EP0552741A2 - Elektrischer Kontakt sowie Material und Herstellungsverfahren - Google Patents
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- EP0552741A2 EP0552741A2 EP93100807A EP93100807A EP0552741A2 EP 0552741 A2 EP0552741 A2 EP 0552741A2 EP 93100807 A EP93100807 A EP 93100807A EP 93100807 A EP93100807 A EP 93100807A EP 0552741 A2 EP0552741 A2 EP 0552741A2
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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
- H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
- H01R43/16—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending
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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
- H01R13/04—Pins or blades for co-operation with sockets
- H01R13/05—Resilient pins or blades
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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
- H01R13/03—Contact members characterised by the material, e.g. plating, or coating materials
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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
- H01R13/10—Sockets for co-operation with pins or blades
- H01R13/14—Resiliently-mounted rigid sockets
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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
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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
- H01R13/04—Pins or blades for co-operation with sockets
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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
- H01R4/00—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation
- H01R4/10—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation effected solely by twisting, wrapping, bending, crimping, or other permanent deformation
- H01R4/18—Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation effected solely by twisting, wrapping, bending, crimping, or other permanent deformation by crimping
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- the invention relates to an electrical contact comprising at least one spring portion and at least one deformation portion, as well as material and method for producing the same.
- Electrical contacts mostly have one or several portions that should have as good as possible spring properties, in particular contact spring portions and locking spring portions, as well as portions that should display as good as possible plastic deformation properties for permanently maintaining a deformation, in particular crimping portions, bending portions and folding portions.
- crimping contacts having contact spring portions and locking spring portions as well as crimping portions.
- Such electrical contacts are produced mainly from strip material by stamping, bending and deep drawing in multistage operation tools.
- the strip material used therefor is homogeneous, i.e. it has the same material properties everywhere.
- Conventional strip material for producing such contacts constitutes a compromise between good spring properties for the spring portion and good deformation properties in the deformation portion.
- Such a compromise means that the desired spring properties for the spring portion and the plastic deformability in the deformation portion are not achieved in the desired extent.
- This additional spring component is obtained by means of a back-up spring of stainless steel disposed on the contact body.
- This back-up spring has a contact-force supporting effect and, furthermore, is provided with locking springs for locking the contact in a contact receiving housing.
- an electrical contact which, without using a back-up spring, has both good spring properties in the spring portion and good deformability in the deformation portion.
- a material and a method suitable therefor are to be made available as well.
- This object is met by an electrical contact having a harder or higher temper in the spring portion than in the deformation portion.
- such a contact is produced from a single metal strip having at least two zones of different tempers extending parallel to each other in the longitudinal direction of the strip. For producing such strip material, one starts with a metal strip having the same temper across its entire length and width, this temper being the higher temper desired for the spring portion.
- That zone or zones from which the deformation portions with the softer or lower temper are to be formed during the subsequent production of the electrical contacts is/are thermally stress-relieved by selective heating of the metal strip. This can be effected by selective inductive high-frequency heating, gas flame heating, heating by contact with a heated object, or the like.
- heating of the zones that are to receive a lower temper can be carried out simultaneously with cooling of those zones in which the higher temper is to be maintained and which thus are not to be subjected to thermal stress-relief.
- a specific temper of a metal strip is usually and preferably obtained by cold rolling to a specific extent.
- a specific temper in metal strips is correlated with a specific tensile strength value and a specific hardness value.
- the hardness can be indicated in the form of Vickers hardness.
- Temper classes for strips and sheets of copper and copper alloys are indicated e.g. in DIN (German Industrial Standard) 17670, Part 1, December 1983.
- CuSn4 which is frequently used for electrical contacts
- the temper classes and the related Vickers hardness are indicated on page 8 of said DIN standard.
- the values preferred for the measures according to the invention are in the range from 80 to 90 Vickers hardness for the deformation portion with the lower temper and in the range from 180 to 190 Vickers hardness for the spring portion with the higher temper. According to the afore-mentioned DIN standard, this corresponds, when CuSn4 is used, to material classes F54 and F59 for the spring portion with the higher temper and to material classes F33 and F38 for the deformation portion with the lower temper.
- the measures according to the invention result in electrical contacts having both improved spring properties and improved crimpability.
- the improved spring properties mean that in many cases which so far required a back-up spring such a back-up spring can be dispensed with.
