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US 4,894,023 AGranted
Connector assembly for anode ring of cathode ray tube
OwnerHarold E. Hallinventor
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An improved anode cup or connector assembly for a cathode ray tube comprises a one-piece, generally U-shaped sheet metal connector clip snugly fitted and rigidly supported and locked in place in a cavity in a skirted resilient rubber-like cap, the clip having side-by-side mounting legs protruding from an open end of the cavity into the skirt of the cap and provided with catch lugs for insertion into and locking engagement with a standard hollow anode button embedded in the tube wall to mount the anode cup in place thereon. A bared wire end of an insulation sheathed anode supply conductor extends into the cap cavity through a passageway thereinto within a laterally extending barrel portion of the cap, and it extends between the legs of and is electrically connected to the clip by bending of a pinch plate on the clip to clamp the bared wire end between the pinch plate and a grip tab on the base end of the clip. Spring tangs on the clip legs snap lock behind the bent pinch plate to lock it in wire clamping position.
An anode connector assembly for electrically connecting a bared wire end of an insulated anode supply conductor to a standard anode button disposed in the glass envelope wall of a cathode ray tube, said assembly comprising a resilient cap having a center axis and a head portion with a flexible, axially extending, circular skirt portion protruding laterally outwardly therefrom, a U-shaped sheet metal connector clip firmly supported interiorly of said cap within the said head portion thereof and having spaced mounting legs extending from said head portion into and exposed within the spatial confines of said skirt portion for engaging the said anode button, and an anode supply conductor having a bared wire end extending into the said head portion of said cap, said clip being directly pinch clamped in situ to said bared wire end interiorly of said cap by a pinch pad portion of said clip to electrically connect it to said bared wire end.
An anode connector assembly for electrically connecting a bared wire end of an insulated anode supply conductor to a standard anode button disposed in the glass envelope wall of a cathode ray tube, said assembly comprising a resilient cap having a center axis and a head portion with a flexible, axially extending, circular skirt portion protruding laterally outwardly therefrom, a U-shaped sheet metal connector clip firmly supported interiorly of said cap within the said head portion thereof and having spaced mounting legs extending from said head portion into and exposed within the spatial confines of said skirt portion for engaging the said anode button, and an anode supply conductor having a bared wire end extending into the said head portion of said cap, said clip being directly pinch clamped in situ to said bared wire end interiorly of said cap to electrically connect it thereto, said conductor wire end being pinch clamped between a grip tab portion and a pinch pad portion of said clip.
An anode connector assembly for electrically connecting a bared wire end of an insulated anode supply conductor to a standard anode button disposed in the glass envelope wall of a cathode ray tube, said assembly comprising a resilient cap having a center axis and a head portion with a flexible, axially extending, circular skirt portion protruding laterally outwardly therefrom, a U-shaped sheet metal connector clip firmly support interiorly of said cap within the said head portion thereof and having spaced mounting legs extending from said head portion into and exposed within the spatial confines of said skirt portion for engaging the said anode button, and an anode supply conductor having a bared wire and extending into the said head portion of said cap, said clip being directly pinch clamped in situ to said bared wire end interiorly of said cap to electrically connect it thereto, the said head portion of said resilient cap being provided with an axial cavity within which the said clip is anchored in place, and the portion of the said clip anchored in said cavity being provided with laterally outwardly projecting mounting ear portions fitted in and resiliently clamped by the walls of recesses in the side walls of said cavity to hold the said clip in axial alignment with said cap and lock the clip in place in said cavity against movement outwardly therefrom.
An anode connector assembly for electrically connecting a bared wire end of an insulated anode supply conductor to a standard anode button disposed in the glass envelope wall of a cathode ray tube, said assembly comprising a resilient cap having a head portion with a circular skirt portion protruding laterally outwardly therefrom, and a U-shaped sheet metal connector clip firmly supported in a cavity in the said head portion of said cap and having spaced mounting legs extending outwardly of an open end of said cavity and exposed within the confines of said skirt portion for engaging the said anode button, said clip including a base strip portion provided with grip tab and pinch pad portions extending angularly therefrom between the said mounting legs and in spaced overlapping relation with one another with the grip pad portion located between the base strip and pinch pad portions of the clip, and said cap having a laterally extending passageway communicating with said cavity for insertion of a said bared wire end of a said conductor through the said passageway and into said cavity in a position between the said mounting legs of the clip and between the said pinch pad and grip tab portions of the clip for clamping of the bared wire end between the said pinch pad and grip tab portions of the clip by bending of the pinch pad portion in a direction toward said grip tab portion into wire clamping position.
A metal connector device for mounting in a resilient cap member of an anode connector assembly to electrically connect a bared wire end of an insulated anode supply conductor to a standard anode button disposed in the side of a cathode ray tube, said connector device comprising a generally U-shaped one piece sheet metal clip including a flat base strip portion formed at its opposite ends with a pair of mounting legs extending in spaced side-by-side flatwise opposed relation on opposite sides of the transverse medial plane of and generally perpendicular to said base strip portion and adapted for engagement with said anode button, said base strip portion having a conductor grip tab pressed out and bent inwardly therefrom to extend at an acute angle relative thereto toward one of the side edges of the base strip portion and with its free end edge extending longitudinally of the base strip portion, and said base strip portion also having a conductor pinch pad portion extending from one of the side edges of said base strip portion and bent back to extend transversely inward of said clip between the said mounting legs and at an acute angle to said base strip portion, and toward and overlapping but in spaced relation to the free end edge of said grip tab, for deformation of the pinch pad portion toward said grip tab to tightly clamp a said bared conductor wire end between the pinch pad portion and the grip tab and electrically connect it to the clip.
The method of assembling the components of an anode connector assembly comprised of a resilient shielding cap with a metal connector clip anchored within a cavity therein, and an electrical conductor supported within a passageway in said cap leading into the said cavity therein and having a bared wire end electrically connected to the clip, which method comprises the steps of providing a said metal clip having a grip tab portion and a pinch pad portion located adjacent and overlapping but spaced from said grip tab portion, inserting the said clip into and firmly anchoring it in place in the said cavity in said cap, inserting a bared wire end of a said conductor into and threading it through the said passageway in said cap and into the said cavity therein into a position located between the said grip tab and pinch pad portions of the said clip anchored in said cavity, and then inserting a press tool into the said cavity into engagement with the said pinch pad portion of the clip anchored therein and forcibly pressing said tool against the pinch pad toward the grip tab to deform the pinch pad so as to pinch the said positioned bared wire end of said conductor between the pinch pad and grip tab and thereby electrically connect it to the clip.
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