Clamping connector

Claim 1

In a clamping connector for making a clamped electrical connection between a rectangular connector pin and a wire type conductor, which clamping connector comprises an approximately Ushaped clamp having two free legs and a bottom and made of an elastic, electrically conductive strip material which can be slipped on to the connector pin and having its free legs bent inwardly in approximately semicircular form and contacting one of the lateral faces of the connector pin, with the bottom protion of the U-shaped clamp adjacent the opposite lateral face of the connector pin having an outward arch in the shape of a dome formed therein to form, with said opposite face, a channel to receive the conductor, after which said clamp may be subjected to a clamping force to affix the conductor in place, wherein the improvement comprises at least two window cutouts, one being made on each side of the domed portion, remote from the ends of the dome, formed by at least two circumferential cuts in the dome, the cuts extending to at least near the dome top, with the window cut out from the done bent downward and inwardly at the lower uncut edge of the window to form prongs protruding toward the interior of said channel and together with the dome-shaped arch at least partially clamping the conductor to prevent the conductor from turning aside or shifting during or after clamping.