Outdoor electrical box cord and method of making an outdoor electrical box cord
AssigneeThe Wiremold Company
InventorsJeffrey Hemingway, Richard R. Picard, Steven C. Thibault
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Abstract
A power cord includes at least one electrically insulated wire, including a wire conductor disposed within an insulated sleeve, and a connection terminal. The connection terminal includes a crimp portion crimped and soldered to the wire conductor at least one end of the at least one insulated wire. The power cord further includes a heat shrink sleeve covering the crimp portion of the connection terminal and a portion of the insulated sleeve of the at least one electrically insulated wire, and an overmold molded around at least a portion of the heat shrink sleeve.
Claims7
A method for forming a power cord including at least one electrically insulated wire comprising a wire conductor disposed within an insulated sleeve, the method comprising:
- crimping a connection terminal on the wire conductor at one end of the at least one electrically insulated wire, the connection terminal including a connector portion;
- soldering the crimped portion of the connection terminal;
- heat shrinking a heat shrink sleeve onto the crimped portion of the connection terminal and at least a portion of the insulated sleeve of the at least one electrically insulated wire;
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- molding an overmold tube around at least a portion of the heat shrink sleeve;
- wherein the connector portion of the connection terminal is provided as an exposed electrical terminal extending outward from the overmold, the connector portion being configured to connect to a corresponding connector to electrically couple the power cord to the corresponding connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.