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Electric jack

US6157542A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 23, 1999
Grant dateDec 5, 2000
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 23, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01R4/2433
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An electric jack, which includes a housing, a circuit board mounted inside the housing, a terminal holder mounted inside the housing to hold down said circuit board, a plurality of forked terminals mounted in respectively holes at the terminal holders and welded to respective plug holes at the circuit board, a cable positioned in the terminal holder and having electric wires respectively connected to the forked terminals, and a plurality of holding down caps respectively pivoted to the terminal holders and turned between a first position where the electric wires of the cable are held down by the holding down caps to make a respective electric contact with the forked terminals, and a second position where the holding down caps are disconnected from the electric wires of the cable for enabling the cable to be disconnected from the terminal holder, the terminal holder having two stop blocks at two opposite sides, each stop block having a plurality of recessed receiving holes at inner side, which receive the end of each electric wire of the cable.

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