Connector arrangement for connecting heatable fluid lines

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12241579-B2
Application number	US-201916970221-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 15, 2019
Priority date	Feb 16, 2018
Publication date	Mar 4, 2025
Grant date	Mar 4, 2025

Abstract

A connector arrangement for connecting heatable fluid lines including at least one first coupling component and at least one second coupling component. The first coupling component and the second coupling component being connectable to each other, and each including at least one first fluid line, at least one first fluid line interface, at least one first electrical conductor, and at least one first electrical interface. The second coupling component includes at least one second fluid lien, and at least one of the first and second coupling components includes at least one fluid line splitter.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A connector arrangement for connecting heatable fluid lines, the connector arrangement comprising: at least one first coupling component and at least one second coupling component, the first coupling component being connectable to the second coupling component, the first coupling component and the second coupling component each include at least one first fluid line, at least one first fluid line interface, at least one first electrical conductor, and at least one first electrical interface, wherein the first fluid line interfaces and the first electrical interfaces are oriented parallel to an axis of insertion of the first coupling component and the second coupling component, and at least one of the first coupling component and the second coupling component includes at least one fluid line splitter, and the second coupling component including at least one second fluid line, wherein at least one of the first fluid line or the second fluid line is connected to the fluid line splitter in a unitary manner.

2. The connector arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the second fluid line is connected to the fluid line splitter.

3. The connector arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the first coupling component and the second coupling component each include a second fluid line interface.

4. The connector arrangement according to claim 3 , wherein the first coupling component and the second coupling component each include a second electrical interface.

5. The connector arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein at least one of the first electrical interface and the second electrical interface of at least one of the first coupling component and the second coupling component include at least one first contact.

6. The connector arrangement according to claim 5 , wherein the first coupling component and the second coupling component each include at least one first contact and at least one second contact.

7. The connector arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein each of the first fluid line interface, the second fluid line interface, the first electrical interface, the second electrical interface defines a central axis, and at least two of the central axes are disposed in a common plane.

8. The connector arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein the first electrical interface of the first coupling component includes a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact,
that the second electrical interface of the first coupling component includes a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact, and that in the first coupling component the first contact of the first electrical interface is electrically connected to the first contact of the second electrical interface.

9. The connector arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein the first fluid line interfaces and the first electrical interfaces are oriented parallel to an axis of insertion of the first coupling component and the second coupling component, and wherein the second fluid line interfaces and the second electrical interfaces are also oriented parallel to the axis of insertion of the first coupling component and the second coupling component.

10. The connector arrangement according to claim 4 , wherein the second fluid line interface and the second electrical interface are oriented parallel to the axis of insertion of the first coupling component and the second coupling component.

11. The connector arrangement according to claim 2 , wherein the second coupling component includes a second electrical conductor.

12. The connector arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the first electrical conductor of the second coupling component is at least partially guided along the first fluid line of the second coupling component,
a second electrical conductor of the second coupling component is at least partially guided along the second fluid line of the second coupling component, and
the first and second electrical conductors of the second coupling component are electrically coupled together via the first electrical interface of the second coupling component, wherein the first electrical interface is equipped with a first contact and a second contact.

13. The connector arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the second coupling component includes first and second housing components, the first housing component including the first fluid line, the first fluid line interface, and the first electrical interface, and the second housing component including the second fluid line, a second fluid line interface, and a second electrical interface.

14. The connector arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the first housing component and the second housing component are connected to each other in one of an interference-fit, friction-fit, friction-interference fit, latched connection, clamped connection, and screwed connection.

15. The connector arrangement according to claim 13 , wherein the first housing component and the second housing component each additionally include an electrical cross-connection interface, the electrical cross-connection interface providing an electrical connection between the first electrical conductor in the first housing component and a second electrical conductor in the second housing component whereby the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor of the second coupling component are wired in series.

16. The connector arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the fluid line splitter is one of a T-shape, an h-shape and a Y-shape.

17. The connector arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the first electrical conductor of the second coupling component is at least partially guided along the first fluid line of the second coupling component,
a second electrical conductor of the second coupling component is at least partially guided along the second fluid line of the second coupling component, and
the first and second electrical conductors of the second coupling component are electrically coupled together via the first electrical interface of the second coupling component and a second electrical interface of the second component, each of the first and second electrical interfaces of the second coupling component including a first contact.

18. The connector arrangement according to claim 1 , wherein the first electrical conductor of the second coupling component is at least partially guided along the first fluid line of the second coupling component,
a second electrical conductor of the second coupling component is at least partially guided along the second fluid line of the second coupling component, and
the first electrical conductor of the second coupling component being electrically contactable via the first electrical interface of the second coupling component, the first electrical interface of the second coupling component including first contact and a second contact, and the second conductor of the second coupling component being electrically contactable via a second electrical interface of the second coupling component, the second electrical interface including a first contact and a second contact.

19. A connector arrangement for connecting heatable fluid lines, the connector arrangement comprising:
at least one first coupling component;
at least one second coupling component, the first coupling component being directly connected to the second coupling component;
the first coupling component and the second coupling component each include at least one first fluid line, at least one first fluid line interf

Assignees

• Voss Automotive Gmbh

Inventors

• Baensch Andreas
• Sachse Martin
• Häger Daniel
• Heinrichs Eugen
• Isenburg Marco
• Hess Jochem-Andreas
• Wilms Waldemar
• Röhrig Lukas

Classifications

• H01R13/005

  Electrical coupling combined with fluidic coupling · CPC title

• F16L25/01 Primary

  specially adapted for realising electrical conduction between the two pipe ends of the joint or between parts thereof · CPC title

• F16L53/38 Primary

  using elongate electric heating elements, e.g. wires or ribbons · CPC title

• F16L41/02

  Branch units, e.g. made in one piece, welded, riveted · CPC title

• Y02T10/12

  Improving ICE efficiencies · CPC title