EP2804264B1 - Système de connexion électrique et son procédé de fabrication - Google Patents

Système de connexion électrique et son procédé de fabrication Download PDF

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EP2804264B1
EP2804264B1 EP13735916.2A EP13735916A EP2804264B1 EP 2804264 B1 EP2804264 B1 EP 2804264B1 EP 13735916 A EP13735916 A EP 13735916A EP 2804264 B1 EP2804264 B1 EP 2804264B1
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Masatoshi Nakamura
Akifumi Onodera
Akira Sugawara
Hiroto Narieda
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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
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/16—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending
    • 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
    • H01R13/00—Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/02—Contact members
    • H01R13/22—Contacts for co-operating by abutting
    • H01R13/24—Contacts for co-operating by abutting resilient; resiliently-mounted
    • H01R13/2464—Contacts for co-operating by abutting resilient; resiliently-mounted characterized by the contact point

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  • the present invention relates to a connection system to easily and surely perform an electrical connection and disconnection, and a manufacturing method thereof.
  • This application is based upon and claims the benefit of priority of the prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2012-5023, filed on January 13, 2012 , and Japanese Patent Application No. 2013-3151, filed on January 11, 2013 .
  • a connection system comprising a female connector and a male connector in a freely engageable and detachable manner is used for an electrical connection of a vehicle, an electronic equipment, and so on.
  • a male tab at the male connector side inserted into the female connector and a contact piece in a spring state which is electrically connected to the male tab at the female connector side slide with each other, and wear debris are generated.
  • Sn plating is performed for the male tab at the male connector side and the contact piece at the female connector side, and therefore, Sn wear debris are generated by the sliding between the contact piece at the female connector side and the male tab at the male connector side. Electrical resistance of the Sn wear debris becomes high when it is oxidized, and therefore, there is a worry in which contact resistance of the connection system becomes high by the wear debris.
  • Patent Document 1 a technology in which a thin Ag-Sn alloy layer is further formed on the Sn plating to thereby improve minute slide wear resistance is disclosed.
  • Patent Document 2 a technology in which a polygonal projection is provided at the contact piece at the female connector side to thereby remove the wear debris generated at the sliding time to suppress resistance increase at a contact surface is disclosed.
  • a connection system as described in the preamble of claim 1 is already known from Patent Document 2.
  • Patent Document 3 a technology in which plural grooves are provided at a contact part to enable a multiple contact to secure a stable contact is disclosed.
  • Patent Document 4 a technology in which a slide distance is suppressed to be a distance smaller than a slide trace to thereby secure a gas-tight surface which is not exposed to atmosphere is disclosed. Further, in Patent Documents 5, 6, a technology in which a contact part is made difficult to move by a structure of a terminal to thereby prevent the sliding is disclosed..
  • the number of terminals (the number of pins) of the connection system tends to increase, and small-sizing of the terminal is required in accordance with the increase in the number of terminals.
  • sheet thicknesses of materials used for the male tab at the male connector side and the contact piece at the female connector side become thin, and therefore, a spring force becomes small, further, it is impossible to keep an enough spring displacement amount, and therefore, a contact load between both becomes small.
  • the electrical reliability is damaged by minute slide wear caused by minute sliding if the contact load is small.
  • Cost increase is incurred when an expensive noble metal plating such as Au, Ag is used, and the contact load is enlarged by using a high-strength material as measures for a problem as stated above.
  • a measure to enable a standstill contact point by devising a terminal shape can be cited, but the contact point is easy to move when the contact load is small, and it is difficult to suppress the minute slide wear because the slide wear is generated by the sliding in a minute distance.
  • the wear debris generated by the sliding is easy to enter between the male tab and the contact piece in a conventional terminal structure, and there is a worry in which the contact resistance increases caused by the wear debris.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a connection system in which the slide wear is reduced as much as possible even in case when the contact load is small, and the wear debris generated by the sliding is difficult to enter between the male tab and the contact piece, and a manufacturing method thereof.
