EP3446367A1 - Plug contact - Google Patents
Plug contactInfo
- Publication number
- EP3446367A1 EP3446367A1 EP17718102.1A EP17718102A EP3446367A1 EP 3446367 A1 EP3446367 A1 EP 3446367A1 EP 17718102 A EP17718102 A EP 17718102A EP 3446367 A1 EP3446367 A1 EP 3446367A1
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- 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
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- 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
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a plug contact for making electrical contact with a printed circuit board by inserting the plug contact into a contact hole of the printed circuit board, with two relatively resilient contact legs, a connection region and a connection region, wherein the connection region connects the two contact legs with each other and with the connection region, and wherein the plug contact is formed of a metallic sheet.
- the invention also relates to an electrical connection terminal with a housing, with a conductor connection element and with a conductor rail piece, wherein a conductor to be connected by means of the conductor connection element with the conductor rail piece is electrically conductively connected and wherein in the housing a conductor insertion opening for insertion of an electrical conductor to be connected is formed ,
- Plug contacts for the production of electrical connections between conductors, various electrical or electronic components and busbars are known in various embodiments and for various applications.
- the plug contacts are plugged into corresponding receiving contacts or socket elements, which may be, for example, openings in busbars in the receiving contacts.
- the plug contacts themselves can be connected to electrical components or be provided for connection to electrical conductors, for which purpose then the connection region of the plug contacts is designed accordingly.
- soldering and press-fitting there are various techniques for the connection between a printed circuit board and an electrical component or the connection of a conductor to a printed circuit board, with soldering and press-fitting in particular having become established in practice. Both techniques have proven themselves over the years, as they ensure a good and lasting electrical contact between the contact partners.
- a disadvantage of both soldering and pressing in is that both joining techniques are not reversible, so that once a compound is not prepared - or only with increased effort - can be separated again.
- additional work steps and / or special tools are required to make the connection.
- connectors that have been used in other applications for decades, an alternative, since the compound is easily made by hand and also can be separated again when needed, so it is reversible.
- connection terminals are known in a variety of variants for decades.
- the connection terminals can be designed, for example, for connecting an electrical conductor or a plurality of conductors to a printed circuit board as a so-called print terminal, for which purpose the connection terminals have corresponding contact pins which are pressed or soldered into corresponding holes in the printed circuit board.
- a screw terminal can be provided as a conductor connection element, by means of which a conductor to be connected can be electrically conductively connected to the conductor rail piece.
- the conductor connection element may also be formed as a crimp terminal, to which the stripped end of a conductor to be connected can be fastened, wherein the crimp connection is then formed at one end of the conductor rail piece and the contact pin at the other end of the conductor rail piece.
- a cutting connection in which an insulated end of a conductor is pressed into the cutting edges of the cutting connection, is also possible as a conductor connection element.
- clamping springs can also be used as conductor connection elements, whereby loop-shaped clamping springs, so-called tension spring terminals, as well as U-shaped or V-shaped clamping springs are used.
- U-shaped or V-shaped clamping springs rigid conductors or conductors provided with a wire end sleeve can be inserted directly, ie without the clamping point having to be opened beforehand with a tool.
- the conductor to be connected is pressed by the clamping leg of the clamping spring against the busbar piece, whereby the electrical connection between the conductor and the busbar piece is produced.
- the clamping point between the clamping leg and the busbar piece must be opened, including in the housing an opening Actuate for inserting a tool, such as the tip a screwdriver is formed.
- the actuating opening also serves to open the terminal point in order to be able to pull a connected conductor out of the terminal again.
- plug contact is known, which is designed in the manner of a fork and has two flat, relatively resilient contact legs, which are connected to each other via a common connection area.
- the plug contact is punched out of a metallic flat material and bent, wherein for the production of the two contact legs a narrowest possible area between the contact legs is punched out.
- the contact legs In the inserted state, the contact legs each press with their outer punching edges against the inner wall of the contact hole into which the plug contact is inserted.
- the contact region opposite the contact region is designed as a crimp connection, so that in each case a conductor can be connected to a plug contact.
- the width of the two contact legs In order for the two contact legs can be produced safely punching technically, their width must correspond approximately to their thickness, d. H. the material thickness of the flat material from which the plug contact is punched out. Since the width of the punched out between the two contact legs range corresponds approximately to the material thickness of the sheet, it follows that the width of each contact leg is only about 1/3 of the total width of the plug contact.
- the total width of the plug contact, d. H. the width of the two contact legs and the width of the area punched between the two contact legs is determined by the diameter of the contact hole in the printed circuit board into which the plug contact is to be inserted. For small hole diameters, this means that the contact legs of the plug contact must be made very narrow and thin. This is initially difficult to realize in terms of punching technology, moreover results in that the contact normal force, which can be applied by the contact limbs, is only relatively small.
