10A of the terminal.
  • the mounting legs 46 may be received by plated through bores provided in the surface of a substrate whereby electrical interconnection may be effected between the terminal 10 and a backplane on the substrate. It should be understood that is within the contemplation of the present invention to arrange the legs 46 such that they align parallel to the reference axis 10A of the terminal.
  • the terminal 10 would preferably be formed from a blank (not shown).
  • the blank is attached to a carrier strip (not shown) by a tail (not shown).
  • the blank is made by a stamping operation and the terminal 10 is formed therefrom by bending the blank over a mandrel, as is understood by those skilled in the art.
  • the terminal 10 is received within a housing 50 formed from a block of a suitable insulating material.
  • the housing 50 has a through passage 52 therein. Locating guide members 54 extend axially along the walls of the passage 52 to position the terminal 10 within the housing. Locking ribs 56 are disposed about the rear end of the through hole 52.
  • the terminal 10 is inserted into the passage 52 in the housing 50 in the direction of the arrow 58.
  • the latches 38 on the beams 20 are resiliently deflected as the terminal 10 is inserted into the housing 50. Once axially past the locking ribs 56 the latches 38 snap into locking position behind the locking ribs 56.
  • the circumferential extend of the locking ribs 56 is such that the tabs 38 will engage against a rib 56 to retain the terminal 10, once inserted, within the housing 50.
  • a terminal 10 in accordance with the present invention presents no impediment to the axial advance of a male pin.
  • a pin having any desired length may be received coaxially with the reference axis of the terminal.
  • Such a capability is believed advantageous when using the terminal of the present invention in a so-called "first make-last break" interconnection system.
  • resilient lateral projections 60 extend from the hood 40 of the mounting portion 14. To the rear of these lateral projections 60 there are appendages 62. Referring particularly to Fig. 6, it will be seen that the resilient lateral projections 60 engage locking ribs 56. It will be understood that the lateral projections 60 on the opposed sides 97/28579 PC17US97/01751
  • the opposed sides of the terminal 10 each engage a locking rib 56 so as to prevent or significantly reduce pivotal motion of the terminal 10 in the through hole 52 of the insulative housing 50.
  • the appendages 62 extend outwardly from the lateral projections 60 so as to abut the rear of the insulative housing and prevent the terminal 10 from being overextending into the though hole 52.
  • stamp power contact has been described which is not subject to undo pivoting motion in the through hole of an insulative housing in which it is mounted. It will also be appreciated that this stamp power contact is not subject to being overextended into the through hole of the insulative housing.

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Abstract

Borne électrique formée par matriçage à partir d'un flan de matériau conducteur, comprenant une partie prise femelle recevant le contact (12) et une partie d'assemblage solidaire (14). La prise femelle comporte un réseau comportant une pluralité de nervures (20). La surface intérieure des nervures sur les courbes de celles-ci définit une surface de contact cylindrique sensiblement continue en un point prédéterminé le long de l'axe de référence de la borne. La surface de contact présente une dimension étranglée prédéterminée (36) mesurée dans un plan perpendiculaire à l'axe de référence, cette dimension étant la dimension la plus étroite le long de l'axe de référence de la borne. La borne est ainsi en mesure de recevoir une broche d'une longueur axiale voulue quelconque. La partie d'assemblage traînante présente un ensemble de membres d'assemblage (46) fixés sur elle, qui, dans le mode préféré, s'étendent de façon généralement perpendiulaire à l'axe de référence de la borne. Des lames ressorts (38) peuvent être prévues sur une ou plusieurs des nervures. Des projections latérales (62) figurent sur la partie d'assemblage, et empêchent la borne de pivoter sur son axe longitudinal lorsqu'elle est montée dans un trou traversant (52) dans un logement isolant (50).
PCT/US1997/001751 1996-02-02 1997-01-31 Contact electrique matrice WO1997028579A1 (fr)

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US09/101,888 US6190215B1 (en) 1997-01-31 1997-01-31 Stamped power contact
DE69720968T DE69720968T2 (de) 1996-02-02 1997-01-31 Gestanzter leistungskontakt
JP9527900A JP2000504149A (ja) 1996-02-02 1997-01-31 打抜き成形されたパワーコンタクト
EP97905738A EP0880805B1 (fr) 1996-02-02 1997-01-31 Contact electrique matrice
KR19980705969A KR19990082240A (fr) 1996-02-02 1998-08-01

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US1106096P 1996-02-02 1996-02-02
US60/011,060 1996-02-02

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US6422885B2 (en) 1998-07-20 2002-07-23 The Whitaker Corporation Connector assembly adapted for axial realignment
US6632107B1 (en) * 1999-09-17 2003-10-14 Tyco Electronics Logistics Ag Electrical connector having a centering member

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US3539965A (en) * 1968-06-28 1970-11-10 Dale Electronics Socket connector assembly
US3711819A (en) * 1972-02-08 1973-01-16 Elco Corp Square pin receptacles employing channel contacts
US4333702A (en) * 1980-03-24 1982-06-08 Amp Incorporated Low cost high voltage connector
US4597625A (en) * 1984-07-25 1986-07-01 North American Specialties Corporation Electrical connector
US5376012A (en) * 1992-02-12 1994-12-27 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. Power port terminal

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US3539965A (en) * 1968-06-28 1970-11-10 Dale Electronics Socket connector assembly
US3711819A (en) * 1972-02-08 1973-01-16 Elco Corp Square pin receptacles employing channel contacts
US4333702A (en) * 1980-03-24 1982-06-08 Amp Incorporated Low cost high voltage connector
US4597625A (en) * 1984-07-25 1986-07-01 North American Specialties Corporation Electrical connector
US5376012A (en) * 1992-02-12 1994-12-27 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. Power port terminal

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Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US6422885B2 (en) 1998-07-20 2002-07-23 The Whitaker Corporation Connector assembly adapted for axial realignment
US6632107B1 (en) * 1999-09-17 2003-10-14 Tyco Electronics Logistics Ag Electrical connector having a centering member

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EP0880805A4 (fr) 2000-04-26
EP0880805A1 (fr) 1998-12-02
DE69720968T2 (de) 2004-01-29
JP2000504149A (ja) 2000-04-04
DE69720968D1 (de) 2003-05-22
EP0880805B1 (fr) 2003-04-16

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