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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2006
Benjamin D. Swedberg, Sycamore, IL (US);
Gary C. Bethurum, Murrieta, CA (US);
Benjamin D. Swedberg, Sycamore, IL (US);
Gary C. Bethurum, Murrieta, CA (US);
IDEAL Industries, Inc., Sycamore, IL (US);
Abstract
A releasable wire connector has a housing and a cap slidably engaging one another and enclosing an electrical contact. The contact has inner and outer flexible fingers disposed opposite wire ports in the housing and cap. The fingers engage conductors inserted into the connector to retain the connectors therein and electrically connect them. The cap carries a release block which will engage some of the fingers and urge them out of engagement with the conductors to allow disengagement of a wire from the connector. One of the fingers may be split into sacrificial and main tines which are arranged so that the sacrificial tine will always be the first to make and the last to break contact with a conductor. Any arcing that may occur will then always be on the sacrificial tine so the main tine will not be degraded by arcing.