Rear-mountable connector housing
AssigneeHARTING Electric Stiftung & Co. KG
InventorAlbert FERDERER
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An add-on housing and method for installing an add-on housing is provided for securing to a device wall of an electrical device, the add-on housing having a frame-shaped basic shape which encloses a receiving region for receiving a contact insert or a holding frame fitted with plug-in connector modules, wherein at least two fastening surfaces having fastening openings are integrally formed on the outside of the frame-shaped basic shape, a depression being formed within the fastening surfaces and fastening openings being arranged in each depression, wherein the add-on housing has snap-fastening means which engage through the fastening openings to mechanically fasten the add-on housing to a through-hole in a device wall.
Claims6
An add-on housing for fastening to a device wall of an electrical device, the add-on housing, comprising:
- a frame-shaped basic shape that encloses a receiving region, wherein the receiving region is configured to receive a contact insert or a retaining frame equipped with plug connector modules,
- wherein at least two fastening surfaces are integrally formed on an outside of the frame-shaped basic shape,
- wherein a respective depression is formed inside each respective fastening surface and a respective fastening opening is arranged in each depression, and
- wherein the add-on housing has snap-fastening devices configured to engage through the fastening openings to mechanically fasten the add-on housing to a wall orifice of a device wall.
A method for fastening an add-on housing to a wall aperture of a device wall, the method comprising:
- pushing the add-on housing outward from an inside of a peripherally closed device housing through the wall aperture, provided for this purpose, wherein the add-on housing has fastening openings which are aligned with corresponding fastening openings in the device wall;
- and
- inserting snap-fastening devices with a box-shaped basic body and with laterally projecting opposite spring-mounted foot parts into the aligned fastening openings of the add-on housing and the device wall,
- wherein the foot parts, when inserted into the fastening openings, are first pressed into the box-shaped basic body and are then supported on the device wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.