EP1742299B1 - Anschlusseinrichtung für Litzenleiter - Google Patents

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EP1742299B1
EP1742299B1 EP06013296.6A EP06013296A EP1742299B1 EP 1742299 B1 EP1742299 B1 EP 1742299B1 EP 06013296 A EP06013296 A EP 06013296A EP 1742299 B1 EP1742299 B1 EP 1742299B1
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clamping sleeve
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Albert Ferderer
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Harting Electric Stiftung and Co KG
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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
    • H01R4/28—Clamped connections, spring connections
    • H01R4/50—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a cam, wedge, cone or ball also combined with a screw
    • H01R4/5033—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a cam, wedge, cone or ball also combined with a screw using wedge or pin penetrating into the end of a wire in axial direction of the wire
    • 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
    • H01R13/40—Securing contact members in or to a base or case; Insulating of contact members
    • H01R13/42—Securing in a demountable manner
    • H01R13/436—Securing a plurality of contact members by one locking piece or operation
    • H01R13/4367—Insertion of locking piece from the rear
    • H01R13/4368—Insertion of locking piece from the rear comprising a temporary and a final locking position
    • 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
    • H01R4/50—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a cam, wedge, cone or ball also combined with a screw
    • H01R4/52—Clamped connections, spring connections utilising a cam, wedge, cone or ball also combined with a screw which is spring loaded
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R9/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, e.g. terminal strips or terminal blocks; Terminals or binding posts mounted upon a base or in a case; Bases therefor
    • H01R9/22—Bases, e.g. strip, block, panel
    • H01R9/24—Terminal blocks

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  • the invention relates to a connection device for electrical stranded conductors in a connector housing according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such termination device is required especially for electrical conductors, which are designed as stranded conductors.
  • the DE 101 43 008 A1 shows a connection device for electrical stranded wire in an electrical connector housing with arranged in separate chambers in rows and columns pin and / or socket contacts. The contacting of the stranded conductor takes place here via a so-called contact spike.
  • a disadvantage was the number of items required for the function, which was substantially reduced with the application according to the invention.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to form a connection device of the type mentioned in that the connection of stranded conductors with few and simple components without tools, wherein the largest possible area is detected with respect to the wire cross sections to be contacted.
  • the advantages achieved by the invention are, in particular, that with this connector housing for a cordless tool-free connection system is available, in which the stranded conductors by means of a resilient sleeve on the connection areas as pins and sockets trained electrical plug contacts can be fixed. It is envisaged to cover a cross-sectional area of 0.35 - 1.5 mm 2 for the stranded conductor means of a mounting-friendly clamping device. Due to an identical pitch with similar connector housings, but other types of connection, such. B. with screw, a problem-free replacement is possible. For this purpose, a number of chambers in rows and columns are arranged in the connector housing, in each of which a clamping device is provided for a stranded conductor.
  • the clamping device is formed as a connection device for electrical stranded wire from an axially displaceable slide element, which is pushed together with a clamping sleeve on the connection region of a designed as a pin or socket electrical contact element. It is a prerequisite for stranded conductors in particular that their supply into a contacting area is powerless, to a twisting or bending conditions individual copper cores as far as possible to prevent reaching an anchor point.
  • the stripped part of a stranded conductor is guided into a bore passing through the carriage element, including a clamping sleeve fixed to the carriage.
  • the carriage member is axially displaced in the insertion direction of the stranded conductor into the connector housing.
  • the resiliently formed clamping sleeve With increasing end position of the carriage member, the resiliently formed clamping sleeve is pushed over the preferably conically shaped Kunststofftechniks- or connection area of the pin or socket contacts with the surrounding stranded conductor.
  • connection region can be designed in the shape of a pyramid, polygon or arrow with at least one clamping shoulder.
  • a meandering, continuous longitudinal slot clamping sleeve ensures a constantly adapted to the number and size of the strands, constricting force on a formed by the base of the cone clamping shoulder at the connection area of the pin or socket contacts.
  • each slide member can be levered out again from the respective chamber, whereby the stranded conductor is also released again.
  • Fig.1 is a connector half 1 consisting of a housing 10 with pin contacts 50 disposed therein shown in a perspective and sectional view.
