Method for terminating conductors

• US 6,062,896 A
• Filed: 11/13/1998
• Issued: 05/16/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Huang, Wayne
• Primary Examiner(s): Paumen, Gary F.
• Application Number:
  US09/191,366
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 439/405, 439/404, 439/417-419
• US Class Current: 439/405
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/675 with contacts having at least a slotted plate for penetration of cable insulation, e.g. insulation displacement contacts for round conductor flat cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/2433 one part of the base being movable to push the cable into the slot
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/01 for connecting unstripped conductors to contact members having insulation cutting edges

Abstract

A method for terminating conductors of conductive wires to insulation displacement sections of a housing of a connector comprises the following steps. Step a) providing a carrier having retaining means. Step b) assembling the conductive wires to the retaining means such that the conductive wires are securely retained therein. Step c) attaching the carrier to the housing whereby insulative layers of the conductive wires abut against the insulation displacement sections. Step d) depressing the carrier toward the housing whereby the conductors are terminated with the insulation displacement sections.

Claims

1. A carrier for terminating conductors of conductive wires to insulation displacement sections of terminals positioned in a housing of a connector by assembling said carrier to said housing, said carrier comprising:

an elongate base having upper and lower faces;

a row of first tabs extending from said lower face and defining a first retaining slot between every two adjacent first tabs;

a row of guiding tabs extending from said lower face, arranged parallel to said row of first tabs and defining a guiding slot between every two adjacent guiding tabs; and

a first guiding slit defined between two aligned pairs of said first tabs and said guiding tabs;

further comprising a row of second tabs extending from said lower face and defining a second retaining slot between every two adjacent second tabs;

wherein inner walls of said first retaining slots form projections;

wherein said guiding slot aligns with said first retaining slot;

wherein a second guiding slit is defined between ends of said first and second tabs.

2. An IDC connector, comprising:

a dielectric housing having a plurality of terminals therein, said terminals having insulation displacement sections for respectively terminating conductive wires; and

a carrier assembled to said housing for terminating conductors of said conductive wires to said insulation displacement sections, said carrier including a retaining device for securely retaining said conductive wires thereto before the conductors have been terminated by the corresponding insulation displacement sections of the terminals, wherein the conductive wires are sandwiched between the terminals and the carrier;

wherein said retaining device comprises slots defined transversely along a lower face thereof for retainably receiving corresponding conductive wires therein, respectively;

wherein said carrier further comprises guiding means for facilitating engagement with said insulation displacement sections;

wherein termination between said conductors and said insulation displacement sections is facilitated by a first stage at which insulation layers of said conductive wires abut against said insulation displacement sections, and a second stage at which said insulation layers of the conductive wires are pierced by said insulation displacement sections;

wherein portions of said insulation displacement sections are received within guiding means of the carrier at said first stage for facilitating engagement between the carrier and the insulation displacement sections.