EP0576324A1 - Abgedichtete Drahtdurchführung und elektrischer Steckverbinder mit einer solchen Drahtdurchführung - Google Patents

Abgedichtete Drahtdurchführung und elektrischer Steckverbinder mit einer solchen Drahtdurchführung Download PDF

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EP0576324A1
EP0576324A1 EP93401497A EP93401497A EP0576324A1 EP 0576324 A1 EP0576324 A1 EP 0576324A1 EP 93401497 A EP93401497 A EP 93401497A EP 93401497 A EP93401497 A EP 93401497A EP 0576324 A1 EP0576324 A1 EP 0576324A1
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Jean-François Ollivier
Dominique Serizay
Didier Louvet
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/46—Bases; Cases
    • H01R13/52—Dustproof, splashproof, drip-proof, waterproof, or flameproof cases
    • H01R13/5205—Sealing means between cable and housing, e.g. grommet
    • H01R13/5208—Sealing means between cable and housing, e.g. grommet having at least two cable receiving openings

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  • the present invention relates to electrical connectors of the type comprising: an insulating body pierced with receiving passages intended for contacts each provided with a connecting wire; and a rear grommet, often called a "grommet", of elastomeric material, pierced with several individual passages for the wires. It relates more particularly to such grommets intended to prevent the entry of pollutants between the grommet on the one hand, the wires and the insulating body on the other hand.
  • Grommets are widely used today with individual passages having circular sealing lips resting on the wire.
  • the wires can be of very variable diameter. So that sealing is ensured for a wide range of wire diameters, it is necessary to provide each passage with at least two circumferential lips, one of which provides a passage that is sufficiently small to guarantee sealing on the small wires. diameter, at the risk of being damaged by the insertion of a large diameter wire, while the other lip, placed behind the first, leaves a passage large enough to accept the large diameter wires and press them tightly.
  • the grommets are generally made by molding.
  • the complexity of the pins required to form passages having two lips of different diameter makes demolding delicate and leads to a high percentage of scrap. Lips can indeed be destroyed during the demolding and during the insertion of the contacts.
  • this type of grommet can only be produced with a slow-crosslinking elastomeric material, which is only available from a small number of suppliers.
  • each passage receiving a conductor consists of a tubular section surrounded by an annular clearance.
  • This annular clearance cannot be considered as equivalent to blind chambers of free volume surrounding a sealing section.
  • the annular clearances open on the side where the annular sealing section is located.
  • the present invention aims in particular to provide a grommet which responds better than those previously known to the requirements of practice, in particular in that it makes it possible to form in a simple way passages having a sealing barrier accepting wires of very variable diameter. .
  • the invention provides for this purpose a grommet according to claim 1 or 2.
  • the free volume chambers can communicate only with one face of the grommet.
  • the front face of the grommet is secured, generally by gluing, with an insulating connector body, the communication face of the chambers chosen is advantageously the front face; thus each free volume chamber constitutes an air pocket which can be pressurized and the reduction in support on the wire, which would normally result from the absence of material at the location of the chamber, is compensated by the increased gas pressure in the chamber.
  • the pressing pressure on each wire remains substantially constant over the entire periphery of the latter, which maintains the seal.
  • the invention is particularly applicable to connectors in which the insulating body and the grommet are contained in a housing provided with means of coupling with the housing of a complementary connector, a rear cup being able to be provided to repel the grommet forward.
  • the grommet will generally be made of elastomeric material which is very little compressible, but sufficiently deformable so that the material driven back by the presence of a large diameter wire can move towards the chambers by transmitting the forces: in practice this will generally lead to give the elastomer a hardness less than 50 Shore.
  • the connector shown in Figure 1 has a conventional general constitution. 11 is intended to be coupled to a complementary connector, which may have a grommet of the same constitution.
