Manual clam plug connector

• US 10,431,927 B2
• Filed: 04/26/2018
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oscar Landeros, Oscar Landeros Jr
• Original Assignee: Oscar Landeros, Oscar Landeros Jr
• Inventors: Landeros, Oscar, Landeros, Jr., Oscar
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phuong Chi T
• Application Number:
  US15/963,105
• Publication Number:
  US 20180316126A1
• Time in Patent Office: 523 Days
• Field of Search: 439504, 439829, 439502-506
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 27/10 inserting fittings into hoses
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 7/123 with self-locking toggle levers
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/627 Snap or like fastening
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/629 Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances separate tools or apparatus H01R43/26
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/26 for engaging or disengaging the two parts of a coupling device structural association with two-part coupling device H01R13/629
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 40/34 comprising specially adapted electrical connection means to be structurally associated with the PV module, e.g. junction boxes
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/50 Photovoltaic [PV] energy

Abstract

A manual clam plug connector to connect a plug connector, the manual clam plug connector including a vice-grip locking pliers disposed at a first end of the manual clam plug connector to be squeezed manually, and a connecting clam disposed at a second end of the manual clam plug connector to be squeezed in response to the vice-grip locking pliers being squeezed, such that a female connector end of the plug connector and a male connector end of the plug connector are brought together in response to the connecting clam being squeezed.

Claims

1. A manual clam plug connector to connect a plug connector, the manual clam plug connector comprising:

a vice-grip locking pliers disposed at a first end of the manual clam plug connector to be squeezed manually; and

a connecting clam disposed at a second end of the manual clam plug connector to be squeezed in response to the vice-grip locking pliers being squeezed, such that a female connector end of the plug connector and a male connector end of the plug connector are brought together in response to the connecting clam being squeezed.

2. The manual clam plug connector of claim 1, wherein the connecting clam includes protrusions at end portions thereof, extending in a direction away from the vice-grip locking pliers.

3. The manual clam plug connector of claim 2, wherein the female connector end and the male connector end are removably attached to the protrusions.