Abstract: An electrical connector for interconnecting two electrically conductive members suitable for conveying very high currents, in particular short circuit currents, the connector comprising: a first connector part provided with a socket; a second connector part suitable for being coupled mechanically to the first part, and provided with a pin suitable for being received in the socket when the two parts are coupled together, each of the two parts having at least one axially-extending annular skirt respectively around the socket and around the pin, and at least one contiguous annular recess shaped and positioned to receive the annular skirt of the other connector part when the two parts are coupled together, and at least two contact rings disposed concentrically and at least approximately in mutual radial alignment, the rings being interposed between the mutually engaged facing surfaces of the socket, the pin, and the skirts when the two connector parts are coupled together.

Abstract: The invention relates to electrical connectors having a plug and a socket which can be coupled into each other by insertion and carrying cooperating contacts provided with locking means comprising a fork lever whose branches rotate on one of the elements (socket or, more frequently, plug) about an axis transversal to the plug-in direction and have claws engaging on a ramp provided on the other element (plug or, more frequently, socket) during the tilting of the lever about its axis in a direction bringing it onto the element which carries it.

Abstract: A connector component for connecting a coaxial cable comprising a central core and an outer braid to respective first and second contact pins, wherein the connector component is constituted by a core ferrule and a ground ferrule each made of a conductive material having shape memory and shaped so as to fit closely, when in a first shape memory state, respectively on the central core and on the outer braid, and so as to be able to engage and/or disengage the core and ground ferrules when in a second shape memory state, the core and ground ferrules being respectively connected to first and second sockets for providing electrical connection and mechanical cohesion respectively with the first contact pin and the second contact pin. The invention is applicable to electrical connections.

Abstract: A connector device is provided for receiving a smart card having a plurality of electric contact areas distributed along a forward edge. The device has a reception case having a card introduction passage with a stop limiting insertion of the card. Flexible contact blades are placed so as to bear on the areas and to exert on the card a force tending to move it away from the stop; a resilient bolt is carried by the case and cooperates with a cam formed on the end part of the card. The end part of the card, the cam means and the bolt have a construction such that full insertion of the card and return under the action of the blades cause locking of the card in a set contact position and that a second thrust exerted by the card frees the cam means from the bolt.

Abstract: The coupling is constituted by a split sleeve (1) made of material having shape memory. The sleeve (1) is capable of occupying a first memorized shape state (I) in which electrical and mechanical interconnection is provided between electrical conductors (2, 3). In a second memorized shape state (II) the sleeve allows the conductors to be freely inserted or removed from the sleeve (1). The sleeve is capable of passing reversibly between said first and second states under the effects of temperature changes.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shape memory element for connecting braid (1) onto a connector (2).The element is constituted by a roll (3), with two reversible memorized shape states. A first memorized shape state permits the ensuring of electric contact and the mechanical holding of the braid on the corresponding rear zone of the connector (2), and the second memorized shape state permits the engagement or disengagement of the braid and the rear zone of the connector.Application for connectors for electric cables.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a supporting base (210); a locking clip (217) disposed in an open recess (214) in the base, the clip being constituted by a body defining a cavity having resilient stop means (218, 219); and an electrical contact disposed (221) co-operatively in the body of the clip. Said contact is constituted by an oblong member with a ring (220) rigidly mounted therearound and is situated in the cavity in such a manner that the ring (220) co-operates on one side (223) with the stop means (218, 219) to limit its displacement in one direction. The cavity is delimited at the other side (224) by at least one resilient tongue (233) turned towards the inside of the cavity, the tongue being suitable for co-operating with the other side of the ring in such a manner that the distance between the stop means (218, 219) and the contact surface of the tongue (233) is less than the thickness of the ring.

Abstract: A multicontact electrical connector suitable for use in avionics, radar and industrial electronic control systems and devices comprises a plurality of electrical contacts each in the form of an electrically conductive contact body defining a shank, a retention area and an active part. The retention area forms a portion of reduced cross-section. A member made from a shape memory material is fitted to this retention area and is adapted to retain the contact in the connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector comprises two mechanically couplable elements to cause electrical contacts positioned in these elements, to cooperate in pairs. At least one of the elements comprises an insulating body pierced with longitudinal housings shielding the contacts and itself retained and shielded, at least in part, in an outer casing. Clamping means for the element to a cable joined electrically to the contacts comprise: a collar engirdling the outer sheath of the cable and two diametrically opposite radial projections. Two half-clamps surround the rear end of the insulating body and the neighboring zone of the cable including the collar, each projection being engaged in two respective inner recesses of the two half-clamps. Axial connecting means and means for fastening in rotation are provided between the insulating body and the half-clamps as well as assembly means for the half-clamps.

Abstract: A device makes a non-permanent connection between two optical fibers each fixed into a respective fiber holding device from which a bared end of the fiber protrudes. The device comprises a socket member featuring a guide member to accommodate the aligned bared fiber ends. A clamp member in line with the guide member immobilizes the bared fiber ends by clamping them against the guide member. Two mobile plug members are each adapted to interlock nesting fashion with the socket member, one on each side of the guide member. Their axes are at a predetermined angle to the guide member. Each plug member comprises a front surface through which it comes into an abutting and supporting relationship with the other plug member. At a rear end of a central channel in the plug member is a receptacle for the fiber holding device. There is an orifice at the front end of this channel slightly larger than the diameter of the bared fiber end.

