Classifications

• • 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
  • H01R13/46—Bases; Cases
  • H01R13/502—Bases; Cases composed of different pieces
• • 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
  • H01R13/64—Means for preventing incorrect coupling
  • H01R13/645—Means for preventing incorrect coupling by exchangeable elements on case or base
  • H01R13/6456—Means for preventing incorrect coupling by exchangeable elements on case or base comprising keying elements at different positions along the periphery of the connector
• • 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
  • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
  • H01R12/71—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures
  • H01R12/712—Coupling devices for rigid printing circuits or like structures co-operating with the surface of the printed circuit or with a coupling device exclusively provided on the surface of the printed circuit
• • 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
  • H01R12/70—Coupling devices
  • H01R12/91—Coupling devices allowing relative movement between coupling parts, e.g. floating or self aligning

Definitions

• the invention relates to a contact carrier with an electrical contact and with a lower part for holding the electrical contact.
• Such contact carriers are used to make an electrically conductive connection between the electrical contact and a printed circuit board.
• the electrical contact may be e.g. be designed as a socket or plug.
• the electrical contact is located in an insulating sleeve, which may have a mechanical coding.
• the mechanical coding can be designed corresponding to a mechanical counter-coding in order to enable only one connection of a socket or plug with the correct coding.
• this prevents a change from one pair consisting of coding and counter coding to another pair consisting of different coding and corresponding counter coding. It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide a contact carrier which is more versatile in use.
• the present invention is based on the recognition that by a removable trained insulating sleeve an insulating easily and quickly by another
• Insulating sleeve can be replaced.
• the object is achieved in that a contact carrier has an electrical contact and a lower part for holding the electrical contact, wherein a removable insulating sleeve can be placed on the electrical contact.
• a contact carrier has an electrical contact and a lower part for holding the electrical contact, wherein a removable insulating sleeve can be placed on the electrical contact.
• the technical advantage is achieved that the insulating sleeve can be separated from the contact carrier and replaced if necessary. This increases flexibility.
• the insulating sleeve has a passage for electrically contacting the electrical contact.
• the technical advantage is achieved that a simple assembly and disassembly of the insulating sleeve is given.
• the insulating sleeve has a coding which identifies the contact carrier by a feature. This will be the technical
• the feature is a color coding or a mechanical coding.
• the technical advantage is achieved that in the case of a color coding by the simple optical marking, the assignment of the respective electrical contacts to certain functions is greatly simplified.
• the feature is a mechanical coding, reverse polarity protection is provided, and by replacing the insulating sleeve it is possible to make an adaptation to the corresponding mechanical coding of a counterpart of a male-female connection.
• the contact carrier is an SMD contact carrier (surface-mounted device, surface-mounted component).
• the contact carrier has an electrical contact and a contact arm which is electrically conductively connected to the electrical contact, wherein the contact arm has a tolerance compensation section and a contact formed with the tolerance compensation section for electrical
• SMT surface-mounting technology
• the contact arm extends laterally or radially from the electrical contact.
• the electrical contact extends in a first direction
• the contact arm extends in a second direction, wherein the first direction and the second direction at an angle, in particular at an angle of 90 ° C, within an angle within an angular tolerance range are arranged.
• the angle tolerance range can have production-related tolerances and, for example, 5%, 10% or 15% of e.g. 90 °.
• the Kunststofffu ß extends within an angular tolerance range in the second direction.
• the angle tolerance range can have production-related tolerances and be, for example, 5%, 10% or 15%.
• the tolerance compensation section is mechanically deformable. This achieves the technical advantage that the
• Tolerance compensation section can be deformed by forces occurring during soldering and compensate for these.
• the tolerance compensation section is elastically or plastically deformable.
• the Kunststofffu ß is connected to the electrical contact by means of the tolerance compensation section.
• the contact carrier has a particularly simple structure.
• the tolerance compensation section comprises a bending arc, in particular a U-shaped bend.
• Tolerance compensation section arranged at an angle at an angle.