- the measures according to the invention also yield electrical contacts which are sufficiently hard in the spring portion for affording a desirably high spring force for instance for contact springs, and which at the same time are sufficiently soft in the deformation portion for rendering possible softer resilience of the crimping edges of the contact and, thus, an improved electrical and mechanical crimping connection.
- materials can be used that are commonly employed for electrical contacts, namely brass, phosphor bronze and in general all highly conductive copper alloys, i.e. low-alloy copper alloys having a high copper content, e.g. tin bronze such as CuSn4.
- zones of the metal strip according to the invention with a higher temper will be formed into such portions of electrical contacts in which good spring properties are important, such as contact springs, locking springs and the like.
- those portions of electrical contacts will be formed in which good permanent deformability is important, such as crimping portions, transition portions from the contact to the crimping portion, and folding portions.
- Fig. 1 shows a developed view of a flat spring contact 11 designed to cooperate with a flat tab contact, e.g. of the type shown in Fig. 3.
- the flat spring contact 11 comprises a spring portion 13, a crimping portion 15 and a carrier strip 17.
- the crimping portion 13 includes a base portion 19 from which two locking springs 21 are cut out, and two flat contact springs 23 each projecting from said base portion 19.
- the crimping portion 15 comprises a conductor crimping zone 25 and an insulation crimping zone 27.
- the base portion 19 is formed in a box-shaped base by bending, substantially at right angles, along bend lines 29, with a dovetail projection 33 and a dovetail groove 33 retaining the base portion 19 in this box shape.
- the two flat contact springs 23 are located opposite one another and are bent such that they extend from the base obliquely towards each other, contact each other in contact lines 35 and diverge from the contact lines 35 so as to form an insertion funnel for a flat tab contact.
- the locking springs 21 project outwardly from the box-shaped base so that they can lockingly cooperate with locking shoulders in the contact receiving cavity of a connector housing, not shown.
- the conductor crimping zone 25 and the insulation crimping zone 27, in the finished flat spring contact 11, are bent in the manner of a V with rounded tip such that they can be crimped in known manner to a stripped conductor and to insulation surrounding the conductor, respectively.
- the carrier strip 17 serves to hold together a large number of lined up flat spring contacts 11 in the form of a contact strip. This facilitates the manufacturing steps for the individual flat spring contacts 11 and the insertion thereof in the contact receiving cavities of connector housings. After having performed this function, the carrier strips 17 are separated from the flat spring contacts 11.
- the spring portion 13 and the carrier strip 17 have a higher temper than crimping portion 15.
- the effect achieved thereby is that the spring portion 13 and the carrier strip 17 have sufficient hardness for displaying good spring properties, whereas the crimping portion 15 has a lower temper, so that it is sufficiently soft for enabling good permanent deformation.
- preferred Vickers hardnesses are in the range from 180 to 190 for the spring portion and in the range from 80 to 90 for the deformation portion.
- a metal strip of the material usual for electrical contacts, for example tin bronze, is used which at the beginning evenly has across its entire length and width the higher temper desired for the spring portion 13 and the carrier strip 17.
- This metal strip is then selectively thermally stress-relieved by heating in a longitudinal zone corresponding to the crimping portion 15 so as to assume the lower temper desired for the crimping portion 15.
- inductive heating heating by gas flames or heating by passing the metal strip in contacting manner across a heated object having the width of the crimping portion 15.
- Fig. 2 shows the developed view of a round contact 37 designed to receive a pin contact of a complementary connector. Parts identical to those of the developed configuration in Fig. 1 are designated with the same reference numerals. Im comparison with the flat spring contact developed configuration of Fig. 1, the round contact developed configuration of Fig. 2 displays differences in the spring portion 13 only. This portion is rolled together to form a round socket, with round-contact springs 39, which are formed by cutting them free from the spring portion 13, being bent towards each other in convex manner.
- the round contact developed configuration according to Fig. 2 can be made from the same metal strip as the flat contact spring developed configuration according to Fig. 1.
- Fig. 3 shows a flat tab contact 41 after stamping and deformation bending from a metal strip, having four zones of different tempers located parallel beside each other in the longitudinal direction.
- An outer zone with lower temper has been formed into a flat tab 43 by stamping and folding.
- An adjacent zone with higher temper has been stamped and formed into locking spring portion 45 comprising a locking spring 21 cut free and stuck out from the locking portion 45.
- a crimping portion 15 adjacent the locking portion 45 has been stamped and formed from a metal strip zone having the lower temper.
