WO2008083415A1 - Dispositif de raccordement de câble de lampe frontale - Google Patents

Dispositif de raccordement de câble de lampe frontale Download PDF

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WO2008083415A1
WO2008083415A1 PCT/ZA2008/000001 ZA2008000001W WO2008083415A1 WO 2008083415 A1 WO2008083415 A1 WO 2008083415A1 ZA 2008000001 W ZA2008000001 W ZA 2008000001W WO 2008083415 A1 WO2008083415 A1 WO 2008083415A1
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cable
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John Paul Mckelvey
Richard Dalbock
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Richard Dalbock
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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
    • H01R13/5219—Sealing means between coupling parts, e.g. interfacial seal
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21L—LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF, BEING PORTABLE OR SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR TRANSPORTATION
    • F21L4/00—Electric lighting devices with self-contained electric batteries or cells
    • F21L4/06—Electric lighting devices with self-contained electric batteries or cells with the light source coupled to the remainder of the device solely by cable
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V23/00—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices
    • F21V23/06—Arrangement of electric circuit elements in or on lighting devices the elements being coupling devices, e.g. connectors
    • 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
    • H01R13/622—Screw-ring or screw-casing
    • 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
    • H01R13/64—Means for preventing incorrect coupling

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  • This invention relates to a cable and an arrangement for releasably attaching the cable to a cap lamp and/or to its battery pack.
  • the light source in modern cap lamps is one or more high intensity light emitting diodes which are operated by control circuitry in the lamp housing.
  • the cap lamp battery pack includes charging microprocessor circuitry.
  • the cap lamp and its battery pack are connected to each other by a flexible cable the ends of which are releasably attached to the lamp and battery pack.
  • a cap lamp and battery pack cable attachment arrangement comprises a length of flexible cable which electrically connects the cap lamp to the battery pack, and a cable gland component on at least one end of the cable for releasably physically and electrically connecting the component to a complementary gland component on either the cap lamp or battery pack to provide a moisture-proof cable gland across the releasable connection.
  • Both ends of the cable may carry a cable gland component and both the cap lamp and the battery pack may include a complementary gland component for releasable attachment to the cable gland cable components.
  • the or each cable gland cable component may include a pair of electrical contact sockets which are each electrically attached to a cable conductor, a cylindrical plug of resiliently compressible material in which the contact sockets are partially embedded and which surrounds an end portion of the cable, the or each complementary gland component includes a cylindrical socket into which two electrical pins project in the axial direction of the socket and which are engageable in the electrical cable sockets when a cylindrical plug on the cable end is pressed into the socket and means for moving the cable gland components towards each other to radially expand the cable plug into moisture-sealing contact with the electrical connections in the gland.
  • the portion of the cable over which a portion of the compressible plug is located may be bonded to the plug and may include an outwardly projecting formation which extends across the interface between the cable and plug to inhibit the cable from being pulled from the plug.
  • the or each complementary gland component may include an internally threaded socket which is larger in diameter than and coaxial with the unthreaded pin socket and the cable gland moving means may be an externally threaded gland nut which is slidable on the cable and threadedly engageable with the complementary gland component socket and adapted to compress and so to radially expand the cable plug in the gland.
  • the or each cable gland may include mating key and keyway formations on the cable gland components to ensure the correct electrical orientation of the pins and pin sockets when the components of the gland are engaged with each other.
  • the key may project radially into and in the axial direction of the unthreaded socket of the complementary gland component with its keyway being located in the cylindrical body of the cable plug.
  • the key and its keyway may be longer than the length of the pins which project from the base of the unthreaded socket of the complementary gland component to ensure the correct orientation of the pins and pin sockets prior to their contact with each other.
  • the invention may additionally extend to the cable per se including the cable gland components which it carries.
  • Figure 1 is an isometric view of the cap lamp and its battery pack which are connected to each other by the power cable of the invention
  • Figure 2 is a sectioned side elevation of one end of the power cable of Figure 1 ,
  • Figure 3 is a sectioned side elevation of a female portion of the cable connector on both the cap lamp and its battery pack
  • Figure 4 is an end elevation of the cable of Figure 2
  • Figure 5 is a sectioned side elevation of the Figure 2 cable end connected to the Figure 3 cable connector.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a cap lamp 10 which is releasably located on a miner's hard hat in use, a battery pack 12 and a cable 14 physically and electrically connecting the battery pack to the lamp by means of cable connector glands shown generally at 16.
  • the cable 14, as shown in Figures 2 and 5, is a two-core flexible PVC cable which includes, adjacent each of its free ends, a metal crimp ring 18 which is partially embedded in the cable material.
  • Connector sockets 20 are electrically connected to the cable 14 conductors, as shown in Figures 2 and 5.
  • the cable gland 16 includes a cylindrical plug 22 which is made from a suitable resiliency compressible thermoplastics material which is injection moulded onto the outer surface of the cable 14 over the crimp ring 18 and the connector sockets, and a gland nut 24 which is slidably located on the cable 14.
  • the opposite end of the cable 14 and its various components are identical to those shown in Figures 2, 4 and 5.
  • Both the cap lamp 10 and the battery pack 12 include a female cable connector 26, as shown in Figure 3, which is complementary to the cable 14 gland components and is made integral with the housings of the cap lamp and battery pack, as shown in Figure 1.
  • the complementary female connector 26 is shown in Figure 3 to include a threaded socket 28 which is open to the outside of the lamp and battery housings, in which the cable gland nut 24 is threadedly engageable and a coaxial unthreaded socket 30 into which the connector pins 32, which are connected to the relevant electrical circuitry in the lamp and battery pack housings, project.
  • the socket 30 of the connector 26 includes a radially inwardly projecting key 34 which extends in an axial direction further into the socket 30 than the pins 32, as shown in Figure 3.
  • the key 34 is, in use, slidably engaged in a keyway 36 slot in the compressible cable gland plug 22 when it is inserted into the socket 30 of the female connector 26. When doing so it is obviously necessary that the key 34 and its keyway 36 are axially aligned to correctly electrically orient the cable connector DC sockets 20 with the connector pins 32 prior to the connector pins 32 coming into contact with the cable sockets 20.
  • the length of the cable gland plug 22 is a little greater than the distance separating the surfaces of the bases of the socket 30 of the female connector 26 and the gland nut 24 when the gland nut is fully engaged in the connector 26 socket.
  • the cable gland nut 24 is slid rearwardly on the cable from the position shown in Figure 2.
  • the gland compression plug 22 on the cable 14 is then inserted into the socket 30 of the female connector 26 on whichever of the cap lamp 10 or battery pack 12 is being connected to the cable with the key 34 of the connector 26 located in the compression plug keyway 36 and the pins 32 in the cable pin sockets 20.
  • the gland nut is then slid back towards the rear end of the compression plug 22 and screwed into the female connector socket 22 to cause the plug 22 to be radially expanded into pressure contact with the inner surfaces of the socket 30 and the gland nut 24 effectively to seal the cable connections against the passage of moisture across the gland.
  • the cable glands 16 are protected by the crimp rings 18, which are positively squeezed in the gland between the cable 14 and the compression member 22 by radial pressure, to guard against separation of the compression member 22 from the cable 14 which otherwise might occur by undue tension being applied to the cable.
  • the invention is not limited to the precise details as described above and one end of the cable 14 could be sealingly permanently engaged with the cap lamp or battery pack with only the remaining end of the cable and whichever of the cap lamp or battery pack to which it is to be connected including the female gland component.