  • a connection system comprising a female connector and a male connector the female connector and the male connector connecting in a freely engageable and detachable manner, comprising a male tab provided at the male connector; a housing part where the male tab is inserted provided at the female connector; a spring state contact piece and a beat piece to sandwich the male tab provided at the housing part; and a protrusion protruding toward the male tab inserted into the housing part provided at least one of the contact piece and the beat piece, wherein the protrusion includes a contact part which is in contact with the male tab inserted into the housing part and a sidewall part which is provided at a periphery of the contact part, and the contact part includes a reverse direction side top part protruding in reverse to a travel direction of the male tab when it is inserted into the housing part, and a pair of cross side top parts protruding in a direction crossing with the travel direction of the male tab in a plan view, wherein a peripheral
  • the contact part further includes a travel direction side top part protruding in the same direction as the travel direction of the male tab when it is inserted into the housing part in the plan view, and the peripheral edge shape of the contact part may be concave toward the center side of the contact part from a line connecting the travel direction side top part and each cross side top part respectively between the travel direction side top part and each cross side top part respectively.
  • the peripheral edge shape of the contact part may be a combination of plural lines.
  • the peripheral edge shape of the contact part may be a curve.
  • the peripheral edge shape of the contact part may be a combination of a curve and a line.
  • a contact between the male tab and the contact part may be any one of a surface contact, a line contact, and a point contact.
  • An angle of the reverse direction side top part and an angle of each cross side top part respectively may be both 30° or less in the plan view.
  • an angle of the travel direction side top part may be 30° or less in the plan view.
  • a manufacturing method of the connection system including: forming the protrusion by the press work using a metal mold or the plating is provided.
  • the protrusion may be formed by the plating.
  • a contact part of a protrusion provided at a contact piece and a beat piece is made into so-called a star-shape in a plan view, and thereby, it is possible to avoid wear debris from entering between the contact part and the male tab.
  • a contact area between the contact part and the male tab becomes small, there is a pair of cross side top parts protruding in a direction crossing with a travel direction of the male tab, and therefore, these cross side top parts become resistance at a sliding time, and it is possible to suppress a slide distance. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the slide wear as much as possible even when a contact load is small.
  • the so-called star protrusion can be formed easily by, for example, the press work using a metal mold and the plating.
  • a connection system 1 includes a male connector 2 and a female connector 3 which are connectable in a freely engageable and detachable manner with each other.
  • a male tab 11 made up of a conductive material as a male terminal protrudes at a tip surface of a male side resin molding part 10.
  • a cylindrical male side cover 12 disposed to surround a periphery of the male tab 11 is provided at the male side resin molding part 10.
  • a male side engaging lock 13 is provided toward inside at an inner peripheral surface of the male side cover 12.
  • a box type housing part (cavity) 21 where the male tab 11 is inserted is provided inside a female side resin molding part 20.
  • a female terminal 22 made up of a conductive material is inserted into the housing part 21 from a rear surface side (a right surface side in FIG. 1 ) of the female side resin molding part (cavity) 20.
  • An electric wire 23 is electrically connected to a rear end (right end in FIG. 1 ) of the female terminal 22.
  • the female terminal 22 inserted into the housing part 21 is pressed by an elastic lance 24 so as not to fall off.
  • a spring state contact piece 30 and a beat piece 31 are held inside the female terminal 22.
  • the contact piece 30 is made up so that a whole part has elasticity by folding back a metal plate.
  • These contact piece 30 and beat piece 31 are disposed to face with each other with a predetermined distance.
  • the male tab 11 is inserted into the female terminal 22, and thereby, the male tab 11 is inserted between the contact piece 30 and the beat piece 31 in the housing part 21.
  • the male tab 11 is sandwiched between these contact piece 30 and beat piece 31 by the elasticity of the contact piece 30, and the male terminal (male tab 11) of the male connector 2 and the female terminal 22 of the female connector 3 become an electrically connected state.
  • a direction moving the male connector 2 in a right direction relative to the female connector 3 is a travel direction X1 of the male tab 11 (the travel direction X1 of the male tab 11 when it is inserted into the housing part 21).
  • a direction moving the male connector 2 in a left direction relative to the female connector 3 is a reverse direction X2 (the direction X2 pulling out the male tab 11 from the housing part 21) which is in reverse to the travel direction X1 of the male tab 11.
  • the housing part 21 is covered with a cylindrical female side cover 32.
  • a female side engaging lock 33 which is supported to be freely elastically deformed relative to the female side resin molding part 20 is provided toward outside at an outer peripheral surface of the female side cover 32.
  • the male connector 2 is moved in the travel direction X1
  • the female cover 32 of the female connector 3 is inserted into the male side cover 12 of the male connector 2 to engage the male side engaging lock 13 and the female side engaging lock 33, and thereby, a connection state of the connection system 1 is held.
