Anticorrosion battery terminal

Patent · Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:7053306

Davis, R G

This patent describes a vehicle lead acid storage battery having terminal posts and a pair of elongated pigtail leads respectively integrally connected at one end portion of the posts. The improvement described here comprises: electrically insulated connector means including a receptacle portion indicating polarity on the other end portion of each lead of the pair of pigtail leads; and, a plug portion remote from the battery electrically connecting the receptacles with a conductor, the plug portion comprising, a plug body from dielectric material having opposing spaced-apart parallel end surfaces and having a top surface normal to the end surfaces, a pair of elongated electrically conductive terminals embedded in parallel spaced relation within the dielectric material body between the end surfaces, a first prong projecting axially toward the one end surface from one end of each terminal and terminating adjacent but spaced inwardly with respect to the one end surface, an axial socket formed in the other end of each terminal for electrical connection with vehicle cable conductors, the dielectric material body having first and second polarity indicating cylindrical recesses respectively surrounding the first and second prongs; and, a laterally projecting prong on each terminal intermediate its ends projecting toward the top surface, the top surface having other polarity indicating recesses respectively surrounding the laterally projecting prongs.

• Assignee: NOV; NOV-87-046032; EDB-87-054788
• Patent Number(s): US 4637965
• OSTI ID: 7053306
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 22 Nov 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ELECTRIC CABLES
ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS
ELECTRIC CONTACTS
ELECTRICAL INSULATION
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