A railcar power connector includes a connector body defining a central opening configured to receive a portion of a cable, and a spring member having a protrusion moveable relative to the connector body between a locked position where the protrusion is configured to be secured to a mating connector and a released position where the protrusion is configured to be released from a corresponding recess of a mating connector. The protrusion moveable from the locked position to the released position upon a predetermined axial force applied to the spring member.
Breakaway railcar power connector
2019-02-05
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Breakaway Connector Patent Application
NTIS | 1970
|Electrical Breakaway Switching Connector
NTIS | 1965
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