Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
  • H05K5/00—Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus
  • H05K5/0026—Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus provided with connectors and printed circuit boards [PCB], e.g. automotive electronic control units
  • H05K5/0069—Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus provided with connectors and printed circuit boards [PCB], e.g. automotive electronic control units having connector relating features for connecting the connector pins with the PCB or for mounting the connector body with the housing
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
  • H05K5/00—Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus
  • H05K5/0026—Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus provided with connectors and printed circuit boards [PCB], e.g. automotive electronic control units
  • H05K5/0078—Casings, cabinets or drawers for electric apparatus provided with connectors and printed circuit boards [PCB], e.g. automotive electronic control units specially adapted for acceleration sensors, e.g. crash sensors, airbag sensors
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • H05K—PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS
  • H05K7/00—Constructional details common to different types of electric apparatus
  • H05K7/02—Arrangements of circuit components or wiring on supporting structure

Definitions

• the invention relates to an electronic module that can be used for example in a vehicle, such as a car, truck, bus or motorcycle.
• An electronics module usually comprises a housing which carries one or more printed circuit boards with electronic components and which additionally provides a plug, via which the electronic module can be electrically connected to other components.
• a housing which carries one or more printed circuit boards with electronic components and which additionally provides a plug, via which the electronic module can be electrically connected to other components.
• angled lead frames can be used, which are injected into the housing.
• the angled lead frames are individually inserted into a tool and then encapsulated with the housing.
• the invention relates to an electronic module, by which a mechanically coherent assembly can be understood, comprising a housing and electronics housed therein. For example, that can
• the throttle may be the throttle of a two-wheeler (or
• the electronic module may be an angle sensor.
• the electronic module comprises: a printed circuit board carrying at least one electronic component, at least one male tab electrically connected to the printed circuit board, a housing providing an electronic receptacle for the printed circuit board and the one
• Plug receptacle for the at least one connector tongue provides.
• a printed circuit board is accommodated in the housing, which is connected to the
• Plug tongue is electrically connected.
• the electronic module comprises at least one fork contact which is inserted into the electronics receptacle in the housing and which carries the circuit board, wherein the at least one connector tongue is inserted through the connector receptacle in the fork contact.
• the electronic module will usually have a plurality of connector tabs, which in turn are electrically connected via a plurality of fork contacts with the circuit board.
• the at least one fork contact is inserted into the electronic receptacle and pressed into the housing. This can be done together with the circuit board or separately. Subsequently, the at least one connector tongue is inserted (or shot) in the connector receptacle and pressed or rammed into the fork contact. As a result, the fork contact is fixed by the connector tongue in the housing.
• the housing can thus be injected without inserts, so it can be a pure plastic part without injection. This can be the cost of the housing to reduce. Further, the fork contacts or the tolerances can compensate for tolerances. If several types of electronic modules are built, the same fork contacts and / or connector tongues can be used together with different housings. Also, the same circuit board in
• the housing may also contain a stop for the printed circuit board.
• the fork contact has a pin that protrudes from a main body of the fork contact, and that can be inserted into an opening in the circuit board.
• the pin is made rigid or spring-loaded.
• the pin can be rigid or sprung at its end.
• the pin can be designed so that it can be resiliently compressed.
• the fork contact has a
• the fork portion may be provided as an opening in a rectangular body of the fork contact, are provided with the two fork ends, between which the end of the connector tongue is received.
• the fork contact is held in the housing via the connector tongue.
• the fork contact can be inserted into the housing and then the connector tongue.
• Plug tongue are inserted through the housing in the fork contact, so that the fork contact is held by the connector tongue in the housing.
• the fork contact on a plug-in area which protrudes from a main body of the fork contact and which is inserted into the housing.
• the plug-in area may have barbs with which the fork contact can be anchored in the housing. The profile provided by the plug-in area prevents it from falling out
