Patent ID: 8210859

Claim:
A female connector element intended to engage with a complementary male connector element for the interconnection of electrical power cables, in particular between a ship and a terminal, the female element having at least one electrically conductive terminal component and a receptacle intended to receive a body of said male element and extending in a longitudinal direction, the female element having a proximal part designed to receive an electrical power cable in order to electrically power the or each terminal component, the receptacle including a chamber for guiding said body translationally in said longitudinal direction, and also at least one guide edge designed to guide said body in rotation about a longitudinal axis of said body, the or each guide edge being located, in said longitudinal direction, between said guide chamber and the or each terminal component, the female element being characterized in that said guide chamber is in the form of a cylinder having a circular base, said circular base being defined by a circle approximately circumscribed about a triangular base of said body of the male element, which is approximately in the form of a prism having an equilateral triangular base, and in that the or each guide edge extends in a plane parallel to the axis of said cylinder, intersecting said cylinder and spaced apart from the axis of said cylinder by a distance corresponding approximately to the apothem of said triangular base, the or each guide edge extending, furthermore, in a direction inclined with respect to the axis of said cylinder at an angle of between 30° and 80° , preferably between 50° and 70°.