Wire-wrap connector block base having an articulable side wall
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorBassel Hage Daoud
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Abstract
A wire-wrap connector block having a base that includes an articulable wall section that facilitates both automated wire-wrapping and potting procedures. During the wire-wrap procedure, the articulable wall section is latched in a position that permits the wire-wrap equipment to access the wire-wrap terminals without undesirable vertical movement of the wire-wrap equipment and wire. During the potting procedure, the articulable wall section is latched in a position in which the articulable wall section, together with another, non-articulable wall section, creates a substantially continuous wall about the bottom surface of the wire-wrap connector block base, defining a potting well or cavity within which potting material may be deposited.
Claims12
A connector block base comprising:
- a bottom surface defining a first plane and having features formed therethrough for receiving terminal strips;
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- a wall extending from a peripheral edge of said base at said bottom surface and substantially encircling said bottom surface to define a cavity proximate said bottom surface, said wall having a section articulable between a first position wherein said cavity is enclosed by said wall and a second position wherein said cavity is accessible through a space occupied by said wall section when said wall section is in said first position.
A connector block comprising:
- a base having a bottom surface defining a first plane and having a feature formed therethrough;
- and
- a wall extending from a peripheral edge of said base at said bottom surface and substantially encircling said bottom surface to define a cavity proximate said bottom surface, said wall having a section articulable between a first position wherein said cavity is enclosed by said wall and a second position wherein said cavity is accessible through a space occupied by said wall section when in said first position;
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- a terminal strip including a wire-wrap terminal extending through said feature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.