CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY WITH TINE SKEWING HOUSING

摘要

A new connector assembly provides improved electrical and mechanical contact between a pin of a circuit board and two connector forks that form part of the connector assembly. The assembly includes a plastic housing in which the tines of the two connector forks are skewed so that one of the two tines of each fork makes substantially full contact with one of two opposite sides of the pin and the other tine makes a cooperating partial contact on the other side. In the preferred connector assembly, the housing has two projections that each extend along one of two diagonally opposite edges of the pin and along the adjacent non-contact making sides of the pin so that the tines nearest the projections are held in substantially full contact with the pin. The other two tines are allowed to extend somewhat beyond the other edges of the pin. The housing is also able to hold a single contact fork. A single unskewed contact fork is approximately centered on the pin between the diagonally opposing projections of the housing.