- a terminal with a plurality of plug contacts described above is known from DE 10 2011 011 017 AI.
- the individual plug contacts are arranged in several rows next to each other in chambers of the terminal housing so that the plug contacts extend perpendicular to the plane of the circuit board.
- the connection areas are designed as crimp terminals for the individual plug contacts.
- a plurality of conductors can be connected to a printed circuit board in which the individual contact holes have a small distance from each other.
- a subsequent connection or release of individual conductors is not possible in the known terminal.
- a fork-shaped plug contact for contacting a circuit board is also known from DE 202 18 295 Ul.
- the contact legs with their outer punching edges against the inner wall of the contact hole, wherein the two contact legs each have two outer edges which dig when pressing the plug contact in the contact hole of the circuit board in the metallization of the bore wall.
- cold welding between the metallization of the bore wall and the contact legs occur to ensure good electrical contact. A subsequent separation of the compound is then not or only with difficulty possible.
- the present invention has for its object to provide a plug-in contact described above available that enables secure contact with the contact hole even with low material thickness of the sheet, so that the connector ensures a good and lasting electrical see contact between the contact partners.
- the plug contact should also be pulled out of the contact hole can be.
- an electrical terminal is to be specified, with an electrical conductor can be easily connected to a circuit board.
- the two contact limbs are bent away from the plane of the connection region such that the connection region and the first regions of the two contact limbs adjoining the connection region together form a U-shaped contour.
- the contacting regions contacting the contact hole in the inserted state of the plug-in contact are formed on the mutually remote outer sides of the second sections of the two contact legs, one contact leg each having a contacting region.
- the contact legs and the connecting portion thus do not extend in a common plane, but the contact legs are bent relative to the connecting portion.
- the configuration of the contact legs in particular their geometry and the shape of the contacting areas, there is thus more freedom of design, so that the plug contact and, in particular, the contact legs can be better adapted to the respective dimensions of the contact hole.
- the contacting regions of the contact legs are not formed on their punched edges but on the rolled side of the metallic flat material, the contacting regions can be provided in a simple manner with a coating be provided, for example, be gold plated. Since the contacting areas are not formed on the punched edges, the coating can already be applied to the metallic flat material, from which the plug contacts are produced, ie stamped out and bent. A subsequent and complex coating of the individual, already punched and possibly bent plug contacts can be omitted.
- the second portions of the two contact legs at least in their contacting region in each case a rounded in cross section outer contour.
- the edges of the contact legs are thus processed, in particular in the region in which the contact legs in the inserted state contact the contact hole, that they have no sharp edges that dig when inserting the plug contact in the contact hole in the metallization of the bore wall.
- the outer contour of the contact legs may for this purpose have a radius which is smaller than the radius of the contact hole. This makes it possible to repeatedly plug in and pull the plug contact, without causing major damage to the inner wall of the contact hole in the circuit board.
- the contacting areas of the two contact legs are of spherical design.
- the crowned shape of the contacting regions can be produced simply by means of a die, into which the corresponding regions of the second sections of the contact limbs are pressed, before the contact limbs are bent out of the plane of the connection region.
- the contact legs are bent out of the plane of the connection area and the contacting areas are not formed on the punching edges of the contact legs, the geometry of the contact legs more easily adapted to the respective requirements, in particular to the dimensions of the contact hole can be.
- the two contact legs are preferably arranged mirror-symmetrically to one another, wherein they have a distance from one another over their entire longitudinal extent.
- the contact limbs are preferably bent in such a way that the distance between the two contact limbs is the smallest in the region of their free ends.
- connection area can also have a width at plug-in contacts, which are provided for insertion into contact holes with small diameters, which ensures sufficient stability of the plug contact.
- the two contact legs moreover each have a smaller width in their contacting area than in their first section.
- This also makes it possible to provide a plug-in contact which can be plugged into contact holes with a small diameter, without the width of the contact legs having to be selected correspondingly low overall.
- the production of the plug-in contact is facilitated because the contact legs in the section in which they are bent away from the connection area, must not be too narrow.
- the contact normal force that can be applied by the contact legs not too low, so that even with low material thickness, a durable, good electrical contact can be guaranteed.
- the electrical connection terminal has a plug-in contact according to the invention, which is arranged at least partially in the housing of the connection terminal such that the busbar piece is formed by the connection region or a section of the connection region of the plug-in contact, wherein the contact legs of the plug-in contact with their second sections or their Contact areas protrude from the bottom of the housing.
- the plug-in contact As the bottom of the case while the side is called, which faces the circuit board, when the terminal is placed on the circuit board.
- connection techniques can be used to connect the conductor to the terminal, ie the plug-in contact according to the invention can be used for terminals with different connection methods. ken be used.
- a conductor connection element for example, a screw or an insulation displacement terminal can be provided, through which a conductor to be connected to the busbar piece can be electrically connected.
