Connector arrangement for an automotive steering system with a control unit

US6068491A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Werner Hofmeister · Rochlitz, DE
• Achim Herzog · Backnang, DE
• Peter Schiefer
• Thomas Raica · Hechingen, DE
• Michael Schoenfeld · Echterdingen, DE
• Roland Schmid · Ann Arbor, US
• Willy Betz · Sachsenheim, DE
• Ralf Schinzel · Marbach am Neckar, DE
• Albert Staake · Murr, DE
• Rolf Litzinger · Hechingen, DE
• Hans Seitel · Esslingen am Neckar, DE
• Edwin Eberlein · Stuttgart, DE
• Eberhard Spengler · Markgröningen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 3, 1998
• Grant date: May 30, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 3, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60R2021/2375
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A connector arrangement of a control system with a controller in a motor vehicle is designed so that it can be manufactured advantageously and is reliable in operation. To do so, the connector arrangement and the respective controller are designed so that several separate connector sockets with externally accessible contact elements are arranged on the controller, which is mounted on the vehicle's internal combustion engine as a surface-mounted controller, some of the contact elements being designed as high-current contact elements which are connected directly to one another through busbars running inside the controller. The respective mating connectors can be connected to the connector sockets, the mating connectors being electrically connected to components of the vehicle over cable harnesses or cable segments, where a first mating connector connected to cable segments is composed of partial mating connectors which can be handled independently of one another.