EP3785335A1 - Élément de connexion d'une connexion enfichable - Google Patents

Élément de connexion d'une connexion enfichable

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Publication number
EP3785335A1
EP3785335A1 EP19718118.3A EP19718118A EP3785335A1 EP 3785335 A1 EP3785335 A1 EP 3785335A1 EP 19718118 A EP19718118 A EP 19718118A EP 3785335 A1 EP3785335 A1 EP 3785335A1
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Prior art keywords
locking spring
connector
connector part
stop surface
spring
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English (en)
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Oliver Dobler
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Neutrik AG
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Neutrik AG
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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
    • H01R13/627—Snap or like fastening
    • H01R13/6271—Latching means integral with the housing
    • H01R13/6272—Latching means integral with the housing comprising a single latching arm
    • 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
    • H01R24/86—Parallel contacts arranged about a common axis
    • 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
    • H01R13/6335—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 comprising a handle

Definitions

  • the present invention relates to a connector part of a connector, wherein the connector part is a connector housing part and one or more electrical and / or optical contacts and at least one
  • Locking spring and in the connector housing part at least one
  • Receiving space is inserted, by means of a longitudinal stop surface of the
  • Locking spring in a locking position of the locking spring against withdrawal of the male against the insertion of the
  • Connector parts of the type mentioned for the production of connectors are known in the prior art in different embodiments. They serve the connection of electrical and / or optical cables with devices such. Amplifiers, mixers and the like or for connecting electrical and / or optical cables with other electrical and / or optical cables. So that the connector does not accidentally, e.g. can be separated by train on the cable, the connector part and the mating connector part of the respective connector by means of the generic locking spring are locked together. Only when this locking spring is brought by a targeted engagement from its locked position into an unlocked state, the connector can be removed by pulling out the plug of the
  • the object of the invention is to improve a generic connector part to the effect that in the assembled state, the connector part and the mating connector part are connected together without play, to avoid wobbling and thus especially loose contacts of these connectors in the assembled and locked state.
  • the invention proposes that the locking spring in addition to the longitudinal stop surface at least one transverse stop surface for
  • the desired backlash of the connector is achieved consisting of connector part and mating connector part in the assembled and locked state, so that it can not come to an unwanted wobbling in this connector and in particular not to loose contacts.
  • the invention can be used for purely electrical connectors, for purely optical connectors, but also for hybrid connectors, which have both electrical and optical contacts. In all these cases, the game release achieved according to the invention provides between
  • transverse means a pointed or right or obtuse angle, not parallel.
  • Connector part housing can therefore be done in an acute or obtuse angle.
  • the plug-in part is particularly preferred by the
  • Locking spring pressed by means of the inventive transverse stop surface orthogonal to the insertion direction of the connector housing part.
  • these angles favorably differ by a maximum of 45 ° from the orthogonal angle.
  • the male part of the mating connector part has in preferred
  • Austresformen a locking notch, in which engages the locking spring in the locking position by means of its longitudinal stop surface, so as to pull out the plug against the direction of insertion of the
  • the locking notch can thereby be formed as a kind of blind hole so not continuous but also as a through hole or in other words windows in the plug.
  • the invention also relates to plug-in connections with a connector part according to the invention and a mating connector part, wherein the male part of the mating connector part is a locking notch for engaging the
  • Has locking spring wherein the locking notch is formed as a through hole in the male part, preferably a wall of the male part.
  • the inclined surface is favorably designed so that the male part upon insertion into insertion into the receiving space inevitably comes into contact with the inclined surface, so that over a sliding of the male part on the inclined surface of the locking spring, the locking spring by itself, so automatically, is deflected. This has the advantage that the locking spring when mating the
  • the plug connection must not be operated separately by hand or otherwise.
  • a separately present actuating element must be actuated specifically, preferably by hand.
  • the connector part has a movably mounted on the connector housing part and, preferably by hand, actuatable actuating element for deflecting the locking spring from the locking position.
  • the actuator need not, but may preferably be designed as a slide. In principle, it would also be conceivable to form the actuating element as a pivotable lever or as a combination of slide and pivotable lever. Particularly preferred
  • Pushing inserted, preferably moved, is.
  • Particularly preferred variants of the invention provide that, at least in the locking position of the locking spring, the longitudinal stop surface orthogonal to the insertion direction and / or the transverse stop surface parallel to the insertion direction and / or the
  • Inclined surface is arranged at an acute angle to the insertion direction or are. In terms of a compact design can be provided that the
  • Longitudinal stop surface and preferably also the inclined surface in a direction opposite to the insertion direction are formed in the order mentioned on the locking spring. If an inclined surface is present, it is preferably provided that the longitudinal stop surface between the inclined surface and the transverse stop surface is arranged.
  • the transverse stop surface is, viewed at least in the locking position, conveniently in the direction parallel to
  • Transverse stop surface is, at least in the locking position, preferably closer to a direction parallel to the insertion center axis of the connector part arranged as the longitudinal stop surface.
  • the Longitudinal stop surface and the inclined surface may be formed together as a kind of outwardly projecting tooth on the locking spring.
