Fci, Inc.

Framatome Connectors International

Jean-Yves Lecoq

Jean-Michel Dechanteloup

Alain Philippe

Jean-Claude Guyon

A connector ( ) includes a body ( ) for connecting wires ( ) of a quadriaxially twisted cable ( ) with contacts ( ) of said connector. The connector includes insulating parts ( ) for receiving the twisted cable, the untwisted wires and also to allow connecting the untwisted wires with the contacts. The insulating parts include channels arranged such that the characteristic impedance of the cable in the region of the untwisted wires is held at the same level as the characteristic impedance of the twisted wires.

Connector provided with contacts mounted in an adapted insulator

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.

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Mulsanne, France

Jean-Yves Lecoq