• Tolerance compensation section to the contact foot of the tolerance compensation section can be particularly easily deformed at this point to compensate for tolerances.
• the Kunststofffu ß is below the
• the contact carrier is particularly easy to attach with the contact foot on a circuit board.
• Tolerance compensation section formed elastically or plastically deformable.
• the Kunststofffu ß is a Lötpadfuß.
• Solder connection can be formed.
• the electrical contact is a
• the contact has a lower part, in which the electrical contact is held.
• the lower part has a radial
• the contact carrier has a plurality of electrical contacts, which are each electrically conductively connected to a contact.
• FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a contact carrier, an exploded view of the contact carrier, 3 is a perspective view of a contact pin,
• FIG. 7 shows an insulating sleeve with a first coding
• FIG. 8 shows an insulating sleeve with a second coding
• Fig. 1 1 is a view of the top of the base
• Fig. 12 is a view of the underside of the lower part.
• Fig. 1 shows a contact carrier 100, which in the present embodiment three
• Contact pins 102, an insulating sleeve 104, a lower part 106 and a cap nut 108 includes.
• FIG. 1 only one of the three contact pins is identified by reference numeral 102.
• the contact carrier 100 is formed to a
• the contact carrier 100 is formed as an SMD contact carrier (surface-mounted device, surface-mounted device).
• the contact pin 102 is made in one piece from metal, for example copper or a copper-containing alloy, for example by stamping and bending.
• the contact pin 102 has an electrical contact 128 in the present Embodiment as a contact socket 130 is formed and thus for receiving an electrical pin contact (not shown) of a plug (not shown) is formed.
• the contact pin 102 has a contact foot 132 which is formed in the present embodiment as Lötpadfu ß 134, with a known SMT technology solder joint for producing an electrically conductive connection with a contact surface, such as a conductor of a printed circuit board can be produced.
• the insulating sleeve 104 is made in the present embodiment of an electrically insulating material, such as a plastic material, for example by injection molding. Further, the insulating sleeve 104 has a coding 1 18, which is formed in the present embodiment by a plurality of wells, which form a mechanical coding to a reverse polarity contact
• the lower part 106 is made in the present embodiment of a high temperature-stable plastic, so that the lower part 106 undergoes no damage or deformation during an SMT soldering.
• the lower part 106 has, in the present exemplary embodiment, five passage openings 124, of which only one passage opening is designated by the reference number 124 in FIG. In the present embodiment, one of the through openings 124 forms each with one of the
• Passage channels 106 a passage. Further, the lower part 106 has a arranged on its underside 122 depressions 126, one of which each one of
• Passage channels 106 is assigned and extend radially in the present embodiment. 1 shows that the electrical contact socket 130 is located in the through-channel 16, while the contact arm 136 is received in the recess 126, which is formed on a lower side 122 of the lower part 106. On the upper side 120 of the lower part 106, a union nut 108 is arranged, which has an internal thread 1 10 for producing a screw connection with the plug. Furthermore, in the present embodiment, the union nut 108 has a
• the tolerance compensation section 138 may be e.g. Compensate for fault tolerances in a range of 0.1 to 1 mm. in the
• the present embodiment allows the tolerance compensation section 138,
• Fig. 2 shows the contact carrier 100 in an exploded view. It can be seen that the insulating sleeve 104 has positioning pins 200 which are in
• FIGS. 3 to 5 show the contact pin 102.
• the contact pin 102 has a first end 300, on which the electrical contact 128 is arranged.
• the electrical contact 128 is formed in the present embodiment as a contact socket 130 and for this purpose has two opposite ones
• Contact tongues 304a, 304b which are resiliently biased to the positions shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 and are elastically deformable by inserting a pin contact and then hold this by spring force. Furthermore, the contact pin 102 has a channel 306 for receiving such a pin contact.
• the insertion movement of a pin contact into the contact socket 130 formed by the contact tongues 304a, 304b and into the channel 306 extends in a first direction I in which the contact pin 102 extends.
