Plug connector
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorKarl Steffinger
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Abstract
The contact elements of the plug connector are engaged into chambers of an insulating strip by means of a conductor terminal component which has cutting and clamping contact edges. The chambers are only open towards a flat side of the strip, so that a conductor can be pressed into the contacting slots of the cutting and clamping contact points from the open side of the chambers. This allows an uncomplicated, orderly connection of the conductor to the contact elements after the connection of the contact elements to the insulating strips. A plurality of such strips can then be inserted into a housing and combined with the latter to form a multi-row, e.g. three or four row, plug connector.
Claims7
A plug connector, comprising:
- contact elements each having in a longitudinal extension direction at one end a conductor terminal section means for connection to a wire conductor and at an opposite end a contact section means for contact-making with a counter-contact element;
- an insulating strip having a plurality of U-shaped chambers formed by a base and respective lateral walls, each chamber receiving one of said contact elements;
- each chamber extending substantially only over a length of the conductor terminal section means of each contact element so as to encompass substantially only the conductor terminal section means and the contact section means of each contact element extending beyond the chamber and free of the strip;
- said conductor terminal section means comprising at least one contacting slot means into which a respective wire conductor can be inserted from an open side of the chambers for contacting the wire;
- means interacting with the conductor terminal section means of each contact element for retaining the contact element in the chamber both in a direction perpendicular to the chamber base and in a longitudinal direction of extension of each chamber;
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- insulating housing means joined to the insulating strip for receiving the free contact section means of each contact element.
A plug connector, comprising:
- contact elements each having in a longitudinal extension direction at one end a conductor terminal section means for connection to a wire conductor and at an opposite end a contact section means for contact-making with a counter-contact element inserted into said contact section means in said longitudinal extension direction;
- an insulating strip having a plurality of U-shaped chambers formed by a base and respective lateral walls, each chamber receiving one of said contact elements;
- each chamber extending substantially only over a length of the conductor terminal section means of each contact element, and the contact section means of each contact element extending beyond the chamber and free of the strip;
- said conductor terminal section means comprising at least one cutting and clamping contact flank having a contacting slot means into which a respective wire conductor can be inserted in said longitudinal extension direction from an open side of the chambers for contacting the wire;
- stop projection means on the chamber walls for retaining the contact element in the chamber in a direction perpendicular to the chamber base and in a longitudinal direction of extension of each chamber;
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- insulating housing means joined to the insulating strip for receiving the free contact section means of each contact element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.