Motor-vehicle latch housing with integral conductors

US6190209A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Kierkert Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Thomas Hulsmann · Velbert, DE
• Ulrich Nass · Mülheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 25, 1999
• Grant date: Feb 20, 2001
• Expiry date: Jun 25, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S439/931
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A motor-vehicle door latch housing has a dielectric plastic body, an electrical device secured to the body, a plurality of electrical conductors each at least partially imbedded in the body and each having an end forming a terminal adjacent the device, and a plurality of connectors on the device each is elastically deformable and bearing elastically on a respective one of the terminals. Each terminal fits in a predetermined direction with the respective connector. The connectors are deformed elastically transversely to the installation direction when fitted with the respective terminals. Thus as the device is fitted to the body, its connectors are automatically joined to the terminals.