Flat flexible cable and its connection and contacting
AssigneeI & T Innovation Technik Vertriebe-Ges.m.b.H.
InventorsWinfried Adams, Artur Schubert
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Abstract
The invention concerns laminated and extruded flat flexible cable, also called electrical flat conductors, especially its contacting. The invention is characterized by the fact that stripping (5) of the flat flexible cable occurs in a region that lies at a spacing from the end (7) of flat flexible cable (1). The invention also concerns embodiments and a matching connector.
Claims5
A connector for contacting of a flat flexible cable with a stripped region for contacting, in which stripping (5) of the flat flexible cable occurs in a region that lies at a spacing from an end (7) of the flat flexible cable (1), so that an insulation piece (6) remains on the cable between the region and the end of the cable and having plural rectangular conductors (2), characterized by the fact that the connector (10) in the region of each of the rectangular conductors (2) to be contacted and in a region of the insulation piece (6) has at least one point or at least one edge (11) extending substantially across a side of the rectangular conductor (2), and the connector is operative to move the point or edge toward the rectangular conductor (2) during contacting of the flat flexible cable (1) so that the point or edge (11) contacts through and deforms the insulating piece (6) remaining on the rectangular conductors (2) on the side so as to transfer mechanical tensile forces by the point or edge to the conductors.
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