Itt Corporation

Arthur C Sepmeyer

Marik Balyasny

Raul A Olivares

Lead terminations are provided for terminating the opposite ends of a multimeter test lead to contact devices, including a right angle banana plug contact device and an in-line test probe contact device. The test lead includes a wire having a conductor surrounded by soft easily displaced wire insulation such as silicone. Each termination includes a conductive element with a penetrating portion (such as pin portion 38 in FIG. 3, or prong 110 in FIG. 8) which is advanced into one side of the wire and which moves the wire conductor until the wire conductor moves through the opposite side of the insulation. In a right angle banana plug termination (14, FIG. 3), the contact device (20) has a pin portion (38) which penetrates through a first side of the wire insulation (32) and presses the wire conductor (30) out of an opposite second side of the insulation and against a wall of a bore in an insulative body (40). In an in-line termination (16, FIG. 8), a prong (110) formed in one side of a metal tubular portion of a contact device is advanced into one side of the wire insulation and the prong advances a location (30B) of the wire conductor through the wire insulation to press against the opposite side of the tubular portion.

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Arthur C Sepmeyer