Patent ID: 9608346
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: H01R,Y10T

Claim:
1. A connector comprising: a spiral connector comprising: a spiral having an internal passageway and the spiral being movable from a relaxed configuration having a relaxed diameter of said passageway to a tightened configuration having a tightened diameter of said passageway that is smaller than said relaxed diameter; multiple elongated members inserted into said spiral; a housing connected to the spiral and adapted to tighten the spiral to said tightened configuration so that said elongated members are retained in the passageway; wherein the housing is adapted to tighten the spiral by comprising a housing sleeve extending around the spiral and fixed to a securement region of the spiral, and a tensioner threadably engaged with a threaded region of the spiral, wherein rotation of the tensioner, relative to the threaded region of the spiral, toward the housing sleeve and with the tensioner abutting against the housing sleeve, pulls the threaded region of the spiral axially away from said securement region of the spiral to axially-lengthen the spiral and tighten the spiral into said tightened configuration.