EP2688154B1 - Ein elektrischer industrieller Verbinder mit Drucktaste für das schnelle Aussetzen eines komplementären Verbinders - Google Patents

Ein elektrischer industrieller Verbinder mit Drucktaste für das schnelle Aussetzen eines komplementären Verbinders Download PDF

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EP2688154B1
EP2688154B1 EP12425127.3A EP12425127A EP2688154B1 EP 2688154 B1 EP2688154 B1 EP 2688154B1 EP 12425127 A EP12425127 A EP 12425127A EP 2688154 B1 EP2688154 B1 EP 2688154B1
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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
    • H01R13/6275—Latching arms not 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
    • H01R13/62—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
    • H01R13/633—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 disengagement only
    • H01R13/635—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 disengagement only by mechanical pressure, e.g. spring force

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  • the present invention concerns the technical field relative to industrial electric connectors.
  • the invention refers to an industrial electric connector provided with an innovative retention/unhooking system that allows to connect it in a removable way to its complementary connector.
  • Industrial electric connectors have long been known and serve to feed electrically various devices, such as, in the case in question, outdoor and indoor pumps/circulators to various apparatus, like solar thermal systems, boilers, floor heating systems, etc.
  • the connectors foresees an electrical plug contained in a casing forming the body of the connector itself.
  • the electrical plug is fed electrically through a wire that terminates in the body of the connector and, in turn, the plug transmits the current to the external device when it is connected to it through its complementary connector, which is inserted in the electrical plug.
  • Figure 1 shows an external casing 101 which is hollow internally in such a way as to form a lodging seat 102 inside which the electrical plug 103 is placed.
  • the electrical plug 103 serves to hold the male (complementary connector). To that aim, the electrical plug is provided with holes 103' in which the metallic terminals of the male are inserted. The electrical plug contains inside it the electrical contacts and is fed through a wire that penetrates in the body of the connector through its back part 104.
  • connection with the male has to be fastened in such a way as to impede accidental unhooking and for this reason fast attachment systems are foreseen that connect the male to the female.
  • these fast attachment systems have the shape of a shank 105 which is fixed by one of its ends 105' to the external casing 101 that forms the body of the connector.
  • the opposite end terminates with a tooth 105" which, through an appropriate opening, has access in part to the seat 102, penetrating in the thickness of the casing.
  • the male foresees an appropriate receiving seat or a complementary tooth that comes into contact with the end of the tooth 105" , realizing the block at the moment of the insertion.
  • the tooth that is present in the complementary connector during its insertion in the seat 102, climbs over the tooth 105" , constraining themselves one against the other.
  • the removal of the male connector is not easy because it is not easy to operate the lifting of the shank. It is required to act with the tip of the fingers and this operation can produce abrasions.
  • the aim of the present invention to provide an industrial connector wherein the retain/unhooking device is such as to allow an unhooking that is fast, simple and does not imply risks of abrasions for the user.
  • the electric connector (1) is suitable for coupling in a releasable way to a complementary electric connector (100).
  • the electric connector (1) according to the invention is disclosed in claim 1. This solution easily solves said technical problems.
  • the solution proposed allows the unhooking by simply acting using pressure on a button, i.e. by pressing the button. Not only does this solution cause abrasions but, above all, is much more solid and long-lasting than the preceding one.
  • the engaging element (41), in the shape of a tooth, for example, is integral to the slab, therefore a sliding of the slab causes a disengagement of this tooth with the complementary engaging element.
  • the action of crushing between the engaging elements (41, 42) in the unhooking phase is certainly safer against breakings with respect to an operation of lifting of the shank.
  • the present solution does not require modifications of the complementary electric connector, which continue productively to maintain their original configuration.
  • This solution therefore, adapts itself well to the block of complementary electric connectors already in commerce without requiring their adapting structural modification.
  • the industrial connector 1 foresees an external casing 2, for example generally L-shaped. It forms an internal seat 3 suitable for holding, in a permanent way, an electrical plug 4.
  • the external casing 2 is, preferably but not necessarily, realized in PVC so as to be easily moulded with well-known mould processes as per the background art.
  • Figure 3 shows in an exploded view the essential components.
  • the electrical plug 4 is therefore highlighted, removed from the seat 3 just for descriptive clarity purposes.
  • the electric wire 20 is highlighted that feeds the current to the plug 4.
  • Figure 2 highlights the wire 20 that enters in the casing 2 of the connector through its back part 5.
  • the electric contacts 7 result inserted in the body of the plug 4 and the branches 20' engage in the hooks 7', penetrating through the holes 8 of the plug 4 (see dotted lines that join the branches 20' to the holes 8).
  • Figure 2 like figure 3 as well, shows the hooking/unhooking device 10 that is the subject of the invention.
  • This device foresees a slab 11, for example made of plastic, of such a length that when applied, as described right below, one of its exceeding parts 11' exits from the casing forming a button.
  • the casing 2 foresees an opening 50 through which the end 11' of the slab 11 can exit.
