EP2515389B1 - Connecteur électrique de type fiche - Google Patents

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EP2515389B1
EP2515389B1 EP12163779.7A EP12163779A EP2515389B1 EP 2515389 B1 EP2515389 B1 EP 2515389B1 EP 12163779 A EP12163779 A EP 12163779A EP 2515389 B1 EP2515389 B1 EP 2515389B1
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contact springs
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Jürgen Dipl.-Ing. Matthies
Allen Michael Miller
Martin Dr.-Ing. Schulte
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Corning Research and Development Corp
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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
    • H01R13/66—Structural association with built-in electrical component
    • H01R13/665—Structural association with built-in electrical component with built-in electronic circuit
    • H01R13/6658—Structural association with built-in electrical component with built-in electronic circuit on printed circuit board
    • 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
    • H01R12/51—Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures
    • H01R12/55—Fixed connections for rigid printed circuits or like structures characterised by the terminals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R24/00—Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure
    • H01R24/60—Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement
    • H01R24/62—Sliding engagements with one side only, e.g. modular jack coupling devices
    • H01R24/64—Sliding engagements with one side only, e.g. modular jack coupling devices for high frequency, e.g. RJ 45
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01R—ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS
    • H01R24/00—Two-part coupling devices, or either of their cooperating parts, characterised by their overall structure
    • H01R24/60—Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement
    • H01R24/62—Sliding engagements with one side only, e.g. modular jack coupling devices

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  • US 6,530,810 B2 has disclosed an electrical plug-type connector in the form of a data jack, said plug-type connector having a housing and a connecting device positioned in the housing.
  • the housing is formed by a plurality of sections, inter alia by a front housing section, into which a data plug can be inserted so as to make contact with the connecting device, and by a rear housing section, via which a data cable can be led up to the connecting device positioned in the housing.
  • the connecting device of the electrical plug-type connector known from US 6,530,810 B2 has a printed circuit board and contact springs. If a data plug is inserted, with its contacts, into the data jack, contact is made between the contacts of the data plug, via the contact springs of the connecting device, and conductors provided by the printed circuit board.
  • the contact springs are anchored fixedly, via first sections thereof, in the printed circuit board and thus permanent contact is made between said contact springs and the conductors of the printed circuit board.
  • Contact can be made between the contact springs, via second, elastically deformable sections thereof, and contacts of a data plug which is intended to be received in contact-making fashion by the data jack.
  • free ends of the contact springs, which adjoin the second sections thereof, bear against a contact holder of the housing when there is no data plug in the data jack, with the result that said contact springs are therefore subjected to a prestress and thus to mechanical loading even when there is no data plug in the data jack.
  • an electrical plug-type connector namely a data jack for receiving, in contact-making fashion, at least one data plug, in which the risk of damage to the contact springs is reduced.
  • US 6 769 937 B1 discloses an electrical plug-type connector in accordance with the preamble of Claim 1.
  • the present disclosure is based on the object of providing a novel electrical plug-type connector.
  • the risk of damage to the contact springs of the data jack during insertion of a data plug into said data jack can be reduced.
  • this is achieved by virtue of the fact that the inner contact springs are free of load when there is no data plug in the data jack, with the result that stresses in the respective contact spring during insertion of a data plug into the data jack are reduced.
  • the present disclosure relates to an electrical plug-type connector, namely a data jack for receiving, in contact-making fashion, at least one data plug.
  • an electrical plug-type connector has a housing, a connecting device being positioned in the housing.
  • the connecting device is used for making contact between contacts of a data plug which has been inserted into the data jack and electrical conductors or line paths of the data jack or data conductors of a data cable, with which contact is likewise made using the connecting device of the data jack.
  • the connecting device of the electrical plug-type connector has a printed circuit board 10 (see Figure 1 ) and contact springs 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18.
