Abstract: A terminal connection device having an elastic cage 10 with a clamping aperture 13 for a cable C, a conducting component 20 which is provided to carry the cage. An insulating block D linked to the elastic cage carries, on the one hand an arm 31 for opening the cage and on the other hand a conducting connection arm 32, the arms being fitted in such a way that when the block is at the side of the cage, the opening arm 31 bends the loop to allow the connection arm to be introduced into the clamping aperture and to remain pressed against the conducting component.

Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for terminating a flat cable. The connector includes a housing mounting a plurality of terminals in a generally parallel array. The housing has opposite sides and a front end, with an opening between the sides for receiving an end of the flat cable in engagement with contact portions of the terminals. A pressure member is rotatably mounted on the housing for movement between a first position allowing insertion of the flat cable into the opening and a second position pressing conductors of the flat cable against the contact portions of the terminals. Overhanging extensions project inwardly from the opposite sides of the housing to prevent release of the flat cable from the connector in the event undesired external forces are applied to the cable which would tend to bias the pressure member toward its first position.

Abstract: Prior art terminals with operating buttons and a contact member movable against the force of a spring are relatively bulky and complex. It is proposed to provide a part of a curved leaf spring as the contact member having at least one aperture fitted in such a way above the conductor guide that an edge of the aperture acts as the contact member. This design also permits the contacting of thin conductors.

Abstract: A connection unit for transmission networks includes contact members which cooperate with a conjugate connection unit and connection terminals in an insulative material body, each of which is individually connected to the contact members by electrical conductors and each of which includes at least one connection unit having a circumferentially elongate slot around an axis. A barrel coaxially associated with two connection units circumferentially staggered around one such axis is rotatable about said axis and forces an electrical wire into the slot of each of the connection members. To this end the barrel has, in corresponding relationship to the slot of each of the connection units, a passage adapted to have an electrical wire of this kind engaged in it.

Abstract: A plug (101) for connection to the stripped end of a heart electrode wire or of another implantable wire comprises a contact piece (110), the front region of which is constructed as a plug pin (112) and the rear region (114) of which has a recess (118), an insulating housing (120) which surrounds the rear region (114) of the contact piece (110) and leaves free access to the recess (118), and a clamping piece (130) which, in the assembled state, engages with the recess (118), whereby the stripped wire end is bent round and clamped in the recess (118).

Abstract: A clamp for a dispersive electrode is disclosed. The clamp includes (a) a housing having an exterior surface, an interior surface being formed within the housing for receiving projecting tabs of the electrode, and a slot in the housing disposed between the exterior surface and the interior surface; (b) a mechanism for releasably engaging the tabs at the interior surface; (c) a reinforcement on the releasably engagement means; and (d) a slot on the exterior surface of the housing having a shape matching the reinforcement.

Abstract: A snap locking mounting scheme for securing wire connectors is presented. In accordance with the connector mounting scheme, a wire termination assembly is removably secured in a mounting base by a snap locking mechanism. The wire termination assembly includes a mounting strip which is connected to a wire termination block at one end and is snap locked into the mounting base at the other end. The termination assembly further including an interconnecting device (e.g., telecommunication modular jack) connected to the termination block by a plurality of wires.

Abstract: A single modular assembly (10) has two terminals (18) in housing cavities (28) each with a pair of slots (38) for termination by rotary actuation to respective conductors of two cables, for crossconnecting or splicing the tip and ring lines of a customer's service line with those of a cable extending to the main distribution line. Each terminal (18) is in electrical engagement with a circuit wire (40) extending to a separate portion (20) of the module for electrical connection to an active electrode of a protector element (24). The two protector elements (24) each include a ground electrode (76) grounded to a common ground strap (54) which includes a contact section (60,64) exposed along the bottom of the module to be assuredly engaged with a ground strap (122) along the floor (112) of the enclosure (110) upon mounting of the module (10) therein, for grounding to a ground stud for external system grounding.

Abstract: An electric connector suitable for establishing electrical connection between a wire and a mating connector or between a wire and another wire comprising: means forming a body, the means including contact means, the contact means having a first end for receiving a wire and a second end for making an electrical connection with the mating connector or for receiving another wire; plate means mountable on the body and forming a plurality of guide channels for wire and guide slots for receiving slidable cam means; means for retaining the plate means on the means forming a body; and slidable cam means slidably positioned in the receiving means, and slidable between a first position adjacent said means for piercing insulation and a second position remote therefrom, whereby a wire may be inserted into the guide channels when the cam means is in the second position and can be forced by said cam means into engagement with said means for piercing insulation on a wire by moving the cam means to the first position.

Abstract: A one-piece insulation displacing terminal having a first portion, a second portion, and a connecting portion connecting the first and second portions. The connecting portion is torsional in order to permit the first portion to rotate relative to the second portion. In one embodiment, the first portion has adjacent first and second walls which are arcuately shaped and which have wire receiving openings therein. The wire receiving openings have associated wire receiving slots. The second portion is mounted in an insulating housing of a connector assembly on a post having a post opening therethrough which has a conical reducer for permitting only wires of predetermined gauge to pass therethrough. After the second portion is secured to a base of the insulating housing, a wall portion of a cap may be slidable mounted between the first and second walls of the first portion. The wall portion has an opening therein to permit a wire to pass between wire receiving openings in the first and second walls.

