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EP0949723B1 - Elektrischer hermaphroditischer Sicherheitssteckverbinder - Google Patents

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EP0949723B1
EP0949723B1 EP99400853A EP99400853A EP0949723B1 EP 0949723 B1 EP0949723 B1 EP 0949723B1 EP 99400853 A EP99400853 A EP 99400853A EP 99400853 A EP99400853 A EP 99400853A EP 0949723 B1 EP0949723 B1 EP 0949723B1
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Franck Meslet
Rodrigue Cortiguera
Patrick Pennaneac'h
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/44—Means for preventing access to live contacts
    • H01R13/447—Shutter or cover plate
    • H01R13/453—Shutter or cover plate opened by engagement of counterpart
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R24/00—Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure
    • H01R24/84—Hermaphroditic coupling devices
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/62—Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
    • H01R13/627—Snap or like fastening
    • H01R13/6275—Latching arms not integral with the housing

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  • the invention relates to a hermaphrodite connector of safety, closed by masking the contacts, and intended including power transmission. It concerns in in particular a hermaphroditic electrical connector for safety, especially for power transmission, consisting of two identical connector parts, connected to each other in service, comprising for each part of the connector at least one electrical contact disposed in the median plane of the connector, and a contact shutter, protecting the contact from any intrusion, and opening when plugging in parts of connector.
  • a hermaphrodite electrical connector is consisting of two connector parts, mobile plug and socket, strictly identical. Such a connector therefore limits the number of connector parts in storage as a result of the identity of the base and the plug and protects the parts from corresponding cap, applied one on top of the other, of the risk of fouling. Furthermore, the transmission of power to a voltage greater than 48 volts requires security masking contacts.
  • the plug-in is obtained by presenting the parts of opposite connector, oriented 180 ° from each other.
  • the shutter is rotatably mounted at the front of said contact, being shaped and turned adequately so that it closes access of the contact in the out-of-service position and make it accessible to plugging in and although it can be positively driven by example by a cam track, from the closed position out service in the open plugging position it is advantageously recalled elastically in the closed position, being ordered when opening for plug-in by engagement of a protruding part of the body of the other part of connector.
  • the contact is preferably a mounted end contact movable and recalled forward, axially, and likewise the shutter can be mounted movable axially recalled forward, so that when plugging in after opening of the shutter, the latter is driven backwards through the other connector part for allow contacting with pressure of said contacts opposite the connector parts.
  • the shutter is movably mounted in rotation, axially, in a movable block mounted sliding axially in the body and recalled forward.
  • the axial stroke of the movable block or flap shutter is greater than that of the contact (the offset of rear positioning of the contact relative to the block or shutter).
  • the connector body has a path for guidance, for example with lugs and complementary grooves, guiding the insertion and extraction of the parts of connector, one with respect to the other, the plug being lockable in position by a hooking device manually releasable and projecting the extraction of the parts connector when disconnected, to limit any phenomenon electric arc at contact breakage.
  • the electrical connector hermaphrodite according to the invention consists of two identical connector parts 1 and 1 ', intended to be plugged into each other, opposite each other by their front part.
  • One of the parts can be mobile and constitute the plug part of the connector and the other constitute the part of base.
  • the plugging is carried out following a first movement transverse then a second axial movement (according to arrows), the lateral pins 3 of the front skirt 5 of one of the connector parts 1 'being engaged in grooves additional 7 'L-shaped from the other part of connector 1 'and vice versa for the pins 3' in the grooves 7.
  • the locking of the plug-in is obtained at the end with two opposite external hooks 9 and 9 'whose nose 10, 10' on one of the parts engages in a respective complementary projecting part 11 ′, 11 on the other (see Figure 7).
  • Each connector part has a body 13 essentially rectangular parallelepiped, provided with a front skirt 5, a front movable block 15, a side hook 9, pins internal contacts 17 and a connected rear cap part 19 to electrically conductive cables 21.
  • the front skirt 5 extends on one side of the body 13, that of greater width, being cut with a section in U, comprising the lateral hook 9 at its front end and two lateral pins 3 for guiding the plugging, fixed on its wings.
  • the movable block 15 is mounted to slide axially in a complementary recess before 23 of the body, being recalled forward by means of four springs 25 each mounted in a rear corner sleeve 27 of the block.
  • the lateral hook 9 is articulated on the wall upper part of the skirt, being recalled by its pusher part rear 29 up, in the grip direction on the other connector part.
  • the contact pins 17, three in number, are also slidably mounted axially in the body 13, passing through it and the movable block 15 by holes of adequate aligned holes 31, being recalled forward by helical springs 33 supported in drums complementary 35 back of a body bottom plate and on a middle flange 37 of pin 17.
