Patents Assigned to Manufacturers Components, Incorporated
  • Patent number: 5171168
    Abstract: This electrical plug-socket unit has a pair of integral, elongated, substantially rigid, electrically conductive prong-socket members embedded in a molded dielectric plastic body having several angularly disposed faces. Prong elements of the respective prong-socket members at one end project perpendicularly from one face of the dielectric body. Flat bifurcated elements at the opposite end of the respective prong-socket members are located behind another face, which has openings leading into these socket elements. Connecting segments of the prong-socket members between their prong and socket elements offset the socket elements laterally from each other and offset them angularly from the respective prong elements. In one embodiment there is a third prong-socket member in which the prong is a round ground prong that projects from the one face of the dielectric body and the socket element is a hollow member within the body. The hollow socket element is parallel to the bifurcated socket elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1992
    Assignee: Manufacturers Components, Incorporated
    Inventor: Daniel J. Chiodo