Vibration-proof electrical high-current flat socket contact device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12431665-B2
Application number	US-202217741935-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 11, 2022
Priority date	May 12, 2021
Publication date	Sep 30, 2025
Grant date	Sep 30, 2025

Abstract

An electrical flat socket contact device includes a contact chamber, a plurality of electrical contact springs arranged in the contact chamber, and a mechanical retaining spring arranged in the contact chamber separately from the electrical contact springs. A tab contact is insertable into the contact chamber. The electrical contact springs electrically contact the tab contact and the mechanical retaining spring mechanically retains the tab contact.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electrical flat socket contact device, comprising:
a contact chamber into which a tab contact is insertable;
a plurality of electrical contact springs arranged in the contact chamber and electrically contacting the tab contact, the electrical contact springs are arranged at a tab contact receptacle separate from the contact chamber; and
a mechanical retaining spring arranged in the contact chamber separately from the electrical contact springs, the mechanical retaining spring mechanically retaining the tab contact, the mechanical retaining spring has a base having a retaining device seated on an edge of the contact chamber.

2. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 1 , wherein the electrical flat socket contact device, in accordance with test LV 214, meets a plurality of vibration requirements of class or in accordance with degree of severity 2, 3, and/or 4.

3. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 1 , wherein the electrical flat socket contact device is designed for electrical voltages of at least approximately 200V and/or is designed for electrical currents or at least approximately 200A.

4. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 1 , wherein a flat socket body defines the contact chamber, a front side of the flat socket body has a substantially P-shaped cross section and is bent from a planar material layer.

5. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 4 , wherein the flat socket body has a socket portion and a connection portion, at least one of the socket portion and the connection portion is substantially a solid material layer without a passage recess.

6. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 1 , wherein the electrical contact springs form inner boundaries of the contact chamber.

7. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 6 , wherein the tab contact receptacle is a contact plate, a contact frame, or a contact spring cage that is open at a front in a plug-in direction.

8. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 1 , wherein the mechanical retaining spring has a mechanical clamping spring arm arranged in the contact chamber and holding the tab contact, the mechanical clamping spring arm engages a side of the tab contact to retain the tab contact in the contact chamber.

9. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 8 , wherein the mechanical clamping spring arm has an inwardly directed clamping projection.

10. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 8 , wherein the mechanical clamping spring arm and a tab contact receptacle having the electrical contact springs form an insertion space for the tab contact.

11. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 10 , wherein the mechanical clamping spring arm is arranged in the tab contact receptacle.

12. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 1 , wherein the mechanical retaining spring is substantially u-shaped and has a pair of mechanical clamping spring arms projecting from the base, the tab contact is clamped between the mechanical clamping spring arms.

13. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 12 , wherein the base is resilient and is biased to pull the mechanical clamping spring arms out of the contact chamber.

14. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 12 , wherein the mechanical clamping spring arms extend along inner sides of the contact chamber or along inner sides of a contact spring cage in the contact chamber having the electrical contact springs.

15. The electrical flat socket contact device of claim 12 , wherein the mechanical retaining spring is secured in the contact chamber in and opposite to a longitudinal direction.

16. A connector, comprising:
a flat socket contact device, the flat socket contact device including:
a contact chamber into which a tab contact is insertable;
a plurality of electrical contact springs arranged in the contact chamber and electrically contacting the tab contact, the electrical contact springs are arranged at a tab contact receptacle separate from the contact chamber; and
a mechanical retaining spring arranged in the contact chamber separately from the electrical contact springs, the mechanical retaining spring mechanically retaining the tab contact, the mechanical retaining spring has a base having a retaining device seated on an edge of the contact chamber.

17. The connector of claim 16 , wherein a front side of the flat socket body has a substantially P-shaped cross section and is bent from a planar material layer.

18. An electrical connection, comprising:
an electrical tab contact device having a tab contact; and
a flat socket contact device including a contact chamber into which the tab contact is inserted, a plurality of electrical contact springs arranged in the contact chamber and electrically contacting the tab contact, and a mechanical retaining spring arranged in the contact chamber separately from the electrical contact springs, the mechanical retaining spring corresponding to the tab contact and mechanically retaining the tab contact, a clamping device of a mechanical clamping spring arm of the mechanical retaining spring corresponds to a clamping recess of the tab contact, the clamping recess of the tab contact has a front edge and a rear edge, the front edge is steeper than the rear edge such that the tab contact is biased to move further into the contact chamber.

19. The electrical connection of claim 18 , wherein the tab contact has a locking projection seated at an outer edge of an opening of the contact chamber, the locking projection is a corrugation in the tab contact.

Assignees

• Te Connectivity Germany Gmbh

Inventors

• Carvalho Caio
• Scheer Kevin
• Ulrich Harald
• Schaefer Maik
• Masak Stefan
• Stange Holger

Classifications

• H01R13/502

  composed of different pieces (H01R13/514 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H01R13/113

  co-operating with pins or blades having a rectangular transverse section · CPC title

• H01R13/11

  Resilient sockets (carrying separate resilient parts H01R13/15) · CPC title

• H01R13/20

  Pins, blades, or sockets shaped, or provided with separate member, to retain co-operating parts together · CPC title

• H01R13/187 Primary

  with spring member in the socket · CPC title