EP1453154B1 - Elektrische Anschlussklemme - Google Patents

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EP1453154B1
EP1453154B1 EP03425135A EP03425135A EP1453154B1 EP 1453154 B1 EP1453154 B1 EP 1453154B1 EP 03425135 A EP03425135 A EP 03425135A EP 03425135 A EP03425135 A EP 03425135A EP 1453154 B1 EP1453154 B1 EP 1453154B1
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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
    • H01R33/00—Coupling devices specially adapted for supporting apparatus and having one part acting as a holder providing support and electrical connection via a counterpart which is structurally associated with the apparatus, e.g. lamp holders; Separate parts thereof
    • H01R33/05—Two-pole devices
    • H01R33/06—Two-pole devices with two current-carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts, having their axes parallel to each other
    • H01R33/09—Two-pole devices with two current-carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts, having their axes parallel to each other for baseless lamp bulb
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V19/00—Fastening of light sources or lamp holders
    • F21V19/0005—Fastening of light sources or lamp holders of sources having contact pins, wires or blades, e.g. pinch sealed lamp

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  • the present invention relates to a low-voltage electric connection terminal and more particularly to a terminal for signal lights of common use mounted on household appliances, electric apparatus, machine-tools and vehicle of every kind.
  • Electric connection terminals for low-voltage users generally comprise a casing for supporting the bulb or other signal lights, externally shaped in a specific manner or provided with appropriate means for insertion in the apparatus to be controlled; this casing generally comprises an outlet connector usually known as female connector which is coupled by forced fitting with a plug connector usually known as male connector, in a fitting direction defined by the sliding surfaces along which mutual contact between said connectors takes place.
  • terminals must substantially meet two main requirements and more specifically great facility in mutual coupling of the connectors and high reliability of said coupling against accidental slipping off of the connectors themselves, in addition to a very low cost.
  • An imperfect coupling of the connectors may in fact cause slipping off of same both during the apparatus mounting step at the factory and subsequently during operation, due to possible vibrations and different movements.
  • a first type of known terminal comprises an outlet connector provided with a lead-in wire that, in addition to a portion for cramping an electric wire, has a pipe-shaped coupling portion, and a plug connector provided with a lead-in wire that, in addition to a portion for cramping the electric wire with which it is to be connected, also has a cylinder-shaped coupling portion.
  • the cylinder portion enters the tubular portion: contact between the inner surface of the tubular portion and the outer surface of the cylindrical portion ensures the electric contact between the two portions and a friction force sufficient for maintenance of the coupling.
  • the problem arises because the friction force opposing slipping off between the two connectors also opposes fitting of same so that coupling becomes hard.
  • Another type of known terminal has an outlet connector comprising a clip consisting of a first flat portion against which a second flat portion elastically acts and a plug connector comprising a cylinder-shaped coupling portion to be fitted in said clip. Insertion of the plug connector into the outlet connector is very easy but the friction force opposing slipping off is very weak and therefore coupling is substantially unreliable.
  • Documents EP0778639 and DE7312874U both disclose an outlet connector which comprises a clip.
  • Document EP0778639 shows a lamp holder according to the preamble of claim 1 with an insulating housing with contacts contained in respective reception chambers, each cooperating with the corresponding lamp contact pin at one side and provided with a screwless clamp terminal for the respective conductor lead at the other side. Each contact has an internal clip for a plug connector.
  • Document DE7312874U discloses a screwless connector or coupling for electric leads, having a clamping spring located in an insulating material housing and retained therein, forming with a contact bridge at least one conductor clamping position, wherein the contact bridge and the clamping spring are substantially flat and are interconnected at a common end region to form a self-supporting unitary structure.
  • the outlet connector has a flattened tubular portion and the plug connector has a laminar portion engaging in the tubular portion over an area thereof substantially corresponding to the surface of the opposite side edges of the laminar portion.
  • the insertion force is weak and therefore the resistance to slipping off is weak as well; for this reason reliability of the coupling does no longer rely on friction between the surfaces in contact with each other but on additional devices which make the terminal structure more complicated and increase cost of the terminal.
  • the terminal contains the male connector that must be coupled with a separated female connector.
  • the mating connectors of the known art when they involve a wide mutual-contact surface to simultaneously ensure the electric contact and the resistance to slipping off, transfer the difficulty of the connectors to slip off to the insertion step as well, thereby increasing the efforts of the operators and reducing the speed in carrying out wiring.
  • they are selected so as to minimize the insertion effort, they offer a low connection reliability or slipping off is therein counteracted by transferring this task from the connectors to other devices, which will give rise to an unacceptable increase in the cost of the terminal.
