CA2189473A1 - Earthing contact - Google Patents

Earthing contact

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CA2189473A1
CA2189473A1 CA002189473A CA2189473A CA2189473A1 CA 2189473 A1 CA2189473 A1 CA 2189473A1 CA 002189473 A CA002189473 A CA 002189473A CA 2189473 A CA2189473 A CA 2189473A CA 2189473 A1 CA2189473 A1 CA 2189473A1
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mains
socket
machine
plug
earthing
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Volker Tornow
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/648Protective earth or shield arrangements on coupling devices, e.g. anti-static shielding  
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H05ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05FSTATIC ELECTRICITY; NATURALLY-OCCURRING ELECTRICITY
    • H05F3/00Carrying-off electrostatic charges
    • H05F3/02Carrying-off electrostatic charges by means of earthing connections
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R13/00Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00
    • H01R13/648Protective earth or shield arrangements on coupling devices, e.g. anti-static shielding  
    • H01R13/652Protective earth or shield arrangements on coupling devices, e.g. anti-static shielding   with earth pin, blade or socket
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R2103/00Two poles
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01RELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R24/00Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure
    • H01R24/28Coupling parts carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts and secured only to wire or cable
    • H01R24/30Coupling parts carrying pins, blades or analogous contacts and secured only to wire or cable with additional earth or shield contacts

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Abstract

An improved earthing connector, especially for earthing components or devices, e.g. screen filters in particular, for display screen work stations, are distinguished in that the earthing connector (15) is electrically connected to an earth conductor in a contact (I) and is in contact with a corresponding contact body (3) or is connected to the earth conductor in the contact body (3) via a separate earthing cable (25).

Description

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Ear thing contac t The invention relates to an earthing contact, in particular for 8creen filters, keyboard hand-rests and 5 the like, according to the preamble of Claim l.
80-aalled screen filters are oten fitted on the front end of ~ monitor not only to improve the picture display on a monitor but al~o, above all, to shield the electromagnetic radiation issuing from the monitor. This 10 is particularly ~dvisable especially where the monitors were manufactured les3 recently.
Fur~h~ ~~e, it is also known in principle that, for example, the keyboard~ and/or the hand-rests which may or may not be used can, under certain circumstances, 15 become statically charged.
For this reason, anti~tatic armrests, ball of the thumb rests, keyboards or generally antistatic supports, too, are also known. These can be at least surface-conductive, but as a rule preferably volume-conductive.
20 Volume-conductive meana that the material a8 a whole i9 conductive, rather than just its surface.
~ Iowever, in order to achieve the co~le~ ding effect, it is necessary to earth these at least surface-conductive and preferably volume-conductive rests or 25 supports, including, for example, the screen filter which can be mounted in front of or on the front end of a monitor .
For this purpose, the correaponding mounted devices are provided with an earthlng cable on which, as 30 a rule, a term;n~l is fltted by which the cable can be clamped to a sultable earthed object, such as, for ~xample, a heating .~lement cr radiator, a ve~tilation filter of the computer, etc. Examples of earthing are disclo8ed, inter alia, in US-A-4 717 3~9, DE-U-8B 09 799 AMEllDED E;URI~'r 2 ~ 89~73 and G}3-A-88 64 64.
The object o~ the pre3ent invention, by contrast, i~3 to provide an improved earthing exclusion [sic]
possibility for 8uch mounted parts to be earthed, in 5 particular in the field of computers.
The ob~ect is achieved according to the invention by the features specified in Claim 1. Advantageous refinements of the invention are ~pecified in the ~aubclaim3 .
10 The preaent invention use~ extremely simple technical measure# to provide for the fir~t time an ;, .,v~ - t having optimum suitability for such purposes.
8pecifically, it iB provided according to the invention that the earthing connection is formed on a plug contact it~elf or is connected to a lead which leads to a plug contact, the mains plug or the mains aocket of a mains cable serving as plug contact. A~ a rule, such mains cables are nowadays provided with a machine connector, that is to Elay a machine E~ocket, which can be plugged to or onto a monitor-~ide machine plug connection. In other words, the earthing connection according to the invention can bc formed on this cable-~aide machine plug or on this machine Elocket or can be provided on a cable which leadn to the machine plug or to the machine socket.
In a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, however, the earthing connection is formed on an intermediate plug or contact connector. 8uch a compact int~ te element, which is also referred to below as nn int~ te plug contact, COnE~il3ts of a machine plug and a machine ~ocket formed at the opposite end. The machine socket is plugged, for example, into the corre-apondlng monitor plug connection. The machine socket of the monitor mains cable can then be plugged in on the freely acces~ible machine plug. Tho earthing connectlon iE~ then provided on thiE~ int{~ te plug contact, conceived a~ a separate component, or on a cable connec-tion issuing from the intermediate plug contact.
The earthing contact on the plug contact can have AN~lDl~D Sm; l~T
- 3 _ ;~ 1 ~9473 various designs, namely in the form of a lead clip or a ~ack socket or a ~ack connector socket.
Further advantagea, detaila and features of the invention emerge below from the exemplary ' o~l~ t~
5 illustrated using drawings, in which, in detail:
Figure 1: showa a diagrammatic, perspective illustration o~ an inventive plug contact with integrated earthing connection;
Figure 2: shows a perspeotive illu~tration to the rear with respect to Figure l;
Figure 3: shows a modified exemplary embodiment with an earthing connection in the form of jack sockets; and Figure 4: shows a view to the rear with respect to Figure 3.
- Figures 1 and 2 show a diagrammatic, perspective illustration o~ a ~lrst exemplary embodiment. The exem-plary embodiment shows a contact in the ~orm of a plug contact connector 1 which is formed after the manner o~
20 an intermediate element and has a plug contact body 3 in the Eorm of an insulator, generally consisting of plastic .
One end of the contact 1, also referred to below as a plug contact, ia designed as a machine socket 5. In 25 accordanoe with the DIN and VDE standarda, in this case three electrical plug contact socket elements 7 are provided at the end, as in the case of mains connection machine sockets of this type, too, the phase conductor, for example, ~eing connected to the Eirst plug oontact or 30 socket element 7a, the neutral conduotor being connected to the second, outer plug contact sooket element 7b, situated opposite, and the earth conductor 7c being connected to the middle plug contact socket element, which is in a plane situated higher than the two 35 a~orementioned plug contact socket elements.
On the opposite end to the machine socket 5, a machine plug 9 which corresponds to the customary stan-dards and has three COl :D~ ding plug contact plug AI~NDl~D S~I~T
, _ . _ . . . . . . _ . . .

