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US 11,677,202 B2Granted
Contact ring for highly dynamic applications
AssigneeTE Connectivity Germany GmbH
InventorsMichael Burghard, Jochen Fertig, Stefan Masak, Hubert Pollok, Kevin Scheer, Ivan Ivanov
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Abstract
A contact ring including a ring-shaped structure formed of an electrically conductive material. The ring-shaped structure has a plurality of projections on at least one side and a plurality of blades on at least one side. The projections and the blades penetrate an electrically insulating surface layer of each of a pair of contact elements and contact an electrically conductive material of each of the contact elements to electrically connect the contact elements.
Claims19
A contact ring, comprising:
- a ring-shaped structure formed of an electrically conductive material, the ring-shaped structure defining a plane and having a plurality of projections on at least one side and a plurality of blades on at least one side, the blades extending at an angle greater than an angle of the projections relative to the plane, wherein the projections and the blades penetrate an electrically insulating surface layer of each of a pair of contact elements and contact an electrically conductive material of each of the contact elements to electrically connect the contact elements.
A contact system, comprising:
- a first contact element formed of an electrically conductive material with an electrically insulating surface layer;
- a second contact element formed of the electrically conductive material with the electrically insulating surface layer;
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- a contact ring including a ring-shaped structure having a plurality of projections on at least one side and a plurality of blades on at least one side, the blades extending at an angle greater than an angle of the projections relative to the planar surface, wherein the projections and the blades penetrate the electrically insulating surface layer of each of the contact elements and contact the electrically conductive material of each of the contact elements to electrically connect the contact elements, whereby the blades stiffen the contact system so that the projections exhibit less vibration and the contact system has a higher vibration resistance overall.
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A contact ring, comprising:
- a ring-shaped structure formed of an electrically conductive material, the ring-shaped structure having a plurality of projections on at least one side and a plurality of blades on at least one side, the projections and the blades penetrate an electrically insulating surface layer of each of a pair of contact elements and contact an electrically conductive material of each of the contact elements to electrically connect the contact elements, wherein only one of an outer side and an inner side of the ring-shaped structure has the projections and the blades, and the ring-shaped structure further comprise a slot in a radial direction, wherein a pair of edges of the slot form a pair of blades bent out of a plane of the ring-shaped structure in opposite directions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.