  • the slab is slidingly assembled inside a guide 12 and brings integral to it a tooth 41.
  • the guide is found integral to the body of the plug but it could also be separate and then connected in the production phase.
  • the guide is preferably constituted by a U-shaped element open from one side and that forms the two sides 13 and 14 into which the slab results slidingly interposed.
  • the U-shaped guide is connected or integral to the plug 4 in such a way as to result distanced from it of a pre-determined quantity.
  • the tooth 41 of figure 12 belonging to the slab exits from the guide, facing the plug 4.
  • the casing itself 2 forms a constraint against a shoulder 40 of the slab 11 to impede the exit of the slab from the opening 50 and, therefore, limiting the exit of the single end 11' that has the function of unhooking button.
  • a stop could be foreseen, directly found on a side (13, 14) of the U-shaped seat.
  • the U-shaped element therefore terminates with a support base 15.
  • Both figure 4 and figure 5 highlight an elastic spring 16 (for example, of compression) which is arranged inside the U-shaped element in such a way as to result comprised between the support base 15 and the slab 11 assembled slidingly inside the U-shaped element itself.
  • an elastic spring 16 for example, of compression
  • the spring is fixed on one side to the support base 15 and on the opposite side to a point of the slab.
  • the slab foresees a cut 21 that generates a lower side 21' and a passage channel that goes from the side 21' to the side 22 and in which to insert the end of the spring.
  • the passage channel of the spring therefore starts from the base 22 of the slab 11 and terminates on the lower side 21'.
  • the path of the channel is inclined in such a way as to follow the profile of the terminal section of spring that is inserted in it.
  • the exceeding part of spring that exits from the opening 21' is bent in such a way as to constrain, the spring to the slab.
  • the slab exits from the casing 2 through an appropriate opening 50 found in said casing.
  • the exceeding part 11' of slab that exits from the cut therefore forms a fast unhooking button.
  • the spring is substituted by an appendix 216 elastically flexible and found directly in the slab 11. On the basis of the thickness of the appendix, it will result adjustable in flexibility, acting exactly as a spring integrated to the slab.
  • the entire plug 4 is assembled together with the contacts 7 and the electric wires 20', and the casing 2 is moulded around these elements.
  • Figures from 7 to 11 show many different types of electric connectors 1 connectable to a complementary connector 100.
  • figure 11 shows the seats 101 where the contacts 102 are placed, which hold the contacts 7 of the connector 1.
  • the slab also foresees integrated in it a block element 41, in the shape of a tooth 41, for example, which is configured to engage against an equivalent block element 42, such as a tooth 42, belonging to the male connector 100 and highlighted both in figure 7 and in figure 13 .
  • Figure 13 shows the cut 21 to allow, as better clarified right below, an enhanced extraction of the male connector 100 with respect to the electrical plug 1.
  • the spring maintains the slab all extended in such a way that the exceeding part 11' of slab that exits from the casing 2 forms the release button for the user.
  • the slab thanks to its shoulder 40, stops against the casing and is not expelled.
  • the tooth 42 of the male 100 results in line (therefore in the insertion trajectory) with the tooth 41 of the slab.
  • the tooth 41 exits from the guide and faces the plug through the gap described with reference to figure 12A .
  • the teeth intercept themselves and the climbing over of the tooth 42 on the tooth 41 takes place.
  • the flat face 42' is found in contrast against the flat face 41' , realizing the block.
  • the male connector 100 is impeded from exiting also if a high traction force is applied, since the tooth 42 is in contrast against the tooth 41.
  • the U-shaped guide found integral to the plug could be instead found directly in the casing and, as usual, open from one side in such a way that the tooth 41 belonging to the slab faces the plug 4, appropriately distanced to allow the insertion of the tooth 42 belonging to the complementary connector 100.
  • teeth 41 and 42 can be appropriately configured.
  • a tooth 42 is shown that presents an inclined face 42" complementary to the inclined face 41" of the tooth 41.
  • the inclined faces realize inclined surfaces that facilitate the snap and therefore the reciprocal climbing over for the block.
  • the sliding U-shaped seat of the slab is of such a height as to allow a minimal vertical play of the slab 11.
  • the insertion would be enhanced by lifting a little the slab during the insertion of the complementary connector 100 that would favour the climbing over of the tooth 42 on the tooth 41.
  • the seat 21, by the way, is not essential for the unblock since, once the pushing of the button 11' has taken place, the two teeth are not in contrast anymore. It is clear that a seat 21 eliminates completely the eventual rubbing friction that would be created between the crest of the tooth 42 and the surface of the slab itself during the removal phase, thus facilitating the extraction significantly.
  • the electrical plug 4 is made of Nylon plastic of the PA66 type with a three or six-pole connector.

