EP1713649A1 - Plug-and-socket connection device - Google Patents
Plug-and-socket connection deviceInfo
- Publication number
- EP1713649A1 EP1713649A1 EP04804124A EP04804124A EP1713649A1 EP 1713649 A1 EP1713649 A1 EP 1713649A1 EP 04804124 A EP04804124 A EP 04804124A EP 04804124 A EP04804124 A EP 04804124A EP 1713649 A1 EP1713649 A1 EP 1713649A1
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- Prior art keywords
- plug
- socket
- contact
- vehicle
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Classifications
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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
Definitions
- the invention relates to a connector device for the automatic e.g. Multi-pole electrical connection of a vehicle trailer, in particular a semi-trailer, to a towing vehicle, in particular to a semi-trailer, with a socket and a plug which can be arranged on the vehicle trailer (eg the plug) or the towing vehicle (eg the socket) when coupling of the vehicle trailer to the towing vehicle can be aligned with each other and by means of a designed as a piston-cylinder arrangement drive can be moved relative to one another between an advanced connection position and a retracted rest position, preferably e.g. a lid of the box by moving the inserted in it, the contact sleeves carrying contact insert in the direction of the connection position with the help of the drive automatically evident and can be closed again when retracting the contact insert in the rest position.
- a connector device for the automatic e.g. Multi-pole electrical connection of a vehicle trailer, in particular a semi-trailer, to a towing vehicle, in particular to a semi-t
- the object of the present invention is to propose a plug connection device of the type mentioned, in which, without manual actuation, the two plug elements are easy to find with respect to one another.
- This object is essentially achieved in a plug connection device of the type mentioned in that the plug is elastic against the action of at least one retaining spring, which is fastened on the one hand to the plug and on the other hand to a fastening flange which can be fixed to a vehicle (towing vehicle or vehicle trailer) is stored on the sides in an alternating manner.
- the solution according to the invention ensures that the automatic merging of the plug and socket can be produced easily and safely even with larger tolerances or inaccuracy of the sensing.
- pluget and plug used in this description as the two plug elements of a plug connection device can also be interchanged in their function, i.e. that those design features which are described and illustrated in the present context for a socket or plug can also be provided vice versa for the other of the two plug elements.
- the terms “socket” and “plug” are used below for each of the plug-in elements forming a plug-in connection only to simplify the description.
- the retaining spring for the plug is surrounding and with the plug housing this preferably essentially coaxial spring spiral is formed, which further preferably tapers forward in its diameter.
- the retaining springs can, however, also be several, for example three or four, individual springs which act symmetrically on the plug in order to center it again after the lateral deflection.
- the lateral deflection of the connector can be easily ensured, for example, by the connector housing being e.g. is supported on a holding plate via ball bearings or simple spherical surfaces.
- the on the e.g. also supports the mounting plate for the connector housing, which serves as a mounting flange, on a return spring. In this way, a lateral pivoting of the connector housing against the action of the return spring and the retaining spring (s) for the connector is ensured.
- the invention also proposes that the connector housing receiving the contact pin, for example behind the insertion funnel in the rest position, be closed by a cover plate, which preferably has through openings for the contact pins and can be moved, in particular displaced, against the action of a return spring from the front rest position and the release of the contact pins into a rear connection position.
- the plug housing is automatically opened and closed by inserting and withdrawing the socket itself.
- the contact pins are protected.
- the arrangement is preferably such that when the cover plate is in the rest position, the contact pins pass through the openings just close. Because of this, the contact pins can also serve as a guide for the cover plate during its back and forth movement.
- the cover plate is pressed in the rest position by its return spring on its outer edge, possibly with the interposition of a sealing ring, against an inner shoulder of the connector housing.
- the sealing ring can be held in the plug at the front end of a spacer sleeve.
- the return spring for the cover plate can also surround the contact attachment as a spring spiral and can preferably be received with its rear end for fixing in an annular groove.
- the connector housing is provided with a stopper which receives a valve core and which points downward in the installed state.
- a baffle is provided in the valve core, through which condensed water can drip, but the ingress of water (splash water, steam jets) from the outside is prevented.
- the drive can be locked in the connection position and / or the rest position of the socket.
- the contact insert can be detachably fastened to the piston of the drive, which is designed, for example, as a pneumatic piston-cylinder arrangement, for example with a screw. So that the contact sleeves maintain the correct alignment with the contact pins of the plug, in a further embodiment of the invention the contact insert of the socket is guided on a base plate, which also serves, for example, as a mounting plate.
- the plug connection device can optionally be equipped with an emergency release, which allows the socket and plug to be disconnected mechanically in the event of a power failure, an anti-rotation device for the socket, coding protection for the socket, sensors for detecting the position of the socket, securing the plug housing against being lifted off the holding plate and / or have locking means of the contact insert in the retracted and extended position in order to further increase the functional reliability.
- 1 is a first oblique view of an embodiment of a connector device according to the invention shortly before inserting the socket into the plug, 2 shows another oblique view of the connector device according to FIG. 1,
- 3A is a side view of the front portion of the can of FIG. 3,
- FIG. 4 shows in longitudinal section a connector according to the invention which matches the socket according to FIG. 3,
- FIG. 6 shows an end view of a plug according to another embodiment of the invention, the plug being held on a fastening flange by means of a plurality of symmetrically engaging retaining springs, and
- FIG. 6A shows a section along section line A-A of FIG. 6.
