Patent ID: 7704093
Filing Date: 2010-04-27
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. Insulation-displacement connection having at least one insulation-displacement element ( 1 ) with a retaining slot ( 5 ), which cuts through an insulation of an electrical conductor with which electrical contact is to be made by the insulation-displacement element ( 1 ), in a sleeve body, with the retaining slot ( 5 ) extending continuously from an insertion opening in a longitudinal direction (L) of the sleeve body and the sleeve body having a crosspiece ( 2 ) which has two mutually opposite spring limbs ( 3 a , 3 b ) integrally adjoining its ends, which spring limbs merge, at their end which is opposite the crosspiece ( 2 ), into mutually facing limb ends ( 4 a , 4 b ) in order to form the retaining slot ( 5 ) by way of the free longitudinal side edges of the limb ends ( 4 a , 4 b ), so that a conductor accommodation space which is bounded by the spring limbs ( 3 a , 3 b ) and the crosspiece ( 2 ) is created beneath the retaining slot ( 5 ), characterized in that the spring limbs ( 3 a , 3 b ) in each case have at least one slot recess ( 9 a , 9 b ) which extends in the direction of the limb end from the crosspiece ( 2 ) so as to leave free a longitudinal side edge of the limb ends ( 4 a , 4 b ) which runs in the longitudinal direction (L), the width of the said slot recess being matched over the direction of extent to the width of the spring limb ( 3 a , 3 b ) such that an effective width of the spring limb ( 3 a , 3 b ), which tapers from the crosspiece ( 2 ) to the longitudinal side edge of the limb ends ( 4 a , 4 b ), is produced in the longitudinal direction (L), in that the limb ends ( 4 a , 4 b ) are angled away from the adjacent spring limb ( 3 a , 3 b ), and in that the slot recesses ( 9 a , 9 b ) extend partly into the angled-away limb ends ( 4 a , 4 b ).