Connector and feed-in component and lighting arrangement with such a connector and/or feed-in component

A feed-in component,

• which can be inserted into at least one rail portion of a lighting system;
• wherein the rail portion is provided with a conductor arrangement for supplying at least electrical operating current to lighting devices capable of being coupled to the rail portion;
• wherein the feed-in component is configured to feed the conductor arrangement of the rail portion at least with the electrical operating current;
• wherein the feed-in component comprises a printed circuit board having conductive traces and the feed-in component comprises contact elements each of which being fixedly connected to the printed circuit board and configured to contact a conductor of the conductor arrangement of the rail portion in each case;
• wherein the feed-in component enables conductors of the conductor arrangement of the rail portion to be electrically coupled to the corresponding conductors of a feed line using at least one of the conductive traces;
• wherein the feed-in component comprises a housing part, wherein the contact elements, in the absence of an external force acting on the contact element, in each case abut against a region of the housing part in a resiliently prestressed manner;
• and
• wherein the housing part comprises side walls which are each provided with recesses, wherein the contact elements and the recesses are arranged and configured in such a way that a contact portion of one of the contact elements provided for contacting a conductor projects outwards through the recesses in each case.

A connector,

• which, in each case, with a connector portion of the same, can be inserted into rail portions of a lighting system;
• wherein the rail portions are each provided with a conductor arrangement for supplying to lighting devices, capable of being coupled to the rail portions, at least an electrical operating current;
• wherein the connector is configured to electrically couple the conductor arrangements of at least two of the rail portions to one another;
• wherein the connector comprises a printed circuit board having conductive traces, and the connector comprises contact elements, which are each firmly connected to the printed circuit board and are configured in each case to contact a respective conductor of one of the conductor arrangements of the at least two rail portions;
• wherein the connector enables an electrical coupling of corresponding ones of the conductors of the conductor arrangements of the at least two rail portions by means of an electrical coupling of associated ones of the contact elements using at least one of the conductive traces;
• and
• wherein a direction along which the contact elements can spring back when the connector is inserted into the rail portions is substantially transverse to a longitudinal extension direction of the connector portion, in which the contact element is arranged, and substantially parallel to a main extension surface of the printed circuit board.