Patent ID: 6893286

Claim:
An electrical terminal arrangement adapted for direct tool-less connection with the bare wire at one end of an insulated conductor, comprising: (a) a resilient contact ( 4 ) including: (1) a horizontal first leg portion ( 6 ) having a first end containing a window opening ( 7 ) for receiving the bare wire end portion of an orthogonally-arranged insulated conductor ( 2 ), said first leg portion having a second end; (2) a second leg portion ( 9 ) having a first end extending through said window opening at an acute angle relative to a plane extending normal to and transverse of said first leg portion, said second leg first end terminating at a clamping edge ( 5 ), said second leg portion having a second end; and (3) connecting means connecting the second ends of said contact first and second leg portions to define the closed loop ( 8 ) of an outwardly expansible leaf-type compression spring; (4) said second leg portion being resiliently biased toward said first end of said first leg portion, whereby when the conductor bare wire end portion is directly inserted into said window opening without the use of any insertion tool, said clamping edge is biased toward clamping engagement with the periphery of the conductor bare wire end portion.