Patent ID: 8197277

Claim:
An electrical connector for grasping by the hand and insertion into an electrical receiver, comprising: a body ( 40 ) having front and rear portions ( 42 , 44 ) and having a top ( 72 ) and bottom ( 22 ), said front portion having a primarily horizontal axis ( 60 ) and said rear portion having a rear axis ( 62 ) extending at a downward-rearward angle to said horizontal axis, and including an electrical cable ( 12 ) with a front end extending from said body rear portion; said connector including a smoothly-curved depressable palm pad ( 30 ) mounted on said body and lying above the level of adjacent portions of a top surface ( 33 ) of said body middle and rear portions, said connector having a latch ( 32 ) which latches to said electrical receiver and which is connected to said palm pad to be operated by depression of said palm pad; said body middle portion ( 46 ) lying horizontally between said front and rear portions, the bottom of said body middle portion having a finger-engaging concave lower surface ( 64 ) and said body middle having a convex upper surface ( 54 ) that forms said top surface, and that enables a person to wrap his index and middle fingers (I, M) under said lower surface ( 22 ) while his thumb is wrapped in an opposite direction over said upper surface ( 54 ), and the area of his palm lies against said palm pad at a location that lies between said rear and front portions to hold the body with said primarily horizontal axis extending horizontally, so the person can depress the palm pad by pushing up against the body with his index and middle fingers (I, M) to depress the palm of his hand, to operate said latch.