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Connector assembly and power contact element

US5888077A · kind A · utility

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5References

7Claims

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Assignee

Framatome Connectors International · FR

Inventors

Patrick Champion · Change, FR
Danny Morlion · Evergem, BE
Werner Panis · Tessenderlo, BE
Jacky Thenaisie · Le Mans, FR
Jan Peter Karel Van Koetsem · Zwijndrecht, BE
Luc Jonckheere · Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 30, 1997
Grant date	Mar 30, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 30, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH01R12/57
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A connector assembly comprises a first connector (1) and a second connector (2) adapted to be mated with the first connector. Each connector has two spaced rows of contact elements (4,10) arranged at a given pitch, each of the contact elements having a contact face (6). In the first connector (1) at least two adjacent contact elements (4) of one row of contact elements are made integral as one first power contact element (13) having two contact faces (6) at the given pitch. In the second connector (2) at least one contact element (10) of one row of contact elements can be made integral with an opposite contact element (10) of the other row of contact elements as one second power contact element (14).

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