Cable terminal connector

• US 7,828,613 B2
• Filed: 08/10/2009
• Issued: 11/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ching-Fu Chen
• Original Assignee: Ching-Fu Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Ting-Chu
• Primary Examiner(s): Dinh; Phuong K
• Application Number:
  US12/462,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20100159756A1
• Time in Patent Office: 456 Days
• Field of Search: 439/883, 439/857, 439/860
• US Class Current: 439/883
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/12 End pieces terminating in an eye, hook, or fork
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/34 Conductive members located under head of screw

Abstract

This invention is a cable terminal connector, primarily comprising of a U-shaped contact body at the front end of the connector, with a compressible slot located between its upper and lower faces, forming upper and lower resilient clamping faces above and below the compressible slot. When the cable terminal connector'"'"'s U-shaped contact body is held in place by the cap, the resilient clamping faces on the U-shaped contact body spring back to hold the cap in place, preventing it loosening and increasing the stability of conduction, thereby making it a more effective cable terminal connector.

Claims

1. A cable terminal connector, comprising:

a connector element having a front formed as a single material U-shaped contact body and a rear, the U-shaped contact body having two prongs each having a solid front end and a compressible slot extending rearward from the solid front end and defining an upper and a lower clamping face separated by the compressible slot, whereby in a region of the compressible slots the upper and lower clamping faces are compressible together to a thickness less than a thickness of the front ends; and

an insulating body fitted to the rear end of the connector element.