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US 2009/0176412 A1Published application
Modular electrical connector
AssigneeLear Corporation
InventorsSlobodan Pavlovic, David Menzies, Mohamad Zeidan
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Abstract
A modular electrical connector including at least one body portion having an electrical terminal and at least one mating surface. An end portion has a mating surface interconnected to the mating surface of the body portion. The body portion and the end portion define a connector body.
Claims11
A modular electrical connector comprising:
- a first connector portion having an electrical terminal and at least one mating surface;
- a second connector portion having a mating surface, the second connector portion mating surface being interconnected to the mating surface of the first connector portion, the first connector portion and the second connector portion defining a connector body having a first end and a second end;
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- a connecting rod;
- wherein each of the first and second connector portions have an axially formed aperture;
- wherein the connecting rod extends through the axially formed apertures of the first and second connector portions;
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- wherein the connecting rod is deformed against an outer surface of the first end of the connector body and deformed against an outer surface of the second end of the connector body, the deformations fastening the first and second connector portions together.
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A modular electrical connector comprising:
- a first connector portion having an electrical terminal;
- a second connector portion;
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- a connecting rod extending through the first and second connector portions, a first end of the connecting rod bearing against an outer surface of the first connector portion, and a second end of the connecting rod bearing against an outer surface of the second connector portion, the first and second ends of the connecting rod urging the first and second connector portions together and fastening the first and second connector portions together.
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A modular electrical connector comprising:
- a first connector portion having an electrical terminal;
- a second connector portion;
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- a non-conductive connecting rod extending through the first and second connector portions and fastening the first body portion and the second body portion together.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.