Electrical ground terminal

Claim 2

An electrical ground terminal adapted to be forcefully driven into an undersized hole extending through an electrically conductive support panel comprising: a base, a pair of spaced blades integral with said base and extending downwardly therefrom, each of said blades having sawtooth portions on at least a portion of one longitudinal facing end which sawtooth portions are adapted to scrape and cut the surface of an undersized hole extending through an electrically conductive support panel when said terminal is forcefully driven into said undersized hole so as to make an electrical and mechanical connection between the terminal and the support panel, and at least one of said blades further having a resilient integral tang extending laterally outwardly from said blades and upwardly toward said base in a cantilevered fashion, said tang having a generally concave outer surface and a pair of sharp spaced edges for digging into a surface defining said undersized hoLe under the self biasing forces of said tang when said terminal is forcefully driven therein to provide additional points of contact between the terminal and the support panel and thereby improve the electrical connection therebetween.

Claim 3

An electrical ground terminal adapted to be forcefully driven into an undersized hole of an electrically conductive support panel comprising: a base, a pair of spaced generally flat blades integral with said base and extending downwardly therefrom, each of said blades having sawtooth portions on their longitudinally facing ends extending from the juncture of said blades with said base downwardly for approximately half the depth of the blades, said sawtooth portions being adapted to scrape and cut the surface of an undersized hole of a support panel when said terminal is forcefully driven into said undersized hole so as to make an electrical and mechanical connection between the terminal and the support panel, each of said blades further having a resilient integral tang extending angularly in cantilevered fashion from a mid portion thereof, said tangs diverging toward said base and terminating in a free end which is approximately coplanar with said base, each of said tangs being flat at the juncture with their respective blades and transforming into a curvilinear cross section at their free ends which is concave in the outward direction, and each of said tangs having a pair of sharp spaced edges for digging into the surface of said undersized hole under the bias of said tangs when said terminal is forcefully driven therein to improve the electrical connection between the terminal and the support panel.

Claim 4

An electrical ground terminal adapted to be forcefully driven into an undersized hole of an electrically conductive support panel comprising: a base, a pair of spaced generally flat blades integral with said base and extending downwardly therefrom, each of said blades having sawtooth portions on their longitudinally facing ends extending from the juncture of said blades with said base downwardly for approximately half the depth of the blades, said sawtooth portions being adapted to scrape and cut the surface of an undersized hole of a support panel when said terminal is forcefully driven into said undersized hole so as to make an electrical and mechanical connection between the terminal and the support panel, each of said blades further having a resilient integral tang extending angularly in cantilevered fashion from a mid portion thereof, said tangs diverging toward said base and terminating in a free end which is approximately coplanar with said base, each of said tangs being flat at the juncture with their respective blades and transforming into a curvilinear cross section at their free ends which is concave in the outward direction, and each of said tangs having a pair of sharp spaced edges for digging into the surface of said undersized hole under the bias of said tangs when said terminal is forcefully driven therein to improve the electrical connection between the terminal and the support panel.