  • the housing 10 has a collar-shaped plug-in region 4 into which the pin contacts 50 protrude with their plug side 51 and a connection region 5, which is provided for the connection of stranded conductors.
  • connection region 5 has a number of individual chambers 11, in which slide elements 20, which are axially displaceable in rows and columns next to each other, are arranged.
  • the pin contacts 50 are positioned in the housing 10.
  • the pin contacts 50 each have a collar 57, with which they are inserted in a correspondingly shaped holding portion 13 approximately centrally of the housing 10 below the chambers 11 and latched by means of locking elements 15.
  • the pin-shaped plug-in side 51 of the pin contacts projects through openings 12 below the holding region 13 into the plug-in region 4, while the connection region 52 with a cone tip 53 and a clamping shoulder 54 extends into the chamber 11.
  • an axially displaceable slide member 20 is inserted, wherein the slide member is shown here in a "mounting position" partially protruding from the housing 10.
  • the carriage element has a round body 22 on which a square shape is formed on the outside, four corner areas 23 are formed, two of which adjoin adjacent corner areas in a carriage guide 21.
  • the two outer corner regions 23 are provided in regions with a molded bead 33 in the sliding direction, which prevents due to a slight oversize relative to the receiving chamber 11, an unintentional lowering of the carriage member 20, not mounted stranded conductors.
  • a stop 29 is provided on the carriage guide 21, which abuts when moving the carriage member to the provided for the locking of the pin contact 50 stop 16 of the outer latching element 15.
  • a raised, narrow guide rail 32 is integrally formed on the outwardly facing carriage guide 21, which engages in a groove 19 on the housing wall.
  • a through hole 24 is provided with a funnel-shaped narrowing exit 25.
  • a clamping sleeve 40 is arranged, in such a way that the clamping sleeve is adapted to be used in a diameter-adapted, fork-shaped holder 26 and simultaneously a right angle of the clamping sleeve bent retaining ring 42 in a slot 27 provided above the holder of the carriage member is fixable.
  • connection device is accordingly formed from the slide element 20, the clamping sleeve 40 and the here conical connection region 52 of the pin contact 50.
  • the pin contact 50 is first to be inserted into the holding region 13 of the housing 10 and fixed by means of the latching elements 15. Subsequently, the clamping sleeve 40 is to be connected to the carriage member 20 and to push together into one of the chambers 11 until the locking edges 18 and 28 of the housing and carriage member are adjacent to each other.
  • This position - in which the carriage element 20 still protrudes from the housing 10 - represents the "assembly position" in which a stripped stranded conductor 8 in the centrally formed in the carriage member 20 through hole 24 into the underlying clamping sleeve 40 and the conical terminal portion 52nd until the collar 57 of the pin contact 50 is inserted.
  • the housing part of the carriage member has a laterally inclined, V-shaped recess 30 into which a correspondingly flat tool part, such.
  • a screwdriver can be used to lever out an inserted carriage element again.
  • a slope 17 is provided on the inside of the housing wall surface in each chamber.
  • a groove 31 is provided on the surface of the carriage element 20, into which a tool for pressing the carriage element 20 into the housing 10 can be inserted.
  • the connector half 1 is shown in a perspective sectional view with a view of the connection area 5.
  • the left or front carriage element row is shown already inserted into the housing 10, while the right and rear carriage element row still protrudes from the housing.
  • the front left slide element 20 is shown in a sectional view, so that it can be clearly seen that for the threading of a stranded conductor, the narrowing funnel exit 25 of the carriage element has a smaller diameter than the clamping sleeve 40 arranged underneath Wires of a stranded conductor may jam in the region of the bent bracket 42 of the clamping sleeve.
  • beads 33 prevent unintentional sliding in the direction of the pin contact.
  • the Fig. 3 shows the connector half 2 with a connector housing 10 'in a sectional view with at least one socket contact 60 arranged therein.
  • the plug housing is basically constructed similar to the housing receiving the pin contacts, however, a slightly different construction is required to accommodate the socket contacts.