Abstract: A biomedical electrical connector that includes a lower body member and an upper actuator member is provided. The body member has a front end of a curvilinear configuration and a rear platform component. The platform component has guide ribs disposed on either side that extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body. An actuator member has downwardly-projecting guide flanges on either side of a coupling portion that extend parallel to its longitudinal axis. Each flange includes a groove in its interior side of a complementary configuration to the guide ribs for slidably coupling the actuator substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body. The actuator has a front end of a curvilinear configuration cantilevered from the coupling portion. A sinusoidal interface is defined between the actuator's curvilinear front end and the body's curvilinear front end when the actuator is slid generally forwardly in relation to the body to an overcenter position.

Abstract: A biomedical electrical connector that includes a lower body member and an upper actuator member is provided. The body member has a front end of a curvilinear configuration and a rear platform component. The platform component has guide ribs disposed on either side that extend parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body. An actuator member has downwardly-projecting guide flanges on either side of a coupling portion that extend parallel to its longitudinal axis. Each flange includes a groove in its interior side of a complementary configuration to the guide ribs for slidably coupling the actuator substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body. The actuator has a front end of a curvilinear configuration cantilevered from the coupling portion. A sinusoidal interface is defined between the actuator's curvilinear front end and the body'curvilinear front end when the actuator is slid generally forwardly in relation to the body to an overcenter position.

Abstract: An electrical wire trap-type terminal includes a pair of terminal arms projecting from a base. The terminal arms are spring loaded whereby, when the terminal arms are moved to a conductor receiving position, the terminal arms will return automatically to a conductor trapping position. The terminal arms define a jaw configured such that relative movement of the terminal arms to the conductor receiving position opens the jaw to receive the conductor, the jaw trapping the conductor when the terminal arms are released and in their conductor trapping position. A housing is provided in conjunction with the terminal and through which the conductor is inserted into the jaw. The housing is effective to open the jaw to the conductor receiving position.

Abstract: A connector bank for cable wires (2,3,4) of telephone cables such that two cable wires (2,4 or 3,4, resp.) connected with each other over the connector bank can be separated from each other, with no need to loosen the respective contact connections. For this, the invention provides for each connecting element (7) a plug (6, 6a) with a contact lug (24, 24a) for insertion into the center contact (11) of the connecting element (7), the plug (6, 6a) being provided with a cable connecting element (20,31) for connection of a cable wire (4).

Abstract: An electrical connector achieves improvements in connecting a patient plate to an electrosurgical generator. The connector is preferably of the lever operated type, and electrical contacts are connected on the lever and connected within a passageway internally in a housing of the connector. A tongue portion of the patient plate is inserted in the passageway. Upon closure of the lever, the contacts on the lever extend into the passageway above the lower contacts to mechanically contact and retain the tongue portion between the contacts and to electrically contact the tongue portion by which to conduct current to the patient plate. A recess is formed in the lower marginal area of the passageway and a retaining structure on the lever member extends into the passageway to deform the tongue portion into the indention.

Abstract: Electrode clip for attachment to a TENS electrode or other medical electrode including a slide actuator within a grooved channel for moving longitudinally and rotationally positioning an upper contact body including an integral contact over and about an interceded electrode contact assembly, and securing the electrode contact assembly over a lower contact integral to an electrode clip main body. The sliding actuator includes catches and latches in the sliding actuator and related structure for positioning to actuate and to secure the electrode clip upper contact body in a secured or unsecured position over the main body. Spring contacts in the lower main body contact assembly provide electrical continuity between upper and lower contacts for ensuring electrical contact between the upper and lower contacts and an inserted electrode.

Abstract: An improved connector mainly comprising an upper case body, a lower case body, a sliding clip and a conventional plug, a plurality of pairs of male and female fastener elements extended from the upper and lower case bodies at respective corresponding positions, each male fastener element having an extension in the form of a strip and each female fastener element having a recess corresponding to the strip for assembly of the upper and lower case bodies. Each of the case bodies has a transverse slot at the rear end, and each transverse slot has a row of teeth sloping in a certain direction. The sliding clip has a row of teeth on the upper side and another row of teeth on the lower side, each corresponding to the teeth of a transverse slot, with the sliding clip having an opening at one end for holding a cable within the transverse slots and by engagement between the teeth on the sliding clip and the teeth on the transverse slots, cables of different diameter can be positioned therein.

Abstract: A quick termination assembly for an electrical connector to a flexible wire. The connector comprises an electrical conductive tube. The tube has separate end opening and side opening to the passage and a ramp facing out of and extending towards the side opening from the passage. The end opening and passage are adapted to receive a bare end of the wire upon insertion therein, the ramp, during such insertion, forcing the bare wire to bend and move along the ramp out of the side opening to a position extended away from the tube. A non-conductive sleeve extends around the wire. The sleeve, as it is forced to slide along the wire and tube, engages the extended bare wire, causing the bare wire to bend against an exterior side of the tube and pass over and encircle the bare wire and tube, thereby gripping and retaining the bare wire and tube in electrical and mechanical contact with each other.