EP2084787B1 - Gesicherte steckverbindung und verfahren zu ihrer herstellung - Google Patents

Gesicherte steckverbindung und verfahren zu ihrer herstellung Download PDF

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EP2084787B1
EP2084787B1 EP07819308.3A EP07819308A EP2084787B1 EP 2084787 B1 EP2084787 B1 EP 2084787B1 EP 07819308 A EP07819308 A EP 07819308A EP 2084787 B1 EP2084787 B1 EP 2084787B1
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Herbert Klinger
Norbert Behrendt
Gerhard Thomas
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Knorr Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge 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
    • H01R13/62—Means for facilitating engagement or disengagement of coupling parts or for holding them in engagement
    • H01R13/621—Bolt, set screw or screw clamp
    • H01R13/6215—Bolt, set screw or screw clamp using one or more bolts
    • 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

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  • the invention relates to a connector according to the preamble of claim 1. Furthermore, a method for producing such a connector is given in claim 11.
  • control electronics for controlling actuator / sensor assemblies in commercial vehicle brake systems are housed in a separate module for many applications to allow deployment on different models.
  • a central connector for signal / power transmission to the actuator / sensor assembly must be used.
  • the controller containing the control electronics is usually attached directly to the actuator / sensor assembly and the respective housing screwed together.
  • the two housing usually also automatically made the connector by the plug and the socket to each other simultaneously by joining the two housings in alignment and then come into engagement with each other.
  • a generic connector is from the WO 2004/060723 A1 known.
  • control unit and the actuator / sensor assembly are firmly connected, but not the plug with the socket, so that it can not be ruled out under conditions of use that it due to shaking and vibrational stresses, albeit small movements between the plug and the jack comes. This leads to contact friction and thus damage to the contact surfaces, which, in addition to a transmission of false signals, can lead to a total failure of the controller.
  • JP 8 018292 A is in addition to a two circuit boards interconnecting screw a separate screw provided which secures a plug connection of a plug attached to the one printed circuit board and a socket attached to the other printed circuit board.
  • harnesses between the actuator / sensor assembly and the associated, then not directly blocked, but remote control unit are used. Although these guarantee a certain mechanical decoupling of the connector from the source of structure-borne noise, but lead due to additional lines, the associated installation costs and additional connectors to higher costs and risk of failure.
  • the invention is based on the object to provide a connector of the type mentioned above or a method for their preparation such that the connector comes permanently secure with ease of installation.
  • the invention is based on the idea that separate, independent from the connecting means of the housing of the actuator and / or sensor assembly and this module control unit independent connector securing means are provided which secure the connector against movement of the plug relative to the socket and vice versa, said Plug connection securing means based on the housing of the actuator and / or sensor assembly and the controller associated with this module are accessible from the outside. Then neither the plug nor the socket can perform relative movements to each other, which damage the electrical contacts. It is crucial that the connection or securing the connection between the plug and socket is independent of the connection between the control unit and the actuator and / or sensor module and is manufactured separately from this.
  • the housings of the actuator and / or sensor module and the control unit associated with this module are positioned in the assembly position, whereby at the same time the plug and the socket are aligned at least to form the plug-in connection.
  • the plug connection i. An electrical contact between the plug and socket at least partially come about.
  • the housing of the actuator and / or sensor assembly and the module associated with this module are joined by connecting means, so that with the joining of the housing and the connector is at least partially achieved.
  • the connector is completed and secured by acting on the connector securing means.
  • the connector securing means for example in the form of a screw, which is tightened. Due to the fixed screw the plug is fixed in position relative to the socket, so that no negative influence on the contact stability relative movements can take place more.
  • the connector at least partially comes about simultaneously with the joining of the housing of the components, relatively small tolerances in the positioning of the connector with respect to the housing of a component or the socket relative to the housing of the other component must be complied with, with a certain cost connected is.
  • the plug is held on the housing of the control unit and / or the socket on the housing of the actuator and / or sensor assembly by an elastic body such that it is deformable due to forces which during manufacture and / or occur when securing the connector by the connector securing means.
  • the elastic body then serves to compensate for tolerances when making or securing the connector as, for example the plug and / or the socket elasticity in a plane perpendicular to the direction of insertion can be brought out of its initial position such that the plug is aligned with the socket and thus the connector can come about at all.
  • the plug and the socket for example, already in assembly position of the components may be in alignment with each other or then partially mesh, wherein the distance of the plug from the socket in the insertion direction is tolerances too large or too small. Then, the elastic body can provide a compensation parallel to the insertion direction by elastically deforming when tightening the screw to ensure that the plug reaches its full insertion depth in the socket.
  • the elastic body may include a perpendicular to the plane of the board flexible circuit board, a perpendicular to the lattice plane flexible punched grid or a wiring harness, which is arranged within one of the components.
  • the circuit board or the lead frame in addition to its function as a carrier of electrical and / or electronic components simultaneously assumes the function of the elastic holder for the plug or socket.
  • the plug connection securing means preferably comprise at least one screw connection which is screwed with its screw shank through a thread of the elastically mounted bush or the elastically mounted plug and can be screwed into at least one threaded bore of the actuator and / or sensor module or of the control unit such that the elastically mounted plug or the elastically mounted bush when screwing the screw into the threaded bore of the actuator and / or sensor assembly or the control device in the direction of the actuator and / or sensor assembly or on the control unit rigidly mounted socket or on the actuator and / or sensor assembly or is screwed to the control unit rigidly mounted plug.
