EP0711009A2 - Connecteur électrique - Google Patents

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EP0711009A2
EP0711009A2 EP95116923A EP95116923A EP0711009A2 EP 0711009 A2 EP0711009 A2 EP 0711009A2 EP 95116923 A EP95116923 A EP 95116923A EP 95116923 A EP95116923 A EP 95116923A EP 0711009 A2 EP0711009 A2 EP 0711009A2
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Herbert Plate
Georg Schröder
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/02—Contact members
    • H01R13/15—Pins, blades or sockets having separate spring member for producing or increasing contact pressure
    • H01R13/187—Pins, blades or sockets having separate spring member for producing or increasing contact pressure with spring member in the socket
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/02—Contact members
    • H01R13/35—Contact members for non-simultaneous co-operation with different types of contact member, e.g. socket co-operating with either round or flat pin
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/02—Contact members
    • H01R13/10—Sockets for co-operation with pins or blades
    • H01R13/11—Resilient sockets
    • H01R13/113—Resilient sockets co-operating with pins or blades having a rectangular transverse section
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/02—Soldered or welded connections
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
    • H01R4/10—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation effected solely by twisting, wrapping, bending, crimping, or other permanent deformation
    • H01R4/18—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation effected solely by twisting, wrapping, bending, crimping, or other permanent deformation by crimping

