What Role Do Industrial Connectors Play and What Characteristics Do They Have?

As a very important electronic component, industrial Connectors are widely used. It is an electromechanical component used to connect wires, cables, and control panels (compartments). Generally called aviation plugs, they are mainly composed of five parts:

Contacts: Conductive parts with one end for a plug connection and other end for terminating wires. Also known as pins or sockets;

Insulation boards: Insulating pieces that support and position contacts. Also known as insulators;

Housing: Parts that hold insulation boards and contacts;

Locking mechanism: locking and anti-loosening device for plug and socket;

Cable accessories at the tail: accessories or parts attached to the tail of plugs or sockets to fix and clamp wires or cables, such as cable covers and cable clips.

What role does Industrial Connectors play in various equipment and systems?
The main function of industrial connectors is to transmit and control electrical signals and power connections between electronics and electrical equipment. They can make circuits connect and disconnect by mating and separating plugs and sockets.

Connectors require reliable circuit conductivity, information transmission, and specific functions under various environmental conditions, and their reliability directly affects the stable working of the equipments’engineering systems.

In some harsh conditions, such as industrial manufacturing and outdoor environments, aviation plugs with superior environmental performance must be used to carry highly reliable connections of power, signals, and data.

What characteristics does industrial connectors generally possess?

High interchangeability: Plugs and sockets of the same model, type, and specification from the same batch or different batches of industrial connectors can be plugged into each other and meet the required electrical and mechanical performance;

Good operation feeling: The operation action feels comfortable and smooth;

Anti-misplug function;

Reliable locking and anti-loosening mechanisms;

High safety: The insulation resistance and voltage resistance must be high enough;

High overload resistance;

High reliability and stability;

Good resistance to environmental conditions.

With the continuous development and upgrading of manufacturing and the increasing number of outdoor applications, the demand for industrial connectors in the market has shown a rapid growth trend. With years of connector manufacturing experience, Greenconn has continuously export various types of industrial connectors to the market, and those industrial products have also been supplied to well-known brands such as Schneider, Omron, and Nidec in large quantity.