Electrical plug comprising an electrical circuit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11056843-B2
Application number	US-201816498042-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 3, 2018
Priority date	Apr 4, 2017
Publication date	Jul 6, 2021
Grant date	Jul 6, 2021

Abstract

Embodiments of an electrical plug may include an electrical circuit having an input-side interface with at least one input-side contact point for connecting at least one signal conductor of at least one electrical lead. In some embodiments the electrical circuit has an output-side interface with at least one output-side contact point. The electrical circuit may have a transmission option from the input-side interface to the output-side interface for controlling impedance, and the design of the input-side interface in some embodiments may differ from the design of the output-side interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical plug-in connector comprising:
a housing having a longitudinal axis, and
an electrical circuit permanently and inaccessibly installed within the housing, the electrical circuit having an input-side interface with at least one input-side contact point for connecting the electrical circuit to at least one signal conductor of at least one electrical line, the electrical circuit further having an output-side interface with at least one output-side contact point, and wherein the electrical circuit has a transmission option for control of an impedance from the input-side interface to the output-side interface, and wherein the input-side interface has a first configuration and the output-side interface has a second configuration which differs from the first configuration; the input-side interface having an input-side contact area which runs orthogonally in relation to the longitudinal axis and makes contact with the input-side contact point; the output-side interface having an output-side contact area which runs orthogonally in relation to the longitudinal axis and makes contact with the output-side contact point; the input-side contact area and the output-side contact area being spaced apart from one another in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis, the input-side contact area and the output-side contact area being oriented opposite one another with respect to the direction parallel to the longitudinal axis.

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

3. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the contact points of the electrical circuit 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.

4. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plug-in connector is of two-part design having a first part and a second part and wherein the electrical circuit is arranged on the first part of the plug-in connector or on the second part of the plug-in connector, and wherein the first part of the plug-in connector can be connected to the second part of the plug-in connector in a materially bonded manner, an interlocking manner and/or a force-fitting manner.

5. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the electrical circuit is arranged on the first part or the second part of the plug-in connector in such a way that the electrical circuit is positioned between the first part of the plug-in connector and the second part of the plug-in connector when the first part and the second part of the plug-in connector are connected to one another.

6. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the plug-in connector has a receptacle for the electrical circuit and a closure element for closing an access opening of the receptacle.

7. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, the input-side contact points of the input-side interface have a first pitch and the output-side contact points of the output-side interface have a second pitch.

8. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the input-side interface is designed in line with a first plug-in connector standard and the output-side interface is designed in line with a second plug-in connector standard.

9. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the transmission option provides reflection-free signal transmission between the at least one electrical line and a second electrical plug-in connector and/or between the at least one electrical line and one of the first part and the second part of the plug-in connector and/or between the input-side interface and the output-side interface.

10. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electrical line comprises a constituent part of a second printed circuit board and the at least one signal conductor of the second printed circuit board is connected to the at least one input-side contact point via at least one contact line.

11. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the transmission option matches different signal propagation times between the signal conductors of the second printed circuit board and the input-side contact points of the electrical circuit to one another on the basis of different lengths of the contact lines.

12. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one electrical component is integrated into the electrical circuit, 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.

13. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the electrically insulating polymer carrier material comprises a resin.

14. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the resin comprises at least one of, a synthetic resin and an epoxy resin.

15. An electrical plug-in connector as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the thermally conductive layer further comprises at least one of, aluminum oxide and boron nitride.

16. An electrical plug-in connector comprising:
a housing, and
an electrical circuit within the housing, the electrical circuit having an input-side interface with at least one input-side contact point for connecting at least one signal conductor of at least one electrical line, the electrical circuit further having an output-side interface with at least one output-side contact point, and wherein the electrical circuit has a transmission option for control of an impedance from the input-side interface to the output-side interface, and wherein the input-side interface has a first configuration and the output-side interface has a second configuration which differs from the first configuration, wherein the plug-in connector has a receptacle for the electrical circuit and a closure element for closing an access opening of the receptacle, and wherein the housing of the plug-in connector has a longitudinal axis, and wherein the input-side interface and the output-side interface of the electrical circuit each have a respective contact area which runs orthogonally in relation to the longitudinal axis, and wherein the plug-in connector further comprises a shielding means which can be electrically connected to a ground conductor of the at least one electrical line and wherein, the closure element is at least partially formed from 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.

17. An electrical plug-in connector comprising:
a housing, and
an electrical circuit permanently and inaccessibly installed within the housing, the electrical circuit having an input-side interface with at least one input-side contact point for connecting at least one signal conductor of at least one electrical line, the electrical circuit further having an output-side interface with at least one output-side contact point, and wherein the electrical circuit has a transmission option for control of an impedance from the input-side

Assignees

• Rosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik Gmbh & Co Kg

Inventors

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

Classifications

• H01R12/722

  coupling devices mounted on the edge of the printed circuits · CPC title

• H01R13/506

  assembled by snap action of the parts · CPC title

• H01R13/6469

  on substrates · CPC title

• H01R13/6658 Primary

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

• H01R12/714

  with contacts abutting directly the printed circuit; Button contacts therefore provided on the printed circuit · CPC title