Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Electrical device making
Patent
1984-07-02
1985-09-10
Rosenbaum, Mark
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Electrical device making
403300, H01R 4300
Patent
active
045397481
ABSTRACT:
An electrical connector which is capable of being used to interconnect insulated conductors in the field or in a factory during in-line processing includes a frame and contact element. The contact element which is used to establish an electrical connection between the conductors includes a center portion and two opposed bifurcated beams. A portion of each beam is upstanding from the plane of the contact element. Furcations of each beam define a slot for receiving one of the conductors to be interconnected. The contact element is attached to the frame which includes at least one deformable tang at each end. End portions of conductors to be connected are each positioned across an end of the frame. The tangs are wrapped about the conductors, the conductors are moved into the slots of the beams, and excess portions of the lengths severed. The tang at each end cooperates with an offset portion connected to the frame and which is interposed between the tang and the upstanding portion of the adjacent bifurcated beam to mechanically secure the conductor at that end and provide strain relief therefor.
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Brown Robert J.
Fernandez Douglas R.
McGonigal Charles
Arbes Carl J.
AT&T - Technologies, Inc.
Rosenbaum Mark
Somers E. W.
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