Holding frame for a heavy plug-type connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10756475-B2
Application number	US-201816486543-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 11, 2018
Priority date	Apr 20, 2017
Publication date	Aug 25, 2020
Grant date	Aug 25, 2020

Abstract

A holding frame for a heavy plug-type connector can receive identical and/or different plug-type connector modules. The holding frame comprises a main body which has two side parts which lie opposite one another, and at least one fixing clip which is held at least on a side part, and by way of which the plug-type connector modules can be fixed within the main body. The at least one fixing clip has at least one holding arm which moves parallel to the plane of the side parts during the introduction of a plug-type connector module into the holding frame. As a result, plug-type connector modules can be introduced into the holding frame particularly simply and even in the installed state of said holding frame. At the same time, the holding frame variant which is shown here is more stable than the previously known holding frames which have the same functionality.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A holding frame for a plug-type connector for receiving plug-type connector modules, comprising:
a base body that has two side parts that lie opposite one another and fixedly connected to one another at a predetermined distance in parallel planes; and
at least one fixing clip which is held at least on one of the two side parts and by which at least one of the plug-type connector modules is fixed within the base body between the two side parts,
wherein the at least one fixing clip and the base body are separately formed parts, and
wherein the at least one fixing clip comprises at least one holding arm that as a plug-type connector module is being inserted into the holding frame moves parallel to the side parts at a constant distance from the plug-type connector module; wherein the at least one fixing clip comprises at least two holding arms that, as a plug-type connector module is inserted into the holding frame, move in a manner parallel to the side parts and in opposite directions to one another; wherein the at least two holding arms move away from each other as a plug-type connector module is inserted into the holding frame.

2. The holding frame as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the holding frame comprises multiple fixing clips.

3. The holding frame as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the two side parts respectively comprise multiple connecting pieces that are arranged lying opposite one another in a symmetrical manner, and
wherein open receiving arrangements are formed between these connecting pieces.

4. The holding frame as claimed in claim 3 ,
wherein one fixing clip respectively is arranged in a region of each of the open receiving arrangements at least of one side part.

5. The holding frame as claimed in claim 3 ,
wherein each fixing clip comprises multiple holding arm pairs and one holding arm pair respectively is arranged in a region of each of the open receiving arrangements at least of one of the two side parts.

6. The holding frame as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein at least one of the two side parts comprises one receiving arrangement or multiple receiving arrangements into which one fixing clip respectively may be inserted and as a result is held on the side part.

7. The holding frame as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein at least one side part has one contour or multiple contours against which one fixing clip respectively may be clamped and as a result is held on the side part.

8. The holding frame as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein at least one fixing clip each is held on both side parts of the holding frame
or one fixing clip is held on one side part and at least two fixing clips are held on the other side part,
or at least two fixing clips are held on both side parts,
or n fixing clip are held on one side part and m fixing clip are held on the other side part, wherein n and m elements are from the natural number range and n is smaller than or equal to m.

9. The holding frame as claimed in claim 8 ,
wherein the fixing clip of the one side part is arranged lying opposite in a symmetrical manner with respect to the fixing clip of the other side part,
or the fixing clips of the one side part are arranged lying opposite in a symmetrical manner with respect to the fixing clips of the other side part.

10. The holding frame as claimed in claim 8 ,
wherein the fixing clip of the one side part is arranged lying opposite in an offset manner with respect to the fixing clip of the other side part,
or the fixing clips of the one side part are arranged lying opposite in an offset manner with respect to the fixing clips of the other side part.

11. The holding frame as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the fixing clip is or the fixing clips are attached within the base body to the holding frame.

12. The holding frame as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the base body is formed from a zinc pressure die-cast component or produced from aluminum.

13. The holding frame as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the fixing clip is or the fixing clips are produced from an elastic synthetic material or from a spring-elastic sheet metal plate.

14. A system, comprising
a plug-type connector housing,
the holding frame as in claim 1 , and
at least one plug-type connector module.

15. The holding frame as claimed in claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one fixing clip extends upwardly above an upper edge of the at least one of the two side parts in which the at least one fixing clip is held.

Assignees

• Harting Electric Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Tiemann Andre
• Meier Heiko
• Ziegenhahn Jörg
• Beneke Andre

Classifications

• H01R13/745

  separate from the housing · CPC title

• H01R13/518 Primary

  for holding or embracing several coupling parts, e.g. frames · CPC title

• H01R13/514

  composed as a modular blocks or assembly, i.e. composed of co-operating parts provided with contact members or holding contact members between them · CPC title

• H01R13/6275

  Latching arms not integral with the housing (H01R13/6276, H01R13/6277, H01R13/6278 take precedence) · CPC title

• H01R13/6273

  comprising two latching arms · CPC title