Quick lock/quick release connector
AssigneeCordis Corporation
InventorCharles A. Peers-Trevarton
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Abstract
The quick lock/quick release connector is fixed within a socket in a neck of a pacer and includes gripping members for gripping a terminal pin at the distal end of a terminal electrode assembly inserted in the socket and for establishing good mechanical and electrical connection with the terminal pin. The connector further includes a mechanism for manipulating the gripping members from the outside of the pacer body to release the grip of the gripping members on the terminal pin.
Claims17
A terminal pin connector assembly for a pacer having a socket for receiving a terminal electrode assembly with a terminal pin having an annular groove therein, said connector assembly comprising a terminal pin with an annular grooves therein, quick lock/quick release connector means positioned in the socket and having means for resiliently and snap fittingly engaging in the groove in said terminal pin received in the socket for making a good mechanical and electrical connection with said terminal pin and means manually manipulatable without the aid of a tool from the outside of the pacer for actuating the engaging means to release the mechanical grip thereof on said terminal pin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.