Plug housing for a sensor device and plug module

A plug module comprising:

• a plug housing including:
• a socket, an inner side of which includes a receptacle area;
• a sensor device situated in the receptacle area of the socket;
• and
• a cover connected to the socket with the aid of a fastening device;
• wherein:
• the fastening device is a locking device that includes elastic latching tabs, situated on a circumferential edge formed on a side of the cover facing the socket, and corresponding detents that are situated on the socket and with which the respective elastic latching tabs engage;
• and
• a plurality of electrically conductive and elastic straight contact pins are situated at a predetermined lateral distance from each other, are pressed onto and directly contact particular electrical contact surfaces of the sensor device, and are arranged in the cover in such a way that:
• particular first ends of the contact pins protrude into an internal volume of the plug housing and are situated above the receptacle area of the socket;
• and
• particular second ends of the contact pins are situated in an area of a connector of the cover.