WO2019007709A1

WO2019007709A1 - Contact carrier arrangement and method for installing the contact carrier arrangement

Info

Publication number: WO2019007709A1
Application number: PCT/EP2018/066764
Authority: WO
Inventors: Pascal Wölffle
Original assignee: Amphenol-Tuchel Electronics Gmbh
Priority date: 2017-07-05
Filing date: 2018-06-22
Publication date: 2019-01-10
Also published as: EP3649705B1; EP3649705A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for installing a contact carrier arrangement and to the contact carrier arrangement, the contact carrier (20) being mounted on a front side (v) and a rear side (r) of the contact carrier housing (10).

Description

description

Contact carrier assembly and method of assembly

the contact carrier assembly

The invention relates to a method for mounting a contact carrier assembly and the

Contact carrier arrangement.

From the prior art, various connectors and and

Connector housing known. In many connectors, the respective housing is separated from the actual contact carrier, so that, for example, only the cables are passed through the housing before the cables are connected to the contacts of the contact carrier and the contact carrier is mounted in the housing. For the installation of systems or products, however, it is advantageous during assembly to provide ready-made cable strands with the contact carriers connected thereto. This also includes that the individual cables or conductors of the cable strands are connected to the respective contact carrier. However, the cable strands can usually no longer be guided through openings with the contact carrier connected thereto or can be mounted in the housing of the contact carrier, since only the contact carrier of the cable strand would have to be dismantled. Is a connector or a connector housing designed so that the contact carrier does not have to be routed through the housing, but is mounted from the cable side, the connector is usually for normal use, in which the cable only after passing through the opening with the contact carrier to be contacted, unsuitable because the assembly then usually has to be done from the back.

Depending on the use of the known in the art connectors so a particular connector must be used, which is designed for mounting the contact carrier in the contact carrier housing from the back or from the front, but which is not suitable for both types of Moniagearten. The invention is therefore based on the object to overcome the aforementioned disadvantages and to provide a contact carrier assembly and a method for mounting the contact carrier assembly, through which the contact carrier assembly with a pre-assembled

Wiring harness from the back of a contact carrier housing and without one

prefabricated cable harness from the front of the contact carrier housing can be mounted.

Furthermore, it should be possible to use a standardized contact carrier and the assembly can be carried out quickly and cost-efficiently.

This object is achieved by the feature combination according to claim 1.

According to the invention, a method for mounting a contact carrier arrangement

proposed. The contact carrier arrangement comprises a contact carrier, which is arranged in its mounted state in a contact carrier housing which is open on both sides and has a front and a rear side. The method comprises at least the following steps:

Passing the contact carrier through the contact carrier housing from the back of the contact carrier housing;

• mounting at least one adapter plate on the carried contact carrier;

• Arranging the contact carrier in the contact carrier housing, wherein the at least one adapter plate on each one formed by the contact carrier housing

Stop surface is placed resting;

• Fixing the at least one adapter plate by fastening means on the respective stop surface.

The contact carrier assembly corresponds to the purposes of the invention, a connector assembly, wherein the contact carrier has the mating face, so socket or plug body, and the contact carrier housing corresponds to the connector housing. By using adapter plates which are designed to be fixed to standardized contact carriers, these standardized contact carriers can be used without having to provide specially provided for this contact carrier. The front side of the contact carrier housing is the side on which lies a mating face of the contact carrier in the fully assembled contact carrier assembly. The back of the

Contact carrier housing is the opposite side, on which the contacts for connecting the cable or the wiring harness are provided. The contact carrier housing is located at the back in the fully assembled state on the surface of the system or the

Plant housing to which the contact carrier assembly is to be mounted on.

