Patent ID: 6878880
Filing Date: 2005-04-12
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A multi-medium twist-on wire connector comprising; a housing, said housing having a closed end and a wire penetrable end; a spiral thread located in the closed end of said housing, said spiral thread having a chamber therein; a viscous electrically conductive material located in a closed end of the housing; a topical barrier layer of a viscous non-electrically conductive material having a minimum thickness of at least 20 percent of a length of the twist-on wire connector extending over an exposed face of the viscous electrically conductive material so that when a plurality of wires are inserted into the wire penetrable end and extended through the topical barrier layer of viscous non-electrically conductive material and into the viscous electrically conductive material in the closed end of the chamber and are the twisted, a portion of the wires are twisted into a low resistance electrical connection to each other in the presence of a medium of the viscous electrically conductive material while a further portion of the wires are maintained proximate each other in a medium of the non-electrical conductive material.