EP0894345A1 - Dispositif de raccordement electrique et element de connexion electrique s'utilisant dans un dispositif de raccordement electrique - Google Patents

Dispositif de raccordement electrique et element de connexion electrique s'utilisant dans un dispositif de raccordement electrique

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EP0894345A1
EP0894345A1 EP97916424A EP97916424A EP0894345A1 EP 0894345 A1 EP0894345 A1 EP 0894345A1 EP 97916424 A EP97916424 A EP 97916424A EP 97916424 A EP97916424 A EP 97916424A EP 0894345 A1 EP0894345 A1 EP 0894345A1
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electrical
connection device
contact
connection
terminal
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EP0894345B1 (fr
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Harald Hartmann
Peter Zvokolj
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Tridonic Bauelemente GmbH
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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
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/50—Fixed connections
    • H01R12/51—Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/515—Terminal blocks providing connections to wires or cables
    • 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
    • H01R4/28—Clamped connections, spring connections
    • H01R4/48—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member
    • H01R4/4809—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar
    • H01R4/48185—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar adapted for axial insertion of a wire end
    • H01R4/4819—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar adapted for axial insertion of a wire end the spring shape allowing insertion of the conductor end when the spring is unbiased
    • H01R4/4821—Single-blade spring
    • 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
    • H01R4/28—Clamped connections, spring connections
    • H01R4/48—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member
    • H01R4/4809—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar
    • H01R4/4846—Busbar details
    • H01R4/4848—Busbar integrally formed with the spring
    • 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
    • H01R4/28—Clamped connections, spring connections
    • H01R4/48—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member
    • H01R4/4809—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a spring, clip, or other resilient member using a leaf spring to bias the conductor toward the busbar
    • H01R4/484—Spring housing details
    • H01R4/4842—Spring housing details the spring housing being provided with a single opening for insertion of a spring-activating tool

