Souriau & Cie

Framatome Connectors International

Raymond Bargain

Michel De Mendez

Guy Herubel

Jacky Thenaisie

Yves Dohan

Jean-Francois Ollivier

Gerard Guenin

Alain Dubertret

Gilles Rizzo

Jean Riverie

An intermediate connector is for mounting on a printed circuit card so that a first face of the connector bears against the card, and so that a second face thereof receives a substrate of an electronic circuit. It interconnects contact areas provided on the substrate and tracks on the card. The connector has an insulating support having regularly spaced apart through-passages that receive respective electrical signal contacts, each of which connects one contact area to a track. Each contact is a cut out piece of metal sheet and has a rigid branch for fastening it to the support, and a flexible branch that is S-shaped. Each passage is defined by partitions and slidably receives a corresponding rigid branch and it has abutment shoulders that are spaced apart by an interval eo, The abutment closest to the first face is at a predetermined height ho relative thereto. The rigid branch extending along the passage has two mutually facing abutment shoulders that are spaced apart by a determined interval eo greater than e. The contact projects a distance h from the shoulder closest to the second face and h is less than ho.

Intermediate connector for use between a printed circuit card and a

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.

Electric connector with a contact element of shape-memory material

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.

Connection element between an electric connector and a connector contact

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.

Electric contact terminal thermo-insertable onto a printed circuit card

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Sartrouville, France

Raymond Bargain