IP Library Granted Patent US 7,040,936
Granted Patent B2
US 7,040,936 · App. 11/021,163 · Granted May 9, 2006

Housing for an electrical plug-in connector

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Patent No.
US 7,040,936
App. No.
11/021,163
Granted
May 9, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A housing of an electrical plug-in connector having a high-current socket. The high-current socket is formed by a contact segment consisting of contact tongues, an intermediate segment, and an attachment segment, whereby the material thickness of the attachment segment is greater than the material thickness of the intermediate segment and the contact segment. A counter-contact surface for interaction with this change in the material thickness, which is configured in the form of a step, is provided in the housing. Furthermore, the high-current socket is fixed in place in the housing by means of resilient tongues on the intermediate segment, and a catch projection in the recess in the housing.

Claims (8)

1. A housing of an electrical plug-in connector, said housing being made of an insulating material and having a corpus in which a recess, which is in the shape of a longitudinal passage, formed to hold a high-current socket, said housing comprising;

catch projections to fix the high-current socket in place in the recess, said catch projections having tongues formed on the high current socket disposed on said catch projections, and at least one counter contact surface to delimit an axial movement of said high current socket;

a guide groove on the corpus in region of an opening of the recess wherein said guide groove is disposed outside of said opening and is designed to receive a guide projection of the high current socket, wherein the guide projection projects away sideways into said guide groove;

a counter-contact surface formed on the corpus and which does not extend beyond the face surface of the insertion side of said corpus.

2. A housing according to claim 1 , further comprising additional attachment devices formed on the housing.

3. A housing according to claim 1 , further comprising additional projections formed in the recess in its front region, that accommodates said contact segment of said high current socket, which form a continuous, circumferential projection.

4. A housing according to claim 1 , further comprising additional attachment devices formed on the housing, and additional projections formed on the recess which form a concentrically positioned and continuously narrowing cross-section of the recess.

5. The housing as in claim 1 , further comprising additional projections that are formed in said recess, in its front region that accommodates said contact segment of said high current socket, and which form a concentrically positioned, continuously narrowing cross section of the recess.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 22, 2014
From: LAPPÖHN, JÜRGEN
To: ERNI ELEKTROAPPARATE GMBH
Reel/Frame 032724/0029 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 22, 2014
From: ERNI ELEKTROAPPARATE GMBH
To: ERNI ELECTRONICS GMBH
Reel/Frame 032725/0230 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 22, 2014
From: ERNI ELECTRONICS GMBH & CO. KG
To: ERNI PRODUCTION GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 032725/0245 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 22, 2014
From: ERNI ELECTRONICS GMBH
To: ERNI ELECTRONICS GMBH & CO. KG
Reel/Frame 032725/0259 →