EP3183779A1 - Élément de contact et connecteur - Google Patents

Élément de contact et connecteur

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Publication number
EP3183779A1
EP3183779A1 EP15757119.1A EP15757119A EP3183779A1 EP 3183779 A1 EP3183779 A1 EP 3183779A1 EP 15757119 A EP15757119 A EP 15757119A EP 3183779 A1 EP3183779 A1 EP 3183779A1
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Prior art keywords
locking
contact
plug
crimp
secondary locking
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German (de)
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EP3183779B1 (fr
Inventor
Jürgen Lappöhn
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ERNI Production and Co KG GmbH
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ERNI Production and Co KG GmbH
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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
    • 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
    • H01R4/183—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 for cylindrical elongated bodies, e.g. cables having circular cross-section
    • H01R4/184—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 for cylindrical elongated bodies, e.g. cables having circular cross-section comprising a U-shaped wire-receiving portion
    • H01R4/185—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 for cylindrical elongated bodies, e.g. cables having circular cross-section comprising a U-shaped wire-receiving portion combined with a U-shaped insulation-receiving portion
    • 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
    • H01R13/40—Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members
    • H01R13/42—Securing in a demountable manner
    • H01R13/428—Securing in a demountable manner by resilient locking means on the contact members; by locking means on resilient contact members
    • H01R13/432—Securing in a demountable manner by resilient locking means on the contact members; by locking means on resilient contact members by stamped-out resilient tongue snapping behind shoulder in base or case

