Electrical connectors – Contact comprising cutter – Insulation cutter
Patent
1988-05-20
1989-06-27
McGlynn, Joseph H.
Electrical connectors
Contact comprising cutter
Insulation cutter
H01R 424
Patent
active
048425451
ABSTRACT:
In a connector for a flat conductor strip cable which consists of a two-part housing in which the cable is engaged by compression, one of the housing parts has a cavity with a cable support surface disposed at a first acute angle with respet to the direction in which the two housing parts are movable in engagement with one another and the other housing parts carry leaf spring contact members disposed at a second acute angle with respect to the same direction, which angle is smaller than the first angle and the leaf spring contact members have cutting edges adapted to cut through the insulation of the conductor strip cable and the slide onto the surface of the flat conductors upon compression of the housing parts thereby providing for firm contact of the leaf spring contact members with the flat conductors.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2615072 (1952-10-01), Gilbert
patent: 2878373 (1959-03-01), Bramming
patent: 3492629 (1970-01-01), Hirsch
Inovan GmbH & Co. KG
McGlynn Joseph H.
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