Plug connector
AssigneeWeidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsTill Schmitz, Peter Stuckmann
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Abstract
A plug connector has a housing made of an electrically non-conductive material such as a plastic which has a front side and a rear side. The housing has at least two insertion openings for conductor ends. The first and second insertion openings are in connection with respective first and second housing chambers. The first and second housing chambers have respective first and second connection devices. The housing further has a first housing half and a second housing half, wherein when rotated clockwise by 180° in a point of symmetry, the first housing half can be reproduced on the second housing half such that the housing is formed substantially or entirely in a rotationally symmetrical manner with regard to the point of symmetry or an axis of symmetry.
Claims26
A plug connector for contacting a mating plug connector, the plug connector comprising a housing made of an electrically non-conductive material having a front side and a rear side, the housing having at least two insertion openings for conductor ends, the first insertion opening being in connection with a first housing chamber and the second insertion opening being in connection with a second housing chamber, the first housing chamber including a first connection device and the second housing chamber including a second connection device, the housing having a first housing half and a second housing half, wherein the first housing half is rotationally symmetrical to the second housing half such that the housing is formed in a rotationally symmetrical manner with regard to a point of symmetry or an axis of symmetry on which a point of symmetry is situated, the housing further having on its front side a first housing wall which closes the second housing chamber and on its rear side a second housing wall which closes the first housing chamber, the first housing chamber of the front side and second housing chamber of the rear side remaining open.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.