EP1744406B1 - Contact à douille pour connecter électriquement à un contact supplémentaire et un connecteur ayant un tel contact - Google Patents

Contact à douille pour connecter électriquement à un contact supplémentaire et un connecteur ayant un tel contact Download PDF

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EP1744406B1
EP1744406B1 EP06113968A EP06113968A EP1744406B1 EP 1744406 B1 EP1744406 B1 EP 1744406B1 EP 06113968 A EP06113968 A EP 06113968A EP 06113968 A EP06113968 A EP 06113968A EP 1744406 B1 EP1744406 B1 EP 1744406B1
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contact
socket
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Andreas Simmel
Eckhardt Philipp
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Robert Bosch 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
    • 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
    • H01R13/115—U-shaped sockets having inwardly bent legs, e.g. spade type

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  • Out EP-A-0 694 991 is a socket contact for electrical connection with a mating contact known.
  • the socket contact has a connection part for receiving an electrical conductor.
  • the recording of the electrical conductor is done by crimping.
  • the socket contact further has a mounting portion. At this a contact portion is pressed or welded.
  • the contact portion contains resilient contact arms for receiving a mating contact.
  • EP-A-1 130 697 is a socket contact known, composed of two sleeve-shaped parts which are locked together. It is on the one hand to a connection part for the permanent connection, such as a wire and on the other hand to a contact part for releasably contacting with a mating contact. In order to keep the manufacturing costs for the socket contact low, a gold plating is only partially executed and preferably limited to the contact part.
  • a plug is formed, for example, as a movable harness connector with female contact elements and a stationary mating connector with knife-shaped or pin-shaped mating contact elements. While the mating contact elements exposed from a contact carrier of the mating connector protrude, in contrast, the contact elements are concealed in receiving chambers of a contact carrier of the harness connector. Each contact element is associated with a receiving chamber and an electrical line of the wiring harness.
  • a seal of the lines is provided on the plug as one of several measures. This can be done by so-called Einzeladerabdichtitch, each line is wrapped within the associated receiving chamber of a sealing element.
  • these have the disadvantage that higher individual costs for the seals, a higher installation effort and a larger space associated therewith occur.
  • so-called collection mat seals are more cost-effective, with a collection mat seal covering all contact chambers of the contact carrier on the feed side of the contact elements.
  • the collecting mat For insertion of the contact elements in the receiving chambers, the collecting mat seal on the receiving chambers per an opening.
  • the diameter of each opening depends on the cross-sectional area of the contact element to be passed through and is dimensioned so that during the passage of the contact element, a reboundable expansion of the opening takes place.
  • each of the contact elements has a much larger cross-sectional area than the line connected to the contact element.
  • the elastic resilience of the openings in the collection mat seal can no longer completely return it to the plant on the lines and it may, caused by the bush-like design of the contacts, to sealing problems on the connector.
  • the socket contact according to the invention with the characterizing features of claim 1 has the advantage that the aforementioned inadequacy is avoided.
  • the socket contact is divided into two parts, wherein the parts on both sides of a seal for the connector are mounted separately from each other and to bring about an electrical connector only the first part of the socket contact, which is in the form of a contact pin with a small cross-sectional area passes through the seal.
  • the core idea of the invention is, instead of a socket contact, which has a contact, the knife or post-like formations evert, to strike a slender, rigid and knife-like contact pin to the electrical line and introduce it into the contact chamber of a connector such that he comes to lie in the paired state with the mating connector next to the knife or post-like contact pin of the mating connector and so performs the necessary contact and provides the necessary contact normal force.
  • the socket contact is essentially divided into two parts and the parts are mounted separately from each other in a contact chamber of a plug, wherein the first part is formed like a knife knife in the form of a contact pin. It comprises a connection part to which an electrical line can be struck and a contact part, which in the inserted state makes contact with a contact pin of the mating contact.
  • the second part is designed as a contact sleeve which comprises a contact pressure for pressing the contact pin against the contact pin inserted in the socket contact.
