Configuration for making electrical contact with a valve

US6616486B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Josef Loibl · Bad Abbach, DE
• Ulf Scheuerer · Regensburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 28, 2002
• Grant date: Sep 9, 2003
• Expiry date: Mar 28, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16K27/003
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The configuration makes electrical contact with an electric valve, in particular a shift or pressure regulating valve for automatic transmissions of motor vehicles. The configuration is equipped with a contact spring element arranged outside a valve housing of the electric valve. In the assembled state, the contact spring element acts on an exposed opposing contact element of a wiring element under spring pressure. For this purpose, the contact spring element has a pressing section with a rounded bearing surface and the mutual contact surfaces on the spring element and on the wiring element are tinned.