Furthermore, in a variant, the method provides, prior to the passage of the contact carrier through the contact carrier housing, at least one cable being connected in an electrically conductive manner to a contact body or contact of the contact carrier. This makes it possible to use prefabricated cables, in which only the contact carrier, already attached to the cable

are connected, still need to be mounted in the contact carrier housing. To carry out the method, the at least one adapter plate has at least one threaded hole and the contact carrier has at least one through hole or vice versa. The at least one adapter plate is then fixed when mounting the at least one adapter plate to the contact carrier by a respective first, through the through hole extending and engaging in the threaded hole screw on the contact carrier.

When arranging the contact carrier in the contact carrier housing at least two formed on the at least one adapter plate guide grooves on the

Contact carrier housing formed, corresponding guides brought into engagement. Then the contact carrier along the guides towards the back of the

Contact carrier housing moves until the at least one adapter plate on the respective

Abutment surface rests. The guides do not cause the adapter plates in the contact carrier housing to be misaligned when arranging the adapter plates. In addition, the adapter plates are only in the region of the guides on the contact carrier housing, so that only the guides and the guide need to be formed corresponding to each other. With the exception of the guides or the adjacent to the guides

Areas and the surfaces facing the stop surface, the remaining areas of the adapter plates, which face the contact carrier housing can be made with a lower accuracy, since they are not in contact with the contact carrier housing, resulting in lower manufacturing costs, The adapter plate has at least one through hole and the abutment surface has a threaded hole or a through hole. The fastener with which the adapter plate is fixed to the abutment surface is a second screw that passes through the through hole and engages the threaded hole. If the abutment surface has a through-hole, the screw also extends through the through-hole of the abutment surface and is fixed behind it by a nut or a thread in the equipment housing.

The contact carrier housing has a from its back to its front

continuous, in its basic form in particular rectangular passage. The

Stop surfaces extend orthogonally to the passage and are preferably formed as webs, which are connected on three sides with the contact carrier housing. The contact carrier housing has at least one fastening element for fastening the

Contact carrier housing on a mounting surface. The contact carrier is guided through the passage when passing.

In an advantageous development, the contact carrier housing is secured by the at least one fastening element with its rear side on the mounting surface before the passage of the contact carrier through the contact carrier housing.

The mounting surface is formed in a development of the method of a plant housing or is arranged on a plant housing. The contact carrier housing can therefore be mounted as intended before mounting the contact carrier. The

Contact carrier housing can then from the back through an opening in the

System housing guided by the contact carrier housing and fixed by means of the adapter plates on the contact carrier housing. Alternatively, the cables can be passed through the opening in the system housing and contacted on the front of the contact carrier housing with the contact carrier or the contacts of the contact carrier before the

Contact carrier is fixed by means of the adapter plates in the contact carrier housing.

The at least one adapter plate is mounted in an advantageous embodiment before or after arranging the contact carrier in the contact carrier housing on the contact carrier. According to the invention, a contact carrier arrangement with a contact carrier, a contact carrier housing which is open on both sides, has a front and a rear side, and at least one adapter plate is also proposed. The contact carrier housing has a

Passage on. The passage is formed so that the contact carrier can be guided from a rear side to a front side of the contact carrier housing. In particular, the contact carrier housing is designed such that the contact carrier with cables contacted thereby can be performed by the contact carrier housing. The at least one adapter plate is designed to be attached to the contact carrier. The contact carrier can be arranged with the at least one adapter plate attached to at least one of the contact carrier housing stop surface and on the

Contact carrier housing fixable. Further, the contact carrier assembly is formed so that the contact carrier also from the front of the contact carrier housing in the

Contact carrier housing can be arranged without having to perform the contact carrier through the contact carrier housing,

Contact carrier housing, adapter plates and contact carrier are at an advantageous

Training variant formed of an electrically conductive material. The contact surfaces formed by the contact carrier housing are in particular integrally as

Grounding surfaces formed so that the contact carrier or contact carrier housing can be grounded by flying on the stop surfaces by means of the adapter plates.

