Gas tube electrode connector

Details Gas tube electrode connector Gas tube electrode connector

1988-06-28

1989-06-27

Desmond, Eugene F.

Electrical connectors

Coupling part to receive fluorescent or neon lamp

With additional retaining or locking means for coupled...

439226, 439228, 439243, 313 51, 362217, 248 50, H01R 3302

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048425354

ABSTRACT:
A connector for discharge electrodes of luminous gas tubes includes an insulative barrel receiving a power cable at one end for attachment to a fixed end of a resilient contact member. The opposite end of the barrel is open and threaded, to receive the crimped and headed tip of a gas tube having electrode conductors projecting therefrom. A lock element is applied to the crimped portion of the gas tube end and is axially captured thereon so that following insertion of the tube tip and lock element into the barrel open end, a cap surrounding the gas tube engages the threads of the barrel to radially and axially retain the tube tip within the barrel interior with its electrode conductors firmly biased against a displaceable end of the resilient contact member. In an alternate embodiment, the same lock element serves to secure each of a pair of gas tube tips within a housing having a contact member provided with displaceable end segments serving to electrically join the electrode conductors of the pairs of gas tubes.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1878229 (1932-09-01), Beck
patent: 1896365 (1933-02-01), McClelland
patent: 4444446 (1984-04-01), Hageman

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