Classifications

• • 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
• • 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 present invention relates to a connector having a housing and at least two electrical, each having a longitudinal axis having contact elements, which are arranged on a plug side of the housing at predetermined positions and with respective longitudinal axis aligned parallel to a plug-in direction of the connector, according to the preamble of claim 1.
• contact element refers to any type of plug contact with one, two or more conductors, such as coaxial connectors in the form of coaxial and coaxial jack and pin contacts and socket contacts.
• complementary contact element or "countercontact element” designates the respectively associated plug-in contact into which the "contact element” can be inserted, that is to say, for example, for the coaxial contact element.
• the "complementary contact element” or it is for the pin contact as a “contact element” of the socket contact the "complementary contact element”.
• connector herein is meant a component having two or more “contact elements” and the “complementary connector” has the corresponding “complementary contact elements” to the "contact elements" of the "connector”.
• the several "contact elements” do not necessarily have to be the same.
• coaxial connectors may also be mixed with pin contacts.
• the type “pin” or “socket” does not necessarily have to be identical for all "contact elements” of a “connector”. Instead, coaxial couplers and coaxial connectors may be mixed in a "connector”.
• a car roof antenna which has a plurality of antennas, for example a mobile radio antenna and a GPS antenna, with corresponding devices, such as a mobile device and a GPS receiver
• corresponding devices such as a mobile device and a GPS receiver
• it is customary from the housing of the car roof antenna To lead out cable, which are provided at their free ends with corresponding contact elements.
• These contact elements are then connected separately and individually with complementary contact elements of cables leading to the devices.
• this type of electrical connection is complex and expensive.
• the invention has for its object to provide a connector of o.g. Improve type of assembly and electrical contact.
• each electrical contact element is arranged in a plane perpendicular to the insertion direction movable in the housing and is elastically resiliently connected via at least one electrically insulating, elastic spring element with at least one second electrical contact element, wherein the elastic spring element is arranged and designed such that the electrical contact elements are pre-positioned at the respective predetermined position to tolerance deviations and are elastically resiliently deflected from this point in the plane perpendicular to the insertion direction.
• the electrical contact elements in the housing of the connector are arranged movable so that the mobility of the electrical contact elements in the plane perpendicular to the direction of insertion includes tilting and / or translational parallel displacement of the longitudinal axes of the electrical contact elements.
• each electrical contact element is designed as a coaxial connector with an inner conductor and an outer conductor.
• each electrical contact element is connected to a signal conductor element, which in each case electrically connects an electrical contact element to a connection point for a cable.
• each signal conductor element is designed as a coaxial line or stripline and optionally has an electrical shield.
• all signal conductor elements are arranged extending from the respective contact element in a plane perpendicular to the insertion direction, each signal conductor element formed as a rigid component and provided in the housing for each signal conductor element a recess and is formed such that each signal conductor element together with the associated contact element in a plane perpendicular to the direction of insertion is movable.
• each electrical contact element is surrounded by an electrically insulating sleeve and each sleeve of an electrical contact element via a respective electrically insulating elastic spring element with a sleeve of an adjacent electrical contact element elastically resiliently connected, wherein the spring elements in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to the insertion direction, for example, ⁇ -shaped and sleeves and spring elements are integrally formed with each other to form a spring housing.
• first locking means and on each spring element second locking means are formed, which fix the spring elements cooperatively with the first locking means and with these the electrical contact elements on the housing.
• each first latching means comprises an elastically resilient tab which rises in the direction of insertion of the housing and has a recess
• each second latching means comprises a detent which rises perpendicular to the direction of insertion of the respective spring element and into the recess of the resilient Tab of the first locking means fits.
• a mechanical coding which prevents unwanted incorrect insertion of the connector according to the invention is provided by the fact that at least one of the tabs of the first locking means of the housing has a different width than the other tabs.
