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Flex connector and manufacturing process

  • US 7,955,106 B1
  • Filed: 03/12/2010
  • Issued: 06/07/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A flex connector for a modular power distribution assembly comprising:

  • at least one plug connector having a housing defining a hollow interior, a window providing access to said hollow interior, and a plurality of conductor assemblies each comprising a contact terminal seated in said housing and accessible from an exterior thereof, and an elongate conductor having one end connected to said terminal and a length extending out of said hollow interior through said window, said conductors each extending out of said window in parallel, side-by-side relation; and

    a conductor jacket comprising superimposed first and second jacket layers of a thin, flexible sheet material which define an interior conductor passage through which said conductors extend, said first and second jacket layers including longitudinal opposite side edges extending edgewise away from said plug connector and transverse end edges defined on the opposite end sections of said jacket, said jacket layers each having at least one terminal free edge along one of said side edges wherein said free edges of the first and second jacket layers are aligned, and are edgewise joined along their length which provides for fixed securement of the jacket layers along such free edges.

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