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elementa lla to llc, which again aerve to connect the phaae conductor, the neutral conductor and the e~rth conductor, ia provided on the plug contact body 3.
Fur~hO, e, in the ~ 1A~Y embodiment ahown, 5 an earthing connection 15 iB provided in the middle region of the plug contact body 3. The earthing connec-tion 15 iaO integrated, preferably caat in an inaulating manner, in the plug contact body 3 and ia electrically connected to the earth conductor.
In the exemplary embodimenta according to Figures 1 and 2, the earthing connQCtion 15 ia configured a~ter the manner of a connection clip 15a.
In uae, for example, a customary maina cable of a monitor cable ia not connected directly to the monitor 15 but rather with the interpoaition of the plug oontact 1 illuatrated in Figurea 1 and 2. In other words, for example, the end connection part of the plug contact which forma the machine aocket 5 ia plugged in and connected to the COL~ OO~u~,ding connection of the monitor, 20 in order then to plug the monitor maina cable, that ia to say the machine plug, into the machine plug 9 formod on the plug contact 1.
In order now to earth, for example, a acreen ~ilter fitted to the front of the monitor, Ormresta or 25 ball reats or Ontiatatic aupports, the connection wirea provided on these aupplementary devicea are connected to the connection clip 15a. These mounted devices are in thia caae generally provided with a cvLL6ol~vllding earth-ing cable, at whose end there ia fitted a terminal whlch 30 can be spread counter to a spring force and can be placed and clamped onto the connection clip 15a.
There ia enough apace on the connection clip 15a alao to be able to mount a plurality of auch aupplemen-tary componenta. To differ from the exemplary eInbodiment 35 ahown, the clip enda or cclumns 16 of the connection clip 15a could alao run on the aide walls 18 of the plug cont~ct body 3, preferably ot a diO-tance from the aide wall 18, and be guided into the interior of the plug AM~DED ~;IIEET

