Claims
- 1. A conductor for use in an opening in a connector, said conductor having an integral bridge part and having two pairs of leaf members extending from the bridge part with leaf members of each of the two pairs being disposed in facing relation to each other around a common axis, at least one pair of the leaf members comprising leaf springs each having a first surface disposed obliquely relative to the axis to initially intercept and be moved by a terminal being inserted between the springs along the axis to establish a selected spring force in the leaf spring and having an adjacent contact surface to electrically engage a terminal with said selected spring force when the terminal is positioned in said opening on said axis, the conductor comprising a blanked and formed element of a metal strip material and having an integral gauge part forming a gauge aperture limiting the cross-section of a terminal permitted to be inserted between the leaf members, the gauge part comprising an integral strip portion of the strip material joined to at least one of the leaf members and extended to define the perimeter of said gauge aperture as a four-sided, generally square gauge aperture having sides of selected length and having opposite ends of said strip portion secured together to prevent enlargement of the perimeter of the gauge aperture if an attempt is made to insert an oversize terminal through the aperture, one end of said strip portion having a dove-tail formed therein and the opposite end of the strip portion having a dove-tail groove, the dove-tail and groove having a size to be accommodated within one side of said square gauge aperture perimeter and being fitted snugly together within said one perimeter side to limit the gauge aperture perimeter defined by said strip portion.
Parent Case Info
This application is a division of application Ser. No. 331,728, filed Dec. 17, 1981, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,466,684.
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Divisions (1)
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