Receptacle for flat multiconductor cable
First Claim
1. A receptacle for use with flat conductor cable and adapted for placement thereof on top of said cable in disposition spanning respective laterally spaced live grounding and neutral conductors extending longitudinally in said cable and being cooperatively securable to a support member underlaying said cable, said receptacle comprisingan elongated body having a cable engaging bottom side and a power transfer access top side,contact means associated with said live and neutral conductors of said cable carried in said body and including first insulation piercing contact portions disposed at the body bottom side and effective when said body is urged downwardly against said cable during securement thereof to said support member to pierce cable insulation covering said live and neutral conductors, said contact means including second contact portions extending from the first portions toward the top side of said body and positioned within said body such as to be electrically connectively engaged by the contact members of a plug connector when said plug connector is receptively engaged in said receptacle at the top side thereof,said body having a recess opening upwardly therein from the bottom side,a support block receivable in said recess and moveable upwardly and downwardly therein relatively of said body,contact means associated with said cable grounding conductor carried on said support block and having a first insulative piercing contact portion disposed in facing relation to said cable and a second contact portion extending toward the top side of said body when said block is received in said recess with said second contact portion being positioned such as to be electrically connectively engaged by a grounding contact member of said plug connector, andmeans for urging said support block and the cable grounding conductor associated contact means carried thereon downwardly relatively of said body independently of the effect of any downwardly urging securement of said elongated body to said support member thereby to cause said grounding conductor associated contact means first portion to pierce the covering over said cable grounding conductor and electrically conductively contact said cable grounding conductor.
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Abstract
A receptacle for use with flat conductor cable is provided with a grounding contact that can be urged into electrically conductive contact with the cable grounding conductor and protective shield on such cable independently of the means by which other contacts in the receptacle are urged into electrically conductive contact with the respective live and neutral conductors of the cable.
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28 Claims
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1. A receptacle for use with flat conductor cable and adapted for placement thereof on top of said cable in disposition spanning respective laterally spaced live grounding and neutral conductors extending longitudinally in said cable and being cooperatively securable to a support member underlaying said cable, said receptacle comprising
an elongated body having a cable engaging bottom side and a power transfer access top side, contact means associated with said live and neutral conductors of said cable carried in said body and including first insulation piercing contact portions disposed at the body bottom side and effective when said body is urged downwardly against said cable during securement thereof to said support member to pierce cable insulation covering said live and neutral conductors, said contact means including second contact portions extending from the first portions toward the top side of said body and positioned within said body such as to be electrically connectively engaged by the contact members of a plug connector when said plug connector is receptively engaged in said receptacle at the top side thereof, said body having a recess opening upwardly therein from the bottom side, a support block receivable in said recess and moveable upwardly and downwardly therein relatively of said body, contact means associated with said cable grounding conductor carried on said support block and having a first insulative piercing contact portion disposed in facing relation to said cable and a second contact portion extending toward the top side of said body when said block is received in said recess with said second contact portion being positioned such as to be electrically connectively engaged by a grounding contact member of said plug connector, and means for urging said support block and the cable grounding conductor associated contact means carried thereon downwardly relatively of said body independently of the effect of any downwardly urging securement of said elongated body to said support member thereby to cause said grounding conductor associated contact means first portion to pierce the covering over said cable grounding conductor and electrically conductively contact said cable grounding conductor.
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18. A receptacle for electrical connection to flat multiconductor cable comprising:
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a housing having a cavity therein; first contact means supported by said housing, said first contact means having a terminal portion for external connection thereto and an insulation piercing portion disposed to engage a conductor of said flat multiconductor cable; a support member movably disposed within said cavity; second contact means supported by said support member for movement therewith, said second contact means having a terminal portion for external connection thereto and an insulation piercing portion disposed to engage another conductor of said flat multiconductor cable; and means for independently urging said insulation piercing portions of said first and second contact means into engagement with said respective conductors of said cable. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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21. In a receptacle for use with flat elongate multiconductor electrical cable and adapted for placement on said cable in disposition spanning plural laterally spaced conductors extending longitudinally in said cable, including an elongate housing having a length at least sufficient to span the lateral expanse of said conductors in said cable, plural contact means supported by said housing associated separately with said cable conductors, said plural contact means being longitudinally spaced in said housing for individual lateral registration with respective cable conductors, each of said contact means having a terminal portion for external connection thereto and an insulation piercing portion disposed to pierce cable insulation and engage a respective conductor of said cable, and means for urging the insulation piercing portions of said contact means into engagement with the respective cable conductors, wherein the improvement comprises:
a conductive urging member supported by said housing in registry with a selected one of said contact means for independently conCtacting such selected one contact means and urging the insulation piercing portion thereof into engagement with a respective cable conductor, said urging member further comprising means for extending through said contact means and into piercing relation with said selected cable conductor. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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23. In combination,
a flat elongate multiconductor electrical cable having longitudinally extending, laterally spaced plural conductors, one of which is at ground potential, encased in electrical insulation; -
a flat elongate metallic ground shield extending lengthwise with said cable having lateral expanse sufficient to extend across the width of said cable conductors; and a receptacle electrically connected to said cable and to said ground shield having an insulative housing spacedly supporting plural contact means each associated respectively with one of said cable conductors, each of said contact means having a terminal portion for external connection thereto and an insulation piercing portion, the insulation piercing portion of a contact means associated with a conductor other than said ground conductor directly piercing insulation adjacent such other conductor and being in electrical engagement therewith, said insulation adjacent said other conductor having been exposed by a displaced portion of said ground shield, a portion of said ground shield being interposed between said cable and the contact means associated with said ground conductor, the insulation piercing portion of such contact means associated with said ground conductor piercing both the interposed ground shield portion and the insulation adjacent said ground conductor and being in electrical engagement with said ground conductor. - View Dependent Claims (24)
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25. A receptacle for electrical connection to a flat multiconductor cable having a plurality of laterally spaced flat conductors encased in insulation, comprising:
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an elongate housing adapted for placement laterally on said cable and having a length at least sufficient to span the lateral expanse of said conductors in said cable; plural contact means supported by said housing for separate association with said cable conductors, said plural contact means being longitudinally spaced in said housing for individual lateral registration with respective cable conductors, each of said contact means having a terminal portion for external connection thereto and an insulation piercing portion disposed to pierce cable insulation and engage a respective conductor of said cable; a support member adapted for placement underneath said cable; securement means for securing said housing to said support to thereby sandwich said cable therebetween and cause said respective insulation piercing portions of said contact means to pierce said cable insulation and engage the respective conductors, said securement means including at least one securement member disposed in registry with a selected one of said contact means and extending therethrough, said securement member having an extent extending from said housing to connected receipt in said support member and having insulation piercing expanse for piercing through said cable insulation and through said conductor to be in registry with said selected one of said contact means. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28)
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Specification