Electrical connectors

Claim 1

An electrical connector for interconnecting wires to a printed circuit board, which comprises: a. a first terminal of conductive material having at one end a contact portion with an intermediate curved contact surface projecting laterally outwardly and a relatively short wire connecting portion extending axially at the other end; b. a second terminal of conductive material having at one end a contact portion with an intermediate curved contact surface projecting laterally outwardly and a relatively long wire connecting portion extending axially at the other end; and c. first and second housing modules, releasably coupled together in back to back fashion, each module having a passageway in which the first and second terminals are respectively positioned, an aperture being located in the back walls at one end through which the terminals' intermediate curved contact surfaces project to provide in combination, a receptacle for a tab or printed circuit board, and further, wire lead out apertures in the front wall of the first module and the back wall of the second module intersecting the passageways in registration with the respective terminal's wire connecting portions, said aperture in the first module being displaced longitudinally so that the wires which may be connected to the wire connecting portions lead away from the modules in the same lateral direction without interferring with each other.