  • the Applicant has now become aware of the fact that the above problems could be solved by a new way of carrying out insertion and locking of the connector against slipping off and has found a new terminal capable' of operating following the above method, while at the same time ensuring functional qualities, reliability and low cost.
  • the Applicant has perceived that the solution could be found in differentiating the fitting direction from the slipping off direction in the two connectors.
  • the invention relates to a low-voltage electric connection terminal according to the appended device claims.
  • the invention relates to a method of connecting and locking an outlet connector and a plug connector to each other according to the appended method claims.
  • Fig. 1 shows a low-voltage electric connection terminal, in particular for signal lights, which is generally denoted at 1.
  • the terminal comprises a casing 2 at one end of which a signal light not shown is mounted which is selected from those known in the art.
  • an outlet connector 3 is present, which is preferably formed in the body of said casing. In use this outlet connector is coupled with a plug connector 4 so as to establish the electric contact therebetween and give rise to a mechanical coupling adapted to resist a possible tractile effort acting on the connectors and capable of causing mutual separation of the latter.
  • Fig. 1 shows a pair alone of corresponding outlet/plug (female/male) connectors but it is apparent that the terminal will be provided with two pairs of corresponding connectors in order to be able to connect the two conductors coming out of the signal light.
  • one of the conductors could be embodied by the body of the outlet connector thereby avoiding the necessity of a second pair of connectors.
  • the accompanying figures only show a pair of outlet connectors and plug connectors, being easy to apply the teachings relating to this pair to a double pair of connectors.
  • the outlet connector 3 comprises a substantially axial tubular cavity 5 for insertion of the corresponding plug connector 4, which cavity has an axially internal first stretch 6 followed by an axially external second stretch 7.
  • the first stretch 6 has a predetermined maximum width "L" in a plane p-p orthogonal to the axis x-x of said casing; fastened to the inner wall of this first stretch, preferably on the side surface thereof, is an anchoring end portion of a plate-like element 9, the residual laminar portion 9b of which extends lengthwise in the direction of said maximum dimension "L".
  • Said laminar portion 9b has a length greater than width "L”, is elastically movable with respect to the anchoring portion 9a, in the axial plane containing said dimension "L”, is inclined to the second stretch 7 of the cavity and is provided with a through hole 10.
  • the through hole 10 can have any shape but preferably it is in the form of a drop the bulging portion of which faces the anchoring portion 9a of the plate-like element.
  • said drop-shaped hole is produced by joining two circular holes of different diameter with each other, which holes are disposed side by side in the longitudinal direction of the plate-like element, the hole of greater diameter constituting the bulging portion of the through hole 10. Due to its larger length as compared with dimension "L", the laminar portion 9b may bend around the junction line with the anchoring portion 9a, away from the second cavity stretch but it cannot reach the position at which its lying plane is perpendicular to the axis x-x of the cavity. This feature restrains the laminar portion 9a from rotating until going beyond such a position, towards the end of stretch 6 opposite to stretch 7.
  • the second stretch 7 has the outwardly-open end of the connector preferably funnel-like tapered to guide fitting of the plug connector; in the interface plane f-f with the first stretch 6 orthogonal to the axis of said casing, said second stretch has a maximum width "D", in the same direction as said maximum predetermined width "L", preferably smaller than "L".
  • the distance "H" between said interface and the junction line between the anchoring portion of the plate-like element linked to the wall of the first stretch and the free laminar portion is preferably at least as large as the length of said free laminar portion and more preferably larger than this length.
  • the inner wall of the outlet connector has a relief projecting from the side surface of said first and second stretches radially towards axis x-x-.
  • the position of this relief is preferably close to plate-like element 9, in the axial plane containing said dimension "L"; its width, parallel to the cavity wall, in the plane f-f, preferably does not exceed that of the plate-like element 9.
  • the stretches 6 and 7 of the just described outlet connector can have any shape, in particular a flattened tubular or elliptic shape; preferably they are of cylindrical shape. In this case obviously, dimensions "L" and “D” coincide with the diameters of the corresponding stretches.
  • the axis y-y of the second stretch 7 is parallel to, but not coaxial with the axis x-x of the first stretch 6.
  • the corresponding plug connector 4 comprises a portion 12 consisting of the end portion of the conductor to be connected with the signal light for example, from which an elongated prismatic coupling portion 13 axially emerges, which coupling portion when it is in a coupled relationship with the corresponding laminar portion of the outlet connector, passes through the through hole 10.