_ 5 _ 2 ~ ~9~73 contact body in the central region of these side walla 18, for example, by which mean3 they are held on the plug contact body 3 and, integrated in this body, are connec-ted to the earth conductor. Thi3 re3ult3 in an even 5 greater overall length of the connection clip 15a for fa3tening even further additional ~Prm;n~l~
In the exemplary embodiment ahown ln Figure3 3 and 4, connection aocket3 15b are used a3 the earthing connection 15 in3tead of the connection clip 15a. Each 10 connection 30cket 15b is appropriately fitted, preferably ca3t, into the plug contact body 3. In the exemplary embodiment3 ahown, three connection socketa 15b are arranged 3uch that they are 3eated next to one another, with the re3ult that, for example, three mounted part~ to 15 be earthed can be earthed, for example, without diffi-culty via corre3ponding banana pluga or jack connectors.
FurthP Le, the plug contact or plug contact intermediate body described using the ~ ry embodi-ments can al30 have a plurality of the different earthing connection3 15a and 15b (illu3trated in Figures 1 to 4~
to3ether, that i3 to 3ay, ~or example, one or more connection clip3 15a and in addition one or more connection socket [3ic] 15b.
To differ from the exemplary embodiment shown, it is also possible to use, rather than the integral plug contact 1, a aeparate machine socket 5 and a machine plug 19 separate therefrom, which are connected to one another at lea3t via a 3hort correapondingly multicore cable. The earthing aonnection 15 can in thi8 case be provided 3 0 either integrated on the machine 30cket 5 or on the machine plug 9 or iaauing from a aeparate cable there-from. Preferably, however, the earthing connection i3 formed on the machine socket 5 which is visible at the front end in Figure 1, since the machine 3ccket is plu~d~ed, for example, onto the rear end of a monitor, in other worda tho possibility for connecting the mounted part to be earthed i8 provided directly at thia point.
Only for the 3ake of completeness, it ia also AI~ED S~IEET

mentioned that a cu~tomary mains cable, which i~ plugged in, on the one hand, at a main~ socket for the power Elupply and, on the other hand, a~ a rule at the rear end of the monitor, can alE;o be provided with the earthing 5 connection 15 according to the invention. In thia ca~e, the earthing connection 15, which can bc r~ i~ed in the different variants explained above, i~ once again prefer-ably provided on the machine ~ocket 5, which can be plugged in at the monitor, at the end of the monitor 10 main~ cable.

AI~IDl~D S~13:~

Claims (5)

Claims:
1. Mains plug and/or socket having an earthing connection for earthing mounted parts or devices used, in particular, for VDU-based workstations in the field of computers, such as, in particular, screen filters, antistatic armrests or ball rests, keyboards, for which purpose the earthing connection (15) makes electrical contact with an earth conductor running in the mains plug and/or in the mains socket, characterized in that the mains plug and/or the mains socket consists of a machine mains plug and/or a machine mains socket, which are to be plugged onto the devices, and in that the earthing connection (15) consists of an electrically conductive connection clip (15a) fitted on the machine mains plug (9) or the machine mains socket (5), and/or of at least one connection socket (15b) integrated in the body of the machine mains plug (9) and/or of the machine mains socket (5).
2. Mains plug and/or socket according to Claim 1, characterized in that the machine mains plug (9) and the machine mains socket (5) consist of a joint contact connector, which can be handled in one piece, one end of which is designed as the machine mains plug (9) and the opposite end of which is designed as the machine mains socket (5).
3. Mains plug and/or socket according to Claim 1, characterized in that the mains plug (9) and the mains socket (5) are connected to opposite ends of an at least short piece of electrical cable, and in that at least either the mains plug (9) or the mains socket (5) is or are designed as the machine mains plug (9) and/or as the machine mains socket (5).
4. Mains plug and/or socket according to one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the connection clip (15a) is oriented transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the machine mains plug (9) and/or of the machine mains socket (5).
5. Mains plug and/or socket according to Claim 4, characterized in that the connection clip (15a) projects beyond the width of the body (3) of the machine mains plug (9) and/or of the machine mains socket (5).
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DEP4415910.2 1994-05-05
DE19944415910 DE4415910A1 (en) 1994-05-05 1994-05-05 Earth connection contact

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