• the contact arm 136 of the contact pin 102 extends in the present
• Embodiment in a second direction II in a second direction II.
• the second direction II extends at an angle! from 90 ° to the first direction I (see Figs. 3 and 4).
• the contact arm 136 comprises a kink 308, a connecting section 310 adjoining the kink 308, and a kink 308
• the bend 308 forms an angle in the present embodiment! of 30 °, while in the present embodiment, the arc portion 312 an angle! of 90 ° (see Fig. 5).
• both the bend 308 and the arcuate portion 312 are bent about an axis which is parallel to the first direction I.
• the tolerance compensation section 138 comprises in the present embodiment, a bending arc 314, which is formed in the present embodiment as a U-shaped bend 316, and an angled portion 318th
• the U-shaped bend 316 is bent in the present embodiment about an axis which extends parallel to the first direction I. Further, in the present embodiment, the U-shaped bend 316 as an angle! formed by 180 ° (see Fig. 5).
• the angled section 318 is in the present embodiment at an angle! of 90 °, wherein the axis about which the angled portion 318 is bent extends both at a right angle to the first direction I and at a right angle to the second direction II (see Fig. 4).
• the angled portion 318 is in the present embodiment at an angle! of 90 °, wherein the axis about which the angled portion 318 is bent extends both at a right angle to the first direction I and at a right angle to the second direction II (see Fig. 4).
• FIGS. 3 to 5 show that in the present exemplary embodiment the contact foot 132 is arranged below the tolerance compensation section 138 in the first direction I.
• the electrical contact 128 and the Kunststofffu ß 132 in the present embodiment at opposite ends, namely the first end 300 and the second end 302 of the contact pin 102nd
• the contact pin 102 shows a section through the first end 300 of the contact pin 102. It can be seen that the contact pin 102 is hollow below the contact tongues 304a, 304b and therefore has the channel 306.
• the channel 306 is closed by a Vergussmassensperre 500 so that no potting compound, such as. Adhesive, for example, during a mounting operation in the channel 306 can pass.
• the Vergussmassensperre 500 is formed in the present embodiment of a sheet metal portion of the contact pin 102 which has been stamped and folded into the channel 306.
• FIGS. 7 to 10 show various embodiments of the insulating sleeve 104 with five through channels 16 (see FIGS. 7, 8 and 9) and four through channels 16 (see FIG. 10).
• Each of the insulating sleeves 104 has a coding 1 18, which identifies the contact carrier 100 by a feature.
• the feature is a mechanical coding.
• Fig. 7 shows an insulating sleeve 104 with a coding 1 18, which is formed in the present embodiment as A-encoding 600 for a M5 connector.
• Fig. 8 shows an insulating sleeve 104 with a coding 1 18, in the present
• Embodiment is designed as a B-coding 700 for a M5 connector.
• Fig. 9 shows an insulating sleeve 104 with a coding 1 18, in the present
• Embodiment is designed as a D-coding 800 for a M5 connector.
• Fig. 10 shows an insulating sleeve 104 with a coding 1 18, which is formed in the present embodiment as T-coding 900 for a M5 connector.
• the insulating sleeve can also be designed for other connectors, for example for an M8 plug or an M12 plug.
• the insulating sleeve 104 is detachably mounted on the electrical contact 128 in the present embodiment.
• the insulating sleeve 104 may be separated from the contact carrier 100 and replaced as needed to accommodate the coding 104, for example, to make a change from the A-code 600 to the B-code 700.
• the insulating sleeves 104 may be colored differently, which simplifies a simple optical assignment of the function of the respective electrical contacts 128 to certain functions.
• FIG. 1 shows the upper side of the lower part 106. It can be seen that in the present exemplary embodiment the upper side 120 has the positioning holes 202 next to the five through openings 124 for holding one contact pin 102 in the present exemplary embodiment.
• Fig. 12 shows the bottom 122 of the base 106. It can be seen next to the

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