Plug system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10840650-B2
Application number	US-201816497898-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 3, 2018
Priority date	Apr 4, 2017
Publication date	Nov 17, 2020
Grant date	Nov 17, 2020

Abstract

An embodiment of a plug system having an electrical plug for connecting at least one electrical lead and having an electrical circuit. In certain embodiments, the electrical may have: at least one input-side contact which can be electrically connected to a signal conductor of the electrical lead; at least one output-side contact which can be electrically connected to an inner conductor of the plug; means for shielding which can be electrically connected to an earth conductor of the at least one electrical lead; a receptacle for the electrical circuit; and a closure element for closing an access opening of the receptacle. In some embodiments, the electrical circuit has contact points for contacting at least one input-side contact and at least one output-side contact when the electrical circuit is in the receptacle. The electrical circuit may have a transmission option for transmission from at least one input-side contact to at least one output-side contact.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A plug-in connector system comprising:
an electrical circuit and an electrical plug-in connector which is mechanically and electrically connectable to at least one electrical line, wherein the electrical plug-in connector includes
(a) at least one input-side contact which can be electrically connected to a signal conductor of the electrical line,
(b) at least one output-side contact which can be electrically connected to a plug-in connector internal conductor,
(c) shielding means which can be electrically connected to a ground conductor of the at least one electrical line,
(d) a receptacle for the electrical circuit, and
(e) a closure element for closing an access opening of the receptacle, and wherein the electrical circuit includes contact points which contact-connect the at least one input-side contact and the at least one output-side contact when the electrical circuit is inserted into the receptacle, and wherein the electrical circuit has a transmission option from the at least one input-side contact to the at least one output-side contact, and wherein the closure element is at least partially formed of an electrically conductive material, and wherein the closure element makes electrical contact with the shielding means when the closure element closes the access opening of the receptacle.

2. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrical circuit comprises at least one of: (i) a two-sided printed circuit board, (ii) a multilayer printed circuit board with more than two printed circuit board layers, (iii) a multichip module, (iv) a system-in-package, (v) a system-on-chip, and (vi) an integrated circuit.

3. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrical circuit is positioned between the at least one input-side contact and the at least one output-side contact when the electrical circuit is inserted into the receptacle.

4. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of: (i) the contact points of the electrical circuit and (ii) the contacts of the plug-in connector comprise at least one of: (a) flat contacts, and (b) sliding contacts, and (c) solder areas, and (d) spring contacts, and (e) plug-in contacts.

5. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the input-side contact and the output side contact of the plug-in connector comprise spring contacts which make contact with one another even when the electrical circuit is not inserted into the receptacle.

6. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the closure element has at least one contact spring which makes electrical contact with the shielding means of the plug-in connector when the closure element closes the access opening of the receptacle.

7. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the closure element is composed of plastic with an electrically conductive attachment or of metal.

8. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the closure element has a seal for sealing off the access opening.

9. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the closure element can be fixed in a force-fitting and/or materially bonded and/or interlocking manner, preferably clamped and/or screwed and/or adhesively bonded and/or soldered, in a housing of the plug-in connector and/or in the shielding means for the plug-in connector and/or in the receptacle.

10. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, the electrical circuit has a circuit shielding, and at least one contact element is provided on the shielding means for the plug-in connector and/or on the ground conductor of the at least one electrical line and/or on the closure element and/or on the electrical circuit, the at least one contact element electrically contact-connecting the circuit shielding to the ground conductor of the at least one electrical line when the electrical circuit is inserted into the receptacle.

11. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, the electrical circuit comprises a printed circuit board and at least one electrical component is integrated into the printed circuit board, and wherein a thermally conductive layer is present immediately adjacent at least one of the electrical components, and wherein the thermally conductive layer comprises an electrically insulating polymer carrier material.

12. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 1 wherein, the electrical circuit has an input-side interface with at least one input-side contact point which connects to the signal conductor of the at least one electrical line, and wherein the electrical circuit has an output-side interface with at least one output-side contact point, wherein the transmission option provides impedance control between the input-side interface and the output-side interface, and wherein the input-side interface has a configuration which differs from a configuration of the output-side interface.

13. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 11 wherein, the electrically insulating polymer carrier material comprises a resin.

14. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 13 wherein, the resin comprises at least one of, a synthetic resin and an epoxy resin.

15. A plug-in connector system as claimed in claim 11 wherein, the thermally conductive layer further comprises at least one of, aluminum oxide and boron nitride.

Assignees

• Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

• Winkler Johannes
• Schmid Johannes
• Armbrecht Gunnar
• Bippus Rainer

Classifications

• H01R13/6581

  Shield structure · CPC title

• H01R13/65912

  for shielded multiconductor cable (coaxial cables with one conductor surrounded by shield H01R9/05; flat shielded cables H01R12/594) · CPC title

• H01R29/00

  Coupling parts for selective co-operation with a counterpart in different ways to establish different circuits, e.g. for voltage selection, for series-parallel selection, {programmable connectors} · CPC title

• H01R13/6658 Primary

  on printed circuit board (H01R13/6666 - H01R13/6691 take precedence) · CPC title