Hybrid plug connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10424879-B2
Application number	US-201615773178-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2016
Priority date	Nov 6, 2015
Publication date	Sep 24, 2019
Grant date	Sep 24, 2019

Abstract

Hybrid plug connectors are provided for connecting different electronic modules to insulators arranged in an outer casing and for receiving a power conductor transmitting a power supply and a shielded data conductor for data transmission for transmitting signals/data of an industrial bus, such as ISA, ethernet or similar, wherein the power conductor has at least two power lines and the data conductor has at least one data line, wherein the power lines and the data lines are guided in contact parts designed as plugs or sockets and can be coupled via these contacts parts, and wherein the outer casings of the pair-type hybrid plug connectors can be joined inside one another for interlocking coupling. The insulator arranged in each of the plug connectors can be arranged in a shield housing as a contact carrier receiving arrangement, the shield housing accommodating a contact carrier, which carries forward the data line(s) designed as plug sockets or plug pins in a shielded manner in the plug connector, and wherein the coupleable contacts form a shape-encoded interlocking connection in the plugged-in state of the connection.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hybrid plug connector for connecting conductor cables of different electronic modules to insulator bodies arranged in an outer casing for receiving a power conductor transmitting a power supply and a shielded data conductor for data transmission for transmitting signals/data of an industrial bus, wherein the power conductor has at least two power lines and the data conductor has at least one data line, wherein the power lines and the data lines are guided in contact parts designed as plugs or sockets and can be coupled via these contacts parts, and wherein the outer casings of the hybrid plug connectors designed as socket or as plug can be joined inside one another for interlocking coupling, and wherein an insulator body designed as a contact carrier receiving means is arranged in each of the plug connectors designed as sockets and plugs, having a contact carrier in a shield housing, the shield housing accommodating a contact carrier which carries forward the data line(s) designed as plug sockets or plug pins in a shielded manner in the plug connector designed as socket or plug, and wherein the couplable contacts form a shape-encoded interlocking connection in the plugged-in state of the connection, wherein the plug sockets or plug pins of the data lines can be inserted with an interlocking fit into recesses of a contact carrier, which is disposed in a trapezium-shaped contact carrier receiving means, and the contact carrier receiving means is equipped with a shield housing which surrounds the contact carrier receiving means in an interlocking fit and carries forward the shielding of the data lines, the free end of which shield housing is either designed as a shoulder or as an overlapping collar for coupling the plug connectors designed as sockets and as plugs.

2. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 1 , wherein the contact carrier receiving means is designed such that it can be slid into the shield housing with the data lines.

3. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 1 , wherein the shield housing can be clamped onto the contact carrier receiving means in the slid-on state.

4. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 1 , wherein a shield bracket is disposed on the shield housing for clamping onto the contact carrier receiving means which receives the data line, which bracket can be releasably latched or locked for clamping to the shield housing.

5. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 4 , wherein the shield bracket comprises a latching opening which secures the clamping interacting with a latching cam on the shield housing.

6. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 1 , wherein the shield housing, the contact carrier, and the contact carrier receiving means have an assembly orientation.

7. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 6 , wherein the assembly orientation is configured as an arrow which snaps into recesses on the contact carrier receiving means and the shield housing in the assembled state of the parts.

8. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 1 , wherein the plug connector designed as a plug or socket includes a central part which comprises at least one groove which interacts with a coding on the contact receiving means for the contact carrier with the power contacts in the plugged-in state.

9. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 8 , wherein the coding comprises a web element which can be connected to the contact receiving means, which element can be broken off after the contact receiving means has been inserted in the central part.

10. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 1 , wherein the connection of the plug connectors designed as sockets or plugs is secured using a bayonet or threaded lock.

11. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 1 , wherein the plug housings of the plug connectors have a modular structure allowing implementation in various designs without requiring different tools.

12. The hybrid plug connector according to claim 1 , wherein the data conductors comprise copper or optical waveguides.

Assignees

• Beckhoff Automation Gmbh
• CONEC Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH

Inventors

• Vogel Florian
• Rettig Thomas
• Bechtel Dirk
• Schmidt Werner
• Schramm Christian

Classifications

• H01R13/642

  by position or shape of contact members · CPC title

• H01R13/6592 Primary

  the conductive member being a shielded cable · CPC title

• H01R24/86

  Parallel contacts arranged about a common axis · CPC title

• H01R13/582

  the cable being clamped between assembled parts of the housing · CPC title

• H01R2103/00

  Two poles · CPC title