Patent ID: 7530858

Claim:
An assembly comprising: a mounting base; a U-shaped front-facing spring clip mounted on the mounting base, the spring clip having an upper spring arm and a lower spring arm configured to clamp an external conductor between the upper spring arm and the lower spring arm when the spring clip is slid over the external conductor along a longitudinal insertion direction; a release button coupled to the mounting base and movable along a button-movement direction generally transverse to the longitudinal direction; and a spring-loaded release check coupled to the release button, the release check being movable between a check position and a release position in response to a motion of the release button along the button-movement direction, wherein the release check in the check position abuts a backward-facing surface of the mounting base to block a withdrawal of the mounting base along the longitudinal direction, and wherein the release check in the release position is situated under the mounting base to allow the withdrawal of the mounting base along the longitudinal direction.