US 12,218,461 B2
High power electrical connector
William James DeWitt, Camarillo, CA (US)
Assigned to CARLISLE INTERCONNECT TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Kent, WA (US)
Filed by Carlisle Interconnect Technologies, Inc., Kent, WA (US)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/818,597.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/231,673, filed on Aug. 10, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0049750 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H01R 13/00 (2006.01); H01R 13/645 (2006.01); H01R 105/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/6456 (2013.01) [H01R 2105/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector comprising:
a shell including a body, the body having a front end and an opposite rear end, and a cavity extending along an axial direction through the body from the front end to the rear end, the shell including a plurality of first key features formed along an interior surface thereof;
an electrically insulating housing insert including a body, the body having a front end and an opposite rear end and a contact-receiving cavity extending along an axial direction through the body from the front end to the rear end, the housing insert disposed within the cavity of the shell, the housing insert including a plurality of second key features formed along an exterior surface of the body; and
a wire-terminating electrical contact housed within the contact-receiving cavity of the housing insert, the electrical contact having a mating interface disposed along the front end of the housing insert, wherein a wire terminated by the electrical contact extends through the contact-receiving cavity and out the rear end of the housing insert,
wherein the housing insert is insertable into the shell in any one of a plurality of indexing positions based on the plurality of second key features of the housing insert engaging a corresponding subset of the plurality of first key features of the shell, each indexing position of the plurality of indexing positions defining an angular orientation of the housing insert relative to the shell.