PAVE Technology Co was founded in 1980. Its wire and connector hermetic seals are used in a very wide range of industries for low or high pressures or vacuums requiring helium gas tight seals or IP67 to IP69 seals. PAVE products feed through a sealed bulkhead either electrical or fiber optic signals without any detectable leakage of gases or fluids. This complete leak tightness performance includes ends of any insulated, shielded or stranded copper conductor wire, cable and/or pins. Major customers include:

3M Applied Biosystems Applied Materials Delphi Automotive Schlumberger Eaton Corp Auto/Aero Raytheon Company Alabama Power Corp Georgia Power Corp Lockheed Martin Corp Siemens Ford Motor Company ATK Corp BAE Corp Baker Hughes Beckman Instruments Emerson Corp Boeing Company NASA Parker Corp Guidant Corp Cooper Power Systems General Electric Corp BOC Edwards Corp FEI Corp Foxboro Woodward Crane Aerospace

Volvo, Kautex Eclipse Aviation Defense Logistics Agcy Bi-Phase Technologies Exxon Mobile Corp General Dynamics Corp General Atomic Corp United Technologies US DOE R&D Labs Harris Corp HR Textron Sciaky Inc L3 Communications Gulfstream Aerospace Magneti Marelli Gendex Mercury Marine Northrup Grumman Phillips Corp DRS Trayer Engineering Varian NOAA Petrobras NIST Thiokol Corp Robert Bosch LLC MDS Sciex

              

PAVE products are used in a wide range of industries around the world including aerospace, low emission PZEV automotive and small engine (motorcycle, ATV, marine, etc) fuel pumps and transmissions, process controls, defense, telecommunications, semi-conductor and scientific instruments of all types requiring high quality seals. All our customers require high performance and cost effective standard or custom designed gas and fluid tight hermetic seals.

PAVE seals use virtually any commercial or military specification insulated wires and/or connector pins sealed in our proprietary epoxy process for a wide range of low and high pressures and vacuums, temperature ranges from -60 to 150C or 200C and from small to large quantity applications.

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PAVE-Mate Connector Pin and Wire Assembly Instructions

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MIL-C-261482, Series 1 Connectors

Crimping Contacts

1. Strip wires according to the table above taking care not to cut or nick strands
   
2. Insert stripped wires into contact crimp pot. Wire must be visible thru inspection hole.
   
3. Using correct crimp tool and locator select proper crimp setting for wire sizer to be crimped; cycle the tool once to be sure the indentors are open. Insert contact and wire into locator. Squeeze tool handles firmly and completely to insure a proper crimp. The tool will not release unless the crimp indentors in the tool head have been fully actuated. Release crimped contact and wire from tool. Be certain the wire is visible thru inspection hole in contact. Caution: Check that none of the contacts are bent or damaged in any way after crimping.

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Contact Insertion

1. Remove hardware from plug and receptacle. Slide hardware over wire bundle in proper order for reassembly.
   
2. Use the proper contact insertion tool and slide the tool over the terminal end of the contact. The size 16 contact lies in the tool and the tooll tip butts against the contact shoulder. The rear, or insulation support of the size 20 contact butts against an internal shoulder in the tool tip.
   Note: Apply a small amount of isopropyl alcohol to the insertion tool tip while installing contacts.
   
3. Beginning from center cavity and working outwards in a circular pattern, insert wired contacts into rear of connector by hand until the front of the contact shoulder is no more than 1/8" from the grommet. Holding the connector horizontally, position tool behind contact. Push tool straight into contact cavity until contact snaps into position. A light pull on wire will assure that contact is locked securely. Repeat for remaining contacts.
   
4. Use contacts and grommet sealing plugs to fill any empty cavities.

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Completion

1. Check face of plug or receptacle for proper contact installation.
   
2. Using mating connector with contacts installed, mate both connector halves together.
3. Assemble ferrule over the grommet by hand as far as possible.
4. Assemble endbell over ferrule and loosely tighten endbell. Partially loosen (¼ turn) and retighten to recommended torque limits.

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Contact Extraction

1. Slide hardware back over wire bundle. Using Proper extraction tool or extraction end of proper insertion/extraction too, proceed as follows (Note: Other series connectors require rear contact removal.)
   
2. There are two lines on the clip sleeve which are vital to the contact removal process. The first index line is used for removing pin contacts while the second index line is for removing socket contacts.
   
3. Carefully place the tool tip over the contact to be extracted until the tool tip touches the insulator face. Carefully rotate the tool until the index line is slightly below the insulator face. Keep an even pressure against tool body; push plunger forward with thumb and index finger, and push the contact out through the clip. Carefully remove extraction tool from connector. Pull the wire by hand to complete the removal of the contact.

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