  • connection state of the connection system 1 the male tab 11 is inserted into the female terminal 22, enters between the contact piece 30 and the beat piece 31, and the male terminal (male tab 11) of the male connector 2 and the female terminal 22 of the female connector 3 become the electrically connected state, as stated above.
  • a release protrusion 34 formed at an outer peripheral surface of the female side resin molding part (cavity) 20 is pressed, and thereby, the female side engaging lock 33 is pushed, and it becomes a state in which engagement between the male side engaging lock 13 and the female side engaging lock 33 is disengaged. It is thereby possible to pull out the male connector 2 from the female connector 3, and the electrical connection between the male terminal (male tab 11) of the male connector 2 and the female terminal 22 of the female connector 3 is released.
  • a protrusion 40 protruding toward a surface of the male tab 11 inserted into the housing part 21 is provided at a surface of the contact piece 30.
  • a beat part 41 protruding toward the surface of the male tab 11 inserted into the housing part 21 is provided at a surface of the beat piece 31.
  • the protrusion 40 formed at the contact piece 30 includes a contact part 42 which is in contact with the male tab 11 inserted into the housing part 21 and a sidewall part 43 provided at a periphery of the contact part 42.
  • a top of the protrusion 40 is the contact part 42 in a plan state, and the contact part 42 is in surface contact with the surface of the male tab 11 inserted into the housing part 21.
  • the contact part 42 has so-called a star shape in a plan view, and includes a travel direction side top part 45 protruding in the travel direction X1, a reverse direction side top part 46 protruding in the reverse direction X2, and a pair of cross side top parts 47, 47 each protruding in a direction which crosses in approximately perpendicular to the travel direction X1 (reverse direction X2).
  • "in a plan view” means a state in which a surface of the contact piece 30 is seen from the male tab 11 side inserted into the housing part 21.
  • a peripheral edge shape of the contact part 42 being the top of the protrusion 40 is a concave shape toward a center O side of the contact part 42 from a line L1 connecting the travel direction side top part 45 and the cross side top part 47 between the travel direction side top part 45 and the cross side top part 47.
  • it has the concave shape toward the center O side of the contact part 42 from a line L2 connecting the reverse direction side top part 46 and the cross side top part 47 between the reverse direction side top part 46 and the cross side top part 47.
  • the travel direction side top part 45 is an acute angle sandwiched by two lines 45a, 45a in the plan view, and an angle ⁇ 45 of the travel direction side top part 45 is smaller than a crossing angle between the lines L1, L1 at the travel direction side top part 45 with each other.
  • the reverse direction side top part 46 is an acute angle sandwiched by two lines 46a, 46a in the plan view, and an angle ⁇ 46 of the reverse direction side top part 46 is smaller than a crossing angle between the lines L2, L2 with each other at the reverse direction side top part 46.
  • the cross side top part 47 is sandwiched by two lines 47a, 47a in the plan view, and an angle ⁇ 47 of the cross side top part 47 at the cross side top part 47 is smaller than a crossing angle between the lines L1, L2 at the cross side top part 47.
  • the angle ⁇ 45 of the travel direction side top part 45, the angle ⁇ 46 of the reverse direction side top part 46, and the angles ⁇ 47 of the cross side top parts 47 are 30° or less.
  • the contact part 42 has so-called a planar star shape having four top parts of the travel direction side top part 45, the cross side top part 47, the reverse direction side top part 46, and the cross side top part 47 surrounded by respective lines 45a, 46a, 47a.
  • the sidewall part 43 provided at the periphery of the contact part 42 has an inclined surface widening toward outside as it approaches to the surface of the contact piece 30, and it has approximately a trapezoid cross sectional shape at each of the travel direction side top part 45, the reverse direction side top part 46, the cross side top parts 47 as illustrated in FIGs. 7, 8 .
  • connection system 1 made up as stated above, the male connector 2 is moved in the travel direction X1 to insert the male tab 11 into the housing part 21 of the female connector 3 to thereby electrically connect the male connector 2 and the female connector 3.
  • the male tab 11 is inserted between the contact piece 30 and the beat piece 31 in the housing part 21, and the male terminal (male tab 11) of the male connector 2 and the female terminal 22 of the female connector 3 become the electrically connected state.
