EP0966064B1 - Connecteur électrique multipolaire - Google Patents

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EP0966064B1
EP0966064B1 EP98113150A EP98113150A EP0966064B1 EP 0966064 B1 EP0966064 B1 EP 0966064B1 EP 98113150 A EP98113150 A EP 98113150A EP 98113150 A EP98113150 A EP 98113150A EP 0966064 B1 EP0966064 B1 EP 0966064B1
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Gerhard Wehrle
Rainer Strache
Herbert Bohne
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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
    • H01R13/58—Means for relieving strain on wire connection, e.g. cord grip, for avoiding loosening of connections between wires and terminals within a coupling device terminating a cable
    • H01R13/59—Threaded ferrule or bolt operating in a direction parallel to the cable or wire
    • 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
    • H01R4/28—Clamped connections, spring connections
    • H01R4/50—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a cam, wedge, cone or ball also combined with a screw
    • H01R4/5033—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a cam, wedge, cone or ball also combined with a screw using wedge or pin penetrating into the end of a wire in axial direction of the wire

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  • the present invention relates to the use of a disc-shaped at least partially rubber-elastic bracket in a Plug connection and a multi-pin connector for connecting a Multi-core stranded conductor cable according to the preamble of claim 3.
  • the device has a conically shaped part arranged on the circumference Attacks on the channels through which the strands are passed.
  • the canals themselves also have stops, for example for the contact pins, by they are designed with different diameters.
  • the conical The rubber-elastic part is assembled on the circumference through the housing pressed together so that it is securely sealed around the in the channels lying conductor.
  • a connector according to the preamble of claim 3 is from DE 44 18 259 C1 known.
  • This connector consists of a distributor Inclusion of the stranded wire, one from a handle and one Cable gland with pressure screw built-up cable holder as well a contact carrier with contact skewers arranged in contact chambers and a union nut for attaching the cable holder to the distributor formed plug-in part.
  • the cable end part of the distributor is in cross section designed as an octagon, with the eight flat outer surfaces facing each other Taper towards the end.
  • the inner contour of the mating section of the The shape of the handle is the outer contour of the cable-side end part of the Distributor adapted.
  • the distributor is made up of four axially parallel channels Admission of non-stripped stranded wire penetrated, the Partitions of two channels and the opposite External walls between the channels and the corresponding lateral surfaces Have slots. This forms two resilient outer parts that the cable-side end part under the action of radial forces as a clamping area for the Make stranded wire effective.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object, the above eliminate the disadvantages listed and a possibility for special fast and safe assemblies, preferably multi-pole Propose stranded wire.
  • a multi-pin connector with one cable holder and one Plug-in part becomes a disk-shaped, at least partially, rubber-elastic trained bracket with channels for receiving stranded wires
  • For the contacting is essentially a uniform one radial contact pressure in all channels with adapted channel diameter on the Ends of the stranded conductor, at least over the penetration length of the contact spikes, and generated the inserted contact skewers.
  • the end bracket when joining the plug-in part with the cable holder on the circumference the plug-in part squeezed radially.
  • the cable holder of the multi-pin connector includes one Strand conductor holder for immovable fixing of the strand conductor and on it then an end bracket facing the plug-in part, which in the Penetrate contact skewers.
  • the stranded conductor holder has a fixed, the End bracket facing fixation plate and a movable in the axial direction Clamping plate on each stranded wire when moving towards the fixing plate evenly stuck immovably against train movement.
  • the end bracket is at least over the penetration length of the contact skewers in the channels in a radial Elastic direction to pass through when inserted contact skewers Squeezing together on the circumference essentially for contacting uniform radial pressure in all channels with adapted Generate channel diameter.
  • the stranded conductors are in the clamping plate individually managed and can already prevent premature and Unwanted extraction secured when assembling other stranded conductors become.
  • By moving the clamping plate in the direction of the fixing plate a parallel, but individual and uniform jamming of each strand, see above that it is irrelevant whether all channels provided in the connector have Strand conductors are occupied.
  • the end bracket is made of an elastic plastic or rubber material and takes the radial pressure and jammed for a good contact the front in the Stranded wire penetrating contact skewers.
  • the non-stripped wire conductors are led through the channels the cable holder with the clamping plate and the fixing plate as well as the one on it subsequent end bracket performed.
  • the end bracket can on the Plug side facing a stop for the stranded wire. If all stranded wires are plugged in, the clamping plate is inserted along the stranded wire Moved towards the fixing plate. The stranded conductors are against every movement jammed. Then the plug part with the contact skewers into the channels the end bracket inserted, with a through the elastic training corresponding uniform pressure in the radial direction on the channels and so that it is exerted on the strands.
  • This arrangement thus allows a quick and safe assembly, whereby due to the independent stranded wire clamping both Contact distances of the smallest and largest dimensions can be produced can.
  • the stranded wire is clamped directly in front of the contacting zone, so that the Compression length of the stranded wire in the contact zone to the smallest possible dimension reduced and a pushing back of the stranded wire during the Contacting process is prevented.
