Crimp-type electrical contact

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H - Electricity

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339/112

H01R 4/18 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1099362

ABSTRACT The present invention is directed to an elec- trical contact designed to effect a crimp termination to an electrical conductor. Upon repeated engagement of the active contact portion of a prior art crimp-type contact with a complementary contact, the crimp termina- tion may tend to loosen. Moreover, such contacts must be preassembled to the conductor prior to mounting in a connector housing. The prior art crimp-type contacts are also generally useful with limited configurations of conductors. According to the present invention, this is to provide an improved terminal contact element not subject to the above faults and comprising a pair of spaced crimping arms disposed in a common plane and having opposite inside facing edges with beveled sur- faces. The beveled surfaces provide a camming action during the crimping operation which permits the arms to pass one another and to completely encircle the con- ductor, while the arms remain in substantially the same plane, whereby the crimped arms provide a positive mechanical and electrical connection between the contact and the conductor. The bight of the terminal element disposed between the spaced arms defines an edge gener- ally perpendicular to the inside edges of the arms such that the slot defined by the inside edges of the arms and the bight is generally rectangular whereby the connector may be crimped about electrical conductors of different cross sectional configurations and dimensions.

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