Abstract: A foreign object damage protecting electrical connector backshell adaptor including a nipple having a forward end, a rearward end, a hollow bore, and a wall surrounding the hollow bore; an adaptor mounting coupling nut fixedly attached to the nipple's forward end; a retention flange, the retention flange being fixedly attached to or formed wholly with the nipple's rearward end, the retention flange having a seam dividing the retention flange at least into a movable clamp jaw segment and an opposing clamp jaw segment; clamp actuating screws connected operatively to the retention flange for drawing the movable clamp jaw segment from a cable receiving position to a cable clamping position; a tubular sheath and receptacle extending rearwardly from and annularly about the retention flange; and an annular clamping band engaging the tubular sheath forwardly from the retention flange.

Abstract: A method for securing a flexible cable to an electrical adapter shell, the electrical adapter shell having a nipple having an outwardly opening channel, the method including the steps of extending the cable sheath over the nipple, providing a thermoplastic strap, compressing the thermoplastic strap's inner end and the flexible cable sheath into the nipple's outwardly opening channel, wrapping the thermoplastic strap about the flexible cable sheath, adhesively attaching the thermoplastic strap's outer end to the thermoplastic strap's immediately underlying wrap, and nestingly compressing and heat shrinking the spirally wrapped thermoplastic strap about the flexible cable sheath and into the nipple's outwardly opening channel.

Abstract: An electrical connector including an adapter, having an electric component attachment flange and a hollow bored nipple which is continuous with the adapter, the nipple having an outwardly opening “C” band receiving channel; an electrical cable extending through the nipple; a tubular sheath having a forward end overlying the hollow bored nipple's outwardly opening “C” band receiving channel; a first steel “C” band overlying the flexible tubular sheath, the first steel “C” band being positioned along the flexible tubular sheath so that it further overlies the outwardly opening “C” band receiving channel, the first steel “C” band extending the flexible tubular sheath into the outwardly opening “C” band receiving channel; and at least a second steel “C” band oppositely overlying the first steel “C” band.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly including a hollow bored adapter having a forward end and a rearward end, the forward end having an electrical component attachment flange, the rearward end forming a hollow bored nipple, the hollow bore of the nipple being continuous with the hollow bore of the adapter, the hollow bored nipple having an outwardly opening channel; at least a first electrical cable extending through the hollow bore of the hollow bored adapter, and through the hollow bore of the hollow bored nipple, the at least first electric cable extending rearwardly from the rearward end of the hollow bored adapter; a flexible tubular sheath having a forward end overlying the hollow bored nipple's outwardly opening channel, the flexible tubular sheath extending rearwardly from the rearward end of the hollow bored adapter; and a thermoplastic strap capable of alternately assuming a longitudinally stretched configuration, and a shortened plastic memory configuration, the thermoplastic strap being spirally wrap