Flat cable termination
AssigneeAMP Incorporated
InventorLawrence P. Weisenburger
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Abstract
An electrical terminal for flat cable comprising first and second metal plate portions having a cable penetrating tab-like lance and a socket aligned with the lance, respectively, the socket having lips pushed out of the plane of the plate portion and converging towards their free ends to define a slot-form lance receiving mouth. During termination, the cable will be penetrated by the lance and a portion of the cable conductor will be drawn into the mouth by the lance and compressed between a face of the lance and one lip. A portion of the cable is deformed during termination, into an aperture provided in the first metal plate by lance formation and ribbon conductor material is displaced from between the face of the tab and one lip further into the socket.
Claims1
An electrical connection between a ribbon conductor and first and second metal plate portions of an electrical terminal in which a tab-like lance having parallel opposite edge portions upstanding from the first metal plate portion penetrates the ribbon conductor and is received in a socket provided in the second plate portion, the socket being defined by opposed lips pushed out of the plane of the second plate portion, the lips converging towards their free ends to define a slot-form lance-receiving mouth, a portion of the conductor having been drawn into the mouth by the lance and compressed between one lip only and one face only of the lance, the other face of the lance engaging the other opposed lip.
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