Electrical connectors – Contact comprising cutter – Insulation cutter
Patent
1995-05-17
1997-07-15
Pascua, Jes F.
Electrical connectors
Contact comprising cutter
Insulation cutter
439404, 439405, 439408, 439532, H01R 424
Patent
active
056477600
ABSTRACT:
An insulation displacement connecting (IDC) terminal that allows wires to be parked in a retaining region thereof prior to being terminated within and IDC portion of the terminal. The retaining region of the terminal is generally a rounded longitudinal slot having a width which is slightly less than the outermost diameter of a conductor to be inserted into the terminal. The terminal which is designed with large fiat spring contacts located about a central slot, includes an IDC portion, which cuts into the insulation of the wire to establish contact. A slight gap in a top portion of the retaining region pulls apart and allows for insertion of a wire into the slot of the retaining region. The spring contacts of the terminal pull together and the gap is narrowed once the wire enters the retaining region, thus, preventing the wire from escaping through the gap. The spring contacts then close on the wire where it remains parked until such time as the wire is terminated within the IDC portion of the terminal. The retaining region allows conductors to be dressed into the terminals of a connector module as one operation and then seated into the IDC terminals as a second operation. The terminals are adapted for use with connector modules which house multiple pairs of IDC terminals on both the front and rear sides thereof. The connector modules are insertable into a hinged mounting bracket that is mounted at a telephone switching area to make up a modular connecting block.
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Drach Robert George
Starace Jeremia Patrick
Lucent Technologies - Inc.
Pascua Jes F.
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