Connector and connector assembly
AssigneesMeasurement Specialties (Chengdu) Ltd., Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
InventorsAibing (Alan) Dong, Liqiang (Gino) Yao, Yong (Chris) Wang, Dong Ding, Peng Zhang, Yingchun (David) Wang, Haibo (Robert) Gan
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Abstract
A connector assembly comprises a connector, a mating connector, and a locking device detachably mounted on the mating connector and adapted to lock the connector and the mating connector in a mating state. The connector includes a housing having an insertion hole, a terminal provided in the housing, and a temperature sensor inserted into the insertion hole of the housing and in thermal contact with the terminal to detect the temperature of the terminal.
Claims21
A connector, comprising:
- a housing having an insertion hole;
- a terminal provided in the housing;
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- a temperature sensor inserted into the insertion hole of the housing and in thermal contact with the terminal to detect the temperature of the terminal, the temperature sensor includes a case having a receiving chamber and a temperature detecting element provided in the receiving chamber of the case, the case is in direct physical contact with a surface of the terminal such that that a heat generated by the terminal is transferred to the temperature detection element.
A connector assembly, comprising:
- a connector, including:
- a housing having an insertion hole;
- a terminal provided in the housing;
- and
- a temperature sensor inserted into the insertion hole of the housing and in thermal contact with the terminal to detect the temperature of the terminal;
- a mating connector adapted to mate with the connector;
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- a locking device detachably mounted on the mating connector and adapted to lock the connector and the mating connector in a mating state.
A connector, comprising:
- a housing having an insertion hole;
- a terminal provided in the housing;
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- a temperature sensor inserted into the insertion hole of the housing and in thermal contact with the terminal to detect the temperature of the terminal, the temperature sensor includes a case having a receiving chamber, a temperature detecting element provided in the receiving chamber of the case, and a pair of wires inserted into the receiving chamber of the case and electrically connected with two pins of the temperature detection element, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.