- the conductor connection element can also be designed as a crimp connection, to which the stripped end can be attached to a conductor to be connected.
- a clamping spring is provided as a conductor connecting element, which has a clamping leg and a bearing limb, wherein the clamping leg forms together with the corresponding portion of the terminal portion of the plug contact a spring terminal connection for the conductor to be connected.
- the use of a clamping spring as a conductor connection element has the additional advantage that a conductor to be connected via the Federkraftklemman gleich are very easily connected to the terminal and thus also with a circuit board. If necessary, the electrical conductor can also be pulled out of the terminal again when the spring terminal is opened. The electrical connection between the conductor and the printed circuit board can thus be achieved both between the conductor and the connection region of the plug-in contact and between the contact legs of the plug-in contact and the printed circuit board.
- connection region extends in the longitudinal direction of the contact legs
- the conductor insertion opening is arranged on the upper side of the housing and an electrical conductor to be connected is inserted into the connection terminal perpendicular to the plane of the printed circuit board.
- connection region of the plug-in contact is bent perpendicularly or at an angle not equal to 90 ° to the longitudinal direction of the contact legs, so that the conductor insertion opening is then arranged correspondingly on an end face of the housing. In both cases, the electrical conductor is pressed from the free end of the contact leg against the corresponding portion of the terminal region, whereby the electrical connection between the conductor and the plug contact is made.
- a loosening of the conductor from the terminal is easily possible that the nip is opened, including the clamping leg of the clamping spring by means of an inserted into the Betjansöffhung Tool or one arranged in the actuating opening actuating lever is deflected against its spring force. The conductor can then be pulled out of the nip between the clamping leg and the connection area of the plug contact again.
- a plurality of grooves or notches are preferably formed on the clamping leg facing side of the connection region of the plug contact.
- Such a structure of the connection region increases the surface pressure between the inserted conductor and the plug contact, which leads to a lower contact resistance.
- a plurality of adjusting elements are formed, which are introduced when placing the terminal on the circuit board in corresponding recesses in the circuit board.
- the ends of the adjusting elements are preferably cone-shaped, which facilitates the insertion of the adjusting elements into the corresponding recesses in the printed circuit board.
- the length of the adjusting elements is selected so that when placing the terminal on the circuit board first engage the adjusting elements with their free ends in the corresponding recesses in the circuit board before the Kunststoff istsberei- che the contact legs of the plug contact in the corresponding contact holes in the circuit board plunge.
- the electrical terminal According to a further advantageous embodiment of the electrical terminal according to the invention at least two locking elements are formed on the underside of the housing in addition to the adjusting elements, which engage in corresponding recesses in the circuit board.
- the latching elements are preferably designed so that they can be transferred from a first, non-latching state into a second, latching state and vice versa. Thereby It is possible to loosen the locking between the housing of the electrical connection terminal and the circuit board, so that the electrical connection terminal can be lifted off the circuit board again if necessary.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a preferred exemplary embodiment of a plug-in contact according to the invention, with a clamping spring
- FIG. 2 shows a representation of the plug contact according to FIG. 1, from the back, FIG.
- FIG. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of a plug-in contact according to the invention, with another connection area,
- FIG. 5 shows a preferred embodiment of an electrical terminal according to the invention, mounted on a printed circuit board
- Fig. 6 shows the electrical terminal of FIG. 5, in cross section
- FIG. 7 is an enlarged section of the electrical terminal of FIG .. 6
- FIG. 1 and 2 show a preferred embodiment of a plug-in contact 1 for contacting a circuit board 2, including the plug contact 1 in a corresponding contact hole 3 in the circuit board 2 is inserted (see Fig .. 6 and 7).
- the punched out of a metallic sheet and plug connector 1 has two relatively resilient contact legs 4, 5, a connection region 6 and a connection region 7, wherein the two contact legs 4, 5 are connected to each other and the connection region 6 via the connection region 7.
- the two contact legs 4, 5 each have a first section 4a, 5a and a second section 4b, 5b, which adjoins in the insertion direction E of the plug contact 1 respectively to the first section 4a, 5a.
- the two contact legs 4, 5 are bent out of the plane of the connecting region 7, so that the connecting region 7 and the adjoining first regions 4a, 5a of the two contact legs 4, 5 together form a U-shaped contour form.
- the contact legs 4, 5 are bent approximately perpendicularly from the connection region 7, so that the connection region 7 the U-back and the two first sections 4a, 5a of the contact legs 4, 5 form the U-legs of the U-shaped contour.
- the contacting regions 4c, 5c are formed, which contact the contact hole 3 in the inserted state of the plug contact 1.
- the contacting areas 4c, 5c are crowned.
- the radius of the outer contour of the contact regions 4c, 5c is slightly smaller than the radius of the contact hole 3, so that when inserting the contact legs 4, 5 in the contact hole 3, the metallized inner wall of the contact hole 3 is not damaged.
