EP2045882B1 - Connecteur à fiche d'appareil à auto-ajustage - Google Patents

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EP2045882B1
EP2045882B1 EP08016680.4A EP08016680A EP2045882B1 EP 2045882 B1 EP2045882 B1 EP 2045882B1 EP 08016680 A EP08016680 A EP 08016680A EP 2045882 B1 EP2045882 B1 EP 2045882B1
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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
    • H01R13/629—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
    • 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
    • H01R13/73—Means for mounting coupling parts to apparatus or structures, e.g. to a wall
    • H01R13/74—Means for mounting coupling parts in openings of a panel
    • H01R13/741—Means for mounting coupling parts in openings of a panel using snap fastening means
    • H01R13/743—Means for mounting coupling parts in openings of a panel using snap fastening means integral with the housing
    • 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
    • H01R13/46—Bases; Cases
    • H01R13/52—Dustproof, splashproof, drip-proof, waterproof, or flameproof cases
    • H01R13/5202—Sealing means between parts of housing or between housing part and a wall, e.g. sealing rings

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  • the invention relates to an electrical appliance connector, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • the invention relates in particular to a device connector, consisting of a device connector and a device socket.
  • Device plug and device socket and device connectors in the context of the present invention, such connectors are to be understood, which are fixedly mounted on a device preferably in a mounting cutout of a housing wall.
  • a cable plug or a cable socket can be inserted into such a device socket or in such a device plug for electrical connection with this.
  • Cable connectors and cable sockets mean corresponding connectors that are connected to a cable.
  • a device plug is mounted on the first device and a device socket on the second device, which are aligned corresponding to each other and so are to bring in motion of the second device relative to the first device in electrical contact.
  • such devices are mounted on conveyor rails or attached to mounting devices which are movable relative to each other.
  • the supply battery pack is brought into electrical connection with the charge battery pack when needed and disconnected from it after a charge.
  • the loading device is mounted on a frame on the vehicle, which is arranged to be movable to the supply device.
  • the first device is moved relative to the second device until the first device plug is brought into engagement with the corresponding device socket on the second device.
  • the DE 35 36 142 is devoted to the same problem, namely the elimination of tolerances in articulated to each other mounted electrical components, ie in a car car door and the car itself, in which corresponding connector pairs are housed, by opening the door or by closing the door either in electrical contact or be brought into electrical disconnection. Again, play manufacturing and assembly-related position tolerances between the assembled components an essential role for the operation and life of such electrical connector.
  • Object of the present invention is therefore to provide an electrical connector device of the generic type generic, the manufacturing and assembly-related bearing tolerances between the moving devices, in particular the device connector and the device socket to compensate or to eliminate them during the plug-in operation by tolerance compensation.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a device connector and a device socket, which is easy to assemble and no changes to the device side are necessary, so that such connector pairs can be used in conventional housing walls of equipment to compensate for manufacturing and assembly-related positional tolerances to each other.
  • Another object of the present invention is to simultaneously design the device connector or the device socket such that a sealing effect is given to the environment in particular against environmental influences moisture and dirt.
  • Another object of the present invention is to find such a solution which, in addition to the aforementioned properties, enables safe and stable assembly.
  • the invention is based on the idea to equip a device connector with a sliding coupling, so that the entire appliance connector is slidably movable in its mounting position relative to its position. Furthermore, the invention is based on the idea that the sliding coupling also serves as a tolerance compensation means for the device plug connection in a direction perpendicular to the sliding plane and is resilient in its thickness. Thereby, the holding force for a fastening means for locking the connector is generated on the device wall by the sliding coupling.
  • the device connector is formed with a flange which forms a contact surface for the device connector perpendicular to its plugging direction.
  • the connector also has a plug contour, which is also arranged perpendicular to the flange.
  • An inventive device plug therefore comprises a flange on which a sliding coupling is mounted, which is arranged between the housing wall and the abutment flange of the connector to the housing.
  • the housing cutout a diameter, or selected a cutout shape that corresponds to the geometry of the connector, but is formed to this enlarged by the desired tolerance compensation range.
