Flat multi-conductor cable holder

• US 3,873,172 A
• Filed: 06/25/1973
• Issued: 03/25/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clarence Leonard Paullus
• Original Assignee: Clarence Leonard Paullus
• Inventors: Paullus, Clarence Leonard
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewis, Terrell P.
• Application Number:
  US05/373,228
• Time in Patent Office: 638 Days
• Field of Search: 339/17,18,75,59,60,61,95,97,99,103,107,176,217,220,221,256,258,119,125 317/101
• US Class Current: 439/498
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/68 comprising deformable portions
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/778 Coupling parts carrying sockets, clips or analogous counter-contacts H01R12/78, H01R12/79 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/78 connecting to other flexible printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables or like structures

Abstract

This invention relates to a flat multi-conductor cable holder and more particularly to a holder having a number of studs thereon which fit into cavities in terminal contacts which are crimped onto the cable so that the end of the cable abuts the ends of the studs, retaining such in the aforementioned cavities.

Claims

1. A terminated flat multi-conductor cable and cable holder comprising:

a. a flat cable having a plurality of parallel, spaced apart conductors contained in insulating material;

b. a cable holder having a cable-receiving surface with an end of the cable positioned thereon, guide means being positioned on either side for locating the cable and a plurality of spaced fingers projecting forwardly from the surface, each finger having front and back ends; and

c. a plurality of terminals each having crimping means on the underside of one end, said means being crimped onto the conductors of the cable at a distance removed from the cable end, each terminal further having a rearwardly opening receptacle on the underside and spaced adjacent to the end of the cable, said receptacles being positioned on said fingers with the end of the cable abutting the back end of the fingers thereby preventing axial movement of the cable.

2. An electrical connection comprising:

a. a pair of face to face, matable frame portions each having a pair of insert receiving apertures therethrough, said apertures separated one from the other by a web portion;

b. inserts of insulating material adapted to be positioned in said apertures, said inserts further adapted to receive a plurality of terminals therethrough;

c. a plurality of flat, multi-conductor cables entering into the back of each of said frame portions;

d. a plurality of terminals the front of which contain either pin contacts or socket assemblies, said pin contacts being received into said socket assemblies when said frame portions are mated together, said terminals having crimping means on the back which mechanically and electrically engage the conductors in said multi-conductor cables, said terminal further having, intermediate the ends thereof, rearwardly opening receptacles, said terminals being positioned in said inserts so that the pin contacts are in one frame portion and the socket assemblies are in the opposing frame portion, the pin contacts being telescopingly received by the socket assemblies when the two frame portions are joined;

e. a plurality of cable holders positioned behind each of the inserts in vertical fashion, said holders having longitudinal grooves along each side for retains the edges of said multi-conductor cables, and further having forwardly projecting spaced fingers positioned across the front edge of the holders and which are received in said rearwardly opening receptacles on said terminals so that each of said terminated multi-conductor cables are retained on said holders; and

f. a plurality of frame-shaped retainers which are removably secured to the rear face of said frame portions so as to retain said cable holders against said inserts.