  • the pins 17 are arranged in a longitudinal median plane P.
  • the rear cap part 19 carries screw sockets wire clamp 39, at the rear of which the cables are fixed conductors 21.
  • the sockets 39 have in their sleeve before internal cells 41, which receive with electrical contact link contact pins electric 17, mounted sliding inside by their rear part (see figures 6, 7).
  • a flexible peripheral seal 43 fixed by means of a clamp 45 is arranged on the front part of the body, at the level of the movable block.
  • This seal 43 applied to the top edge of the front recess 23 of the body is intended to bear with sealing ( Figure 7) on the corresponding seal 43 'of the other connector part in the inserted state.
  • This movable block 15 has three holes 31 of passage of the contact pins 17 in the inserted position, a upper front hook 47, and a lower recess 49 at the vertical of the hook 47.
  • the hook 47 of a movable block 15 of a connector part 1 is intended to penetrate insertion (during the first transverse movement) into the corresponding recess 49 'of the movable block 15' on the other connector part 1 '. In doing so, it leads to the opening (FIG. 5) a shutter flap 51 of the pins contact, rotatably mounted axially inside the block mobile and recalled when closing ( Figure 4) by means of a spiral spring 53 (visible in Figure 6).
  • connector The operation of the connector is now described. he is to present face to face the two parts of connector 1 and 1 'oriented 180 ° from each other, engage the lateral pins 3 and 3 'of the opposite skirts 5 and 5 'in the guide grooves 7' and 7 of the body, respectively, to exercise the first transverse movement transverse insertion, where the shutter flap 51 opens then to exert at manual pressure the second axial movement of plugging in at the end of which it is brought into contact end to end and in electrical connection the contact pins 17 and 17 '.
  • Disconnection is obtained in reverse by pressing the two pushers 29, 29 'of the hooks 9, 9' simultaneously. There is then a first extraction in axial projection automatic exerted on the grooves 7, 7 'of axial guide bodies, under the thrust essentially one against the other of the movable blocks 15, 15 'biased forward. And in a second step, we separate the parts transversely connector unlike the first plug-in movement.
  • Variant embodiments can be imagined in the scope of the invention, for example as to the mode of guiding the connector parts to each other, the number of contacts, the possibility of having a mobile component without movable block, the possibility of translating the flap shutter in the movable block masking the contacts, the connector locking etc.

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  1. Elektrische Sicherheitssteckverbindung in hermaphroditischer bzw. Zwitterausbildung, insbesondere für Leistungsübertragung, bestehend aus zwei im Betriebszustand miteinander verbundenen identischen Steckverbindungsteilen (1, 1'), wobei jeweils jedes Steckverbindungsteil wenigstens einen in der Medianebene (P) der Steckverbindung angeordneten elektrischen Kontakt (17, 17') umfaßt sowie eine Kontaktverschlußklappe (51, 51'), welche den Kontakt (17, 17') gegen jegliches Eindringen schützt und sich beim Zusammenstecken bzw. Kuppeln der Steckverbindungsteile (1, 1') öffnet,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die genannte Verschlußklappe (51, 51') vor dem genannten Kontakt (17, 17') drehbar angeordnet ist und mit solcher Formgebung ausgebildet ist und in geeigneter Weise gedreht wird, daß sie in der Außer-Betrieb-Stellung den Zugang zu dem Kontakt (17, 17') verschließt und ihn beim Zusammenstecken bzw. Kuppeln zugänglich macht, wobei die Verschlußklappe (51, 51') in positiver Weise, beispielsweise mittels einer Nockenbahn, aus der geschlossenen Stellung im Außer-Betrieb-Zustand in die geöffnete Stellung im Kupplungs- bzw. zusammengesetzten Zustand überführt wird, und daß jedes Teil der Steckverbindung (1, 1') eine Führungsbahn (3, 7; 3', 7'), beispielsweise mit Nocken (3, 3') und damit zusammenwirkenden zugehörigen Nuten (7, 7'), umfaßt, zur gegenseitigen Führung der Steckverbindungsteile beim Zusammenstecken/Kuppeln und beim Auseinanderziehen der Steckverbindungsteile, wobei der zusammengesteckte bzw. gekuppelte Zustand durch eine Verriegelungsvorrichtung (9, 9') in seiner Stellung verriegelbar und entriagelbar ist.
  2. Elektrische hermaphroditische bzw. Zwitter-Steckverbindung nach Anspruch 1,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, das zum Zusammenstecken bzw. Kuppeln die Steckverbindungsteile (1, 1') gegeneinander unter einem gegenseitigen Winkel von 180° ausgerichtet werden.
