Classifications

• • 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
  • H01R13/44—Means for preventing access to live contacts
  • H01R13/447—Shutter or cover plate
  • H01R13/453—Shutter or cover plate opened by engagement of counterpart
• • 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
  • H01R13/02—Contact members
  • H01R13/04—Pins or blades for co-operation with sockets
  • H01R13/08—Resiliently-mounted rigid pins or blades
• • 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
  • H01R13/62—Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
  • H01R13/6205—Two-part coupling devices held in engagement by a magnet
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
  • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
  • H01R24/00—Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure
  • H01R24/66—Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure with pins, blades or analogous contacts and secured to apparatus or structure, e.g. to a wall

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a set of electrical outlet.
• the electrical outlet assembly comprises a base and an electrical plug adapted to be fitted on the base.
• the patent application WO2012032230A1 discloses a set of electrical outlet comprising a base and an electrical plug for fitting on the base.
• the plug has two electrical tracks for electrically connecting two electrical contacts of the base.
• the two electrical contacts have the particularity of moving between a retracted position inside the base and a position outside the base. When they are retracted inside the base, they are inaccessible, making the plug perfectly safe.
• magnetic control means comprising a permanent magnet integrated in the plug and a movable magnetic element housed in the base and secured to the electrical contacts, allow the extraction of the electrical contacts of the base and their connection with electric tracks.
• a mechanical spring system repositions the moving mechanism inside the base.
• the patent application FR2918216A1 describes a sliding shutter mechanism in which the movement of each electrical contact towards the outside of the base causes a corresponding movement of an electric shutter.
• a spring made in the form of a flexible blade, connects each flap with an electrical contact.
• the object of the invention is to propose a solution for preventing access to the electrical contacts when they are retracted inside the base, this solution being arranged to overcome the disadvantages of the state of the art listed below. above.
• a socket base comprising:
• a housing comprising at least a first opening
• At least one movable assembly comprising at least a first electrical contact, arranged to move in a translation direction said first electrical contact through said first opening between a first position in which the first electrical contact is retracted inside the base and a second position in which the first electrical contact is outside the base,
• a first closure device of said first opening comprising a first flap arranged to pivot between a first position in which it at least partially closes said first opening when the first electrical contact is retracted inside the base and a second position in which it releases the first opening to let the first electrical contact to the outside of the base,
• At least one drive system arranged to transform a translational movement of the movable assembly into a rotational movement of the flaps of the closure device.
• the drive system comprising at least one arm connected on the one hand to the moving assembly by means of a cam and follower mechanism and on the other hand to said first component and arranged to transform, thanks to cam and follower mechanism, a translational movement of the assembly movable in a rotational movement of the first component of the first shutter device.
• the first closure device comprises a second flap cooperating with said first flap to close said first opening when the first electrical contact is retracted inside the base.
• the housing has a second opening
• the movable assembly comprises a second electrical contact arranged to move in the said direction of translation between a retracted position inside the base and a position outside the base through the said second opening when the assembly is displaced; mobile,
• a second closure device of said second opening comprises a first flap and a second flap arranged to pivot between a first position in which they at least partially close said second opening when the second electrical contact is retracted inside the base and a second position in which they release the second opening to let the second electrical contact to the outside of the base.
• the drive system comprises:
• a first driving device arranged to simultaneously actuate the first shutter of the first shutter device and the first shutter of the second shutter device
• a second drive device arranged to simultaneously actuate the second shutter of the first shutter device and the second shutter of the second shutter device.
• the first drive device comprises an arm composed of a main branch having an end bearing a cam follower, said first cam follower, and two secondary branches extending the main branch and each connected by their free end. the first shutter of the first shutter device and the first shutter of the second shutter device.
• the drive system comprises a cam, said first cam, integral with the movable assembly and cooperating with the first drive device via said first cam follower.
• the first cam comprises two consecutive rectilinear segments, a first rectilinear segment inclined with respect to said translation direction and a second rectilinear segment made in the direction of translation.
• the second drive device comprises an arm composed of a main branch having an end bearing a cam follower, said second cam follower, and two secondary branches extending the main branch and each connected by their free end. the second shutter of the first shutter device and the second shutter of the second shutter device.
