Fischer Connectors Elio 4-Gram Ultralight Connector for Defense Wearables and Mission-Critical Body Sensors

The Fischer Connectors Elio is the series connector designed for the generation of defense wearables and continuous monitoring body sensors where the weight and volume of each component of the combatant's equipment are mission constraints: a continuous heart rate and oxygen saturation monitor that weighs 4 grams more due to the charge/data connector than equivalent equipment without a connector is the difference that multiplies by the number of wearables the operator carries and becomes tens of grams difference in a long-duration mission.

The connector body in PEEK (Polyether Ether Ketone) polymer reinforced with 30% glass fiber provides mechanical resistance equivalent to aeronautical aluminum at a weight of only 4 grams in the 4-pin configuration — the most used in power + data + sensor signal applications — withstanding without deformation 1000 N crushing and 150 N tensile stress that can occur when the wearable cable becomes trapped during tactical movement in vegetation or under load equipment.

The quarter-turn coupling mechanism in 3 sequential steps — insert, rotate 90° clockwise, hear retention click — completes the connection in 0.8 seconds with medical examination latex gloves, the type of glove that the combat paramedic uses when connecting monitoring sensors to the patient in field conditions. The selection of 2 to 8 pins in the same connector body allows designing the soldier's medical telemetry system — ECG, SpO2, body temperature, movement accelerometer — with a single connector type at all monitoring system interfaces, reducing the spare parts inventory in the advanced medical kit to a single connector SKU.