US PATENT SUBCLASS 439 / 846
.~.~.~.~ Separate spring means forms snap-latching detent

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439 /   HD   ELECTRICAL CONNECTORS

775  DF  METALLIC CONNECTOR OR CONTACT HAVING MOVABLE OR RESILIENT SECURING PART {15}
816  DF  .~ Spring actuated or resilient securing part {14}
842  DF  .~.~ Socket adapted to receive push-pull-engaging elongated contact by insertion along longitudinal axis of contact {7}
843  DF  .~.~.~ Having separate gripping spring means located within or extending into rigid socket body {4}
846.~.~.~.~ Separate spring means forms snap-latching detent

DEFINITION

Classification: 439/846

Separate spring means forms snap-latching detent:

(under subclass 843) Electrical connector wherein the separate and distinct resilient member carried by the nonflexible body has a retaining part yieldingly urged to move transverse to the longitudinal axis of an elongated male contact telescopically inserted into the nonflexible body; so that, whenever the male contact is telescoped into the female connector, the retaining part resiliently latches behind a shoulder or into a shouldered recess located in a lateral surface of the male contact, whereby the retaining part tends to prevent an inserted male contact from being withdrawn from the female connector.