  • the contact part 42 being the top of the protrusion 40 formed at the contact piece 30 and the surface of the male tab 11 slide under the surface contact state, and therefore, wear debris 50 are generated between both.
  • the contact part 42 is brought into contact with the surface of the male tab 11 headed by the reverse direction side top part 46, and the wear debris 50 are pushed apart toward both sides by the reverse direction side top part 46 when the male connector 2 travels in the travel direction X1 in accordance with the insertion of the male tab 11.
  • the wear debris 50 are thereby difficult to enter between the surface of the male tab 11 and the contact part 42.
  • the peripheral edge shape of the contact part 42 is the concave shape toward the center O side between the reverse direction side top part 46 and the cross side top part 47, and the angle ⁇ 46 of the reverse direction side top part 46 is sharply pointed, and therefore, the wear debris 50 seldom enter between the surface of the male tab 11 and the contact part 42.
  • the contact part 42 of the protrusion 40 formed at the contact piece 30 is coherently in surface contact with the surface of the male tab 11 inserted between the contact piece 30 and the beat piece 31, the male terminal (male tab 11) of the male connector 2 and the female terminal 22 of the female connector 3 are surely electrically connected, and it is possible to previously prevent troubles such as a voltage reduction caused by high contact resistance, heat generation, and so on.
  • the male connector 2 is pulled toward the reverse direction X2, and the male connector 2 is pulled out of the female connector 3.
  • the contact part 42 being the top of the protrusion 40 formed at the contact piece 30 similarly slides under the surface contact with the surface of the male tab 11, and therefore, the wear debris 50 are generated between both also in the case when the male connector 2 is pulled out of the female connector 3.
  • the contact part 42 is brought into contact with the surface of the male tab 11 headed by the travel direction side top part 45 when the male connector 2 is pulled out of the female connector 3, and the wear debris 50 are pushed apart toward both sides by the travel direction side top part 45 when the male connector 2 travels in the reverse direction X2 in accordance with the pulling out of the male tab 11.
  • the wear debris 50 are difficult to enter between the surface of the male tab 11 and the contact part 42, and adhesion of the wear debris 50 to the contact part 42 is suppressed also in the case when the male connector 2 is pulled out of the female connector 3.
  • the peripheral edge shape of the contact part 42 is the concave shape toward the center O side between the travel direction side top part 45 and the cross side top part 47, and the angle ⁇ 45 of the travel direction side top part 45 is sharply pointed, and therefore, the wear debris 50 seldom enter between the surface of the male tab 11 and the contact part 42 also in the case when the male connector 2 is pulled out of the female connector 3. Accordingly, the adhesion of the wear debris 50 to the contact part 42 is suppressed also in the case when the male connector 2 is pulled out of the female connector 3.
  • an entire surface of the contact part 42 being the top of the protrusion 40 formed at the contact piece 30 is in surface contact with the surface of the male tab 11 under the state in which the male terminal (male tab 11) of the male connector 2 and the female terminal 22 of the female connector 3 are electrically connected, and a relative moving between both is suppressed to be minimum by tightly sandwiching the male tab 11 between the contact piece 30 and the beat piece 31.
  • the shape of the contact part 42 being the top of the protrusion 40 formed at the contact piece 30 is so-called the star shape. Accordingly, it is possible to enlarge a width b of the contact part 42 (a distance between the pair of the cross side top parts 47, 47) and to enlarge a surface area of the contact part 42 even if the angle ⁇ 46 of the reverse direction side top part 46 and the angle ⁇ 45 of the travel direction side top part 45 are made small. As a result, the contact area relative to the surface of the male tab 11 increases, and the resistance becomes small.
  • the cross side top parts 47 extending in a vertical direction relative to the travel direction X1 and the reverse direction X2 of the male tab 11 become the resistances at the sliding time, and it becomes possible to suppress the slide distance.
  • connection system 1 of the present invention there are effects in the connection system 1 of the present invention in which the adhesion of the wear debris 50 to the contact part 42 is suppressed at insertion and extraction times of a terminal, and a minute slide wear in which slide wear is generated by a sliding with a minute load (for example, a contact load at a contact point is 3 N or less) and in a minute distance.
  • a minute load for example, a contact load at a contact point is 3 N or less
  • the slide wear are generated by the sliding in the minute distance.
