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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald Richard LaCoy, Boylston, MA (US);
Assignee:
Smiths Group PLC, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/122 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/122 ;
Abstract
An electrical socket has resilient wires extending together in a hyperboloid arrangement between retaining rings at opposite ends of the socket to which they are welded. The wires are grouped together in pairs and the pairs are spaced from one another around the socket. The socket is assembled by loading pairs of wires into respective slots extending along a mandrel.