CN104505653A - Underwater wet-mate connector - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses an underwater wet-mate connector. A casing is provided with a plugging passage which extends forwards and backwards, the casing is provided with an inserting opening which is positioned at the front end of the plugging passage and is used for enabling a contact part of an adaptive connector to be inserted into the plugging passage, a water through cavity is arranged in the plugging passage and is communicated with a water body outside the casing, an inserting hole sealing rod is arranged in the plugging passage along the front and back direction in a guiding and moving way, the front end of the inserting hole sealing rod is provided with a matching end surface which is in pushing matching with the contact part of the adapting connector, the interior of the plugging passage is provided with a sealing structure behind the inserting opening, an oil filling cavity is arranged between the sealing structure and the water through cavity in the plugging passage, a piston block which is used for separating the oil filling cavity from the water through cavity is arranged in the plugging passage in a sliding and sealing way, the back part of the inserting hole sealing rod and the contact part are respectively arranged in the oil filling cavity, the back end of the inserting hole sealing rod is in driving connection with the piston block through an elastic part, and a floating block is connected with a reset spring. The underwater wet-mate connector effectively solves the problem of unreliable sealing of the existing underwater wet-mate connector.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to structural design and the applied technical field of the connector of Signal transmissions, specifically provide a kind of underwater wet-mate connector that can be applicable in the deepwater environments such as seabed.
Background technology
At present, in electric connector field, the electric connector with underwater pluggable function all requires that product each contact after deepwater environment plugs together should realize isolation, avoid short circuit, but in prior art, product can not meet deep water height hydraulic pressure, thus cause connector to leak, have influence on normal use.
The patent No. is that the Chinese patent of 201310369867.X discloses a kind of underwater pluggable connector, this connector comprises insulation shell, jack seal bar and electric contact piece, insulation shell has the grafting passage extended vertically, the front end of grafting passage arranges by the insert port inserted for jack seal bar front extended back, the rear of insert port is provided with water flowing chamber, water flowing chamber is communicated with by through hole with the water body outside insulation shell, due to the effect of spring, jack seal bar coordinates with the nose end sealing ring arranged in grafting passage, achieve the interior sealing of grafting passage, this connector can use in the environment that hydraulic pressure is lower, but in deep-sea, because hydraulic pressure is very large, sealing ring in simple dependence grafting passage realizes sealing, can not keep out the contour hydraulic pressure Environmental Water in deep-sea enters in connector, electric contact piece is caused to contact with water the most at last, thus cause connector electric conductivity to lose efficacy.Therefore, there is the insecure defect of sealing in current underwater wet-mate connector.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of underwater wet-mate connector, to solve the insecure problem of the sealing property of underwater wet-mate connector in prior art.
To achieve these goals, the present invention adopts following technical scheme:
A kind of underwater wet-mate connector, comprise housing, contact, the grafting passage extended before and after housing has, housing offers the insert port inserting grafting passage for intermateable connector contact being in grafting Channel front end, the water flowing chamber for communicating with the water body outside housing is provided with in grafting passage, in grafting passage, guiding movement is equipped with jack seal bar along the longitudinal direction, jack seal bar front end has the counterface for coordinating with intermateable connector contact pushing tow, be provided with in the rear of insert port for the forward bar section with jack seal bar in grafting passage, the hermetically-sealed construction of the contact slipper seal cooperation of the intermateable connector inserted, between described hermetically-sealed construction with water flowing chamber, the oil-filled chamber communicated with described insert port for the fluid that is filled with a sealing is provided with in described grafting passage, in grafting passage, slipper seal is equipped with every being located at the piston block between described oil-filled chamber and described water flowing chamber, rear portion and the contact of described jack seal bar are all arranged in oil-filled chamber, the rear end of jack seal bar is fixedly connected with piston block or is in transmission connection by elastic component and piston block, rocker piece is connected with and forward force is applied to rocker piece and jack seal bar is pushed to the back-moving spring of the position coordinated with hermetically-sealed construction.
The counterface of described jack seal bar front end is provided with the groove that the end alignment for the contact of intermateable connector embeds.