  • the elastic end bracket guides you permanent contact pressure on the condensing strands.
  • the as elastic pressure plate trained end bracket advantageously on Arched circumference.
  • the plug part when inserting the contact skewers into the channels of the pressure plate press the pressure plate together around the circumference required contact pressure in the channels and the elimination of Existing play between stranded wire and channels for an optimal Contacting and an exact centering to the contact skewers too guarantee.
  • the channels in the pressure plate are advantageously on the Plug side facing thin-walled closed to a stop for to form the stranded wire.
  • the elastic holding of the stranded wire ends in the end bracket means that Danger of upsetting and pushing back the stranded wire.
  • the clamping plate in the direction Fixing plate pointing, at the free end tapered clamping domes for the Inside the stranded conductor, which can be inserted in the longitudinal direction of the dome.
  • the wall of the Clamping domes are used to reduce the channel cross-section in the radial direction compressible and fix the stranded wire in the area of the dome foot and the Dome tip to prevent it from accidentally slipping out during assembly avoid.
  • the clamping domes When assembling with the fixing plate, the clamping domes arrive with its conical end in a correspondingly trained and the Dome tip compressing recess in the fixing plate, so that everyone Stranded conductor individually and independently of the one acting on other stranded conductors Press pressure is jammed.
  • the clamping plate By moving the clamping plate along the Stranded wire, all stranded wires are jammed in parallel. The jamming the stranded wire is thus as close as possible to the end bracket and Squeezes are excluded. This also leads to a short one Cable holder and thus also to a short connector.
  • the clamping plate with the fixing plate for example by means of a snap, bayonet or screw connection, in particular union nut, continuously connected and held, the Clamp domes get into the recesses of the fixing plate when connecting. This ensures a permanent jamming and securing of the stranded wire realized.
  • the cable holder and the plug-in part are also continuously, preferably with a snap, bayonet or screw connection, in particular Union nut, connected, with the connection pushing in the face the contact skewers in the stranded wire and the extensive coincidence of the Pressure plate is done. This allows the indentation and compression without great effort and a permanent and safe contact will be realized.
  • the plug-in part covers the plug-in part and the Snap, bayonet or screw connection connecting the cable receptacle Clamping plate and fixing plate connecting snap, bayonet or Screw connection.
  • This measure also helps to shorten the Plug connector and serves to additionally secure the jamming of the Stranded conductor in the cable holder.
  • the figure shows a longitudinal section through a multipole connector 1, the upper half of the connector 1 in the open state with already in the Channel 8 inserted stranded wire 7 and the lower half of the figures Connector 1 shows in the assembled state.
  • the connector 1 has a cable holder 2 and a plug-in part 3, which by means of a Union nut 4 are joined.
  • the cable holder 2 includes one Stranded conductor holder 5 and a flexible pressure plate 6 as an end holder.
  • To the Insertion of the individual stranded conductors 7 of a stranded conductor cable 22 are in the Cable receptacle axially parallel channels 8 provided in the stranded wire in the 1 to a stop 9 in the form of a thin Wall can be inserted into the elastic pressure plate 6.
  • the stranded conductor 7 When the stranded conductor 7 is inserted into the channels 8 the stranded conductors first reach a movable one via an insertion funnel 10 Clamping plate 11 of the stranded conductor holder 5.
  • This clamping plate consists of a Plate with individual with a longitudinal slot 27 clamping domes 12, the enclose the respective channel.
  • the clamping domes are thin-walled and tapered at the top.
  • the channel 8 inside the clamping dome 12 is formed such that the wall of the clamping domes 12 in the area of Dome tip 13 and dome foot 14 lightly fix the inserted stranded wire, in order to avoid slipping back during the assembly of other stranded conductors, but allow you to pull it out.
  • the stranded wire arrives in a fixed position with the subsequent pressure plate 6 connected fixing plate 15 of the stranded conductor holder 5 and then in the Pressure plate 6 up to the stop 9.
  • the fixing plate 15 has the corresponding External dimensions of the clamping domes 12 formed recesses 16 in the clamping domes 12 in the direction of the movement of the clamping plate 11 Fixing plate 15 arrive.
  • the stranded wires 7 are immovable against Pull out substantially the entire length of the channel in the each clamp dome 12 jammed close to the pressure plate 6.
  • the movement the clamping plate 11 and the connection to the fixing plate 15 is infinitely variable by means of a union nut 17.
  • a union nut 17 In the event of aging of the Strand conductor clamping against a decreasing clamping effect act, is between the union nut 17 and the clamping plate 11 Stranded conductor holder 5 a spring element 23, for example wave washer, inserted.
  • this spring element 23 seen over a longer period of time, an adjustment movement within the Carry out gap dimension 24 in the direction of the fixing plate 15.
  • the elastic end bracket is as one Pressure plate 6 made of a rubber-elastic material, the circumference has a convex curvature 18.
  • the plug-in part 3 with the Contact skewers 19 are pressed into the end of the stranded conductor 7.
  • the Stop 9 is pierced by the tip of the contact spike 19.
