Electrical connectors – Contact comprising cutter – Insulation cutter
Patent
1993-05-03
1994-04-19
McGlynn, Joseph H.
Electrical connectors
Contact comprising cutter
Insulation cutter
439676, H01R 424
Patent
active
053040740
ABSTRACT:
An electrical connector is disclosed in a modular telephone connector configuration and includes a housing defining a standard telephone jack. A plurality of stamped metal terminals each have a resilient cantilever jack contact portion, a wire insulation displacement portion and an intermediate portion between the cantilever jack contact portion and the wire insulation displacement portion. The housing is a one-piece structure overmolded about portions of the stamped metal terminals, with the wire insulation displacement portions exposed for receiving insulated telephone wires. The housing includes a cavity for receiving a standard telephone plug. The cantilever jack contact portions of the terminals are exposed by the overmolded housing adjacent the cavity, whereby the contact portions can be bent into the cavity. The housing includes at least one wire-driving portion molded integrally therewith by a living hinge and movable into engagement with the insulated telephone wires to drive the wires into the insulation displacement portions of the terminals.
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Andre Marcel D.
Bouchan Christophe
McGlynn Joseph H.
Molex Incorporated
Tirva A. A.
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