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Electrical connector, electrical terminal and a method of making an electrical connection

  • US 3,990,762 A
  • Filed: 04/17/1975
  • Issued: 11/09/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An electrical connector comprising a housing and a terminal, the terminal having a slot into which an insulated electrical wire can be forced by inserting the terminal along an insertion path into the housing, to cause the insulation of the wire to be severed by the walls of the slot so that the walls engage either side of the core of the wire, a pair of resiliently flexible pressure members being provided against the resilient action of which the wire can be forced into the slot, said pressure members extending inwardly of the housing from opposite walls of the housing to which said pressure members are connected, said pressure members having free ends positioned adjacent to and lying on either side of the insertion path of the terminal, said pressure members having arcuate surfaces facing an arcuated cross-section guide channel for the wire, the channel and the arcuate surfaces having a common axis of curvature extending transversely of the insertion path, and retaining means serving to retain the terminal in its inserted position in the housing to ensure that the pressure member resiliently maintains the wire in the slot subsequently to the insertion of the terminal.

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