EP1936755B1 - Connecteur comportant une prise et une douille avec un support de contacts et une collerette de protection - Google Patents

Connecteur comportant une prise et une douille avec un support de contacts et une collerette de protection Download PDF

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EP1936755B1
EP1936755B1 EP07023407.5A EP07023407A EP1936755B1 EP 1936755 B1 EP1936755 B1 EP 1936755B1 EP 07023407 A EP07023407 A EP 07023407A EP 1936755 B1 EP1936755 B1 EP 1936755B1
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protective collar
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contact carrier
coupler
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Rudolf Fekonja
Arnold Federer
Kurt Ellensohn
Dagmar Dirnbauer
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Bayerische Motoren Werke AG
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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
    • H01R13/627—Snap or like fastening
    • H01R13/6271—Latching means integral with the housing
    • H01R13/6273—Latching means integral with the housing comprising two latching arms

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  • Such a connector is from the document US Pat. No. 6,579,118 known.
  • the invention is therefore based on the object to provide a connector consisting of a plug and a coupler that can be brought into operative connection, which meets the requirements described above.
  • this connector should be easy to assemble and easy to assemble after assembly, fast and reliable.
  • the protective collar and the contact carrier of the coupler and a plug socket of the plug in operative connection with each other engageable latching means, which cause first the protective collar is brought to the contact carrier in a Vorverrast ein, after which the contact carrier is mated with the socket and after complete insertion of the protective collar is displaced in the direction of the socket and locked there in an end position.
  • This structure has the advantage that in the manufacturer and confectioner of the connector of the contact carrier, having contact chambers for contact partners, manufactured and equipped with the contact partners. Subsequently, the plugging (in particular pushing) of the protective collar (housing) takes place on the contact carrier, wherein this comes into abutment in a Vorverrast ein on the contact carrier.
  • the plug can be made independently of the coupler and also assembled. After this assembly then plug and coupler in another operation, especially in a vehicle manufacturer, are mounted and plugged together, wherein the locking means according to the invention further have the advantage that they are designed so that the protective collar only from its Vorverrast ein in a Endverrast ein the plug can be brought if the contact carrier has been completely mated with the plug.
  • further latching means are present, which cause the protective collar is latchingly fixed to the plug, after the protective collar has been brought into its Endverrast ein. This is, as already said, possible only when the contact carrier and plug have been put together in their desired position. This is important, therefore, so that the contacting of the contact partners in the plug and in the coupler can be effective.
  • Another advantage of the latching connection between protective collar and contact carrier is the fact that by the removal of the protective collar from its pre-latching position on the contact carrier in a Endverrast ein also appropriately designed contact partners are actuated. This is particularly important when a so-called zero-force connector is to be achieved.
  • This facilitates in particular the mating plug and coupler, so that the ease of assembly is improved due to lower applied forces. It can be achieved in this field, higher contact normal forces than conventional connectors.
  • FIGS. 1 to 7 show, as far as shown in detail, a designated 1 connector, their components and the interaction of these components during assembly.
  • the connector 1 consists of a coupler, comprising a protective collar 2 (housing) and a contact carrier 3, and a plug, comprising at least one socket 4.
  • the socket 4 is with its details in FIG. 2 shown, wherein it can be seen that the socket 4 is formed as a plug with contact pins 5.
  • the socket 4 has a base plate 5 (stop surface) and an outgoing, for example, approximately square collar 7, wherein at least one first latching lug 8 and at least one further latching lug 9 are arranged on the socket 4.
  • two locking lugs 8 are arranged approximately at the upper edge of the collar 7 and in the direction of actuation slightly below it opposite latching lugs 9 also on the collar 7.
  • FIG. 3 shows an exemplary embodiment of the protective collar 2, which has a latching hook 10 as a first latching means and a further latching hook or a recess 11 as a further latching means. Also in the protective collar 2, as in the socket 4, the arrangement of the locking means opposite and symmetrical, so that these locking means of the protective collar 2 with the locking lugs 8, 9 of the socket 4 can correspond.
  • FIG. 4 shows the contact carrier in its exemplary construction, wherein contact chambers for receiving contact partners (as a counterpart to the contact pin 5) and a cable are present, but not shown.
  • the contact carrier 3 has outwardly facing latching means which are in this embodiment, a latching tab 12 and a locking lug 13 arranged thereon, wherein the latching lug 13 protrudes from the upper part of the locking tab 12 and the locking tab 12 in turn has a recess 14.
  • These latching means 12 to 14 are arranged on opposite sides of the contact carrier 3 and thus symmetrically. It is also in FIG. 4 already demonstrated the first assembly step, namely that protection collar 2 and contact carrier 3 have been brought into connection, so that a Vorverrast ein between protective collar 2 and contact carrier 3 is given.
  • the structure of the elements of the connector 1 is approximately square or rectangular and at the same time symmetrical.
  • the individual components of the plug connection 1 can also have differently shaped cross sections (eg oval or round).
  • an asymmetric structure is also conceivable by the latching means are arranged only on one side or only at one point of the components of the connector 1 involved.
  • the symmetrical structure as shown in the figures, has the advantage that tilting during assembly of the elements involved excluded and the locking action, ie, the stability is increased.