The position limiting structure of the maximum position that restriction jack seal bar moves forward is provided with in described grafting passage.
Described oil-filled chamber is front fine and rear thick stepped hole, this stepped hole has thin leading portion, thick back segment, described position limiting structure is the face rearward jack seal bar positioning table be between the section of front and back of stepped hole, the rear end of described jack seal bar be provided with coordinate with described positioning table block, the block be in stepped hole back segment, described contact is located in the leading portion of stepped hole.
The periphery of described block and the back segment of stepped hole along the longitudinal direction guiding movement coordinate, and block is provided with the oil through of the front and rear sections being communicated with stepped hole.
Described electric contact piece is the hat spring band be located in the leading portion of stepped hole.
The invention has the beneficial effects as follows: because the underwater wet-mate connector of invention has oil-filled chamber, electric contact piece is arranged in oil-filled chamber, in the environment that deepwater high-pressure is strong, because fluid can to bear High Voltage, in connector plugging process, water body is blocked all the time outside oil-filled chamber, ensure that electric contact piece can not contact with water body, thus the reliability realized between connector connects.Solve the insecure problem of sealing having showed the underwater wet-mate connector had thus.Further, piston block not only can transferring power but also the Packed effect of tool, ensure that water body can not enter in oil-filled chamber, effectively ensure that the sealing property of connector.
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Fig. 1 is the underwater wet-mate connector structural representation in embodiments of the invention;
Fig. 2 is that the underwater wet-mate connector in the embodiment of the present invention plugs together view.
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A kind of underwater wet-mate connector embodiment, as shown in Figure 1-2: the underwater connector in this embodiment comprises housing 1, contact, contact element 5 is preced with spring band in the present embodiment, the grafting passage extended before and after housing has, housing offers the insert port 3 inserting grafting passage for intermateable connector contact being in grafting Channel front end, the water flowing chamber 9 for communicating with the water body outside housing is provided with in grafting passage, in grafting passage, guiding movement is equipped with jack seal bar 4 along the longitudinal direction, jack seal bar front end has the counterface for coordinating with hat spring band 5 pushing tow, be provided with in the rear of insert port for the forward bar section with jack seal bar in grafting passage, the hermetically-sealed construction that the hat spring band slipper seal of inserting coordinates, the oil-filled chamber 7 communicated with insert port for the fluid that is filled with a sealing is provided with between hermetically-sealed construction with water flowing chamber, oil-filled chamber is front fine and rear thick stepped hole, this stepped hole has thin leading portion, thick back segment, in grafting passage, slipper seal is equipped with the piston block 8 every being located between oil-filled chamber and water flowing chamber, in other words, grafting channel partition has been become oil-filled chamber 7 and water flowing chamber 9 by piston block 7.Rear portion and the hat spring band 5 of jack seal bar are all arranged in oil-filled chamber, be in transmission connection by spring 12 between the rear end of jack seal bar and piston block, rocker piece be connected with and forward force applied to rocker piece and jack seal bar is pushed to the back-moving spring 10 of the position coordinated with hermetically-sealed construction.The counterface of jack seal bar front end is provided with the groove 2 of the end alignment embedding for being preced with spring band 5.The position limiting structure of the maximum position that restriction jack seal bar moves forward is provided with in grafting passage, this position limiting structure is the face rearward jack seal bar positioning table 14 be between the section of front and back of stepped hole, the rear end of jack seal bar be provided with coordinate with positioning table block, the block 6 be in stepped hole back segment, hat spring band 5 is located in the leading portion of stepped hole.The periphery of block and the back segment of stepped hole along the longitudinal direction guiding movement coordinate, and block is provided with the oil through 13 of the front and rear sections being communicated with stepped hole.
