EP0202564B1 - Dispositif de contact électrique - Google Patents

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EP0202564B1
EP0202564B1 EP86106394A EP86106394A EP0202564B1 EP 0202564 B1 EP0202564 B1 EP 0202564B1 EP 86106394 A EP86106394 A EP 86106394A EP 86106394 A EP86106394 A EP 86106394A EP 0202564 B1 EP0202564 B1 EP 0202564B1
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Rudolf Neidecker
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Staeubli Electrical Connectors AG
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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
    • H01R13/02—Contact members
    • H01R13/15—Pins, blades or sockets having separate spring member for producing or increasing contact pressure
    • H01R13/187—Pins, blades or sockets having separate spring member for producing or increasing contact pressure with spring member in the socket
    • 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
    • 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
    • H01R13/111—Resilient sockets co-operating with pins having a circular transverse section

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  • the invention relates to a sleeve-shaped lamella body according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Lamellar bodies of this type are widely used in sockets or on plugs and are e.g. known from DE-PS 25 27 681, DE-AS 14 65 090 or FR-A-2 427 703.
  • the slat body is there by a - e.g. Cylindrical curved or rolled - resiliently flexible band made of electrically conductive material or with a reinforcement made of such material.
  • the web-shaped band sections remaining between the slots form the contact lamellae which protrude in an arc from the band plane or from the cylinder surface and which are electrically connected in their apex region with one contact body and at their end regions on both sides or at the edge zones of the lamellar body running there conductive pressure contact and should ensure safe contact with low electrical transition resistance.
  • a contact force F in the apex area causes a pair of reaction contact forces F / 2 at the two associated contact points of the edge zones.
  • the invention seeks to remedy this.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to uniform the stress on the contact surfaces and thus to reduce the surface abrasion when plugging and unplugging the contact device or of sockets and plugs.
  • This object is achieved according to the invention by a lamellar body with the features specified in claim 1.
  • the lamellar body 1 shown in Fig. 1 is made of an electrically highly conductive material, which must also have good spring properties.
  • a Cu / Be alloy could be selected as the material.
  • the lamellar body 1 made of spring steel and electrically with it in the area of the contact surfaces to plate highly conductive materials.
  • the lamella body 1 has a plurality of lamellae 7a-7f lying next to one another and separated from one another by slots 8a-8e, the width of the latter approximately corresponding to that of the slots 8a-8e.
  • the strip material for producing the lamellar body 1 can in principle have any dimensions, thicknesses and shapes. In a known manner, these parameters will depend on the specified dimension of the contact device and on the underlying electrical characteristic values.
  • the lamellae 7a-7f are curved and mechanically held together at their ends by edge strips 4,5.
  • the height of the curvature H of the slats 7a-7f designed according to the leaf spring principle is not dependent on the mutual spacing of the slats 7a-7f along the band defined by the width of the slots 8a-8e. This means that it is possible to bridge larger tolerances between two contact surfaces of contact bodies that are to be electrically connected to one another by appropriately selecting the height of the curvature H, without the number of lamellae 7a-7f having to be reduced. This is advantageous in that it fully maintains the high current carrying capacity.
  • the lamellae 7a-7f have sections 6 curved in their end regions in the opposite direction to the arch-shaped central region.
  • the edge strips 4, 5 are then at such an angle to the slats 7a-7f arranged such that they lie flat on the contact surface of the one contact body, not shown.
  • the contact points between the other contact body, also not shown, and the lamellae 7a-7f are located in the middle of the arcuate region of these lamellae.
  • a contact force F presses there, while the reaction forces F / 2 act on the left and right edge strips 4, 5. Because the slits 8a-8e extend beyond the curved section 6 to the edge strips 4, 5, the inherent stiffness in this section is overcome, so that the contact points in the plane of the reaction forces F / 2 have defined values whose Repeatability is guaranteed with every mating process. In this way, each lamella 7a-7f is assigned locally and in terms of value clearly defined contact points, both in the plane of the contact force F and where the reaction forces F / 2 act.
  • Each lamella 7a-7f namely forms an autonomous current bridge with uniform electrical characteristic numbers, as a result of which the contact resistance of the contact device as a whole can be considerably reduced.
  • the edge strips 4, 5 can be provided with recesses 12, which each extend from the outer edges thereof into the curved section 6 of a lamella 7a-7f (cf. reference number 12a in FIG. 1). However, it is also conceivable that these recesses 12 each merely extend in the direction of the curved section 6 of a lamella 7a-7f, but not into it (see reference number 12b in FIG. 1). With these measures it is achieved that said contact points can also lie in the area of the edge strips 4, 5.
  • the slats 7a-7f are further designed as spatial curves, the shape of which is determined by the curved punching of the slots 8a-8e. The consequence of this is that each contact point in each case moves along the associated lamella 7a-7f and the corresponding contact surface of the contact body during the plugging process. Due to the curved lines of the slats 7a-7f and the slots 8a-8e, a kind of screw or winch effect is also obtained during the plugging process, which causes the sleeve-like slat body 1 to be inserted more easily into the plug holder. In this way it is avoided that the contact points of the lamellae 7a-7f always have the same contact lines on the counter-contact surface touch. The full extent of the mating contact surface is thus used, with the result that the surface abrasion responsible for oxidation and overheating of the entire contact is minimized.
  • the lamellar bodies shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 are similar to those according to FIG. 1.
  • Their edge strips 4, 5 have recesses 12 in the form of slots 9 (FIG. 2) or a trapezoidal toothing 10 (FIG. 3).
  • FIG. 2 The edge strips 4, 5 have recesses 12 in the form of slots 9 (FIG. 2) or a trapezoidal toothing 10 (FIG. 3).
  • the recesses 12 can also have different geometric shapes than those just mentioned.

