Clamp for connecting battery terminals

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9263810-B2
Application number	US-201414476348-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 3, 2014
Priority date	Nov 26, 2013
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

A clamp for freely connecting sheet metal terminals made of a battery in a lateral or vertical direction suitable for working environment is provided. A bolt and a nut connecting both walls are parallel to each other at an open end. Wedge-shaped recesses, into which chamfers of the terminal units are inserted, are formed on inner sides of the walls facing each other. The clamp tightens the terminal units using the wedge-shaped recesses and enables a vertical connection and a lateral connection.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A clamp assembly for connecting a battery terminal to a battery post, in which the clamp assembly has a clamp body connected to terminal units of the battery terminal to tighten the terminal units, the clamp assembly comprising:
a bolt and a nut connecting side walls of the clamp body, the side walls being parallel to each other at an open end; and
wedge-shaped recesses, into which chamfers of the terminal units are inserted, formed on inner sides of the side walls facing each other,
wherein a chamfer of the terminal units has an inclined surface comprising inner ends which face corresponding inner ends of another chamfer and outer ends which are formed at an outer end of the inclined surface,
wherein the clamp body tightens the terminal units using the wedge-shaped recesses and enables a position change between a vertical connection and a lateral connection by rotating the clamp body on the terminal units,
wherein, in a case of the vertical connection, the terminal units are disposed between the side walls facing each other and only the inner ends of each chamfer are inserted into and in contact with the wedge-shaped recesses, and
wherein, in a case of the lateral connection, the terminal units are disposed between the side walls facing each other and only the outer ends of each chamfer are inserted into and in contact with the wedge-shaped recesses.

2. The clamp assembly of claim 1 , wherein the terminal units are tightened by a pressure due to slide contact between the wedge-shaped recesses of the side walls and the chamfers of the terminal units during the vertical connection.

3. The clamp assembly of claim 1 , wherein the terminal units are tightened by a force generated when the wedge-shaped recesses of the side walls directly push the chamfers of the terminal units in the direction where the chamfers are tightened during the lateral connection.

4. The clamp assembly of claim 1 , wherein a change between the vertical connection and the lateral connection is performed by rotating the side walls by 90 degrees in the state where the terminal units are inserted into the side walls.

5. The clamp assembly of claim 1 , wherein edges of the wedge-shaped recesses of the side walls and edges of the terminal units are rounded.

6. The clamp assembly of claim 4 , wherein edges of the wedge-shaped recesses of the side walls and edges of the terminal units are rounded.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Noh Seung Hun

Classifications

• H01R11/283 Primary

  Bolt, screw or threaded ferrule parallel to the battery post · CPC title

• B60R16/02

  electric {constitutive elements} · CPC title

• B60R16/04 Primary

  Arrangement of batteries · CPC title

• H01R11/11

  End pieces or tapping pieces for wires, supported by the wire and for facilitating electrical connection to some other wire, terminal or conductive member (H01R11/01 takes precedence) · CPC title