Connector with a strip connector fitted with electrical components, method for the production thereof

US6129560A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• Temic Telefunken Microelectronik · DE
• Thomas & Betts, LLC · US

Inventors

• Richard Baur · Brackenheim, DE
• Gunter Fendt · Schrobenhausen, DE
• Michael Bischoff · Brentwood, US
• Tanja Schmidt · Weibersbrunn, DE
• Jurgen Roder · Darmstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 26, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 10, 2000
• Expiry date: Aug 26, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R43/24
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A plug-and-socket connector having a conductor track structure provided with electrical components, and a method of producing the same. Known plug-and-socket connectors in which a conductor track structure is formed from a metal band can only be embodied with a space-saving design at high cost, and nevertheless have a large structural height. It is very costly to provide such a plug-and-socket connector with components for realizing electrical functions. A design that saves more space, and a smaller structural height, are possible with a plug-and-socket connector having a conductor track structure that is planar and has a window-shaped opening, which is adjoined perpendicularly in one direction by a plug region that receives both the first plug and the second plug inserted from the opposite direction through the window-shaped opening of the conductor track structure. Pin-like tongues are bent, as connecting pins, into the plug region and preferably fixed, with the bent connecting pins and the conductor track structure, by a plastic injection-molded part. Socket contacts for pin-shaped contacting elements at the plugs are disposed in the plug region in insulation chambers and connec…