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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2001
James J. Johnston, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Gordon Udall, North Attleboro, MA (US);
Methode Development Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A clock spring wiring harness for an automotive steering apparatus has a resilient flexible flat cable containing flat conductors and terminated at its opposite ends by lead conductors. The flat cable is connected between a reel about which it is spirally wound and a fixed housing which supports the reel for rotation therein. The flat conductor/lead conductor terminations are formed by assembly of a stepped series of cradle assemblies integrally formed on and contained within terminal block ultrasonically welded together in assembly while subjected to a predetermined compressive force. Each lead conductor is normal to and continuously biased into direct electrical contacting engagement with an associated flat conductor in a region of termination defined by an associated one of the cradle assemblies.