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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 1978
Filed:
Feb. 18, 1977
James Pritulsky, Harrisburg, PA (US);
AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA (US);
Abstract
Electrical commoning means for connecting a plurality of wires to each other at an electrical junction comprises an insulating housing having a terminal-receiving face and having a plurality of side-by-side terminal-receiving cells extending inwardly from the terminal-receiving face. Adjacent cells are separated from each other by a barrier wall having a centrally located opening which permits communication between adjacent cells. The wires which are to be commonly connected have contact terminals on their ends which are dimensioned to be snugly received in the cells. Each terminal has a contact spring extending from one side thereof and a contact surface on the oppositely facing side. The springs are dimensioned such that they will fit in the openings in the barrier walls and in their normal unstressed condition, each spring extends through the adjacent barrier wall and into the next adjacent cell. When two or more terminals are inserted into adjacent cells, the contact springs of the terminals are resiliently flexed by the surface of the adjacent contact terminals thereby to establish electrical contact between adjacent terminals and the wires to which the terminals are crimped are commonly connected. Any number of wires can be connected to a common junction by inserting the terminals on the wires into adjacent cells in the housing.