Electrical connector
AssigneeInternational Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
InventorsJohn W. Anhalt, David S. Goodman, Carl W. Peterson
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Abstract
An electrical connector for a flat cable having alternate signal and ground conductors. The connector comprises a housing containing a row of contacts therein each having an insulation piercing, core penetrating section. A mandrel is mounted on the housing forcing the signal conductors of the cable into the termination sections of the contacts. The ground conductors of the cable lie across the top of the housing and a ground buss bar having a plurality of insulation piercing, core penetrating jaws is forced down upon the ground conductors to electrically interconnect the same. The ends of the ground buss bar engage the contacts at the ends of the row of contacts in the connector housing.
Claims12
An electrical connector for an electrical cable having signal and ground conductors each having a metallic core covered with insulation comprising:
- an elongated insulative housing;
- said housing having a conductor receiving side and a mating side;
- a row of spaced contact receiving cavities in said housing extending from said conductor receiving side to said mating side;
- contacts mounted in said cavities, each said contact having a contacting section on said mating side and a termination section on said conductor receiving side;
- said termination section of each said contact embodying insulation piercing, core penetrating jaws;
- an insulative mandrel removably mounted on said conductor receiving side of said housing;
- said mandrel having a first side facing said housing and a second side opposite to said first side, said first side embodying means for forcibly inserting portions of said signal conductors into said jaws to electrically connect said signal conductors to said contacts when said mandrel is mounted on said housing;
- a ground buss bar mounted on said second side of said mandrel;
- said buss bar embodying a plurality of spaced insulation piercing, core penetrating jaws;
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- means on said second side of said mandrel cooperating with said buss bar jaws for forcibly inserting portions of said ground conductors into said buss bar jaws to electrically connect said ground conductors to said buss bar when said buss bar is mounted on said mandrel.
An electrical connector connected to an electrical cable having a plurality of signal conductors and a plurality of ground conductors comprising:
- a connector housing containing signal contacts and a ground contact;
- each of said signal contacts having insulation piercing-conductor penetrating jaws;
- a mandrel mounted on said housing;
- said signal conductors of said cable passing between one side of said mandrel and said housing and said ground conductors overlying the side of said mandrel opposite to said one side;
- said mandrel embodying means on said one side forcibly inserting portions of said signal conductors into said jaws of said signal contacts;
- a buss bar on said opposite side of said mandrel embodying insulation piercing-conductor penetrating jaws, said buss bar engaging said ground contact;
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- said buss bar cooperating with said mandrel to forcibly insert portions of said ground conductors into said buss bar jaws.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.