EP1469568A2 - Borne femelle et procédé de fabrication d' une pièce de son boítier - Google Patents

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EP1469568A2
EP1469568A2 EP04008082A EP04008082A EP1469568A2 EP 1469568 A2 EP1469568 A2 EP 1469568A2 EP 04008082 A EP04008082 A EP 04008082A EP 04008082 A EP04008082 A EP 04008082A EP 1469568 A2 EP1469568 A2 EP 1469568A2
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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
    • H01R13/11—Resilient sockets
    • H01R13/113—Resilient sockets co-operating with pins or blades having a rectangular transverse section
    • 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
    • H01R13/46—Bases; Cases
    • H01R13/52—Dustproof, splashproof, drip-proof, waterproof, or flameproof cases
    • 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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  • the present invention relates to a plug contact element and in particular a plug contact element for at least partially pushing through through an, in particular round, opening in an elastic material, and a method for producing a housing part of such Plug contact element.
  • Plug contact elements are generally known. They serve two to connect electrical cables to each other. This will be two to each other complementary plug contact elements that can be plugged into each other are electrical and mechanical with corresponding ends of the lines connected.
  • the plug contact elements usually have mechanically stable, essentially rigid housing part on the one Mating the plug contact elements allows.
  • a plug contact element At least partially around such a plug contact element from moisture To protect, this is often characterized by an opening in a seal an elastic material.
  • the seal can be used as a block seal be formed or by a flat piece from one elastic material be given, in both cases the opening to Pushing or pushing the plug contact element smaller than the cross section of the plug contact element orthogonal to the push-through direction is so that the opening edge sealing on the plug contact element or a cable jacket connected to the plug contact element Cable is present.
  • these openings are usually cylindrical or circular.
  • plug contact elements often have a housing part with a Cuboid shape. The push-through direction then runs parallel to one the edges of the housing part. When pushing through such plug contact elements however, the seal often tears when the seal is opened in a section of the opening edge which abuts the edge, the stretched particularly strongly when inserting the plug contact element becomes.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object of a plug contact element for insertion into a, especially round, opening in to create an elastic material in which tearing of the elastic Material at the edge of the opening is largely avoidable, as well a method for producing a housing part of such a plug contact element provide.
  • the plug contact element for at least partially pushing through through an, in particular round, opening in an elastic material along a push-through direction of the plug contact element comprises a Housing part, the at least two at least on one end face of the Housing part essentially flat, mutually inclined wall areas has, which with each other via a curved or curved connection area are connected, the housing part at least one towards an end face of the housing part lying in the push-through direction has opening indentation, the indentation edge at least partially an end edge of the arched or curved Connection area forms, the indentation edge only on the Border between the connection area and one of the adjacent ones Wall areas or a tip on one of the adjacent wall areas or a tangent that is orthogonal to the push-through direction, having.
  • the plug contact element according to the invention has the housing part, with the other sections of the plug contact element, for example for contacting and / or mechanical connection with a Line can be connected.
  • the plug contact element is for at least partial pushing through through the opening in the elastic material, in particular a sealing element, intended.
  • the scope of the opening can in particular be smaller than the circumference of the housing part at its in the push-through direction lying face.
  • the push-through direction can in particular essentially orthogonal to the end face of the plug contact element or parallel to a direction of insertion caused by the training of the housing part is defined.
  • the housing part comprises at least two wall areas, at least in the area of an end face of the housing part lying in the push-through direction are essentially flat. This means that they have at most a curvature that is much less than the curvature of the connecting area connecting them.
  • the Wall areas do not necessarily have to be formed in one piece to be, but can also be divided.
  • the housing part can still further sections, for example openings, recesses or detent springs for the first locking of the plug contact element in one Have connector housing.
  • connection area is, preferably at least transversely to the push-through direction, arched or curved.
  • the curvature of the connection area can be chosen appropriately so that no sharp edge arises, which leads to a violation of the edge of the opening in the elastic Material could result.
  • To insert the plug contact element into the opening in the elastic To facilitate material is at least one in the housing part Indentation provided, the indentation edge at least partially an end edge of the arched or curved connection area forms. This is the front of the housing part thereof Scope reduced, thereby inserting the plug contact element in facilitates the opening in the elastic material in an initial phase becomes, if their diameter is smaller than the circumference of the housing part is near the front.
  • the indentation is now designed such that the indentation edge only on the border between the connection area and one of the adjacent wall areas or on one of the adjacent Wall area a tip or tangent that is orthogonal to the push-through direction runs, has.
  • the indentation edge no such point and no rounding in the connection area with a tangent running orthogonal to the push-through direction having.
  • a tip or curve of the indentation edge with a tangent that is orthogonal to the push-through direction is only in the area on the border between the Connection area and to the adjacent wall areas or on the adjoining wall area, where the opening edge then runs parallel to the wall area.
