Barry A Shenk

US Patent:

49089420, Mar 20, 1990

Filed:

Feb 19, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/701819

Inventors:

William B. Long - Camp Hill PA
Barry M. Shenk - Elizabethtown PA

Assignee:

AMP Incorporated - Harrisburg PA

International Classification:

H01R 1341

US Classification:

29882

Abstract:

An electrical terminal device has stamped and formed post portions of U-shaped cross-section which are stiff and suitable for wire wrapping and has a compliant mounting portion between the post portions for mounting the terminal in a plated through-hole in a circuit board. The compliant mounting portion comprises outwardly bowed portions extending longitudinally between aligned associated sidewalls of the U-shaped post portions which are elastically deformable inwardly and towards each other. When one of the terminal post is inserted into the circuit board hole, these bowed portions are flexed towards each other when they enter the circuit board hole and the edges of the bowed portions bear against the surface of the hole thereby to establish contact with the plating in the hole and retain the terminal in the circuit board. The U-shaped post portions, but not the compliant mounting portion, are severely cold-worked.