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(11) EP 0 095 885 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
24.10.1984 Bulletin 1984/43

(43) Date of publication A2:
07.12.1983 Bulletin 1983/49

(21) Application number: 83302983

(22) Date of filing: 24.05.1983
(84) Designated Contracting States:
BE DE FR NL SE

(30) Priority: 28.05.1982 GB 8215701

(71) Applicant: THE GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, p.l.c.
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(72) Inventors:
  • Wheatley, John James
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  • Whitehead, Paul Timothy
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(54) Electrical connector assemblies


(57) The housing of an electrical connector assembly includes a respective channel 21 at each end thereof which opens towards the rear of the housing. A deepened section 24 of the channels 21 presents a face 24 towards the opening thereof. An insertion tool (not shown) has a plurality of arms spaced apart by the same distance as the channels 21 and provides a grip at a distance from the rear of the housing to facilitate connection of the assembly to a corresponding assembly which may be surrounded by other connector assemblies thus preventing gripping the assembly by hand. A disengagement tool (Figure 7) has a plurality of arms 25 spaced apart by a corresponding distance to the channels 21. Each of the arms has a locking member 27 arranged to co-operate with the faces 24 of the channels to facilitate removal of a connector assembly from a corresponding assembly. The disengagement tool is preferably of a plastics material which has sufficient resilience to enable the arms 25 to flex to permit insertion of the arms 25 in the channels 21.






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