Patent ID: 6817880
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A method of connecting first and second electrical connectors each having a plurality of aligned straight pins complementary to corresponding pins of the other connector, the pins of each pair of complementary pins being designed to engage coaxially one within the other, said method comprising the steps of:a) hooking said first connector to said second connector with an extension having a component that is mobile in translation thereon, said extension being stationarily fixed with said first connector so that a first plane passing through the free ends of said pins of said first connector intersects a second plane passing through the free ends of said pine of said second connector at a rotation axis thereby formed between said connectors, said pine of said two connectors having axes that lie in a common plane generally perpendicular to the intersection of said first and second planes, said axes of said pins of said pairs of complementary pins being equidistant from said intersection; b) pivoting one connector relative to the other about said intersection to align said pins of each pair of complementary pins on a common axis, said first and second planes being coincident; and c) engaging said complementary pins one within the other by movement of one connector toward the other in translation in a direction parallel to the common axes of said pins as aligned.