Niles Audio Corporation

Audio Components International, Inc.

Lowell J Smith

Doug S Wright

Michael L Strange

Albert Burdett

A compensation assembly for a mounted loudspeaker system includes a mounting frame having a spherical front socket; a retaining ring; a compensating back socket having a spherical back socket; and a woofer frame having a spherical ball structure that fits between the front and back sockets. The compensating back socket has an array of matching slots that align with and partially surround bosses of the mounting frame such that the compensating back socket is free to float in a vertical axis but is restrained from rotating around a central axis. The ball structure is held by a force applied to the compensating back socket by compressing deformable elements around the outer perimeter of the compensating back socket. The deformable elements may be integrally formed as molded-in-place polymer tensioning springs or separately formed as metallic elements.

Tensioned adjustment mechanism for mounted loudspeaker system

A connector assembly for penetrating the insulation and establishing electrical connection with insulated electrical wires or conductors, thereby eliminating the need to strip the insulation away from the insulated wires, including a pair of mateable housing members, a pair of flexible piercing terminals and a pair of rotatable cams or levers, and which are all enclosed by the pair of mateable housing members to form a main housing. The unstripped insulated wires are respectively inserted into a pair of conductor receiving apertures on the main housing, where the cams are rotated inwardly such that the cams engage and move the piercing terminals to hold and pierce the insulated wires to establish electrical connection thereto.

Connector assembly having means for penetrating the insulation and establishing electrical connection with the wires

A connector assembly for penetrating the insulation and establishing electrical connection with insulated electrical wires or conductors, thereby eliminating the need to strip the insulation away from the insulated wires, including a pair of matable housings, a pair of conductor guides, a pair of flexible piercing terminals and a pair of rotatable cams or levers, and which are all enclosed by the pair of matable housings. The unstriped insulated wires are respectively inserted into and positioned within the pair of conductor guides, where the cams are rotated inwardly such that the cams engage and squeeze the conductor guides to retain the insulated wires thereto. While the cams are being rotated, they also engage the piercing terminals such that knife ends pierce the insulated wires or conductors to establish electrical connection thereto.

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Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, United States of America

Lowell J Smith