Abstract: Components for use with a base member in forming a cluster block assembly. More particularly the components include a cover housing which receives the base member and has slot-access cavities for terminals, terminals positioned in the cavities for being attached to wires entering the assembly and receptacles for sliding receiving post terminals entering the cavities through the slots and a cap for covering the cover housing.

Abstract: Motor stator comprises a stator core having coil windings thereon which are connected to lead wires. A motor protector is connected to at least one of the windings and to one lead wire. The electrical connections between the lead wires, the windings and the protector are made by means of a stator connector mounted on the stator core and which has a pocket which receives the protector. Adjacent to the pocket, a cavity is provided which receives a terminal which connects one of the windings to a first terminal extending from the protector. The windings extend to terminals in the connector which have terminal tabs. The tabs are matable with receptacles in a complementary connector which can be coupled to the stator connector. The second protector terminal extends into the connector housing and is received in a terminal therein which also has a tab for mating with a receptacle in the complementary connector.

Abstract: The required electrical connections between the ends of the windings on an electrical motor, the switch terminals for the motor, and the motor protector are made by means of an electrical connector which comprises a housing having a plurality of cavities. Each of the cavities has a double-ended terminal therein to which the winding ends are connected. Each terminal also has a receptacle portion which receives a tab extending from either the motor protector or the switch. The connector, the motor protector, and the switch are clustered adjacent to each other with the protector against or adjacent to the coil windings of the motor. The shape of the connector housing, the protector, and the switch, and the location of the cavities in the connector and the terminals on the switch is such that when the parts are assembled to each other on the motor, all of the required electrical connections will be made correctly.