US PATENT SUBCLASS 439 / 748
.~.~.~.~ Resilient socket contact for surrounding or engaging opposed surfaces of mating plug contact

Current as of: June, 1999
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439 /   HD   ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS

625  DF  WITH INSULATION OTHER THAN CONDUCTOR SHEATH {10}
733.1  DF  .~ Metallic connector or contact secured to insulation {10}
744  DF  .~.~ Secured by resiliently biased part latching behind shoulder or into recess {2}
746  DF  .~.~.~ Latching part unitary with metallic connector or contact {2}
748.~.~.~.~ Resilient socket contact for surrounding or engaging opposed surfaces of mating plug contact {1}
749  DF  .~.~.~.~.~> Adapted to have secured wire conductor extending transverse to longitudinal coupling axis

DEFINITION

Classification: 439/748

Resilient socket contact for surrounding or engaging opposed surfaces of mating plug contact:

(under subclass 746) Electrical connector wherein the contact or terminal attached or fastened to the insulating body is in the form of a female member for slidingly receiving in electrical engagement therewith a mating metallic male contact or terminal in the from of a pronglike or pluglike member; the female contact or terminal either being made of resilient metallic material or having a movable metallic part which is urged or moved toward an opposed metallic clamping part by the action of a separate resilient member so that the resiliency of the female contact or terminal imposes a gripping force upon the mating male contact or terminal; the female contact or terminal being either in the form of a resilient or resiliently biased tube for receiving and gripping the mating male contact or terminal or in the form of a bifurcated member having opposed furcations, at least one of which is resilient or resiliently biased toward the other furcation for receiving and gripping the mating male contact or terminal therebetween.

(1) Note. A resilient socket contact of the type which engages and resiliently biases against only one side of a mating male contact is excluded from these subclasses. Excluded, for example, would be a resilient socket contact located within a male-contact receiving opening of an insulating housing, which contact resiliently gripping an inserted male contact by resiliently pushing against one side of the male contact thereby forcing the opposite side thereof against an interior wall of the opening.