  • the printed circuit board 10 provides electrical conductors, permanent contact being made between the contact springs 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, via first sections 19 in the form of bent-back contact eyelets, and the conductors of the printed circuit board 10. Via these first sections 19 in the form of contact eyelets, the contact springs 11 to 18 are anchored in the printed circuit board 10 in order thus to ensure that permanent contact is made between the contact springs 11 to 18 and the conductors of the printed circuit board 10.
  • contact can be made between said contact springs, and thus the connecting device, and contacts of a data plug to be inserted into or accommodated by the data jack in order thus to ensure that detachable contact is made between the contacts of the data plug, via the contact springs 11 to 18, and the conductors of the printed circuit board 10.
  • FIG. 2 which shows the contact springs 11 to 18 of the connecting device but not the printed circuit board 10
  • the contact springs 11 to 18 cross over one another in a region between the second section 20 and the first section 19 thereof, without coming into touching contact, i.e. the contact springs 11 and 12, the contact springs 17 and 18 and the contact springs 14 and 15, as shown in Figure 2 .
  • the contact springs 13 and 16, on the other hand, are guided such that they do not cross over any other contact springs.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show a so-called contact holder 21 of the housing of the electrical plug-type connector, said contact holder being used firstly to receive and guide the contact springs 11 to 18 and secondly to receive the printed circuit board 10.
  • a data plug can be inserted into a front section 22 of the contact holder 11, namely whilst making contact between the contacts of the data plug and the second sections 20 of the contact springs 11 to 18.
  • a rear section 23 of the contact holder 21 is used for receiving insulation displacement contacts (not shown in Figures 1 and 2 ), with permanent contact likewise being made between said insulation displacement contacts and the conductors of the printed circuit board 10, and it likewise being possible for said insulation displacement contacts to be connected to the data conductors of a data cable.
  • Figures 1 and 2 show merely cutouts 24 in the region of the section 23 of the contact holder 21 which are used for receiving the insulation displacement contacts, which for their part are used for making contact between the printed circuit board and the data conductors of a data cable.
  • At least some contact springs of the contact springs 11 to 18 are free of any load when there is no data plug in the data jack.
  • the contact springs which are free of load when there is no data plug in the data jack are at least all inner or central contact springs 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, with respect to the free ends 25 thereof.
  • load-free contact springs are characterized by the fact that free ends 25 of the respective load-free contact springs which adjoin the respective second section 20 thereof do not bear either against the contact holder 21 of the housing or against the printed circuit board 10 (see Figure 3 ), but these ends 25 are instead located freely in space when there is no data plug in the data jack. It thus follows directly from Figure 3 that the shown end 25 of the load-free contact springs shown is located freely in space without coming into touching contact with the contact holder 21 and the printed circuit board 10.
  • Such a load-free contact spring is completely free of load and therefore free of stress when there is no data plug in the data jack, with the result that, when contact is made between a data plug 26 ( Figure 4 ) and the data jack or the contact springs 11 to 18 thereof, reduced stresses occur in the contact springs, with the result that a risk of damage to the contact springs during insertion of a data plug into the data jack is reduced.
  • All inner and central contact springs 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17, with respect to their free ends 25, are free of any load, specifically when there is no data plug in the data jack.
  • the second, elastically deformable section 20 of the contact springs 11 to 18 has two subsections 27 and 28. As can best be seen from Figure 3 , these two subsections 27 and 28 are inclined differently with respect to a horizontal H, which runs parallel to an insertion direction E of the data plug 26 into the electrical plug-type connector, the first section 27, which adjoins the respective free end 25 of the respective contact spring, being inclined through an angle ⁇ 1 with respect to the horizontal H, and the second section 28 of the respective contact spring, said section adjoining the first section 27, being inclined through an angle ⁇ 2 with respect to the horizontal H.
  • the angle of inclination ⁇ 1 of the first section 27 is greater than the angle of inclination ⁇ 2 of the second section 28 with respect to the horizontal H, the two subsections 27 and 28 enclosing an angle ⁇ of between 35° and 45° in the load-free state (shown in Figure 3 ) of the respective contact spring.
