Patent ID: 6276956
Filing Date: 2001-08-21
Classification: G01R,H01R

Abstract:
An adjustable dual point test probe adapted for electrical communication with an electronic test instrument, said test probe comprising:caliper like body means including a bight portion and a pair of hollow walled elongate arms extending from said bight portion in adjustable relation thereto for providing a pair of adjustably separable distal mountings at free ends of said elongate arms,said bight portion of said caliper like body means is an elastic strain relief boot which covers a distal tip of said elongate arms and further covers said pair of conductors running therethrough, for allowing bending of said elongate arms adjacent said captured ends thereof relative one another and the bending of said pair of conductors without substantial stress hardening of same over time,a pair of pointed electrical contacts, one mounted to extend from each of said free ends of said elongate arms,coaxial cable means including a pair of conductors, one extending through each of said elongate arms in electrically conductive relation with one of said pointed electrical contacts, for extending through said elongate arms and bight portion of said caliper like body means and outwardly thereof terminating in a two wire jack-type connector, and means on said caliper like body means for infinitely adjusting the separation between said pair of pointed electrical contacts and maintaining any desired separation distance therebetween from contact to at least one inch of separation.