  • the connector according to the invention further comprises a plurality of locking lugs, which are adapted to lock the connector from the inner side of the housing, by means of the above-mentioned fastening means on the housing via the sliding coupling.
  • a plurality of radially peripheral latching means preferably latching lugs on the connector device and that on the part of the device plug, which projects into the housing, or through the housing opening to be mounted, in the housing in a position in which a fastening means against the latching lug and under compression of the sliding clutch is to be arranged latched.
  • the tolerance compensation means perpendicular to the direction of insertion and thus perpendicular to the flange, and the function of achieving the desired freedom of movement parallel to the flange, continue the task of sealing the housing interior and the generation of the necessary holding force by compression.
  • the device connector is thus suitable for a front wall or optionally rear wall mounting.
  • the connector When mounting on the wall, the connector is pushed from the outside through the housing until the flange rests against the housing wall.
  • the sliding coupling is brought to bear against the housing wall such that it is pushed over the projecting into the housing terminal contour of the connector and then brought by means of the fastening means for engagement with the housing wall, such that the fastening means against the sliding coupling is pressed until it locks with the locking lugs and the device plug in its mounting position with the housing wall slidably fixed.
  • the device plug can be slid parallel to the surface of the housing, depending on how large the mounting hole was chosen.
  • flange diameter, housing opening and Gleitkupplungs are each matched to each other and interpreted according to the expected tolerances in the overall system.
  • the funnel is formed so far that the manufacturing and assembly-related tolerances are intercepted so that meet the plug contour, ie the insertion bevels on the plug contour of the device plug on the slopes of the insertion funnel on the device socket side and this in its relative Shift the position via the sliding coupling until the plug contour can be dipped into the corresponding socket contour.
  • both pairs of plugs ie the appliance plug and the appliance socket
  • double compensation paths can be used in this frame without having to correspondingly enlarge the monthly cutouts.
  • a four-pin connector 1 comprising a connector 2 and a device socket 3 is shown.
  • the device plug 2 is installed in a housing, of which only a partially oval section of the first housing wall 4 is shown.
  • the device socket 3 is inserted into a second housing, of which only a second housing portion, that is, a second partial section of a housing wall 5 is shown.
  • the appliance plug 2 is shown pushed from the outside through the first housing wall 4 and secured from behind with a first fastening means 11, namely a fastening ring.
  • a first sliding coupling designed as a tolerance compensation means.
  • the device connector 2 further has first latching lugs 15 which are arranged circumferentially on the device connector 2, namely on a ring portion 19 which is arranged radially around the connection region 21 of the device connector 2.
  • the connection region 21 which protrudes into the housing, not shown here, has four contact receptacles, numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 and is formed as an annular contour.
  • the ring portion 19 As shown here Fig. 1 is shown resilient and has the first locking lugs 15.
  • the ring portion 19 is not circumferentially closed, but has a slot 22.
  • Each locking lug 15 is arranged on the ring portion 19, that it is interrupted by recesses 23 in the ring portion 19.
  • the ring portion 19 due to the slot 22, springs and additionally the locking lugs 15 additionally spring through the recesses 23.
  • the ring section 19 with the latching noses 15 is meant here.
  • the flange 6 of the appliance plug 2 which comes to rest on the outside of the first housing wall 4.
  • the device socket 3 which was brought from outside through a second housing wall 5 in its mounting position.
  • the flange 7 of the device socket 3 with the second housing wall 5 of the second housing to the plant.
  • the structure and the attachment to the housing wall and the second sliding coupling 10, according to Fig. 2 is formed substantially mirror-inverted to that of the device connector 2.
  • the device connector 2 is provided with a contact-carrying plug contour 8, at the plug-side end insertion bevels 17 are arranged.
  • the flange 7 and the second sliding clutch 10 is respectively on the inside and outside of the second housing wall 5 at.
  • the device socket 3 has an annular gap 24, at the plug-side end insertion funnel 18 are formed, which are increasingly open to the outside.
