Image guide wire connection

• US 8,342,887 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2011
• Issued: 01/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Creganna Unlimited Company (TE Connectivity Ltd. (United Kingdom))
• Original Assignee: Tyco Electronics Corporation (TE Connectivity Ltd. (United Kingdom))
• Inventors: Gleason, Kenneth R., Miller, Keith Edwin, McGiboney, Kenneth Alan, Daane, Laurence Alan
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, HIEN D
• Application Number:
  US13/208,863
• Publication Number:
  US 20110294358A1
• Time in Patent Office: 508 Days
• Field of Search: 439/668, 439/669, 439/909, 607/115
• US Class Current: 439/668
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 1/00124 electrical, e.g. electrical plug-and-socket connection
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/227 Sensors with electrical connectors
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6851 Guide wires
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/09183 having tools at the distal tip
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/09 Guide wires
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/193 Means for increasing contact pressure at the end of engagement of coupling part , e.g. zero insertion force or no friction
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/62905 comprising a camming member H01R13/62933 and H01R13/641 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/12 for medicine and surgery
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/58 Contacts spaced along longitudinal axis of engagement

Abstract

An electrical connector and assembly having a body arranged and disposed to receive an interconnector of a guide wire at a first end and an interface cable at a second end, and a contact module in the body, the contact module comprising a contact housing and a plurality of contacts, disposed in the contact housing, the plurality of contacts being configured for electrical connection with the interface cable and the guide wire, is disclosed.

Claims

1. An electrical connector comprising:

a body arranged and disposed to receive an interconnector of a guide wire at a first end and an interface cable at a second end;

a contact module in the body, the contact module comprising a contact housing and a plurality of contacts, disposed in the contact housing, the plurality of contacts being configured for electrical connection with the interface cable and the guide wire; and

a cam actuator and a cam in the body, the cam actuator arranged and disposed for partially rotating the cam,

wherein the interconnector comprises a plurality of axial conductive portions separated by a plurality of axial dielectric portions, the number of the axial conductive portions corresponding to the number of the contacts in the contact module,

the interface cable is arranged and disposed for electrically connecting with a monitoring and control device, and

the cam being arranged and disposed for engaging the contacts upon being partially rotated, the engagement flexing each one of the contacts within the contact module to permit the interconnector to be inserted into the contact module,

wherein the cam actuator is arranged and disposed to be manually engaged by depressing said cam actuator, thereby permitting the interconnector to be inserted into the body, the cam actuator further arranged and disposed for adjusting the cam upon being depressed, the cam including a fulcrum configured to rest in a receiving slot of the body, the receiving slot arranged and disposed for receiving the fulcrum thereby permitting the cam to partially rotate upon the cam actuator being engaged.

2. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the electrical connector is arranged and disposed for releasably receiving the guide wire.

3. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the cam actuator being a protruding portion of the cam, the cam actuator arranged and disposed for adjusting the cam upon being depressed.

4. The electrical connector of claim 1, wherein the contact housing comprises:

grooves arranged and disposed for the contacts to slide into the grooves; and

recessed portions arranged and disposed to receive an upper portion of the contacts, the contacts comprising terminals providing a conductive surface for electrical connection, the upper portion arranged and disposed to flex upon being engaged by a cam, thereby permitting the interconnector to be inserted into the contact module.