EP2031703A2 - Dispositif de fabrication une connexion d'un câble plat sans sa dénudation - Google Patents

Dispositif de fabrication une connexion d'un câble plat sans sa dénudation Download PDF

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EP2031703A2
EP2031703A2 EP08015558A EP08015558A EP2031703A2 EP 2031703 A2 EP2031703 A2 EP 2031703A2 EP 08015558 A EP08015558 A EP 08015558A EP 08015558 A EP08015558 A EP 08015558A EP 2031703 A2 EP2031703 A2 EP 2031703A2
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Andreas Dreier
Christian Gossmann
William Vogel
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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
    • H01R4/24—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands
    • H01R4/2404—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands the contact members having teeth, prongs, pins or needles penetrating the insulation
    • H01R4/2412—Connections using contact members penetrating or cutting insulation or cable strands the contact members having teeth, prongs, pins or needles penetrating the insulation actuated by insulated cams or wedges
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R12/00—Structural associations of a plurality of mutually-insulated electrical connecting elements, specially adapted for printed circuits, e.g. printed circuit boards [PCB], flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures, e.g. terminal strips, terminal blocks; Coupling devices specially adapted for printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures; Terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables, or like generally planar structures
    • H01R12/50—Fixed connections
    • H01R12/59—Fixed connections for flexible printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables or like structures
    • H01R12/594—Fixed connections for flexible printed circuits, flat or ribbon cables or like structures for shielded flat cable
    • 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
    • H01R13/62933—Comprising exclusively pivoting lever
    • H01R13/62938—Pivoting lever comprising own camming means
    • 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
    • H01R13/62933—Comprising exclusively pivoting lever
    • H01R13/62955—Pivoting lever comprising supplementary/additional locking means
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/01—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for connecting unstripped conductors to contact members having insulation cutting edges
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R43/00—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors
    • H01R43/20—Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining, or repairing of line connectors or current collectors or for joining electric conductors for assembling or disassembling contact members with insulating base, case or sleeve
    • H01R43/24—Assembling by moulding on contact members

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  • the present invention relates generally to terminal devices, and more particularly to an apparatus for stripping-free manufacture of a terminal to a flat cable having at least one shielded data line having one or more wires.
  • connection devices with which a continuous flat cable without tearing of the wires and without removal of wire and cable insulation can be tapped, have been known for over 30 years.
  • An early publication in this respect from the applicant's home is, for example, the German patent application DE-AS 2 206 187 , This publication was only about the tapping of power lines, so lines with unshielded wires. Tapped screws were used as tapping contacts.
  • the connection was made by the connecting device with its housing - initially without the contact screws - placed on the cable and then the cable was also enclosed on the back of a housing plate. Finally, the tapping was done by the guided in the housing with internal threads contact screws were screwed into the flat cable. They penetrated with their tip first the outer insulation of the flat cable, then the respective core insulation, and finally penetrated with the tip in the head of each vein. This contacted the vein in question.
  • the tapping takes place as in the above-mentioned DE-AS 2 206 187 by screwing in contact screws. So that the contact screws do not produce short circuits between the contacted wire conductors and the shield, they are equipped with a layer of insulating material on the shaft.
  • the contact elements have the basic shape of rotational bodies.
  • the resulting contact tips are flat and have a constant thickness, namely the sheet thickness.
  • Such flat contact elements serve - as far as visible - only the tapping of unshielded cables.
  • the object of the present invention (technical problem) is to provide a connection device of the type mentioned in the introduction which can be installed easily and safely.
  • the invention relates to a device for stripping-free production of a connection to a flat cable, which has at least one shielded data line with one or more wires.
  • the device has at least one tap contact for the stripping-free penetration of shielding and insulation and for making contact with a wire.
  • the tap contact is designed to be electrically conductive at its free end, and is equipped at its flank region with an insulation in order to avoid a short circuit between the wire to be contacted and the shield.
  • the tap contact is arranged on a pressure plate, that the production of the connection by applying force to the pressure plate to the flat cable out and a concomitant penetration of the tap contact takes place in the flat cable.
  • the pressure plate is articulated on one side, so that the impressions of at least one tap contact by a pivoting movement of the pressure plate to the flat cable (4) takes place.
