Electrical connectors – Metallic connector or contact having movable or resilient... – Spring actuated or resilient securing part
Patent
1992-07-06
1994-03-22
Schwartz, Larry I.
Electrical connectors
Metallic connector or contact having movable or resilient...
Spring actuated or resilient securing part
439909, H01R 448
Patent
active
052958728
ABSTRACT:
This invention provides a spring-operated biomedical electrical clasp which includes a clasp base means and a clasp lever, each having a handle end and a jaw end and each preferably being composed of an insulating material such as plastic to provide electrical shielding. The clasp lever is operatively associated with the base member for articulation on the base member at a point intermediate the ends of the lever. An electrically conductive closing spring is connected to the clasp base member. The spring has an intermediate upward projection, i.e., a deflection with spaced upright legs that extends up from the base to the lever and an upper closed end that functions somewhat in the nature of a fulcrum for the lever but, through its resiliency, also yieldably biases the jaw ends toward one another, i.e., to the closed position. The spring can be a leaf spring. One portion of the spring is a gripping portion positioned at the jaw end of the lever to serve as an electrically conductive jaw face. Preferably, an end portion of the closing spring adjacent the handle end of the base (the end opposite from the jaw) includes a terminal portion with a reverse bend having yieldable portions in opposition to one another on each side of this bend to serve as a receptacle for frictionally gripping a conductor, e.g., a pin connector which can be thrust through an opening and between the opposing yieldable portions of the spring.
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Commercial Product: EKG Clip by Hirshman of America, Riverdale, N.J.
Commercial Product: "Astro-Trace" Clip by LeBlanc Corporation of Augusta, Ga.
Commercial Product: Trono MEd EKG Clip by Trono MEd, Inc. of Irvine, Calif.
Harmon James V.
Schwartz Larry I.
Vu Hien D.
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