Electrical splice connector
AssigneeFCI Americas Technology, Inc.
InventorsKeith F. Mello, Richard Chadbourne, Daniel D. Dobrinski
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Abstract
An electrical conductor splice connector including a body; conductor contacting wedges movably mounted on the body; and at least one wedge movement anti-reverse clip connected to the body and contacting one of the wedges. The anti-reversing clip includes an anti-reversing tab, a removal tab, a notch therebetween, and a wedge stop tab for limiting reward movement of the wedges on the body.
Claims32
An electrical conductor splice connector comprising:
- a body;
- conductor contacting wedges movably mounted on the body;
- and
- at least one wedge movement anti-reverse clip connected to the body and contacting one of the wedges.
An electrical conductor splice connector comprising:
- a body;
- and
- a pair of opposing conductor contacting wedges having bottom surfaces and outer lateral side surfaces slidably located on the body, wherein a first one of the wedges comprises a cantilevered bar at a top portion of the first wedge which slidably extends into a receiving area of a second one of the wedges to interlock forward and reward movement of the pair of wedges with each other.
An electrical conductor splice connector comprising:
- body;
- and
- a pair of interlocked opposing conductor contacting wedges slidably located on the body,
- wherein the body comprises wedge grooves, wherein the wedges comprise protrusions slidably located in the wedge grooves, wherein at least one of the wedge grooves comprises a main section and an initial mounting portion located inwardly relative to the main section, and wherein during locating of the pair of wedges on the body the protrusion must be located in the initial mounting portion of the wedge groove before the protrusion can be moved into the main section of the wedge groove.
A method of assembling an electrical conductor splice connector comprising steps of:
- inserting a wedge into a wedge receiving area of a splice connector body;
- and
- connecting an anti-reversing clip to a top side of the splice connector body, the clip having a anti-reverse tab which projects inward into the wedge receiving area and into contact with the wedge.
A method of assembling an electrical conductor splice connector comprising steps of:
- inserting a pair of conductor contacting wedges into a wedge receiving area of a splice connector body, the wedges having projections which are inserted into initial mounting portions of grooves in the body and subsequently moved into main sections of the grooves;
- and
- connecting a clip to the splice connector body, the clip forming a direct barrier to movement of at least one of the wedges such that the projections are prevented from moving back into the initial mounting portions of the grooves and becoming inadvertently disconnected from the splice connector body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.