Claims
- 1. An electrical cable assembly of the type having wire strands formed into a bundle for releasable connection to another electrical contact formed of a bundle of wires having angled ends, comprising:
- a plurality of elongated electrical conductors (500) of the type consisting of a strand (510) of conductive material surrounded by dielectric material (520), each strand having a conductive end portion (540) thereof exposed to extend from the dielectric material, the dielectric material otherwise electrically insulating each of the conductive strands (510) from one another;
- protective means (572) medially disposed about the plurality of electrical conductors (500) for securing the electrical conductors into a multi-conductor cable, an insulated end portion (512) of each electrical conductor (500) containing its exposed conductive end portion (540) extending from said protective means;
- a cable-like assembly (500A) comprising the insulated end portions (512) of the electrical conductors (500) being gathered together; and
- a sleeve (550) secured about said cable-like assembly, the exposed conductive end portions (540) so assembled forming a mateable bundle extending forwardly from the sleeve in axially aligned, parallel relation, the end of each conductive strand being acutely angled for mating, said angled ends of said strands and said mateable bundles being so configured that said mateable bundle and said another contact can be aligned along their axes and moved into releasable intermingled connection with the angled ends of each bundle entering the other bundle.
- 2. An electrical cable assembly of the type described in claim 1 wherein the sleeve (550) is secured by a crimp around the insulated end portions (512) in a predetermined location along the strands (510) to urge the conductive end portions (540) together into close contact in the vicinity of the sleeve crimp.
- 3. An electrical cable assembly according to claim 1 comprising a pair of cable-like assemblies (500A, 500B), each cable-like assembly comprising several of said plurality of electrical conductors (500) being gathered together to form, respectively, each cable-like assembly, a sleeve being secured about the insulated end portions of each cable-like assembly so that the respective conductive end portions extend from their respective sleeves in axially aligned, parallel relation, the end of each said conductive strand being acutely angled for mating.
- 4. An electrical cable assembly of the type described in claim 3 wherein the dielectric material is a rubber or plastic material which surrounds the plurality of electrically-conducting wires as a group.
- 5. An electrical cable assembly as described in claim 3, each respective cable-like assembly (500A, 500B) being of the type having their conductive wire strands formed into a bundle for releasable connection to another electrical contact formed of a bundle of wires having angled ends, the exposed conductive end portions of each said cable-like assembly being mateable with their respective another electrical contact, each electrical contact including a plurality of fine conductive wires held together in a bundle and each wire having an acutely-angled end portion with each said cable-like assembly (500A, 500B) conductive end portions being configured to be aligned and moved into releasable intermingled contact with the plurality of fine bundle wires.
- 6. A cable of the type described in claim 1 wherein the sleeve has an external shoulder for being held within a receiving structure.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 90,198, filed Nov. 1, 1979, now abandoned which is a division of application Ser. No. 890,339, filed Mar. 27, 1978, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,206,958.
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