Electrical plug connector designed to be fail-safe for redundant lines

Abstract

A plug connector for a fail-safe cable includes a socket and a plug. The fail-safe cable includes at least two parallel lines each having at least one wire. The socket and the plug can be plugged to the socket and has respective plugging contacts for the at least one wire. The plug connector has a respective connector portion for the at least two parallel lines, said respective connector portion being assigned solely to a relevant line. Each respective connector portion has a socket portion of the socket and a plug portion of the plug, said plug portion being able to be plugged into the socket portion. At least a first of the respective connector portions is configured to be more robust against a potential fault source than a second of the respective connector portions.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.