  3. Elektrische Steckverbindung in hermaphroditischer bzw. Zwitterausbildung nach einem der Ansprüche 1, 2,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verachlußklappe (51, 51') elastisch in die Schließstellung vorgespannt ist und durch Eingriff mit einem überstehenden Teil (47, 47') des Gehäuses des anderen Steckverbindungsteils beim Zusammensteck- bzw. Kupplungsvorgang in die Öffnungsstellung gesteuert wird.
  4. Elektrische Steckverhindung in hermaphroditischer bzw. zwitterausbildung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verschlußklappe (51, 51') axial verschieblich angeordnet ist und nach vorne vorgespannt ist.
  5. Elektrische Steckverbindung in hermaphroditischer bzw. Zwitterausbildung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verschlußklappe (51, 51') dreh- bzw. axial beweglich in einem beweglichen Block (15, 15') angeordnet ist, der seinerseits axial gleitend verschieblich in dem Gehäuse gelagert und nach vorne vorgespannt ist.
  6. Elektrische Steckverbindung in hermaphroditischer bzw. Zwitterausbildung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der genannte Kontakt (17, 17') ein beweglich gelagerter und axial in Richtung nach vorne vorgespannter Endkontakt ist.
  7. Elektrische Steckverbindung in hermaphroditischer bzw. Zwitterausbildung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verriegelungsvorrichtung (9, 9') von Hand lösbar ist, unter Auslösung des Auseinanderziehens der Steckverbindungsteile (1, 1'), derart daß jegliche elektrische Bogenbildung bei der Unterbrechung des Kontakts begrenzt wird.
  8. Elektrische Steckverbindung in hermaphroditischer bzw. Zwitterausbildung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Zusammensteck- bzw. Kupplungsvorgang gemäß einer ersten Transversalbewegung und sodann einer zweiten Axialhewegung erfolgt, wobei die seitlichen Nocken bzw. Vorsprünge (3) am Vorderschurz (5) eines der Steckverbindungsteile (1) in Eingriff mit komplementären L-förmigen Nuten (7') des anderen Steckverbindungsteils (1') gelangen, und entsprechend für das andere Steckverbindungsteil (1'); und daß die Verriegelung der Kupplungsstellung am Ende des Kupplungsvorgangs mit Hilfe von zwei äußeren entgegengesetzten Haken (9) und (9') erfolgt, deren Nase an einem der Teile in Eingriff mit einem entsprechsnden komplementären vorspringenden Teil des anderen Teils gelangt.
  9. Hermaphroditische bzw. Zwitter-Steckverbindung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie jeweils für jedes Steckverbindungsteil (1, 1') eine mittels einer Klemmvorrichtung (45, 45') befestigte biegsam-elastische Umfangsdtchtung (43, 43') aufweist, die am vorderen Teil des Gehäuses auf dem Niveau des beweglichen Blocks (15, 15') angeordnet ist, wobei diese Dichtung (43, 43') auf dem oberen Rand der vorderen Ausnehmung (23, 23') des Gehäusekörpers angebracht ist und zur Dichtungsanlage gegen die entsprechende Dichtung (43, 43') des anderen Steckverbindungsteils in zusammengestecktem bzw. gekuppeltem Zustand bestimmt ist.
  10. Hermaphroditische bzw. Zwitter-Steckverbindung nach einem der Ansprüche 5 bis 9,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der genannte bewegliche Block (15) wenigstens eine Durchgangsöffnung (31) für den Durchtritt des Kontakts (17) aufweist, des weiteren einen oberen vorderen Haken (47) und eine untere Ausnehmung (49) in vertikaler Ausrichtung mit dem Haken (47), und desgleichen der Block (15'), wobei der Haken (47) eines beweglichen Blocks (15) eines Steckverbindungsteils (1) dazu bestimmt ist, beim Zusammenstecken bzw. Kuppeln (während der ersten Tranaversalbewegung) in die entsprechende Ausnehmung (49') des beweglichen Blocks (15') des anderen Steckverbindungsteils (1') einzudringen, und wobei desgleichen der Haken (47') die Öffnung der Verschlußklappen (51, 51') herbeiführt, wobei die beweglichen Blöcke (15, 15') der Steckverbindungsteile beim Zusammenstecken gegeneinander anliegen, um nach der Öffnung der Verschlußklappen den Durchtritt der Kontakte (17, 17') zu gestatten, und im Inneren des Gehäusekörpers ihres entsprechenden Steckverbindungsteils zurückzulaufen, um am Ende des Vorgangs die Verbringung der Kontakte (17, 17') gegeneinander und in elektrischer Verbindung miteinander zu gestatten.
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