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US 10,574,041 B2Granted
Method of establishing an electrical connection
AssigneeRichards Manufacturing Company
InventorsBruce Bier, Jeffrey L. Madden
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for interconnecting mains cables used for underground secondary low-voltage AC network systems utilizing an improved crab joint connector arranged to maximize the number of interconnections in a compact design wherein the plurality of legs are arranged in a rectangle configuration and a single bus leg is positioned at an end of an insulated housing.
Claims2
A method of establishing an electrical connection comprising the steps of:
- connecting a plurality of cable mains in a rectangular configuration to a cable joint assembly;
- and
- connecting a bus connection to a non-limitered bus connector of the cable joint assembly at a location substantially adjacent to and substantially external of the rectangular configuration and at a location substantially along a centerline of the rectangular configuration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.