System and method for connecting wiring
AssigneeSiemens Energy & Automation, Inc.
InventorNed Cox
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Abstract
Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a system comprising: a connector for electrically coupling a plurality of wires to a printed circuit board, a termination end of each of the plurality of wires stripped of insulation, said connector comprising: a housing defining a plurality of a co-planar plurality of openings; and a plurality of clamps, each of the plurality of clamps adapted to receive the stripped termination end of at least one of the plurality of wires via the corresponding opening; wherein said plurality of screw-actuated clamps are disposed in an alternating proximal-distal relationship with respect to said co-planar plurality of openings.
Claims22
A system comprising:
- a connector for electrically coupling a plurality of wires to a printed circuit board of a programmable logic controller, a termination end of each of the plurality of wires stripped of insulation, said connector comprising:
- a housing defining a plurality of cages, said plurality of cages defining a co-planar plurality of cage openings;
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- a plurality of screw-actuated clamps, each of said screw-actuated clamps disposed substantially within a corresponding one of said plurality of cages, each of said screw-actuated clamps adapted to receive the stripped termination end of at least one of the plurality of wires via the corresponding cage opening, each of said screw-actuated clamps comprising an axially restrained screw, a movable clamping jaw coupled to said screw, and a stationary clamping jaw opposingly disposed to said movable clamping jaw;
- wherein said plurality of screw-actuated clamps are disposed in an alternating proximal-distal relationship with respect to said co-planar plurality of cage openings.
A method comprising:
- for each of a plurality of wires, clamping a bare termination end of the wires within a screw-actuated clamp disposed substantially within a housing of a connector, the housing defining a plurality of coplanar openings via which the bare termination ends enter the housing, the plurality of screw-actuated clamps disposed in an alternating proximal-distal relationship with respect to the co-planar plurality of openings, each of said screw-actuated clamps comprising an axially restrained screw, a movable clamping jaw coupled to said screw, and a stationary clamping jaw opposingly disposed to said movable clamping jaw;
- coupling the connector to a printed circuit board of a programmable logic controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.