.~ Insulating body providing direct contact or engagement of duplicate terminals or conductors
DEFINITION
Classification: 439/708
Insulating body providing direct contact or engagement of duplicate terminals or conductors:
(under subclass 625) Electrical connector wherein the insulating body thereof includes means for physically associating either a plurality of identical wire-type conductors* or a plurality of identical wire-type-conductor end terminals into touching engagement with one another so as to electrically join them together.
(1) Note. Since a connector included in this subclass does not rely upon a contact or any other conductive, current-carrying part to electrically interconnect the duplicate conductors or terminals, a connector in this subclass will often consist entirely of insulation.
(2) Note. The mere recitation in a claim that the identical conductors or terminals are in contact with each other is not sufficient for classification in this subclass. To be classified in this subclass, some structural modification of the connector which particularly adapts it to make an electrical connection in which the connected conductors or terminals directly contact each other must be claimed.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
778+, and 792+, for a metallic connector or contact having a movable or resilient securing part for providing direct contact or engagement of plural conductors or conductor end terminals.