  • the opening edge can then especially span the tip or curve so that it doesn't open up a section of the Indentation edge meets. Stretching the edge of the opening can occur, but there is no direct power transmission between the indentation edge and the edge of the opening.
  • This change in the shape of the indentation is an inventive one Plug contact element therefore essentially without damaging the Opening edge in the elastic material, in particular a sealing element, insertable, even if it is circular.
  • the plug contact element according to the invention can be used as a bent part getting produced.
  • a method for the production a housing part for an inventive plug contact element, in which a sheet metal part to be bent is provided, which has an indentation with a point or curve, and in which the to be bent Sheet metal part to form the housing part with two over each other an arched or curved connection area connected to each other inclined, substantially flat wall sections along at least one line or strip to form the connection area is bent so that the indentation edge only at the Border between the connection area and one of the adjacent ones Wall areas or a tip on one of the adjacent wall areas or a tangent that is orthogonal to the push-through direction, having.
  • the method according to the invention thus differs from known ones Bending process for the production of plug contact elements among others essential in that the bending is not in the area of a tip or a curve with a direction orthogonal to a later push-through direction extending tangent.
  • the essentially flat wall regions preferably run parallel to one another the push-through direction.
  • the indentation with respect to an the angle between the wall areas bisecting plane is asymmetrical. So shaped Indentation does not have any, at least in a convex curve tangent in the Connection area on what the risk of tearing the edge of the Opening reduced. Furthermore, the area of the Indentation can be kept very low. In the invention for this method, it is preferred that the indentation in the bend Sheet metal part is asymmetrically shaped.
  • the indentation edge essentially has the shape of a "V" on an at least partially curved surface.
  • the indentation in the sheet metal part to be bent essentially Is V-shaped.
  • the sheet metal part to be bent can in particular to be level. This particularly simple form of the indentation enables one particularly easy insertion into a round opening of a seal, since the indentation edge runs smoothly in the area of the legs of the "V" and the opening edge continuously or without sudden changes is stretchy.
  • the indentation edge at least in a section on one of the wall areas up to the arched or curved connection area substantially linear and / or in the connection area runs helically. It means that after bending the housing part to a flat part of the indentation edge in the wall area and / or along the connecting area forming section is substantially linear.
  • the indentation has a linear edge section in the sheet metal part to be bent and that the bending takes place in the area of the linear edge section. So shaped indentations allow particularly easy pushing through the plug contact element through an opening in the elastic material without the material tearing at the edge.
  • the linear section of the indentation edge with the push-through direction an angle between 10 ° and 45 ° includes. It is correspondingly the case with the method according to the invention preferred that the linear edge portion with the line or Strip along which the sheet metal part is bent at an angle between 10 ° and 45 °.
  • the formation of such a slope allows a very even, slow stretching of the opening in the elastic material, so that this also tears the opening edge is avoided.
  • the Housing part a one-piece bent part, in particular a stamped and bent part is. Accordingly, in the method according to the invention, it is preferred that the sheet metal part to be bent is punched out of a sheet metal. On in this way, the sheet can be shaped very easily become.
  • the housing part on the front side, on the indentation is formed, at least one with one of the wall areas connected, bent tongue.
  • the tongue can also insert a contact tongue or simplify a contact pin with an appropriate guide and, with appropriate training, also resilient against the Press the contact pin or the contact tongue and thus improve the contact.
  • the plug contact element according to the invention is designed as a socket element. It can then in particular have at least two tongues bent over to the interior of the housing, between which a contact tongue or a contact pin can be pushed.
  • the plug contact element according to the invention has a contact tongue or a contact pin, the or or is held in the housing part or a section of the housing part forms.
  • a plug contact element can be produced particularly easily, if the contact tongue or the contact pin in a corresponding Inserted bushing element and clamped therein.
  • the housing part has four essentially flat wall areas on the end face, of which each have an angle of less than 180 ° with at least one other, preferably of about 90 °, and with this each over a domed or curved connection area is connected, and that the housing part four to the lying in the push-through direction Has front side of the housing part opening indentations, the Indentation edge each at least partially an end edge of the curved or curved connection area, the Indentation edge only at the border between the adjacent Connection area and the adjacent wall area or on the wall area adjacent to the adjacent connection area a tip or tangent that is orthogonal to the push-through direction runs, has.
  • Such a contact element is very stable.
  • the wall areas close each other at an angle of 90 ° a, the wall areas run essentially parallel to the Pushing direction, which means pushing through an opening in an elastic material.
  • Such a housing part corresponds further in its symmetry that of a corresponding contact tongue and enables particularly good contacting of the same.
  • Another object of the invention is a contacting system with a plug contact element according to the invention and a seal an elastic material with a round, preferably circular Opening through which the plug contact element in its push-through direction is at least partially slidable.
