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US 8,986,038 B2Granted
Electrical cable connector
AssigneePhoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
InventorJens Franke
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Abstract
A cable connector includes a housing and a first screwed cable gland for receiving a first cable and a second screwed cable gland for receiving a second cable, wherein a contact device is provided on which the first cable can be connected to the second cable. A detent device is provided, which, when one of the screwed cable glands is screwed to the housing, latches the contact device to the screwed cable gland such that the cables are received on the housing in a contact-safe manner.
Claims9
A cable connector comprising a housing, comprising:
- a first cable gland for receiving a first cable;
- a second cable gland for receiving a second cable;
- at least one contact base configured to form a contact between at least the first cable and the second cable, the at least one contact base including a first locking unit;
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- at least one locking device disposed between the first cable gland and the contact base;
- the at least one locking device including a second locking unit configured to engage the first locking unit so as to lock the contact base to the first cable gland.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.