• For holding the connector in the inserted state rise from the housing in the insertion direction at least two, in particular three, from each other spaced latching pin with respective latching lug, which are designed to engage in a housing or plug-in interface, which carries complementary to the electrical contact elements of the connector contact elements.
• FIG. 1 shows a first preferred embodiment of a connector according to the invention in a schematic plan view of the plug side
• FIG. 2 shows a second preferred embodiment of a connector according to the invention in a perspective view
• FIG. 3 shows a housing of the connector according to FIG. 2 in a perspective view
• FIG. 6 shows the connector according to FIG. 2 in partially assembled state in a perspective view
• FIG. 7 shows the spring housing of the connector according to FIG. 2 in a perspective view from below, FIG.
• the first preferred embodiment of a connector 100 comprises a housing 110 in which elongated socket contacts 112 are arranged, of which in the plan view of FIG. 1, only the end faces are visible.
• These socket contacts 112 are connected to each other by a network of elastic spring elements 114 and fixed by means of this network of spring elements 114 within the housing 110 at positions corresponding to a nominal dimension (nominal positions) for the socket contacts 112. These positions correspond to the positions of pin contacts within a housing of a mating connector or complementary plug-in connector, in which the connector is inserted.
• each socket contact 112 can move away from this desired position in an arbitrary direction within the plane of the drawing independently of the other socket contacts 112.
• the network of spring elements 114 is designed in such a way that each socket contact 112 can move by the order of magnitude of tolerance deviations from the desired positions in accordance with the nominal dimension for the individual contacts.
• the socket contacts 112 may move slightly out of their respective desired position to adapt to corresponding pin contacts , which are rigidly fixed, ie fixed, with tolerance deviation from the target position according to the nominal dimension in the mating connector.
• This allows a mating arranged in a matrix contact elements, without the electrical contact negatively affecting mechanical stresses or damage within the contact elements during mating due to tolerance deviations of the position of contact plugs or pins or contact sockets result.
• contact pins and accordingly can be provided in the mating connector contact sockets.
• sockets and pins may be mixed in the connector, wherein then the mating connector has a correspondingly complementary mixture of sockets and pins.
• the second preferred embodiment of a connector 200 according to the invention comprises a housing 210, three signal conductor elements 212, three contact elements 214 and a spring housing 216.
• Arrow 222 denotes an insertion direction into which the plug connector 200 according to the invention in FIG a complementary connector or its plug interface, for example, a device or a cable can be inserted.
• This plug-in direction 222 in this example is substantially perpendicular to a plane defined by the housing 210, so that it is an angle plug. However, this is just an example.
• the plug-in direction 222 could also be aligned with a longitudinal axis of the connector, so that it is not a right angle connector but a straight connector.
• the contact elements 214 are designed as coaxial plug connectors with inner conductor 218 and outer conductor 220.
• the signal conductor elements 212 are each formed as a strip line extending in a plane perpendicular to the plug-in direction 222 and each connect a Koaxial alsteckverbinder 214 with a cable connection 224 at a cable-side end 226 of the connector 200.
• the strip lines 212 are formed with three interconnects stacked in a sandwich manner, wherein the middle interconnect transmits the electrical RF signal and the two outer paths for electrical shielding of the signal conductor are connected to ground.
• the housing comprises, as shown particularly in FIG. 3, recesses 228 for receiving one of the strip lines 212. These recesses 228 are dimensioned such that the strip lines 212 can move in a plane perpendicular to the direction of insertion 222.
• first latching means 230 rise in the form of elastically resilient tabs with respective recess 232.
• latching journals 234 with respective locking lugs 236, which (not shown for snapping into a plug-in interface of a mating connector or device housing ) out- are formed to mechanically connect the housing 200 with the mating connector or the device housing.
• elastically resilient latching tabs 238 are provided on the cable-side end 226 of the housing 210, which are provided for fastening the strip lines 212 to the housing 210 on the cable-side end 226, as can be seen in particular from FIG.