  • the adhesion of the wear debris 50 to the contact part 42 can be suppressed by the travel direction side top part 45 and the reverse direction side top part 46, and the increase of the contact resistance can be suppressed.
  • the embodiments of the present invention are exemplified to be described, but the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described here.
  • the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims only.
  • an example is illustrated as the shape of the contact part 42 to be surrounded by the respective lines 45a, 46a, 47a.
  • the peripheral edge shape of the contact part 42 may be one surrounded by curves as illustrated in FIG. 13 .
  • the peripheral edge shape of the contact part 42 may be one surrounded by combinations of each of a curve and a line as illustrated in FIG. 14 .
  • the peripheral edge shape of the contact part 42 is made to be the curve, and thereby, the contact area of the contact part 42 relative to the surface of the male tab 11 increases, and the resistance becomes further small.
  • the contact of the contact part 42 relative to the surface of the male tab 11 is not limited to the surface contact, but may be the line contact or a point contact.
  • the shape of the contact part 42 being the top of the protrusion 40 is a cross-shaped line state.
  • the shape of the contact part 42 is made to be the one illustrated in FIG. 15 , and thereby, it become possible to press the contact part 42 relative to the surface of the male tab 11 in the line contact.
  • a position forming the protrusion 40 is not limited to the contact piece 30, but the protrusion 40 may be formed at the beat part 41. Besides, the protrusion 40 may be formed at both the contact piece 30 and the beat part 41. Further, the protrusion 40 may be formed at plural positions. The plural protrusions 40 are provided, and thereby, it becomes possible to enable a more reliable terminal structure.
  • the entering of the wear debris 50 between the surface of the male tab 11 and the contact part 42 can be suppressed, and therefore, it is possible to perform the Sn plating similar to the conventional one at the surface of the male tab 11, and the surfaces of the contact piece 30 and the beat piece 31, and it is possible to obtain a high reliability connection system without using an expensive noble metal plating such as Au, Ag.
  • a plating structure in plural layers of only Sn, Ni-Cu-Sn, Ni-Cu-CuSn compound-Sn, CuSn compound-Sn, Ni-Sn, and so on from a surface side of conductive base materials such as the contact piece 30, the beat piece, and the male tab 11 are conceivable as a coating structure. Note that in the present embodiment, it is no problem if the noble metal platings such as Au, Ag are used.
  • a conductive base material made up of a high-strength and high-cost copper alloy such as Be copper, copper-titanium may be used as the female terminal such as the contact piece 30 and the beat piece 31, but these copper alloys are high-cost, and therefore, a lower cost Cu-Ni-Si based (Corson) alloy, a Cu-Ni-Sn-P based alloy (for example, copper alloys such as NB109, NB105 manufactured by DOWA metaltech Co., Ltd.), phosphor bronze, and so on are usable and preferable.
  • Brass is preferable for the male terminal such as the male tab 11.
  • conductive materials made up of an iron-based material such as a stainless steel (SUS) and an aluminum alloy may be used.
  • SUS stainless steel
  • a plating process is preferably formed by the electroplating from a cost phase, and the reflow treatment is used according to need.
  • the protrusion 40 is able to be formed by, for example, the press work using a metal mold.
  • a part of a press metal mold of the female terminal may be changed.
  • a timing to perform the press work may be either before or after the plating process.
  • a processing method is not limited to the press work such that, for example, the protrusion is formed by the Sn plating as long as the similar shape can be obtained.
  • the male terminal may be the conventional one. Note that when the protrusion 40 is formed at the beat part 41, it is possible to easily provide the protrusion 40 at the beat part 41 by the press work different from the spring state contact piece 30.
  • the protrusion 40 includes both the travel direction side top part 45 protruding in the travel direction X1 and the reverse direction side top part 46 protruding in the reverse direction X2 is illustrated, but the protrusion 40 is necessary to include only the travel direction side top part 45 protruding in the travel direction X1, the reverse direction side top part 46 protruding in the reverse direction X2, and the cross side top parts 47 from a point of view of preventing that the wear debris 50 enter when the male connector 2 and the female connector 3 are connected, and the travel direction side top part 45 may not be provided.
  • the sidewall part 43 provided at the periphery of the contact part 42 is the inclining plane is illustrated in FIGs. 7, 8 , but the sidewall part 43 may be a curvature convex toward outside as illustrated in FIG. 18 , or the sidewall part 43 may be a curvature convex toward inside as illustrated in FIG. 19 .
