Miniature, round headed battery terminal with dual, upturned flanges

• US 20070264883A1
• Filed: 07/24/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Royal Die & Stamping Co., Inc. (Eaton Corporation PLC.)
• Original Assignee: Royal Die & Stamping Co., Inc. (Eaton Corporation PLC.)
• Inventors: Freitag, Erik
• Application Number:
  US11/880,762
• Publication Number:
  US 20070264883A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/764
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 11/281 for connections to batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/03 characterised by the material, e.g. plating, or coating materials
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/16 for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending

Abstract

A one-piece battery terminal connector having a body portion and a ferrule portion. The body portion has a top, and a bottom, and includes a first side surface, and a second, opposed side surfaces. The body portion includes, between a first and second lateral end of the body portion, an aperture for engaging a battery post. The size of the intermediate aperture is variable, permitting the connector to be placed onto, and removed from, its corresponding battery post. The connector further comprises a first upturned flange and a second upturned flange, which together cooperatively form the intermediate aperture. The first lateral end of the battery terminal connector has a generally arcuate periphery, and most preferably a semi-circular periphery. The axial or vertical spacing between the first upturned flange and the second upturned flange is approximately 0.6 times the height of the first upturned flange, or less.

Claims

1. A one-piece battery terminal connector having a body portion;

the body portion having a top;

a bottom;

a first and a second, opposed side surfaces, an intermediate aperture for engaging a battery post;

the intermediate aperture having a size that is variable to accommodate placement of the connector onto, and the removal of the connector from, the battery post; and

the body portion further comprising a rounded frontal portion, a first upturned flange and a second upturned flange, wherein the first upturned flange and the second upturned flange cooperatively form the intermediate aperture.

2. The battery terminal connector of claim 1, wherein the connector is made of a copper alloy.

3. The battery terminal connector of claim 1, wherein a first lateral end of the body portion has a generally arcuate periphery.

4. The battery terminal connector of claim 3, wherein a second lateral end of the body portion includes a threaded rod and a nut, for varying the size of the intermediate aperture.

5. The battery terminal connector of claim 1, wherein spacing separates the first and second upturned flanges from each other, wherein the first and the second upturned flanges have a height, and wherein the spacing between the first upturned flange and the second upturned flange is approximately 0.6 times the height of the first upturned flange.

6. The battery terminal connector of claim 1, further comprising a ferrule portion.

7. The battery terminal connector of claim 1, wherein a first lateral end of the body portion has a generally semi-circular periphery.

8. The battery terminal connector of claim 1, wherein the battery terminal connector is made of a copper alloy, and wherein the copper alloy is C-194.

9. A one-piece battery terminal connector having a body portion and a ferrule portion;

the body portion having a first lateral end with a generally arcuate periphery; and

the connector further having a top;

a bottom;

a first and a second, opposed side surfaces, an intermediate aperture for engaging a battery post;

the intermediate aperture having a size to accommodate placement of the connector onto, and the removal of the connector from, the battery post; and

the connector further comprising a first upturned flange having a height of approximately H1 and a second upturned flange having a height of approximately H1, wherein the first upturned flange and the second upturned flange cooperatively form the intermediate aperture, and wherein a distance H2 between the first and the second upturned flanges is less than approximately 0.6 times the height of the first upturned flange.

10. The battery terminal connector of claim 9, wherein the battery terminal connector is made of a copper alloy.

11. The battery terminal connector of claim 10, wherein the copper alloy is C-194 alloy.

12. The battery terminal connector of claim 9, wherein the arcuate periphery is generally semi-circular.

13. A one-piece battery terminal connector having a body portion;

the body portion having a top;

a bottom;

a first and a second, opposed side surfaces;

a first and second lateral end;

an intermediate aperture for engaging a battery post;

the intermediate aperture having a size that is variable to accommodate placement of the connector onto, and the removal of the connector from, the battery post;

wherein the second lateral end of the body portion includes a threaded rod and a nut, for varying the size of the intermediate aperture; and

the body portion further comprising a rounded frontal portion, a first upturned flange and a second upturned flange, wherein the first upturned flange and the second upturned flange cooperatively form the intermediate aperture.