  • the locking spring is resiliently biased toward the locking position.
  • the locking spring may be formed as a kind of leaf spring. Preferred embodiments provide that the locking spring has a U-shaped bent portion from which protrude at least two spring legs of the locking spring, wherein a first of the spring legs on
  • Connector part housing is fixed and a second of the spring leg is elastically pivotable relative to the first of the spring legs.
  • the transverse stop surface and the longitudinal stop surface are then advantageously formed on the second of the spring legs.
  • the connector part and also the mating connector part can basically be formed very differently and have different numbers of contacts and mating contacts, regardless of whether this electrical and / or optical
  • the shapes of the plug-in part and correspondingly also to the shapes of the receiving space.
  • the shape of the male part is adapted to the shape of the receiving space.
  • the receiving space is at least partially annular.
  • the receiving space has at least partially a shape of a
  • Circular cylindrical ring The shape of the male is then conveniently designed to be compatible.
  • the connector part with the locking spring according to the invention can basically be a cable connector part, which is mounted on a cable.
  • the connector part according to the invention is a chassis socket for mounting on a housing of a device.
  • a device may be, for example, a mixer, an amplifier and the like.
  • Figure 1 is an external view of an inventive connector part.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 are views of mating connector parts connectable therewith
  • Figs. 4 and 5 are views of the locking spring of the invention
  • the connector part 1 shown in a perspective view in Fig. 1 is exemplified as a chassis socket, which for mounting on a housing of a device such. a mixer or an amplifier is provided. In the example shown, it is a so-called combo jack into which various mating connector parts 8 can be inserted with different mating contacts 23.
  • the counterpart connector parts 8 may be those which are shown by way of example in FIGS. 2 and 3 and each have three electrical connections
  • inventive connector parts 1 very may be formed differently and with a very different number of electrical and / or optical contacts 4. The same then applies to the corresponding mating connector parts. 8
  • the connector part 1 shown here has in any case
  • locking spring 5 can be deflected from its locked position. Im shown
  • the actuating element 17 is designed as a slide. It has the pusher surface 20. Pressing parallel to the insertion direction 9 on the pusher surface 20, so in the embodiment shown here is the
  • Actuator 17 is pushed a little way into the plug housing part 3, whereby the locking spring 5 is deflected from its locking position.
  • the return of the actuating element 17 after release of the pusher surface 20, takes place in preferred such. the embodiment shown here on the bias of the locking spring 5 toward the locking position. All of this is particularly well from the further explained in detail below Fig. 6 and 7 can be seen.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 show two different embodiments of
  • Mating connector parts 8 which can form a plug connection 2 by plugging into the connector part 1 of FIG. 1.
  • Mating connector parts 8 of FIGS. 2 and 3 have in common that they each have a mating connector housing 21 and a cable grommet 22.
  • the cable not shown here, connected in a manner known per se to the mating connector part 8, leaves the mating connector part 8 in a manner known per se Way through the respective cable grommet 22.
  • this locking notch is formed as a blind hole-shaped, that is the wall of the male part 7 not completely penetrating notch.
  • the locking notch 26 is a continuous opening which completely penetrates the wall of the insertion part 7, that is to say forms a kind of window.
  • Locking notch 26 this is provided so that the locking spring 5 engages in the locking position, at least with its longitudinal stop surface 10 so as to lock the male member 7 against being pulled out against the insertion direction 9 from the receiving space 6. This will also be explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7 below.
  • this locking spring 5 in addition to
  • Loughsanschlag formula 10 at least one transverse stop surface 1 1 for pressing the male part 7 to the connector housing part 3 in a direction 12 transversely, preferably orthogonally to the insertion direction 9.
  • the transverse stop surface 1 1 for pressing the male part 7 to the connector housing part 3 in a direction 12 transversely, preferably orthogonally to the insertion direction 9.
  • the embodiment shown here are the
  • Inclined surfaces 13 formed immediately following one another on the locking spring 5. Furthermore, in this example, the transverse stop surfaces 1 1 and the longitudinal stop surfaces 10 and the inclined surfaces 13 are each in pairs, as can be seen well in Fig. 4. In addition, they are against the
  • Plug-in 9 is formed in the order mentioned on the locking spring 5.
  • the longitudinal stop surface 10 is arranged in this variant between the inclined surface 13 and the transverse stop surface 1 1. This can also be seen in FIG. 5.
  • the transverse stop surface 1 1 is, as seen at least in the locking position shown in FIG. 6, advantageously elongated in the direction parallel to the insertion direction 9 and here in this example also in itself or
  • the locking spring 5 is toward the
  • the locking spring 5 With the first of the spring legs 15, the locking spring 5 is fixed to the connector housing part 3.
  • the second of the spring leg 16 is elastically pivotable relative to the first spring leg 15.
  • At the second of the spring leg 16 is also the actuating surface 18 of the locking spring 5 shown here. Against this actuating surface 18 presses the actuating element 17, when against the pusher surface 20 in the insertion direction. 9 is pressed so as to deflect the locking spring 5 from its locking position.
  • FIG. 6 shows the locking position of the locking spring 5, in which the
  • FIG. 7 shows the unlocked position in which by pressing on the pusher surface 20 here formed as a slide actuator 17 has been pushed so far in the insertion direction 9 that it brings about its contact with the actuating surface 18, the locking spring 5 in the unlocked position.
  • the longitudinal stop surfaces 10 are lifted by appropriate pivoting of the second spring leg 16 of the locking notch 26, so that in this unlocked position the plug 7 and thus the mating connector part 8 against the plug 9 from the
  • Connector part 1 can be pulled out.
  • the transverse stop surface 11 are, at least in the locking position shown in FIG. 6, preferably closer to the parallel to the insertion direction 9 extending center axis 27 of the connector part 1 arranged as the

