Single element wire to board connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9136641-B2
Application number	US-201414312505-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 23, 2014
Priority date	Nov 1, 2012
Publication date	Sep 15, 2015
Grant date	Sep 15, 2015

Abstract

A single element electrical connector includes a single conductive contact element formed into a cage structure having a wire insert end and a wire contact end along a longitudinal centerline axis of the connector. The cage structure defines an upper pick-up surface having a surface area suitable for placement of a suction nozzle of a vacuum transfer device, as well as a pair of contact tines biased towards the centerline axis to define a contact pinch point for an exposed core of a wire inserted into the connector. A contact surface is defined by a member of the cage structure for electrical mating contact with a respective contact element on a component on which the connector is mounted.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A single element electrical connector comprising:
a conductive contact element comprising a contact surface, wherein the conductive contact element comprises:
an insert end comprising an inlet opening;
a contact end; and
two or more contact tines biased towards a centerline axis of the conductive contact element downstream of the wire insert end in an insertion direction into the conductive contact element, wherein the two or more contact tines define a…

Assignees

• Avx Corp

Inventors

• Bishop Peter

Classifications

• H05K3/325

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R2101/00

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H05K3/3421

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H01R12/70

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H05K1/111

  Electricity · mapped topic