Contact device and method for producing the contact device

US12149018B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TE Connectivity Germany GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Harald Kraenzlein · Dinkelsbühl, DE
• Daniel Leiminger · Marktoffingen, DE
• Andreas Oettle · Niendorf, DE
• Stefan Raab · Nördlingen, DE
• Thomas J. Liebl · Donnelly, US
• Marina Hertlein · Niendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 14, 2022
• Grant date: Nov 19, 2024
• Expiry date: Jan 16, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R13/11
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A contact device includes a contact housing and a contact element. The contact housing defines a contact receptacle and a latching receptacle opening into the contact receptacle. The contact element includes a contact body arranged within the contact receptacle and extending in a longitudinal direction and adapted to contact a mating contact of a mating contact device, and a latching spring connected to the contact body on a first end and extending along a spring axis into the latching receptacle. The latching spring has a stop inclining obliquely with respect to the spring axis and abutting a face of the latching receptacle and a recess formed through the latching spring at first distance from the stop face.