The at least one through hole of the adapter plate is formed in particular as a slot to allow clearance and alignment of the contact carrier with the adapter plates in the contact carrier housing, wherein the guide grooves are wider than the guides to allow an alignment movement. Alternatively, the guide grooves do not allow alignment movement of the adapter plates with respect to the abutment surfaces, wherein the through holes formed as a long hole require less manufacturing accuracy for assembly, so that the cost of manufacturing decline.

Furthermore, an embodiment is advantageous in which on the front of the

Contact carrier housing around the passage opening a sealing element, in particular a sealing ring runs. The contact carrier arrangement is also designed to be contacted on the front side of the contact carrier housing with a counterpart or counter contact element or to be closed by a cover which bears sealingly against the sealing element. If the contact carrier (plug or socket) is contacted with a mating contact carrier (socket or plug), the respective housings close tightly to one another by the sealing element. The features disclosed above can be combined as desired, as far as this is technically possible and they do not contradict each other. Other advantageous developments of the invention are characterized in the subclaims or are shown in more detail below together with the description of the preferred embodiment of the invention with reference to FIGS. Show it:

FIG. 1 shows a first step of the method of assembling the contact carrier arrangement; FIG.

FIG. 2 shows a second step of the method of assembling the contact carrier arrangement; FIG.

3 shows a third step of the method of assembling the contact carrier arrangement; 4 shows a fourth step of the mounting method of the contact carrier arrangement:

5 shows a contact carrier housing and two adapter plates of the contact carrier arrangement.

The figures are exemplary schematic. Like reference numerals in the figures indicate like functional and / or structural features.

Figure 1 shows the not yet fully assembled contact carrier assembly without the

Adapter plates 30. A Kabei K has already been connected to the contact carrier 20, so that the contact carrier 20 with the connected cable K at the back of the R

Contact carrier housing 10 is arranged. The contact carrier housing 10 is already mounted on a mounting surface M of a system housing only partially shown. The

Plant housing has an opening. wherein the passage opening 14 of the

Contact carrier housing 10 is disposed above the opening of the plant housing. The

Rear R of the contact carrier housing 10 faces the plant housing or the

Mounting surface M back and the front side V of the contact carrier housing 10 is of the

Facing mounting surface M or facing away from the plant housing. The state shown in Figure 1 of the contact carrier assembly is transferred to the state shown in Figure 2 by the contact carrier 20 with the cable K connected thereto or a part of the cable K connected thereto from the back R through the opening in the plant housing and the Passage 14 of the contact carrier housing 1 0 on the front side V of the contact carrier housing 10 is guided. Subsequently, the

Adapierplatten 30 disposed on the contact carrier 20 and fixed by the screws 22 to each other. The screws 22 extend through a through hole 21 and abut with the screw heads on the contact carrier 20, wherein the screws engage in the threaded holes 31 of the adapter plates 30 and thereby fix contact carrier 20 and adapter plates to each other.

After the adapter plates 30 have been fixed by the screws 22 on the contact carrier 20, the contact carrier 20 with the adapter plates 30, as shown in Figure 3, arranged in the contact carrier housing 10. For this purpose, the guide grooves 32 of the adapter plates 30 are brought into engagement with the guides 12 of the contact carrier housing 1 0 and the

Contact carrier housing 10 with the adapter plates 30 from the front V along the

Guides 12 pushed towards the back R until the adapter plates 30 lie flat on the abutment surfaces 1 1.

In Figure 4 it is shown that after the adapter plates 30 were brought to the stop surfaces 1 1 to rest, the contact carrier 20 via the adapter plates 30 by means of

Screws 34 are fixed to the contact carrier housing 10 and the system housing. Figure 5 shows the contact carrier housing 10 and two adapter plates 30 in a perspective view, so that in particular the substantially rectangular passage 14 and the guides 12 of the contact carrier housing 10 can be seen.

