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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 1980
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael G Strautz, Columbus, OH (US);
Assignee:
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3391 / ; 339 76 ;
Abstract
A strain relief housing for a flat ribbon cable (11) terminating in an electrical connector (10) in which the housing comprises a pair of identical halves (20, 30) each having a flange (27) extending outwardly therefrom for clasping the cable (11) therebetween. Each flange (27) has extending outwardly therefrom at opposite ends a lug (28) and a notch (29), the lug (28) of one flange (27) being adapted to fold into the notch (29) of and about the other flange (27) to pierce a margin (13) at each side of the cable (11).