Device for connection of a thermocouple to a safety electromagnet and gas tap assembly in a cooking range

摘要

A device for connection of a thermocouple to a coaxial connector of an electromagnet/gas tap assembly including a tubular body made of a non-conducting material and having a first end accommodating a female contact adapted to couple in use with a male tip contact of the coaxial connector; an electrically conducting and elastically deformable connecting element externally carried in cantilever fashion by a central portion of the tubular body so as to at least partly surround the first end of the tubular body and shaped so as to surround with radial clearance a collar of the coaxial connector when the female contact couples with the male tip contact; and a fastening element swingingly carried by the tubular body and that can be received on the connecting element for radially clamping the same onto the collar.

主权项

1. A device for connecting, in a cooking range of an electric household appliance, a thermocouple to an assembly consisting of a safety electromagnet and a gas tap by means of a coaxial connector of the assembly comprising a conducting collar within which a male tip contact is arranged; the device comprising: a tubular body made of non-conducting material and having a first end accommodating a female contact therein, the female contact connectable to a polarity wire of the thermocouple and adapted to be coupled in use with the male tip contact, said first end being shaped so as to be inserted in use into the collar of the coaxial connector to thus determine the coupling of the female contact to the male tip contact; and an electrically conducting connecting element which is configured to be connected to a ground wire of the thermocouple and carried radially on an outside of a central portion of the tubular body immediately adjacent to the first end, wherein the connecting element axially projects from the central portion of the tubular body in cantilever fashion parallel to the first end so as to at least partially surround the first end; characterized in that the connecting element is shaped so as to be elastically deformable in the radial direction and to circumferentially embrace with a radial clearance at least part of the collar of the coaxial connector when the female contact couples with the male tip contact; and in that, in combination, the device further comprises a fastening element made of a non-conducting material carried by the tubular body so as to be movable between a resting position, where the fastening element does not cooperate with the connecting element, and a working position, where the fastening element is located on the connecting element to radially close the connecting element towards the first end of the tubular body by such an amount that in use, when the female contact is coupled with the male tip contact, the connecting element is mechanically and electrically coupled with the collar.