Patent ID: 6437556
Filing Date: 2002-08-20
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
An electrical contact assembly, which includesan elongate probe having opposed fore and rear ends, the probe including a longitudinally arranged electrically conductive contact member having a pointed fore end which provides the fore end of the probe, and an externally exposed electrical connecting member electrically connected to the pointed fore end of the contact member; a housing including a body portion which is electrically non-conductive and which includes an elongate internal socket having opposed, open fore and rear ends, and a holding formation fast with the body portion and arranged to extend beyond the open fore end of the internal socket and transversely to hold an electrical cable in alignment with the open fore end of the internal socket, the probe being separate and apart from the housing and being replaceably receivable in the internal socket via the open rear end of the internal socket, the electrically conductive contact member being selectively movable relative to the internal socket between a dormant position of the probe in which the pointed fore end of the electrically conductive contact member is retracted within the internal socket and an operative position of the probe in which the pointed fore end projects from the internal socket toward the holding formation.