Patent ID: 6402541
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A connector for connecting corresponding electric wires of different cables in parallel circuits, each such wire having an electrically conductive core surrounded by an electrically insulating sleeve and terminating in a pre-cut end from which the insulation sleeve has not been stripped, said connector including an electrically insulating block provided with at least two separate recesses, each being of limited length to receive a nonstripped pre-cut end of an electric wire that is inserted in said recess, said connector further including at least one electrically conductive coupling having as many terminal parts as electric wires to be connected, each coupling including a strip of electrically conductive material, said strip having an appreciably flat center core, extended laterally by said terminal pats, said terminal parts also being appreciably flat and arranged generally perpendicular to the center core, said terminal parts being shaped to break said insulating sleeve and then enter in electric contact with said conductive core, when a relative displacement is produced between said end of the electric wire and said terminal part, in a direction generally perpendicular to said end of the electric wire, upon mechanical contact of the terminal part against the insulating sleeve of the wire and across the latter, said coupling connecting at least two wires inserted in at least two recesses, and in which the conductive coupling has at least three terminals to connect one conductive core to two corresponding conductive cores of parallel circuits.