  • the tap contact is slidably disposed on the pressure plate to prevent relative movement between the tap contact and flat cable in the cable longitudinal direction when penetrating into the flat cable.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates a connection device in the open state in perspective view.
  • connection devices with articulated pressure plate a relative movement between the tapping contact and flat cable in the cable longitudinal direction for pulling in the shield may be responsible.
  • an additional component of movement relative to the cable in the direction of the joint may occur during the pivoting movement for pressing in the tapping contacts on an insulating flank lying proximally to the joint (eg if the joint lies above the contact end of the tapping contact).
  • Proximal here means “facing the joint” (opposite: “distal”, ie facing away from the joint). Proceeding from this, the invention reduces the problem of pulling in the shield in that this additional movement component can not even occur due to a displaceable arrangement of the tap contact. This measure has proven to be surprisingly effective.
  • the tap contact would therefore lead to immobile mounting on the pressure plate to a movement component of the tap contact in cable longitudinal direction.
  • the direction of this component of motion is such that the tapping contact would be displaced towards the hinge as it enters the flat cable.
  • the tap contact is arranged displaceably on the pressure plate in some embodiments.
  • the direction of displacement is such that the tap contact is moved away from the hinge as it penetrates the flat cable relative to the pressure plate. To achieve such a shift, the tap contact is in the longitudinal direction of the pressure plate displaceable.
  • the displacement of the tap contact takes place, for example, by entrainment in the course of penetration: as soon as the free end of the blade engages in the sheath of the flat cable, a relative displacement of the tap contact to the flat cable is practically impossible (because of the intervention would require a relatively large force).
  • the pivoting movement leads to a relative movement between the flat cable and the pressure plate in the longitudinal direction.
  • the early determination of the tap contact on the flat cable causes the tap contact is taken from the cable, so in the course of further pivoting is moved relative to the pressure plate away from the joint.
  • this is effectively automated by the displaceable tapping contact in the pressure plate is subjected to force (eg spring loaded), such that it is in the end position of its displacement area before the penetration into the flat cable by the application of force (eg spring loading), which then in Course of penetration allows a shift of the tap contact to prevent movement relative to the flat cable in the cable longitudinal direction.
  • force eg spring loaded
  • the tap contact is acted upon by a spring to the proximal stop of its displacement region.
  • the biasing force is on the one hand sufficiently large to move the still freely displaceable (ie not yet engaging in the cable) tap contact on the pressure plate to the proximal stop, but on the other hand is sufficiently small to entrain the tapping contact by the relative movement after engagement with the flat cable the cable to the pressure plate (otherwise the tap contact would cut the cable lengthwise).
  • tapping contact is part of the slide displaceable in the pressure plate.
  • the tapping contact is made of a metal molding surrounded at least in the flank region by insulating material.
  • the metal molding is, for example, by casting and stamping / pressing with possibly machining post-processing, eg for sharpening said cutting edge, produced.
  • the insulating flank region of the tapping contact is made integral with the carriage.
  • the carriage then has on its side oriented toward the flat cable, for example, a surface which is substantially complementary to the outer contour of the flat cable, but at the subsequent tapping points has wart-like or cutting-like projections.
  • Through central bores in these protrusions during production, e.g. put the said metal moldings and back secured against falling out and contacted.
  • the bleed contacts are easy to produce.
  • suitable mating shaping of the metal moldings and the protrusions in the pressure plate or in the slide the abovementioned stepless transition between the contact end formed by the metal molding and the insulation formed by the protrusion can be achieved.
  • the said one-piece production of the insulating flank regions of the tapping contacts with the slide may, for example, be an impression in a common casting process (for example plastic injection molding).
  • the tapping contact in some embodiments at its free end on a cutting edge, which is parallel to the flat cable or slightly inclined thereto.
  • the shield - which is usually at least partially made of an elastic material, e.g. a metallized plastic film - less stress on elongation (i.e., in the direction of normal tension) as the tapping contact is penetrated.
  • the cutting edge lies in an imaginary plane, which is spanned by the wire to be contacted and the penetration direction. This means that in these embodiments with a slightly inclined cutting edge, the cutting edge and the wire to be contacted are not skewed, but together in one Lie flat.
  • the shearing effect is most evident in those embodiments in which the cutting edge in the longitudinal direction of the flat cable, that is not inclined to this runs. However, the shear effect does not disappear abruptly, if one arranges the cutting edge inclined to the flat cable longitudinal direction.
