Patent ID: 7182640
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A multi feed-through pin electrical connector comprising no more than a first number of electrical feed-through conductor elements, hermetically sealed and supported within bores through an electrically conductive connector body, said first number of electrical feed-through conductor elements being distributed within a first pin-count layout having a form factor that corresponds to that of a second pin count layout of a second number of feed-through conductor elements of another multi feed-through pin electrical connector, said first number being less than said second number, locations of said first number of electrical feed-through conductor elements within said first pin-count layout corresponding to locations of selected ones of said second number of electrical feed-through conductor elements within said second pin-count layout of said another multi feed-through pin electrical connector, so that said multi feed-through pin electrical connector contains no electrical feed-through conductor elements other than said first number of electrical feed-through elements, and wherein a respective conductor element of said first number of electrical feed-through conductor elements includes a first, interior end portion, having a first width and projecting from an interior side of said electrically conductive connector body, and a second, exterior end portion, having a second width and projecting from an exterior side of said electrically conductive connector body, and including a generally longitudinal socket that is sized to receive and engage a respective pin of a multi-pin plug, and wherein said first width of said first, interior end portion of said respective conductor element is greater than said second width of said second, exterior end portion of said respective conductor element.