Insulation displacement connector with a wire ejection feature
AssigneeLucent Technologies Inc.
InventorsBassel Hage Daoud, Ivan Pawlenko
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Abstract
An insulation displacement connector (IDC) having a body and a cap pivotably connected thereto. A wire channel is defined through the pivotable cap and has an insertion opening and an exit opening that provide separate ingress and egress openings for the wire channel. An insulated wire may be inserted into the wire channel via the insertion opening, and may exit the wire channel via the exit opening. Similarly, any insulation separated from the wire during use of the IDC is not trapped in the wire channel, but may easily be cleared therefrom via either the insertion or exit opening.
Claims18
An insulation displacement connector comprising:
- a body;
- and
- a cap connected to said body for selective pivotable movement between a first position and a second position, said cap having a first wire channel defined therethrough, said first wire channel having a first end having an insertion opening defined thereat and a second end at an exit surface opposite said body having an exit opening defined thereat so as to provide separate ingress and egress locations for said first wire channel, wherein the first wire channel has a first section adjacent the first end and a second section adjacent the second end, the first and second sections disposed at an obtuse angle with respect to each other.
An insulation displacement connector system comprising:
- a first insulation displacement connector comprising:
- a body;
- and
- a cap connected to said body for selective pivotable movement between a first position and a second position, said cap having a first wire channel defined therethrough, said first wire channel having a first end having an insertion opening defined thereat and a second end having an exit opening at an exit surface opposite said body defined thereat so as to provide separate ingress and egress locations for said first wire channel, wherein the first wire channel has a first section adjacent the first end and a second section adjacent the second end, the first and second sections disposed at an obtuse angle with respect to each other;
- and
- a second insulation displacement connector comprising:
- a body;
- and
- a cap connected to said body for selective pivotable movement between a first position and a second position, said cap having a first wire channel defined therethrough, said first wire channel having a first end having an insertion opening defined thereat and a second end having an exit opening at an exit surface opposite said body defined thereat so as to provide separate ingress and egress locations for said first wire channel;
- said first and said second insulation displacement connectors being positioned with respect to each other such that a wire may pass through said first wire channel of said first insulation displacement connector and through said first wire channel of said second insulation displacement connector.
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