Patent ID: 9293859
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. A connector comprising a housing having a housing groove and a shaft comprising a pin groove; and wherein one of the housing groove or the pin groove has a reduced groove entrance having a smaller dimension than a dimension inside the groove; a canted coil spring positioned inside the housing groove or the pin groove with the reduced groove entrance, said canted coil spring comprising a major axis and a minor axis; and wherein the housing groove or the pin groove with the reduced groove entrance comprises a V-bottom and two groove sidewalls extending from opposite ends of the V-bottom, the V-bottom contacts the spring at two spaced apart points of a plurality of coils of the canted coil spring and the canted coil spring is spaced from the two groove sidewalls with the reduced groove entrance; and wherein the reduced groove entrance is formed by a slanted sidewall section extending and angling from each of the two groove sidewalls.