US 11,867,329 B2
Fluid connection device
Stéphane Ully, Chalette sur Loing (FR); and Julien Mongendre, La Chapelle Saint Mesmin (FR)
Assigned to HUTCHINSON, Paris (FR)
Filed by HUTCHINSON, Paris (FR)
Filed on Jul. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/925,761.
Claims priority of application No. 1907854 (FR), filed on Jul. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0010625 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. F16L 33/035 (2006.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 10/6568 (2014.01)
CPC F16L 33/035 (2013.01) [H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/625 (2015.04); H01M 10/6568 (2015.04); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fluid connection device for a fluid circuit, comprising:
a body formed of one single part and comprising:
a first tubular nozzle comprising a male part configured to be engaged in a female part of a second nozzle by an axial translation movement along an axis; and
at least two elastically-deformable tabs that are diametrically opposed with respect to said axis, the tabs extending outwards from the first tubular nozzle, substantially parallel with said axis, and comprising first axial ends comprising retaining members configured to engage with said female part in order to lock the female part axially with respect to the male part, and second opposite axial ends comprising handling members provided for the purpose of elastically deforming the tabs and unlocking the male and female parts; and
a lock retained by the body and mobile in translation on said body in a plane substantially perpendicular to said axis, from a first position wherein the tabs are released, allowing their elastic deformation, to a second position wherein the tabs are blocked, preventing their elastic deformation,
wherein said lock comprises legs which are located on either side of the first tubular nozzle, between the first tubular nozzle and the second opposite axial ends, when the lock is in the first position and when the lock is in the second position.