Plug connection
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsWolfram Knis, Uwe Ehrhardt, Hans Albrecht, Tilman Miehle
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Abstract
A plug connector for media-bearing lines has a plug body for connecting to an opening. At least one rib is provided on the plug body, the rib being retained in the opening in the assembly position of the plug body by a retaining clip adjustable on the plug body. An assembly force acts on the retaining clip, the clip being supported on at least one rib of the plug body, thereby displacing the plug body into the opening, and locking therein in an undercut.
Claims15
A plug connector for media-carrying lines, comprising:
- a plug body configured to connect to an opening and having at least one rib formed on the plug body;
- and
- a retaining clip supported axially adjustably on the plug body and which includes a plurality of detent hooks, each of which has a contoured face end,
- wherein, in an assembly position of the plug body, the plurality of detent hooks are braced on the at least one rib to secure the at least one rib,
- wherein an assembly force acts on the retaining clip to move the plug body into the opening and lock the at least one rib in an undercut in the opening, and
- wherein the contoured face ends are configured to slide off from the at least one rib of the plug connector in a radially inward direction after the rib locks in the undercut.
A method for assembling a plug connector having (i) a plug body configured to connect to an opening and including ribs formed on the plug body, and (ii) a retaining clip supported axially adjustably on the plug body and which includes a plurality of detent hooks, each of which has a contoured face end, the method comprising:
- inserting the plug body with the adjustably received retaining clip in an open position in which the plurality of detent hooks are braced on the ribs;
- inserting the ribs into the opening until the ribs lock at the undercut and contoured face ends of the plurality of detent hooks slide off from the at least one rib in a radially inward direction;
- adjusting the plurality of detent hooks of the retaining clip, which are disposed at a spread, in corresponding recesses;
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- creating an overlap between the ribs and the plurality of detent hooks of the retaining clip to secure the ribs in the assembly position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.