Thanks to these innovations, the Fischer Freedom™ Series products facilitate integration, maximize usability, and optimize cable management for a wide selection of applications in different markets, such as defense, security, medicine, and industry and civil engineering, to name a few.
“Our primary mission at Fischer Connectors is to make life easier for our customers through a collaborative approach and customized connectivity solutions,” explains Jonathan Brossard, CEO of the Fischer Connectors Group. “The creation of the Fischer Freedom™ Series demonstrates how our mission truly empowers our customers to design for their markets. By reimagining connectivity, as we have done with the new Fischer Freedom™ Series products, we enable these customers to transform their ambitious ideas into solutions tailored to their specific segments and help them unlock opportunities in new markets.”
The new product line makes life easier for users by reducing the burden of knowledge, weight, and reliability, thanks to the following:
1. Easy coupling. Attaching the LP360 TM connector is as intuitive as fastening your vest, without compromising the high-performance reliability required in demanding environments.
2. Easy cleaning. The new connector allows for thorough cleaning (of both the connection and the receptacle), is easy to use and maintain, and offers faster setup and improved durability.
Furthermore, the Fischer Freedom™ Series makes life easier for design engineers by meeting their need for seamless integration of connectors (wired or wireless) into wearable and wearable multifunction devices.
3. Easy integration. Thanks to its compact, low-profile design, the Fischer LP360™ is easy to integrate into garments with devices and subsystems. The panel-mounted connection interface allows for complete cable elimination, and the connector can be integrated directly into the housing of devices such as cameras, sensors, lights, or GPS units.
Because the Fischer LP360™ is keyless, it offers 360° mating freedom, allowing it to be connected and routed in any direction, ensuring the cable always runs straight to the device. By eliminating twists and bends, it reduces the cable length of wearable equipment used by infantry soldiers, healthcare professionals, patients, civil engineers, surveyors, operators, law enforcement officers, and security guards.
In certain applications, the need for cables can be eliminated entirely (see point 3 above).
The shared data and power bus opens new opportunities in smart garments and the IoT. The usability and integrability of the Fischer Freedom™ Series connectivity solutions contribute to smaller, faster, and smarter wearable devices and, ultimately, to making high-performance, intelligent garments a reality.
Fischer Freedom ™ Series connectors enable design engineers to create a smart vest that functions as a hub for multiple wearable and body-worn devices connected to a shared data and power bus. This reduces clutter and increases usability, as the equipment is lighter and quicker to set up. These advantages also open the door to new opportunities in the Internet of Things (IoT).
Wim Vanheertum, Director of Product Management at Fischer Connectors, explains: “The Fischer Freedom™ Series offers a unique connectivity solution that has been conceived and designed entirely from the ground up to deliver maximum benefit to our customers. It uniquely addresses the need for usability and easy integration that our customers—design engineers—have consistently expressed to us, as well as the needs of our customers' own users—those who use the applications they have designed. Our innovative solution, which is lightweight, compact, extremely reliable, and intuitive, is easy to integrate into applications used in diverse and demanding environments, including portable and wearable electronic ecosystems that provide power and data with optimized cabling: the cable can always run in a straight line to the device, without twists or bends. In certain applications, the need for cables can be eliminated entirely by integrating the connection directly into the housing of devices such as cameras, sensors, lights, or GPS units.” In this respect, it offers wireless connections without the problems that usually accompany them and, therefore, paves the way for a further expansion of innovative connectivity solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT). Vanheertum concludes: “Creating a completely new line with innovative connectivity technology, such as that offered by the Fischer Freedom™ Series products, is not something that happens every day. It is an exceptional honor for me to have managed the development of these products and to plan the future expansion of the range.”
The robust, versatile, and low-profile Fischer LP360™ connector is the first product in the Fischer Freedom™ Series:
• Signal and power via 7 contacts, compatible up to 24 AWG with 3 x 5 A power inputs and 4 x 1 A signal inputs with USB 2.0 and Ethernet data protocols
• Receptacle: panel mount with O-ring seal or integration as a wearable solution
• Connection: easy wiring (up to 24 AWG), panel connection version with or without encapsulation (to avoid bending and overmolding) for direct integration into the application housing
• High-performance reliability
or Robust stainless steel and brass design for longevity (min. 10,000 mating cycles)
or Resistant to shock, vibration, traction, and extreme temperatures
or Online tested to MIL and IEC standards
