Patent ID: 7112081
Filing Date: 2006-09-26
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A hermaphroditic electrical coupling assembly defined by a pair of coupling members wherein each of said coupling members comprises: a body member defined by a coupling end and an opposing electrical wire receiving end defined by a plurality of apertures for the passage there through of conductive electrical wire for fixedly securing therein to said body member, said body member comprising a top wall, bottom wall, and opposing side walls, there being disposed between said top wall and said bottom wall a plurality of rib members, said rib members defining channels for a plurality of stab connectors, said stab connectors having an aperture therein alignable with said apertures in said electrical wire receiving end of said body member; said stab connectors fabricated of conductive material and defined by a central web portion having a first end and a second end bent to the same side of said web, said first end bent at an acute angle with said web portion, said second end bent perpendicularly to said web portion and then bent angularly downwardly terminating distal proximate said web portion thereby defining a retentive gap between said web and said second end, said conductive electrical wire inserted through said aperture in said cable receiving end of said body member and said aperture in said vertical bent portion of said second end of said stab connector is directed through said retentive gap and retentively frictionally engaged by spring tension of said second end bent distal proximate said web in said retentive gap; said top wall of said body member having an extending locking finger and said bottom wall of said body member having a receiving slot wherein after positioning said stab connectors in said channels of said body members, one of said body members is inverted and said body members are snap locked to each other.