EP0371835B1 - Vorrichtung, die einen elektrischen Steckverbinder bildet - Google Patents

Vorrichtung, die einen elektrischen Steckverbinder bildet Download PDF

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EP0371835B1
EP0371835B1 EP19890402985 EP89402985A EP0371835B1 EP 0371835 B1 EP0371835 B1 EP 0371835B1 EP 19890402985 EP19890402985 EP 19890402985 EP 89402985 A EP89402985 A EP 89402985A EP 0371835 B1 EP0371835 B1 EP 0371835B1
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Jean-Claude Pajot
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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
    • H01R13/62—Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
    • H01R13/629—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances
    • H01R13/631—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances for engagement only
    • H01R13/6315—Additional means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts, e.g. aligning or guiding means, levers, gas pressure electrical locking indicators, manufacturing tolerances for engagement only allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating connection

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  • the present invention relates to an electrical connection device with two plug-in elements one inside the other.
  • the plug-in elements respectively comprise two housings comprising the insertion members constituted for example by contact blades or pins in one of the housings and contact sockets in the other housing in which respectively engage the contact pins during the insertion of the two elements.
  • Centering means are provided to facilitate the insertion of a connector element into the other connector element, such a device is known from US-A-4647 129.
  • the object of the present invention is to eliminate the above drawback by proposing an electrical connection device, of the type comprising two plug-in elements, one inside the other, each comprising a housing comprising the plug-in members, one of the two housings being carried by a support assembly with a certain relative mobility in at least one direction perpendicular to the direction of insertion and the two housings comprising a centering means facilitating their relative positioning at the start of insertion and the housing carried by the support assembly is assembled thereto by guide means extending perpendicular to the direction of plugging in, characterized in that the housing is immobilized relative to the support assembly in a plugging position by at least one relatively flexible fixing member passing through the guide means and allowing said relative mobility when plugging in two boxes.
  • the aforementioned fixing member is a block, preferably rectangular, made of elastic material, for example foam.
  • the aforementioned housing is guided bilaterally by the guide means relative to the support assembly and assembled to the latter with two relatively large clearances respectively in the direction of the aforementioned relative mobility and the guide direction of the housing, these two directions being perpendicular, and the flexible fixing member allows the mobility of the housing relative to the support assembly in these two directions during insertion.
  • each lateral guide means comprises a tongue integral with the aforementioned case engaging in a groove in the whole of the support, two rectangular notches, preferably identical, are produced respectively in the tongue and the groove transversely thereto substantially at their respective median parts and are located opposite in assembled position of the housing, the elastic block being fitted into the housing defined by the two notches facing each other so to be slightly prestressed.
  • the two grooves of the guide means are produced respectively in two parallel longitudinal pieces connected to each other at two of their ends by a transverse intermediate part defining with an end part of the housing in the assembled position, one of the two abovementioned sets.
  • the housing is assembled to the support assembly by the aforementioned guide means with a clearance in the direction of insertion relatively small compared to the two aforementioned clearances and the elastic block also allows slight angular mobility of the housing relative to the support assembly in a plane arranged in the direction of insertion.
  • the electrical connection device 1 comprises two connector elements respectively 2 and 3 which can be plugged into each other.
  • the connector element 2 comprises a housing 4 fixed to a support plate 5 and comprising in its upper part cells 6, only one of which is shown, in which are fixed respectively metal blades or pins of electrical contact 7 s extending in a skirt portion 4a of the housing 4.
  • the metal pins are electrically connected to conductive wires 8 shown partially.
  • the skirt portion 4a has a rectangular cross section and has its extreme internal periphery 4b, defining the inlet opening of the chamfered housing 4.
  • the connector element 3 also comprises a housing 9 which can be embedded in the skirt-forming part 4a and comprising inside of it metallic contact sockets 10 in which the metal pins 7 respectively engage during the insertion of the element 3 into the element 2.