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a contact element for connectors with plug-in contacts arranged on the plug side and a cable side arranged
  • Crimp connection according to the preamble of claim 1. Furthermore, the invention relates to a connector with at least one such, arranged in a connector housing contact element according to the preamble of claim 6.
  • a generic connector is known from DE 20 2010 01 1 545 U1. This connector has contact elements with
  • Each contact element serves as a spring contact and is also intended to contact a single cable by crimping and to fix in the contact element.
  • Each of these contact elements is arranged in a connector housing, wherein the contact elements are adjacent.
  • Such connectors are used for example in the automotive industry. They are used to contact individual cables in a connector with several adjacent or superimposed
  • Connector housing such contact elements are arranged, with the features of claim 6, in contrast, allow in a very advantageous manner a very compact design and further miniaturization of such connectors, and thus an increase in the number of such a connector to be arranged contact elements and thus an increase in the number of contacts Cables in the
  • the plug contacts and the crimp connection are offset from each other in an axially parallel manner and that the at least one primary locking element has two locking springs which are resilient transversely to the plug-in direction and mirror-symmetrically arranged to a plug-in center plane Secondary locking element have at least one transversely to the direction of insertion and to the insertion center plane mirror symmetrically arranged in the contact element SekundärverriegelungsaufEnglishung. Due to the interaction through the axially parallel offset arrangement of
  • Connector is provided that the plug contacts in the
  • Connector housings are no longer "mutually", because they are each offset from each other and can be so close to each other that the crimp terminals overlap slightly in different levels.This arrangement, it is only possible to such connector systems in
  • Crimp are offset by a measure of length to each other in the
  • the crimp-locking element is arranged at the bottom of the crimp. At the bottom of this means essentially lying in the plane open Crimulatel.
  • the plug contacts designed as spring contacts are connected to one
  • the locking springs preferably have blade contact bearing surfaces on their side facing the plug center plane. These serve to disengage the locking springs from the in the
  • Connector housing provided effectively prevent, because the blade contact bearing surfaces are located on the
  • Knife contact elements on and do not allow movement of the
  • Locking springs in the direction of the plug center plane in the inserted state of the blade contact elements are Locking springs in the direction of the plug center plane in the inserted state of the blade contact elements.
  • the secondary locking cams provided in the housing preferably have an oversize with respect to the secondary locking recesses, so that upon engagement of the locking cams in the secondary locking recesses, clamping of the locking cams is possible
  • Fig. 1 is an isometric view of an inventive
  • FIG. 2 shows the contact element shown in FIG. 1 in an isometric view from another viewing direction;
  • Fig. 3 is an isometric view of a connector according to the invention prior to assembly of the contact elements
  • FIG. 4 is an isometric view of a connector according to the invention after assembly of the contact elements.
  • Fig. 5 is an isometric sectional view for explaining the mounting of a contact element in a connector housing
  • Fig. 6 is an isometric sectional view of an inventive
  • a designated as a whole with 100 contact element has a
  • the contact area 110 consists essentially of a U-shaped bent bracket 11, at which, in the plug-in direction R, a tapering, spring-formed and in the direction of the cable end side, that is, in the direction of insertion. of the crimping area 130, facing plug contacts 1 12 are arranged. These plug-in contacts 1 12 arranged on the plug serve to receive a blade contact element 310 (see FIG. 6).
  • the locking area 120 adjoining the contact area 110 has primary locking elements and secondary locking elements.
  • the primary locking elements are two transversely to the direction of insertion R resilient and to a plug center plane E, which extends in the middle between the plug contacts 1 12 vertically from a plug-in base of the bracket 1 13, mirror-symmetrically arranged locking springs 122 which mounted in corresponding recesses 260 in a connector housing in the Engage state and held there by their spring action (see Fig. 1, Fig. 5). These locking springs 122 form the primary lock. This is followed on the crimping area 130 facing side of
  • Locking portion 120 to a secondary lock, which is formed inter alia by secondary locking recesses 124.
  • These Sekundärverriegelungsausappelgeber 124 are arranged mirror-symmetrically to the plane E.
  • the U-bracket 1 1 1 is also rotated by 180 °, so that the base 1 13 viewed in the direction of insertion R is arranged in Fig. 1 instead of the right on the left side.
  • the plug contacts 1 12 are also formed and arranged mirror-symmetrically to the plane E, so that a connection in both rotated by 180 ° positions of the contact element 100 is possible. In both rotated by 180 ° positions of the
  • Crimping range 130 to the locking area 120 and contact area 1 10 axially parallel offset by a distance A.
  • This distance A corresponds essentially to at least the diameter D or the greatest dimension perpendicular to the plug-in direction of a crimp connection in the crimped state (see FIG. 3, FIG. 4).
  • the crimp connection has a known manner Crimping prong 132 for crimping strands and clamping wings 134 for clamping the insulation jacket of a cable (not shown)
  • the clamping wing 134 is followed by a crimp-locking element 136, which has a substantially T-shaped configuration and lies in the plane of the completely flat curved blade 132 or clamping wing 134.
  • the function of this locking element 136 will be described in more detail below.
  • Such contact elements are arranged in a connector, which is designated as a whole by 200. These are in one
  • Connector housing 210 adapted to the contact elements 100
  • Openings 230 are provided which serve to receive and position the contact elements 100 (see FIGS. 3 to 6).
  • the contact elements 100 are pushed into the openings 230 from an end face of the housing 210 and fixed there due to the locking elements, as will be explained in more detail below in connection with FIGS. 5 and 6.
  • the recesses 230 are arranged in the connector housing 210 so that the contact elements 100 are positioned alternately rotated by 180 ° to each other lying side by side. As shown in FIG. 3, such a design allows the arrangement of very close to each other contact areas 1 10 in a row.
  • the crimping regions 130 do not overlap one another but alternately in an alternating manner, wherein the crimping regions 130 may overlap due to the superimposed arrangement and thus allow a tight arrangement of the contact regions 110.
  • the contact elements are superimposed, wherein the contact elements 100 are arranged in superimposed rows each rotated by 180 ° to each other.
  • Locking elements ie primary locking and Secondary locking elements, mirror-symmetrical to the plane E
  • Fig. 5 shows the moment of insertion of a contact element 100 in the connector housing 200.
  • the contact areas 1 10 with each of the two plug contacts 1 12, which are tapered in the insertion direction R and resilient, are pushed up to an opening 270 of the housing 200. Only in the fully inserted state does one of the two locking springs 122 of the primary locking element spring into an opening 260 provided in the housing for this purpose.
  • Locking spring 122 in the opening 260 a In neighboring
  • Fig. 6 shows the connector 200 with mounted contact element 100 in cooperation with another mating connector 300 in isometric section.
  • the further connector 300 has blade contacts 310, of which in Fig. 6, only a single contact can be seen.
  • the blade contact 310 engages the plug contacts 1 12 to produce an electrical contact.
  • it protrudes so deeply into the locking region 120 that the locking springs 122 forming the primary locking element and extending transversely to the plug-in direction R fix a latching position in an opening 260 of the plug connector housing 210.
  • Spring contact element 100 has been inserted, as shown schematically in Fig. 6, is effectively and reliably prevented from disengaging the Locking springs 122, that is, a disengagement of the latching hook of the locking springs 122 can take place from the corresponding openings 260 of the connector housing 210.
  • a disengagement of the latching hook of the locking springs 122 can take place from the corresponding openings 260 of the connector housing 210.
  • the locking springs 122 with their knife contact 310 facing support surfaces 123 on the blade contacts 310 so that in the mated state disengagement of the locking springs 122 is excluded.
  • Secondary locking cam 342 is provided, which in the
  • Secondary locking recesses 124 engage. Again, because of the mirror-symmetrical arrangement of the secondary locking recesses 124, the contact elements 100 can be alternately arranged with respect to the plane E in two different positions rotated by 180 °, one and the same secondary locking element 340 with the secondary locking cams 342 being inserted once into one ( upper) secondary locking recesses 124 and the other time into the other (lower) secondary locking recesses 124, the
  • Connector housing 200 allows in the inserted state.
  • crimp-locking member 136 is provided for the crimp-locking member 136 in the housing, which are adapted to the crimping locking member 136 in such a way that arranged by the arrangement of the lower edge of the crimp Crimp locking member 136 in these recesses 236 a fixation of the crimping portion 130 is realized in the connector housing 200.
  • This fixation prevents vibration is exposed to such a connector, for example in a motor vehicle, that it leads to a disruptive contact corrosion and thus a break in the electrical contact Resistance increase or even a break of the contact element 100 can come.

