Insulation piercing connector
AssigneesSumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Tokai Electric Wire Company Limited
InventorsMinoru Yokota, Kazuo Sawada, Junichi Kojima
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Abstract
Improved insulation piercing wire connectors are proposed which are provided with a plurality of prongs on the edges of a wire barrel, said prongs having their top tapering up toward the front for better mechanical and electrical connection.
Claims11
An insulation piercing connector comprising a wire barrel and an electrical connection portion integral with said wire barrel, said wire barrel having an opposed pair of side walls, each of said side walls having a plurality of insulation piercing prongs formed on the edge thereof, said prongs being so shaped as to pierce into the conductor to be connected through its insulation when the connector is crimped around the conductor, said prongs having their pointed top which is higher at the end of said wire barrel adjacent to said electrical connection portion than at the opposite end thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.