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US 12,573,771 B2Granted
Wire connection bracket assembly
OwnerJoel Douglas, Shem Lachhmaninventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method of connecting electrical wires, conductors, or connections together by rotating the connector ends in an enclosure to tightly twist the wire ends together and includes a clamping mechanism to prevent the wires from untwisting, becoming loose, or falling out of the enclosure.
Claims15
A restraining device for connecting at least one wire to an electrical connector comprising:
- said electrical connector having an insulative electrical connector housing, a distal end and a proximal end and said electrical connector having an electrical connector cavity open at said electrical connector proximal end and insulative electrical connector housing surrounding said electrical connector cavity and insulative electrical connector housing forming a closed end at said distal end of said insulative electrical connector housing and said electrical connector having a primary axis that runs from said electrical connector proximal end to said electrical connector distal end through said insulative electrical connector housing;
- said restraining device comprises a removable first clipping device, a removable second clipping device and a hood and said hood is formed from a flexible sheet and said flexible sheet having an adhesive on one side of said flexible sheet;
- said hood having a hood proximal end and a hood distal end and said hood distal end located proximal to said electrical connector proximal end and said hood is attached to said electrical connector such that it covers said electrical connector along said electrical connector primary axis;
- said at least one wire has a proximal end and a distal end and said electrical connector cavity removably holds said distal end of said at least one wire;
- said hood is attached to said at least one wire with said adhesive on said flexible sheet;
- said first clipping device attached to said hood such that said hood is connected to said electrical connector housing;
- a second clipping device is attached to said hood proximal end such that said hood is connected to said at least one wire;
- and said restraining device holds said at least one wire from coming out of said electrical connector cavity proximal end.
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A restraining device for securing at least one wire to an electrical connector comprising:
- said electrical connector including an insulative electrical housing and said insulative electrical housing having an insulative electrical housing outer surface, a first end and a second end opposite said first end, said insulative electrical housing having a cavity extending inwardly from an opening in said first end of the insulative electrical housing and a conductive coil in said cavity;
- said restraining device including a rectangular flexible sheet having a sheet length and a sheet width and said flexible sheet having an adhesive on one side, said sheet length longer than said width, said rectangular flexible sheet comprising a sheet opening and a sheet perimeter and said sheet opening disposed within said sheet perimeter, said sheet opening engageable with said insulative electrical housing and said insulative electrical housing outer surface;
- a reinforcement ring secured along an edge of the sheet opening, said reinforcement ring enabled for preventing the sheet opening from damage during installation or use;
- and said adhesive disposed on one side of said flexible sheet is enabled to communicate with said adhesive, and said adhesive in communication with said sheet perimeter and said sheet opening;
- said restraining device including a sheet securing device having a device length, said sheet securing device extendable and securable around said at least one wire and a portion of said flexible sheet adjacent a portion of said sheet perimeter when said portion of said flexible sheet is extended from the connector housing, past the connector first end and along said at least one wire;
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- wherein an installer ensures the wire connector conductive coil is engaged with the at least one wire, places the reinforcement ring over the second end of the wire connector, pulls the adhesive portions of the flexible sheet over the first end of the wire connector and adjacent the at least one wire, urging the adhesive portions against the at least one wire and against one another, placing the sheet securing device around the at least one wire and flexible sheet and securing the sheet securing device around the at least one wire and flexible sheet to secure the wire connector from coming off the at least one wire.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.