Patent ID: 7425142
Filing Date: 2008-09-16
Classification: H01R,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In an electrical connector for connecting the linear-array plural-contact tail of an in-body multi-contact medical electrode device, including (a) a tail-receiving first elongate member having proximal and distal ends, the first elongate member forming a tail-receiving void and having a presentation face parallel to the void and having notches therealong intersecting with the void to expose the plural tail contacts and (b) a second elongate member with corresponding proximal and distal ends and having a nesting surface and an array of electrical conductors therealong, the improvement wherein: the electrical conductors are spring-loaded pin plunger devices having movable pins projecting into and at least partially across and into the tail-receiving void of the first elongate member; the second elongate member includes a pair of opposed endwalls between which the first elongate member extends in nested fashion with its ends adjacent to the endwalls and is pivotable with respect thereto about a pivot axis; and the spring-loaded pin plunger devices on the second elongate member extend from the nesting surface at an angle substantially parallel to the movement of the tail-receiving void at the point the pin tips enter therein.