Plug module with active-passive switching
AssigneeELMA Electronic AG
InventorDaniele Ulrich
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Abstract
A module carrier with a plug module (2) can be moved into and out of a rear final position (10) with an insertion and removal grip (5). A spring-actuated lock (112) at the front side (7), which secures the insertion and removal grip in the rear final position, actuates a switching element (11) for an active switching of the plug module after an effective locking position has been reached. A pressing down of the lock (12) effects a passive switching in the locked state before the insertion and removal grip (5) is unlocked after a further displacement distance of the lock and mechanically stores the unlocking in cooperation with lock (112) by means of an engagement surface (120) with the shape of a circular segment, which is held back by a guide surface (21) of the insertion and removal grip (5).
Claims12
A module carrier comprising a plug module which is introducible by means of guides in a housing and which is provided with at least one insertion and removal grip in the form of a lever which is journalled on an axle at a front side of the module in order to overcome thrust-in and draw-out forces generated by multiple plugs attached to the module by bracing against a housing profile, a spring-actuated lock (112) at the front side which locks the lever in a rear final position of the plug module and which has an engagement surface (120) shaped as a circular segment having its center on the axle (16) when it is held back by a guide surface (21) of the lever (6) when the lever (6) is rotatably moved over a pivoting angle α and moving away from the axle (16) to thereby block the lever (6) with an abutment (27), when the lever (6) is in its rear final position (10).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.