Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Patent
1996-12-31
1998-08-04
Hall, Carl E.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
H05K 1300
Patent
active
057875820
ABSTRACT:
A cross-connect bus for plugging engagement with a cross-connect panel having a plurality of rows of projecting insulation displacement connectors includes first and second rectilinear axially extending resilient spring wire contact elements having outer end portions supported in fixed positions and in coaxial alignment with each other by spaced apart receptacles defined by a common support base. The inner end portions of the contact elements are supported in cantilever position by the outer end portions and have overlapping free ends biased into electrical contacting engagement with each other. Plugging elements cooperate with the support base to disable, monitor or test circuits completed by the cross-connect bus without removing the bus from plugging engagement with an associated cross-connect panel. The bus is made by mounting opposite end portions of a rectilinear axially elongate spring wire conductor in fixed positions of coaxial alignment on a common support base, severing the conductor to form two contact elements including inner end portions supported in cantilever positions by the opposite end portions and having free ends, deflecting the inner end portions in an axially transverse direction relative to each other to move the free ends out of alignment with each other, and moving the contact elements relative to each other to bring the free ends into overlapping relation while the inner end portions are deflected.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4490903 (1985-01-01), Agatahama
Goins Christopher
Hall Carl E.
The Wiremold Company
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