Supplementary force heat-recoverable connecting device

Details Supplementary force heat-recoverable connecting device Supplementary force heat-recoverable connecting device

1982-09-30

1985-02-05

Briggs, William R.

Geometrical instruments

339DIG1, H01R 1320

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044975279

ABSTRACT:
A connecting device which includes a socket member having at least two tines, the tines having an unstrained configuration from which at least one of the tines can be resiliently deformed away from the other tine to define a socket for receiving and holding a substrate, and a band of heat recoverable metal defining a driver member which in its martensitic phase loosely surrounds the tines so that at least one of the tines can be resiliently deformed outwardly when defining the socket member without deforming the driver member. The driver member when warmed to a temperature at which the metal is in its austenitic phase, recovers inwardly and exerts a supplementary inward force on the tines at least when the substrate is held in the socket. In the martensitic phase of the metal, the tines alone hold the substrate within the socket with sufficient force to provide a physical connection.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3740839 (1973-06-01), Otte et al.
patent: 4022519 (1977-05-01), Hill

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