- the two contact legs 4, 5 are arranged mirror-symmetrically to one another and have a distance from one another over their entire longitudinal extent.
- the distance of the contact legs 4, 5 from each other is in the region of their free ends 4d, 5d least, while it is in the region of the first sections 4a, 5a largest.
- the contact legs 4, 5 are thus bent starting from the connecting portion 7 and from their first portions 4a, 5a to each other, wherein
- the width of the contact legs 4, 5 in the direction of the free ends 4d, 5d reduced.
- the contact legs 4, 5 are inserted into a contact hole 3, whose diameter is smaller than the distance between the two first portions 4a, 5a of the two contact legs 4, 5 and the width of the connecting portion 7.
- a plug contact 1 can be realized which can be inserted into very small contact holes 3 and still has a sufficiently high rigidity and stability, so that it does not come to the insertion of the contact legs 4, 5 in the contact hole 3 to deformations of the plug-in contact 1.
- the plug-in contact 1 shown enlarged in FIG. 3 differs from the plug-in contact 1 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 only by a slightly different configuration of the connection region 6.
- the connection region 6 is designed as a straight tongue which, like the section 6 a of FIG AnSchluss Suites 6 according to FIGS. 1 and 2 of the contacting of an electrical conductor is used.
- Fig. 4 shows two intermediate steps in the production of the plug-in contact 1 according to the invention, wherein in Fig. 4a, the plug contact 1 is shown after punching from a metallic sheet.
- the metallic sheet may have a thickness of less than 0.5 mm, for example, a thickness of only 0.3 to 0.4 mm.
- the spherical shape of the contacting regions 4c, 5c has been produced by pressing the corresponding regions of the second sections 4b, 5b of the contact legs 4, 5 into a die.
- two sections of the connection region 6 are bent upward, so that the connection region 6 has a U-shaped contour with a U-back 8 and two side walls 9.
- the two contact legs 4, 5 are bent substantially perpendicularly upward from the plane of the connection region 7 and the second sections 4b, 5b of the contact legs 4, 5 are bent toward one another so that the shape of the plug contact 1 shown in FIG becomes.
- FIG. 5 and 6 show a preferred embodiment of an inventive electrical terminal 10, which has a generally made of plastic housing 11.
- the housing 11 are several Lei Tereinmungsungsö réelleen 12 and a corresponding number of clamping springs 13 and plug contacts 1 are arranged.
- the exemplary embodiment of the electrical connection terminal 10 shown in the figures serves to connect ten individual conductors, so that a total of ten clamping springs 13 and ten plug contacts 1 are arranged in the housing 11, wherein two clamping springs 13 are arranged mirror-symmetrically opposite each other, as shown in FIG 6 is recognizable.
- Each clamping spring 13 is associated with a plug-in contact 1 in such a way that a section 6a of the connection region 6 of a plug-in contact 1 formed by a side wall 9 together with the free end of the clamping leg 14 of a clamping spring 13 forms a spring-force clamping connection for a conductor opening 12 into the housing 11 forms inserted electrical conductor. Since the connection terminal 10 is provided for the connection of ten conductors, in the housing 11 correspondingly also ten conductor insertion openings 12 and ten actuation openings 16 for opening in each case a spring force terminal connection are formed.
- the individual contact limbs 4, 5 with their second sections 4b, 5b, in particular with the sections of the second sections 4b, 5b, on which the contacting sections 4c, 5c are formed, are made of Protrude underside 17 of the housing 11.
- the contacting portions 4c, 5c can contact the corresponding contact holes 3 in the printed circuit board 2 when the terminal 10 is placed on the printed circuit board 2.
- a plurality of grooves 18 are formed on the clamping leg 14 facing side of the portion 6a of the connection portion 6, as shown in FIG. 1 can be seen.
- the surface pressure between an inserted and pressed by the end of the clamping leg 14 against the portion 6a conductor and the portion 6a is increased.
- two locking elements 20 are formed on the underside 17 of the housing 11, each projecting beyond the bottom 17 of the housing 11 and in corresponding Recesses in the circuit board 2 can be inserted.
- the two latching elements 20 may each have mutually opposite latching lugs. With the help of a arranged between the opposing locking lugs, in the longitudinal direction of the locking element 20 slidably formed locking pin accidental springback of the locking lugs can be prevented when the locking pin is in its locking position between the two locking lugs.
- an actuating pushbutton 21 is slidably disposed in the actuating openings 16. If the actuating push-button 21 is pressed into the actuating opening 16 of the housing 11, the actuating push-button 21 deflects the clamping leg 14 of the clamping spring 13 against its spring force, so that a connected conductor can be pulled out of the clamping point or a flexible conductor can be inserted into the clamping point.
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