  • the angle ⁇ 1 through which the first subsection 27 of the second section 20 of the respective contact spring is inclined with respect to the horizontal H or insertion direction E of the data plug 26, is between 62.5° and 67.5°.
  • the angle ⁇ 2 is between 22.5° and 27.5°.
  • the second section 28 with the relatively small angle of inclination ⁇ 2 with respect to the horizontal H or the insertion direction E is used for making contact between the respective contact spring and the contacts of the data plug 26.
  • the contact springs 11 to 18 have a portion of thickened material 29 adjacent to the first section 19, which is used for anchoring the respective contact spring in the printed circuit board 10.
  • the width of the respective contact spring is increased sectionally in a section 30 which is positioned between the first section 19 and the second section 20 of the respective contact spring.
  • the strength of the contact spring is increased, so that said contact spring can absorb greater forces. This also reduces the risk of the contact springs being damaged when a data plug is inserted into the data jack.

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Claims (1)

  1. Connecteur électrique de type fiche, à savoir prise de données destinée à recevoir au moins une fiche de données, comportant
    un boîtier doté d'un porte-contacts (21), et
    un dispositif de connexion positionné dans le boîtier,
    le dispositif de connexion comprenant
    une carte (10) à circuit imprimé dotée de conducteurs électriques, la carte (10) à circuit imprimé étant reçue par le porte-contacts (21) du boîtier, des ressorts (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) de contact, par l'intermédiaire desquels un contact peut être établi entre les conducteurs de la carte à circuit imprimé et des contacts d'une fiche de données lorsque la fiche de données est en cours d'insertion dans la prise de données,
    les ressorts (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) de contact étant ancrés, au niveau d'une première section (19) de ceux-ci, dans la carte (10) à circuit imprimé et un contact permanent étant ainsi établi entre lesdits ressorts (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) de contact et les conducteurs de ladite carte (10) à circuit imprimé,
    les ressorts (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) de contact comprenant une deuxième section (20) élastiquement déformable par l'intermédiaire de laquelle un contact peut être établi entre les ressorts (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) de contact et les contacts d'une fiche de données,
    les ressorts (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) de contact étant reçus et guidés par le porte-contacts (21) du boîtier, au moins une partie des ressorts (11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18) de contact s'enjambant mutuellement dans une région située entre la deuxième section (20) et la première section (19) de ceux-ci sans entrer en contact de toucher tandis que d'autres ressorts (13, 16) de contact sont guidés de telle façon qu'ils n'enjambent aucun autre ressort de contact, ladite disposition des ressorts (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18) de contact donnant des ressorts intérieurs (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17) de contact et deux ressorts extérieurs (11, 18) de contact,
    caractérisé en ce que
    tous les ressorts intérieurs (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17) de contact sont exempts de toute charge, par rapport à des extrémités libres (25) de ceux-ci, donnant ainsi des ressorts de contact sans charge lorsqu'il n'y a aucune fiche de données dans la prise de données, autrement dit de telle façon que les extrémités libres (25) des ressorts de contact sans charge qui jouxtent la deuxième section (20) de ceux-ci ne portent pas contre le porte-contacts (21) du boîtier ni contre la carte (10) à circuit imprimé, de sorte que lesdites extrémités libres (25) des ressorts de contact sans charge ne soient pas en contact de toucher avec le porte-contacts (21) et la carte (10) à circuit imprimé lorsqu'il n'y a aucune fiche de données dans la prise de données,
    les deux ressorts extérieurs (11, 18) de contact, par rapport à des extrémités libres (25) de ceux-ci, ne sont pas exempts de charge et portent contre le porte-contacts (21) du boîtier sous précontrainte, donnant ainsi des ressorts de contact non exempts de charge lorsqu'il n'y a aucune fiche de données dans la prise de données.
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