  • the sockets 10 are respectively secured in cells 11 of the housing 3 and are respectively connected to electrical wires 12 shown partially.
  • the housing 9 is carried bilaterally by a support assembly comprising two opposite parallel longitudinal parts 13 and a support plate 14 on which the parts 13 are fixed by means of assembly pins 15 with conical ends each formed by two elastic branches approaching towards each other when introduced into a corresponding hole in the plate 14 and deviating from one another under the plate 14 to lock the part 13 to the plate 14.
  • the assembly of the housing 9 to the support assembly is effected by bilateral guide means comprising two opposite lateral parallel tongues 9a integral with the housing 9 respectively engaging in two corresponding grooves 13a produced respectively in the two parts 13.
  • the housing 9 has its chamfered upper end periphery so as to form with the chamfered part 4b of the skirt part 4a a centering means facilitating the positioning of the housing 9 relative to the housing 4 at the start of the plugging.
  • Each groove 13a is dimensioned relative to the corresponding tongue 9a so as to define a relatively large clearance J1 for assembling the housing 9 to the part 13, this clearance J1 being defined between the free end of the tongue 9a and the bottom of the corresponding groove 13a.
  • the clearance J1 is thus defined in a direction perpendicular to the direction of insertion of the element 3 in the element 2 symbolized by the axis XX '.
  • the tongues 9a respectively comprise two identical rectangular median notches 9b produced symmetrically to the longitudinal axis of the housing 9 and transversely to the tongues 9a.
  • Two other identical rectangular cuts 13b are made respectively in the part of each piece 13 defining the groove 13a and transverse to it.
  • the two notches 13b are produced symmetrically in the vertical median plane of the two parts 13, in the middle of each groove 13a and are identical to the notches 9b.
  • the assembly of the housing 9 to the part 13 is carried out by introducing the tongues 9a respectively in the grooves 13a bilaterally guiding the housing 9 relative to the part 13 and until a notch 9b is located opposite a notch 13b to form a housing in which is introduced a block of elastic material 16, for example in compressible foam immobilizing the housing 9 relative to the part 13.
  • the two parts 13 are connected to each other at two of their ends by an intermediate part 13c perpendicular to the parts 13.
  • Each block 16 is fitted into the housing defined between two notches 9b and 13b so as to be slightly prestressed or compressed therein in the assembled position of the housing 9.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates the case where the central axis of the housing 9 shown in AA ′ is offset, before plugging in, to the right from the axis BB ′ of the housing 4 by a distance for example of 3 millimeters.
  • the chamfered part 4b causes, during the insertion, the displacement in the direction of the arrow F1 of the housing 9 until the two axes AA ′ set BB ′ are coincident, by compressing the block 16 situated to the left of the 'axis BB ′ and expanding the block 16 located to the right of the axis BB ′.
  • the displacement of the housing 9 is thus carried out in this case by reducing the clearance J1 to the left of the direction XX ′ of insertion of FIG. 1.
  • the chamfered part 4b causes a displacement to the right of the housing 9 during insertion by compressing the block 16 on the right and relaxing the block 16 on the left, thus reducing the clearance J′1 located to the right of the axis XX ′ Of FIG. 1.
  • the chamfered part 4b causes the displacement of the housing 9 along the arrow F2 or F3 to respectively widen the clearance J2 or decrease this clearance, the two blocks 16 being compressed in shear in the direction F2 or F3.
  • a relatively small clearance J3 with respect to the clearances J1 and J2 can be defined between a lateral face of the groove 13a and the face opposite the corresponding tongue 9a, in the insertion direction XX ′ so as to also allow slight angular mobility of the housing relative to the parts 13.
  • the box 9 is placed, before plugging in, in the middle position relative to the support 13, 14, which optimizes the relative positioning of the two boxes 9, 4 at the time of their approach, by automatic mounting means in particular.
