Combined connection assembly
AssigneeAlcatel
InventorJean-Christophe Villain
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Abstract
To improve the connection possibilities offered by a socket for receiving mobile equipment, provision is made for the socket to accommodate a pressure connection plug and an insertion connection plug simultaneously. The two plugs have complementary profiles in order to enable them to be received simultaneously in this way.
Claims12
A combined connection assembly, for mobile equipment, in particular mobile telephone equipment, the assembly being of the pressure and insertion type and including a socket provided with a set of front metal zones serving for pressure contact connections, and a set of lateral metal zones serving for insertion contact connections, and wherein said front metal zones of said socket are electrically connected to said lateral metal zones of said socket, said assembly including a set of complementary plugs;
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- wherein said set of complementary plugs comprises a pressure contact plug provided with front metal zones corresponding to said set of front metal zones of said socket so as to establish the pressure contact connections between said pressure contact plug and said socket and an insertion contact plug provided with lateral metal zones corresponding to said set of lateral metal zones of said socket so as to establish the insertion contact connections between said insertion contact plug and said socket, wherein both said pressure contact plug and said insertion contact plug are adapted to be connected to said socket at a same side of said socket;
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- wherein said pressure contact plug and said insertion contact plug are adapted to be simultaneously connected to said socket to establish the respective pressure contact connections and lateral contact connections.
An insertion connection assembly, comprising:
- a socket having a cavity and a contact flank, said contact flank of said cavity including a first metal zone disposed at a front end of an opening of said cavity and extending inwardly into said cavity in an insertion direction of said cavity;
- a pressure contact plug having a second metal zone disposed on a front face of said contact plug so as to make head on contact with said first metal zone at the front end of said opening of said cavity when said pressure contact plug is connected to said socket;
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- an insertion plug having a third metal zone disposed on a contact face of said insertion plug so as to make sliding contact between said first metal zone where said first metal zone extends inwardly into said cavity when said insertion plug is connected to said socket;
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- wherein said pressure plug and said insertion plug are adapted to be simultaneously connected to said socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.