Patent ID: 6981899
Filing Date: 2006-01-03
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An electrical connector assembly, comprising: a jack having a housing with a plug receiving cavity and a plurality of electrical jack contacts extending into said cavity, said cavity having a plug insertion axis; a stop member in said housing having an inner end surface facing and defining an inner end of said cavity; a latch stop on said housing at an entrance to said cavity, said latch stop having a stop surface facing said cavity and extending in a plane acutely angled relative to said plug insertion axis, said stop surface having outer edge and an inner edge with said outer edge being closer to said inner end surface and farther from said plug insertion axis than said inner edge, said inner end surface and said outer edge being spaced by a jack nominal dimension along a line parallel to said plug insertion axis within a jack tolerance; a plug having a plug body with a plurality of plug contacts and having a free end surface engagable with said jack contacts and with inner end surface, respectively, when said plug body is received in said cavity; a resilient latch arm extending from said plug body and having an arm abutment with an abutment surface engagable with said stop surface when said plug is fully received in said cavity, said abutment surface and said free end surface being spaced by a plug nominal dimension within a plug tolerance; and a difference between said jack nominal dimension and said plug nominal dimension not being greater than a sum of an absolute value of said jack tolerance and an absolute value of said plug tolerance.