  • Said elongated prismatic portion comprises a lead-in wire cramped to the end of conductor 12 and having a right section of any convenient shape but preferably of a shape complementary to that of hole 10.
  • the term "complementary" means that the right section of the lead-in wire has a very small play with respect to the right section of the hole so that it can freely run in the hole when the two sections, of the lead-in wire and the hole, lie in substantially parallel planes but the more the lying planes of said sections diverge from each other, the more this sliding is strongly hindered.
  • the lead-in wire 13 preferably has a cylindrical either solid, or alternatively, tubular shape of an outer diameter substantially corresponding to that of the hole portion of greater diameter.
  • conductor 12 is a coaxial conductor having a central core 14 and a coaxial crown 15 electrically insulated from each other.
  • the coaxial crown 15 is protected from the outside in a quite known manner by an insulating and mechanically resistant sheath 4a.
  • the surface of the inner wall of the second stretch 7 is made at least partly conductive and is connected (in a manner not illustrated because it can be easily envisaged by a person skilled in the art) to one of the conductors of the signal light so that the terminal of the invention may comprise a single outlet connector with a single laminar portion, i.e. a single plate-like element 9.
  • the plug connector 12 will have a crown portion 15a of the conductor adjacent to the lead-in wire 13 devoid of the protective coating 4a and therefore electrically connected with said conductive portion of the wall of the second stretch 7.
  • the plug connector 4 provided with the lead-in wire 13 is inserted (Fig. 1) into the opening of the outlet connector 3 and progressively pushed to the inside along axis y-y of the stretch 7 of the outlet connector cavity.
  • the relief 11 interferes with the end of the lead-in wire and modifies the advance direction of same inclining it with respect to the axis of the outlet connector, preferably along dimension "L", in a new direction "i".
  • the value of angle "v" between direction "i” and axis y-y is preferably included between 5° and 15°.
  • the lead-in wire encounters the laminar portion 9b at hole 10, in particular at the portion of smaller diameter, and bends it towards the opposite end of the connector. Insertion in hole 10 is in fact hindered by the interference between the head of the lead-in wire and the hole edge, in particular due to the angle existing between the advance direction of the lead-in wire and the lying plane of the plate-like element measured from angle "w" between direction "i” and direction "L".
  • said bending of the plate-like element promotes insertion of same because it modifies angle "w" between said directions reducing value of same, and shifts the position of hole 10 bringing the portion of greater diameter close to the head of the lead-in wire; in conclusion the lead-in wire, by effect of a thrust of weak value, passes through the hole (Fig. 2) and stops against the inner wall of stretch 6.
  • the electric conduction is ensured by the slightly forced contact between the side surface of the lead-in wire and that of the hole edge, extension of which depends on the plate-like element thickness.
  • angle "w" ranges between 130° and 155°.
  • the lead-in wire 13 moving out of the first stretch 6 bends the plate-like element 9b towards the second stretch 7 modifying value of angle "w" and making it wider.
  • the relief 11 is such shaped that it also enables straightening of the lead-in wire 13 which, as a result, will reduce value of angle "v” between the direction "s" (former "i") and axis y-y.
  • the value of angle "v" between the direction “s" and axis y-y is smaller than 5°.
  • the lead-in wire is forced towards the portion of the hole of smaller diameter (Fig. 3) increasing the value of the interference between its side surface and the hole edge. Slipping off of the lead-in wire from the hole is particularly hindered due to friction produced in two diametrically opposite regions A and B of the lead-in wire, along the direction of the longitudinal extension of the plate-like element generating a torque opposing said slipping off.
  • the invention has many important advantages.
  • Coupling between the connectors is of easy execution and needs a thrust of very reduced value that is not tiresome the operator and enables a quick execution of said coupling.
  • the obtained coupling is very solid and makes slipping off of the coupled connectors substantially impossible; in fact, application of a force tending to separate the connectors gives rise by itself an equal force in the opposite direction counteracting said separation.
  • the terminal being the object of the invention has a very low cost, lower than that of the known terminals having greater reliability, which however have the above mentioned defects.