  • the "slightly inclined" course of the cutting edge is therefore here understood to mean the angle of inclination of the cutting edge relative to the cable longitudinal direction which is less than or equal to 30 °, preferably less than or equal to 20 °, and particularly preferably less than or equal to 10 °.
  • the cutting edge is in the form of a single line piece.
  • the cutting edge may be composed of a plurality of differently inclined straight line sections. It is possible, for example, a cutting mold in the manner of a "V", which may be either on the top or rotated by 180 °. It is also possible to string several "V's" together to create a total serrated shape.
  • the above angle specifications refer to the individual straight sections of the cutting edge; In fact, in the examples given, it is very flat "V".
  • the cutting edge is not straight or piecewise straight, but has a curved shape, for example, the shape of a circular section or ellipse section or a portion of another basket arch shape (ie, a shape whose radius of curvature increases from the edges toward the center).
  • the cutting edge continues continuously into a more curved cutting edge; Both together then have, for example, the shape of a semicircle, a semi-ellipse or another basket arch shape.
  • the cutting edge includes - as will be explained in more detail below - on the cutting edge on one or both sides of a more inclined insulating cutting edge.
  • a "relatively large radius of curvature” in this sense is, for example, when the radius of curvature of a tapping contact in the center is greater than or equal to half the extension of the tapping contact in the longitudinal direction (note: for a semicircular arc, the radius of curvature is uniformly equal to half the length of the tapping contact for example, in the case of an elliptical half arc with the major axis of the ellipse in the longitudinal direction, the radius of curvature in the middle, for example, is greater than half the extent of the longitudinal contact point of the tapping contact).
  • a tip (eg the tip of the contact element 32 of FIG Fig. 14 of the DE 201 11 496 U1 ) is punctiform in the region of its extremum, and thus has no extension in the longitudinal direction, in the case of an imaginary ideal tip. In practice, a peak will be more or less rounded, but in order for it to still act as a peak, its radius of curvature will generally be far below the above values.
  • this length is preferably greater than or equal to half the diameter of the conductor of the strand to be contacted, and particularly preferably greater than or equal to this diameter.
  • the length of the cutting edge will usually not exceed 5 to 20 times the diameter of the conductor.
  • the isolated flank area widens in the transverse plane (ie, in cross section perpendicular to the cutting edge).
  • the initially separated shield together with the surrounding insulating material is spread apart transversely to the direction of penetration, which can additionally counteract the pulling in of the shield.
  • this broadening thus continues into the insulated flank region, for example at least up to the height of the shield (the latter based on the contacted state of the connecting device ).
  • the expanding training of the limited Tapping contact not only on the electrically conductive contact area, but also extends into the isolated shaft area.
  • the electrically conductive contact area is not broadened in the transverse plane (ev. Apart from a sharpening of the blade); Here, the isolated flank area alone ensures this broadening.
  • a stepless transition in some embodiments with a widening contact element between the electrically conductive free end (also called “contact end”) and the insulation, a stepless transition, so that the contact end and the insulation in terms of shaping form a unitary body.
  • the broadening already begins in the electrically conductive contact region, thus following the cutting of the cable and wire insulation and the shield immediately spreading the cable in a continuous process, the - to the depth of the cable to be tapped, in the the shield is located, starting from the metallically conductive contact end and continuing from the insulated edge.
  • the not or only slightly inclined cutting edge includes a more inclined insulating cutting flank (in the case of two-sided connection: two insulating cutting flanks).
  • the tap contact thus has (also) in the longitudinal plane, i. the imaginary plane, which is spanned by the cutting edge and the direction of penetration, a widening shape.
  • the change in inclination between the cutting edge and the cutting edge occurs abruptly, ie in the manner of a bend (although this bend may or may not be at the point of transition from conductive to insulating material).
  • the change in inclination between the cutting edge and the cutting edge is continuous, i. without kink.
  • the entire blade (or the entire portion of the blade that enters the conductor of the wire to be contacted) is electrically conductive; only the flank is insulating .. But this is not absolutely necessary; In other embodiments, therefore, only part of the cutting edge (or only part of the part of the cutting edge penetrating into the conductor of the wire to be contacted) is designed to be electrically conductive, but the other part thereof is designed to be insulating.
