US 11,942,296 B2
Contactor
Xiaobao Geng, Troy, MI (US); and Amadeu Luiz Fazani Cavallieri, Sao Paulo (BR)
Assigned to TE Connectivity Brasil Industria De Electronicos LTDA, (BR); and TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH, (CH)
Filed by TE Connectivity Services GmbH, Schaffhausen (CH); and TE CONNECTIVITY BRASIL INDUSTRIA DE ELECTRONICOS LTDA, Braganca Paulista (BR)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/717,617.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/240,756, filed on Sep. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0076921 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. H01H 50/54 (2006.01); H01H 1/54 (2006.01); H01H 50/02 (2006.01); H01H 50/44 (2006.01)
CPC H01H 50/54 (2013.01) [H01H 1/54 (2013.01); H01H 50/02 (2013.01); H01H 50/44 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A contactor comprising:
a housing having an outer wall defining a cavity;
a first fixed contact coupled to the housing, the first fixed contact having a first mating end received in the cavity and a first terminating end outside of the housing;
a second fixed contact coupled to the housing, the second fixed contact having a second mating end received in the cavity and a second terminating end outside of the housing;
a movable contact movable within the cavity between a mated position and an unmated position, the movable contact engaging the second mating end in the mated position, the movable contact separated from the second fixed contact in the unmated position;
a flexible busbar coupled to the first mating end and coupled to the movable contact, the flexible busbar electrically connecting the first fixed contact and the movable contact in both the mated position and the unmated position; and
a magnetic shroud coupled to at least one of the movable contact and the second fixed contact to provide a magnetic holding force to hold the movable contact relative to the second fixed contact in the mated position.