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  • the present invention is based on an electrical connector designed according to the preamble of the main claim.
  • Such electrical connectors are intended to be connected via their socket part and their plug part e.g. to produce a releasable electrical connection between an electrical line and a further electrical line or an electrical line and an electrical unit.
  • An electrical connector designed according to the preamble of the main claim has become known from DE 38 17 803 C2.
  • This electrical connector consists of a rectangular plug part and a socket part.
  • the socket part consists of a base body made of sheet metal by stamping and bending, the contact area of which is rectangular in cross section and is intended for connection to the plug part and is provided for the quiver-like reception of a separate contact means.
  • the separate Contact means for contacting with the plug part has a plurality of longitudinally parallel contact webs, and is also rectangular in cross section by multiple bending.
  • the cage-like contact means is pushed into the quiver-like contact area of the base body until a funnel flange formed thereon strikes the free front end of the base body and a locking projection formed on the base body comes to rest in a locking opening provided in the contact means.
  • the base body can be connected to the contact material by means of a weld.
  • an electrical socket part has become known from DE 39 06 625 C1, in which the contact means consists of a contact plate which is bent in a U-shape around the central zone running transversely to its longitudinal extent, so that two mutually parallel contact arms arranged opposite one another are formed are.
  • this contact means is assigned to a solidly designed base body and is positively and non-positively attached to the base body via its central zone connecting the two contact arms.
  • the present invention has for its object to provide an electrical connector that can be made particularly inexpensive in a simple manner and at the same time a good power transmission between the socket part consisting of contact means and base body and the plug part is guaranteed.
  • the free end regions of the contact arms are connected to the mouth region of the base body both in a form-fitting and material-locking manner, so that the contact means can expand in the plug-in direction when making contact with the plug part, and the plug-in forces occurring in contact animals are comparatively low . This is particularly desirable in the case of multi-pole electrical connector arrangements.
  • an unspecified housing for example made of plastic, also belongs to an electrical connector arrangement.
  • a housing part is assigned to the socket part (s) and a housing part is assigned to the plug part (s).
  • such an electrical plug connection consists of a plug part 1 with a rectangular cross section and a socket part.
  • the socket part in turn consists of a base body 2 produced from sheet metal by stamping and bending, which has a contact area 3 provided for connection to the plug part 1 and a connection area 4 provided for connecting an electrical line.
  • the contact area 3 is designed as a quiver with a rectangular cross section, from which a separate contact means 6, provided with a plurality of contact webs 5, is held. To hold the contact means 6 is pushed into the quiver-like contact area 3 of the base body 2 in the plug-in direction during assembly.
  • the contact means 6 consists of an originally flat contact plate.
  • the sheet metal blank is bent to produce the contact means 6 in a U-shape around the central zone 7, which extends transversely to its longitudinal extent, so that two contact arms 8, which run essentially parallel to one another, are produced.
  • Each of the two contact arms 8 thus has two contact webs 5.
  • the two contact webs 5 of the two contact arms 8 are arranged opposite one another and set in a bottle neck-like manner to form defined contact points.
  • the free end regions of the two contact arms 8 are designed differently.
  • the free end region 11 of which, in the finished state, is designed as a rectangular frame at least one of the two contact arms 8 has at least one web-like extension 10.
  • a web-like extension 10 is formed on each of the two long sides of one of the two contact arms 8, so that the free end of this contact arm 8 has a T-shaped contour.
  • a cross-sectionally U-shaped end region of this contact arm 8 is created. Because the other contact arm 8 is ultimately received between the two web-like extensions 10 during the shaping process of the contact plate, a contact means 6 is formed, the free end region 11 of which rectangular frame is formed.
  • a web-like extension 10 is formed diagonally opposite one of the two long sides of the two contact arms 8. After the web-like extensions 10 have been bent, free ends of the two contact arms 8 are formed, each of which has an L-shaped contour in cross section. Because in the end the web-like extension 10 of one contact arm 8 comes into contact with the free end of the other contact arm 8 and the web-like extension 10 of the other contact arm 8 comes into contact with the free end of the one contact arm 8 due to the forming process of the contact plate, a contact means 6 is formed, the free end region 11 is formed as a rectangular frame.
  • a fastening tab 13 is formed on each of the web-like extensions 10 of the contact arms 8.
  • the fastening tabs 13 extend perpendicular to the main surfaces of the two contact arms 8, whereby they protrude beyond one of the outer walls of the free end region 11 of the contact means 6. This results in a receiving pocket 14 with a U-shaped cross section, via which the contact means 6 is positively and materially connected to the contact area 3 of the base body 2.
  • a web-like extension 10 is formed on each of the two longitudinal sides of the one contact arm 8, so that a T-shaped free end is formed.
  • Two fastening tabs 13 are formed on each of the two web-like extensions 10, between each of which there is a stop lug 12. Since the two fastening tabs 13 are longer than the stop lugs 12, a holding recess 15 is formed, into which a holding wing 16 molded onto the other contact arm 8 engages in a form-fitting manner after the forming process of the contact plate.
  • the base body 2 consists of a contact area 3 and a connection area 4.
  • the contact area 3 is designed as a rectangular quiver, on the mouth area of which two fastening prongs 17 are formed.
  • the two fastening prongs 17 are provided for the form-fitting and material-fitting fastening of the contact means 6 to be assembled.
  • Each of the three contact means variants described above and shown in FIGS. 7 to 12 can be received by the contact area 3 of the base body 2.
  • FIGS. 1 to 5 only the equipping of the base body 2 with a contact means variant is shown in FIGS. 1 to 5.
  • the contact medium variant used is the contact medium 6 shown in more detail in FIGS. 7 to 10.
  • the contact means 6 is inserted in the plug-in direction of the plug part 1 into the contact area 3 of the base body 2, which is rectangular in cross-section and is quiver-like.
  • One of the two fastening tines 17 formed on the mouth region of the contact region 3 comes to rest in the U-shaped receiving pocket 14 formed by the two fastening tabs 13.
  • the other of the two fastening prongs 17 bears against the side wall of the free end region 11 of the contact means 6, which is formed as a rectangular frame, in relation to the receiving pocket 14.
  • the contact means 6 is pushed into the contact area 3 until the free end area 11 with its end walls 18 assigned to the connection area 4 comes into contact with the mouth walls 19 of the contact area 3.
  • the contact means 6 is positively received by the contact area 3 of the base body 2.
  • the contact means 6 is also welded to the contact area 3.
  • the mutually assigned punched edges of the fastening prong 17 arranged in the receiving pocket 14 and the two fastening tabs 13 forming the receiving pocket 14 are connected to one another via welding points 20 (see in particular FIGS. 3 to 5).
  • a spring-elastic latching arm 21 is shown in one piece from the contact area 3.
  • a protective tab 22 from the contact area 3 is also shown extending approximately parallel to the latching arm 21.
  • the protective flap 22 serves as a catch protection, so that the socket parts e.g. do not get caught accidentally during transport.
  • a locking lug 23 is molded onto the end of the contact area 3 assigned to the connection area 4 (see in particular FIGS. 1, 2 and 6).
  • the locking nose works e.g. together with a locking slide to be inserted into the housing.
  • connection region 4 of the base body 2 provided for connection to an electrical line is designed as a so-called crimp zone.
  • the connection area can also have a different design, so that e.g. a so-called insulation displacement zone is created.
  • the contact area 3 with its contact means 6, as can be seen in particular from FIGS. 13 to 15, is designed such that plug parts 1 of different design are contacted in terms of their dimensions and contours can.
  • the socket part is suitable to contact 3 rectangular plug parts 1 via its contact area, the width of which starts from the narrowest contactable plug part 1 to max. twice as wide and its height starting from the lowest contactable plug part 1 to max. can be made a third more powerful. It is irrelevant whether the plug parts 1 to be contacted are designed as posts having a square cross section or as flat knives having a rectangular cross section.

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EP95116923A 1994-11-02 1995-10-27 Connecteur électrique Expired - Lifetime EP0711009B1 (fr)

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DE4439105A DE4439105C1 (de) 1994-11-02 1994-11-02 Elektrische Steckverbindung
DE4439105 1994-11-02

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BR (1) BR9504908A (fr)
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ES (1) ES2142986T3 (fr)

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EP0711009B1 (fr) 2000-01-05
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ES2142986T3 (es) 2000-05-01
EP0711009A3 (fr) 1997-12-03
US5613885A (en) 1997-03-25
BR9504908A (pt) 1997-09-02
DE59507570D1 (de) 2000-02-10

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