Claims
- 1. In combination, a contactless electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing including two mateable body halves having forward and rear faces with at least one of said body halves including a conductor receiving channel therein, said channel including a first recess portion extending from the rear face forwardly, a second recess extending from the forward face rearwardly and a passage connecting the two recess portions and having an intermediate portion offset from an imaginary line passing through the recesses;
- a conductor including an insulative jacket surrounding plurality of conductive wires, said conductor having the insulative jacket removed from a forward end to expose the conductive wires, the exposed wires being arranged in axial alignment, said wires having a first forward end portion extending into the channel of the housing and a second rearward portion extending into the intermediate offset portion of the passage;
- means for preventing axial movement of the wires in the passage; and
- means for securing the housing body halves together.
- 2. The contactless electrical connector of claim 1 wherein said means for securing the conductive wires in the passage comprises a slot transverse to said passage intermediate portion and a staple adopted to be received within the slot and about the strands of the wire and thereby secure the strands in the channel.
- 3. A contactless electrical connector comprising:
- an insulative housing including a pair of mateable bodies having a forward face, a rear face, and with at least one of said bodies having a conductor receiving channel extending between the faces, a projection disposed intermediate the faces and adjacent the channel and a loop cavity extending around the projection;
- an electrical wire having an insulative jacket surrounding a plurality of conductive strands, the wire having a forward end portion of the insulation removed to expose the conductive strands and the exposed strands being axially straightened for mounting within the channel of the housing;
- conductive means for mounting the strands in the housing, said conductive means being secured about the exposed strands; and
- means for securing the pair of bodies together to retain the strands in the passage and the ring extending around the projection.
- 4. A contactless connector as recited in claim 3 wherein the conductive means comprises a conductive sleeve secured rearwardly of the forward end of the strands, the conductive sleeve including a ring extending transversely therefrom with said ring being adapted to fit over the projection and be secured therearound.
- 5. In an electrical connector assembly of the type having a housing of insulative material mounting a mateable contactless connector formed from a plurality of exposed conductive wires of a multi-stranded electrical conductor wire:
- a base member having a pair of oppositely disposed faces and a wire receiving channel extending between the faces;
- a cover member removably attached to the base member;
- said exposed conductive wires having a forward mateable end portion comprised of axially straightened strands and a formed portion spaced rearwardly of the mateable end portion;
- retention means axially offset from said channel for receiving the formed portion and preventing axial movement of the exposed conductive wires in the channel; and
- means for securing the base member to cover member to thereby retain the wires in the housing and form the connector assembly.
- 6. The assembly as recited in claim 5 wherein said formed portion is a loop and said retention means for receiving the formed portion and preventing axial movement comprises a post located intermediate the faces and extending upwardly from the base member and a post cavity disposed adjacent to the channel and in surrounding relation to the post, said loop being fit around the post and within the post cavity.
- 7. The assembly as recited in claim 5 wherein said means for preventing axial movement comprises a wire receiving passage being offset from and interconnected with the wire receiving channel and the formed portion of said wire being shaped to fit within the offset passage.
- 8. The assembly as recited in claim 7 wherein said means for preventing axial movement further comprises a slot disposed transversely of the passage and staple adapted to fit within the slot and secure the wires in the housing.
- 9. A method of making an electrical connector comprising the steps of:
- forming an insulative body having forward and rear end faces a conductor receiving channel extending between the faces, said channel including a medial wire cavity axially offset from and interconnecting a first recess extending from the rear face forwardly and a second recess extending from the forward face rearwardly;
- providing an electrical cable of the type having an outer jacket of insulation surrounding a plurality of twisted conductive strands;
- removing the forward end portion of cable insulation to thereby expose a length of twisted conductive strands;
- untwisting part of the exposed length of twisted conductive strands from their forward end rearwardly, whereby the exposed length includes a transitional strand part between twisted and untwisted strand parts;
- bending the transitional strand part into a strand form offset from the axis defining the untwisted conductive strands;
- inserting the conductive strand parts into the channel of the connector body, the twisted part being disposed in the first recess, the untwisted strand part disposed in the second recess portion and the offset strand form disposed in the wire cavity; and
- securing another insulative body to the first insulative body to retain the stranded wire parts in the channel.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 137,228 filed Apr. 4, 1980, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,342,494, issued Aug. 3, 1982.
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