Electrical connectors – With relatively guided members and intermediate pliable... – Relatively movable about axis
Patent
1997-09-16
1999-07-27
Paumen, Gary
Electrical connectors
With relatively guided members and intermediate pliable...
Relatively movable about axis
439 15, H01R 3504
Patent
active
059280182
ABSTRACT:
A rotary contactor, comprising two coaxial parts which are mounted for movement in rotation of one with respect to the other against a flexible tape (8) providing electrical connection and wound between the said parts (2, 7) by being attached at one of its ends to one of the said parts and at its other end to the other said part, in which one of the said parts (2, 7) comprises a rotatable hub (2) and the other part a fixed hollow housing (7), in the interior of which the hub (2) is mounted, the said contactor including, firstly, a rotor (5) mounted for rotation in the housing (7), and secondly, an epicyclic gear train (40, 4, 20) carried by the housing (7) and by the hub (2) and the rotor (5), for driving the rotor (5) in rotation through the hub (2) and for reducing the number of turns between the hub (2) and the housing (7), the rotor (5) carrying, for rotation on the rotor, a pinion (4) adapted to mesh with a set of teeth (40) formed in the interior of the housing (7) and a set of teeth formed on the hub (2) on the outside of the latter: that the teeth (41, 141, 241) of the pinion (4) are resilient transversely, that is to say in the circumferential direction with respect to the pinion (4).
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Paumen Gary
Valeo Electronique
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