  • the cutting edge is partly made of insulating material, for example, and only central portion of the cutting edge is off conductive material.
  • a curved cutting edge can be made of one piece of insulating plastic material into which an electrically conductive metal pin is inserted, which forms part of the cutting surface at the point penetrating the deepest in the flat cable.
  • the definitions made concerning the angle course of the cutting edge now relate to the angular position of the cutting edge in the fully contacted state of the tapping contact.
  • the definitions made about the angle of the cutting edge refer to the angular position that the cutting edge has when it penetrates the shielding.
  • the tapping contact also has at least one more inclined insulating cutting edge.
  • the insulating cutting edge continues the cutting edge.
  • the entire part of the cutting edge, which penetrates into the conductor of the wire to be contacted, is electrically conductive.
  • FIG. 1 - 5 Overall views of connecting devices
  • FIG. 1 to 5 these overall perspective views ( Fig. 1 and 3 ) and side views ( Fig. 2 and 4 ) of embodiments of terminal devices 1 which differ in the form of contact. And that show Fig. 1 . 3 and 5 a connection device with tapping contacts with straight cutting edge, while the Fig. 2 and 4 represent another with curved cutting edges.
  • the figures show the connecting device 1 in the open state ( Fig. 1 and 2 ) and when closed ( Fig. 3 and 4 ), as well as a front view of the opened state ( Fig. 5 ).
  • the connecting device 1 is composed of a lower part 2 and an upper part 3, which can accommodate a tapped flat cable 4 between them.
  • Upper and lower part 2, 3 are initially separate components that have complementary latching cams 19 (FIG. Fig. 3 ) can be assembled so that they are about a common pivot axis 18 ( Fig. 2 ) from the open state ( Fig. 1 . 2 and 5 ) in a closed state ( Fig. 3 and 4 ) can be swiveled.
  • the inner sides of the lower part 2 and the upper part 3 each form a pressure plate 5 and 6, respectively.
  • the flat cable 4 ( Fig. 1 . 3 and 5 ) has an outer contour which has no symmetry with respect to a rotation of the flat cable 4 by 180 °.
  • it has five power cores 7 running in the middle plane of the cable 4 (eg the three conductors of a three-phase system, the return conductor and a protective conductor);
  • a shielded data line 8 In the same plane is also located on one side of the flat cable 4 is a shielded data line 8. It is, for example, a symmetrical pair line, which in the example shown two parallel extending non-twisted data wires 9 has.
  • the data cores 9 are jointly surrounded by a shield 22, which is, for example, a conductive (eg metallized) plastic film.
  • each power core 7 is located outside the flat cable 4 each have a longitudinal recess. However, no such depression is found between the data wires 9, since there the shield 22 is flat; This already eliminates a possible symmetry with respect to a rotation of the cable 4 by 180 °.
  • a particularly deep constriction exists between the outermost energy supply core 7 and the subsequent data line; This also acts symmomentelockedd.
  • the pressure plates 5, 6 have a complementary shape to this cable outer contour, so that the flat cable 4 can be inserted only in a specific orientation in the lower part 2, thus thus a "coding" of connecting device 1 and 4 cable is achieved.
  • Fig. 5 provides a view from the front of the obliquely upward pressure plate 6, wherein the outer contour of the cable complementary inner contour is visible.
  • a tapping contact 10 for the data cores 9 is provided in the pressure plate 6 of the upper part 3, which protrudes directed from the pressure plate 5 to the flat cable 4 out.
  • the two tap contacts 10 are fixed (ie, non-rotatable and non-displaceable) arranged in the upper pressure plate 6.
  • the two tapping contacts 10 are arranged offset in order to distribute the spreading of the data cores 9, which is accompanied by the impressions of the tapping contacts 10, to different locations, viewed in the cable longitudinal direction.
  • two tap contacts 10 are shown in FIG Fig. 4 however, only one is shown - the reason is that in Fig. 3 through the left tapping 10 in Fig. 5 walks into Fig. 4 however, through the right tap 10 in Fig. 5 ).
  • Tapping contacts 20 for the power conductors 7 shown are designed as non-insulated heavy current contacts, for example, in the manner of the WO 2005/057729 A1 known contacts, so that no further explanations follow. If “tapping contacts” are mentioned briefly below, this always refers to the tap contacts 10 for the data line 8.