When the contact of intermateable connector does not plug together with this plug-in connector, jack seal bar is in the leading section of grafting passage, owing to there is sealing ring 15, water can not enter oil-filled chamber from the front end of oil-filled chamber, this just constitutes in grafting passage the hermetically-sealed construction be provided with in the rear of insert port for coordinating with the forward bar section of jack seal bar, the hat spring band slipper seal of insertion, and also do not have water by sealing ring 11 in piston block and grafting passage and enter oil-filled chamber from oil-filled chamber rear end, ensure that the sealing of connector oil-filled chamber when non-grafting, when this connector is when plugging together, along with the contact progressively pushing tow jack seal bar of adapter, the contact of adapter is here contact pin 16, the insert port place that first contact pin 16 inserts grafting passage contacts with jack seal bar head recess, contact pin can make contact site can not produce the gap of water with this groove close contact, jack seal bar is moved backward, contact pin replaces jack seal bar and is slidably matched with the sealing ring of grafting Channel front end, water body is made to enter oil-filled chamber, piston block also slides backward the mobile pushing tow back-moving spring 10 simultaneously of sealing by oil pressure simultaneously, thus ensure that water body does not enter from oil-filled chamber rear end, therefore, when this connector plugging, therefore oil-filled chamber is sealed all the time, and can not leakage of oil or water inlet.At this moment, the water in water flowing chamber is discharged by the through hole that insulation shell is arranged, and is plugging together oil-filled chamber external and internal pressure maintenance balance in process.When plug together put in place time, pin head current-carrying part all enters in oil-filled chamber, and contacts with the hat spring band in grafting passage and realize conducting, achieves the interior sealing of the grafting of connector, while making to conduct, the object of isolated external source.
In other embodiments, jack seal bar also can be fixedly connected with piston block, and position limiting structure may not be stepped hole, and position limiting structure can adopt baffle ring.
In other embodiments, underwater wet-mate connector also can be the optical fiber connector.
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1. a underwater wet-mate connector, comprise housing, contact, the grafting passage extended before and after housing has, housing offers the insert port inserting grafting passage for intermateable connector contact being in grafting Channel front end, the water flowing chamber for communicating with the water body outside housing is provided with in grafting passage, in grafting passage, guiding movement is equipped with jack seal bar along the longitudinal direction, jack seal bar front end has the counterface for coordinating with intermateable connector contact pushing tow, be provided with in the rear of insert port for the forward bar section with jack seal bar in grafting passage, the hermetically-sealed construction of the contact slipper seal cooperation of the intermateable connector inserted, it is characterized in that: between described hermetically-sealed construction with water flowing chamber, in described grafting passage, be provided with the oil-filled chamber communicated with described insert port for the fluid that is filled with a sealing, in grafting passage, slipper seal is equipped with every being located at the piston block between described oil-filled chamber and described water flowing chamber, rear portion and the contact of described jack seal bar are all arranged in oil-filled chamber, the rear end of jack seal bar is fixedly connected with piston block or is in transmission connection by elastic component and piston block, rocker piece is connected with and forward force is applied to rocker piece and jack seal bar is pushed to the back-moving spring of the position coordinated with hermetically-sealed construction.
2. underwater wet-mate connector according to claim 1, is characterized in that: the counterface of described jack seal bar front end is provided with the groove that the end alignment for the contact of intermateable connector embeds.
3. underwater wet-mate connector according to claim 1, is characterized in that: the position limiting structure being provided with the maximum position that restriction jack seal bar moves forward in described grafting passage.
4. underwater wet-mate connector according to claim 3, it is characterized in that: described oil-filled chamber is front fine and rear thick stepped hole, this stepped hole has thin leading portion, thick back segment, described position limiting structure is the face rearward jack seal bar positioning table be between the section of front and back of stepped hole, the rear end of described jack seal bar be provided with coordinate with described positioning table block, the block be in stepped hole back segment, described contact is located in the leading portion of stepped hole.
5. underwater wet-mate connector according to claim 4, is characterized in that: the periphery of described block and the back segment of stepped hole along the longitudinal direction guiding movement coordinate, and block is provided with the oil through of the front and rear sections being communicated with stepped hole.
6. underwater wet-mate connector according to claim 4, is characterized in that: described electric contact piece is the hat spring band be located in the leading portion of stepped hole.
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