Electric coil lead attachment means and method

An electric coil assembly having a coil winding of a plurality of turns of coil wire between shoulders of a bobbin and having a layer of tape encircling the winding and retaining the coil wire in place between the bobbin shoulders;

• an elongate strip of resilient material having first latching means adjacent one end and second latching means longitudinally spaced from said first latching means and co-operable with said first latching means to secure said strip in a loop configuration;
• a first electric lead fastened to said strip at a point and disposed entirely on one face of said strip, an insulated portion of said lead extending away from said strip, and a non-insulated portion of said lead extending parallel to the face of said strip from said point and immediately adjacent said face,
• said one end of said strip being generally pointed, with said first latching means including at least one shoulder, the shoulder and pointed end establishing a pointed head on the strip,
• said second latching means being an aperture in said strip, said aperture being of a size such that its largest dimension is less than the dimension transverse to said strip at said shoulder, whereby said head must be deformed at said shoulder to permit said head to pass through said aperture, pointed end first, the material being sufficiently resilient for said head to restore itself from its deformed state after passage through said aperture, whereby said shoulder is abuttingly engaged with said strip at said aperture to retain said head in latched state and maintain said strip in said loop configuration,
• said lead being fastened to said strip at a point adjacent said head, said strip having a tail portion extending from said aperture in a direction away from said head and for a distance greater than the distance from said head to said lead for insulating the non-insulated portion outboard of said face after connection to a coil lead and wrapping said tail portion over said non-insulated portion,
• a second electric lead fastened to said strip,
• each of said leads including an electrically insulated conductor and surrounding insulator, the leads being spaced in a plane containing said strip at the points of fastening said leads to the strip, and the fastening of the leads to the strip being by attachment of the insulator to the one outside face of the strip so that the insulated portions of the leads project transversely from the strip,
• said strip being mounted on said tape layer with the inside face of the loop configuration of the strip encircling the tape layer snugly and resiliently, and the leads on the outside face of the strip, the lead conductors being attached to opposite ends of said coil wire to provide two lead connections, said lead connections being on the outside face of the strip and extending in opposite directions from the locations of fastening of the leads to the strip;
• and the tail portion of the strip extending from the head in a second layer covering the said connections.