Connector with switching device
AssigneeFramatome Connectors Incorporated
InventorsMickael Klein, El Mostafa Zindine, Herve Le Gallic, Bernard Robert
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Abstract
In order to switch, especially aerials, between two channels while at the same time ensuring pressure contact with a sufficiently wide contact area, a connector (1) is made which includes a resilient switching blade (3) provided with a side arm (4). This side arm (4) ensures linear contact with a pin (7) of another connector, especially a coaxial connector (70). This improvement means that such a connector is simple to use, to mount on a printed circuit.
Claims22
Connector provided with a device for switching between two channels, this device including two blades each having a first free end and a second end, a first, fixed blade connected to a first channel and a second resilient switching blade exerting a contact pressure either on the first, fixed blade or on a pin of another connector, this pin being connected to a second channel and being inserted as required into the connector and wherein the second end of each blade is bent over in a same contact plane so that it is parallel to a contact surface on a printed circuit board and further comprising a hollow body inside which said device for switching is mounted, characterized in that
- the pin of the other connector comes into contact with the second blade at two points which are offset one with respect to the other on the periphery of the pin, a second contact of the second blade with this pin is obtained because this second blade includes a curved side arm which projects so as to be perpendicular to one surface of this second blade and a curvature of which is made along this projection so that upon contact with the pin, the second contact of the second blade biases the second blade against the pin, and that
- the second end is prestressed so that they are parallel to a contact surface on a printed circuit board and exert a pressure on the base of the hollow body, and
- one of the blades is provided with an anchoring plate, in an intermediate position, from which two side arms extend, each having an oblique catch for being fastened in a slot in the insulating structure.
Connector provided with a device for switching between two channels, this device including two blades each having a first free end and a second end, a first, fixed blade connected to a first channel and a second resilient switching blade exerting a contact pressure either on the first, fixed blade or on a pin of another connector, this pin being connected to a second channel and being inserted into the connector and wherein the second end of each blade is bent over in a same contact plane so that the blade is parallel to a contact surface on a printed circuit board and further comprising a hollow body inside which said device for switching is mounted, characterized in that the pin of the other connector comes into contact with the second blade at two points which are offset one with respect to the other on the periphery of the pin a second contact of the second blade with this pin is obtained because this second blade includes a curved side arm which projects so as to be perpendicular to one surface of this second blade and a curvature of which is made along this projection, and that the second end is prestressed so that they are parallel to a contact surface on a printed circuit board and exert a pressure on the base of the hollow body, and
- one of the blades is provided with an anchoring plate in an intermediate position, from which two side arms extend, each having an oblique catch for being fastened in a slot provided for this purpose in the insulating structure, and
- characterized in that the switching blade and the fixed contact blade being a particular conductive surface, each being connected to a respective conductive area, said conductive surface comprising of a metallized layer applied to part of the internal surface of the hollow plastic body and the two conductive areas are coplanar and comprise two metallized layers applied to the external plane face of the hollow body which is on the opposite side from the opening.
Connector provided with a device for switching between two channels, this device including two blades each having a first free end and a second end, a first, fixed blade connected to a first channel and a second resilient switching blade exerting a contact pressure either on the first, fixed blade or on a pin of another connector, this pin being connected to a second channel and being inserted into the connector and wherein the second end of each blade is bent over in a same contact plane so that the blade is parallel to a contact surface on a printed circuit board and further comprising a hollow body inside which said device for switching is mounted, characterized in that
- the pin of the other connector comes into contact with the second blade at two points which are offset one with respect to the other on the periphery of the pin a second contact of the second blade with this pin is obtained because this second blade includes a curved side arm which projects so as to be perpendicular to one surface of this second blade and a curvature of which is made along this projection, and that
- the second end is prestressed so that they are parallel to a contact surface on a printed circuit board and exert a pressure on the base of the hollow body, and
- one of the blades is provided with an anchoring plate in an intermediate position, from which two side arms extend, each having an oblique catch for being fastened in a slot provided for this purpose in the insulating structure,
- and characterized in that the hollow body has at its rear end a side prolongation extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the connector wherein the resilient blade is anchored with its rear end, and
- characterized in that said rear end of said resilient blade has two tongues entering into two slots in the side prolongation of said hollow body.
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