  • The is particularly preferred
  • the circumference of the opening in the seal is smaller than the circumference of the plug contact element on the end face lying in the push-through direction.
  • a plug contact element according to a first preferred embodiment
  • the invention essentially has one shown in Figs cuboidal, elongated housing part 10, which has an end face 12 along a push-through direction running to the longitudinal axis of the cuboid D in a circular opening 14 a sealing element 16 can be inserted.
  • the housing part 10 has four substantially parallel to the push-through direction D extending housing walls 18, 18 ', 18 "and 18"' on the end face 12 lying in the push-through direction D is flat wall regions 20, 20 ', 20 "and 20"'.
  • the housing walls and in particular the wall areas are therefore at an angle of approximately 90 ° to one another inclined.
  • Each of these housing walls 18, 18 ', 18 "and 18"' and so that each of the wall areas 20, 20 ', 20 "and 20”' is with two others the housing walls or wall areas over corresponding along the Longitudinal edges of the cuboid running in the push-through direction D curved connection areas 22, 22 ', 22 "and 22"' connected.
  • the housing walls 18 and 18 are essentially analog, however, the housing wall 18 along the production line Push-through direction D is divided.
  • the flat wall areas 20 and 20 "go into a bent shape first tongues 24 and 24 ', the flat first end portions 26th and 26 'with the housing walls 18 or 18 "or the wall regions 20 and 20 “and thus the push-through direction D an angle greater than Include 90 °. You can insert it as a guide surface of the housing part 10 in the opening 14 in the sealing element 16 facilitate.
  • the housing walls 18 'and 18 "' are also symmetrical to each other educated. Their flat wall areas 20 'and 20 "' go on the front 12 in bent second tongues 28 and 28 'over that in the first Bending areas 30 and 30 'and second bending areas 32 and 32' for Are bent over inside the housing part 10.
  • the two bending areas 32 or 32 'connecting second end portions 34 and 34' serve as a contact surface for a contact tongue to be inserted into the interior of the housing part 10 a complementary plug contact element.
  • indentations 36, 36 ', 36 "and 36"' provided, the indentation edges 38, 38 ', 38 "and 38"' each partially the wall areas 20, 20 ', 20 “and 20”' and the connection areas 22, 22 ', 22 "and 22"' limit.
  • indentations 36, 36 ', 36 "and 36"' are in each case identical or to one another mirror-symmetrical, so that their formation in the following is explained in more detail using the example of the indentation 36.
  • the indentation 36 essentially has the shape of a "V" on one Surface that is partly flat and partly like the connection area 22 is arched or curved.
  • the indentation edge runs in a first section 40 38 initially linearly along the flat wall area 20, then screw-like along an end face of the bent connection area 14 extending into a curve 42 on the wall area 20 'to transition, which is orthogonal to the push-through direction D. Has tangent only in the wall area 20 '.
  • the indentation edge 32 then runs on the wall area 20 ′ in FIG Mainly parallel to the push-through direction D linearly in the direction the end face 12.
  • the indentation 36 is therefore in relation to a plane which is the angle halved between the wall areas 20 and 20 ', asymmetrical.
  • This design of the housing part 10 allows easy insertion into the opening 14 in the sealing element 16 made of elastic material, the opening edge 44 does not tear, although its circumference smaller than that of a cross section of the housing part 10 transversely to the push-through direction D is.
  • the insertion runs, as shown in FIGS. 4 to 6, as follows.
  • the opening edge 44 is thereby of the linear section 40 of the indentation edge 38 in the direction of the wall region 20 'and led, at the same time a point of contact 46 between the indentation edge 38 the opening edge 44 along the opening edge 44 is moved.
  • the plug contact element according to the invention can be very easily used as a stamped and bent part are produced by punching a sheet metal part 48 which is shown in detail in Fig. 3. For appropriate sections and after bending, the same will be the same for clarity Reference numerals used.
  • indentation edges 38 and 38 ' only point in the wall area 20' Rounds 42 and 42 'with orthogonal to the push-through direction D or the tangents 52 or 52 'running on the strips 22 or 22'.
  • plug contact elements which are also used as stamped and bent parts can be manufactured, die-cut, bent Sheet metal part the indentations symmetrical to the strips 22 or 22 'aligned, the curvature of the indentations exactly in the Bending areas lie.
  • Fig. 7 is a plug contact element according to a second preferred Embodiment of the invention shown, that of the plug contact element in Fig. 1 differs by a contact tongue 52, which in a Housing part is inserted, like the housing part 10 in the first Embodiment is formed.
  • the contact tongue 54 is between the manufacture of the housing part 10 the second tongues 28 and 28 'pressed and held there in the press fit.
  • This plug contact element is, as described previously, in simpler Way in an opening in a seal made of an elastic material insertable without damaging the edge of the opening.

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