  • the upper part 3 is equipped with a two-sided lever 11, which is hinged to a lever axis 12 on the upper part 3 and this engages fork-shaped.
  • a lever axis 12 on the upper part 3 On the side facing the flat cable 4 side of the lever, this has on both sides of the upper part 3 each have a fork thirteenth on, which engage in a complementary fork recess 14 in the lower part 2 and can engage under a fork abutment 15 provided there.
  • this is equipped with a handle 16.
  • the tap contacts 10 are not fixedly arranged in the pressure plate 6, but in a longitudinally displaceable in the pressure plate 6 slides 35.
  • the carriage 35 is slidably mounted in a provided in the pressure plate 6 slide in the longitudinal direction of the pressure plate 6.
  • the carriage 35 is formed for example of plastic, namely z. B. in one piece with the isolation of the tap contact 10 shown in detail below.
  • In the slide 35 together with insulation plastic part forming a contact piece 29 is inserted from metal; it enters the surface of the tapping contact 10 at the free end of a cutting edge.
  • the longitudinal direction of the pressure plate 6 (ie, the direction in which the tap contact 10 is slidable) coincides with the longitudinal direction of the flat cable 4.
  • the two directions do not coincide exactly, but differ by the pivot angle ⁇ of the connection device; However, in the projection of the pressure plate 6 on the flat cable 4, they also fall together in the open state.
  • the carriage 35 is limited in its longitudinal movement by stops, by a proximal stop 36 and a distal stop 37.
  • the maximum possible movement stroke between these two stops is in FIG. 15 represented and designated x 1 .
  • the carriage 35 is spring-loaded, so that it is in the open state of the connection device 1 in the in FIG. 2 illustrated initial position 38 is located. In fact, in this initial position 38 it bears against the proximal stop 36.
  • connection device 1 The installation of a cable connection using the connection device 1 is hereby carried out in the following manner: First, the flat cable 4 is inserted into the (still separate) lower part. Then, lower part 2 and upper part 3 are joined together at their latching cams 19 to form their pivot axis 19. The lower and upper parts are then initially in an open position, for example, at an angle of 15 ° to each other, as in the Fig. 1 and 2 is shown. The operator now inserts the fork 13 into the fork recess 14, and pushes the lever 11 down. As a result - with force reduction due to the leverage - the upper part 3 is pressed onto the flat cable 4, so that the tap contacts 10 in the data line 8 penetrate and contact the data wires 9, and the terminal device 1 finally in the in the Fig. 3 and 4 shown closed state comes.
  • connection device 1 is thus already in its final state; a to be pushed over the handle 16 locking 17 prevents the connecting device 1 could return to its open position.
  • the actual installation of a connection is thus - after inserting the cable and joining the device - without tools with only one hand movement feasible.
  • connection device 1 has on the upper part 3 on a outlet socket 21, which is encoded, for example, according to one of the common industrial connector systems (eg Wieland®, Wago® or Ensto®).
  • the data line 8 is, for example, an EIB, LON or CAN bus.
  • the connection device 1 may be, for example, a so-called actuator, that is to say a device which is equipped with one or more switches which can be actuated by a control signal for the power cores branching off to the outgoing socket 21.
  • the control signals for switching on and off come as signals, for example, according to the EIB, LON or CAN standard on the data line 8.
  • connection device 1 is designed as a sensor device, and for this purpose, for example, in the upper part 3 with a suitable sensor (eg temperature sensor) equipped.
  • the signals of this sensor can be transmitted via the data line 8, for example, to a building management center.
  • external sensors or Devices which provide measurement or status signals to be connected via the outgoing socket 21 to the connection device 1. These signals are then fed from the connection device 1 in the bus formed by the data line 8.
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate with a plan view of the pressure plate 6 an exemplary realization of the spring loading of the carriage 35.
  • the carriage 35 is equipped with a cutout 40, in which the carriage 35 is inserted.
  • the longitudinal edges of the cutout 40 are encompassed by the carriage 35 and thus simultaneously form a longitudinal guide for this.
  • a resilient tab 41 is integrally formed on the carriage 35 in one piece. This consists z. B., such as the carriage 35, made of insulating plastic material.
  • the resilient tab 41 has in the unloaded state z. B. the form of a "V"; it can be elastically deformed into the shape of a "U”, as shown in FIGS. 17 and 18.
