HIGH-DENSITY CONNECTOR

• US 20140073164A1
• Filed: 04/23/2012
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Conextivity Group SA
• Original Assignee: Fischer Connectors Holding SA
• Inventors: Convert, Nicolas, Buchilly, Jean-Marie, Rohrbach, Stphane
• Granted Patent: US 9,531,099 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/284
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/035 Plated dielectric material
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/28 Contacts for sliding cooperation with identically-shaped contact, e.g. for hermaphroditic coupling devices H01R24/84 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/514 composed as a modular blocks or assembly, i.e. composed of co-operating parts provided with contact members or holding contact members between them
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/60 Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/84 Hermaphroditic coupling devices
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/16 for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49213 Metal

Abstract

The invention relates to a connector which includes basic parts that can be assembled and nested together, forming a high-density connector technology for hermaphroditic contacts.

Claims

1. A basic part for an electrical connector comprising at least one or more basic parts, said part being non-conductive and comprising fingers and a metal coating applied to said part and the fingers to form tracks and contacts for conveying electricity.

2. The part as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the basic parts of the electrical connector are identical, planar and asymmetrical.

3. The part as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the volume generated by said part or the assembly of said parts is a polyhedron.

4. The part as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the contacts of said part or generated by the assembly of said parts are hermaphroditic.

5. A connector comprising one or a plurality of parts as claimed in claim 1.

6. The connector as claimed in claim 5, in which the assembly of the basic parts forms a cross, a star or a stack.

7. The connector as claimed in claim 5, in which the basic part has the form of a star, cross or stack.

8. A method for forming a basic part as claimed in claim 1, in which said basic part is supplied in a non-conductive material, the areas corresponding to the electrical tracks are activated and said activated areas are metalized.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, in which the activation is done by laser and the metallization by bath.