Adapter plug with play compensation
AssigneeHirschmann Automotive GmbH
InventorsManuel Linseder, Daniel Breuss, Michael Hofer
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Abstract
Adapter (1) having two socket housings (3, 4) which are connected to one another by means of lines (12) with, for example, crimped-on contact partners (11), such as socket contacts (10) or the like, wherein the contact partners (11) are arranged in the socket housings (3, 4) and can be connected to plugs, wherein the socket housings (3, 4) are arranged in a holder (2) and wherein the plugs and/or socket housings (3, 4) are designed such that they can be displaced in a play-compensating manner in relation to the holder (2) in the X and/or Y direction transversely to the holder (2).
Claims7
An adapter plug comprising:
- a housing having an opening;
- two sockets;
- conductors for connecting together the sockets, having contacts in recesses of the sockets, and connectable to external plugs;
- a U-section holder containing the sockets;
- retaining clips on the holder, spaced around the opening, and fixing the holder in the opening of the housing, the plugs and/or sockets being displaceable relative to the holder in the X- and/or Y-direction transversely to the holder in a play-compensating manner;
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- angularly extending decoupling slots between the holder clips and the recesses of the sockets in the holder.
In combination with a housing having an opening, an adapter comprising:
- a generally tubular holder fitting snugly in the opening, extending along a Z-axis, and having axially oppositely open ends;
- respective sockets each in a respective one of the ends;
- respective axially contacts fixed in each of the sockets;
- interengaging formations on the holder and the sockets preventing axial movement of the sockets in the holder while permitting transverse X- and Y-movement of the sockets and their contacts in the holder;
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- respective flexible and nonstraight conductors each connected to and extending axially between a respective one of the contacts of one of the sockets and a respective one of the contacts of the other of the sockets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.