- the other outer zone of the metal strip, which has the higher temper, constitutes the carrier strip 17.
- Fig. 4 illustrates the manner in which the flat tab of the flat tab contact 41 has been formed.
- a flat tab strip 43 has been stamped out from the metal strip material that is about twice as broad as the finished flat tab 43.
- the two edge portions of the flat tab strip have been folded over until they contact the central portion of the flat tab strip, as shown in Fig. 4.
- a flat tab 43 of double material thickness of the metal strip used for making the flat tab contact 41 has been achieved.
- considerable tensile stresses are exerted at the folding locations on the material constituting the flat tab 43.
- the conductor crimping zone 25 can be brought into very intimate and lasting contact with the conductor wires of the line to be terminated.
- the carrier strip 17 it is advantageous for the carrier strip 17 to consist of material with good spring properties. For, on the one hand contact strips held together by the carrier strip 17 are passed through various working stations for the individual contact portions and, on the other hand, such contact strips, when finished, are wound on contact strip reels from which they can be unwound for further processing steps, such as for instance for insertion into the contact cavities of connector housings. If the carrier strip 17 consisted of relatively soft material, permanent deformations of the carrier strip 17 would occur while the contact strip is being passed through working stations and, after unwinding of the contact strip from the reel, there would be a curve or bend left in the carrier strip, which would aggravate subsequent working steps on the contact strip and the individual contacts.
- the applicability of the invention is not restricted to the three contact types according to Figs. 1 to 3. It may also be applied to other contact types in which several portions are present posing different requirements to the spring behavior and the deformability, respectively.
- An example in this respect are pin contacts having a locking spring and a crimping portion, in which the pin portion, which is insertable into a complementary contact, is produced by rolling flat material into a circular shape. With such a pin contact, the pin portion and the crimping portion will be made of soft strip material zones with lower temper, and the locking spring portion and the carrier strip will be formed of hard strip material zones with higher temper.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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DE4201670A DE4201670A1 (de) | 1992-01-22 | 1992-01-22 | Elektrischer kontakt sowie material und verfahren zu dessen herstellung |
DE4201670 | 1992-01-22 |
Publications (2)
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EP0552741A2 true EP0552741A2 (de) | 1993-07-28 |
EP0552741A3 EP0552741A3 (de) | 1994-01-12 |
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Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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EP93100807A Withdrawn EP0552741A2 (de) | 1992-01-22 | 1993-01-20 | Elektrischer Kontakt sowie Material und Herstellungsverfahren |
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EP (1) | EP0552741A2 (de) |
JP (1) | JPH05347165A (de) |
KR (1) | KR930017238A (de) |
BR (1) | BR9300243A (de) |
DE (1) | DE4201670A1 (de) |
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EP0694991A1 (de) * | 1994-07-27 | 1996-01-31 | The Whitaker Corporation | Elektrischer Kontakt aus zwei Werkstoffen |
EP0767513A1 (de) * | 1995-10-05 | 1997-04-09 | Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. | Einteiliger verdeckter Sockelkontakt und Produktionsverfahren |
EP0966074A2 (de) * | 1998-06-15 | 1999-12-22 | Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd. | Herstellungsverfahren für ein Produkt so als eine elektrische Anschlussklemme |
US6261134B1 (en) | 1995-10-20 | 2001-07-17 | Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. | One-piece hooded socket contact and method of producing same |
EP1511126A1 (de) * | 2003-08-25 | 2005-03-02 | Delphi Technologies, Inc. | Kontaktelement und Verfahren zur Herstellung desselben |
WO2007008654A2 (en) * | 2005-07-13 | 2007-01-18 | Amphenol Corporation | Formed cylindrical lga contact |
EP1805852A2 (de) * | 2004-10-27 | 2007-07-11 | Winchester Electronics Corporation | Leistungssteckverbinder und kontakte |
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- 1993-01-20 EP EP93100807A patent/EP0552741A2/de not_active Withdrawn
- 1993-01-21 BR BR9300243A patent/BR9300243A/pt active Search and Examination
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EP1511126A1 (de) * | 2003-08-25 | 2005-03-02 | Delphi Technologies, Inc. | Kontaktelement und Verfahren zur Herstellung desselben |
EP1805852A4 (de) * | 2004-10-27 | 2007-10-31 | Winchester Electronics Corp | Leistungssteckverbinder und kontakte |
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