Global Patent Index - EP 0318831 A3

EP 0318831 A3 19900926 - ELECTRIC POWER CONNECTORS

Title (en)

ELECTRIC POWER CONNECTORS

Publication

EP 0318831 A3 19900926 (EN)

Application

EP 88119564 A 19881124

Priority

CA 553333 A 19871202

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0318831A2] Electric power connectors made with at least one contacting component having a gold contacting surface wherein the gold contacting surface is metallurgically bonded to an underlying layer of nickel or nickel-rich alloy . At the contact surface the gold contains a total of about 1-10% by weight nickel with the amount of nickel generally increasing in the direction from the surface to the underlying metal the increase starting at a point inward of and remote from the contacting surface.

IPC 1-7

H01R 13/03

IPC 8 full level

H01H 1/04 (2006.01); H01R 13/03 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

H01R 13/03 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

  • [AD] GB 2203450 A 19881019 - INCO LTD
  • [A] EP 0092754 A2 19831102 - DUERRWAECHTER E DR DODUCO [DE]
  • [A] METALL , 41 Jahrgang,Heft 1,Januar 1987, Metall-Verlag GmbH, Berlin G. Weik et alii: "Diffundierte Goldschichten für schaltende Kontakte"

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE ES FR GB GR IT LI LU NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0318831 A2 19890607; EP 0318831 A3 19900926; EP 0318831 B1 19920909; AT E80501 T1 19920915; CA 1331325 C 19940809; DE 3874492 D1 19921015; DE 3874492 T2 19930225; ES 2034127 T3 19930401; GR 3005728 T3 19930607; JP H01194218 A 19890804; JP H067452 B2 19940126

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 88119564 A 19881124; AT 88119564 T 19881124; CA 553333 A 19871202; DE 3874492 T 19881124; ES 88119564 T 19881124; GR 920402051 T 19920917; JP 30512688 A 19881201