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to an electrical connection device according to the preamble of claim 1 and an electrical connecting element according to the
  • the invention relates to an electrical connection device and an electrical connection element for connecting electrical connection lines to an electronic operating device for a lamp.
  • a connecting terminal As a connecting element for electrically connecting a connecting line to the electronic operating device, a connecting terminal is known which is installed as a terminal insert in a specially molded plastic housing, the entire arrangement then being soldered onto a circuit board to be contacted.
  • the electrical connection line is connected to the A terminal, so that the connection terminal serves as a connecting element between the electrical connection line and the printed circuit board.
  • connection terminal together with its plastic housing must be soldered onto the baffle plate.
  • the automatic assembly of such clamping inserts is therefore very complex and therefore also expensive.
  • the dimensional accuracy of soldered terminals is unsatisfactory, since there are inaccuracies due to the accumulation of several tolerances that must be allowed between the terminals and the circuit board and between the circuit board and the housing of the control gear and between the housing and the location of the luminaire.
  • a sufficiently high dimensional accuracy is particularly important for applications in which electronic operating devices are to be automatically wired in a luminaire.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object of proposing an electrical connection device and an electrical connection element for use in an electrical connection device which prevent the connection element from being soldered to an electrical circuit unit to be contacted, for example a printed circuit board of an electronic operating device for a lamp, and nevertheless choose a reliable electrical contact with the electrical circuit unit.
  • connection device Furthermore, a simpler and cheaper production of the connection device should be possible.
  • the configuration of the connecting element according to the invention allows contacting with the electrical circuit unit to be contacted only when the connection device is finally assembled. namely automatically after inserting the circuit unit to be contacted into the housing of the connection device. It is no longer necessary to solder the connecting element onto the electrical circuit unit.
  • the circuit unit to be contacted can in particular be a printed circuit board or printed circuit board an electronic operating device for a lamp.
  • connection device in particular the lower housing part, and the connecting element, which is designed in particular as a terminal insert, enable the connecting element to be held in the housing, so that, in contrast to the prior art mentioned above, an additional housing for the connecting element is not required is.
  • the manufacture of the electrical connection device is therefore easier and cheaper.
  • electrical connection of the connection element to the electrical circuit unit is significantly simplified.
  • connection elements are arranged side by side in the housing, the number of poles can be selected to be correct during the final assembly of the connection device, since depending on the number of poles selected, only the required number of connection elements need to be inserted into corresponding receiving spaces of the housing of the connection device.
  • the connecting element is designed in particular as a connecting terminal and has a plug-in terminal contact and / or insulation displacement contact for contacting at least one electrical connecting line. Furthermore, a screw contact with the electrical connection line is also possible.
  • the connection terminal is advantageous bent from a conductive material strip in such a way that the end of the connector contacting the electrical switching unit in the connecting device constitutes a resilient contact for the switching unit, which automatically establishes a safe electrical contact with a corresponding contact field on the switching unit when the switching unit is inserted into the housing.
  • FIG. 1 and 2 a first exemplary embodiment of the connection device according to the invention, FIG. 1 showing a cross-sectional view along the line AA ′ of the connection device shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 2 the connection device shown in FIG. 1 from below,
  • Fig. 5 shows a second embodiment of the connecting device according to the invention in a cross-sectional view
  • FIG. 6 shows a third exemplary embodiment of the connecting device according to the invention in a cross-sectional view.
  • Fig. 1 shows a first embodiment of the connection device according to the invention in a partial cross-sectional view along the line AA 'shown in Fig. 2.
  • 2 shows the first exemplary embodiment from below.
  • FIG. 1 an electrical connection device for an electronic control gear for lamps is shown.
  • the connecting device comprises a housing consisting of an upper housing part 3 and a lower housing part 2 with a receiving space 9 for an electrical connecting element 1.
  • the connecting element 1 is designed as a connecting terminal or as a terminal insert and is inserted into the corresponding receiving space 9 and there preferably by fitting by means of friction or liability held. Likewise, holding the connection clamp in the receiving space 9 by means of a Possible screw connection.
  • the connecting device has at least one opening 8 for inserting at least one connecting wire 19.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 The curved terminal insert 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is shown in more detail in FIG. 3.
  • 4a and 4b show the terminal 1 unbent in the original strip film.
  • Fig. 4a shows the strip in side view and
  • Fig. 4b shows the strip in top view.
  • Fig . 4c shows the strip of an electrically conductive material shown in FIG. 4b in a cross-sectional view along the line BB ⁇
  • connection terminal is designed as a plug-in terminal with a plug insulation contact for a connecting wire.
  • the connecting wire is held between bends 13 of a support surface 12, which connects the two ends 10 and 11 of the connecting terminal 1, and one end 11 of the connecting terminal, this end 11 having a V-shaped punching 14.
  • the other end 10 of the connection terminal is used to contact an electrical switching unit 4 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the circuit unit 4 can in particular be a printed circuit board of an electronic operating device for lamps. From Fig. 1 it can be seen that the connection terminal or the KJemmendonin 1 is formed and inserted into the corresponding receiving space 9 of the housing 2, 3 such that the free end 10 of the connection terminal 1 automatically contacts a corresponding contact field of the printed circuit board 4 when this is inserted into the housing of the connection device. For this purpose, the free end 10 of the terminal 1 is bent such that it rests on the bottom of the lower housing part 2 and makes electrical contact with the corresponding contact field or a corresponding conductor track of the printed circuit board.
  • circuit board 4 is only contacted during the final assembly of the electronic control gear, i.e. automatically when inserting the circuit board 4 into the housing of the connection device.
  • the connecting device has snap hooks or other holding means 6 for fastening and fixing the printed circuit board 4 in the
  • the connecting device or the lower housing part 2 has a recess 5 for receiving corresponding holding means - for example a screw connection - which connect the housing or the electronic control gear to a luminaire housing.
  • Fig. 2 shows that several clamping inserts or terminals 1 are advantageously arranged side by side.
  • the desired number of poles can be selected during final assembly. It depends only on the number of poles selected, the required number of terminals or terminal inserts 1 in the corresponding receiving spaces 9 of the housing 2, 3 of the connecting device. The unneeded receiving spaces remain free and are sufficiently narrow that it is not necessary to have these spaces blasted. This option during the final assembly of the electronic control gear makes assembly much easier, since different types of connection terminals do not have to be prefabricated for different device types.
  • FIG. 5 shows a second exemplary embodiment of the invention in cross-sectional view. 5 that the plug-in terminal of the exemplary embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 is replaced by a screw terminal 16.
  • a connecting line to be inserted through the opening 8 is clamped between the jaws of the screw terminal and the actual contact spring 1.
  • the contact spring 1 in turn contacts a corresponding contact field 15 of a printed circuit board 4 held by snap hooks 6.
  • connection terminal 1 has an insulation displacement contact 18 in its upper region in addition to a plug-in contact 17 in its lower region.
  • connecting lines can be contacted in different ways or several connecting lines can be contacted simultaneously.
  • the effect of the connection terminal 1 shown in FIG. 6 corresponds to the effect of the previously described connection terminals.
  • the free end 10 of the terminal 1 in turn makes a resilient electrical contact with the printed circuit board 4.

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  • Coupling Device And Connection With Printed Circuit (AREA)
  • Connections Arranged To Contact A Plurality Of Conductors (AREA)
  • Motorcycle And Bicycle Frame (AREA)
  • Electrical Discharge Machining, Electrochemical Machining, And Combined Machining (AREA)
  • Connections By Means Of Piercing Elements, Nuts, Or Screws (AREA)
  • Multi-Conductor Connections (AREA)
  • Cookers (AREA)
  • Portable Nailing Machines And Staplers (AREA)

Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif de raccordement électrique et un élément de connexion électrique (1) pour relier au moins une ligne de connexion (19) électrique à une unité de commutation (4) électrique, notamment une platine de circuits. L'élément de connexion (1) se présente de manière à être automatiquement en contact électrique avec le circuit de commutation (4) après le montage dudit circuit de commutation (4) dans le dispositif de raccordement électrique. L'élément de connexion (1) électrique se présente notamment sous forme de borne de connexion, une de ses extrémités assurant un contact à effet ressort avec l'unité de commutation (4) électrique.
EP97916424A 1996-04-16 1997-04-02 Dispositif de raccordement electrique et son utilisation Expired - Lifetime EP0894345B1 (fr)

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DE19614988 1996-04-16
DE19614988A DE19614988A1 (de) 1996-04-16 1996-04-16 Elektrische Anschlußvorrichtung und elektrisches Verbindungselement zur Verwendung in einer elektrischen Anschlußvorrichtung
PCT/EP1997/001648 WO1997039496A1 (fr) 1996-04-16 1997-04-02 Dispositif de raccordement electrique et element de connexion electrique s'utilisant dans un dispositif de raccordement electrique

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DE19614988A1 (de) 1997-10-23
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