Flag grounding connector

• US 5,681,191 A
• Filed: 08/22/1995
• Issued: 10/28/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Framatome Connectors USA, Inc. (Amphenol Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Framatome Connectors USA, Inc. (Amphenol Corporation)
• Inventors: Robicheau, Richard E., Di Troia, Gary W.
• Primary Examiner(s): SWANN, JUDY J
• Application Number:
  US08/517,752
• Time in Patent Office: 798 Days
• Field of Search: 439/421, 439/422, 439/877-883, 439/92, 439/95, 439/108, 439/885
• US Class Current: 439/877
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/11 End pieces or tapping pieces for wires, supported by the wire and for facilitating electrical connection to some other wire, terminal or conductive member H01R11/01 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/184 comprising a U-shaped wire-receiving portion
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/646 for cables or flexible cylindrical bodies

Abstract

A one-piece flag-shaped electrical terminal with a first section and a second section. The first section is flat and has mounting holes. The second section has a general "U" shape. The first section extends off of a leg of the general "U" shape of the second section.

Claims

1. A one-piece flag-shaped electrical terminal comprising:

a first flat section having a plurality of mounting holes; and

a second U-shaped section connected to the first flat section, wherein the first flat section extends straight off of a first leg of the U-shaped section parallel to a second leg of the U-shaped section, wherein the second U-shaped section has two notches in its legs that extend, respectively, into the legs from end edges of each leg.

2. A terminal as in claim 1 wherein the first flat section has four mounting holes.

3. A one-piece flag-shaped electrical terminal comprising:

a first flat section with apertures therethrough; and

a second U-shaped section connected to the first flat section, the U-shaped section having two parallel legs connected by a curved section, wherein the U-shaped section extends from a side end of the first flat section with one of the legs of the U-shaped section extending directly off of the first flat section at an angle, wherein the legs each have a separate notch therein, each notch extending into its respective leg from an end edge of the leg.

4. A terminal as in claim 3 wherein one leg is longer than the other leg.

5. A terminal as in claim 3 wherein a rear of the U-shaped section is angled.

6. A terminal as in claim 5 wherein a rear of the first flat section at the second U-shaped section is angled.

7. A terminal as in claim 3 wherein a rear of the first flat section at the second U-shaped section is angled.

8. A terminal as in claim 3 wherein the angle is about 90°

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9. A terminal as in claim 3 wherein the second U-shaped section has a front that projects past a front edge of the first flat section.

10. A terminal as in claim 4 wherein the U-shaped section forms a general "J" shape.