Patent ID: 9735482
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: F16M,F24F,H01L,H01R,H05K

Claim:
1. A wall mountable connector for securing a thermostat to a wall, the wall mountable connector comprising: a housing having a front side and a back side, the back side is configured to be mountable to the wall; the housing defining a field wire receiving cavity; the housing defining a field wire aperture through the back side of the housing and into the field wire receiving cavity, the field wire aperture configured to accommodate one or more field wires; a first wiring connection block positioned along a first side of the field wire receiving cavity, the first wiring connection block including a first column of vertically spaced wiring terminals each configured to electrically connect to a field wire; and wherein the first column of vertically spaced wiring terminals includes two or more commonly used wiring terminals selected from an R terminal, a W terminal, a G terminal and a Y terminal, and wherein each of the two or more commonly used wiring terminals of the first column of vertically spaced wiring terminals are separated from each other by at least one intervening wiring terminal.