阅读说明：本技术 连接器和方法 (Connector and method ) 是由 M·通杰尔 J·迈尔 G·埃克哈德 于 2019-04-10 设计创作，主要内容包括：提供一种连接器(10),其被配置成锚固在具有热塑性材料的第一物体中。该连接器限定近远轴线,并且包括板部(12),该板部(12)围绕近远轴线延伸并且具有近侧面和远侧面,近侧面适于将工具压抵在近侧面上。连接器还包括从板部的近侧可接近的附接结构(11)和/或包括传感器和/或致动器的相互作用元件。锚固裙部朝向远侧且径向朝向外侧从板部向远侧突出,由此在板部的远侧面和锚固裙部的近侧面之间形成径向朝向外侧开口的外袋(17),和在锚固裙部(15)的径向向内侧形成朝向远侧开口的内袋(18)。板部(12)比锚固裙部在径向上延伸得更远。能够通过使工具压抵板部的近侧面(13),同时锚固裙部与第一物体物理接触并且同时,例如从工具,将机械能耦合到连接器中,直到第一物体的热塑性材料相对于连接器流动并使其流入外袋(17)和内袋(18)中,使连接器相对于第一物体被锚固。(A connector (10) configured to be anchored in a first object having a thermoplastic material is provided. The connector defines a proximal-distal axis and includes a plate portion (12), the plate portion (12) extending about the proximal-distal axis and having a proximal face and a distal face, the proximal face adapted to press a tool against the proximal face. The connector further comprises an attachment structure (11) accessible from a proximal side of the plate portion and/or an interaction element comprising a sensor and/or an actuator. The anchoring skirt projects distally and radially towards the outside from the plate, whereby an outer pocket (17) open radially towards the outside is formed between the distal face of the plate and the proximal face of the anchoring skirt, and an inner pocket (18) open radially towards the distal side is formed on the radially inward side of the anchoring skirt (15). The plate portion (12) extends further in the radial direction than the anchoring skirt. The connector can be anchored relative to the first object by pressing a tool against the proximal face (13) of the plate while the anchoring skirt is in physical contact with the first object and while coupling mechanical energy into the connector, e.g. from the tool, until the thermoplastic material of the first object flows relative to the connector and into the outer and inner pockets (17, 18).)