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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1997
John W Auclair, Norfolk, CT (US);
Electric Motion Company, Inc., Winsted, CT (US);
Abstract
A connector for clamping to a cable shield to provide a ground connection employs a U-shaped yoke. A keeper threadably engages thread surfaces at the interior side of the yoke legs. A clamp jaw on the keeper is compressively engaged against a cable shield received in an aperture defined by the yoke. The yoke connects to a flexible ground wire via a spark gap assembly. An electrically conductive boss extends from the yoke into one end of a bore in an electrically non-conductive separator member. The ground wire is mounted to the separator member by an electrically conductive fastener that extends into the other end of the bore of the separator member. The distal ends of the boss and the fastener are separated by a spark gap. The distal end of an electrically conductive bridging member is positionable in the separator member to engage the distal end portions of the boss and the fastener to bridge the spark gap and provide electrical communication therebetween.