Railway draft appliances – Combined coupler and electric connector
Patent
1997-03-11
1999-02-02
Morano, S. Joseph
Railway draft appliances
Combined coupler and electric connector
213 76, 439195, B61G 508, B61G 510
Patent
active
058653295
ABSTRACT:
A standard hermaphroditic pneumatic glad-hand coupler includes a data bus connector containing a pair of contacts, each contact having an axis tangential to the arc along which the connector is carried during rotation of the coupler during establishment of a pneumatic connection. The pair of contacts can be in the form of a pair of hermaphroditic contacts, or one female and one male contact. In the female/male version, the female contact is surrounded on all sides except the mating and termination ends by an elastomeric dielectric projection and the male contact is situated in a pocket bordered by elastomeric dielectric material and arranged to receive the elastomeric dielectric projection when the male and female contacts are mated together upon coupling the glad-hand coupler with an identical glad-hand coupler so as to surround both contacts and also isolate the contacts from each other. In the hermaphroditic contact version, each of the contacts is partially surrounded by elastomeric dielectric projections which form pockets arranged to receive corresponding dielectric projections of a mating coupler and thereby completely surround and isolate each of the contacts from each other.
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Gallusser David Otis
Gay Gary Sumner
Oleksik Gregory John
Amphenol Corporation
Morano S. Joseph
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