Electrical plug connection having an adjustable coding
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorAndreas Simmel
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Abstract
Electrical plug connections, in particular cable harness plugs, have codings on their side surfaces that indicate the type or the assembly, i.e. the arrangement, of individual cables of a cable harness on the contact elements situated in a plug housing. Typically, cable harness plugs already have certain codings prior to assembly, so that different variations must be reserved for the different types of cable harness plugs. The present invention provides attaching the coding immediately after assembly and together with the final inspection of the cable harness plug or of the plug connection.
Claims5
An electrical plug connection comprising:
- a plug, the plug having contact elements situated therein;
- and
- a mating connector adapted to be coupled with the plug,
- wherein at least one region is present on an outside of the plug for attaching a coding as a function of a connecting of a cable harness to the contact elements, an adjustable coding being able to be attached after the plug is completely assembled.
A method for coding an assembled cable harness plug for producing an electrical plug connection, the method comprising:
- assembling the plug;
- and
- attaching a coding to the assembled plug by at least one of:
- clipping on the coding,
- welding on the coding,
- stamping out the coding, and
- breaking out pre-stamped regions to produce the coding.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.