Cable shield connector with spark gap

Details Cable shield connector with spark gap Cable shield connector with spark gap

1997-03-20

1998-10-20

Abrams, Neil

Electrical connectors

With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision

Grounding to conductive sheath of cable

439 52, H01R 466

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058238042

ABSTRACT:
A connector for clamping to a cable shield to provide a ground connection employs a U-shaped yoke. A keeper threadably engages thread surfaces at the interior side of the yoke legs. A clamp jaw on the keeper is compressively engaged against a cable shield received in an aperture defined by the yoke. The yoke connects to a flexible ground wire via a spark gap assembly. An electrically conductive boss extends from the yoke into one end of a bore in an electrically non-conductive separator member. The ground wire is mounted to the separator member by an electrically conductive fastener that extends into the other end of the bore of the separator member. The distal ends of the boss and the fastener are separated by a spark gap. The distal end of an electrically conductive bridging member is positionable in the separator member to engage the distal end portions of the boss and the fastener to bridge the spark gap and provide electrical communication therebetween.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4257658 (1981-03-01), Hammond et al.
patent: 4842530 (1989-06-01), Erickson
patent: 5429532 (1995-07-01), Auclair

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