EP1091457A2 - Elément et système de connection électrique - Google Patents

Elément et système de connection électrique Download PDF

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EP1091457A2
EP1091457A2 EP00120996A EP00120996A EP1091457A2 EP 1091457 A2 EP1091457 A2 EP 1091457A2 EP 00120996 A EP00120996 A EP 00120996A EP 00120996 A EP00120996 A EP 00120996A EP 1091457 A2 EP1091457 A2 EP 1091457A2
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Rudolf Fekonja
Maximilian Groebmair
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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
    • H01R13/46—Bases; Cases
    • H01R13/52—Dustproof, splashproof, drip-proof, waterproof, or flameproof cases
    • H01R13/5219—Sealing means between coupling parts, e.g. interfacial seal
    • 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
    • H01R13/025—Contact members formed by the conductors of a cable end
    • 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
    • H01R13/112—Resilient sockets forked sockets having two legs
    • 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
    • H01R13/405—Securing in non-demountable manner, e.g. moulding, riveting
    • 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
    • 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
    • H01R13/62—Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
    • H01R13/627—Snap or like fastening
    • H01R13/6271—Latching means integral with the housing
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S439/00—Electrical connectors
    • Y10S439/93—Coupling part wherein contact is comprised of a wire or brush

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  • the invention relates to an electrical connector element and system according to the preamble of claims 1 and 6 respectively.
  • a conventional electrical connector element is stripped to the Usually attached a separate contact part at the end of an electrical line, with which a connection to a contact point of a complementary Connector element can be made.
  • a connection to a contact point of a complementary Connector element can be made.
  • This conventional connector design creates additional costs for the manufacture and the addition of a separate contact part to the cable end. Moreover the additional contact parts lead to a weight gain of the whole Connector.
  • a Receiving part has a connector slot with rebounding contact lugs.
  • On associated plug part has a plug web with a hole through which a wire serving as a contact part of a cable is used.
  • the object of the present invention is an electrical connector element and system to develop such that a simple and inexpensive Possibility of a reliable electrical connection of an electrical cable is also possible in areas where vibrations and oscillations occur.
  • a key concept of the invention is the stripped ends of the wires of a cable, which are held in a housing, directly and themselves as contact elements to use. These wires come directly into the system to associated contact elements of a complementary connector element. This measure allows a separate one to be attached to the wire Contact part is omitted. This means that not only the manufacture of such a contact part, but also on the process step of arranging such a separate one Contact part to be dispensed with one line end.
  • the ends of the wires are received or embedded in the housing in such a way to when connected to the complementary connector element a motionless connection between the ends of the wires and the associated To allow contact elements of a complementary connector element.
  • the connection is also gas-tight.
  • the ends of the wires can be on the one hand on an inner housing part and on the other hand on the associated contact elements of the complementary connector element issue.
  • the ends of the wires are on the one hand and the associated contact elements on the other hand when merging of the electrical connector element with its complementary Element pressed together, so that it is not only a gas-free, but too a motion-free electrical connection between the electrically conductive Elements of the two connector elements comes.
  • the functional reliability the plug connection is thus also guaranteed in such application areas, where oscillations, vibrations or other on the electrical connection acting forces occur.
  • the housing with the stripped ends of the wires is designed such that an essentially friction and insertion force-free contact when joining is possible with the complementary connector element.
  • This measure serves in particular to prevent surface damage when merging to avoid the two conductive parts serving as contact elements.
  • a surface treatment with a friction-resistant material, such as gold, is made.
  • the housing be that the ends of the wires and the contact elements are in the first step of the merge do not touch.
  • the two housings should match the associated ends of the wires and the contact elements by a further relative movement of the housing with one another sliding friction and end positions are brought into contact with each other.
  • the further relative movement can be a pivoting, a twisting, include a tilt or a combination of these movements.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention is characterized in that the ends of the wires are shaped and / or surface treated.
  • the ends of the wires are shaped and / or surface treated.
  • the ends of the wires are shaped and / or surface treated.
