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US 4,056,300 AGranted
Terminal connector with stress relief
AssigneeGTE Sylvania Incorporated
InventorDonald Alfred Schumacher
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Abstract
A terminal connector having a strip carrying pressure fitted terminals is shown. Openings or notches between the lands carrying the pressure fitted terminals relieve stresses in the strip to reduce longitudinal extension and bowing of the strip.
Claims4
A connector for pluggable engagement between terminals carried by said connector and terminals carried by a panel comprising:
- a strip member of elastic insulating material having a plurality of lands arrayed longitudinally on one edge on said member, said lands formed by a plurality of slots extending through said strip member transversely to the longitudinal dimension thereof, each of said lands having a single opening located substantially within said lands and extending through said lands, terminals pressure fitted through more than one of said openings with sufficient force to cause said elastic insulating material to be displaced, said terminals extending on both sides of said strip member for mating electrical connections thereto.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.