Patent ID: 9570834
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H01R

Claim:
1. An electrical socket comprising a carriage, the carriage comprising shutter portions, each shutter portion associated with a respective pin receiving opening, and the socket comprising a retainer arrangement, and the shutter portions, when in a closed condition are inhibited from moving to an open condition by the retainer arrangement, and wherein all the shutter portions are required to be in a released condition from the retainer arrangement in order to allow the shutter portions to be moved to an open condition to allow the plug pins to be inserted therein, and also wherein, if not all of the shutter portions are moved to a released condition, the shutter portions are inhibited from movement to the open condition by way of engagement with the retainer arrangement, wherein each shutter portion is displaceable in a first direction to the released condition, which direction is substantially perpendicular to a second direction in which each shutter portion is displaceable to the open condition, and the carriage comprises a connection piece which connects the shutter portions together, and the connection piece has flexibility in the first direction to allow the shutter portions to move to the released condition independently of one another.