  • a contact chamber which consists of a contact carrier lower part with a cavity for receiving the contact sleeve and a contact carrier shell, wherein the bore is dimensioned smaller within the contact carrier part in diameter than the diameter of the cavity of the contact carrier lower part and a pressure plate, wherein within the contact chamber the socket contact according to the invention can be arranged.
  • a connector which has the socket contact according to the invention within at least one contact chamber.
  • the socket contact according to the invention for receiving a contact pin of a mating contact which preferably has knife or post-like constructions, is arranged within a contact chamber.
  • the socket contact is provided to form the second part of the socket contact, namely the contact sleeve, preferably as a stamped part, wherein the stamped part is bent in a further process step to a sleeve, wherein preferably before the bending process, the contact sleeve comprehensive contact surface with the contact pin the mating connector corresponds in the inserted state, is to be processed accordingly.
  • the contact surface may be provided as a processing to gild the contact surface to ensure better electrical conductivity or the contact surface is to be machined so that friction welds caused by vibrations acting on the electrical connector can be avoided.
  • the contact sleeve has so-called insertion and counterbreaks, which are formed by single or multiple bending or folding be so that the contact sleeve is inserted into the contact chamber and disposed within the contact chamber with virtually no play.
  • the contact sleeve has a latching element which is designed such that this latching element is latched to the first part of the socket contact, namely the contact pin, in the mounted state within a contact chamber.
  • this latching element is latched to the first part of the socket contact, namely the contact pin, in the mounted state within a contact chamber.
  • the free end of the contact pin engages with inserted contact pin within the contact chamber in a recess in the contact sleeve and locked there.
  • a bore is provided within the contact chamber, which corresponds to the region of the latch, such that a pin-like design can be introduced into this bore and the latched two parts separated from each other, so that when disassembling the contact sleeve of the contact pin can be disconnected again.
  • the contact pin is preferably formed like a lance. It is divided into a first area, in the so-called connection part and the wider area, in the so-called contact part. At the connection part, an electrical conductor is preferably already struck before the assembly.
  • the contact pin itself is a stamped and bent part that can be produced in several individual steps. Preferably, the contact pin has no sharp edges, so that when loading, for example, the sealing mat is not damaged.
  • the contact sleeve of the socket contact primarily has the function as a latching element for the contact pin serve and on the other hand, the contact sleeve takes on the further task of providing the necessary contact normal force with the corresponding contact surface, which acts in the fully mated condition on the mating connector or the contact pin.
  • the contact chamber for the socket contact according to the invention is specially designed.
  • the contact chamber of the electrical connector has a cavity with a defined diameter.
  • the contact chamber comprises a contact opening into which a contact pin of a mating connector can penetrate.
  • the contact sleeve is inserted into the contact chamber in such a way that in the region of the contact opening, a latching can be done with the still to be inserted pin.
  • a contact carrier shell is placed on the contact chamber, said contact carrier shell has a smaller diameter than the actual contact chamber. The diameter is dimensioned such that only the contact pin with its connection part and the connected to the connecting part electrical line can be inserted.
  • the cavity in which the contact sleeve is arranged is partially closed, so that the contact sleeve inside the contact chamber can not be moved out.
  • a seal can be arranged whose diameter is again smaller than the diameter of the opening of the contact carrier upper part. This is a fluid-tight seal created the contact chamber with respect to the external environment of the connector.
  • a pressure plate presses the seal against the contact carrier upper part or the contact carrier upper part against the actual contact chamber.
  • the inventive design of the contact chamber has the advantage that so-called collection mat seals can be applied instead of single seals, wherein a single seal has a plurality of openings, which in each case seal the openings to the contact chambers.
  • the pressure plate may be formed such that a single pressure plate is provided which presses in terms of area the collection mat seals on the preferably also integrally formed contact carrier upper part. The prepared in this way connector is available after mounting the contact sleeve and the contact carrier shell for applying a collection mat seal and the pressure plate.
