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US 2006/0141842 A1Published application
Plug-in connection device
AssigneeCooper Crouse-Hinds GmbH
InventorDieter Sauer
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Abstract
The plug-in connection device consists of at least one plug part and one socket part, which can be connected together detachably. A plug insert or socket insert is accommodated in the respective part, wherein at least one of the inserts is configured for plug coding. Each insert exhibits electrical connecting devices which cannot be rotated relative to it. It can be inserted into the assigned part, rotationally fixed, in a number of rotational positions relative to it.
Claims21
(canceled)
A plug-in connection device comprising:
- a first part including a first insert and a positioning element;
- and
- a second part including a second insert, the second part being detachably connectable to the first part,
- wherein:
- the first part and the first insert are one of either a plug part and a plug insert or a socket part and a socket insert, and the second part and the second insert are the other of the plug part and the plug insert or the socket part and the socket insert,
- at least the first insert is configured for plug coding and includes electrical connection devices that cannot be rotated relative to the first insert, and can be inserted into the first part so as to be rotationally fixed in one of a number of rotational positions relative to the first part,
- engaging and counter engaging elements that can engage in various rotational positions are formed at mutually assigned ends of the first insert and of the positioning element, and
- the positioning element is insertable in the interior of the first part in a predetermined insertion position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.