Patent ID: 7658641
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for securing an electrical cable to an electrical contact, the apparatus comprising: an electrical contact that includes an integrated barrel clamp, wherein the barrel clamp includes external threads and an external taper and an internal bore configured to receive an end of the electrical cable, wherein the external threads include a minor diameter formed in and by a valley between two adjacent external thread ridges that extend to a major diameter, wherein the external taper reduces from a first taper diameter to a second taper diameter toward a far end of the barrel clamp, and wherein the second taper diameter is smaller than the minor diameter of the external threads; a cable compressive nut, wherein the compressive nut includes internal threads and an internal taper, wherein the external threads of the barrel clamp are configured to mate with the internal threads of the compressive nut, and the barrel clamp and the compressive nut are configured such that the barrel clamp compresses around the electrical cable when the compressive nut is tightened on the barrel clamp.