Electrical contact-making element
AssigneeVdo Automotive AG
InventorBernhard Lichtinger
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Abstract
An electrical contact-making element for electrical carrier components in an electronic housing is particularly suited for automotive applications. The electrical contact-making element is in the form of a U-shaped plug pin having a base limb and two side limbs. There is provided a robust, reliable electrical contact connection between a plurality of electrical carrier components, such as printed circuit boards, for example, which ensures secure contact is made even in the case of external influences such as vibrations, for example, and can be fitted, by way of a simple press-in mechanism, at the end of the fitting process.
Claims10
An electrical contact-making element for electrical carrier components in an electronic housing, comprising:
- a plurality of U-shaped plug pins forming an electrical contact connection, each of said U-shaped plug pins having a base limb formed with a first end and a second end, a first side limb extending from said first end of said base limb, and a second side limb extending from said second end of said base limb, and wherein said base limbs are formed with a plurality of mutually different base limb lengths;
- a stabilizing spacer holding said plug pins, said stabilizing spacer having a plurality of bores formed therein next to one another and below one another, with said different-length base limbs of said plug pins projecting through said bores to form a plug comb;
- wherein said first side limb has a length and said second side limb has a length that is different from said length of said first side limb.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.