  • the sidewall part 43 may be a vertical plane.
  • the example in which the sidewall part 43 provided at the periphery of the contact part 42 is the inclined plane is illustrated in each of FIGs. 16, 17 , but the sidewall part 43 may be a curvature convex toward outside as illustrated in FIG. 21 , or the sidewall part 43 may be a curvature convex toward inside as illustrated in FIG. 22 .
  • the sidewall part 43 may be a vertical plane.

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  1. Système de connexion comprenant un connecteur femelle (3) et un connecteur mâle (2), le connecteur femelle (3) et le connecteur mâle (2) se connectant en s'enclenchant et se détachant librement, comprenant :
    une languette mâle (11) située au niveau du connecteur mâle (2) ;
    une partie formant logement (21) où la languette mâle (11) est insérée, située au niveau du connecteur femelle (3) ;
    une pièce de contact élastique (30) et une pièce (beat piece) (31) pour prendre en sandwich la languette mâle (11), situées au niveau de la partie formant logement (21) ; et
    une saillie (40) saillant en direction de la languette mâle (11) insérée dans la partie formant logement (21), située au niveau d'au moins la pièce de contact (30) et/ou la pièce (beat piece) (31),
    dans lequel la saillie (40) comprend une partie de contact (42) qui est en contact avec la languette mâle (11) insérée dans la partie formant logement (21) et une partie formant paroi latérale (43) qui est située au niveau d'un contour de la partie de contact (42), et
    la partie de contact (42) comprend une partie supérieure latérale de direction opposée (46) saillant dans la direction opposée à une direction de déplacement (X1) de la languette mâle (11) lorsque celle-ci est insérée dans la partie formant logement (21), et deux parties supérieures latérales transversales (47) saillant dans une direction transversale à la direction de déplacement (X1) de la languette mâle (11), en vue en plan, caractérisé en ce que
    un bord périphérique de la partie de contact (42) a une forme concave en direction d'un centre de la partie de contact (42) en partant d'une ligne reliant la partie supérieure latérale de direction opposée (46) à chaque partie supérieure latérale transversale (47), respectivement entre la partie supérieure latérale de direction opposée (46) et chaque partie supérieure latérale transversale (47), respectivement.
  2. Système de connexion selon la revendication 1,
    dans lequel la partie de contact (42) comprend en outre une partie supérieure latérale de direction de déplacement (45) saillant dans la même direction que la direction de déplacement (X1) de la languette mâle (11) lorsque celle-ci est insérée dans la partie formant logement (21), en vue en plan, et
    le bord périphérique de la partie de contact (42) a une forme concave en direction du centre de la partie de contact (42) en partant d'une ligne reliant la partie supérieure latérale de direction de déplacement (45) à chaque partie supérieure latérale transversale (47), respectivement entre la partie supérieure latérale de direction de déplacement (45) et chaque partie supérieure latérale transversale (47), respectivement.
  3. Système de connexion selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2,
    dans lequel la forme du bord périphérique de la partie de contact (42) est une combinaison de plusieurs lignes.
  4. Système de connexion selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2,
    dans lequel la forme du bord périphérique de la partie de contact (42) est une courbe.
  5. Système de connexion selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2,
    dans lequel la forme du bord périphérique de la partie de contact (42) est une combinaison d'une courbe et d'une ligne.
  6. Système de connexion selon la revendication 1,
    dans lequel un contact entre la languette mâle (11) et la partie de contact (42) est l'un quelconque d'un contact de surface, d'un contact d'une ligne et d'un contact d'un point.
  7. Système de connexion selon la revendication 2,
    dans lequel un angle (θ45) de la partie supérieure latérale de direction de déplacement (45) est inférieur ou égal à 30° en vue en plan.
  8. Système de connexion selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2,
    dans lequel un angle (θ46) de la partie supérieure latérale de direction opposée (46) et un angle (θ47) de chaque partie supérieure latérale transversale (47), respectivement, sont tous les deux inférieurs ou égaux à 30° en vue en plan.
  9. Procédé de fabrication d'un système de connexion (1) selon la revendication 1, comprenant :
    la formation de la saillie (40) par travail à la presse en utilisant une empreinte métallique.
  10. Procédé de fabrication d'un système de connexion (1) selon la revendication 1, comprenant :
    la formation de la saillie (40) par plaquage.
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