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Canted coil spring power terminal and sequence connection system

  • US 7,458,862 B2
  • Filed: 06/11/2007
  • Issued: 12/02/2008
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In an electrical terminal having a female body including an opening, a spring, and a groove communicating with said opening for housing said spring internally of said opening, the improvement wherein said groove is formed by a stamping process performed on said female body, wherein said female body includes a sheet of stamped metal having a first portion containing one side of said opening and a second portion folded over so as to be in contact with said first portion, said second portion containing an opposite side of said opening and cooperating with said first portion to form said groove, and wherein a dimension defining said diameter of said spring is perpendicular to a dimension defining a length of said female body.

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