The invention is not limited in its execution to the above-mentioned preferred embodiments. Rather, a number of variants is conceivable, which makes use of the illustrated solution even with fundamentally different types of use. For example, the contact carrier housing could be divided into two and be arranged in the process around the cable harness and fixed to each other.

Claims

claims

Method for mounting a contact carrier arrangement comprising a contact carrier (20) in a contact carrier housing (10) which is open on both sides and has a front and a rear side (V, R), comprising at least the following steps:

Passing the contact carrier (20) through the contact carrier housing (10) from the rear side (R) of the contact carrier housing;

• Mounting at least one adapter plate (30) on the performed

Contact carrier (20);

• arranging the contact carrier (20) in the contact carrier housing (10), wherein the at least one adapter plate (30) on each one through the

Contact carrier housing (10) formed stop surface (1 1) is arranged resting on;

• Fixing the at least one adapter plate (30) by fastening means on the respective abutment surface (1 1).

Method according to the preceding claim, characterized in that before the passage of the contact carrier (20) through the contact carrier housing (10) at least one cable (K) is electrically conductively connected to a contact body or contact of the contact carrier (20).

Method according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one adapter plate (30) each have at least one threaded hole (31) and the contact carrier (20) at least one through hole (21) or vice versa and the at least one adapter plate (30) when mounting the at least one Adapter plate (30) on the contact carrier (20) by a respective first, through the through hole (21) extending and in the threaded hole (31) engaging screw (22) is fixed to the contact carrier.

Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that when arranging the contact carrier (20) in the contact carrier housing (10) at least two on the at least one adapter plate (30) formed guide grooves (32) formed on the contact carrier housing (10), corresponding guides (1 2) are brought into engagement and the contact carrier (20) along the guides (12) towards the back (R) of the contact carrier housing (10) is moved until the at least one adapter plate (30) on the respective abutment surface (1 1 ) rests.

5. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the adapter plate (30) at least one through hole (33) and the abutment surface (1 1) has a threaded hole or a through hole (13), wherein the fastening means with which the adapter plate ( 30) is fixed to the Anschiagsfläche (1 1), a second

Screw (34) which passes through the through hole (33) and engages in the threaded hole or through the through hole (13) of the Anschiagsfläche.

6. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the contact carrier housing (10) from its rear side (R) to its front side (V) passing, in its basic shape in particular rectangular passage (14), the

Stop surfaces (1 1) extend orthogonal to the passage, the

Contact carrier housing (10) has at least one fastening element for fastening the contact carrier housing (10) on a mounting surface (M) and the contact carrier (20) when passing through the passage (14) is guided. 7. The method according to the preceding claim, wherein the contact carrier housing (10) prior to performing the contact carrier (20) through the contact carrier housing (10) by the at least one fastener with its back (R) on the

Mounting surface (M) is attached.

8. The method according to any one of the preceding claims 6 or 7, wherein the

Mounting surface (M) is formed by a plant housing or on a

Plant housing is arranged.

9. The method according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the at least one

Adapter plate (30) on the contact carrier (20) before or after arranging the

Contact carrier (20) in the contact carrier housing (10) is mounted.

0. Contact carrier assembly for mounting according to the method of claims 1 to 9 with a contact carrier (20), a both sides open, a front and a back (V. R) having contact carrier housing (1 0) and at least one adapter plate (30) the contact carrier housing (10) has a passage (14) which is designed such that the contact carrier (20) can be guided from a rear side (R) to a front side (V) of the contact carrier housing (10) which has at least one adapter plate (30). is designed to be fixed to the contact carrier (20), the contact carrier (20) with the at least one attached adapter plate (30) on at least one of the contact carrier housing (10) formed stop surface (1 1) can be arranged and on the contact carrier housing (10) is fixable, and wherein the contact carrier arrangement is formed so that the contact carrier (20) from the front side (V) of the contact carrier housing ( 10) in the contact carrier housing (1 0) can be arranged without having to perform the contact carrier (20) through the contact carrier housing (10).