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US 4,103,984 AGranted
Insulation displacing pin connector
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorJames Lenhart Mixon, Jr.
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Abstract
This invention relates to a device for electrically interconnecting two insulated cables or wires. More particularly the invention includes a wire receiving member and a plurality of insulation cutting and conductor-contacting pins.
Claims1
An insulation displacing pin connector for interconnecting two electrical cables, comprising:
- a. a body member of conductive material having cable-receiving apertures at either end thereof;
- b. a plurality of threaded bores positioned in the body member with three bores intersecting each aperture with two of the three being on one side of the aperture and the third being on the opposite side and longitudinally between the first two;
- c. a plurality of conductive pins having a threaded shank with the free end of the shank being hollowed out to define a frontal cutting edge.
- so that as the pins are threadedly advanced into a bore, the frontal cutting edge cuts through the insulation on a cable which may be positioned in the aperture and scrapes the edge of the underlying conductor and as the pins are further advanced, the threaded shanks electrically and mechanically engage peripherally the conductor on both sides thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.