Patent ID: 8454393
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: F16B,H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A connector terminal comprising: a housing; a shaft on the housing having an open cross section for receiving a screw of a type having a screw head; a retaining element on the housing which is adapted to permit the screw to be received countersunk into the shaft; wherein the retaining element has an initial state adapted to permit insertion of a screw including screw head into the shaft, and wherein the retaining element further has a secured state obtainable by plastic reshaping of the retaining element, in which secured state, after insertion of the screw into the open cross section of the shaft, the screw is held in the shaft and cannot be moved past the retaining element and out of the shaft; wherein the retaining element is formed as a raised part which in the initial state sticks out from the housing in the longitudinal direction of the shaft and which is movable to the secured state by being bent into the open cross-section of the shaft.