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Housing for an electrical connector

Granted 28 Aug 2001 · no office action yet

Assignee: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.

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Inventors: Saburou Kase, Masaaki Harasawa, Satoru Kihira · Examiner: Joel Sincavage · AU 2911 · TC 2900

Application
133119
filed 21 Nov 2000
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US D447122
granted 28 Aug 2001

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Description

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›FIG. 1 is a front view of a…

FIG. 1 is a front view of a housing for an electrical connector showing our new design in a first embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a top view of the housing of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a bottom view of the housing of the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a rear view of the housing of the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a right side view of the housing of the first embodiment. The left, not shown, is substantially a mirror image to the right.

FIG. 6 is a sectional view along the line VI—VI in FIG. 1.

FIG. 7 is a right front perspective view of the housing of the first embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view along the line VI—VI in FIG. 1, wherein the housing is shown in a connecting condition. The housing receives contacts that are crimped onto wires of a product, and the housing attached to the product. The contacts contact to conductive pads on a printed circuit board. The contacts, wires, product, conductive pads and printed circuit board are drawn in broken lines for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

FIG. 9 is a front view of a housing for an electrical connector showing our new design in a second embodiment.

FIG. 10 is a top view of the housing of the second embodiment.

FIG. 11 is a bottom view of the housing of the second embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a rear view of the housing of the second embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a right side view of the housing of the second embodiment. The left, not shown, is substantially a mirror image to the right.

FIG. 14 is a sectional view along the line XIV—XIV in FIG. 9.

FIG. 15 is a right front perspective view of the housing of the second embodiment.

FIG. 16 is a sectional view along the line XIV—XIV in FIG. 9, wherein the housing is shown in a connecting condition. The housing receives contacts that are crimped onto wires of a product, and the housing attached to the product. The contacts contact to conductive pads on a printed circuit board. The contacts, wires, product, conductive pads and printed circuit board are drawn in broken lines for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

FIG. 17 is a front view of a housing for an electrical connector showing our new design in a third embodiment.

FIG. 18 is a top view of the housing of the third embodiment.

FIG. 19 is a bottom view of the housing of the third embodiment.

FIG. 20 is a rear view of the housing of the third embodiment.

FIG. 21 is a right side view of the housing of the third embodiment. The left, not shown, is substantially a mirror image to the right.

FIG. 22 is a sectional view along the line XXII—XXII in FIG. 17.

FIG. 23 is a right front perspective view of the housing of the third embodiment.

FIG. 24 is a sectional view along the line XXII—XXII in FIG. 17, wherein the housing is shown in a connecting condition. The housing receives contacts that are crimped onto wires of a product, and the housing attached to the product. The contacts contact to conductive pads on a printed circuit board. The contacts, wires, product, conductive pads and printed circuit board are drawn in broken lines for illustrative purposes only and form no part of the claimed design.

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D13/147

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