Hermetic edge-connect headers and corresponding connectors
| DWPI Title: Connector used in hermetically-sealed edge-connect electrical headers that can withstand high temperatures, comprises shell, wiper housing which is fixedly located within shell, first portion of each of wipers fixedly located within corresponding one of openings within wiper housing |
| Abstract: A hermetically-sealed edge-connect header that can withstand high temperatures, high pressures (or high vacuum levels), and high vibration environments, along with two corresponding connectors are disclosed. After brazing the edge-connect header components, the assembly is machined to form a slot with a portion of each of a plurality of electrical conductors removed in the machining process, resulting in a header with a high pin density. During the process of mating the first connector design to the edge-connect header, a plurality of wipers in the connector deflect, thereby causing the wipers to extend from the connector and contact the corresponding electrical conductors in the header. During the process of mating the second connector design to the edge-connect header, each of a plurality of wipers formed of low-mass, compliant metal wool, forms multiple contact points with a corresponding electrical conductor in the header. |
| Use: Connector used in hermetically-sealed edge-connect electrical headers that can withstand high temperatures. |
| Advantage: The connector withstand temperature cycling, high temperatures, high pressures (or high vacuum levels) with low leak rates and are robust to mechanical environments including high-count connector mating/de-mating cycles, vibration, and mechanical shock, ensures mating to a corresponding connector in only a single orientation, ensures that the electrical conductors of the edge-connect header are in electrical contact with the correct pins in the corresponding connector. |
| Novelty: Connector 500 comprises shell, a wiper housing, the wiper housing fixedly located within the shell, a wipers 530, a first portion of each of the wipers fixedly located within a corresponding one of a openings within the wiper housing, a second portion of each of the wipers extending from the wiper housing, the wipers including a first set of the wipers and a second set of the wipers, and a shuttle 560, the shuttle including a wiper slots where each of the wipers is located in a corresponding one of the wiper slots, each of the wiper slots including a corresponding engagement profile, where each of the engagement profiles is adapted to cause a corresponding one of the wipers to extend out of the shuttle. The wipers is adapted to extend out of the shuttle in a direction orthogonal to a direction of a motion of the connector when mating with an edge-connect header 570. |
| Filed: 12/9/2020 |
| Application Number: US17116684A |
| Tech ID: SD 14628.1 |
| This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |
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