  • the device according to the invention therefore mainly allows automatic electrical connection and "blind” of the two connector elements 2 and 3. It also allows electrical disconnection "blind” without passing through the usual electrical harness and allows a relatively offset important of the two connector elements before plugging in, such an offset may also be diagonal. Finally, the device of the invention is easy to assemble and the elastic blocks act as anti-noise elements after fitting the connector elements.

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  1. Elektrische Anschlussvorrichtung (1) der zwei ineinander einsteckbare Verbindungselemente (2, 3) aufweisenden Gattung, die jeweils ein Steckglieder aufweisendes Gehäuse (4, 9) aufweisen, wobei das eine (9) der beiden Gehäusen mit einer gewissen, wenigstens in einer zur Einsteckrichtung senkrechten Richtung relativen Beweglichkeit durch eine Trägereinheit (13, 14) getragen wird und die beiden Gehäusen (4, 9) ein das relative Positionieren am Anfang des Einsteckens eines Verbindungselementes in das andere Verbindungselement erleichterndes Zentriermittel aufweisen, das Gehäuse (9) mit der Trägereinheit (13, 14) durch senkrecht zu der Einsteckrichtung der beiden Gehäusen verlaufende Führungsmittel (9a, 13a) zusammengebaut wird, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Gehäuse (9) im Verhältnis zu der Trägereinheit (13, 14) in einer Einsteckstellung durch wenigstens ein die Führungsmittel (9a, 13a) durchsetzendes und die besagte relative Beweglichkeit, während des Einsteckens der beiden Gehäusen (9, 4) gestattendes verhältnismässig biegsames Befestigungsglied (16) unbeweglich gehalten wird.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das vorgenannte Befestigungsglied (16) ein Block aus elastischem Werkstoff, z.B. aus Schaum ist.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Gehäuse (9) in Bezug auf die Trägereinheit (13, 14) einseitig durch die Führungsmittel (9a, 13a) geführt und mit dieser mit zwei verhältnismässig bedeutenden Spielen (J1, J2) jeweils in der vorgenannten Richtung der relativen Beweglichkeit und in der Führungsrichtung des Gehäuses (9) zusammengebaut ist, wobei diese beiden Richtungen senkrecht zu einander sind und dass das nachgiebige Befestigungsglied (16) die Beweglichkeit des Gehäuses (9) in Bezug auf die Trägereinheit (13, 14) in diesen beiden Richtungen während des Einsteckens der beiden Gehäusen (4, 9) gestattet.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 2 oder 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass jedes vorgenannte seitliche Führungsmittel eine in eine Nut (13a) der vorgenannten Trägereinheit eingreifende, mit dem Gehäuse (9) fest verbundene Zunge (9a) aufweist, dass zwei vorzugsweise gleichartige rechteckige Einschnitte (9b, 13b) jeweils durch die Zunge (9a) und durch die Nut (13a) hindurch, quer zu diesen, etwa im Bereich ihrer jeweiligen mittleren Teilen gebildet sind und sich einander gegenüber in der zusammengebauten Stellung des Gehäuses (9) befinden und dass der elastische Block (16) in die durch die beiden einander gegenüberliegenden Einschnitte (9b, 13b) bestimmte Aufnahme derart eingesteckt ist, dass er dort leicht vorgespannt wird.
  5. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die beiden Nuten (13a) des Führungsmittels jeweils in zwei parallelen Längsstücken (13) gebildet sind, welche miteinander an zweier ihrer Enden durch ein mit einem Endteil des Gehäuses (9) das eine der beiden vorgenannten Spiele bestimendes Zwischenquerstück (13c) verbunden sind.
  6. Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 2 bis 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Gehäuse (9) mit der Trägereinheit (13, 14) durch die Führungsmittel (9a, 13a) mit einem in Bezug auf die beiden vorgenannten Spiele (J1, J2) verhältnismässig schwachem Spiel (J3) in der Einsteckrichtung zusammengebaut ist und der elastische Block (16) ebenfalls eine leichte Winkelbewegbarkeit des Gehäuses (9) in Bezug auf die Trägereinheit (13, 14) gestattet.
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