Electrical connectors – Interrelated connectors relatively movable during use – Movement about axis
Patent
1994-10-17
1997-02-11
Pirlot, David L.
Electrical connectors
Interrelated connectors relatively movable during use
Movement about axis
439164, H01R 3900
Patent
active
056014376
ABSTRACT:
A clockspring having a device for determining if the clockspring is centered. The clockspring has a housing defining a first central aperture and the housing also has a radial wall, a hub is carried in rotatable relation in the first central aperture, a coiled ribbon cable having a first end and a second end with the first end being connected to a first connector carried by the housing, and the second end of the coiled ribbon cable being connected to a second connector carried by the hub, the hub being rotatable only a maximum number of revolutions before said coiled conducting means becomes completely wrapped or unwrapped around the hub, a pawl mounted to the hub, a counter wheel rotatably attached to the housing and having a plurality of teeth which extend from the counter wheel for incremental engagement with the pawl, the plurality of teeth being equal in quantity to the maximum number of hub revolutions, each tooth being labeled to indicate the amount and the direction of hub rotation needed for centering the hub with respect to the housing, a wave washer frictionally mounted against the housing and the counter wheel, a counter cover is mounted over the counter wheel so that no more than two teeth from the counter wheel are exposed at any given time.
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Harvey Jeffery A.
McClure Gerald L.
Methode Electronics Inc.
Newman David L.
Pirlot David L.
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