  • a plurality of tap contacts 10 are arranged together on a carriage 35.
  • a plurality of independently displaceable carriages are provided (eg, one carriage for each tap contact 10) in order to take into account different displacement paths ⁇ x, which will occur with relatively widely spaced bleed contacts (in the embodiments of FIGS. 15 to 18 with shared slides, the difference in displacement was still considered negligible).
  • tapping contacts with a straight cutting edge are shown here by way of example - the same applies, however, to other embodiments with a curved cutting edge, for example according to FIG Fig. 2 and 4 shown type.
  • Fig. 8 shows the data line 8 containing part of the flat cable 4 in not yet contacted state; ie the tap contacts 10 are still outside of the flat cable.
  • Fig. 9 shows a similar sectional view, but in the contacted state, ie the tap contact 10 shown has penetrated into data line 8 and contacts the conductor 23 of the data wire.
  • Fig. 10 shows a detailed view of the tap contacts 10 and the cut flat cable 4 from the front. The 8 and 9 So show a section in the longitudinal direction, while the Fig. 10 shows a section in the transverse direction.
  • each conductor 23 is surrounded in each case with its own circular in cross-section core insulation, wherein the two cores thus formed are then embedded in an intermediate sheath, the outer contour of the conductor insulation 24 of Fig. 10 equivalent.
  • the shield 22 is arranged to the rectangular insulation 24 (or possibly the correspondingly shaped intermediate jacket).
  • This consists for example of a metallized plastic film and is optionally additionally equipped with a Beidraht and / or a braided shield.
  • the shield 22 is enveloped by a cable sheath 25, which integrally forms the sheath of the entire flat cable 4 (thus also the high-voltage cores 7).
  • the 8 and 9 So show a section in the longitudinal direction, while the Fig. 10 shows a section in the transverse direction.
  • the tap contacts 10 are essentially composed of two parts, namely a metal molding 26 and an insulation 27.
  • the metal molding 26 has a elongate, substantially composed of two cylinder sections shaft 28 and a contact piece 29 which is integrally formed on the free end of the shaft 28.
  • the contact piece 29 runs - in the transverse direction ( Fig. 10 ) - to the free end pointed, and thus forms a cutting edge 30.
  • the cutting edge 30 on both sides in each case a highly inclined cutting edge 31, which is formed by insulating material.
  • the cutting edge 30 extends in the embodiment of the Fig. 8 to 10 parallel to the direction of the conductor 23, ie parallel to the cable longitudinal direction.
  • the cutting edge 30 lies in an imaginary plane which is spanned by the conductor 23 to be contacted and the direction of penetration. This means that - how to get in Fig. 10 can see - the cutting edge 30 in the open state of the connecting device is centrally above the conductor to be contacted 23, and penetrates the conductor 23 in the middle when penetrating into the flat cable 4.
  • the insulations 27 of all the tapping contacts 10 are made in one piece with carriages 35 (here only stylized), e.g. by injection molding of a suitable insulating plastic. After the injection molding and possibly drilling out of the insulation 27 is to complete a tapping contact 10, only the metal mold part 26 from the cable side into the carriage 35 to insert and back to secure against falling out.
  • the insulation 27 surrounds the shaft 28 of the molded part 26 and thus forms an insulating edge of the tapping contact 10, leaving only the cutting edge 30 and the contact piece 29 leading to it uncovered, the extension of the latter in the direction of the shaft approximately equal to the diameter d.
  • the contact piece 29 widens from the cutting edge 30 to the shaft 28. This broadening continues steplessly into the insulation 27, so that the tapping contact 10 has, in cross section, a total uniformly widening shape. This serves, as has already been explained above, the additional spreading of the cable sheath 25, the shielding 22 and the core insulation 24 in the course of the tapping operation.
  • the contact piece 29 in the embodiment of Fig. 6 to 8 essentially rectangular, thus has no broadening.
  • the insulation 27 widens towards the pressure plate 6 out.
  • a stepless transition from the contact piece 29th to the widening insulation 27 is formed as cutting edges 31.
  • the lateral, strongly inclined edges of the insulation 27, in longitudinal section ( 8 and 9 ) are formed as cutting edges 31.
  • the function of the cutting edges 31 is to lengthen the cut initially produced by the cutting edge 30 in the longitudinal direction, while the tap contact 10 is deeper penetrates into the flat cable 4.
