Patent ID: 9231313
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: H01R

Claim Text:
1. A finger friendly twist-on wire connector comprising: a spiral coil; an open-end rigid shell secured to the spiral coil with the rigid shell having an outer surface with a circumferential band and a closed end; a plurality of rigid lobes extending radially outward from said rigid shell, said rigid lobes integral to said rigid shell; a resilient finger cushion material molded to the outer surface of the rigid shell with said resilient finger cushion material covering the closed end and extending from side to side between said plurality of rigid lobes thus allowing the plurality of rigid lobes uncovered to provide rigid support, said resilient finger cushion material including a plurality of circumferentially spaced elongated ribs and a set of channel bottoms extending in a lengthwise direction along said circumferential band with said set of channel bottoms interspersed with said elongated ribs to provide a circumferential cushioned gripping region of ribs and the set of channel bottoms between the plurality of rigid lobes on the twist-on wire connector so that a user's finger engages both the plurality of ribs with the resilient cushion material and the set of channel bottoms with the resilient cushion material which is interdispersed between the plurality of ribs with the finger cushion material to resiliently deform in response to radially and tangential finger forces thereon as rotational finger forces are transmitted to the rigid shell through the resilient finger cushion material of the plurality of elongated ribs and the set of channel bottoms interdispersed between the plurality of ribs to hereby inhibit finger fatigue and finger injury.