Patent ID: 7413483
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A female connector head for a multi-line electrical connection, comprising: a housing having proximal and distal faces and defining a plurality of elongate lumens connecting the proximal and distal faces, each lumen defining a receiving opening on the proximal face of the housing, each lumen defining at least one shoulder recess facing the distal face of the housing, the housing further having at least two support pins extending from the distal face, and having at least two guiding pins extending normal from the distal face from two positions which are asymmetric about a center point of the distal face, and having at least two locking pins substantially parallel to the lumens and adapted to be snap-fit to a printed circuit board (PCB), and a plurality of receptacles, each receptacle adapted to snap-fit into any one of the elongate lumens by insertion though the lumen's receiving opening, each receptacle having a distal end portion having at least one locking tab adapted to be buttressed against the at least one shoulder recess of a lumen when the receptacle is fully inserted in the lumen.