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un élément de connecteur enfichable (1) d'une connexion enfichable (2), l'élément de connecteur enfichable (1) présentant un boîtier d'élément de connecteur enfichable (3) et un ou plusieurs contact(s) électrique(s) et/ou optique(s) (4) et au moins un ressort de verrouillage (5) et, dans le boîtier (3) de la connexion enfichable, au moins un espace récepteur (6) pour introduire un élément d'insertion (7) d'un élément de connecteur enfichable (8) correspondant du connecteur (2), l'élément de connecteur enfichable (8) correspondant étant insérée dans l'espace de réception (6) à l'état inséré dans lequel la partie enfichable (7) est complètement insérée dans l'espace de réception (6) dans une direction d'insertion (9), au moyen d'une face de butée longitudinale (10) du ressort de blocage (5) dans une position de blocage du ressort de blocage (5) contre le retrait de la pièce d'insertion (7) de l'espace de réception (6) dans la direction d'insertion (9), le ressort de verrouillage (5) comportant, en plus de la face de butée longitudinale (10), au moins une face de butée transversale (11) pour presser la partie enfichable (7) contre le boîtier (3) de la partie de connecteur dans une direction (12) transversale, de préférence orthogonale, à la direction d'insertion (9).
EP19718118.3A 2018-04-23 2019-04-11 Élément de connexion d'une connexion enfichable Pending EP3785335A1 (fr)

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DE202018102260.1U DE202018102260U1 (de) 2018-04-23 2018-04-23 Steckverbinderteil einer Steckverbindung
PCT/EP2019/059214 WO2019206652A1 (fr) 2018-04-23 2019-04-11 Élément de connexion d'une connexion enfichable

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