Patent ID: 6402544
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An electrical connector comprising a connector body including a socket for an electrical conductor, the connector body having an electrically insulating shroud and having a threaded bore in which a connecting bolt is threadedly engaged, the connecting bolt being capable of actuation into engagement with a conductor inserted into the socket by means of a drive member engaged with the connecting bolt and extending through an opening in the insulating shroud to a rotatable, electrically insulating cap, wherein the connecting bolt is slidably mounted on the drive member, the drive member being adapted to shear at a position between the opening in the insulating shroud and the point of engagement of the drive member with the connecting bolt when a predetermined torque is applied to the drive member, such that the cap and a residual portion of the drive member attached thereto can be withdrawn from the opening in the insulating shroud, and the opening in the insulating shroud being adapted substantially to close after the drive member has so sheared and been withdrawn.