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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:
Oct. 15, 1985
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas A Kutnyak, Tucson, AZ (US);
Thomas W Tolbert, Greenwood, SC (US);
Assignee:
Automation Industries, Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
339 / ; 3392 / ;
Abstract
A self-locking electrical and mechanical connecting means and method between a helical curved end-portion of a self-supporting resilient, electrical wire-helix of a certain radius and a nominally straight-axis, metal socket-portion of an electrical terminal characterized in that the socket is plastically deformed to self-lock onto the elastically deformed and somewhat straightened wire-helix end-portion.