Patent ID: 6383008
Filing Date: 2002-05-07
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An angular plug support, comprising a socket part for being fixedly secured to a unit housing; an angular support part having a first limb for receiving a contact-retaining insulator, and a second limb overlapping the socket part with a possibility of rotation relative thereto but without a possibility of an axial displacement relative thereto; and locking means provided in a region of an overlapping of the socket part by the second limb for securing the angular support part in a selected rotational position thereof with respect to the socket part and for preventing disengagement of the second limb from the socket part, the locking means including a plurality of rigid flat surfaces provided on one of an outer periphery of the socket part and an inner periphery of the second limb, and a respective plurality of radially spring-biased surfaces provided at another of outer periphery of the socket part and the inner periphery of the second limb, the rigid flat surfaces and the radially springbiased surfaces substantially flatly abutting each other in a locking position of the socket and angular support parts.