Patent ID: 7431603

Claim:
An electrical wire connector comprising: a connector body comprising a first end defining a wire aperture through which a conductive wire having a stripped end may be passed and a second end disposed opposite said first end; a spring contact housed within said connector body comprising two approximately V-shaped leaf springs, each of said leaf springs having a free end, the free end of one of the leaf springs being resiliently biased to engage said free end of said other leaf spring and capable of providing a clamping force on said strip end of said conductive wire when said conductive wire is disposed between said free ends; a slide release housed within said connector body, said slide release having an approximate T-shape and further having an elongated central axis portion capable of being slidably inserted between said resiliently biased free ends of said leaf springs for maintaining said free ends in a disengaged position, said central axis portion further defining a wire passageway along the central axis of said slide release and said wire passageway being in alignment with said wire aperture of said connector body; and a connector cap attached to said second end of said connector body; wherein said spring contact further comprises a deflectable L-shape tongue extending through and outwardly from said second end of said connector body.