US PATENT SUBCLASS 439 / 166
CONVERTIBLE BY INTERNAL CHANGE TO SELECTIVELY COOPERATE WITH A DIFFERENT CONTACT

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439 /   HD   ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS

166CONVERTIBLE BY INTERNAL CHANGE TO SELECTIVELY COOPERATE WITH A DIFFERENT CONTACT {5}
167  DF  .~> Connector for power measuring meter
168  DF  .~> Lamp or electron tube socket or base
169  DF  .~> Test probe
170  DF  .~> Coupling part {1}
174  DF  .~> Including repositionable contact {1}

DEFINITION

Classification: 439/166

CONVERTIBLE BY INTERNAL CHANGE TO SELECTIVELY COOPERATE WITH A DIFFERENT CONTACT:

(under the class definition) Electrical connector including a contact* adapted to interfit with a particularly configured contact, a particularly sized contact, or a contact particularly positioned within supporting structure including integral component structure intended to be repositioned to allow the electrical connector to interfit with a different particularly configured, sized, or positioned contact; wherein the integral component structure is intended to be returnable to the original position.

(1) Note. A device including a storage compartment for a component to be transformed manually to operating position is included herein; whereas a similar device having no such storage compartment is not included herein.

(2) Note. A single device may have several "connectors". In such a structure, it is only necessary that one of these connectors be changed under this subclass definition.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

176, for a female coupling part convertible to a male coupling part by addition of a prong.

177, for a coupling part convertible to a distinct shape by addition of a nonremovable element or by removal of a nonreusable element.

217+, for a device having several types of connector available without modification of the device, but structurally limited so that if one type is in use, use of another will be prevented.

516, for an electrical connector with provision to isolate circuitry by severance of a bridging element. 518, for a coupling part convertible to a different format by substitution of a different contact.