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  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Connector Housings Or Holding Contact Members (AREA)
  • Arrangement Of Elements, Cooling, Sealing, Or The Like Of Lighting Devices (AREA)
  • Details Of Connecting Devices For Male And Female Coupling (AREA)

Abstract

La présente invention concerne un dispositif de raccordement du câble entre lampe frontale et bloc batterie, comprenant une longueur de câble souple reliant électriquement la lampe frontale au bloc batterie, et un élément de raccord à l'une au moins des extrémités du câble pour permettre l'établissement à la demande d'une liaison physique et électrique entre l'élément de raccord et un élément de raccord complémentaire sur la lampe frontale ou sur le bloc batterie de façon à réaliser un raccord libérable étanche à l'eau entre les deux éléments.
PCT/ZA2008/000001 2007-01-04 2008-01-04 Dispositif de raccordement de câble de lampe frontale WO2008083415A1 (fr)

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CN200880007215A CN101720519A (zh) 2007-01-04 2008-01-04 帽灯的线缆附接装置

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ZA2007/00111 2007-01-04
ZA200700111 2007-01-04

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EP3173677A3 (fr) * 2015-11-06 2017-08-30 LED Lenser Corp., Ltd. Appareil et système de lampe torche combinée

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US3945701A (en) * 1973-04-09 1976-03-23 Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke Ag Water-tight connectors for electric cables
EP0121292A1 (fr) * 1983-03-31 1984-10-10 Levitt-Safety Limited Dispositif de recharge du bloc d'alimentation pour lampe de mineur
DE20004566U1 (de) * 2000-03-11 2000-06-08 Dbt Autom Gmbh Steckerverbindung für den Kabelanschluß im untertätigen Bergbau
DE10141052A1 (de) * 2001-08-22 2003-04-03 Dbt Automation Gmbh Essen Steckerverbindung
EP1465295A1 (fr) * 2003-01-30 2004-10-06 Ben Fan Connection étanche pour des girlandes décoratives

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3945701A (en) * 1973-04-09 1976-03-23 Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke Ag Water-tight connectors for electric cables
EP0121292A1 (fr) * 1983-03-31 1984-10-10 Levitt-Safety Limited Dispositif de recharge du bloc d'alimentation pour lampe de mineur
DE20004566U1 (de) * 2000-03-11 2000-06-08 Dbt Autom Gmbh Steckerverbindung für den Kabelanschluß im untertätigen Bergbau
DE10141052A1 (de) * 2001-08-22 2003-04-03 Dbt Automation Gmbh Essen Steckerverbindung
EP1465295A1 (fr) * 2003-01-30 2004-10-06 Ben Fan Connection étanche pour des girlandes décoratives

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EP3173677A3 (fr) * 2015-11-06 2017-08-30 LED Lenser Corp., Ltd. Appareil et système de lampe torche combinée
AU2016250334B2 (en) * 2015-11-06 2018-05-17 Led Lenser Corp. Ltd. Apparatus and system for a multi-modal flashlight

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