Electrical connection device for a motor vehicle
AssigneeStribel GmbH
InventorHans P. Stribel
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Abstract
A central unit for interconnecting consumer circuits in a motor vehicle includes a pack of superposed insulating boards each supporting flat conductors. The conductors on the uppermost board are connected to a plurality of connector sockets for receiving connector plugs of the electric components. The flat conductors on respective insulating boards are electrically connected to flat connector pins projecting laterally from opposite sides of the pack. Two bridging connector plates are arranged parallel to the opposite sides of the pack and support bridging conductors for contacting different connector pins at different levels of the pack so as to provide a desired interconnection of the connector sockets.
Claims16
A device for centralized inteconnection of electric components of a motor vehicle, such as safety fuses, plug-in connectors, wiring harnesses, switching apparatuses for electric consuming circuits and electronic control devices for the electric consuming circuits, comprising a pack of vertically superposed flat conductors separated from each other in horizontal and vertical directions by insulating means, said flat conductors being made of sheet metal to withstand high currents flowing through the electric consuming circuits, and the insulating means delimiting opposite lateral sides of the pack;
- a plurality of connector sockets arranged above the uppermost flat conductors to receive the plug-in connectors;
- at least a part of the uppermost flat conductors being connected to said connector sockets;
- a plurality of connector pins projecting from at least one lateral side of said pack at different levels of said flat conductors, the connector pins at the uppermost level being connected to said part of the uppermost flat conductors and the remaining connector pins to assigned intermediate flat conductors;
- a first conductor plate supporting components of at least one electronic control device for a consuming circuit of the motor vehicle, said first conductor plate being fixedly arranged at said one lateral side opposite said projecting connector pins and further supporting bridging conductors for interconnecting selected connector pins at the uppermost and intermediate levels to provide a desired interconnection of said connection sockets;
- and at least one separate switching apparatus having a plug-in connector detachably inserted in assigned ones of said connector sockets to switch a consuming circuit in the motor vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.