  • the surface treatment also serves to protect the cable ends.
  • the ends of the cores can be treated in a formal manner. For example they can be bent or deformed in any other way become. On the one hand, this allows larger contact areas between the ends the wires and the contact elements of the complementary connector element create. On the other hand, it is possible to find optimal shapes for merging of the electrical connector element according to the invention on the one hand and the complementary connector element on the other hand.
  • the two types of treatment mentioned above can also be combined. For example, the ends of the wires can be tinned and subsequently tinned or be deformed.
  • the housing is molded onto the cable or cast and preferably consists of a plastic material.
  • housings can be constructed like this be that the two housings of the connector elements by a Relative rotation can be associated with each other. Alternatively, the the two housings are first joined together by a linear displacement and then brought into an end position by a mutual pivoting movement according to the contacts of the electrical connector elements come to rest on each other. It is essential to the invention that the ends of the Veins directly as contact elements for direct contact with assigned contact elements serve the complementary connector element.
  • the complementary connector element can also in the invention Be wise, i.e. the contact elements are through the veins self-educated.
  • FIG. 1 shows a longitudinal section in FIG by an electrical plug connection with a plug connection element according to the invention and Fig. 2 shows a conventional electrical connector.
  • a conventional electrical connector as shown in Fig. 2, comprises two connector elements 60 and 70 which are joined together are.
  • the connector element 60 comprises a cylindrical housing 62, which is approximately U-shaped in cross section. Coaxial in the housing 62 a contact pin 64 is received, which projects into a cavity.
  • the housing In the present case, 62 is an element of a device, not shown, and on this attached.
  • the contact pin 64 extends into the device itself and provides one electrical connection to another electrical conductor.
  • a housing 72 of the second electrical connector element 70 is complementary formed to the housing 62 and can be moved in or on this become.
  • the electrical connector 70 includes next to the housing 72 a line 74 with an electrical wire. The end of this line 74 is stripped, and a separate contact part 76 is attached to it.
  • the separate contact part is made entirely of metal and has a mouth-like shape at its front end Opening 78, into which the contact pin 64 when joining the two housings 62 and 72 are pushed in to form an electrical connection can. When the contact pin 64 is pushed into the mouth-like opening 78 it is pushed apart slightly.
  • FIG. 1 of an electrical connector now advantageously avoids the separate contact part 76 of a conventional one 2.
  • the electrical connection shown in FIG. 1 Plug connector element 10 should correspond to that with reference number 60 from FIG. 2.
  • a housing 12 attached to a device is essentially U-shaped cross section is provided, in which a contact pin 14 is added is.
  • This connector element 20 includes a cable which is inserted into a housing 22 and is enclosed by this.
  • the housing 22 is in particular molded onto the cable and is made of plastic.
  • One stripped end of the cable, which releases the wire 26, is tinned on the one hand, on the other hand, it is deformed in such a way that the largest possible contact surface with the contact pin 14 of the complementary connector element can be formed.
  • a recess 23 is provided in the housing 22, into which the contact pin 14 moved when merging the two housings 22 and 12 becomes.
  • the end of the wire 26 is now arranged in the housing such that it is on the one hand abuts a housing inner wall 21, on the other hand from the recess 23 is accessible.
  • the two housings 22 and 12 are designed to be complementary to one another, that they can be positively shifted into one another, to the extent that until the contact pin 14 makes a significant contact with the end 28 of the wire 26 reached.
  • FIG. 1 - An alternative embodiment of the invention - not shown in Fig. 1 - is characterized in that the housing to be connected - that is Coupling - are designed so that when the housing is brought together the end 28 the wire 26 does not come into contact with the contact pin 14. Only through one Relative movement (pivoting, twisting) after the essentially complete Merging the two housing parts 12 and 22 are the ends 28 of the wires 16 brought into contact with one another without sliding. With this approach Avoid damage to the conductor surfaces caused by friction.
  • the invention can also be applied to connecting elements with a large number of Veins are used. Is present in Fig. 1 for clarity only an electrical connection is shown. Otherwise, the design of the Housing in the design area of a designer and can be of use case be determined.

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  • Details Of Connecting Devices For Male And Female Coupling (AREA)
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  • Coupling Device And Connection With Printed Circuit (AREA)
  • Connector Housings Or Holding Contact Members (AREA)
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