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  1. Connecteur (1) constitué d'un au moins une fiche comportant un socle enfichable (4) et d'un coupleur pouvant être mis en liaison fonctionnelle avec celui-ci, qui comporte au moins un support de contact (3) muni d'une collerette de protection (2), dans lequel la collerette de protection (2) ainsi que le support de contact (3) sont mobiles séparément l'un de l'autre et l'un par rapport à l'autre, et la collerette de protection (2), le support de contact (3) muni de chambres de contact ainsi que le socle enfichable (4) comportent des moyens d'encliquetage pouvant être mis en liaison fonctionnelle les uns avec les autres de manière à ce que la collerette de protection (4) soit tout d'abord amenée à une position de préverrouillage avec le support de contact (3), dans lequel le support de contact (3) est ensuite accouplé au socle enfichable (2) et, après un enfichage complet, la collerette de protection (2) est décalée dans la direction du socle enfichable (4) et y est enclenchée à une position d'extrémité, caractérisé en ce que le socle enfichable (4) comporte au moins un premier ergot d'encliquetage (8) destiné au préverrouillage avec la collerette de protection (2) ainsi qu'au moins un autre ergot d'encliquetage (9) destiné à l'encliquetage final avec la collerette de protection (2), dans lequel les ergots d'encliquetage (8, 9) sont disposés espacés l'un de l'autre dans la direction d'actionnement de la collerette de protection (2).
  2. Connecteur (1) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les moyens d'encliquetage sont conçus et sont disposés sur la collerette de protection (2), le support de contact (3) et le socle enfichable (4) de manière à ce que le décalage de la collerette de protection (2) vers sa position d'extrémité sur le socle enfichable (4) ne soit possible que lorsque la collerette de protection (4) a été amenée à la position de préverrouillage avec le support de contact (3).
  3. Connecteur (1) selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le socle enfichable (4) comporte au moins un premier ergot d'encliquetage (8) destiné au préverrouillage avec la collerette de protection (2) ainsi qu'au moins un autre ergot d'encliquetage (9) destiné à l'encliquetage final avec la collerette de protection (2), dans lequel les ergots d'encliquetage (8, 9) sont disposés espacés l'un de l'autre dans la direction d'actionnement de la collerette de protection (2).
  4. Connecteur (1) selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que le socle enfichable (4) comporte une plaque de base (6) munie d'un collier (7) circonférentiel disposé sur celle-ci, dans lequel les ergots d'encliquetage (8, 9) sont disposés sur le collier (7).
  5. Connecteur (1) selon la revendication 3 ou 4, caractérisé en ce que deux premiers ergots d'encliquetage (8) respectifs ainsi que deux autres ergots d'encliquetage (9) respectifs opposés sont disposés sur le socle enfichable (4).
  6. Connecteur (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que le support de contact (3) comporte au moins un ergot d'encliquetage (13) ainsi qu'au moins une patte d'encliquetage (12) munie d'un évidement (14), dans lequel l'ergot d'encliquetage (13) et la patte d'encliquetage (12) sont disposés consécutivement dans la direction d'actionnement de la collerette de protection (4) mobile sur le support de contact (3).
  7. Connecteur (1) selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que la collerette de protection (2) comporte au moins un évidement (11) coopérant avec l'ergot d'encliquetage (9) ainsi qu'au moins un crochet d'encliquetage (10) muni d'un évidement coopérant avec l'ergot d'encliquetage (8).
  8. Connecteur (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que deux évidements (11) respectifs et deux crochets d'encliquetage (10) respectifs sont disposés à l'opposé l'un de l'autre.
  9. Connecteur (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que, pour encliqueter la fiche et le coupleur, une force n'est appliquée que lorsque la fiche et le coupleur ont au moins été amenés à une position de préverrouillage l'un par rapport à l'autre.
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