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US 6,280,241 B1Granted
Flat cable drop connection system
AssigneeDelphi Technologies, Inc.
InventorsGeorge Raymond Herlinger, Vickey E. Reed, Joseph Albert Svette, Jr., David Glen Siegfried, Anne F Monroe
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Abstract
A flat cable connection system includes a flat cable module having a power input segment and drop connectors that provides a low profile configuration; the drop connectors include a spring component, a non-spliced flat cable end portion and a connector body that serves to capture the flat cable end portion and to provide an electrical connection to an electrical accessory of the type associated with a headliner of a vehicle.
Claims11
A flat cable connection system comprising:
- a flat cable module having a plurality of power feed segments and a plurality of connector segments,
- each of the connector segments having a non-spliced terminal segment having spaced conductors formed thereon,
- a plurality of connector bodies,
- one connector body of the plurality of connector bodies for each of the connector segments located in spaced relationship to the plurality of power feed segments of said flat cable module,
- said connector body having a first portion forming a cavity for said non-spliced terminal segment of each of the connector segments;
- a mating surface within said cavity, the mating surface facing inwardly for providing an electrical contact therein;
- a spring component for shaping said non-spliced terminal segment;
- said non-spliced terminal segment having the spaced conductors formed thereon biased outwardly by said spring component,
- said non-spliced terminal segment being insertable into said cavity and said spaced conductors being biased outwardly within said cavity to provide a contact with said electrical mating surface within said connector body.
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A flat cable module having a plurality of power feed segments and a plurality of connector segments,
- each of the connector segments having a non-spliced terminal segment,
- a plurality of connector bodies located at spaced points with respect to the flat cable module and each other,
- one connector body of the plurality of connector bodies for each of the connector segments located in spaced relationship to the plurality of power feed segments of said flat cable module,
- said one connector body having a first portion forming a cavity for said non-spliced terminal segment of each of the connector segments;
- a mating surface within said cavity, the mating surface facing inwardly for providing an electrical contact therein;
- a spring component for shaping said non-spliced terminal segment;
- said non-spliced terminal segment having spaced conductors formed thereon biased outwardly by said spring component,
- said non-spliced terminal segment being insertable into said cavity and said spaced conductors being biased outwardly within said cavity to provide a contact with said electrical mating surface within said one connector body, and
- a headliner, the plurality of power feed segments of said flat cable module being located in a common low profile configuration and adhesive patches for securing said low profile configuration with respect to said headliner.
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A flat cable module having a plurality of power feed segments and a plurality of connector segments,
- each of the connector segments having a non-splice terminal segment,
- a connector body for each of the connector segments located in spaced relationship to the plurality of power feed segments of said flat cable module,
- said connector body having a first portion forming a cavity for said non-spliced terminal segment of each of the connector segments;
- a mating surface within said cavity, the mating surface facing inwardly for providing an electrical contact therein;
- a spring component for shaping said non-spliced terminal segment;
- said non-splice terminal segment having spaced conductors formed thereon biased outwardly by said spring component,
- said non-spliced terminal segment being insertable into said cavity and said spaced conductors being biased outwardly within said cavity to provide a contact with said electrical mating surface within said connector body and
- non-spliced terminal segment being wrapped around said spring component and including an end portion that has a loop that is shaped by said spring component and secured by fastening a portion of the loop against an adjacent portion of the end portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.