Patents by Inventor Jean-Michel Dechanteloup

Jean-Michel Dechanteloup has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7393252
    Abstract: The female contact element comprising a rear shank designed to receive an electrical conductor and a front shank equipped with an elastic socket designed to receive a male contact element. The female contact element is formed from a one-piece tubular body in which the front shank and the rear shank are arranged, the elastic socket being fixed mounted in the front shank. A method for manufacturing such a female contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Sourian
    Inventors: Pascal Ribeau, Jean-Michel Dechanteloup
  • Publication number: 20070037457
    Abstract: The female contact element comprising a rear shank designed to receive an electrical conductor and a front shank equipped with an elastic socket designed to receive a male contact element. The female contact element is formed from a one-piece tubular body in which the front shank and the rear shank are arranged, the elastic socket being fixed mounted in the front shank. A method for manufacturing such a female contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Pascal Ribeau, Jean-Michel Dechanteloup
  • Patent number: 6048225
    Abstract: The module comprises a connection box that can be coupled to a similar box belonging to a complementary module, and a retention plate adapted to lock each of a number of electric contacts between a shoulder of a passage and a resilient pawl integral with the relation plate, which is movable between a retracted contact-insertion/-extraction position and a forward contact-retention position. Each pawl is extended by a finger having a curved end and a shape such that it is stopped against a terminal projection of the box when the plate is in its retracted position, and it then moves the pawl away from the contact-retention position thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: Framatome Connectors International
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Dechanteloup, Jean-Yves Lecoq
  • Patent number: 6000966
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises an insulating housing having a transversal partition formed with mutually parallel passages for receiving electrical terminals, and a retention plate insertable into the housing up to a front position in which it is retained against the partition. The plate is formed with terminal-receiving holes distributed in the same array as the passages. They extend forwardly as resilient fingers adapted for snap-fastening connection with the terminals. The fingers are adapted to the shape of the passages so that they can penetrate into a passage and be retained therein in the position where they hold the terminals when the retention plate is in its front position. Each hole is formed with a rearwardly-directed shoulder for abutment with a corresponding step on the respective terminal. The abutment shoulder is placed so as to stop the terminal in the position where the fingers are snapped onto them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Dechanteloup, Jean-Max Badeau, Jean Raoelison, Patrick Sangleboeuf
  • Patent number: 5358433
    Abstract: A female electrical contact terminal having a rear tubular shank for connection with an electrical conductor, a forwardly open electrically conductive annular portion for receiving a male terminal, subdivided by a plurality of circumferentially distributed axial slots into a plurality of fingers, each said finger extending axially from a root securely connected to said rear tubular shank up to a free end having an inner swelling, the swelling of all arms defining a male terminal entrance, and a rigid tubular section secured to the roots of the fingers, surrounding the fingers, and limiting radially outwards resilient deformation of the fingers from a free condition of the fingers in which they converge forwardly among from the tubular section. A plurality of such terminal may be located in the insulation of a half-connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1994
    Assignee: Framatome Connectors International
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Dechanteloup, Patrick Leger