Contact terminal

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1997-08-07

2000-02-01

Gellner, Michael L.

Electrical connectors

Contact comprising cutter

Insulation cutter

439407, H01R 424

Patent

active

060196262

ABSTRACT:
A contact terminal includes an electrically conductive plate including a base plate; an electrical contact section, engageable with another terminal, formed at a front end portion of the base plate; a wire clamping section, for clamping a wire thereto, formed at a rear end portion of the base plate; an electrically conductive section formed between the electrical contact section and the wire clamping section, the electrically conductive section including first and second side walls and a bottom wall which is a part of the base plate and is formed between the first and second side walls, the first and second side walls which have first and second blades extending inwardly to confront each other so as to define a slot therebetween; and a step portion formed in the base plate between the electrical contact section and the wire clamping section so that a section of the base plate in the step portion in the front-to-rear direction is non-linear.

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patent: 4385794 (1983-05-01), Lucius
patent: 4940425 (1990-07-01), Hass et al.
patent: 5129840 (1992-07-01), Kuzuno
patent: 5133672 (1992-07-01), Nelligan
patent: 5344336 (1994-09-01), Sampson
patent: 5549483 (1996-08-01), Hotea

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