Self-insulating contacts for use in electrolytic environments
Patent Information
- Application Number
- DE602020064482
- Authority / Receiving Office
- DE · DE
- Patent Type
- Patents
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Priority Date
- 2019-06-07
- Filing Date
- 2020-05-29
- Publication Date
- 2025-12-24
- Estimated Expiration
- 2040-05-29
AI Technical Summary
Conventional electrical connectors for underwater or wet environments are complex, costly, difficult to build and repair, and prone to water-induced corrosion and current leakage due to insulating deposits, necessitating improved designs for reliable and economical connections.
Electrical connectors with first and second mating contacts, where each contact has a substrate covered by a self-passivating transition metal coating that forms a non-conductive passivation layer in an electrolytic environment, allowing for abrasion-resistant connections without substrate exposure.
The solution provides reliable, economical, and mechanically robust electrical connections in electrolytic environments by using substrates with superior mechanical properties and lower costs than pure self-passivating coatings, while preventing current leakage through self-forming insulation layers.