摘要 |
Disclosed is a bonding clip adapted to be connected to a bonding harness and for forming a joint that maintains electrical and mechanical continuity between the shielding of one cable terminus to another. The clip is made from a piece of metal, U-shaped in cross section, which has two juxtapositioned terminal portions. Each terminal portion has an aperture therein that is aligned not only with that aperture in the opposing terminal portion but also with an aperture through a coated cable shield. The terminal portions have spaced-apart perforations defining inwardly extending plastic and metal piercing protuberances whereby pressure applied to said terminal portions by a connector means, disposed through the apertures, exert a force to thrust said protuberances through the plastic covering and the metal shield. Located in the aligned apertures is a connector means that has a median shank and two terminal portions, one of which has unconnected grooves therein and is nested inside of an annulus sleevelike fitting that has annuluslike protuberances on the innermost surface thereof, the protuberances being positioned so that they mechanically interfit and essentially fill the unconnected grooves.
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