  • the socket contact 60 is inserted with the partially slotted plug side 61 up to the stop 14 in the here tubular holding portion 13 and locked by means of the locking elements 15.
  • connection portion 62 consisting of the conical tip 63 on the connecting pin 66 to which the stop surface 65 of the sleeve-shaped plug side 61 connects.
  • the conical tip 63 already protrudes into the clamping sleeve 40 in the "loading position", while the clamping shoulder 64 is still located outside the clamping sleeve.
  • the lower end of the clamping sleeve 40 has an outwardly directed funnel-shaped widening 44, which exerts a holding force on the stranded conductor arranged between clamping sleeve and clamping shoulder when the clamping sleeve is lowered with its inner wall.
  • the inner diameter of the sleeve is chosen to be slightly larger than the diameter of the clamping shoulder at the cone end of the connection region of a pin or socket contact - but at least so large that the smallest intended stranded conductor is already securely held.
  • the clamping sleeve 40 shown in the Fig. 4 is made as a rolled, resilient clamping sleeve and has a meandering slot 41 along the sleeve wall, so that a resilient effect is secured in a radial expansion.
  • One of the end faces is provided with a retaining ring 42, which is bent outwards several times through separating slots 43, while the opposite side has a funnel-shaped widening 44.
  • pin contact 50 is designed as a rotating part and has a pin-shaped insertion side 51 and a connection portion 52 with a conical tip 53.
  • a cylindrical collar 57 is formed, whose annular surface facing the apex is defined as a stop surface 55.
  • the conical tip is integrally connected by means of a connecting pin 56 with the collar 57.
  • the edges of the cone base form a clamping shoulder 54, over which upon connection of a stranded conductor, the resilient clamping sleeve 40 is slipped, which exerts a radially inwardly acting force.
  • Socket contact 60 shown is like the pin contact 50 already described with a plug side 61 and a connection portion 62 is provided.
  • the plug-in side is designed as a partially slotted socket, while the connection region 62 is provided with a conical tip 63, on whose cone base a clamping shoulder 64 is provided for locking the strands by means of the clamping sleeve 40 which is slipped over the connection region 62.
  • the carriage element 20 is shown isolated in a perspective view.
  • the round body 22 with the through hole 24 and the integrally formed corner regions 23 and the likewise integrally formed slide guide 21 can be seen.
  • V-shaped recess 30 Interrupting the guide rail, the V-shaped recess 30 is provided for the use of a simple tool, so that a lowered in the chamber 11 carriage element is again repeatedly.
  • a groove 31 is provided into which the same tool as above for lowering the carriage element into the chamber can be inserted.
  • bulges 33 are formed on the side facing the recess 30 and over a certain length on the corner regions 23, which project beyond the surface of the respective corner region and thus against the inner wall of the chamber 11 are pressed.
  • FIG. 8a . 8b is a sectional view of a housing 10 for pin contacts, the interaction of the connection device, formed from the carriage member 20, the clamping sleeve 40 and the terminal portion of a pin contact 50 with a therein inserted stranded conductor 7 is shown.
  • the individual wires 8 of the stranded conductor 7 are first stripped to a predetermined length, which should be slightly longer than the length of the clamping sleeve 40.
  • the stranded conductor 7 are inserted into the through hole 24 of the carriage member 20, so that its sheath protrudes approximately into the funnel exit 25, wherein the individual conductors 8 themselves project below the clamping sleeve 40 at least over the clamping shoulder 54.
  • the carriage member 20 is pressed into the housing 10, wherein the Einzelieiter are shifted by the sliding path of the carriage over the apex 53 and are positioned with certainty on the clamping shoulder of the connection area, where they depending on the thickness and number of strands of the widening but resilient clamping sleeve 40 are fixed.
  • a pyramidal terminal region 52 having four clamping shoulders 54 is shown here for a pin contact 50, while in FIG Fig. 10 a female contact with an arrow-shaped terminal portion 62 and two clamping shoulders 64 is shown.

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US7249980B2 (en) 2007-07-31
PL1742299T3 (pl) 2014-05-30
EP1742299A2 (de) 2007-01-10
JP2007019020A (ja) 2007-01-25
US20070010135A1 (en) 2007-01-11
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