Patent ID: 7041904
Filing Date: 2006-05-09
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A cable clamp device for retaining an electrical cable in relation to a carrier outside the device, said device comprising: a stirrup comprising two legs which are more or less parallel with one another, and a curved base connecting said two legs, the electrical cable being intended to be contained in the base of the stirrup, an electrically conducting stop which is mounted between the two legs and which comprises a contact surface intended to abut against the electrical cable, drive means which effect the movement of the stirrup in relation to the conducting stop to move the base and the stop alternatively towards and away from one another, said drive means being intended to enable the selective clamping of the electrical cable between the base of the stirrup and the contact surface of the conducting stop, wherein the contact surface of the stop is concave in shape, a concavity of which is turned in a direction of the base of the stirrup, the contact surface comprises an essentially flat central core and two sloping sides which extend from the central core and diverge from one another in the direction of the base of the stirrup, and the base of the stirrup comprises two openings respectively located to the sloping sides and into which said sloping sides penetrate at least partially when the contact surface is located within a predetermined distance of the base of the stirrup.