Electrical connection device

• US 6,702,606 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2001
• Issued: 03/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Woertz AG
• Original Assignee: Woertz AG
• Inventors: Bolliger, Roman Marcel
• Primary Examiner(s): Bradley, P. Austin
• Assistant Examiner(s): GUSHI, ROSS N
• Application Number:
  US09/941,624
• Publication Number:
  US 20020028598A1
• Time in Patent Office: 922 Days
• Field of Search: 439/425, 439/418, 439/411, 439/422, 439/416, 439/412, 439/413, 439/414, 439/417, 439/419, 439/431, 439/391
• US Class Current: 439/425
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/616 having contacts penetrating insulation for making contact with conductors, e.g. needle points
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/24 Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands

Abstract

The electrical connecting element for a connecting of fine wire cables (strands) consists of a contact pin having preferably points at both its ends and a radially projecting abutment flange on the shaft of the pin which contact pin penetrates through insulations. A shoulder between tip and shaft ensures that the pin which has been pressed in can not be torn out and the flange acts for a limiting of the depth of penetration.

Claims

1. A device for electrically connecting fine wire core leads in cables which comprises a shaft having a first diameter and first and second pin points at opposite ends of said shaft, said first and second pin points each including circumferential ribs and defining bases with diameters larger than said first diameter so as to define respective shoulders, and an annular abutment flange on said shaft at a location between said first and second pin points for determining a maximum depth of insertion of each of said first and second pin points into a cable.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein said device is made of copper.

3. A combination of first and second flat band cables which each contain fine wire core leads, and a device for electrically connecting a fine wire core lead in the first cable with a fine wire core lead in the second cable, said device comprising a shaft having a first diameter and first and second pin points at opposite ends of said shaft, said first and second pin points each including circumferential ribs and defining bases with diameters larger than said first diameter so as to define respective shoulders, and an annular abutment flange on said shaft at a location between said first and second pin points for determining a maximum depth of insertion of each of said first and second pin points into a cable.