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  • Coupling Device And Connection With Printed Circuit (AREA)
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  • Electrical Discharge Machining, Electrochemical Machining, And Combined Machining (AREA)
  • Sink And Installation For Waste Water (AREA)
  • Connector Housings Or Holding Contact Members (AREA)

Claims (5)

  1. Corps à lamelles (1) en forme de douille, destiné à réaliser une liaison électrique ente deux corps de contact d'un dispositif de contact électrique et présentant deux bandes marginales (4,5) annulaires, disposées sur une surface cylindrique, et une multiplicité de lamelles oblongues (7a-7f), qui sont séparées les unes des autres par des fentes (8a-8e), relient l'une à l'autre les bandes marginales et sont, au moins dans leur région centrale, courbées en arc hors de la surface cylindrique des bandes marginales,
    caractérisé en ce que les lamelles s'étendent, auf moins dans une région, sous un angle oblique par rapport aux bandes marginales, de sorte qu'elles ne commencent et se terminent pas exactement en vis-à-vis sur les bandes marginales.
  2. Corps à lamelles selon la revendication 1, caracterisé en ce que les lamelles, de largeur constante, ont la forme d'une courbe tridimensionelle.
  3. Corps à lamelles selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caracterisé en ce que les lamelles présentent, dans leur régions terminales, une partie (6) courbée à contresens de leur région centrale en arc et en ce que les fentes entre les lamelles s'étendent, au-delà de cette partie, jusque dans les bandes marginales.
  4. Corps à lamelles selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les bords extérieurs des bandes marginales sont pourvus d'une multiplicité d'évidements (12) sous la forme de fentes (9) ou d'une denture (10).
  5. Corps à lamelles selon la revendication 3 ou 4, caractérisé en ce que des évidements (12a) s'étendent jusque dans la partie précitée (6) des lamelles.
EP86106394A 1985-05-20 1986-05-12 Dispositif de contact électrique Expired - Lifetime EP0202564B1 (fr)

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DE19853518030 DE3518030A1 (de) 1985-05-20 1985-05-20 Elektrisch leitfaehige kontaktvorrichtung

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DE3518030C2 (fr) 1987-03-05
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