Electrical half connector with contact-centering vanes
CA 2113767 C · Owner: Bauer, Fred P. · Inventors: Bauer, Fred P.; Sanders, Stuart E.
Overview
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This inexpensive, small half connector includes at least one electrical terminal (usually a female contact). The half-connector body defines a hole to receive each terminal. Each terminal has at least one retaining element for engaging the half connector (e. g. a springy tang that snaps into place behind an internal flange) to retain the terminal in the half connector. Each hole has a segment of relatively large transverse dimension to receive its terminal generally with, transverse clearance about the circumference of the terminal. Each hole also has a segment of reduced transverse dimension to receive the terminal and engage the retaining element(s) of that terminal to retain the …
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- Filed January 19, 1994 and granted June 23, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 19, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 19, 2016.
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