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  1. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1), der sich auskoppelbar mit einem komplementären elektrischen Stecker (100) koppeln lässt, umfassend:
    - Ein externes Gehäuse (2),
    - Einen elektrischen Anschluss (4), der auf der Innenseite des externen Gehäuses (2) angeordnet ist, sodass er mit dem komplementären elektrischen Stecker (100) verbunden werden kann (100),
    - Schnelleinhakmittel (10) zum auskoppelbaren Eingreifen in dazu passende Einhakmittel (42) am komplementären elektrischen Stecker, (100) wenn der komplementäre elektrische Stecker mit dem elektrischen Stecker (1) gekoppelt ist (1),
    - Elastische Mittel (16, 216), die so angeordnet sind, dass sie ein Ende (11') der Platte (11) durch eine Öffnung (50) im Gehäuse (2) auf die Außenseite des Gehäuses drücken; und
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass
    das Schnelleinhakmittel (10) umfasst:
    - Eine Platte (11), die entlang einer Gleitführung (12) verschiebbar angeordnet und mit einem Eingreifelement (41) versehen ist,
    - worin dieses Eingreifelement (41) auf der Platte angeordnet ist, sodass es in ein entgegengesetztes komplementäres Eingreifelement (42) eingreift, das zu dem komplementären elektrischen Stecker gehört (100), wenn der komplementäre elektrische Stecker (100) in den elektrischen Anschluss (4) eingeschoben wird, und außer Eingriff von diesem komplementären Eingreifelement (42) gebracht werden kann, wenn die Platte (11) durch einen am Ende (11') ausgeführten Durchbruch aus dem Gehäuse (2) hinausgeschoben wird,
    - die Gleitführung (12) die Platte (41) in einen Abstand zur Fläche des elektrischen Anschlusses (4) bringt, sodass diese Platte (11) und diese Fläche des elektrischen Anschlusses(4) einen Spalt bilden, in den das komplementäre Eingreifelement (42) hinein gleiten kann, wobei das Eingreifelement (41) gegenüber der Fläche des elektrischen Anschlusses (4) in das komplementäre Eingreifelement eingreift.
  2. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach Anspruch 1, worin die Platte so angebracht ist, dass sie sich im Verhältnis zum elektrischen Anschluss (4) verschieben lässt.
  3. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, worin die Platte (11) in einer Gleitführung (12) des elektrischen Anschlusses (4) angebracht ist.
  4. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach Anspruch 1, worin die Platte verschiebbar in einer Auflage des externen Gehäuses (2) angebracht ist.
  5. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach einem oder mehreren der vorherigen Ansprüche, worin das Eingreifelement (41) die Form eines Zahns (41) hat.
  6. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach Anspruch 5 oder 6, worin der Zahn (41) so ausgelegt ist, dass ihn ein komplementärer Zahn (42) am komplementären elektrischen Stecker (100) beim Einschieben des komplementären Steckers (100) in den elektrischen Anschluss (4) übersteigt und dagegen zur Verriegelung in Anschlag gebracht wird, und beim Betätigen des Durchbruchs am Ende (11') der Zahn (41) sich zum Entriegeln im Verhältnis zum anderen Zahn (42) verschiebt.
  7. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach Anspruch 5 oder 6, worin der Zahn (41) eine flache Seite (41') hat, um gegen den Sperrzahn (42) des komplementären elektrischen Steckers (100) in Anschlag gebracht zu werden und eine abgeschrägte Seite (41"), um diesen besser zu übersteigen.
  8. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach einem oder mehreren der vorherigen Ansprüche, worin die Platte (11) einen Schlitz (21) fester Breite aufweist, der so angebracht ist, dass er den Zahn (42) des komplementären Steckers (100) abfängt, wenn das Ende (11') der Platte (11) eingedrückt wird.
  9. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach einem oder mehreren der vorherigen Ansprüche, worin die Platte (11) eine Schulter (40) aufweist.
  10. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach einem oder mehreren der vorherigen Ansprüche, worin das elastische Mittel (16) die Form einer Feder hat.
  11. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach Anspruch 10, worin die Feder (16) zwischen der Platte (11) und der Basis (15) der Gleitführung (12) eingefügt ist.
  12. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach Anspruch 10 oder 11, worin die Feder (16) an einem ihrer Enden in eine Rille eingeführt ist, die zumindest entlang eines Längenabschnitts der Platte (11) verläuft.
  13. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach Anspruch 12, worin diese Rille von der Fläche (22) der Platte zur Fläche (21') verläuft, die durch den Schlitz (21) in der Platte (11) gebildet wird.
  14. Ein elektrischer Stecker (1) nach einem oder mehreren der vorherigen Ansprüche, worin das elastische Mittel an der Platte die Form eines biegsamen Zusatzes (216) hat, der gegen die Basis (15) der U-förmigen Auflage in Anschlag gebracht wird.
  15. Ein Verbund von einem elektrischen Stecker (1) nach Anspruch 1 mit einem komplementären elektrischen Stecker (100), wobei ersterer sich mit letzterem auskoppelbar koppeln lässt.
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