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  1. Elektrische Anschlussklemme niedriger Spannung, insbesondere für Leuchtsignalgeräte, umfassend:
    einen Steckdosenverbinder (3), der ein Gehäuse (2) mit einer axialen, rohrförmigen Ausnehmung (5) zum Einstecken eines entsprechenden Steckverbinders (4) aufweist, wobei die Ausnehmung einen ersten, axialen inneren Abschnitt (6) und einen zweiten, axialen äußeren Abschnitt (7) umfasst; und ein Lamellenelement (9), das einen Verankerungsteil (9a) und einen lamellenförmigen Teil (9b) umfasst, der gegenüber dem Verankerungsteil (9a) axial beweglich ist;
    einen Steckverbinder (4), der einen prismatischen, verlängerten Kupplungsteil (13) umfasst, wobei die Verbinder (3, 4) gegenseitig durch Einstecken längs einer Einführrichtung ("i") derart gekoppelt werden können, dass der elektrische Kontakt zwischen den Teilen (9b, 13) hergestellt werden kann; dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der lamellenförmige Teil (9b) mit einer Durchgangsbohrung (10) versehen ist, wobei der verlängerte, prismatische Teil (13), im mit dem lamellenförmigen Teil (19b)gekoppelten, Zustand die Durchgangsbohrung (10) durchquert.
  2. Anschlussklemme nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der verlängerte, prismatische Teil (13) im Kupplungszustand mit dem lamellenförmigen Teil (9b) gegenüber der Achse (x-x) des Steckdosenverbinders (3) geneigt ist.
  3. Anschlussklemme nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, der lamellenförmige Teil (9b) und der verlängerte, prismatische Teil (13) im gegenseitigen Kupplungszustand zueinander geneigt sind.
  4. Anschlussklemme nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, der lamellenförmige Teil (9b) und der verlängerte, prismatische Teil (13) längs der Umfangsabwicklung der Durchgangsbohrung (10) in gegenseitigem Kontakt sind.
  5. Anschlussklemme nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, der erste, axiale innere Abschnitt (6) eine vorgegebene Höchstabmessung (L) auf einer zur Achse (x-x) des Gehäuses (2) senkrechten Ebene aufweist und der zweite, axiale äußere Abschnitt (7) eine Abmessung aufweist, die 'kleiner ist, als die vorgegebene Höchstabmessung (L) auf einer zur Achse (x-x) des Gehäuses (2) senkrechten Ebene (f-f) und in derselben Richtung der vorgegebenen Höchstabmessung (L) aufweist; wobei der Verankerungsteil (9a) an der inneren Seitenfläche des ersten Abschnittes (6) verankert ist, wobei der lamellenförmige Teil (9b), der unter Abwicklung in Längsrichtung der vorgegebenen Höchstabmessung (L) eine größere Länge als die Höchstabmessung (L) besitzt, in der axialen, die vorgegebene Abmessung enthaltende Ebene elastisch beweglich und zum zweiten Hohlraumabschnitt (7) geneigt ist.
  6. Anschlussklemme nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Durchgangsbohrung (10) eine Tropfenform besitzt.
  7. Anschlussklemme nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der zweite Abschnitt (7) zur Achse (x-x) des Gehäuses parallel und außerachsig ist.
  8. Verfahren zum Verbinden und miteinander Spannen eines Steckdosenverbinders (3) und eines Steckverbinders (4), wobei diese Verbinder (3, 4) Teil einer elektrischen Anschlussklemme (1) niedriger Spannung bilden, nach Anspruch 1, insbesondere für Leuchtsignalgeräte und die durch Einstecken des Steckverbinders (4) in den Steckdosenverbinder (3) längs einer vorgegebenen Richtung miteinander gekoppelt werden können; längs der das Einstecken erfolgt, indem der Steckverbinder (4) gegen einen elastisch beweglichen Lamellenteil des Steckdosenverbinders (3) gedrückt wird, der das Einführen des Steckverbinders (4) in eine Durchgangsbohrung (10) des Lamellenteils (9b) längs einer Einsteckrichtung ("i") begünstigt, die gegenüber der Achse des Steckdosenverbinders geneigt ist.
  9. Verfahren nach Anspruch 8, bei dem das Spannen zwischen dem Steckdosenverbinder (3) und dem Steckverbinder (4), die miteinander verbunden sind, durchgeführt wird, indem auf den Steckverbinder (4) ein Zug gegenüber der Neigung der Einsteckrichtung ("i") auf der Achse (x-x) des Steckdosenverbinders (3)verschieden geneigten Auszugsrichtung ("s") ausgeübt wird.
  10. Verfahren nach Anspruch 8, bei dem der Neigungswinkel ("v") auf der Achse (x-x) des Steckdosenverbinders (3) der Auszugsrichtung ("s") kleiner ist als der entsprechende Winkel der genannten Einsteckrichtung ("i").
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AT03425135T ATE295621T1 (de) 2003-02-28 2003-02-28 Elektrische anschlussklemme
ES03425135T ES2238670T3 (es) 2003-02-28 2003-02-28 Terminal de conexion electrica.

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