US PATENT SUBCLASS 439 / 259
COUPLING PART WITH ACTUATING MEANS URGING CONTACT TO MOVE LATERALLY WITH RESPECT TO REST OF COUPLING PART AND TOWARD MATING PART

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259COUPLING PART WITH ACTUATING MEANS URGING CONTACT TO MOVE LATERALLY WITH RESPECT TO REST OF COUPLING PART AND TOWARD MATING PART {5}
260  DF  .~> Having open slot for receiving preformed panel circuit arrangement or tape cable
261  DF  .~> Pivotable means, one portion actuating contact surface, another portion retaining coupling part
262  DF  .~> Urging stacked contacts to move with respect to rest of coupling part
263  DF  .~> Contractile receptacle {1}
265  DF  .~> Expandable contact or spreadable contacts

DEFINITION

Classification: 439/259

COUPLING PART WITH ACTUATING MEANS URGING CONTACT TO MOVE LATERALLY WITH RESPECT TO REST OF COUPLING PART AND TOWARD

MATING PART:

(under the class definition) Electrical connector comprising a coupling part* including means to exert pressure on a contact* thereof tending to move that contact generally normally of the coupling axis with respect to other portions of the electrical connector to cause that contact to make engagement with the contact of a mating part*.

(1) Note. The "means to urge" of this subclass is part of the device, such as a cam or wedge, rather than a spring, a gravity utilizing device, or a handle with no force modifying linkage. Note further that it is not necessary that the contact actually move.

(2) Note. Included herein is a "zero insertion withdrawal force" connector in which that connector is brought into position with the mating part and subsequently the contacts are caused to move into engagement position with the mating part and subsequently the contacts are caused to move into engagement with each other.

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

122, for a coupling part including actuating means to urge a contact toward a mating contact for interfitting with uninterrupted support rail or contact.

197, for an electrical connector with provision to utilize fluid pressure to urge a contact toward or away from a mating contact.

252, for a tubular socket having a self aligning contact and having a contractile contact biasing band.