Anode connector
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorHenry O. Herrmann, Jr.
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Abstract
An anode connector is disclosed utilizing insulation piercing techniques to effect interconnection of a terminal with a conductor of a high voltage lead. This connector obviates the previous techniques requiring screws for attachment of the terminals and/or the molding in place of pre-terminated conductors resulting in a connector which is impossible to repair. The subject connector includes a molded insulative housing suitably profiled to engage both an anode and a high voltage lead. A terminal according to the present invention is mounted in the housing and receives the high voltage lead therein with the terminal effecting an insulation piercing, conductor engaging termination of the high voltage lead.
Claims6
An anode connector for terminating a high voltage lead comprising:
- a housing of flexible insulative material having a first portion defining a high voltage lead receiving bore, a second integral flange portion with an axis which intersects said bore, and a terminal cavity within said flange portion and opening into said bore;
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- a terminal received in said cavity directed along said axis, said terminal having a base with a pair of side walls extending substantially normal from opposite sides of said base, a profiled slot in each said sidewall, a plate member to engage a high voltage lead extending through said bore, said plate member having a pair of tines defining an insulation piercing, conductor engaging slot therebetween, edge portions of said plate member received in respective slots of said sidewalls, and means on the free ends of said side walls to engage an anode whereby said tines of said plate member pierce insulation of a high voltage lead to engage a conductor thereof in said slot with edge portions of said plate member engaging in respective slots of said sidewalls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.