Electrical connectors – With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision – Grounding to connector container or housing
Patent
1986-10-06
1987-08-11
McQuade, John
Electrical connectors
With circuit conductors and safety grounding provision
Grounding to connector container or housing
H01R 13648
Patent
active
046857524
ABSTRACT:
The electrical connector is physically attached to the external surface of a metallic structure (and which might contain flammable fluid) solely by virture of an annular layer of resinous adhesive. The annular adhesive layer is carried by the centrally-open lower-side of a frame member to provide vertically aligned central-openings for the adhesive and the frame member lower-side. At least one electrically conductive and upwardly deflectable contact member is located within the frame member and includes a contact member lower free-end protruding through the vertically aligned central-openings so that the free-end is initially disposed below the adhesive layer. However, once the electrical connector is physically adhesively attached to the metallic structure external surface, the contact member free-end is in electrically conductive abutment against the metallic structure external surface, and hence, is substantially co-elevational with the adhesive layer physical attachment. An electrically conductive terminal member, which might be connected to an electrons source, is in electrically conductive relationship to the contact member. In a preferred embodiment, the contact member takes the form of two cantilevered leaf springs protruding downwardly through a pair of vertically aligned central-openings.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2557434 (1951-06-01), Hoverder
patent: 2759160 (1956-08-01), Kelley
patent: 3013241 (1961-12-01), Wing
patent: 3411125 (1968-11-01), Hill
McQuade John
Nimmer George R.
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