# US 8,540,535 B2 · Cable lug with shell-shaped part and fastening device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,540,535 B2 - Document ID: US8540535B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/520,276 - Filed: 2010-10-26 - Published: 2012-11-08 - Granted: 2013-09-24 - Earliest claimed: 2010-01-26 - Assignees: Auto Kabel Managementgesellschaft mbH - Applicants: Sebastian Martens; Martin Schloms; Franz-Josef Lietz - Inventors: Sebastian Martens; Martin Schloms; Franz-Josef Lietz - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8540535B2 ## CPC - H01R 11/11: End pieces or tapping pieces for wires, supported by the wire and for facilitating electrical connection to some other wire, terminal or conductive member (H01R11/01 takes precedence) - H01R 4/00: Electrically-conductive connections between two or more conductive members in direct contact, i.e. touching one another; Means for effecting or maintaining such contact; Electrically-conductive connections having two or more spaced connecting locations for conductors and using contact members penetrating insulation - H01R 11/12: End pieces terminating in an eye, hook, or fork - H01R 43/16: for manufacturing contact members, e.g. by punching and by bending - H01R 4/023: {between cables or wires and terminals} - H01R 4/18: by crimping {(H01R4/01, H01R4/2495 take precedence; for coaxial cables H01R9/0518)} - H01R 4/28: Clamped connections, spring connections (made by means of terminals specially adapted for contact with, or insertion into, printed circuits H01R12/00) - H01R 4/70: Insulation of connections (end caps H01R4/22) - Y10T 29/49117: Conductor or circuit manufacturing - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract The invention relates to a method and a system for fastening a round conductor 200 to a connection element 100, 100′, 100″, comprising a connection element 100, 100′, 100″ that comprises at one end an at least partially shell-shaped part 110, and a round conductor 200 closed with a contact element 210, the contact element 210 being adapted to contact the connection element 100, 100′, 100″, and a fastening device 400, 510, 520, 610, 620, 660, 710, 810, which is adapted to fasten in a frictional manner (force-fit) an end region 210 of the round conductor 200 lying in front of the contact element 210 in the region of the shell-shaped part 110 of the connection element 100, 100′, 100″, to the connection element 100, 100′, 100″. ## Claims ### Claim 1 System for fastening a round conductor to a connection element, comprising; a connection element, which at one end comprises an at least partially shell-shaped part, a round conductor closed with a contact element , wherein the contact element is adapted for contacting the connection element, and a fastening device, which is adapted to fasten an end region completing the round conductor with respect to the contact element in a frictional manner in the region of the shell-shaped part of the connection element to the connection element wherein the fastening device is arranged to embrace at least partially the end region of the round conductor and an underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the insulation of the round conductor is stripped in a region in which the round conductor abuts, in the case where fastening is performed by the fastening device, against the shell-shaped part of the connection element. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the contact element is configured so that it abuts against a contact area of the connection element facing the connection element at the shell-shaped part of the connection element, when the fastening device fastens the end region of the round conductor in a frictional manner. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) System according to claim 3, wherein the contact element is formed as a flat part and the connection element in the region of the contact area is formed as a flat part. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein an insulation surrounds the contact element, the end region of the round cable and the connection element in the region of the contact area and of the shell-shaped part of the connection element. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the shell-shaped part of the connection has a flat end portion. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the fastening device at least partially embraces the round conductor in the end region. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the shell-shaped part is configured so as to fix the round conductor in the longitudinal direction. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the fastening device is a fastening clip comprising two parts, wherein the two parts are adapted so as to engage by snap-in engagement with one another and, during snap-in engagement, to embrace at least partially the end region of the round conductor and an underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element, and thereby press the round conductor in the end region into the shell-shaped part. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) System according to claim 9, wherein the first part of the fastening clip comprises a region in which the first part is configured so as during snap-in engagement to at least partially embrace the end region of the round conductor on the side of the round conductor opposite the connection element, and the second part of the fastening clip comprises a region in which the second part is configured so as during snap-in engagement to at least partially embrace the underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) System according to claim 9, wherein the second part of the fastening clip comprises a positioning element that cooperates with a complementary positioning element on the underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element for the positioning of the second part of the fastening clip. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) System according to claim 9, wherein the first part of the fastening clip comprises two snap-in elements arranged respectively at one end of the first part, and the second part of the fastening clip comprises two snap-in elements arranged respectively at one end of the second part, and these snap-in elements are configured so that the first part and second part of the fastening clip can engage by snap-in engagement with one another on both sides. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) System according to claim 9, wherein the fastening clip comprises a hinge, which movably joins together one end of the first part and one end of the second part of the fastening clip, wherein the first part and the second part comprise respectively a snap-in element, which are arranged on an end of the respective part lying opposite the hinge, and these snap-in elements are configured so that the first part and the second part of the fastening clip can engage by snap-in engagement with one another on one side. ### Claim 14 (depends on 9) System according to claim 9, wherein the first part and the second part of the fastening clip are respectively shell-shaped, wherein the shell-shaped second part is configured so as during snap-in engagement to grip over two end regions of the shell-shaped first part, wherein the snap-in-engaged fastening clip embraces the end region of the round conductor and the underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the fastening device is a pressed metal ring, which embraces the end region of the round conductor and an underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the fastening device is a spring metal ring which embraces the end region of the round conductor and an underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element. ### Claim 17 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the fastening device, comprises a crimping element that clamps around the end region of the round conductor and an underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) System according to claim 17, wherein the crimping element is a metal band. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) System according to claim 17, wherein the crimping element is formed as an O-crimp, wire crimp, or overlapping crimp. ### Claim 20 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the fastening device comprises a clip that has a substantially U-shaped, V-shaped or C-shaped cross-section, which comprises at each end a fastening element, wherein each of the fastening element is configured so as to embrace at least partially for a two-sided fastening, an underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element, from respectively one side. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) System according to claim 20, wherein fastening elements of the clip are snap-in elements, and the underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element has snap-in elements that are complementary to these snap-in elements. ### Claim 22 (depends on 1) System according to claim 1, wherein the fastening device is a ring closable on one side by a closure device, which is adapted so as to embrace in the closed state the end region of the round conductor and an underneath side of the shell-shaped part of the connection element. ### Claim 23 System for fastening a round conductor to a connection element, comprising: a connection element, which at one end comprises an at least partially shell-shaped part, a round conductor closed with a contact element, wherein the contact element is adapted for contacting the connection element, and a fastening device, which is adapted to fasten in a frictional manner an end region of the round conductor lying in front of the contact element in the region of the shell-shaped part of the connection element to the connection element wherein the fastening device comprises a metal shell element formed substantially U-, V- or C-shaped in cross-section, which at the two open ends has respectively an edge region that is complementary to a respective edge region of the shell-shaped part of the connection element, and wherein the metal shell element is connected by adhesive bonding in such a way to the respective edge region of the shell-shaped part of the connection element that the metal shell element and the shell-shaped part form a one-piece ring embracing the end region of the round conductor. ### Claim 24 Method for fastening a round conductor closed by a contact element to a connection element, wherein the contact element is adapted for contacting the connection element and the connection element comprises at one end an at least partially shell-shaped part by means of a fastening device , comprising positioning an end region of the round conductor lying in front of the contact element in the shell-shaped part of the connection element; and fastening the end region of the round conductor in a frictional manner to the connection element in the region of the shell-shaped part of the connection element by means of a fastening device, wherein the fastening device is positioned at least partially about the end region of the round connector and an underneath side of the connection element.