Electrical connectors – Having retainer or passageway for fluent material – Liquid retainer
Patent
1995-01-19
1997-07-08
Vu, Hien
Electrical connectors
Having retainer or passageway for fluent material
Liquid retainer
439271, H01R 460
Patent
active
056454422
ABSTRACT:
A submersible connector for use in an underwater environment. The submersible connector has a receptacle and a plug, which are mated together. The receptacle has a shell, an inside chamber, a circuit contact, an outside chamber, and a stopper. The chambers both contain dielectric fluid. When demated, the stopper is disposed in the inside and outside chambers, and those chambers are open to one another, permitting free flow of dielectric fluid therebetween. The plug has a conductive plug probe. As the plug probe is inserted into the receptacle, it first enters the outside chamber. The outside chamber has an end-seal and is closed-off from the outside environment by the stopper in contact with the end-seal, when demated, and by the plug probe in contact with the end-seal, when mated. The plug probe is inserted farther into the outside chamber, it forces dielectric fluid into the inside chamber, which has a flexible bladder that expands with increases in volume in the inside chamber. The probe then enters the inside chamber and makes contact with the circuit contact and thereby makes an electrical connection. When fully inserted into the receptacle, the probe lightly seals-off the outside from the inside chamber, forming a non-fluid-tight seal between the two chambers.
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Ocean Design, Inc.
Vu Hien
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