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US 6,471,554 B2Granted
Multi-way electrical connection device having a compliant connector
AssigneeOxley Developments Company Limited
InventorsTrevor Armistead, Robert Graham Armistead
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Abstract
An electrical connector comprising an at least substantially helical winding shaped to provide a first portion, having a diameter suitable to receive and embrace an electrical contact when inserted therein, and a second portion of larger diameter than the first for contacting an electrical terminal when disposed around or adjacent the contact, to thereby form an electrical connection from the contact to the terminal.
Claims7
A multi-way electrical connection device comprising:
- a block containing electrodes forming at least one filter capacitor;
- a plurality of lead through holes formed through the block, an interior of at least one of the lead through holes having a metal layer that is in electrical contact with at least one electrode, the metal layer having an internal diameter;
- a plurality of elongate pins, each pin passing through one of the plurality of lead through holes in the block;
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- a connector that electrically connects the at least one electrode that is in electrical contact with the metal layer to the pin, the connector being disposed around the pin and within the metal layer, the connector having an at least substantially helical winding shape to provide a first portion having a diameter suitable to receive and embrace one of the pins when one of the pins is inserted therein to form and electrical connection therewith, and a second portion of larger diameter than the first, the second portion having an external diameter larger than the internal diameter of the metal layer, such that the external diameter of the second portion is radially compressed within the metal layer to maintain pressure and electrical contact therewith.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.