• the drive system comprises a cam, said second cam, integral with the movable assembly and cooperating with the second drive device via said second cam follower.
• the second cam comprises two consecutive rectilinear segments, a first rectilinear segment inclined with respect to said translation direction and a second rectilinear segment made in the direction of translation.
• each flap is pivotally mounted about an axis.
• the invention also relates to an electrical socket assembly comprising: a base comprising at least two first electrical contacts connected to an electrical supply circuit, a first moving magnetic integral part of the first two electrical contacts, said first magnetic part being arranged to moving by magnetic effect between a first position in which the first electrical contacts are retracted inside the base and a second position in which the first electrical contacts are outside the base,
• a plug intended to be coupled to the base and comprising two second electrical contacts intended to connect electrically to the two first electrical contacts when they are outside the base and a second magnetic part arranged vis-à-vis the first magnetic part when the plug is coupled to the base to move, by magnetic effect, the first magnetic part to its second position, causing the first electrical contacts to the outside of the base,
• the base being as defined above.
• FIGS. 1A and 1B show an example of an architecture of the electrical socket assembly of the invention, respectively with the plug separated from the base and the plug fitted on the base,
• FIGS. 2A to 2C illustrate the operating principle of the closure device of the invention, respectively when the flaps are in the closed position and the spindle retracted, when the flaps are open and the spindle in an intermediate position between its retracted position and its extracted position and when the flaps are open and the pin extracted from the base.
• FIG. 3 is a perspective view of a drive device connected to the first two shutters
• FIG. 4 represents in perspective a drive device connected to the two second shutters
• Figure 5 shows in perspective the cam mechanism cooperating with the two drive devices. Detailed description of at least one embodiment
• the invention is used in the context of a magnetic plug assembly operating by magnetic effect.
• an electrical socket assembly of the invention comprises a base 1 and an electrical plug 2 intended to fit on the base 1.
• the base 1 comprises a plastic housing 10 intended for example to be embedded in a wall.
• the base 1 has a front face 1 1 against which can adapt the plug.
• the base also comprises a mobile assembly 12 comprising two first electrical contacts, for example made in the form of pins 120, 121. The first two electrical contacts are connected to an electrical supply circuit 15 by means of conductive electrical wires.
• the moving assembly 12 also comprises a first movable magnetic part 13 arranged to move in translation, in a translation direction (X) perpendicular to the front face 1 1, by magnetic effect between a first position and a second position.
• the pins 120, 121 are retracted inside the base 1 and in the second position of the first magnetic part 13, the pins 120, 121 are protruding outside the base 1, passing through its front face 1 1.
• the moving assembly comes into abutment, for example against a part of the housing 10.
• the electrical plug 2 comprises, for its part, a plastic housing 20 having a front face 21 intended to bear against the front face 1 1 of the base 1, defining a junction plane P (defined vertically in the appended figures) between the base 1 and the plug 2.
• the plug 2 further comprises two second electrical contacts, for example two electrical tracks 220, 221 made flush on its front face 21 and intended to come into electrical contact with the two pins 120, 121 of the base 1. It also includes a second magnetic part 23 fixed inside the housing and intended to attract the first magnetic part 13 when the plug 2 is approaching the base 1 in order to move the movable assembly and to extract the pins 120, 121.
• the two electrical tracks 220, 221 are of circular shape and positioned concentrically.
• the first magnetic part and / or the second magnetic part comprises at least one permanent magnet so as to generate a magnetic flux between the two magnetic parts.
• the first magnetic part 13 comprises, for example, a permanent magnet 130 of annular shape and the second magnetic part 23 comprises a permanent magnet 230 of annular shape.
• the permanent magnet 130 is for example fixed on a ferromagnetic part 4.
• the permanent magnet 130 and the permanent magnet 230 are intended to be positioned coaxially when the plug 2 is approaching the base 1.
• the permanent magnet 130 and the permanent magnet 230 are arranged so as to each have an air gap surface parallel to the junction plane.
• the base also comprises for each pin, a closure device for preventing access to the pin 120, 121 when the latter is retracted inside the base 1.
• This closure device is consists of two flaps 160, 161-170, 171 for each spindle.
