US 4,070,087 AGranted

Connecting device for ensuring stable electrical connections

AssigneeElectronic Technology, Inc.

InventorGerard Paul Louis Dumesnil

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Abstract

A connecting device for establishing stable electrical connections for interconnecting at least two conductors, this device ensuring both the conduction between the conductors and the mechanical assembly. The device comprises a terminal element having a tubular guide in which there is engaged one of the conductors an adjacent sleeve which receives the bared end of this conductor after it has been folded 180.degree., and a tongue of conductive material which partly penetrates the sleeves of at least two contiguous connecting terminal elements so as to achieve the electrical junction between the conductors carried by said terminal elements. The tongue comprises at least one retaining point which co-operates with a complementary cavity located in the sleeve, whereby the tongue which achieves the electrical conduction also ensures the locking of the conductors by a simple clipping in the connecting terminal elements.

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Dependent claims

A connecting device for establishing electrical connection between at least two conductors, comprising:

a. a pair of terminal elements each having a flat front face (4) for juxtapositioning with and connecting to the other terminal element, and a cylindrically-shaped longitudinal tubular guide (3) in which one of the conductors (12) is to be inserted;
b. a longitudinal flat sleeve (2) adjacent each said longitudinal cylindrically-shaped guide to receive the bared end (14) of one conductor (12) after it has been folded in a hairpin turn, each sleeve (2) having at least one cavity (8) therein;
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c. a tongue (6) of conductive material which partly penetrates the sleeves (2) of said terminal elements when the faces thereof are juxtapositioned for producing the electrical junction between the conductors inserted in the two juxtapositioned terminal elements, said tongue (6) having at least two retaining points (8) which cooperate with and are complementary to said cavities (8) so that the tongue while achieving electrical connection also ensures the locking of the conductors by clipping together opposed terminal elements.

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