Electrical connecting device and colored strip

• US 5,114,363 A
• Filed: 04/11/1991
• Issued: 05/19/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: FCI Americas Technology LLC (Amphenol Corporation)
• Original Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Corteva, Inc.)
• Inventors: Mitra, Niranjan
• Primary Examiner(s): Abrams, Neil
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, KHIEM M
• Application Number:
  US07/684,134
• Time in Patent Office: 404 Days
• Field of Search: 439/488, 439/489, 439/491, 439/677, 439/680, 439/681
• US Class Current: 439/491
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/00 Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means medals or badges A44C3/00; making labels B31D1/02; sheets temporarily attached together B42F; labelling B65C; labels on record carriers G11B23/38, G11B23/40; Seals; Postage or like stamps
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/465 Identification means, e.g. labels, tags, markings H01R9/2475, H01R9/2683 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/64 Means for preventing incorrect coupling

Abstract

Electrical connecting device having a housing with connecting means for at least one conductor and being provided with means to be coupled to another electrical device. The housing is provided with colored identification means provided in at least one recess in the housing. The colored identification means can be introduced in this recess.

Claims

1. An electrical connector for interconnecting a plurality of conductors of cable with a plurality of contact elements adapted for mating with another electronic component, said connector comprising

a housing of electrically insulating material, having a plurality of conductor channels for receiving said conductors and a plurality of electrical contact elements disposed so as to electrically contact respective conductors received in said conductor channels,

a plurality of recesses formed in the housing for receiving different color-coded coding members for identifying said connector, at least one said recess shaped to receive a spherical coding member and having a snap-locking edge at its top to lock said spherical coding member in said recess while permitting a portion of said spherical coding member to project from said recess so as to be visible from one side of the housing, at least a second said recess having at least a partially cylindrical shape to receive a cylindrical coding member of a predetermined color, said cylindrical coding member projecting partially from said second recess so as to be visible from a second side of said connector.

2. The electrical connector of claim 1 wherein there are a plurality of said one recesses for receiving spherical coding members, each recess receiving a spherical coding member of a predetermined color, said coding members indicating the position of each conductor with respect to housing.