  • the connector 10 comprises a body 12 of hard electrical insulating material, pierced with passages 14 for receiving contacts 16 each provided with an insulated connecting wire 18.
  • the insulating body 12 of the connector has ten passages 14 arranged in staggered rows, this number not being limiting.
  • the contacts shown are of the pin type and each retained against a shoulder of the insulating body by elastic fingers belonging to a ring 20 immobilized in the body. However, the contacts could as well be of the female type and / or immobilized by other means.
  • the insulating body 12 is contained in a housing 22 provided with means, for example with screw or bayonet, for fixing to the housing of a complementary connector.
  • the rear part of the housing contains a sealing thread 24 of flexible elastomeric material, pierced with individual passages each intended for a wire 18, distributed along the same network as the passages of the insulating body 12.
  • the passages of the grommet 24 shown by way of example in FIGS. 2 to 4 have a rear part 26 having an inlet chamfer 28 of generally conical shape and a front part 30 of large diameter, greater than that of the larger wires. to be inserted, sufficient to accommodate the barrel, and possibly a flange, of the contact engaged in the corresponding passage 14 of the insulating body.
  • the rear part 26 is intended to apply tightly to the wire and to guide it. It therefore has a diameter at rest less than that of the smallest wire intended to be inserted through the grommet 24. Its length from the rear face is generally between half and three-quarters of the length of the grommet. It can however be shorter to avoid capillarity phenomena.
  • the grommet In the grommet are provided free volume or expansion chambers distributed around the passages. In order for the contact pressure of the elastomer on the wire contained in a passage to be approximately regular, it is desirable that these chambers be closed. It is not possible to manufacture such chambers directly by molding. Consequently, in the case of a connector whose the grommet 24 is tightly fixed, for example by gluing, on an insulating body, it suffices that the chambers are blind and open only on the front face. In the case of a round connector where the passages are arranged in a triangular network, the chambers 32 are arranged, in the central part of the grommet, at the center of each mesh of the network of passages. Each of the central passages is therefore surrounded by six chambers 32 arranged at 60 ° from one another around the axis of the passage. On the other hand, the side passages are surrounded by only four chambers.
  • each chamber 32 constituting the expansion and free volume chambers, are intended to absorb the deformation generated by the passage of a wire in the rear part 26 of a passage. For this reason, each chamber 32 can have a rear zone of large diameter, having an axial extent a little smaller than that of the rear portions 26, and a front zone 34 of reduced diameter, just sufficient to allow passage to a molding spindle. .
  • the elastomer constituting the grommet being very flexible, demolding can be carried out by elasticity. The small diameter of the front zone allows material to remain between it and the parts 30 which surround it. In the case of rectangular connectors, the chambers can have a constant cross section.
  • additional holes 36 can be drilled in the front face of the grommet so as to constitute keying elements.
  • An additional hole 38 (or more) can replace an expansion chamber 32.
  • a round connector with ten contacts has been produced with a grommet of the kind described above, intended to constitute a sealed connection on wires having a diameter between 1.8 and 2.4 mm.
  • the individual passages were distributed in a triangular network having a pitch of 3.3 mm and the diameter at rest of the rear parts was 0.83 mm.
  • the free volume chambers were distributed in a hexagonal network with a pitch of 2.04 mm.
  • the chambers of free volume, with a diameter of 1.30 mm opened out through a front zone of 0.6 mm in diameter.

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EP93401497A 1992-06-22 1993-06-11 Abgedichtete Drahtdurchführung und elektrischer Steckverbinder mit einer solchen Drahtdurchführung Expired - Lifetime EP0576324B1 (de)

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FR9207584 1992-06-22
FR9207584A FR2692728A1 (fr) 1992-06-22 1992-06-22 Passe-fils d'étanchéité et connecteurs électriques comportant un tel passe-fils.

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FR2792120A1 (fr) * 1999-04-08 2000-10-13 Framatome Connectors Int Joint d'etancheite a passages multiples pour un connecteur electrique de faisceaux de cables
WO2013135419A1 (de) * 2012-03-13 2013-09-19 Robert Bosch Gmbh Mattendichtung für steckverbinder

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