US 11,942,714 B2
Socket contact and connector
Osamu Hashiguchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, LIMITED, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/832,125.
Application 17/832,125 is a division of application No. 16/918,417, filed on Jul. 1, 2020, granted, now 11,381,021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-184700 (JP), filed on Oct. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0302621 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/18 (2006.01); H01R 13/11 (2006.01); H01R 13/187 (2006.01); H01R 24/76 (2011.01)
CPC H01R 13/18 (2013.01) [H01R 13/111 (2013.01); H01R 13/187 (2013.01); H01R 24/76 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A socket contact to be connected to a counterpart pin contact, the socket contact comprising:
a cantilever-shaped spring piece;
a base portion to which a fixed end of the spring piece is fixed;
a planar opposed portion extended from the base portion and opposed to the spring piece; and
a sleeve movably mounted to the base portion, wherein
the pin contact is insertable along and engages a face of the opposed portion,
the spring piece has a turnback portion turned back inside from a free end,
the turnback portion is provided with a bent portion between the free end and the fixed end,
the spring piece further has a back portion obliquely extending to and behind the bent portion such that the free end is away from the opposed portion,
the spring piece is elastically deformed so that the free end comes close to the opposed portion when the sleeve is moved and covers an upper surface of the free end,
the pin contact is inserted between the spring piece and the opposed portion when the sleeve does not cover the back portion, the inserted pin contact is sandwiched by the bent portion of the spring piece elastically deformed by the movement of the sleeve for covering the upper surface of the free end of the spring piece and the opposed portion, electrically connected, and held.