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US 2006/0141829 A1Published application
Electrical cable connector with grounding insert
AssigneeRemke Industries, Inc.
InventorDonald Kauth
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Abstract
The present invention provides a connector for an electrical cable comprising a grounding insert comprising: a bushing having a tapered forward end and a tapered rearward end, and a plurality of conductive fingers, wherein each conductive finger has a proximal end that is embedded in the tapered rearward end of the bushing and a distal end that extends from the tapered rearward end of the bushing to a contact site with a cable.
Claims19
A connector for an electrical cable, the connector comprised of:
- a gland nut defining an opening that extends longitudinally therethrough;
- a compression ring positioned in the opening adjacent to an end surface of the gland nut;
- a grounding insert positioned within the opening adjacent to the compression ring;
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- a connector body received in the opening in the gland nut, the connector body defining an opening that extends longitudinally therethrough.
2 more elements
A grounding insert for use in a connector for an electrical cable, the grounding insert comprised of:
- a bushing having a tapered forward end and a tapered rearward end, and
- a plurality of conductive fingers extending from the tapered rear ward end of the bushing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.