• the spring housing 216 which can be seen in more detail from FIGS. 5 and 7 to 9, comprises three sleeves 240 made of electrically insulating material, each of which surrounds a coaxial connector 214.
• the sleeves 240 are provided at one of the plug-in direction 222 facing side at its periphery with a chamfer 242, which serve as a capture range for corresponding complementary coaxial connector when inserting the connector 200 according to the invention in the plug interface of a complementary mating connector.
• the sleeves 240 are connected to one another via elastically resilient spring elements 244 in such a way that the sleeves 240 together with the spring elements form the spring sleeve 216 which, on the one hand, holds the coaxial connectors 214 at a predetermined position according to the nominal dimension (nominal position) and, on the other hand, an elastic deflection of the sleeves 240 and thus allows the coaxial connector 214 relative to each other, so that the coaxial connector 214 to tolerance-related deviations of the position of the complementary coaxial connector from its nominal position, which are rigidly in the mating connector or the plug-in interface, in which the connector 200 according to the invention is to be inserted, are arranged , can adapt by appropriate movement of the target position according to the specified size away.
• the plug-in connector 200 allows simultaneous insertion of three separate coaxial connectors into corresponding complementary coaxial connectors, without having to arrange these complementary coaxial connectors with excessive requirements for low tolerance of positioning in the mating connector. This saves costs and production costs due to lower tolerance requirements or larger permissible tolerance deviations from the nominal dimension or the nominal position of the coaxial connectors 214 and complementary coaxial connectors.
• the sleeves 240 and spring elements 244 form the spring housing 216 and are formed integrally with each other.
• the sleeves 240 elastically resiliently connecting spring elements 244 are formed in a cross-section perpendicular to the insertion direction 222 is substantially ⁇ -shaped and wear on its outer side second locking means 246 in the form of locking lugs which fit into the recesses 232 of the tabs 230.
• the coaxial connectors 214 can indeed be elastically deflected out of the desired position in the plane perpendicular to the plug-in direction 222, but are fixed along the plug-in direction 222.
• each sleeve 240 receives a Koaxialsteckverbinder 214, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 can be seen.
• the strip lines 212 are inserted into the recesses 228 of the housing 210 opposite to the plug-in direction 222 until the latching tabs 238 of the housing 210 snap over the strip lines 212 and the detents 246 of the spring elements 244 of the spring housing 216 in the recesses 232 of the tabs 230, whereby the respective arrangements of coaxial connector 214, stripline 212 and cable terminal 224 are connected on the one hand to the housing 210, but on the other hand, the coaxial connectors 214 relative to each other by the clearance of the strip lines 212 in the recesses 228 and the elastic spring action of the spring elements 244 in a plane perpendicular can move to the direction of insertion 222 in the order of tolerance deviations away from the desired position.
• the tabs 230 have different widths.
• a mechanical coding available that prevents a twisted incorrect insertion of the connector 200 into the mating interface of the mating connector. This ensures that always the right coaxial connector 214 of the connector 200 meets the correct complementary coaxial connector in the plug-in interface of the complementary connector.
• the plug-in interface is for example an arrangement of complementary coaxial connectors in the housing of a car roof antenna with multiple antennas, for example, a mobile radio antenna and a GPS antenna.
• Each antenna has its own coaxial connector.
• the electrical connection between the antenna and the respective terminal, in this example mobile telephone and GPS receiver, takes place directly by inserting the connector 200 according to the invention into the plug-in interface of the vehicle roof antenna.
• the respective coaxial connector for mobile radio antenna and GPS antenna are plugged together.
• An additional cable connection can be omitted.
• the complementary coaxial connectors are each connected directly to the associated antenna. In addition to an improvement of the signal transmission by fewer impact points in the signal path results in a simplified assembly, since the respective pairs of coaxial connector / complementary coaxial connector for the various antennas must not be plugged together separately.

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