US 11,112,045 B2Granted

Fluid connector with full insertion assurance cap with secondary latches

AssigneeOetiker NY, Inc.

InventorJames Anthony Kujawski, Jr.

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Abstract

An assurance cap for use with a fluid connector assembly for coupling a tubular member including an endform to a connector body, the endform defining a radially disposed shoulder, a retainer clip carried on the connector body and extending at least partially into a first bore in the connector body to engage the shoulder to lock the tubular member in the connector body when the first insertion end is fully inserted into the first bore, the assurance cap including a body including a first end and a second bore for disposing the body over the tubular member, and a plurality of primary latch fingers arranged on the body, each of the plurality of primary latch fingers including an end projection configured for latching in an exterior groove of the connector body to latch the body on the connector body when the tubular member is fully inserted into the connector body.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An assurance cap for use with a fluid connector assembly, the assurance cap comprising:

a body including:
a first end;
a second end;
an outer annular ring;
an inner support ring arranged radially inward from the outer annular ring;
and, at least one aperture arranged radially between the outer annular ring and the inner support ring, the at least one aperture extending axially from the first end to the second end;
a plurality of primary latch fingers connected to the body, each of the plurality of primary latch fingers including an end projection, wherein at least one primary latch finger comprises a circumferential width, the circumferential width decreasing in an axial direction;
and, a plurality of stepped fingers connected to the body and circumferentially spaced between the primary latch fingers;
wherein each stepped finger of the plurality of stepped fingers includes an inner surface comprising:
a radially outermost first step terminating at an outer end of the stepped finger;
a second step disposed axially adjacent and radially inward from the first step;
and, a third step disposed axially adjacent and radially inward from the second step.

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Facts

Application: 16/508,748Filed 11 Jul 2019 · continuation
Priority: 30 May 2014
Published: US 2019/0331275 A131 Oct 2019
Granted: 7 Sep 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

F16L 37/138
Using hooks, pawls, or other movable or insertable locking members: using an axially movable sleeve
F02M 35/10091
Air intakes; Induction systems: characterised by details of intake ducts: shapes; connections; arrangements
F16L 21/08
Joints with sleeve or socket: with additional locking means
F16L 37/084
In which the connection between abutting or axially overlapping ends is maintained by locking members: combined with automatic locking

Family

Application62/005,136Us provisional application · filed 30 May 2014
Application14/725,639Parent of this continuation · filed 29 May 2015
US 2019/0331275 A1Pre-grant publication · published 31 Oct 2019
US 10,422,460 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0345684 A1Published application
US 11,112,045 B2This patent

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