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  • Details Of Connecting Devices For Male And Female Coupling (AREA)
  • Connector Housings Or Holding Contact Members (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un élément de contact (100) pour un connecteur (200) pourvu de contacts à fiche (112) disposés côté fiche et un raccord à sertir (132, 134) disposée côté raccordement de câble et présentant au moins un élément de verrouillage primaire et au moins un élément de verrouillage secondaire, caractérisé en ce que les contacts à fiche (112) et le raccord à sertir (132, 134) sont décalés les uns par rapport aux autres parallèlement à l'axe et en ce que ledit au moins un élément de verrouillage primaire présente deux ressorts de verrouillage (112) à effet de ressort transversal par rapport au sens de connexion (R) et disposés en symétrie spéculaire par rapport à un plan central de connexion (E) et en ce que ledit au moins un élément de verrouillage secondaire est disposé dans l'élément de contact (100) en symétrie spéculaire par rapport au plan central de connexion (E) et présente au moins un évidement de verrouillage secondaire (124) s'étendant transversalement par rapport au sens de connexion.
EP15757119.1A 2014-08-21 2015-08-12 Élément de contact et connecteur Not-in-force EP3183779B1 (fr)

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DE102014112010 2014-08-21
DE102014118688.5A DE102014118688A1 (de) 2014-08-21 2014-12-15 Kontaktelement und Steckverbinder
PCT/DE2015/100335 WO2016026483A1 (fr) 2014-08-21 2015-08-12 Élément de contact et connecteur

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EP3183779B1 EP3183779B1 (fr) 2018-10-03

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EP (1) EP3183779B1 (fr)
JP (2) JP2017524239A (fr)
KR (1) KR102220023B1 (fr)
CN (1) CN106663890B (fr)
BR (1) BR112017003282A2 (fr)
CA (1) CA2956549C (fr)
DE (1) DE102014118688A1 (fr)
DK (1) DK3183779T3 (fr)
ES (1) ES2704243T3 (fr)
IL (1) IL250403A0 (fr)
MX (1) MX367451B (fr)
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WO (1) WO2016026483A1 (fr)

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IL250403A0 (en) 2017-03-30
ES2704243T3 (es) 2019-03-15
KR20170040359A (ko) 2017-04-12
KR102220023B1 (ko) 2021-02-25
CN106663890B (zh) 2020-02-07
CN106663890A (zh) 2017-05-10
BR112017003282A2 (pt) 2017-11-28
CA2956549C (fr) 2021-03-16
US10044114B2 (en) 2018-08-07
MX2017001182A (es) 2017-03-14
JP3222628U (ja) 2019-08-15
JP2017524239A (ja) 2017-08-24
WO2016026483A1 (fr) 2016-02-25
MX367451B (es) 2019-08-21
CA2956549A1 (fr) 2016-02-25
EP3183779B1 (fr) 2018-10-03
TWI665833B (zh) 2019-07-11
US20170271783A1 (en) 2017-09-21
TW201626649A (zh) 2016-07-16

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