Abstract: A system for an aircraft electrical distribution and interconnection system includes a plurality of apparatuses located side-by-side in a cabinet which receives black boxes. Each apparatus has a rack connector having connection pins distributed in a regular pattern with a first mutual spacing and each removably retained in a passage of the rack connector. The rack connector receives a mating line receptical unit having female contact elements connecting with the front ends of the pins. A printed circuit board receives the rear ends of the pins and connects them to second contacts, having a second mutual spacing greater than the first. The second contacts are secured to parallel wrapping stems which are used for interconnection by wrapping and receive routing connectors.

Abstract: A connector assembly is effected between a board with a plurality hole of holes of given internal diameter and a connection body having an insulating piece with bores therein equal in number to the holes of the board and generally aligned therewith. Pins equal to the number of holes and bores have opposite ends projecting respectively beyond parallel faces of the insulating piece. Each of the pins has from its end proximate to the board, a first longitudinal section of a diameter smaller than the internal diameter of the holes in the board, a second longitudinal section of a diameter larger than the internal diameter and a tapered part joining the first and second sections, at least one guiding part located in a corresponding bore of the insulating piece and the pin terminating in a male connection member.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of conditioning an object in shape-memory material of metallic alloy type.The object formed to final shapes and dimensions constituting the first shape-memory state is submitted to a thermal treatment in order to bring this object to an austenitic crystallographic phase, then to cooling. The object is then submitted in at least one deformation zone to a process of education consisting of imposing on the object, in at least one cycle, a series of thermal and/or mechanical stresses. The stresses are such as to lead to deformation of the object for bringing it to a shape close to its second shape-memory state in a martensitic crystallographic state, then to permit the return of the object to its first shape-memory state, on a return of the object to the austenitic crystallographic state.Application to electric contact elements.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electric connector with a contact element of shape-memory material.The connector has at least one conducting male part and/or a female part intended to be inserted the one into the other for ensuring or breaking electric conduction. One at least of the male or female parts is of a shape-memory conductive material, at least at its active contact end. The male or female part is formed in a manner to enable its tight adaption to the complementary female or male part in a first shape-memory state and to enable ensurance of disengagement of the complementary female or male part in a second shape-memory state.Application to electric connectors used in electromechanics aeronautical or space electronic installations, information or telematic material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connection element between an electric connector and a connector contact.The element comprises a shank intended to receive the electric cable and an active contact part intended to ensure electric connection and mechanical cohesion with the contact. The active part at least is of conductive shape-memory material and is shaped in a manner to be able to tightly adapt to the contact in a first shape-memory state, and to be able to ensure the disengagement and/or engagement of the element in a second shape-memory state.Application to hermetic connectors and other non-demountable contact connectors.

Abstract: An elongate body (1) comprises an assembly of two body portions (2, 3) and contains a plurality of intermeshing gearwheels (12A to 12D) with the first gearwheel (12A) having teeth projecting through an end opening (10) to be driven by an external toothed wheel, and with the last gearwheel (12D) being disposed to drive a milling bit (15) which projects through a side opening (11).

Abstract: The invention relates to a connector thermo-insertable onto a printed circuit card.Contact terminals of the connector have at least one insertable part of a shape-memory material. The insertable part of each of the terminals is shaped to the dimensions of its final use shape after insertion corresponding to its stable shape-memory state, in a manner to ensure mechanical retention and electric contact with the corresponding aperture in the printed circuit. The same insertable part is able to occupy a second memorized or not shape state, in a manner to be able to be introduced and/or withdrawn from its corresponding aperture.Application to connectors for printed circuits in any field of use.

Abstract: A connector for two optical fibers having at least one body composed of a one-piece member with an axial bore, a ferrule supporting an optical fiber in the bore, the axial bore being defined by two coaxial cylindrical surfaces of revolution having different diameters, two ferrules supporting in an internal bore the two fibers, the two ferrules each being defined by an external cylindrical surface of revolution complementary to that of the one-piece member having the smaller diameter, at least one first sleeve mounted around the first of the ferrules; first elastic linking means between the sleeve and the first ferrule, the sleeve being defined externally by a cylindrical surface of revolution complementary to that of the body member having the larger diameter, these two ferrules being introduced into the body member such that, firstly, they are positioned at least partially in the axial bore of the smaller diameter and, secondly, such that the sleeve is placed in the axial bore of larger diameter.

Abstract: An electrical contact comprises first and second interconnectable portions (41 and 42), said first portion (41) including a tab (2) for connection to an electrical conductor by relative movement of said tab and said conductor along a first axis (3). A pin (6) is rigidly fixed to said tab and extends along a second axis (7) parallel to said first axis and offset therefrom by a first predetermined offset (.alpha.). Said second contact portion (42) comprises a head (8) suitable for receiving said first portion in a plurality of positions relative a third axis (14). Said third axis constitutes a middle axis of said second contact portion, and said first portion is receivable at a plurality of distances up to a second predetermined offset on either side of said third axis. Said first and second predetermined offsets are substantially equal, and said head has a connector member (15) extending therefrom along a fourth axis which is substantially the same as said third axis.

Abstract: An electrical connector automatically protected against accidental disconnection. The electrical connector is formed from a plug and a base which are capable of being integrated by a fixation device to provide for the cooperation of contact terminals within insulating bodies each of which has at least one passage for at least one lead for connection to one of the contact terminals. The fixation device is associated with a locking device which is adapted to receive an unlocking order only when a detection device does not detect the presence of any current in at least one of the leads.