  • the screw not only forms a securing means of the connection between the plug and the socket, but it ensures when tightening the screw simultaneously for the transport of the component elastically mounted on a connector or the one component elastically mounted bushing in the direction of the sleeve rigidly mounted on the other component or of the other component rigidly mounted plug in the sense of a linear guide.
  • the screw can be countered with its screw head on the one component rigidly mounted on the plug or on the one component rigidly mounted socket and be guided with its screw shaft through a hole in the rigidly mounted socket or in the rigidly mounted plug.
  • the plug connection securing means in particular the at least one screw connection with respect to the housings of the actuator and / or sensor module and the control unit assigned to this module, can be achieved externally, for example, by making the plug connection securing means on the housings of the actuator and / or sensor module and the controller associated with this module are arranged laterally accessible.
  • Fig.1 is a connector 1 between electrical and / or electronic components according to a preferred embodiment of the invention shown, in which they between a not shown here for reasons of scale actuator and sensor assembly and one of this assembly assigned, also not shown here control device of a braking device of a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle is formed.
  • the assignment can also be reversed.
  • the control unit together with the actuator and sensor assembly, for example, a pressure control module (DRM) as part of an electronic pneumatic system, in particular a brake system and the interface between the electronic part and the pneumatic part.
  • the pressure control module converts into the control unit controlled, generated by a Popemsmodul electrical brake setpoint pressure signals in pneumatic brake pressures. This reaction takes place with an inlet-Auslassmagnetventilkombination, which acts on a relay valve.
  • a pressure sensor measures the modulated brake pressure and reports it to the control unit for setpoint / actual value comparison.
  • a brake pressure control can take place in a closed loop.
  • the pressure control module includes an electromagnetic back-up valve, which shuts off pneumatic control pressures of the foot brake module to allow unaffected electrical pressure control. Only when the electronics fail, the back-up valve turns on and the brake pressures are generated solely due to the pneumatic control pressures.
  • the housing of the control unit and the housing of the actuator / sensor assembly are positioned in the assembly position to each other to screw them together by connecting means, such as screws.
  • the plug 2 and the socket 6 are preferably arranged on the respective housing in such a way that they automatically interlock during the joining of the housing, so that the plug connection 1 also comes about at least partially with the joining of the housing.
  • This can for example be realized in that the mounting or joining direction of the housing parallel to the marked by an arrow 36 Plug-in direction of the connector 1 is.
  • the connector 1 is basically made, but not yet completely assembled. Because even with already finished, i. with contacting along the butt joint housings, for example, a contact strip 10 carrying the flat contacts 4 of the plug 2 and a female connector 12 with the sleeves 8 by a clear width 14 far away from each other that the flat contacts 4 only partially contacting the sleeves 8 contacting. In this respect, the connector 1 is indeed partially realized, since an electrical contact between the flat contacts 4 and the sleeves 8 is already made, but it is not yet finalized or secured.
  • the sleeves 8 of the female connector 12 protrude through prefabricated holes of a stamped grid or a flexible printed circuit board 18 of the actuator and sensor assembly and are there for example welded, soldered or connected by eg a cutting / clamping technology.
  • the punched grid 18 serves as a printed circuit board and circuit carrier of electrical and electronic components of the actuator and sensor assembly and is formed parallel to the insertion direction 36 of the connector 1 elastic, for example, that it is laterally mounted in the actuator and sensor assembly and its central region 20 parallel to the insertion direction 36 can be deformed by a certain way, preferably at least by the clear width 14 between the contact strip 10 and the female connector 12.
  • the connection of the female connector 12 of the socket 6 on the actuator and sensor assembly is at least parallel to the insertion direction 36 of the connector 1 elastic.
  • the plug 2 by an elastic body and the sleeve 6 rigid or both these and the plug 2 may be supported by a respective elastic body in the respective housing.
  • the connector securing means may be formed, for example, in the form of screw 22 between the contact strip 10 and the female connector 12.
  • the screw 22 are preferably formed at the lateral ends of the contact strip 10 and the female connector 12 and each have a screw 24, which is countered with its screw head 26, for example, at the top of a held in the contact strip 10 through bushing 28.
  • the screw shaft 30 extends through the through bushing 28 and can be screwed through a threaded bore of the bush 6, which is formed, for example, by a bushing 32 held in the bushing 12.
  • the cast dome 16 are in turn fixed and rigidly connected to the housing of the actuator and sensor assembly.
  • the screw 22, in particular the screw heads 26 are based on the housing accessible from the outside, to be able to start a tool. This can be realized, for example, in that the screw connections 22 are arranged on the housings accessible from the side.
  • the screws 24 are screwed into the blind holes 31 of the dome 16, whereby the female connector 12 screwed with their threaded bushings 32 away from the casting dome 16 in the direction of contact strip 10 until it rests against this on impact and in the process, as in Fig.2 indicated schematically, the central region 20 of the stamped grid 18 to the contact strip 10 through bends, because it is pulled through the sleeves 8 upwards.
  • the connector 1 is secured against relative movement between the plug 2 and the socket 6.
  • the contact area between the flat contacts 4 and the sleeves 8 is sealed by the pressed by the screw heads 26 against the end faces of the bushings 28 O-rings 34 against dirt and moisture of the environment.
  • the elasticity can also be present in a plane perpendicular to the plug-in direction 36 in order to serve as tolerance compensation in this direction.
  • the elastic body can also be formed in particular by one or more within the housing of the respective component guided harnesses with a certain excess length, with which the plug and / or the socket is then held there elastic. Then, the excess length of the cable for the tolerance compensation with respect to the position of the plug 2 or the socket 6 relative to the respective housing.

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