Mark B Higgins

US Patent:

7473123, Jan 6, 2009

Filed:

Jul 9, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/774858

Inventors:

Mark B. Higgins - Sycamore IL, US

Assignee:

Ideal Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL

International Classification:

H01R 4/50

US Classification:

439346

Abstract:

An electrical disconnect has a pair of selectably engageable enclosures each including a housing and a cap and one or more terminals supported therein. The terminals each have spring fingers at outer ends opposite wire ports in the cap to receive a stripped end of a wire in a push-in engagement. One terminal has a male blade and the other terminal has a female blade at forward ends thereof. The blades are releasably engageable in overlapping relation in an engagement zone. The housings have wire receiving receptacles therein which reside in the engagement zone when the enclosures are joined. A terminal holder biases the overlapping blades into contact with one another. The terminals are arcuately spaced about 120 from one another in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the connector.

US Patent:

7727002, Jun 1, 2010

Filed:

Jul 9, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/774883

Inventors:

Gary C. Bethurum - Murrieta CA, US
Mark B. Higgins - Sycamore IL, US

Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL

International Classification:

H01R 4/24

US Classification:

439441, 439858

Abstract:

An electrical disconnect has a pair of selectably engageable enclosures each including a housing and one or more terminals supported therein. The terminals each have a spring finger at an outer end opposite wire ports in the cap to receive a stripped end of a wire in a push-in engagement. The terminals are releasably engageable in overlapping relation in an engagement zone. The housings have wire receiving receptacles therein which reside in the engagement zone when the enclosures are joined.

US Patent:

8517768, Aug 27, 2013

Filed:

Aug 11, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/208149

Inventors:

William E. Blaha - St. Charles IL, US
Mark B. Higgins - Sycamore IL, US

Assignee:

IDEAL Industries, Inc. - Sycamore IL

International Classification:

H01R 13/68

US Classification:

43962028, 337195, 337201, 337205

Abstract:

A device for holding an electric fuse assembly having a fuse carried by a first end fuse holder and a second end fuse holder. The assembly includes a first housing section having a cavity formed therein for receiving the first end fuse holder and a second housing section having a cavity formed therein for receiving the second end fuse holder. An end of the second housing section is adapted to be separably coupled with an end of the first housing section by placing an interior surface at the end of the first housing section into overlapping engagement with an exterior surface of the second end fuse holder and an interior surface of the second end fuse holder into overlapping engagement with an exterior surface at the end of the first housing section. Such a coupling functions to provide a moisture resistant seal. Respective surfaces of the first end fuse holder and the second end fuse holder may also be placed into overlapping engagement with each other when the first housing section and the second housing section are placed into engagement.