US 7,503,807 B2
Electrical connector adapter and method for making
Galen M. Martin, Camp Hill, Pa. (US); Keith Richard Foltz, Duncannon, Pa. (US); David Michael Revak, Kernersville, N.C. (US); Alan Jay Amazon, Kernersville, N.C. (US); Jimmy Glenn Grubbs, Walkertown, N.C. (US); David A. Swartwood, Randleman, N.C. (US); and Michael F. Laub, Harrisburg, Pa. (US)
Assigned to Tyco Electronics Corporation, Middletown, Pa. (US)
Filed on Aug. 08, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/500,773.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/706825, filed on Aug. 09, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0037452 A1, Feb. 15, 2007
Int. Cl. H01R 25/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 439—638  [439/668] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector adapter having a system mating end for connecting to an electrical system of a vehicle and a component mating end for connecting to an electrical component plug comprising:
(a) a one piece insulating housing;
(b) at least one electrical contact arranged in said housing extending substantially from said system mating end to said component mating end; and
(c) a collar of unitary construction covering a portion of said component mating end and having an opening for receiving said plug, wherein said collar includes a projection extending in a direction away from said insulating housing and having said opening therein, said projection comprising a cavity therein, said collar further comprising a wall extending from said projection into said cavity coaxial with said opening;
wherein said at least one electrical contact is three electrical contacts for electrically connecting to three respective contacts of said electrical component plug.