Connector part having hermaphroditic contact elements

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11316295-B2
Application number	US-201917046811-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 12, 2019
Priority date	Apr 17, 2018
Publication date	Apr 26, 2022
Grant date	Apr 26, 2022

Abstract

A connector part includes: a plurality of hermaphroditic contact elements for contacting associated hermaphroditic contact elements of a mating connector part, each of the plurality of hermaphroditic contact elements having a body, a first contact lug extending from the body along a first direction, and a second contact lug extending from the body along the first direction. The first contact lug and the second contact lug are offset from each other along a second direction that extends transversely to the first direction, and along a third direction that extends transversely to the first direction and transversely to the second direction. The connector part has, for each hermaphroditic contact element, a hermaphroditic contact element mirror-inverted to a first mirror plane spanned by the first direction and the third direction and a hermaphroditic contact element mirror-inverted to a second mirror plane spanned by the first direction and the second direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A connector part, comprising:
a plurality of hermaphroditic contact elements configured to contact associated hermaphroditic contact elements of a mating connector part, each of the plurality of hermaphroditic contact elements having a body, a single first contact lug extending from the body along a first direction, and a single second contact lug extending from the body along the first direction,
wherein the first contact lug and the second contact lug are offset from each other along a second direction that extends transversely to the first direction, and along a third direction that extends transversely to the first direction and transversely to the second direction,
wherein the connector part has, for each hermaphroditic contact element, a hermaphroditic contact element mirror-inverted to a first mirror plane spanned by the first direction and the third direction such that the second contact lug of a first hermaphroditic contact element, which is mirror-inverted to the first mirror plane with a second hermaphroditic contact element, and the second contact lug of the second hermaphroditic contact are closer in distance to each other than the first contact lugs of the first hermaphroditic contact element and the second hermaphroditic contact element,
wherein the connector part has, for each hermaphroditic contact element, a hermaphroditic contact element mirror-inverted to a second mirror plane spanned by the first direction and the second direction, and
wherein the second contact lug is connected to the body via a connecting section in a region of which a bend is created, so that the second contact lug is offset from the second mirror plane and arranged outside the second mirror plane.

2. The connector part according to claim 1 , wherein a number of hermaphroditic contact elements of the connector part corresponds to four or an integer multiple of four.

3. The connector part according to claim 1 , wherein the body of each hermaphroditic contact element extends planarly along a plane spanned by the first direction and the second direction.

4. The connector part according to claim 1 , wherein the first contact lug extends in a plane of the body.

5. The connector part according to claim 1 , wherein the second contact lug is offset from a plane along the third direction.

6. The connector part according to claim 1 , wherein the connector part has, for a group of more than one hermaphroditic contact element, a group of hermaphroditic contact elements mirror-inverted to the first mirror plane and a group of hermaphroditic contact elements mirror-inverted to the second mirror plane.

7. The connector part according to claim 1 , wherein the hermaphroditic contact elements are connected together to a printed circuit board.

8. The connector part according to claim 1 , wherein the body of each hermaphroditic contact element has a connection tab via which the hermaphroditic contact element is connected to the printed circuit board.

9. A connector system, comprising:
the connector part according to claim 1 ; and
a mating connector part having a plurality of hermaphroditic contact elements for plug-in connection with the connector part.

Assignees

• Ept Holding Gmbh & Co Kg
• Phoenix Contact Gmbh & Co

Inventors

• Schafmeister Arndt
• Geske Ralf
• Brennauer Georg

Classifications

• H01R24/84

  Hermaphroditic coupling devices · CPC title

• H01R12/57

  surface mounting terminals · CPC title

• H01R13/28 Primary

  Contacts for sliding cooperation with identically-shaped contact, e.g. for hermaphroditic coupling devices {(H01R24/84 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• H01R12/716

  Coupling device provided on the PCB · CPC title

• H01R2107/00

  Four or more poles · CPC title