  • the pad can, if necessary, within the contact chamber simply replaced and replaced without opening the previously described connector design.
  • FIG. 1 is a contact pin 2 of a socket contact 1 according to the invention, as in FIG. 8 shown.
  • the contact pin 2 has two areas, namely a connection part 3, to which an electrical line 4 is struck, preferably crimped.
  • the contact pin 2 has a contact part 5, which is provided with a in FIG. 8 shown contact pin 6 of a mating contact, not shown corresponds.
  • the contact part 5 has a contact surface 7, which, as in FIG. 2 represented, preferably embossed and preferably also gold-plated.
  • the contact pin 2, shown in the Figures 1 and 2 is formed like a knife in the embodiment shown here and has at its the connecting part 3 remote from the free end 8 a locking element 9. This locking element 9 is designed as a latching window 10, with the in the FIGS. 3 to 9 shown contact sleeves 11 cooperates.
  • the contact surface 7 is preferably formed as a dome, wherein the elevated part of the dome on the side of the inserted contact pin 6 (according FIG. 8 ).
  • the further part of the socket contact 1 according to the invention consists of the contact sleeve 11, as in Figure 3A-F is shown. From a stamped part, as shown in the illustration A, by bending processes, the in FIG. 3 , Illustration F shown Contact sleeve 11 created.
  • the contact surface 7 as well as import counterbores 13 as well as the preliminary stage of a latching element 14 are already shown.
  • the contact surface 7 is preferably gold plated.
  • the counter-tabs 13 are bent according to the method step according to illustration B and yield spacers 13 '.
  • the locking element 14 is also formed by bending and folding processes according to the representations B and C.
  • the contact sleeve 11 shown in Figure 3 F wherein the contact sleeve 11 has a contact opening 15 and the contact pressure shown in cross-section 16, which projects into the free space 17 of the contact sleeve 11 inside.
  • the latching element 14 ' is formed, which should correspond in the assembled state with the latching window 10 of the contact pin 2.
  • the contact carrier lower part 19 has a contact opening 21, which corresponds to the contact opening 15 of the contact sleeve 11.
  • the contact sleeve 11 is dimensioned in its width such that it corresponds to almost a diameter 22 of a cavity 23 of the contact carrier lower part 19. After insertion of the contact sleeve 11 into the cavity 23 of the contact carrier lower part 19, a contact carrier upper part 24 in the direction of arrow 25 on the contact carrier lower part 19 attached ( Fig. 5 ).
  • the contact carrier upper part 24 has a continuous bore 26, wherein a diameter 27 of the bore 26 is dimensioned smaller than the diameter 22 of the cavity 23. Due to the fact that the diameter 27 of the bore 26 is smaller than the diameter 22 of the cavity 23, the once inserted contact sleeve 11 is fixed within the cavity 23 of the contact carrier lower part 19 of the contact chamber 18.
  • a seal 28 is placed on the contact carrier upper part 24, wherein additionally in the direction of arrow 29, a pressure plate 30 acts on the seal 28, on the contact carrier upper part 24 and thus on the contact carrier lower part 19.
  • the opening provided in the seal 28 is substantially smaller than the diameter 27 of the bore 28 and corresponds approximately to the diameter or is smaller than the diameter of the electrical line 4 of the contact pin second
  • FIG. 6 the assembled state of a contact chamber 18 with a part of the mounted socket contact, namely the part of the contact sleeve 11 is shown.
  • the in Figure 7A-F is shown in the according FIG. 6
  • Completely illustrated contact chamber 18 of the contact pin 2 already introduced with crimped electrical line 4, in the direction of arrow 31 through the pressure plate 30, through the seal 28 and also through the contact carrier upper part 24 in the filled with the contact sleeve 11 cavity 23.
  • the free end of the contact part 2 is latched to the latching element 14 '(FIG. Fig. 7F ), so a subelement 39 of the contact sleeve 11 is pivoted into a free space 32 additionally provided in the contact carrier lower part 19.