• the two flaps are arranged to pivot in a conventional manner, as the shutters affixed to obscure a window.
• the two components have the following characteristics:
• the two flaps are arranged to obstruct the space reserved for the passage of the spindle,
• each flap is pivotally mounted about an axis (designated (a) and (b) in the figures),
• the two axes (a), (b) of the two flaps extend in parallel with each other, perpendicular to the direction of translation of the moving assembly,
• the two flaps are arranged to open by pivoting about their axis in opposite directions of rotation.
• the base having two pins 120, 121 the device comprises two pairs of flaps, designated first pair of flaps (flaps 160, 161) and second pair of flaps (flaps 170, 171).
• Each pair of flaps comprises a first flap 160, 170 arranged to pivot from the first position to the second position in a first direction (S1) of rotation and a second flap 161, 171 arranged to pivot from the first position to the second position in a second direction of rotation (S2) opposite to the first direction of rotation (S1).
• the closure device of the invention comprises two drive devices 18, 19 (FIGS. 3 and 4) actuated simultaneously by the movement of the moving assembly and each arranged to pivot two flaps simultaneously, associated with a separate spindle.
• a first drive device 18 is arranged to simultaneously actuate the first flap 160 of the first pair and the first flap 170 of the second pair
• a second drive device 19 is arranged to simultaneously actuate the second flap 161 of the second pair.
• first pair and second flap 171 of the second pair The first flap of the first pair and the first flap of the second pair are arranged to pivot simultaneously about the first axis of rotation (a).
• the second flap of the first pair and the second flap of the second pair are arranged to pivot simultaneously about the second axis of rotation (b), parallel to the first axis of rotation and perpendicular to the translation direction (X).
• the description which follows relates indistinctly to the first drive device 18 (FIG. 3) or the second drive device 19 (FIG. 4), each used to pivot two flaps simultaneously from their first position to their second position, and vice versa, and to transform the translational movement of the moving assembly into a rotational movement of the two flaps.
• This description of a drive device therefore applies to the first two flaps 160, 170 actuated simultaneously or the two second flaps 161, 171 simultaneously actuated.
• Each drive device is rigidly connected to two flaps and is thus in the form of a single piece having a median plane of symmetry perpendicular to the pivot axis (a) or (b) of its flaps.
• Each driving device 18, 19 comprises a cam and cam follower mechanism arranged between the two associated flaps and the moving assembly 12.
• the driving device 18, 19 comprises an arm having the following characteristics:
• the moving assembly 12 (visible in Figure 5) comprises two cams 120, 121, a cam for each drive device.
• the two cams 120, 121 are made in parallel on the moving assembly 12 and arranged in inverse of each other so as to provide rotations in the two different directions S1, S2.
• Each cam is in the form of a groove in which is positioned the pin 183, 193 made at the end of the arm.
• Each groove comprises two consecutive rectilinear segments, hereinafter referred to as first segment 120a, 121a and second segment 120b, 121b.
• the first rectilinear segment 120a, 121a is located in a plane inclined with respect to the plane including an axis parallel to the translation direction (X) of the moving assembly 12.
• This first segment 120a, 120b is arranged to transform the movement of translation of the moving assembly 12 in pivoting movement of the two flaps (160, 170 for the first device and 161, 171 for the second device).
• the flaps are in their second position but the pin is not yet fully extracted from the base ( Figure 2B).
• the second segment 120b, 121b rectilinear is made along an axis parallel to the translation direction (X) of the moving assembly 12. This second rectilinear segment is arranged to continue extraction pins 120, 121 while the flaps have already been opened through the first segment.
• Figure 5 shows the complete architecture of the mechanism including the two cams, the two driving devices and the set of flaps.
• the architecture that allows the plugging of the pins has certain advantages, among which:

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• 2015
  • 2015-09-16 FR FR1558712A patent/FR3041171A1/fr not_active Withdrawn
• 2016
  • 2016-09-01 US US15/759,322 patent/US20180254574A1/en not_active Abandoned
  • 2016-09-01 EP EP16767327.6A patent/EP3350885A1/de not_active Withdrawn
  • 2016-09-01 WO PCT/FR2016/052166 patent/WO2017046469A1/fr active Application Filing
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