Claims
- 1. An improved cable connector for use with high voltage flat wide cable including a dielectric housing and a dielectric protective rear cover, the housing having a cable receiving face, a first wide sidewall and an opposite second wide sidewall joined by end walls, an opening being formed between said sidewalls and endwalls; the protective rear cover being a one-piece member having a pair of transverse cable engagement sections associated with said sidewalls and with the wide major surfaces of the cable, the cover being securable to said housing to extend across the cable receiving face thereof adjacent rearward exposed ends of terminal members within said housing, each transverse cable engagement section having at least two spaced-apart latching projections disposed forwardly thereof on respective arms with the arms spaced apart from side to side not less than the nominal thickness of the cable, in order that said cover is securable to the rearward end of the connector after the cable is secured therein and each of said projections may be secured in respective corresponding latch apertures in each of the first and second housing sidewalls, the latching projections and apertures being adjacent the exposed rearward terminal ends, the improvement comprising:
- flanges extending laterally from said arms for covering said apertures in the housing to prevent arcing through said apertures in the presence of high voltage when said protective rear cover is secured to said housing and said latching projections are secured in said housing apertures.
- 2. The cable connector of claim 1 wherein the dielectric protective rear cover further comprises a first sidewall portion depending from one of said pair of transverse cable engagement sections of the cover and a second sidewall portion depending from the other of said pair of transverse cable engagement sections of the cover, both defining the arms and flanges associated with the pair of latching projections with the respective latching projections being disposed on the respective first and second sidewall portions, wherein, when the latching projections on the respective sidewall portions of the cover are received in the respective apertures in the housing, the respective first and second sidewall portions are adjacent to said apertures in the housing and completely cover said latch apertures to prevent arcing through said apertures.
- 3. The cable connector of claim 1 further comprising a dielectric sleeve-like member having four sidewalls and an opening therebetween, the sleeve-like member being disposed over the cable receiving face of the housing such that the housing is received in the opening in the sleeve-like member, the sleeve-like member covering the latch apertures on the sidewalls of the housing to prevent arcing through said apertures.
- 4. The cable connector of claim 3, wherein the sleeve-like member has markings thereon to warn of high voltage.
- 5. The cable connector of claim 1 wherein each sidewall portion has a bottom edge, each latching projection is substantially a right triangle having a base and a hypotenuse, the base of the triangle extending outwardly from the respective side of the cover, the hypotenuse of the triangle being angled from the base of the triangle toward the bottom edge of the respective side, wherein when the latching projections are received in the latch apertures, the hypotenuses of the respective triangles guide the latching projections into said latch apertures and the respective bases of the triangles secure the latching projections in the respective latch apertures.
Parent Case Info
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/083,407 filed Jun. 25,1993, now abandoned.
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