  • This free space is in turn connected to a bore 33 in connection, wherein the bore 33 terminates in the embodiment shown here in the region of the contact opening 21 of the contact chamber 18.
  • the locking lug 14 ' provided in the contact sleeve 11 engages in the latching window 10 of the contact pin 2.
  • the novel contact construction thus has the significant advantage that connectors having socket contacts can use a single seal extending across all openings.

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Claims (9)

  1. Contact à douille à connecter électriquement à un contact complémentaire, ledit contact à douille (1) comportant une partie de raccordement (3) destinée à loger une ligne électrique (4), une partie de contact (5) et un ressort de compression (16) pour établir une connexion électrique avec le contact complémentaire (6), caractérisé en ce que le contact à douille (1) est divisé en deux et que les parties (2, 11) peuvent être montées de façon séparée l'une par rapport à l'autre des deux côtés d'un joint (28) prévu pour la fiche de raccordement, la première partie (2) étant réalisée pour traverser le joint (28) à la façon d'une lame sous la forme d'un connecteur mâle (2) et la deuxième partie (11) prenant la forme d'un connecteur femelle (11) comportant le ressort de compression (16) qui établit après introduction du connecteur mâle (2) d'une part et du contact complémentaire (6) d'autre part la complémentarité de force dans le connecteur femelle (11) et la connexion électrique avec le contact complémentaire (6).
  2. Contact à douille selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que l'extrémité libre (8) du connecteur mâle (2) comporte un élément d'arrêt (9) qui s'encliquète avec lui après introduction du connecteur mâle (2) dans le connecteur femelle (11).
  3. Contact à douille selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le connecteur mâle (2) s'encliquète avec un élément d'arrêt prévu dans une alvéole de contact (18).
  4. Contact à douille selon au moins l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le connecteur femelle (11) prend la forme d'une partie de poinçonnage et de flexion et est dimensionné de telle sorte qu'il peut être disposé dans une alvéole de contact (18).
  5. Contact à douille selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'arrêt est réalisé de telle sorte que la partie de contact (5) du connecteur mâle (2) comporte une fenêtre d'arrêt (10) dans la zone de l'extrémité libre (8) située dans la partie d'arrêt (9), fenêtre dans laquelle un bec d'arrêt (14) disposé sur un côté du connecteur femelle (11) s'encliquète.
  6. Contact à douille selon au moins l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la partie de contact (5) du connecteur mâle (2) présente une surface de contact (7) prenant la forme d'une calotte de contact dont la saillie repose à l'état de contact contre le contact complémentaire (6) prenant la forme d'une broche de contact (6).
  7. Alvéole de contact destinée à recevoir le contact à douilles selon la revendication 1 et ou selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 à 6 suivantes, caractérisée en ce que l'alvéole de contact (18) est réalisée dans une partie inférieure de support de contact (19) destinée à loger le connecteur femelle (11) et une ouverture de contact (21) destinée à l'introduction de la broche de contact (6) et sur le côté opposé à l'ouverture de contact (21) de laquelle une partie supérieure de support de contact (24) est disposée, ladite partie comportant un alésage (26) dont les dimensions intérieures sont inférieures aux dimensions intérieures de l'alvéole de contact (18).
  8. Connecteur à connecter électriquement à un connecteur complémentaire qui comporte un ou plusieurs contacts complémentaires prenant des configurations de type lame ou broche, caractérisé en ce que le connecteur comprend un contact à douille (1) selon la revendication 1 et/ou au moins une des revendications 2 à 6.
  9. Connecteur à connecter électriquement à un connecteur complémentaire, qui comporte un ou plusieurs contacts complémentaires prenant des configurations de type lame ou broche, caractérisé en ce que le connecteur comprend un contact à douille (1) selon la revendication 1 et/ou une alvéole de contact (18) selon la revendication 7.
EP06113968A 2005-07-12 2006-05-16 Contact à douille pour connecter électriquement à un contact supplémentaire et un connecteur ayant un tel contact Not-in-force EP1744406B1 (fr)

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