Patent ID: 6560866
Filing Date: 2003-05-13
Classification: H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
A connector installation device comprising:a connector having a positionally fixed connector element and a connector element movable along a connector engagement axis and interconnecting with the positionally fixed connector element; a tubular guide member directing a portion of a curving path between a drive input location and the movable connector element; a stationary internally-threaded member aligned with a segment of the curving path and positionally fixed relative to the movable connector element; a substantially flexible externally-threaded rod engaged with the movable connector element for moving the movable connector element along the engagement axis, the flexible externally-threaded rod formed as a compressively wound helical coil spring sized to pass through the tubular guide member and partially engaged therewith and having coils formed as screw threads compatible with the internally-threaded member and partially engaged therewith; and a drive input member coupled to an end of the flexible externally-threaded rod opposite the movable connector element.