摘要 |
<p>IMPROVED MICROPHONE CONNECTOR The present invention relates to plug and socket connectors of the type used to couple cable conductors. Although connectors are known to have both halves of their housings electrically connected to one another as well as the respective ground wires or sheaths related thereto, such connectors include a multiplicity of elements which in turn involves the disadvantages of complicated fabrication, assembly and sources of reliability problems. The present invention overcomes these deficiencies by providing an improved cable connector having a grounding clip provided as part of a socket insert subassembly which projects outwardly of the plug assembly for reception and mounting in the receptacle assembly. The grounding clip in part functions to insure that the plug and receptacle assembly housings are in grounded electrical connection with one another and further functions to electrically connect a ground wire means associated with the plug assembly to the housing thereof. The clip also includes a spring element which biases a latch for the connector into a locked disposition.</p> |