Patent ID: 8257109

Claim:
A waterproof lever push-in wire connector comprising: a housing having a wire port and a chamber therein; a wire displaceable sealant located in the chamber; a bus strip having a wire engaging corner edge; a resilient conductor laterally spaced from said bus strip, said resilient conductor comprising a resilient spring located in the chamber with the resilient spring having an opening with a wire engaging edge extending at least partially across the wire port in the housing with the wire engaging corner edge of the bus strip and the wire engaging edge of the resilient spring laterally offset from each other; a pivot pin located in the chamber and within the sealant; and a pivotable lever having a first end extending into the sealant in the chamber a with the lever pivotable about the pivot pin while the first end is in engagement with the resilient spring and a second end is located outside the sealant in the chamber so that pivoting the pivotable lever about the pivot pin releases the spring from the compressed condition to bring the wire engaging edge of the spring into electrical engagement with a first side of the wire and the wire engaging corner edge of the bus strip into laterally offset electrical engagement with an opposite side of the wire in the presence of the wire displaceable sealant to thereby form a waterproof electrical connection between the wire and the bus strip.