Patent ID: 8066534
Filing Date: 2011-11-29
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A probe connector, comprising: a pedestal shell having a pedestal platform, and a hollow barrel extending upward from a top of the pedestal platform, a receiving chamber being defined among the pedestal platform and the barrel with a top end thereof opened freely, a top end of the barrel protruding outward to form a fastening body, a pair of windows being opened at two opposite parts of the fastening body and penetrating through the fastening body and the barrel to communicate with the receiving chamber; a positioning shell removably coupled to the fastening body of the pedestal shell, the positioning shell having a blocking plate covered on the top end of the receiving chamber, and side plates extending downward from periphery edges of the blocking plate to abut against outsides of the fastening body, a middle of the blocking plate defining a through hole having a smaller diameter than that of the receiving chamber and coaxial with the receiving chamber, two opposite ones of the side plates being provided with two contact arms each having a top end connected with the side plate, the contact arms extending downward and inclined towards each other to pass through the windows of the pedestal shell respectively and stretch into the receiving chamber, each contact arm having a bottom end thereof bent outward; a probe pin having a base portion movably disposed in the receiving chamber of the pedestal shell, and a touching portion protruding upward from a middle of a top of the base portion to pass through the through hole of the positioning shell, wherein the contact arms of the positioning shell always resist against the base portion to clip the base portion therebetween in the process of the base portion moving upward and downward in the receiving chamber; and an elastic element assembled in the receiving chamber and between the base portion and the pedestal platform, the top of the base portion resisting against the blocking plate under the elasticity of the elastic element and being blocked under the blocking plate.