Patent ID: 6017224
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of setting contacts in a connector housing wherein the contacts are socket contacts, the method comprising the steps of:preparing the connector housing having compartments for receiving socket-shaped bodies of the socket contacts, and further having slots penetrating the housing fore and aft and extending in parallel with the compartments;further preparing the socket contacts each having an elongate unfinished lead continuing from an end of the socket-shaped body and having a bent portion adjacent thereto as well as a straight lead that continues from the bent portion and lies in parallel with the socket-shaped body;then inserting the socket-shaped body of each socket contact in one of the compartments so that the straight lead is simultaneously inserted into one of the slots corresponding to the one compartment, whereby an end portion of the straight lead protrudes out of the housing so as to be exposed; andsubsequently bending the exposed end portion of the straight lead to form a connectable leg protruding downward from the housing.