Easy to manoeuvre fluidic connector
AssigneeCommissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
InventorsChristian Dechelle, Eric Villedieu
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Abstract
A fluidic connector intended to enable the circulation of a fluid and includes two parts configured to be coupled, each of the parts comprising a channel, the two channels communicating when the two parts are coupled, the fluid being intended to be conveyed by the two channels, and a locking mechanism configured to bear on a first of the two parts and to exert a force on a second of the two parts in order to hold the two parts in position when the two parts are coupled, the locking mechanism passing through an opening in the first of the two parts.
Claims10
A fluidic connector configured to enable circulation of a fluid, the fluidic connector comprising:
- first and second parts configured to be coupled, each of the first and second parts comprising a channel in communication with each other when the first and second parts are in a coupled configuration, wherein the channels of the first and second parts are configured to convey the fluid;
- a locking mechanism configured to bear on the second part and to exert a force on the first part to hold the first and second parts in the coupled configuration, wherein the locking mechanism is configured to pass through an opening in the second part;
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- a seal fluidly separating the combined channels of the first and second parts from the opening,
- wherein the second part comprises a female frustoconical surface, the first part comprises a male frustoconical surface, the male and female frustoconical surfaces are complementary, an interference fit between the male and female frustoconical surfaces enables the relative position of the first and second parts to establish communication between the channels of the first and second parts, and the locking mechanism is configured to exert a force on the first part along an axis of the female frustoconical surface, and
- wherein the second part comprises an extractor in the form of a threaded ring configured to exert a force that enables decoupling of the first and second parts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.