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(11) EP 0 081 937 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
20.07.1983 Bulletin 1983/29

(43) Date of publication A2:
22.06.1983 Bulletin 1983/25

(21) Application number: 82306337

(22) Date of filing: 29.11.1982
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE DE FR GB IT NL

(30) Priority: 12.12.1981 GB 8137563

(71) Applicant: AMP INCORPORATED (a New Jersey corporation)
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(72) Inventors:
  • Grella, Georg
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  • Egenolf, Bernhard
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(54) Electrical connector and contact receptacle


(57) An electrical connector comprises a slab like insulating housing (3) having three parallel through passageways (4) communicating with pin-receiving apertures defined by slots in a lower side of the housing (3). Fork-like contact receptacles (2) are received in respective passageways (4) to engage laterally or axially with complementary pins received through the slots. A resilient latch arm (8) on the housing is arranged to engage the head of a pin to resist lateral withdrawal of the connector. Extensions (5) at a forward end of the housing serve to guide the connector into lateral engagement with a pin-ciuster.







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