Patent ID: 9680258
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. A plug for electrical equipment, the plug comprising a pin and the pin comprising an electrical terminal contact, the plug further comprising a housing, the plug arranged to be received in a socket, wherein the pin and the housing are configured to enable the pin to be pivoted out of the socket by way of a force applied to a cable entry region of the plug by a cable attached to the plug, wherein the housing forms a lever portion from the cable entry region, the lever portion is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the pin, which lever portion is intended to serve as a lever to enable the pivotable removal of the pin from the socket, and further wherein the pin comprises a radiused end portion located at a distal end of a cylindrical portion of the pin, and the cylindrical portion arranged to be brought into electrical connection with a contact of the socket, the cylindrical portion of the pin comprises an outer electrical contact surface arranged to be brought into electrical connection with an internal electrical terminal of a socket, and the plug comprises at least one further electrical terminal contact which is radially spaced from the outer electrical contact surface of the pin, and which further electrical terminal contact is spaced in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the pin from the distal end of the pin.