  • Fig. 11 shows cross sections of the tapping contact 10 perpendicular to the direction of the shaft, wherein the outer contours of the metal molding 26 (solid lines) and the insulation 27 (dashed lines) are shown in the manner of contour lines.
  • the contour line at S 1 shows a section at the level of the cutting edge 30, the contour line S2 shows a section through the contact piece 29, and the contour lines S3 and S4 show two sections through the isolated region of the tap contact 10.
  • the closing process begins with the in Fig. 8 shown position.
  • the cutting edge 30 successively cuts through the cable jacket 25, the shield 22 and the core insulation 24 and finally penetrates into the conductor 23.
  • the carriage 35 shifts in the distal direction.
  • the inclined cutting edges 31a, b extend the cut, with the cut length increasing towards the outside of the cable. Due to the transversely widening shape of the tap contact 10, the cut-open material is spread apart in the region of the cut, whereby the extent of the spread also increases towards the outside of the cable. With the penetration of the tapping contact 10, a force is applied to the flat cable 4 for the pressure plate 5 due to the aforementioned spreading.
  • This action leads to a permanent elastic deformation of the flat cable 4 such that the conductor 23 is displaced in the area of the tapping point to the lower pressure plate 5 ( Fig. 9 ).
  • the displacement distance is for example about half of the conductor diameter d.
  • the underlying layers of the cable 4 (core insulation 24 and jacket 25) are compressed accordingly.
  • the extension of the tapping contact 4 from the pressure plate 6 (called "height") takes into account this displacement of the conductor 23.
  • the height of the tapping contact is so large that the cutting edge 30 is approximately at the bottom of the conductor 23 and the insulation 27th begins approximately at the top of the conductor 23.
  • the distance of the cutting edge 30 from the upper pressure plate 6 would be so about half the cable diameter plus half the conductor diameter, and the insulation 27 starts at about half the cable diameter minus half the conductor diameter.
  • the height of the tap contact 10 is greater, and indeed - with an assumed displacement of the conductor 23 by d / 2 - the blade 30 is now half the cable diameter plus the conductor diameter, while the beginning of the insulation 27 is half the cable diameter ,
  • the cutting edge 30 is inclined relative to the cable longitudinal direction 32 by an angle ⁇ . In the illustrated examples, the angle ⁇ is about 15 °.
  • the cutting edge 30 is composed of two cutting portions 33, one of which is inclined by the angle ⁇ , and the other by the angle - ⁇ relative to the cable longitudinal direction 32.
  • the cutting portions 33 are V-shaped; the contact piece 29 thus has a convex shape.
  • the two cutting portions 33 are arranged in the manner of an inverted "V".
  • the tap contact 10 thus has a concave shape.
  • the cutting edge 30 is curved, according to the embodiment of the Fig. 2 and 4 ,
  • the cutting edge 30 and the cutting edges 31 have, for example, a semicircular shape.
  • the radius of curvature r of the cutting edge 30 in the example shown is equal to the extent e of the tapping contact 10 in the longitudinal direction.
  • Fig. 15 also shows by way of example that the contact piece 29 of the metal molding 26 does not need to extend over the entire length with which the tap contact 10 penetrates into the conductor 23. Rather, extends in the embodiment of Fig. 15 (and the same can apply to differently shaped tapping contacts) the contact piece only over a part of this length, and thus forms only part of the cutting edge 30.
  • the remaining part of the cutting edge 30 and the subsequent cutting edges 31 are formed by the insulation 27. This one can, like Fig. 15 shows, integrally molded with the carriage 35.
  • the previously discussed examples concerned various parallel or inclined arrangements of the cutting edge 30 relative to the cable longitudinal direction 32, wherein the parallelism or inclination always referred to that position of the tap contact 10, in which this in the contacted end state, ie when the connection device 1 is closed. Since the upper part 3 is pivoted about an axis of rotation (eg the axis of rotation 18) in the course of the pushing-in movement, the angular position of the tap contact 10 changes in the course of this pivoting movement.
  • the parallelism or inclination of the cutting edge 30 can now relate to a further open position of the connecting device 1. For example, illustrated Fig.
  • connection devices with which the stripping-free tapping of shielded data lines can be effected in a simple and (short-circuit) safe manner.
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