  • the Contact spit 19 serves in a known manner on the one hand for contacting of the strands in the stranded conductor 7 and with the opposite end of the Contacting a correspondingly designed not shown Mating connector.
  • the effect on the inside Scope of the plug-in part 3 arranged edges 20 and 21 a pressing together the elastic pressure plate 6 in the radial direction, so that the channel cross section adapts to the actual cross section of the inserted stranded conductor 7.
  • the contact skewer 19 is pressed in, which creates a counter pressure generated from the inside in the radial direction. This means that at the same time the existing tolerance differences of the elastic pressure plate 6 and that entire play between the stranded conductor 7 and the respective channel 8 is eliminated.
  • the axis center points of the respective channels 8 are also defined by the edge 20 brought exactly to the subsequently penetrating contact skewers 19 in alignment.
  • the contact skewers 19 penetrate into the ends of the front Stranded wire 7 to contact the wires.
  • the elastic pressure plate 6 exerts a permanent contact pressure on the compressed strands 7.
  • the formation of the stranded conductor holder 5 in the form of a movable Clamping plate 11 and a fixing plate 15 cause the stranded conductors to be jammed 7 in parallel, but independently of each other with regard to the clamping pressure.
  • the connector can be used with any number of channels be provided, it is not necessary that all channels with stranded wire are equipped to securely clamp the individual stranded wires.
  • Furthermore can by this design of the stranded conductor holder 5 in a certain Range of different strand diameters can still be jammed. There are thus not separate cable receptacles for each stranded conductor diameter adapted diameters of the channels required.

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  1. Utilisation d'un support (6) discoïde possédant au moins partiellement l'élasticité du caoutchouc et percé de passages (8) destinés à réceptionner des conducteurs toronnés (7) d'un câble toronné à brins multiples qui s'étendent pour ainsi dire parallèlement à l'axe central dressé perpendiculairement sur le support (6), dans un connecteur multipolaire (1) comprenant un réceptacle pour câble (2) et une fiche (3) avec des aiguilles de contact (19) pour la mise en contact coaxiale des extrémités libres des conducteurs toronnés (7) comme support d'extrémité (6), qui est écrasé radialement en vue d'établir le contact des aiguilles de contact (19) avec les extrémités des conducteurs toronnés (7), en sorte qu'une pression de contact radiale sensiblement homogène pour l'établissement du contact soit générée dans tous les passages (8) sur les extrémités des conducteurs toronnés (7), grâce à l'adaptation du diamètre des passages, du moins sur la longueur de pénétration des aiguilles de contact, et sur les aiguilles de contact introduites (19).
  2. Utilisation selon la revendication 1, dans laquelle le support d'extrémité (6) est écrasé radialement en périphérie par la fiche (3) lors de l'assemblage de la fiche (3) au réceptacle pour câble (2).
  3. Connecteur multipolaire pour le raccordement d'un câble à conducteurs toronnés à brins multiples comprenant un réceptacle pour câble et une fiche, les conducteurs toronnés étant guidés dans des passages à axes parallèles du réceptacle pour câble, en vue de la mise en contact axiale des extrémités libres avec des aiguilles de contact correspondantes de la fiche, et retenus avec serrage dans les passages au moyen d'un raccordement continu, caractérisé en ce que le réceptacle (2) pour câble présente un support (5) de conducteurs toronnés pour fixer immuablement les conducteurs toronnés et, à la suite de celui-ci, un support d'extrémité (6, 25) dirigé sur la fiche (3), le support (5) de câbles toronnés présentant une plaque de fixation (15) fixe orientée sur le support d'extrémité (6, 25) et une plaque de serrage (11) mobile dans la direction axiale, laquelle serre immuablement chaque conducteur toronné (7) de manière uniforme pour résister à des tractions lors de son déplacement vers la plaque de fixation, et en ce que le support d'extrémité (6, 25) présente l'élasticité du caoutchouc dans le sens radial, du moins sur la longueur de pénétration des aiguilles de contact (19) dans les passages (8), pour produire, par écrasement en périphérie, une pression de contact sensiblement régulière pour l'établissement du contact dans tous les passages, grâce à l'adaptation du diamètre des passages.
  4. Connecteur selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que la fiche (3) comprime les passages (8) de la plaque de compression (6) en périphérie, avec l'introduction des aiguilles de contact (19).
  5. Connecteur selon l'une des revendications précédentes 3 ou 4, caractérisé en ce que la plaque de serrage (11) présente des dômes de serrage (12) qui sont orientés dans la direction de la plaque de fixation (15) et s'effilent en cône à l'extrémité libre (13), pour les conducteurs toronnés (7) s'engageant à l'intérieur dans le sens de la longueur des dômes, et dont la paroi est compressible dans la direction radiale pour réduire la section transversale du câble et fixe les conducteurs toronnés (7) dans la zone du pied (14) et de la pointe (13) du dôme, et qui, lors de l'assemblage, pénètrent dans un évidement (16) de forme conjuguée et comprimant la pointe (13) des dômes ménagé dans la plaque de fixation (15).
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