Including Annular Contact Patents (Class 439/18)
  • Patent number: 5080593
    Abstract: A water-cooled, high-current docking plug-connector device designed particularly for automatic welding machines has a plug socket component (1) with elastic contacts (4,6) and a plug pin component (2) for insertion into the socket component (1), so that the components can be rotated relative to each other. In order to transmit high current with low voltages, without the danger of the elastic contacts lifting out of position, several contact ring groups (3) are positioned in axial succession within the plug socket component (1), each of which ring groups (3) has at least one slotted outer socket contact ring (4) with a contact surface (5) resting elastically on the inner surface of the plug socket component (1), and at least one slotted inner socket contact ring (6) with a contact surface (7) which, in the inserted condition, rests elstically on the plug pin component (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Otto Dunkel, GmbH Fabrik fur Elektrotechnische Gerate
    Inventors: Gerhard Neumann, Paul-Rainer Molitor
  • Patent number: 5013224
    Abstract: A fan assembly includes a statonary support holding a rotary support operated by a motor for turning 360 degrees about a vertical axis and a plurality of fan units mounted on the rotary support. First conductors are provided to connect the motor and the fan units to rotary conducting plates which respectively contact stationary second conducting plates, and second conductors are connected to the second conducting plates, thereby preventing the conductors of the assembly from becoming tangled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Inventor: Yin-Chieh Liao
  • Patent number: 4737872
    Abstract: The connector comprises: a central shaft (7) at the periphery of which linear conductor elements are longitudinally disposed, at least in a zone of contact provided on the shaft; a group (22) of radially disposed resilient conductors having conductive ends bent substantially into conformity with a toroidal surface centred on and facing towards the shaft (7) at a certain level of the zone of contact; resilient toroidal couplings (27,28) centred on the shaft (7) and surrounding said ends; a clamp (22,29) for compressing said couplings radially so as to urge, at the time of said compression of the couplings, the conductive ends radially inwardly into pressure contact with the longitudinal conductor elements of the shaft. This connector forms part of a rotor carrying magnetic heads of apparatus (FIG. 2) for recording on and playing back magnetic tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1988
    Assignee: Enertec
    Inventor: Jean-Michel Delacou