• the fork contact is made in one piece and / or as a flat component.
• the fork contact may have a substantially cuboidal or rectangular basic body and / or be punched out of a metal sheet. From the main body of the pin and the mating area in the same plane in which the
• the Body extends, protrude.
• the pin and the plug-in area can protrude from the base body at the opposite end of the base body.
• the electronic module further comprises a plurality of fork contacts, wherein the fork contacts are designed identical.
• the fork contacts can be the same parts, which can reduce the cost of their production.
• the fork contacts are arranged offset from one another in the electronics receptacle. In this way, the pins or the protruding from the electronic recording pages of the
• Fork contacts form a support for the circuit board, which supports the circuit board surface.
• the fork contacts can serve as a mechanical support for the
• Plug tongue designed as a flat component.
• the connector tongue may have a substantially cuboid base body and / or be punched out of a metal sheet.
• the electronic module further comprises a plurality of connector tongues.
• two, three or more connector tabs may be aligned side by side in the connector receptacle.
• At least two plug tongues can be identical and / or identical.
• the plug tongues may include the same parts.
• the electronics receptacle and the plug receptacle in the housing are substantially orthogonal away from each other.
• the two receptacles are connected to each other in the housing, wherein in the production of the electronic module in the connector receptacle, the at least one connector tongue and substantially orthogonal to the electronics receptacle of the at least one fork contact is inserted.
• the orthogonal orientation of the plug receptacle and the electronics receptacle and the consequent orthogonal mounting of the at least one plug tongue into the at least one fork contact can particularly advantageously meter the joining force and control the manufacturing process, thereby providing a particularly reliable and reliable connection between the at least one fork contact and the at least one connector tongue can be formed.
• the orthogonal arrangement allows considerable space along the axis of the longitudinal extent of the at least one
• the housing without the at least one connector tongue and without the at least one fork contact is manufactured (injection-molded, for example). Subsequently, the connector tongue and the fork contact are subsequently inserted into the housing.
• the housing is made without the contact parts.
• the plug tongue and the fork contact can be retrofitted.
• Fig. 1 shows an exploded perspective view of an electronic module according to an embodiment of the invention.
• FIG. 1 shows an exploded view of an electronic module 10 comprising a housing 12, three plug tongues 14, three fork contacts 16 and a printed circuit board 18.
• the housing 12 is molded or injected from plastic and has a plug receptacle 20 and an electronics receptacle 22.
• the housing is made without inserts.
• the two receptacles 20, 22 are substantially perpendicular to each other and are connected to each other in the housing 12.
• the plug tongues 14 are plugged into the plug receptacle 22 and, together with the plug receptacle 22, form a plug with which the electronic module 10 can be electrically connected to further components.
• the housing 12 has two lateral tabs 24 over which the
• Electronic module 10 can be mechanically connected to other components.
• the plug tongues 14 are planar components and can be identical. They have a substantially cuboidal body, which is wedge-shaped at a plug-in end 26. The other end 28 is designed to be plugged into the respective fork contact 16.
• the plug tongues 14 may have been punched out of a metal sheet.
• the gift I afforde 16 are identical and flat components.
• the fork contacts 16 may have been punched out of a metal sheet.
• a fork contact 16 has a substantially rectangular or cuboid base body 29, on which an arrow-shaped opening 30 is provided at one end, so that a fork portion 31 with two forks 32 are formed in the middle of a
• Thickening 34 have. Between the two thickenings 34, the end 28 of the respective fork contact 16 is clamped.
• a pin 36 Of the main body 29 of the fork contact 16 is a pin 36 and a
• the pin 36 which may be rigid as shown, may alternatively be sprung. He can in this case
• the forks 32 of the fork contact 16 extend along a first axis, which is substantially transversely or orthogonal to a second axis, along which the pin 36 and the plug portion 38 extend. In this way, the fork contact 16 by the insertion of the connector tabs 14 in the forks 32 very well with respect to the second axis (extension direction of the pin 36 and the plug portion 38) in the housing 12 fix.
• the plug-in area 38 tapers towards its end and has barbs with which the plug-in area 38 can be anchored in the housing 12.
• the fork contacts 16 are arranged offset to one another in the electronic receptacle 22, so that the pins 36 are arranged at the corners of a triangle and can mechanically fix the circuit board 18.
• the printed circuit board 18 can be plugged onto the pins 36 after or before the plug tongues 14 have been inserted into the fork contacts 16.

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