Molex Corporation

Lawrence D Kroeger

Richard R Edgley

Daniel M Palmieri

A stamped and formed, unitary, metal wire trap speaker terminal used in coupling a speaker wire extending from an audio speaker to a lead wire for an audio system of an entertainment appliance includes a base portion and a wire trap receiving portion. The base portion to which is coupled the speaker wire has wings or arms that are adapted to be wrapped about a thin, rectangularly shaped insulator that is affixed to a frame member of the audio speaker. The wire trap receiving portion extends from one edge of the base portion, preferably at an angle of about 150 degrees, and has a wire receiving cavity so that a stripped end portion of the lead wire may be inserted through a wire receiving or entry port having divergently extending wire guides to aid the assertion of the stripped end portion of the lead wire into the wire receiving cavity. A cam contact beam is formed from one of the walls forming the wire receiving cavity and obliquely extends into the wire receiving cavity. When the stripped conductor portion of the lead wire is inserted into the wire receiving cavity, the conductor is trapped or locked between the contact beam and an opposite wall of the wire receiving cavity resulting in the coupling of the conductor of the lead wire to the terminal and thereby to the speaker wire.

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Burr Ridge, IL, United States of America

Lawrence D Kroeger