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US 12,119,581 B2Granted
Socket contact for plug connectors
AssigneeHARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG
InventorTimm Meyrose
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Abstract
A socket contact (1) has a hollow cylindrical contact wire region (AB) for receiving a stripped end portion of an electrical conductor to be connected, and a hollow cylindrical contact region (KB) with a pin insertion opening (2) for receiving a contact pin. The contact region (KB) has a cylinder wall with at least one radially inwardly folded contact blade (4), the free end of which points towards the pin insertion opening (2). The cylinder wall has an at least partially circumferential groove (5) for the contact blade in the region of the fold.
Claims13
A socket contact (1), comprising:
- a hollow-cylindrical connector region (AB) for receiving a stripped end region of an electric conductor to be connected;
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- a hollow-cylindrical contact region (KB) having a pin introduction opening (2) for receiving a contact pin,
- wherein the hollow-cylindrical contact region (KB) has a cylinder wall having at least one contact blade (4) which is folded radially inward along a fold,
- wherein a free end of the at least one contact blade (4) points toward the pin introduction opening (2),
- wherein the cylinder wall in a region of the fold for the at least one contact blade has a groove (5) which at least partially encircles the cylinder wall, and
- wherein a fixed end of the at least one contact blade (5) is connected to the groove (5) in the region of the fold of the cylinder wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.