# US 12,003,048 B2 · Plug connector for flexible conductor films > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,003,048 B2 - Document ID: US12003048B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/257,559 - Filed: 2019-06-18 - Published: 2021-11-04 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2018-07-05 - Assignees: ERNI Production GmbH & Co. KG - Applicants: ERNI Production GmbH & Co. KG - Inventors: Roland Mödinger; Fabian Kristmann - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12003048B2 ## CPC - H01R 12/675: {with contacts having at least a slotted plate for penetration of cable insulation, e.g. insulation displacement contacts for round conductor flat cables} - H01R 12/68: comprising deformable portions - H01R 4/2433: one part of the base being movable to push the cable into the slot - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS ## Abstract A plug connector for flexible conductor films having film-insulated conductors, having a plug connector housing, in which at least one plug contact element is arranged, and having a coupling region, in which blades electrically conductively connected to the at least one plug contact element penetrate and fix at least one film-insulating conductor by producing an electrical contact, wherein the plug connector housing comprises two housing parts that can be fitted together, whose first housing part supports the blades and the at least one plug contact element electrically conductively connected to them, and whose second housing part receives and supports the flexible conductor film and has the at least one blade receiver adjusted to the blades, whose boundary surfaces are formed in such a way that at least one part of the blades is bent when fitting the two housing parts together in the direction of the film-insulated conductor, wherein at least one part of the blades is formed flexibly. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A plug connector for flexible conductor films having film-insulated conductors, having a plug connector housing, in which at least one plug contact element is arranged, and having a coupling region, in which blades electrically conductively connected to the at least one plug contact element penetrate and fix at least one film-insulating conductor by producing an electrical contact, wherein the plug connector housing comprises two housing parts that can be fitted together, whose first housing part supports the blades and the at least one plug contact element electrically conductively connected to them, and whose second housing part receives and supports the flexible conductor film and has at least one blade receiver adjusted to the blades, whose boundary surfaces are formed in such a way that at least one part of the blades is bent when fitting the two housing parts together in the direction of the film-insulated conductor, wherein at least one part of the blades has a hollow space, which enables an elastic deformation of the blade edges, and wherein the blades which have a hollow space, are each arranged between the blades which are bent when fitting the two housing parts together in the direction of the film-insulated conductors. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein the hollow space has a contour adjusted to the shape of the blade. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein the second housing part has a receiving space adjusted to the conductor film, wherein two aligned openings are arranged in two opposite housing walls for receiving the conductor film. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The plug connector according to claim 3, wherein the two aligned openings are arranged in such a way that a conductor film arranged in the receiving space comes to rest substantially perpendicularly to the blades. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein the boundary surfaces of the blade receivers are curved. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The plug connector according to claim 5, wherein the boundary surfaces of the blade receivers form gliding surfaces for at least one part of the blades. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The plug connector according to claim 6, wherein the boundary surfaces of the blade receivers run in the manner of a funnel in such a way that two blades are bent in relation to each other, while they glide along on the boundary surfaces. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein the blades are arranged one behind the other in a line in such a way that the film-insulated conductor is cut through at several points when mounting the second housing part on the first housing part. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The plug connector according to claim 8, wherein the blades have different lengths, wherein in each case one shorter blade having the hollow space is surrounded by two longer blades in each case, which are spaced apart from one another in such a way and whose length is so great that they come into abutment on the boundary surfaces of a blade receiver. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein the second housing part has several blade receivers arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the film-insulated conductors. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein clamping elements are provided in the first and/or second housing part, which clamp the flexible conductor film in the mounted state of the two housing parts to one another in the region between the film-insulated conductors. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The plug connector according to claim 11, wherein the clamping elements are arranged between conductor tracks of the flexible conductor film. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The plug connector according to claim 12, wherein the clamping elements are respectively allocated to rows of blades. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The plug connector according to claim 11, wherein first clamping elements are arranged in the first housing part and second clamping elements interacting with the first clamping elements are arranged in the second housing part. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The plug connector according to claim 14, wherein the first clamping elements are clamping teeth having clamping teeth surfaces extending in the direction of the flexible conductor film, and the second clamping elements are openings adjusted to the clamping teeth and arranged in the second housing element. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The plug connector according to claim 15, wherein the clamping teeth have a height in such a way that, in the mounted state of the two housing parts on one another, the flexible conductor film that can be arranged between the first and the second housing part can be deformed in such a way that the deformed regions of the flexible conductor film protrude slightly into the openings arranged in the second housing part. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) The plug connector according to claim 1, wherein the second housing part is latched with the first housing part in the mounted state.