- the connector shown in the figures which can be used, for example, in a semi-trailer / semi-trailer combination and then be arranged in the area of the fifth wheel coupling, consists of a connector S to be attached to the vehicle trailer, for example, and a socket D to be attached to the towing vehicle, for example of the vehicle trailer to the towing vehicle, connector S and socket D are to be aligned independently of one another, which can largely be done with the aid of a sensor arrangement which detects the position of the vehicle trailer relative to the towing vehicle.
- a drive 10 designed as a piston-cylinder arrangement the two plug-in elements D, S put together.
- the drive 10 is designed such that it can bring the socket D from a retracted rest position, when the plug connection is not in use, into an advanced connection position, when the plug connection is to be made, in which the socket D interacts with the plug S. When the plug connection is released, the direction of movement of the socket D is reversed.
- the can D has a cover 5 formed from two flaps.
- the flaps of the cover 5 are on pivot axes 9 of an annular housing section 16 of a base plate 2 against the action of return springs designed as leg springs 4 pivoted such that when the contact insert 1 guided on the base plate 2 is pushed into the connecting position, the two flaps of the cover 5 are pivoted outward and when the contact insert 1 is withdrawn into the retracted rest position, the return springs 4 bring them back into their closed position ,
- the front end of the contact insert 1 or the housing section 16 is provided with a sealing washer 3, against which the flaps of the cover 5 can rest in the closed position.
- the contact insert 1 is guided against rotation on the housing section 16 with the aid of an outer longitudinal groove 14 in the jacket of the contact insert 1 and an associated inner longitudinal rib 15 of the housing section 16.
- the contact insert 1 is at the front end of the piston with the aid of an Allen screw 6 17 of the piston-cylinder assembly 10 releasably attached.
- a cable 7 for supplying the contact insert 1 is cast into the base plate 2 and relieved of tension by means of a clamp 13.
- the drive 10 is locked both in the advanced connection position and in the retracted rest position of the socket D in order to secure the socket D against change in position in both positions.
- the plug S according to FIGS. 1, 2 and 4 is elastically and laterally deflected against the action of a retaining spring 230.
- the retaining spring 213 for the plug S is designed as a spring spiral surrounding the plug housing 29, which, designed as a double spiral spring, is fixed with its rear free ends 33 to a fastening flange 210, which can also serve as a mounting flange on the vehicle.
- the retaining spring 213 tapers forward in its diameter in order to give it the required reset characteristic.
- the plug housing 29 is equipped at its front end with an insertion funnel 30 for the socket D in order to compensate for alignment tolerances.
- the connector housing 29 is supported by a ball bearing 26 or simple spherical surfaces on a holding plate 27 in order to allow lateral deflection against the action of the holding spring 213.
- the connector housing 29 receives contact pins 21, 22 carrying contact attachment 28.
- the plug housing 29 is closed by a cover plate 23, which has, for example, passage openings for the contact pins 21, 22, which in the rest position just close the passage openings.
- the cover plate 23 is attached to an inner shoulder 31 of the plug housing 29 by a return spring 211 with an outer collar with the interposition of a sealing ring 24 designed as a sealing ring pressed.
- the return spring 211 is designed as a spring spiral, which sits on the contact attachment 28 and is held with its rear end in a circumferential groove 32 of the contact attachment 28.
- the cover plate 23 is concave at the front, to match the convex design of the front end of the socket D (see FIG.
- the sealing ring 24 is held at the front end of a spacer sleeve 25 in the connector housing 29.
- the cable 214 for the contact attachment 28 is potted with the contact attachment 28 and the plug housing 29.
- the holding plate 27, on which the connector housing 29 is supported with the contact attachment 28, is axially displaceably mounted axially in the fastening flange 210, which can also serve as a mounting flange, against the action of a return spring 212.
- the plug S can therefore move backwards elastically when inserted into the socket D in order to compensate for impacts and / or tolerances.
- the return spring 212 is also designed as a spring spiral, which is received at its front end in an annular groove 35 of the holding plate 27 and at its rear end in an annular groove 36 of a fixed cross plate 37 of the mounting flange 210. In the rest position, the holding plate 27 bears against the stops 38 of the fastening flange 210 at the front under the pressure of the return spring 212.
- the plug housing 29 is equipped with a plug 216, which receives a valve core 215 and points downward in the installed position, in order to allow condensation to drip off through a baffle formed in the valve core, but to prevent the ingress of water (spray water, steam jets) from the outside.
- a plug 216 which receives a valve core 215 and points downward in the installed position, in order to allow condensation to drip off through a baffle formed in the valve core, but to prevent the ingress of water (spray water, steam jets) from the outside.
- An emergency release 310 is attached to the contact insert 1, which ensures in the event of a system failure that the components of the plug connection device can be mechanically separated from one another.
- a plastic receptacle for the outlet of the cable 217 also serves as an anti-rotation device and coding protection 311 of the socket D.
- two sensors 312 are also introduced, which detect the two positions of the socket D (retracted and extended).
- On the connector housing 29 laterally projecting ribs are attached, which serve as a safety catch 313, that is, as a mechanical securing of the connector housing 29 against lifting off the holding plate, while the socket D is pulled out of the connector S.
- the socket D is locked in the retracted and in the extended position by means of a locking means 313 designed as a spring clip.
- FIGS. 6, 6A differs from the one shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 4 essentially by the elastically laterally evacuating suspension of the plug S on the fastening flange 210.
- Four individual springs 213 ' are used here, which center the connector S again after a lateral deflection.
- the return spring 212 is divided into individual return springs 212 '.
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