Patent attributes
An improved floating connector can be employed for, among other things, connecting a traction battery to the drive of an electrically-driven vehicle. The self-aligning floating connector can be used to mate connectors of the battery and the electric drive despite misalignment. The floating connector has a frame and a contact housing movable inside an aperture of the frame. The contact housing is rotatable about an axis that extends perpendicularly to the surface defined by the aperture. The essentially oval outer surface of the contact housing can cooperate with the aperture to provide a limit stop for the relative movement of the contact housing and the frame. The angular movement of the contact housing inside the aperture can be sterically constrained to limit the rotation of the contact housing relative to the frame to a pre-defined angular range. A system with a floating connector and a mating connector is also disclosed.
