Patent ID: 7354079
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: F16L

Abstract:
1. A connector, comprising: a connector body defining a fluidic connector passageway having a longitudinal axis, a first section, and a second section outboard the first section, wherein the second section is radially stepped out from the first section so that a contact surface is formed at an end of the first section, an interior surface of the second section having a constant inner radius about the longitudinal axis; a collet disposed in an open end of the connector body passageway and extending inboard into the second section of the connector body and towards the contact surface; a resiliently flexible o-ring disposed in the second section of the connector passageway between the collet and the contact surface of the body; and a ring guide positioned in the second section of the connector passageway between the o-ring and the collet and including,