Framatome Connectors International

Peter Nutzel

Harald Michael Lutsch

Guntram May

Anton Bieringer

A plug and socket connector arrangement with a shaped plug and socket mating slider ( ). Two parallel arms ( ) grips one of the complementary parts ( ) of the arrangement in order to draw it to the second complementary part ( ) of the connector by actuating a guide slot ( ) and a sliding block arrangement ( ). The plug and socket mating slider ( ) is led to a guide groove ( ) in the connector arrangement, along which are arranged stopping faces ( ) against which push the front faces ( ) of the arms ( ), provided that one of the complementary parts ( ) of the connector is not inserted between the plug and socket connector mating slider ( ). The complementary part ( ) of the connector spreads apart the arms ( ) in the process of its insertion between the arms ( ) in such a way that the front faces ( ) of the arms ( ) are able to be moved sideways past the stopping faces ( ) into their final position.

Plug and socket connector arrangement with plug and socket mating slider

A plug connector ( ) is specified which has a plug ( ) and a mating connector ( ), of which one ( ) has latching arms ( ) which, during the coupling operation, interact with corresponding latching tabs ( ) on the other in order to lock the plug connection, the latching arms ( ) having, on their inner side at their free ends, a hook ( ) with a chamfered front side ( ) and a likewise chamfered rear side ( ), as viewed in the plug-in direction, the latching tabs ( ) likewise have chamfered front ( ) and rear sides ( ), with essentially identical angles of inclination in such a way that when latched the respective rear sides ( ) of the latching arms ( ) and latching tabs ( ) lie completely on top of one another, and on their outer sides, between their end connected to the housing and the point at which they rest on the latching tab ( ), the latching arms ( ) can be pressed in resiliently until the rear side ( ) of their respective latching hook pivots around the ridge ( ) of the latching tab ( ), runs essentially parallel to the plug-in direction and enables the connection to be released.

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Nuremberg, Germany

Peter Nutzel