Battery terminal connector

• US 20030203681A1
• Filed: 04/26/2002
• Published: 10/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shih Tsung Liang
• Original Assignee: Shih Tsung Liang
• Inventors: Liang, Shih Tsung
• Application Number:
  US10/135,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20030203681A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/768
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/281 for connections to batteries

Abstract

A battery terminal connector includes a bore formed by a peripheral wall for receiving a terminal of a vehicle battery, and one or more peripheral ribs or a helical rib or one or more ratchet ribs extended inward of the bore of the connector for engaging with the terminal of the battery and for securing the connector onto the terminal of the battery. A fastener may be engaged through the peripheral wall of the connector and engaged with the terminal of the battery, for further solidly securing the connector onto the terminal of the battery.

Claims

1. A battery terminal connector comprising:

a connector body including a bore formed therein and defined by a peripheral wall for receiving a terminal of a battery, and including at least one peripheral rib extended inward of said bore of said connector body for engaging with the terminal of the battery, and for securing said connector body onto the terminal of the battery.

2. The battery terminal connector according to claim 1, wherein said at least one peripheral rib is a ratchet rib for solidly engaging with the terminal of the battery and for preventing said connector body from being disengaged from the terminal of the battery.

3. The battery terminal connector according to claim 1, wherein said at least one peripheral rib is a helical rib for engaging onto the terminal of the battery by rotating said connector body relative to the terminal of the battery.

4. The battery terminal connector according to claim 1 further comprising a fastener engaged through said peripheral wall of said connector body and engaged with the terminal of the battery, for further securing said connector body onto the terminal of the battery.

5. The battery terminal connector according to claim 4, wherein said connector body includes an aperture formed in said peripheral wall thereof and communicating with said bore thereof, said fastener includes a first leg engaged in said aperture of said connector body and engaged with the terminal of the battery.

6. The battery terminal connector according to claim 5, wherein said fastener further includes a second leg, and a slot formed between said first and said second legs.

7. The battery terminal connector according to claim 5, wherein said fastener includes a head having said first leg extended therefrom, and having an opening formed therein.

8. A battery terminal connector comprising:

a connector body including a bore formed therein and defined by a peripheral wall for receiving a terminal of a battery, and including an aperture formed in said peripheral wall thereof and communicating with said bore thereof, and

a fastener engaged through said aperture of said peripheral wall of said connector body and engaged between said connector body and the terminal of the battery, for securing said connector body onto the terminal of the battery.

9. The battery terminal connector according to claim 8, wherein said fastener includes a first leg engaged in said aperture of said connector body and engaged with the terminal of the battery.

10. The battery terminal connector according to claim 9, wherein said fastener further includes a second leg, and a slot formed between said first and said second legs.

11. The battery terminal connector according to claim 9, wherein said fastener includes a head having said first leg extended therefrom, and having an opening formed therein.

12. The battery terminal connector according to claim 8, wherein said connector body includes at least one peripheral rib extended inward of said bore of said connector body for engaging with the terminal of the battery, and for further securing said connector body onto the terminal of the battery.

13. The battery terminal connector according to claim 12, wherein said at least one peripheral rib is a ratchet rib for solidly engaging with the terminal of the battery and for preventing said connector body from being disengaged from the terminal of the battery.

14. The battery terminal connector according to claim 12, wherein said at least one peripheral rib is a helical rib for engaging onto the terminal of the battery by rotating said connector body relative to the terminal of the battery.