  • the angle of the insertion funnel of the device socket 3 are formed corresponding to the insertion bevels 17 of the plug contour 8.
  • the ideal angle here is an angle between 30 ° and 45 ° with respect to the stub axle.
  • the insertion bevels 17 of the plug contour 8 hit the bevels on the insertion funnel 18 and slide into the annular gap 24 to the fully inserted position, as in Fig. 4 shown.
  • the plug contour 8 and the annular gap 24 are aligned in a direction parallel to the insertion direction, so that use of the sliding coupling is not necessary. Due to the manufacturing and assembly technical tolerances However, in practice, the plug contour 8 will not ideally meet with the annular gap 24, but the insertion bevel 17 will hit the insertion funnel 18 that at least one of the device connector 1, namely the device connector 2 or the device socket 3 along their sliding coupling relative to each other align and find their plug position.

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Claims (9)

  1. Connecteur d'appareil (1) comprenant une fiche d'appareil (2) destinée à être fixée à un premier boîtier et une douille d'appareil (3) destinée à être fixée à un deuxième boîtier, dans lequel la fiche d'appareil (2) comporte des moyens de fixation (11, 13) destinés à être fixés à une première paroi de boîtier (4) et la douille d'appareil (3) comporte des moyens de fixation (12, 14) destinés à être fixés à une deuxième paroi de boîtier (5), dans lequel la fiche de boîtier (2) et la douille de boîtier (3) comportent au moins un moyen d'équilibrage de tolérances (9, 10) afin de pouvoir monter de manière mobile la fiche d'appareil (2) et la douille d'appareil (3) sur des première et deuxième parois de boîtier (4, 5) de premier et deuxième boîtiers, caractérisé en ce que le moyen d'équilibrage de tolérances (9, 10) est réalisé sous la forme d'un accouplement à frottement (9, 10) comprimable dans le sens de l'épaisseur et peut être constitué de caoutchouc mousse, qui produit un montage mobile parallèlement au plan de montage du connecteur.
  2. Connecteur d'appareil (1) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la douille d'appareil (2) comporte des moyens d'encliquetage (15) et des premiers moyens de fixation (11) afin de pouvoir relier ces derniers par l'intermédiaire de l'accouplement à frottement (11) comprimable à une première paroi de boîtier (4).
  3. Connecteur d'appareil (1) selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que la douille de boîtier (3) comporte des moyens d'encliquetage (16) et des deuxièmes moyens de fixation (12) afin de pouvoir relier la douille de boîtier (3), par l'intermédiaire de l'accouplement à frottement (10) comprimable, à une deuxième paroi de boîtier (5) d'un deuxième boîtier.
  4. Connecteur d'appareil (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 2 et 3, caractérisé en ce que les moyens d'encliquetage (15, 16) sont réalisés sous la forme d'ergots à ressorts (15, 16) sur des sections annulaires (19, 20) de la fiche d'appareil (2) par rapport à la douille d'appareil (3).
  5. Connecteur d'appareil (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la fiche d'appareil (2) comporte une bride (6) sur une première paroi de boîtier (4) et la douille d'appareil (3) comporte une bride (7) sur une deuxième paroi de boîtier (5) permettant respectivement un montage appliqué à plat.
  6. Connecteur d'appareil (1) selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce que la fiche d'appareil (2) comporte, entre la bride (6) et le premier accouplement à frottement (9), un espace de réception destiné à une première paroi de boîtier (4).
  7. Connecteur d'appareil (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5 et 6 précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la douille de boîtier (3) comporte, entre la bride (7) et le deuxième accouplement à frottement (10), un espace de réception destiné à une deuxième paroi de boîtier (5).
  8. Connecteur d'appareil (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la fiche d'appareil (2) comporte un contour de fiche (8) ayant des parties biseautées d'introduction (17) se trouvant à l'extrémité.
  9. Connecteur d'appareil (1) selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la douille d'appareil (3) comporte une fente annulaire (24) qui comporte un entonnoir d'introduction (18) du côté de l'introduction.
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